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—OF— 

Insham and Livingston Counties, 

CONTAINING 

Biograpliical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 

OF THE COUNTIES, 

Together with Biographies of all the 

lovGrnors of the IfaiG, and of tiic f iGsidcrits 

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IIE greiilusl of Engli.sh liisluriaiis, MACAULAY,aiid one of the most brilliaul writers of 
the |)reseiit century, has said: "The history of a couiitr\' is l>est told in a record of tlie 
lives of its people." In conformity with this idea tlie Poktrait an'd Biographicai. 
Ai.i'.iM of this county has been preiiared. Instead of going to musty records, and 
taking therefrom dry statistical matter tliat can he appreciated by but few, our 
corps of writers have gone to the people, the men and women who have, by then- 
enterprise and industry, brought the county to rank second to none among those 
comprising this great and noble State, and from their lips have the story of their life 
struggles. No more interesting or instructive matter could be presented to an intelli- 
gent public. In this volume will be found a record of many whose lives are worthy the 
imitation of coming generations. It tells how some, commencing life in p<n-erty, by 
industry and economy have accumulated wealth. It tells how others, with limited 
advantages for .securing an education, have become learned men and women, with an 
intluence extending throughout the length and breadth of the land. It tells of men who 
have risen from the lower walks of life to eminence as statesmen, and whose names have 
become famous. It tells of those in every walk in life who have striven to succeed, and 
records how that success has usually crowned their efforts. It tells also of many, very 
many, who, not seeking the applause of the world, have pursued "the even tenor of their wa\%" content 
to have it said of them as Christ said of the woman performnig a deed of mercy — "they have done what 
they could." It tells how that many in the pride and strength of J'oung manhood left the plow and the 
anvil, the lawyer's office and the counting-room, left every trade and profession, and at their country's 
call went forth valiantly "to do or die," and how through their efforts the Union was restored and peace 
once more reigned in the land. In the life of every inan and of ever^' woman is a lesson that should not 
be lost upon those who follow after. 

Coming generations will appreciate this volume and preserve it as a sacred treasure, from the fact 
that it contains so much that would never find its way into public records, and which w^ould otherwise be 
inaccessible. Great care has been taken in the compilation of the work and every opportunity possible 
given to those represented to insure correctness in what has been written, and tiie i)iiblisliers flatter them- 
.selves that they give to their readers a work with few errors of consecpience. In addition to the biograph- 
ical sketches, portraits of a number of representative citizens are given. 

The faces of some, and biographical sketches of many, will be missed in this volume. For this the 
publishers are not to blame. Not having a proper concepti(m of the work, some refused to give the 
information necessary to compile a sketch, while others were indifferent. Occasionally some member of 
the family would opjiose the enterjirise, and on account of such opposition the su|>|>ort of the interested 
one would be withheld. In a few instances men could never be found, tliougli repeated calls were m.idc 
at their residence or place of business. 

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HE Father of our Country was 
%) horn in Westmorland Co., Va., 
leb. 22, 1732. His parents 
were Augustine and Mary 
(Ball) Washington. The family 
to which he belonged has not 
been satisfactorily traced in 
England. His great-grand- 
father, John Washington, em- 
igrated to Virginia about 1657, 
and became a prosperous 
planter. He had two sons, 
Lawrence and John. The 
former married Mildred Warner 
and had three children, John, 
Augustine and Mildred. Augus- 
tine, the father of George, first 
married Jane Butler, who bore 
him four children, two of whom, 
Lawrence and .Augustine, reached 
maturity. Of six children by his 
second marriage, George was the 
eldest, the others being Betty, 
Samuel, John Augustine, Charles 
and Mildred. 
Auguitine Washington, the father of George, died 
in 1743, leaving a large landed property. To his 
eldest son, Lawrence, he bequeathed an estate on 
the Patomac, afterwards known as Mount Vernon, 
and to George he left the parental residence. George 
received only such education as the neighborhood 
schools afforded, save for a short time after lie left 
sciiool, when he received private instruction in 
niathemat'cs. His spel!in(i v/as rather dffectiv? 



Remarkable stories are told of his great physica.: 
strength and development at an early age. He was 
an acknowledged leader among his companions, and 
was early noted for that nolileness of character, fair- 
ness and veracity which characterized his whole life. 

When George was 14 years old he had a desire to go to 
sea, and a midshipman's warrant was secured for him, 
but through the opposition of his mother the idea was 
abandoned. Two years later he was appointed 
surveyor to the immense estate of Lord Fairfax. In 
this business he spent three years in a rough frontier 
life, gaining experience which afterwards proved very 
essential to him. In 175 ', though only 19 years of 
age, he was ai)ix)inted adjutant with the rank of 
major in the Virginia militia, then being trained for 
active service against the French and Indians. Soon 
after this he sailed to the West Indies with his brother 
Lawrence, who went there to restore his health. They 
soon returned, and in the summer of 1752 Lawrence 
died, leaving a large fortune to an infant daughter 
who did not long survive hiin. On her demise the 
estate of Mount Vernon was given to George. 

Upon the arrival of Robert Dinwiddle, as Lieuten- 
ant-Governor of Virginia, in 1752, the militia was 
reorganized, and the province divided into four mili- 
tary districts, of which the northern was assigned to 
Washington as adjutant general. Shortly after this 
a very perilous mission was assigned him and ac- 
cepted, wiiicli others had refused. This was to pro- 
ceed to the French [wst near Lake Erie in North- 
western Pennsylvania. The distance to be traversed 
was between 500 and 600 miles. \\ inter was at hai.d. 
and th.e journey was to be made without mi!itar>' 
escort, through a territory occupied by Indians. The 



GEORGE IVASIIlNGTOiy. 



trip was a perilous one, and several limes he came near 
losing his life, yet he returned in safety and furnished 
a full and useful report of his expedition. A regiment 
of 300 men was raised in Virginia and put in com- 
mand of Col. Joshua Fry, and Major Washington was 
commissioned lieutenant-colonel. Active war was 
then begun against the French and Indians, in which 
Washington took a most important i)art. In the 
memorable event of July 9, 1755, known as Brad- 
dock's defeat, Washington was almost the only officer 
of distinctior. who escaped from the calamities of the 
day with life and honor. The other aids of Kraddock 
were disabled early in the action, and Washington 
alone was left in that ca[)acity on the field. In a letter 
lo his brother he says: "I had four bullets through 
my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet I escaped 
unhurt, though death was levelin) my companions 
on every side." An Indian sharpshooter said he was 
not born to be killed by a bullet, for he had taken 
direct aim at him seventeen times, and failed to hit 
him. 

After having been five years in the military service, 
and vainly sought promotion in the royal army, he 
look advantage of the fall of Fort Duquesne and the 
e.x|)ulsion of the French from the valley of the Ohio, 
10 resign his conmiission. Soon after he entered the 
Legislature, where, although not a leader, he took an 
active and important part. January 17, 1759, he 
married Mrs. Martha (13andridge) Custis, the wealthy 
widow of John Parke Custis. 

When the British Parliament had closed the port 
if Boston, the cry went up throughout the provinces 
that "The cause of Boston is the cause of us all." 
It was then, at the suggestion of ^'irginia, that a Con- 
gress of all the colonies was called to meet at Pliila- 
dcli)hia,Sept. 5, 1774, to secure their common liberties, 
peaceably if possible. To this Congress Col. Wash- 
ington was sent as a delegate. On May 10, 1775, the 
Congress re-assembled, when the hostile intentions of 
England were plainly apparent. The battles of Con- 
cord and Le.xington had been fought. Among the 
first acts of this Congress was the election of a com- 
mander-in-chief of the colonial forces. This high and 
responsible office was conferred upon Washington, 
who was still a memberof the Congress. He accepted 
it on June 19, l)Ut ui)oa the express condition that he 
receive no salary. He would keep an exact account 
of expenses and expect Congress 10 pay them and 
nothing more. It is not the object of this sketch to 
trace the military acts of Washington, to whom thj 
fortunes and liberties of the people of this country 
were so long confided. The war was conducted by 
him under every possible disadvantage, and while his 
forces often met with reverses, yet he overcame every 
obstacle, and after seven years of heroic devotion 
and matchless skill he gained liberty for the greatest 
nation of earth. On Dec. 23, 17S3, Washington, in 
a parting address of surpassing beauty, lesigned his 



commission as commander-in-chief of the army lo 

to the Continental Congress sitting at Annapolis. He 
retired immediately to Mount \'ernon and resumed 
his occupation as a farmer and planter, shunning all 
connection wiih public lite. 

la February, 1789, Washington was unanimously 
elected President. In his presidential career he was 
subject to the peculiar trials incidental to a i.ew 
government ; trials from lack of confidence on the part 
of other governments ; trials from want of harmony 
between the different sections of our own country; 
trials from the impoverislied condition of the country, 
owmgto the war and want of credit; trials from the 
beginnings of party strife. He was no partisan. His 
clear judgnient could discern the golden mean; and 
while perhaps this alone kept our government from 
sinking at the very outset, it left him exposed to 
attacks from both sides, which were often bitter nnd 
very annoying. 

At the expiration of his first term he was unani- 
mously re-elected. At the end of this term many 
were anxious that he be re-elected, Init he absolutely 
refused a third nomination. On the fourth of March, 
1797, at the expiraton of his second term as Presi- 
dent, he returned to his home, hoping to pass there 
his few remaining yeais free from the annoyances of 
l)ul)lic life. Later in the year, however, his repose 
seemed likely to be interrupted by war with France 
At the prospect of such a war he was again urged to 
take command of the armies. He chose his sul - 
ordinate officers and left to them the charge of mat- 
ters in the field, which he superintended from his 
home. In accepting the command he made the 
reservation that he was not to be in the field until 
it was necessary. In the midst of these preparations 
his life was suddenly cut off. December 12, he took 
,1 seveie cold from a ride in the rain, wliich, settling 
in his tliroat, produced inflammation, and terminated 
fatally on the night of the fourteenth. On the eigh- 
teenth his body was borne wi'h military honors to its 
final resting place, and interred in the family vault at 
Mount Vernon. 

Of the character of Washington it is impossible to 
speak but in terms of the highest respect and ad- 
miration. The more we see of the operations of 
our government, and the more deeply we feel the 
difficulty of uniting all opinions in a common interest, 
the more highly we must estimate the force of his tal- 
ent and character, which have been able to challenge 
the reverence of all parties, and principles, and na- 
tions, and to win a fame as extended as the limits 
of the globe, and which we cannot but believe will 
be as lasting as the existence of man. 

The person of Washington was unusally tan, erect 
and well proportioned. His muscular strength was 
great. His features were of a beautiful symmetry. 
He commanded respect without any a[-.pearance ol 
haughtiness, and ever serious without l-v^iu^ dull. 






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I OHN ADAMS, the second 
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' President of the United States, 
was born in liraintree ( now 
Quincy ),Mass., and about ten 
miles from Boston, Oct. 19, 
'<9 1735. His great-grandfather, Henry 
Adams, emigrated from England 
about 1640, with a family of eight 
, sons, and settled at Braintree. The 
parents of John were John and 
Susannah (Boylston) Adams. His 
father was a farmer of limited 
means, to wliich he added the bus- 
iness of shoemaking. He gave his 
eldest son, John, a classical educa- 
tion at Harvard College. John 
graduated in 1755, and at once took charge of the 
school in ^\'orcester, Mass. This he found but a 
■'school of affliction," from which Iv; endeavored to 
gain relief by devoting himself, in addition, to the 
study of law. For this purjxjse he placed himself 
under the tuition of the only lawyer in the town. He 
had thought seriously of the clerical profession 
but seems to have been turned from this by what he 
termed " the frightful engines of ecclesiastical coun- 
jils, of diabolical malice, and Calvanistic good nature,'' 
of the operations of which he had been a witness in 
his native town. He was well fitted for the legal 
;/rofcssion, possessing a clear, sonorous voice, being 
ready and fluent of speech, and having quick percep- 
tive jx)wers. He gradually gained practice, and in 
1764 married Abigail Smith, a daughter of a minister, 
and a Lady of superior intelligence. Shortly after his 
marriage, (17^^5)1 the attempt of Parliamentary taxa- 
^on turned him from law to politics. He took initial 
steps toward holding a town meeting, and the resolu- 



tions he offered on the subject became very jxDpulai 
throughout the Province, and were adopted word for 
word by over forty different towns. He moved to Bos 
ton in 1768, and became one of the most courageous 
and prominent advocatesof the popular cause, and 
A-as chosen a member of the General Court (the Leg- 
lislature) in 1770. 

Mr. Adams was chosen one of the first delegate.-; 
from Massachusetts to the first Continental Congrets, 
which met in 1774. Here he distinguished himsel! 
by his capacity for business and for debate, and ad- 
vocated the movement for indejiendence against tht 
majority of the members. In May, 1776, he moved 
and carried a resolution in Congress that the Colonies 
should assume the duties of self-government. He 
was a prominent member of the committee of five 
apjx)inted June ir, to prepare a declaration of inde- 
pendence. This article was drawn by Jefferson, but 
on Adams devolved the task of battling it through 
Congress in a three days debate. 

On the day after the Declaration of Independence 
was passed, while his soul was yet warm with thj 
glow of excited feeling, he wrote a letter to his wife 
which, as we read it now, seems to have been dictated 
by the spirit of prophecy. "Yesterday," he says, "the 
greatest question was decided that ever was debated 
in .America; and greater, perhaps, never was or wil 
be decided among men. \ resolution was passed 
without one dissenting colony, ' that these United 
States are, and of right ought to be, free and inde- 
pendent states' The day is i)assed. The fourth of 
July, 1776, will be a memorable epoch in the history 
of America. I am aj^t to believe it will be celebrated 
by succeeding generations, as the great anniversary 
festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of 
deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to Almighty 
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JOHN ADAMS. 



games, sports, guns, hells, bonfires, and illuminations 
from one end of the continent to the other, from this 
time forward for ever. \oa will think me transixjrted 
with enthusiasm, Init I am not. I am well awave ot 
tiie toil, and blood and treasure, that it will cost to 
maintain this declaration, and support and defend 
these States; yet, through all thegloom, I can see the 
rays of light and glory. 1 can see that the end is 
worth more than all the means; and that posterity 
will triumph, although you and I may rue, which I 
hope we shall not." 

In November, 1777, Mr, Adams was appointed a 
delegate to France and to co-operate with Bemjamin 
Franklin and Arthur Lee, who were then in Paris, in 
the endeavor to obtain assistance in arms and money 
from the French Government. This was a severe trial 
to his patriotism, as it separated him from his home, 
compelled him to cross the ocean in winter, and ex- 
Ijosed him to great peril of capture by the British cruis- 
ers, who were seeking him. He left France June 17, 
1779. In Septeniber of the same year he was again 
ciiosen to go to Paris, and there hold himself in readi- 
ness to negotiate a treaty of peace and of commerce 
with Great Britian, as soon as the British Cabinet 
might be found willing to listen to such proix)sels. He 
sailed for France in November, from there he went to 
Holland, where he negotiated important loans and 
formed important commercial trealies- 

Finally a treaty of peace with England was signed 
[an. 21, 1783. The re-action from the excitement, 
toil and anxiety through which Mr. Adams had passed 
threw him into a fever. After suffering from a con- 
tinued fever and becoming feeble and emaciated he 
WIS advised to goto England to drink the waters of 
Bath. \Vhilein England, still drooping anddespond- 
ing, lie received dispatches from his own government 
urging the necessity of his going to Amsterdam to 
negotiate another loan. It was winter, his health was 
delicate, yet he immediately set out, and through 
storm, on sea, on horseback and foot,hemade the trip. 

February 24, 1785, Congress appointed Mr. Adams 
envoy to the Court of St. James. Here he met face 
to face the King of England, who had so long re- 
garded him as a traitor. .\s England did not 
condescend to appoint a minister to the United 
States, and as Mr. Adams felt that he was accom- 
plishing but little, he sought i^ermission to return to 
:iis own country, wliere he arrived in June, 1788. 

When Washington was first chosen President, John 
Adams, rendered illustiious by his signal services at 
home and abroad, was chosen Vice President. Again 
at the second election of Washington as President, 
Adams was chosen Vice President. In 1796, Wash- 
ington retired from public life, and Mr. Adams was 
elected President, though not without much opjiosition. 
Serving in this office four years, he was succeeded by 
Mr. Jefferson, his opponent in politics. 

>Vhile Mr. Adajns was Vice President the great 



French Revolution shook the continent of Europe, 
and it was upon this point whicii lie was at issue with 
the majority of his countrymen led by Mr. Jefferson. 
Mr. Adams felt no sympathy with the French people 
in their struggle, for lie had no conl'idence in their 
[KDwer of self-government, and lie utterly abhored the 
classof atlicist pliilosoiihers wiio he claimed caused it. 
On the other hand Jefferson's sympathies were strongly 
enlisted in behalf of the French people. Hence or- 
iginated the alienation between these distinguished 
men, and two powerful parties were thus soon orgai.- 
i/.ed, Adams at the head of the one whose sympathieji 
were with England and Jefferson led the other in 
sympathy with France. 

The worid has seldom seen a spectacle of more 
moral beauty and grandeur, than was presented by the 
old age of Mr. Adams. The violence of party feeling 
had died away, and he had begun to receive that just 
appreciation which, to most men, is not accorded till 
after death. No one could look upon his venerable 
form, and think of what he had done and suffered, 
and how he had given up all the prime and strength 
of his life to the public good, without the deepest 
emotion of gratitude and respect. It was his peculiar 
good fortune to witness the complete success of the 
institution which he had been so active in creating and 
supporting. In 1824, his cup of haijpiness was filled 
to the brim, l.iy seeing his son elevated to the highest 
station in the gift of the people. 

The fourth of July, 1826, which completed the half 
century since the signing of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence, arrived, and there were but three of the 
signers of that immortal instrument left upon the 
earth to hail its morning light. And, as it is 
well known, on that day two of these finished their 
earthly pilgrimrge, a coincidence so remarkable as 
to seem miraculous. For a few days before Mr. 
Adams had been rapidly failing, and on the morning 
of the fourth he found himself too weak to rise from 
his bed. On being requested to naine a toast for the 
customary celebration of the day, he exclaimed " In- 
dependence FOREVER." When the day was ushered 
in, by the ringing of bells and the firing of cannons, 
he was asked by one of his i;ttendants if he knew 
what day it was? He replied, "O yes; it is the glor- 
ious fourth of July — God bless it — God bless you all." 
In the course of the day he said, "It is a great and 
glorious day." The last words he uttered were, 
"Jefferson survives." But he had, at one o'clock, re- 
signed his spirit into the hands of his God. 

The personal appearance and manners of Mr. 
Adams were not particularly prepossessing. His face, 
as his portrait manifests,was intellectual ard exj.res- 
sive, but his figure was low and ungraceful, and h.', 
manners were frequently abrupt and uncourteous 
He had neither the lofty dignity of Washington, nor 
the engaging elegance and gracefulness which marked 
the manners and address of Jefferson. 





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HOMAS JEFFERSON was 

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His parents were Peter and 
Jane (Randolph) Jefferson, 
the former a native of Wales, 
and the latter born in Lon- 
don. To them were born six j 
daughters and two sons, of | 
whom 'I'homas was the elder, j 
When 14 years of age his 1 
father died. He received a , 
most liberal education, hav- | 
ing been kept diligently at school 
from the time he was five years ol 
age. In 1760 he entered William 
^nd Mary College. Williamsburg was then the seat 
of the Colonial Court, and it was the obode of fashion 
a.rd splendor. Young Jefferson, who was then 17 
years old, lived somewhat expensivelv. keeping fine 
horses, and much caressed by gay society, yet he 
.,.as earnestly devoted to his studies, and irreproac:ha- 
»ble in his morals. It is strange, however under 
such influences.that he was not rained In the sec- 
ond year of his college course, moved by-^some un- 
explained inward impulse, he discarded his horses 
sodety, and even his favorite viohn, lo-h-^^ ^e had 
prevJtsly given much time. He often devoted fi teen 
Lu-s a day to ha.d study, allowing himself foi e.x- 
";;^:'yarunintheevemngtsvilightofani,leout 

of the cty and back again. He thus attained very 
high intellectual culture, alike excellence in philoso- 
Sy and the languages. The most difhcult Latin and 
G reek authors he read with facihty. A -^-^^^ fd 
scholar has seldom gone forth from college halls, and 



there was not to be found, perhaps, in all Virginia, a 
more pureminded, upright, gentlemanly young man. 

Immediately upon leaving college he began the 
study of law. For the short time he continued m the 
practice of his profession lie rose rapidly and distin- 
guished himself by his energy and accuteneSs as a 
lawyer. But the times called for greater action. 
The policy of England had awakened the spirit of 
resistance of the American Colonies, and the enlarged 
views which lefferson had ever entertained, soon led 
him into active political life. In 1769 he was choseL 
a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses In 
177 -he '"arried Mrs. Martha Skelton, a very oeauti- 
ful, wealthy and highly accomplished young widow 
Upon Mr. leffersons large estate at Shadwell,thire 
u-as a majestic swell of land, called Monticello, whicl- 
commanded a prospect of wonderful extent and 
beauty. This spot Mr. Jefferson selected for his new 
' home- and here he reared a mansion of modest ye- 
elegant architecture, which, next to Mount Vernon 
became the most distinguished resort in our land. 
In 1775 he was sent to the Cclomal Congress, 
j where, though a silent member, his abilities as a 
i writer and a reasoner soon become known, and ho 
was -.laced upon a number of important conimitteeo, 
and was chairman of the one appointed for the draw- 
in« up of a declaration of independence. Tins com- 
mhtee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John .Adains. 
Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert K. 
Livingston. Jefferson, as chairman, was appointee 
to draw up the paper. Franklin and .\dams suggestea 
a few verbal changes before it was submitted to Con- 
gress. On lune 28, a few slight changes were made 
in it by Congress, and it was passed and signed July 
4 ,77c What must have been the feelings of that 



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man — what the emotions that swelled his breast— 
who was charged with the preparation of that Dec- 
laration, which, while it made known the wrongs of 
America, was also to publish her to the world, free, 
liovcrign and independent. It is one of the most re- 
iuarkable papers ever written ; and did no other effort 
i,f the mind of its author exist, that alone would be 
sufficient to stamp his name with immortality. 

In 1779 Mr. Jefferson was elected successor to 
Patrick Henry, i,s Governor of Virginia. At one time 
the British officer, Tarleton, sent a secret expedition to 
Monticello, to capture the Governor. Scarcely five 
minutes elapsed after the hurried escape of Mr. Jef- 
ferson and his family, ere his mansion was in posses- 
sion of the British troops. His wife's health, never 
very good, was much injured by this excitement, and 
in the summer of 1782 she died. 

Mr. Jefferson was elected to Congress in 1783. 
Two ye irs later he was appointed Minister Plenipo- 
tentiary to France. Returning to the United States 
in September, 1789, he became Secretary of State 
in Washington's cabinet. This position he resigned 
Jan. J, 1794. In 1797, he was chosen Vice Presi- 
dent, and four years later was elected President over 
Mr. Adams, with Aaron Burr as Vice President. In 
1804 he was re-elected with wonderful unanimity, 
iiid George Clinton, Vice President. 

The early part of Mr. Jefferson's second adminstra- 

• I was disturbed by an event which threatened the 
M|uility and peace of the Unior. ; this was the con- 
'ir.icy of Aaron Burr. Defeated in the late election 
;o the Vice Presidency, and led on by an unprincipled 
imbition, this extraordinary man formed the plan of a 
military expedition into the Spanish territories on our 
southwestern frontier, for the purpose of forming there 
a new republic. This has been generally supposed 
was a mere pretext ; and although it has not been 
generally known what his real plans were, there is no 
doubt that they were of a far more dangerous 
character. 

In 1809, at the expiration of the second term for 
which Mr. Jefferson had been elected, he determined 
to retire from political life. For a period of nearly 
irty years, he had been continually before the pub- 
.10, and all that time had been employed in offices of 
the greatest trust and responsibility. Having thus de- 
voted the best part of his life to the service of his 
country, he now felt desirous of that rest which his 
declining years required, and u[X)n the organization of 
the new administration, in March, 1809, he bid fare- 
well forever to public life, and retired to Monticello. 

Mr. Jefferson was profuse in his hospitality. Whole 
families came in their coaches with their horses, — 
fathers and mothers, boys and girls, babies and 
nurses, — and remained three and even six months. 
Life at Monticello, for years, resembled that at a 
fashionable watering-place. 

The fourth of July, 1826, being the fiftieth anniver- ■ 



sary of the Declaration of American Independence. 
great preparations were made in every part of \\v. 
Union for its celebration, as the nation's jubilee, and 
the citizens of Washington, to add to the solemnity 
of the occasion, invited Mr. Jefferson, as the framer- 
and one of the fesv surviving signers of the Declara- 
tion, to participate in their festivities. But an ill- 
ness, which had been of several weeks duration, and 
had been continually increasing, compelled him to 
decline the invitation. 

On the second of July, the disease under which 
he was laboring left him, but in such a reduced 
state that his medical attendants, entertained no 
hope of his recovery. From this time he was perfectly 
sensible that his last hour was at hand. On the ne.xt 
day, which was Monday, he asked of those around 
him, the day of the month, and on being told it was 
the third of July, he expressed the earnest wish tha, 
he might be permitted to breathe the airof the fiftieth 
anniversary. His prayer was heard — that day, whose 
dawn was hailed with such rapture through our land, 
burst upon his eyes, and then they were closed for- 
ever. And what a noble consummation of a noble 
life ! To die on that day, — the birthday of a nation,- - 
the day which his own name and his own act had 
rendered glorious; to die amidst the rejoicings and 
festivities of a whole nation, who looked up to him, 
as the author, under God, of their greatest blessings, 
was all that was wanting to fill up the record his life. 
Almost at the same hour of his death, the kin- 
dred spirit of the venerable Adams, as if to bear 
him company, left the scene of his earthly honors. 
Hand in hand they had stood forth, the champions of 
freedom ; hand in hand, during the dark and desper- 
ate struggle of the Revolution, they had cheered and 
animated their desponding countrymen; for half a 
century they had labored together for the good of 
the country; and now hand in hand they depart. 
In their lives they had been united in the same great 
cause of liberty, and in their deaths they were not 
divided. 

In person Mr. Jefferson was tall and thin, rather 
above six feet in height, but well formed; his eyes 
were light, his hair originally red, in after life became 
white and silvery; his complexion was fair, his fore- 
head broad, and his whole courtenance intelligent and 
thoughtful. He possessed great fortitude of mind as 
well as personal courage ; and ;.:s command of tem- 
per was such that his oldest and most intimate friends 
never recollected to have seen him in a passion. 
His manners, though dignified, were simple and un- 
affected, and his hospitality was so unbounded that 
all found at his house a ready welcome. In conver- 
sation he was fluent, eloquent and enthusiastic ; and 
his language was remarkably pure and correct. He 
was a finished classical scholar, and in his writings is 
discernable the care with whiiJi he formed his style 
upon the best models of an'iquity. 



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"^ AMES MADISON, "Father 
4) of the Constitution,' and fourth 
2,;" President of the United States, 
Y was born March i6, 1757, and 
!e dietl at his home in Virginia, 
'^ jiuie 28, 1836. The name of 
James Madison is inseparahlx con- 
nected with most of the important 
events in tiiat heroic period of our 
,,, country during which the founda- 
tions of tliis great republic were 
laid. He was the hist of the fotniders 
of the C^onstitution iif the United 
States to ije called to his eternal 
reward. 

The iVIadison family were among 
the early emigrants to the New World, 
landing upon the shores of the Chesa- 
peake but 15 years after the settle- 
ment of Jamestown. The father of 
James Madison was an opulent 
planter, residing uixin a very fine es- 
tate called "Mont])elier," Orange Co., 
Va. The mansion was situated in 
tlie midst of scenery highly pictur- 
esijue and romantic, on the west side 
of .Sout!i-west Mountain, at the foot of 
It was but 25 miles from tlie home of 
Jefferson at Monticello. The closest personal and 
political attachment existed between these illustrious 
men, from their early youtli until death. 

The early education of Mr. Madison wasconducteti 
mostly at home under a private tutor. At the age of 
iS he was sent to Princeton College, in New Jersey. 
Here he applied himself to study witli the most im- 




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prudent zeal; allowing himself, for months, but three 
hours' sleep out of the 24. His health thus became so 
seriously impaired that he never recovered any vigor 
of constitution. He graduated in 177 i. with a feeble 
body, with a character of utmost purity, and with a 
mind highly disciplined and richly stored with learning 
which embellished and gave proficiency to his subsf 
(pient career. 

Returning to Virginia, he commenced the study of 
law and a course of extensive and systematic reading. 
This educational course, the spirit of the times in 
which he lived, and the society with which he asso- 
ciated, all combined to inspire him with a strong 
love of liberty, and to train him for his life-work ol 
a statesman. Being naturally of a religious turn of 
mind, and his frail health leading him to think that 
his life was not to be long, he directed especial atten- 
tion to theological studies. F^ndowed with a nimd 
singularly free from passion and i)rejudice, and with 
almost unecpialled ix)wers of reasoning, he weighed 
all the arguments for and against revealed religion, 
until his faith became so established as never to 
lie siiaken. 

In the spring of 1776, when 26 years of age, he 
was elected a member of the Virginia Convention, to 
frame the constitution of the State. The next year 
(r777), he was a candidate for the General .AssembI)'. 
He refused to treat the whisky-lovir.g voters, and 
consequently lost his election ; but those who had 
witnessed the talent, energy and public spirit of the 
modest young man, enlisted themselves in his behalf, 
and he was appointed to the E.\eculive Comicil. 

Both Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson were 
(Jovernorsof X'irginia while Mr. .Madison remained 
member of the Coimcil ; and their appreciation of his 



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mtelleclual, social and moral worth, contributed not 
a little to his subsequent eminence. In the year 
1780, he was elected a member of the Continental 
Congress. Here he met the most illustrious men in 
our land, and he was immediately assigned to one of 
the most conspicuous positions among them. 

For three years Mr. iVIadison continued in Con- 
gress, one of its most active and influential members. 
In the year 1784, his term having expired, he was 
elected a member of the Virginia Legislature. 

No man felt more deeply than Mr. Madison the 
utter inefficiency of the old confederacy, with no na- 
tional government, with no power to form treaties 
which would be binding, or to enforce law. There 
was not any State more prominent than Virginia in 
tiie declaration, that an efficient national government 
must be formed. In January, 1786, Mr. Madison 
carried a resolution through the General Assembly of 
Virginia, inviting the other States to appoint commis- 
sioners to meet in convention at Annapolis to discuss 
this subject. Five States only were represented. The 
convention, however, issued another call, drawn up 
by Mr. Madison, urgmg all the States to send their 
delegates to Philadelphia, in May, 1787, to draft 
a Constitution for the United States, to take the place 
of that Confederate League. The delegates met at 
'he time appointed. Kvery State but Rhode Island 
>-vas represented. George Washington was chosen 
■president of the convention; and the present Consti- 
tution of the United States was then and there formed. 
There was, perhaps, no mind and no pen more ac- 
tive in framing this immortal document than the mind 
and the pen of James Madison. 

The Constitution, adopted by a vote 81 to 79, was 
to be presented to the several States for acceptance. 
But grave solicitude was felt. Should it be rejected 
we should be left but a conglomeration of independent 
States, with but little power at home and little vespect 
abroad. Mr. Madison was selected by the conven- 
tion to draw up an address to the people of the United 
States, expounding tlie principles of the Constitution, 
and urging its adoption. There was great opposition 
to it at first, but it at length triumphed over all, and 
went into effect in 1789. 

Mr. Madison was elected to the House of Repre- 
sentatives in the first Congress, and soon became the 
avowed leader of the Republican party. While in 
New York attending Congress, he met Mrs Todd, a 
young widow of remarkable power of fascination, 
whom he married. She was in person and character 
queenly, and probably no lady has thus far occupied 
so prominent a position in the very peculiar society 
which has constituted our republican court as Mrs. 
Madison. 

Mr. Madison served as Secretary of State under 
Jefferson, and at the close of his administration 
was chosen President. At this time the encroach- 
ments of England had brought us to the verge of war. ^ 



British orders in council destioyed our commerce, and 
our flag was exposed to constant insult. Mr. Madison 
was a man of peace. Scholarly in his taste, retiring 
in his disposition, war had no charms for him. But the 
meekest spirit can be roused. It makes one's blood 
boil, even now, to think of an .\merican ship brought 
to, upon the ocean, by the guns of an English cruiser. 
A young lieutenant steps on board and orders the 
crew to be paraded before him. With great nonchal- 
ance he selects any number whom he may please to 
designate as British subjects; orders them down the 
ship's side into his boat; and places them on the gun- 
deck of his man-of-war, to fight, by compulsion, the 
battles of England. This right of search and im- 
pressment, no efforts of our Government could induce 
the British cabinet to relinquish. 

On the i8th of June, 1812, President Madison gave 
his approval to an act of Congress declaring war 
against Great Britain. Notwithstanding the bitter 
hostility of the Federal party to the war, the country 
in general approved; and Mr. Madison, on the 4th 
of March, 18 13) was re-elected by a large majority, 
and entered upon his second term of office. This is 
not the place to describe the various adventuras of 
this war on the land and on the water. Our infan'. 
navy then laid the foundations of its renown in grap- 
pling with the most formidable power which ever 
swept the seas. The contest coinmenced in earnest 
by the appearance of a British fleet, early in February, 
1813, in Chesapeake Bay, declaring nearly the whole 
coast of the LTnited States under blockade. 

The FjUiperor of Russia offered his services as me 
ditator. America accepted ; England refused. A Brit- 
ish force of five thousand men landed on the banks 
of the Patuxet River, near its entrance into Chesa- 
peake Bay, and marched rapidly, by way of Bladens- 
burg, upon Washington. 

The straggling little city of Washington was thrown 
into consternation. The cannon of the brief conflict 
at Bladensburg echoed through the streets of the 
metropolis. The whole population fled from the city. 
The President, leaving Mrs. Madison in the \Vhite 
House, with her carriage drawn up at the doer to 
await his speedy return, hurried to meet the officers 
in a council of war. He met our troops utterly routed, 
and he could not go back without danger of being 
captured. But few hours elapsed ere the Presidential 
Mansion, the Capitol, and all the public buildings in 
Washington were in flames. 

The war closed after two years of fighting, and on 
Feb. 13, 1815, the treaty of peace was signed at Ghent. 

On the 4th of March, 1817, his second term of 
office expired, and he resigned the Presidential chair 
to his friend, James Monroe. He retired to his beau- 
tiful home at Montpelier, and there passed the re- 
mainder of his days. On June 28, 1836, then at the 
age of 85 years, he fell asleep in death. Mrs. Madi 
son died July 12, 1849. 




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AMES MONROE, the fiftli 
.Frcsidtntof The United States, 
■^ was Iwrii in Westmoreland Co., 
!.ih Va., April 28, 1758. His early 
life was passed at the place of 
nativity. Hi^ ancestors had for 
many years resided in the prov- 
ince in which he was born. AVhen, 
at 17 years of age, in the process 
■ of completing his education at 
A W iiliani and Mary College, the Co- 
lonial Congress assembled at I'hila- 
delphia to deliberate \\\x)\\ the un- 
just and manifold oppressions of 
(ireat Hritian, declared the separa- 
tion of the Colonies, and promul- 
gated the Declaration of Indejjen- 
dence. Had he been born ten years before it is highly 
probable that he would have been one of the signers 
of that celebrated instrument. At this time he left 
school and enlisted among the patriots. 

He joined the army when everything looked hope- 
less and gloomy. The number of deserters increased 
from day to day. The invading armies came pouring 
in; and the tories not only favored the cause of the 
mother country, but disheartened the new recruits, 
who were sufficiently terrified at the prospect of con- 
ijnding with an enemy whom they had been taught 
to deem invincible. To such brave spirits as James 
Monroe, who went right onward, undismayed through 
difficulty and danger, the Ihiited States owe their 
political emancipation. The young cadet joined the 
ranks, and esix)used the cause of his injured country, 
with a firm determination to live or die with her strife 



for liberty. Firmly yet sadly he shared in the mel 
anclioly retreat from Harleam Heights and Whii 
Plains, and accompanied the dispirited army as it fl. 
before its foes through New Jersey. In four munt 
after the Declaration of Independence, the patrio. 
liad been beaten in seven battles. At the battle of 
Trenton he led the vanguard, and, in the actof charg 
ing upon the enemy he received a wound in the left 
shoulder. 

As a reward for his bravery, Mr. Monroe was ])ro- 
moted a cai)tain of infantry; and, having recovered 
from his wound, he rejoined the army. He, however, 
receded from tlie line of ])romotion, by becoming an 
officer in the staff of Lord Sterling. During the cam- 
paigns of 1777 and 1778, in the actions of Brandy 
wine, (lermantown and Monmouth, he continued 
aid-decamp; but becoming desirous to regain his 
position in the army, he exerted himself to collect a 
regiment for the Virginia line. This scheme failed 
owing to the exhausted condition of the State. Uiwn 
this failure he entered the ofilice of Mr. Jefferson, at 
that period Governor, and pursued, with considerable 
ardor, the study of common law. He did not, however, 
entirely lay aside the kna|)s.ack for the green bag; 
but on tjie invasions of the enemy, served as a volun 
teer, during the two years of his legal pursuits. 

In 17S2, he was elected from King Cieorge county, 
a member of the Leglislature of Virginia, and by that 
body he was elevated to a seat in the Executive 
Council. He was thus honored with the confidence 
of his fellow citizens at 23 years of age ; and having 
at this early period displayed some of that abii;i\ 
and aptitude for legislation, which were afterwaid-< 
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JAMES MONROE. 



lie was in the succeeding year chosen a member of 
ihe Congress of the United States. 
Ueeplyas Mr. Monroefelt the imperfettionsof theold 
;'onfederacy, he was opposed to the new Constitution, 
ihinking, with many others of 'he Republican party, 
'.hat it gave too much power to the Central Government, 
and not enough to the individual States. Still he re- 
tained the esteem of his friends who were its warm 
supporters, and who, notwithstanding his opposition 
secured its adoption. In 1789, he became a member 
cf the United States Senate; which office he held for 
four years. Every month the line of distinction be- 
tween the two great parties which divided the nation, 
the Federal and the Republican, was growing more 
tlistinct. The two prominent iaeas which now sep- 
arated them were, that the Republican party was in 
sympathy with France, and also in favor of such a 
stiict construction of the Constitution as to give the 
( entral Government as little power, and the State 
(Governments as much power, as the Constitution would 
warrant. The Federalists sympathized with England, 
and were in favor of a liberal construction of the Con- 
stitution, which would give as much i)ower to the 
Central Government as that document could possibly 
authorize. 

The leading Federalists and Republicans were 
alike noble men, consecrating all their energies to the j 
good of the nation. Two more honest men or more 
pure patriots than John Adams the Federalist, and 
James Monroe the Republican, never breathed. In 
building u)) this majestic nation, which is destined 
to eclipse all Grecian and Assyrian greatness, the com- 
bination of their antagonism was needed to create the 
light e(iuilibrium. And yet each in his day was de- 
nounced as almost a demon. 

Washington was then President. England had es- 
poused the cause of the Bourbons against the princi- 
ples of the French Revolution. All Europe was drawn 
into the conflict. We were feeble and far away. 
Washington issued a proclamation of neutrality be- 
tween these contending powers. France had helped 
i;s in the struggle for our liberties. All the despotisms 
of Europe were now combined to prevent the French 
from escaping from a tyranny a thousand-fold worse 
than that which we had endured Col. Monroe, more 
magnanimous than prudent, was anxious that, at 
whatever hazard, we should help our old allies in 
their extremity. It was the impulse of a generous 
and noble nature. He violently opposed the Pres- 
ident's proclamation as ungrateful and wanting in 
magnanimity. 

Washington, who could appreciate such a character, 
developed his calm, serene, almost divine greatness, 
by appointing that very James Monroe, who was de- 
nouncing the policy of the Government, as the minister 
of that Government to the Republic of France. Mr. 
Monroe was welcomed by the National Convention 
iu France with the most enthusiastic demonstrations. 



Shortly after his return to this countrv, Mr. Mon- 
roe was elected Governor of Virginia, and held the 
office for three yeais. He was again sent to France to 
co-operate with Chancellor Livingston in obtaining 
the vast territory then known as the Province of 
Louisiana, which France had but shortly before ob- 
tained from Spain. Tneir united efforts were suc- 
cessful. For the comparatively small sum of fifteen 
millions of dollars, the entire territory of Orleans and 
district of Louisiana were added to the United States. 
This was probably the largest transfer of real estate 
which was ever made in all the history of the world. 

From France Mr. Monroe went to England to ob- 
tain froiri that country some recognition of oui 
rights as neutrals, and to remonstrate against those 
odious impressments of our seamen. but Eng- 
land was unrelenting. He again returned to Eng- 
land on the same mission, but could receive no 
redress. He returned to his home and was again 
chosen Governor of Virginia. This he soon resigned 
to accept the position of Secretary of State under 
Madison. While in this office war with England was 
declared, the Secretary ot War resigned, and during 
these trying times, the duties of the ^Var Departnien; 
were also put upon him. He was truly the armor- 
bearer of President Madison, and the most efficient 
business man in his cabinet. Ll^pon the return of 
peace he resigned the Department of War, but con- 
tinued in the office of Secretary of State until the ex- 
piration of Mr. Madison's adniinstratiou. At the elec 
tion held the previous autumn Mr. Monroe himself had 
been chosen President with but little opposition, and 
upon March 4, 18 jy, was inaugurated. Four year? 
later he was elected for a second term. 

Among the important measures of his Presidency 
were the cession of Florida to the L^nited States ; the 
Missouri Compromise, and the " Monroe doctrine.' 

This famous doctrine, since known as the "Monroe 
doctrine," was enunciated by him in 1823. At tha^ 
time the United States had recognized the independ- 
ence of the South American states, and did not wish 
to have European powers longer attempting to sub- 
due portions of the American Continent. The doctrine 
is as follows: "That we should consider any attempt 
on the part of European powers to extend their sys- 
tem to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous 
to our peace and safety," and "that we could not 
view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing 
or controlling American governments or provinces in 
any other light than as a manifestation by European 
powers of an unfricndlv disposition toward the Ignited 
States." This doctrine immediately affected the course 
of foreign governments, and has become the approved 
sentiment of the L^nited States. 

At the end of his fecond term Mr Monroe retired 
to his home in Virginia, where he lived until 1830, 
when he went to New York to live with his son-in- 
law. In tliat city he died, on the \\\\ of July, 1831 




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OHN OUINCY ADAMS, the 
sixth President of the United 
'States, was born in the rural 
lionie of his honored father, 
John Adams, in Quincy, Mass., 
on the I ith cf July, 1767. His 
mother, a woman of exalted 
worth, watched over his childhood 
during the almost constant ab- 
sence of his father. When but 
eight years of age, he stood with 
his mother on an eminence, listen- 
ing to the booming of the great bat- 
tle on Bunker's Hill, and gazing on 
upon the smoke and flames billow- 
ing up from the conflagration of 
Charlestown. 

When but eleven years old he 
took a tearful adieu of his mother, 
to sail with his father for Europe, 
through a fleet ot hostile British cruisers. The liright, 
animated boy spent a year and a half in Paris, where 
his father was associated with F"ranklin and 1-ee as 
minister plenipotentiary. His intelligence attracted 
the notice of these distinguished men, and he received 
from them flattering marks of attention. 

Mr. John Adams had scarcely returned to this 
cou :.try, in 1779, ere he was again sent abroad. Again 
■ol'.n Quincy accompanied his father. At Paris he 
np[)lied himself with great diligence, for six months, 
to o'udy; then accom[)ained his father to Holland, 
vmere he entered, first a school in .\msterdam, then 
the University at I.eyden. About a year from this 
time, in 1781, when the manly boy was but fourteen 
yea"i of age, he was selected l)y Mr. Dana, our min- 
ister to the Russian court, as his private secretary. 

Tn this school of incessant labor and of enobliiig 
culture he si)cnt fourteen months, and then returned 
to Holland through Sweden, Denmark, Hamburg and 
Bremen. 'Phis long journey he took alone, in the 
winter, when in his sixteenth year. Again he resumed 
nis studies, under a private tutor, at Hague. Thence, 



in the spring of 1782, he accom|ianied his father i; 
Paris, traveling leisurely, and forming ac(i'.iaintanc» 
with the most distinguished men on the t!oninci.t 
examining architectural remains, galleries of paintings 
and all renowned works of art. At Paris he again 
became associated with the most illustrious men ol 
all lands in the contemplations of the loftiest temporal 
themes which can engross the human mind. Afte' 
a short visit to England he returned to Paris, ano 
consecrated all his energies to study until May, 1785, 
when he returned lo ."Xmerica. To a brilliant young 
man of eighteen, v. lio had seen much of the world., 
and who was familiar wiih the etiquette of courts, ? 
residence with his father in London, under such ci- 
ciunstances, must have been extremely attractive 
but with judgment very rare in one of his age, he pre 
ferred to return to America to complete his educatio;. 
in an American college. He wished then to stud\ 
law, that with an honorable profession, he might b'' 
able to obtain an inde|)endent sui)port. 

Upon leavii'g Harvard College, at the age of twent; 
he studied law for three years. In June, 1794, be 
ingthen but twenty-seven years of age, he was ap-. 
IHiinted by Washington, resident minister at the 
Netherlands. Sailing from Boston in July, he reachec 
London in October, where he was immediately admit 
ted to the deliberations of Messrs. Jay and Pinckney 
assisting them in negotiating a commercial treaty with 
Gieat Brilian. After thus spending a fortnight i 
London, he proceeded lo the Hague. 

In July, 1797, he left the Hague to go to Portiiga'as 
minister plenipotentiary. On his way to I'ortugal 
uijon arriving in London, he met with despatches 
directing him to the court of Berlin, but requesting 
him to remain in London until he should receive his 
instructions. A\'hile waiting he was married to ar 
American lady to whom he had been )ireviously en- 
gaged, — Miss Louisa Catherine Johnson, daughter 
of Mr. Joshua Johnson, .American (onsul in london- 
a lady endownd with that beauty and those accom- 
plishment which eminently fitted '-.or to move In t',i 
elevated sphere for which she was ''"S'kr.cd 



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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. 



He reached Berlin with his wife in November, 1797 ; 
where he remained until July, 1799, when, having ful- 
filled all the parixjses of his mission, lie solicited his 
recall. 

Soon after his return, in 1802, he was chosen to 
I he Senate of Massachusetts, from Boston, and then 
was elected Senator of the United States for six years, 
from the 4th of March, 1S04. His reputation, his 
ability and his experience, placed him immediately 
among the most prominent and influential members 
of that body. Especially did he sustain the Govern- 
ment in its measures of resistance to the encroach- 
ments of England, destroying our commerce and in- 
sulting our flag. There was no man in America more 
familiar with the arrogance of the British court upon 
these points, and no one more resolved to present 
a firm resistance. 

In 1809, Madison succeeded Jefferson in the Pres- 
idential chair, and he immediately nominated John 
Quincy Adams minister to St. Petersburg. Resign- 
ing his professorship in Harvard College, he embarked 
at Boston, in August, 1809. 

While in Russia, Mr. Adams was an intense stu- 
dent. He devoted his attention to the language and 
history of Russia; to the Chinese trade; to the 
European system of weights, measures, and coins; to 
the climate and astronomical observations ; while he 
Kept up a familiar acquaintance with the Greek and 
Latin classics. In all the universities of Europe, a 
more accomplished scholar could scarcely be found. 
All through life the Bible constituted an importar t 
part of his studies. It was his rule to read five 
chapters every day. 

On the 4th of March, 18 17, Mr. Monroe took the 
Presidential chair, and immediately appointed Mr. 
.'Vdams Secretary of State. Taking leave of his num- 
erous friends in public and private life in Europe, he 
sailed in June, iSig, forthe United States. On the 
1 8th of August, he again crossed the threshold of his 
home in Quincy. During the eight yearsof Mr. Mon- 
roe's administration, Mr, .-Vdams continued Secretary 
of State. 

Some tiiTie before '.he close of Mr. Monroe's second 
term of office, new candidates began to be presented 
for the Presidency. The friends of Mr. Adams brought 
forward his name. It was an exciting campaign. 
Party spirit was never more bitter. Two hundred and 
sixty electoral votes were cast. Andrew Jackson re- 
ceived ninety-nine; John Quincy Adams, eighty-four; 
William H. Crawford, forty-one; Henry Clay, thirty- 
seven. As there was no choice by the people, the 
question went to the House of Representatives. Mr. 
Clay gave the vote of Kentucky to Mr. Adams, and 
he was elected. 

The friends of all the disappointed candidates now 
:ombined in a venomous and persistent assault upon 
Mr. Adams. There is nothing more disgraceful in 
»V»e past history of our f:ountr\ than the abuse whieli 



was poured in one uninterrupted stream, upon this 
nigh-minded, upright, patriotic man. There never was 
an administration more pure in principles, more con- 
scientiously devoted to the best interests of the coun- 
try, than that of John Quincy Adams; and never, per- 
haps, was there an administration more unscrupu- 
lously and outrageously assailed. 

Mr. Adams was, to a very remarkable degree, ab- 
stemious and temperate in his habits; -always rising 
early, and taking much exercise. When at his home in 
Quincy, he lias been known to walk, before breakfast, 
seven miles to Boston. In Washington, it was said 
that he was the first man up in the city, lighting his 
own fire and applying himself to work in his library 
often long before dawn. 

On the 4th of March, 1829, Mr. Adams retired 
from the Presidency, and was succeeded by Andrew 
Jackson. John C. Calhoun was elected Vice Presi- 
dent. The slavery question now began to assume 
lx)rtentous magnitude. Mr. Adams returned to 
Quincy and to his studies, which he pursued with un- 
abated zeal. But he was not long permitted to re- 
main in retirement. In November, 1830, he was 
elected representative to Congress. For seventeen 
years, antil his death, he occupied the post as repre- 
sentative, towering above all his peers, ever ready to 
do brave battle' for freedom, and winning the title of 
"the old man eloquent." Upon taking his seat in 
the House, he announced that he should hold him- 
self bound to no party. Probably there never was a 
member more devoted to his duties. He was usually 
the first in his place in the morning, and the last to 
leave his seat in the evening. Not a measure could 
be brought forward and escape his scrutiny. The 
battle which Mr. Adams fought, almost singly, against 
the proslavery party in the Government, was subline • 
in Its moral daring and heroism. For persisting ii. 
presenting petitions for the abolition of slavery, he 
was threatened with indictment by the grand jury, 
with expulsion from the House, with assassinatio . 
but no threats could intimidate him, and his final 
triumph was complete. 

It has been said of President Adams, that when his 
body was bent and his hair silvered by the lapse of 
fourscore years, yielding to the simple faith of a little 
child, he was accustomed to repeat every night, before 
he slept, the prajer which his mother taught him in 
his infant years. 

On the 2istof February, 1S4S, he rose on the lloor 
of Congress, with a paiier in his hand, to address the 
speaker. Suddenly he fell, again stricken by paraly- 
sis, and was caught in the arms of those around him. 
For a time he was senseless, as he was conveyed to 
the sofa in the rotunda. With reviving conscious- 
ness, he opened his eyes, looked calmly around and 
said " This is the end of earth ;"\.\\^Xi after a moment's 
|)ause he added, ''I am coiifcnt" These were the 
l.isl words of the grand " Old Man Eloquent." 



SEVENTH PRESIDENT. 



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)RRW JACKSON, the 
entli President of the 
I'nited States, was horn in 
W'axhaw settlement, N. C, 
Marcii 15, 1767, a few days 
after his father's death. His 
parents were poor emigrants 
from Ireland, and took uj) 
tlieir abode in Waxhaw set- 
tlement, where they lived in 
deepest poverty, 
Andrew, or Andy, as he was 
universally called, grew up a very 
rough, rude, turbulent boy. His 
features were coarse, his form un- 
gainly; and there was but very 
little in his diameter, made visible, which was at- 
tractive. 

When only thirteen years old he joined the volun- 
teers of Carolina against the British invasion. In 
1781, he and his brother Robert were ca[)lured and 
imprisoned for a time at Camden. A British officer 
ordered him to brush his mud-spattered boots. " I am 
a prisoner of war, not your servant," was the reply of 
the dauntless boy. 

The brute drew his sword, and aimed a desperate 
ulow at the head of the heli)less young prisoner. 
Andrew raised his hand, and thus received two fear- 
ful gashes, — one on the hand and the other upon the 
head. The officer then turned to his brother Robert 
with the same demand. He also refused, and re- 
ceived a blow from the keen-edged sabre, which quite 
disabled him, and which probably soon after caused 
his death. They suffered much other ill-treatment, and 
were finally stricken with the small-jxax. Their 
mothei- was successful u- obtaining their exchange. 



and took her sick Ijoys home. After a long iilnjs!. 
Andrew recovered, and the death of his mother >oon 
left him entirely friendless. 

.\ndrew supported himself in various ways, s k:!i as 
working at the saddler's trade, teaching school and 
clerking in a general store, until 1784, when he 
entered a law office at Salisbury, N. C. He, however, 
gave more attention to the wild amusements of the 
times than to his studies. In 1788. he was apiX)inteJ 
solicitor for the western district of North Carolina, of 
which Tennessee was then a part. This involved 
many long and tedious journeys amid dangers of 
every kind, but Andrew Jackson never knew fear, 
and the Indians had no desire to repeat a skirmish 
with the Sharp Knife. 

In 1791, Mr. Jackson was married to a woman who 
supix>sed herself divorced from her former husband. 
Great was the surprise of both parties, two years later, 
to find that the conditionsof the divorce had just been 
definitely settled by the first husband. The marriage 
ceremony was performed a second time, but the occur- 
rence was often used by his encTnies to bring Mr. 
Jackson into disfavor. 

During these years he worked hard at his profes 
sion, and frequently had one or more duels on hand, 
one of which, when he killed Dickenson, was espec- 
ially disgraceful. 

In January, 1796, the Territory of Tennessee then 
containing nearly eighty thousand inhabitants, the 
people met in convention at Knoxville to frame a con- 
stitution. Five were sent from each of the elevsn 
counties, .\ndrew Jackson was one of the deiegafes. 
The new State was entitled to but one member in 
the Natio.ial House of Re|)resentatives. .Andrew Jack- 
son was chosen that member. Mounting his horse he 
rode to Philedelphia, where Congress then held its 



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ANDREW JACKSON. 



itfssions, — ^a diilaiice of about eight hundred miles. 

Jackson was an earnest advocate of the Deuio- 
cratic party. Jefferson was his idol. He admired 
Bonaparte, loved France and hated England. As Mr. 
Jackson took his seal, Gen. Washington, whose 
second term of office was then e.vpiying, delivered his 
last speech to Congress. A committee drew up a 
complimentary address in reply. Andrew Jackson 
did not approve of the address, and was one of the 
twelve who voted against it. He was not willing to 
say that Gen. Washington's adminstration had been 
" wise, firm and patriotic." 

Mr. Jackson was elected to the United .States 
Senate in 1797, but soon resigned and returned home. 
Soon after he was chosen Judge of the Supreme Court 
of his State, which ])osition he held f^r six years. 

When the war of 181 2 with Great Britian com- 
menced, Madison occupied the Presidential chair. 
Aaron Burr sent word to the President that there was 
an unknown man in the West, Andrew Jackson, who 
vvould do credit to a commission if one were con- 
ferred u[X)n him. Just at that time Gen. Jackson 
jffeied his services and those of twenty-five hundred 
volunteers. His offer was accepted, and the troops 
were assembled at Nashville. 

As the British were hourly expected to make an at- 
tack upon New Orleans, where Gen Wilkinson was 
in command, he was ordered to descend the river 
with fifteen hundred troops to aid \Vilkinsou. The 
expedition reached Natchez ; and after a delay of sev 
eral weeks there, without accomplishing anything, 
the men were ordered back to their homes. But the 
energy Gen. Jackson had displayed, and his entire 
devotion to the comrfort of his soldiers, won him 
golden opinions; and he became the most popular 
man in the State. It was in this expedition that his 
toughness gave him the nickname of " Old Hickory." 

Soon after this, while attempting to horsewhip Col. 
Thomas H. Benton, for a remark that gentleman 
made about his taking a part as second in a duel, in 
which a younger brother of Benton's was engaged, 
he received two severe |)istol wounds. While he was 
lingering upon a bed of suffering news came that the 
Indians, who had combined under Tecumseh from 
Florida to the Lakes, to exterminate the white set- 
tlers, were committing the most awful ravages. De- 
cisive action became necessary. Gen. Jackson, with 
his fractured bone just beginning to heal, his arm in 
a sling, and unable to mount his horse without assis- 
tance, gave his amazing energies to the raising of an 
army to rendezvous at Fayettesville, .\labama. 

The Creek Indians had established a strong fort on 
one of the bendsof the Tallapoosa River, near the cen- 
ter of Alabama, aliout fifty miles below Fort Strother. 
With an army of two tho'isand men, Gen. Jackson 
traversed the pathless wilderness in a march of eleven 
days. He reached their fort, called Tohopeka or 
Horse-shoe, on ^'^■i 27th of March. 1S14. The bend 



of the river enclosed nearly one hundred acres ot 
tangled forest and wild ravine. Across the narrow 
neck the Indians had constructed a formidable breast- 
work ot logs and brush. Here nine hundred warriors, 
with an ample suplyof arms were assembled. 

The fort was stormed. The fight was utterly des- 
perate. Not an Indian would accept of quarter. Wher, 
bleeding and d)ing, they would fight those who en- 
deavored to spare their lives. Fiom ten in the morn- 
ing until dark, the battle raged. The carnage vvas 
awful and revolting. Some threw themselves into the 
river; liut the unerring bullet struck their heads as 
they swam. Nearly everyone of the nine hundred war- 
rios were killed A few probably, in the night, swam 
the river and escaped. This ended the war. The 
power of the Creeks was broken forever. This bold 
plunge into the wilderness, with itsterriffic slaughter, 
so appalled the savages, that the haggard remnants 
of the bands came to the camp, begging for peace. 

This closing of the Creek war enabled us to con- 
centrate all our militia upon the British, who were the 
allies of the Indi-ans No man of less resolute will 
than Gen. Jackson could have conducted this Indian 
campaign to so successful an issue Immediately he 
was appointed major-general. 

Late in .\ugust, with an army of two thousand 
men, on a rushing march. Gen. Jackson came to 
Mobile. A British fleet came from Pensacola, landed 
a force upon the beach, anchored near the little fort, 
and from both ship and shore commenced a furious 
assault. The battle was long and doubtful. At length 
one of the ships was blown \\\\ and the rest retired. 

Garrisoning Mobile, where he had taken his little 
army, he moved his troops to New Orleans, 
And the battle of New Orleans which soon ensued, 
was in reality a very arduous campaign. This won 
for Gen. Jackson an imperishable natne. Here his 
troops, which numbered about four thousand men, 
won a signal victory over the British army of about 
nine thousand. His loss was but thirteen, while the 
loss of the British was two thousand six hundred. 

The name of Gen. Jackson soon began to be men- 
tioned in connection with the Presidency, but, in 1824, 
he was defeated by Mr. Adams. He was, however, 
successful in the election of 1828, and was re-elected 
for a second term in 1832. In 1829, just before he 
assumed the reins of the government, he met with 
the most terrible affliction of his life in the death of 
his wife, whom he had loved with a devotion which has 
perhaps never been surpassed. From the shock of 
her death he never recovered. 

His administration was one of the most memorable 
in the annals of our country; applauded by one party, 
condemned by the other. No man had more bitter 
enemies or warmer friends. At the expiration of his 
two terms of office he retired to the Hermitage, where 
he died June 8, 1845. The last years of Mr. Jack- 
son's life were that of a devoted Christian man. 




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EIGHTH PRESIDENT. 







IPPII] \J^^ BUREI]. 







ARPIN VAN BUREN, the 
tiL;hlli President of the 
United States, was horn at 
Kinderhook, N. Y., Dec. 5, 
17S2. He (lied at the same 
[>l,n e, July 24, 1862. His 
liody rests in tlie cemetery 
at Kinderhook. Above it is 
a plain g'.anite shaft fifteen feet 
high, hearing a simple inscription 
ahout halt way up on one face. 
^ 'I'hc lot is ur.fenced, unbordered 
or unbounded by slirub or flcwer. 

There is but little in the life of Martin \'an Buren 
of r^^mantic interest. He fought no battles, engaged 
i.i no wild adventures. Though his life was stormy in 
political and intellectual conflicts, and he gained many 
signal victories, his days passed uneventful in those 
incidents which give zest to biography. His an- 
cestors, as his name indicates, were of Dutch origin, 
and were among the earliest emigrants from Holland 
to the banks of the Hudson. His father was a farmer, 
residing in tiie old town of Kinderliook. His mother, 
also of Dutch lineage, was a woman of superior intel- 
ligence and exemplary piety. 

-le was decidedly a [)recocious boy, developing un- 
usual activity, vigor and strength of mind. At the 
age of fourteen, he had finished his academic studies 
in his native village, and commenced the study of 
law. As he had not a collegiate education, seven 
years of study in a law-office were rei|'-iired of him 
hefore he could be admitted to the bar. Inspired with 
J. lofty ambition, and conscious of his powers, he pur- 
sued his studies with indefatigable industry. After 
bp.ending six ye.irs in an office in ''is native village. 



he went to the city of Xew York, and prosecuted hi* 
studies for the seventh year. 

In 1803, Mr. Van Buren, then twenty-one years ot 
age, commenced the practice of law in his native vil- 
lage. The great conflict between the Federal .niul 
Republican party was then at its height. Mr. Van 
Buren was from the beginning a politician. He h-;d, 
perhaps, imbibed that spirit while listening to. the 
many discussions which had been carried on in his 
father's hotel. He was in cordial sympathy with 
Jefferson, and earnestly and eloipiently espoused the 
cause of State Rights; though at that time the Fed- 
eral party held the supremacy both in his town 
and State. 

His success and increasing ruputation led him 
after six years of practice, to remove to Hudson, th. 
county seat of his county. Here he spent seven years 
constantly gaining strength by contending in ilu. 
courts with some of the ablest men who have adorned 
the bar of his State. 

Just before leaving Kinderhook for Hudson, Mi. 
Van Buren married a lady alike distinguished for 
beauty and accomplishments. After twelve shovl 
years she sank into the grave, the victim of consun)p- 
tion, leaving her husband and four sons to weep ovei 
her loss. For twenty-five years, Mr. Van Buren was 
an earnest, successful, assiduous lawyer. The record 
of tliose years is barren in items of public interest. 
In 181 2, when thirty years of age, he was chosen lo 
the State Senate, and gave his strenuous supiwrt to 
Mr. Madison's adminstration. In 1815, he was ap- 
pointed .Attorney-General, and the next year moved 
to Albany, the capital of the State. 

'iVhile he was acknowledged as one of the most 
p. ominent leaders of the Democratic party, he had 



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MARTIN VAN BUREN. 



the moral courage to avow that true democracy did 
not reijiiire that " universal suffrage" which admits 
the vile, the degraded, the ignorant, to the right of 
governing the State. In true consistency with his 
democratic principles, he contended that, while the 
path leading to the privilege of voting should be open 
to every man without distinction, no one should be 
invested with that sacred prerogative, unless he were 
in some degree qualified for it by intelligence, virtue 
and some property interests in the welfare of the 
State. 

In 1 82 1 he was elected a member of the United 
States Senate; and in the same year, he took a seat 
in the convention to revise the constitution of his 
native State. His course in this convention secured 
the approval of men of all parties. No one could 
doubt the singleness of his endeavors to promote the 
interests of all classes in the community. In the 
Senate of the United States, he rose at once to a 
conspicuous position as an active and useful legislator. 

In 1827, John Quincy Adams beirg then in the 
Presidential chair, Mr. Van Buren was re-elected to 
ihe Senate. He had been from the beginning a de- 
:ermined opposer of the Administration, adopting the 
■'State Rights " view in opposition to what was 
deemed the Federal proclivities of Mr. Adams. 

Soon after this, in 1828, he was chosen Governorof 
the State of New York, and accordingly resigned his 
seat in the Senate. Probably no one in the United 
States contributed so much towards ejecting John Q. 
Adams from the Presidential chair, and placing in it 
Andrew Jackson, as did Martin Van Buren. Whether 
entitled to the reputation or not, he certainly was re- 
garded throughout the United States as one of the 
most skillful, sagacious and cunning of politicians. 
It was supposed that no one knew so well as he how 
;o touch the secret spiings of action; how to pull all 
.he wires to put his machinery in motion ; and how to 
organize a political army wliich would, secretly and 
rte.'Uhily accomplish the most gigantic results. By 
these powers it is said that he outv/itted Mr. Adams, 
Mr. Clay, Mr. Webster, and secured results which 
iii.\'i thought then could be accomplished. 

When Andrew Jackson was elected President he 
appointed Mr. Van Buren Secretary of State. This 
position he resigned in 1831, and was immediately 
appointed Minister to England, where he went the 
same autumn. The Senate, however, when it met, 
refused to ratify the nomination, and he returned 



home, apparently untroubled; was nominated Vice 
President in the place of Calhoun, at the re-election 
of President Jackson; and with smiles for all and 
fiowns for none, he took his place at the head of that 
Senate which had refused to confirm his nomination 
as ambassador. 

His rejection by tlie Senate roused all the zeal of 
President Jackson in behalf of his repudiated favor- 
ite; and this, probably more than any other cause 
secured his elevation to the chair of the Chief Execu 
tive. On the 20th of May, 1836, Mr. Van Buren re- 
ceived the Democratic nomination to succeed Gen. 
Jackson as President of the United States. He was 
elected by a handsome majority, to the delight of the 
retiring President. " Leaving New York out of the 
canvass," says Mr. Parton, "the election of Mr. Van 
Buren to the Presidency was as much the act of Gen. 
Jackson as though the Constitution had conferred 
upon him the power to appoint a successor." 

His O-dministration was filled with exciting events- 
The insurrection in Canada, which threatened to in ■ 
volve this country in war with England, the agitation 
of the slavery question, and finally the great commer- 
cial panic which spread over the country, all were 
trials to his wisdom. The financial distress was at- 
tributed to themanagement of the Democratic party, 
and brought the President into such disfavor that he 
failed of re-election. 

With the exception of being nominated for the 
Presidency by the "Free Soil" Democrats, in 1848, 
Mr. Van Buren lived quietly upon his estate until 
his death. 

He had ever been a prudent man, of frugal haljits. 
and living within his income, had now fortunately a 
competence for his declining years. His unblemished 
character, his commanding abilities, his unquestioned 
patriotism, and the distinguished positions which he 
had occupied in the government of our country, se- 
cured to him not only the homage of his party, but 
the respect ot the whole community. It was on the 
4th of March, 184 1, that Mr. Van Buren retired from 
the presidency. From his fine estate at Lindenwald^ 
he still exerted a powerful influence upon the politics 
of the country. From this time until his death, on 
the 24th of July, 1862, at the age of eighty years, he 
resided at Lindenwald, a gentleman of leisure, of 
culture and of wealth; enjoying in a healthy old 
age, probably far more happiness than he had before 
experienced amid the stormy scenes of his active life- 




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NINTH PRESIDENT. 



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ILLIAM HENRY HARRI- 
SON', ilio iiintli PresideiU ot 
llic United Stales, was born 
at iicikeiey, Va., Feb. 9, 1773. 
His father, Benjamin Harri- 
son, was in comparatively op- 
ulent ciicumstances, and was 
one of the most distinguisiied 
men of his day. He was an 
intimate friend of George 
Washington, w as early elected 
a member of the Continental 
Congress, and was consijicuons 
among the patriots of Virginia in 
resisting the encroachments of the 
British crown. In the celebrated 
Congress of 1775, Benjamin Har- 
risijn and John Hancock were 
both candidates for the office of 
s|ieaker. 

Mr Harrison was subsequently 
chosen Governor of Virginia, and 
wa; twice re-elected. His son, 
William Henry, of course enjoyed 
in childhood all the advantages which wealth and 
intellectual and cultivated society could give. Hav- 
ing received a thorough comn.on-school education, he 
entered Hampden Sidney College, where lie graduated 
wiili honor soor. -fter tlie death of his father. He 
t.ien repaired to Philadelphia to study medicine undtr 
the instructions of Dr. Rush and the guardianship of 
I'obert Morris, both of whom were, with his father, 
signers of the Declaration of Independence. 

Jl)on the outbreak of the Indian troubles, and not- 
withstanding the 'emonsttances of his friends, he 
ai)andoned his medical studies and entered tlie army, 
.laving obtained a commission of Ensign from Presi- 



dent ^Vashington. He was then but 19 years old. 
From that time he passed gradually upward in rank 
until lie became aid to General Wayne, after whose 
death he resigned his commission. He was then ai)- 
pointed Secretary of the Nortii-western Territorv. This 
Territory was then entitled to but one member in 
Congress and Capt. Harrison was chosen to fill that 
position. . 

In the spring of 1800 the North-western Territory 
was divided by Congress into two iwrtions. The 
eastern jxjrtion, comprising the region now embraced 
in tlie State of Ohio, was called '• The Territory 
north-west of the Ohio." The western jwrt ion, which 
included what is now called Indiana, Illinois and 
Wisconsin, was called the "Indiana Territory." Wil . 
liam Henry Harrison, then 27 years of age, was ap 
pointed by John Adams, Governor of the Indiana 
Territory, and immediately after, also Governor of 
Upper Louisiana. He was thus ruler over almost as 
extensive a realm as any sovereign ujxjn the globe. He 
was Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and was in- 
vested with [xjwers nearly dictatorial over the now 
rapidly increasing white jjopulation. The ability and 
fidelity with which he discharged these resixinsible 
duties may be inferred from the fact that he was four 
times appointed to this office — first by John Adams, 
twice by Thomas Jefferson and afterwards by Presi- 
dent Madison. 

When he began his adminstration there were but 
three white setilementsin that almost boundless region, 
now crowded with cities and resounding with all the 
tumult of wealth and traffic. One of these settlements 
was on the Ohio, nearly 0[)]X)site Ixjuisville; one at 
Vincennes, on the Wabash, and the ihiid a French 
settlement. 

The vast wilderness over which Gov. Harrisoh 
reigned was filled with many tribes of Indian.s. Abo<" 



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WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. 



the year 1806, two t-xtraordinary mer, twin brothers, 
of the Shawnese tribe, rose among them. One of 
these was called Tecumseh, or " The Crouching 
Panther;" the other, OUiwacheca, or "The Prophet." 
Tecumseh was not only an Indian warrior, but a man 
of great sagacity, far-reaching foresight and indomit- 
able perseverance in any enterprise in wiiich he might 
engage. He was inspired with the highest enthusiasm, 
and had long regarded with dread and with hatred 
the encroacliment of the whites u[ioii the hunting- 
grounds of his fathers. His brother, the Propliet, was 
an orator, who could sway the feelings of the untutored 
Indian as the gale tossed the tree -tops beneath which 
they dwelt. 

But the Prophet was not merely an orator: he was, 
i 1 the superstitious minds of the Indians, invested 
with the superhuman dignity of a medicine-man or a 
magician. With an eathusiasin unsurpassed by Peter 
the Hermit rousing Europe to the crusades, he went 
Irom tribe to tribe, assuming that he was specially sent 
liy the Great Spirit. 

Gov. Harrison made many attempts to conciliate 
the Indians, but at last the war came, and at Tippe- 
canoe the Indians were routed with great slaughter. 
October 28, 1812, his army began its inarch. When 
near the Prophet's town three Indians of rank made 
iheir appearance and inquired why Gov. Harrison was 
approaching them in so hostile an attitude. After a 
short conference, arrangements were made for a meet- 
ing the next day, to agree upon terms of peace. 

But Gov. Harrison was too well acquainted with 
the Indian character to be deceived by such proles- 
talions Selecting a favorable spot for his night's en- 
campment, he-took every precaution against surprise 
His troops were posted in a hollow square, and slept 
upon their arms. 

The troops threw themselves upon the ground for 
rest; but every man had his accourtrements on, his 
loaded musket l)y his side, and his bayonet fixed. The 
wakeful Governor, between three and four o'clock in 
the morning, had risen, and was sitting in conversa- 
tion with his aids by the embers of a waning fire. It 
was a chill, cloudy morning with a drizzling rain. In 
the darkness, the Indians had crept as near as possi- 
lile, and j'lst then, with a savage yell, rushed, with all 
the desperation which superstition and passion most 
highly inflamed could give, upon the left flank of the 
httle army. The savages had been amply provided 
with guns and ammunition by the English. Their 
war-whoop was accompained by a shower of bullets. 

The camp-fires were instantly ext'inguished, as the 
light aided the Indians in their aim. With hide- 
lius yells, the Indian bands ruslied on, not doiibtir.g a 
sjieedy and an entire victory. But Gen. Harrison's 
troops stood as immovable as the rocks around them 
until day dawned : they then made a simultaneous 
charge with the bayonet, and swept every thing be- 
fore them, and completely routing thp foe. 



Gov. Harrison now had all his energies tasked 
to the utmost. The British desceiiding Irom the Can - 
adas, were of themselves a very formidable force ; but 
with their savage allies, rushing like wolves I'rom the 
forest, sear.hing out every remote farm-house, burn- 
ing, plu.idering, scalpi,;g, torturing, the wide frontier 
was plunged into a state of consternation which even 
the most vivid imagination can but faintly conceive. 
The war-whoop was resounding everywhere in the 
forest. The horizon was illuminated with the conflagra- 
tion of the cabins of the settlers. Gen Hull had made 
the ignominious surrender of his forces at Detroit. 
Under these despairing circumstances. Gov. Harrison 
was appointed by President Madison commander-in- 
chief of the North-western army, with orders to retake 
Detroit, and to protect the frontiers. 

It would be difficult to place a man in a situation 
demanding more energy, sagacity and courage; bul 
General Harrison was found equal to the position, 
and nobly and triumphantly did he meet all the re 
sponsibilities. 

He won the love of his soldiers by always sharino 
with them their fatigue. His whole baggage, while 
pursuing the foe up the Thames, was carried in a 
valise; and his bedding consisted of a single blanket 
laslied over his saddle Thirty-five British officers, 
his prisoners of war, supped with hirn after the battle. 
The only fare he could give them was beef roasted 
before the fire, without bread or salt. 

In 18 16, Gen. Harrison was chosen a member ol 
the National House of Representatives, to represent 
the District of Ohio. In Congress he proved an 
active member; and whenever he spoke, it was with 
force of reason and power of eloquence, wliich arrested 
the attention of all the members. 

In 1819, Harrison was elected to the Senate of 
Ohio; and in 1824, as one of the presidential electors 
of that State, he gave his vote for Henry Clay. The 
same year he was chosen to the United States Senate. 

In 1836, the friends of Gen. Harrison brought hiin 
forward as a candidate for the Presidency against 
Van Buren, but he was defeated. At the close of 
Mr. Van Buren's term, he was re-nominated by his 
party, and Mr. Harrison was unanimously nominated 
by the Whigs, with John Tyler for the Vice Presidency. 
The contest was very animated. Gen Jackson gave 
all his influence to prevent Harrison's election ; but 
his triumph was signal. 

The cabinet which he formed, with Daniel Webstei 
at its head as Secretary of State, was one of the most 
brilliant with which any President had ever been 
surrounded. Never were the prospects of an admin- 
isl ration more flattering, or tlie hopes of the counti)- 
more sanguine. In the midst of these bright and 
joyous prospects. Gen. Harrison was seized by a 
pleurisy-fever and after a few days of violent sick- 
ness, died on the 4th of April ; just one month after 
his inauguration as President of the Ui^-ited States. 




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TENTH PRESIDENT. 



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M>>JD1L^'JT 



^,{ OHN 



TYLER, the tenth 






7,... Presidentof the United States. 
Hj was born in Charles-city 
Co., V.-i., March 29, 1790. He 
was the favored child of af- 
fluence and higli social po- 
sition. At tlie early age of 
twelve, John entered William 
and Mary College and grad- 
uated with much honor when 
I but seventeen years old. .\fter 
graduating, he devoted him- 
self with great assiduity to the 
stufly of law, partly with his 
father and [jirtly with Edmund 
Randolph, one of the most distin- 
guished lawyers of Virginia. 

At nineteen years of age, ne 
commenced the practice of law. 
His success was rapid and aston- 
ishing, It is said that three 
months had not elapsed ere there 
was scarcely a case on the dock- 
I et of the court in which he was 

ivot retained. When but twenty-one years of age, he 
was almost unanimously e'ected to a seat in the State 
Legislature. He connected himself with the Demo- 
rr.riic party, and warmly advocated the measures of 
Jefferson and Madison. For five successive years he 
was elected to the Legislature, receiving nearly the 
unanimous vote or his county. 

When but twenty-six years of age, he was elected 
a member of Congress. Here he acted earnestly and 
ably with the Democratic party, opposing a national 
bank, internal improvements by the General <^overn- 



ment, a protective tariff, and advocating a strict con- 
struction of the Constitution,- and the most careful 
vigilance over State rights. His labors in Congress 
were so arduous that before the close of his second 
term hj foind it necessary to resign and retire to his 
estate in Charles-city Co., to recruit his health. He, 
however, soon after consented to take his seat in the 
State Legislature, where his influence was powerful 
in promoting jjublic works of great utility. With a 
reputation thus canstantly increasing, he was chosen 
by a very large majority of votes, Governor of his 
native State. His administration was signally a suc- 
cessful one. His [wpularily secured his re-election. 

John Randolph, a brilliant, erratic, half-crazed 
man, then represented Virginia in the Senate of the 
United States. A jxirtion of the Democratic party 
was displeased with Mr. Randolph's wayward course, 
and brought forward John Tyler as his opponent, 
considering him the only man in Virginia of sufficient 
popularity to succeed against the renowned orator of 
Roanoke. Mr. Tyler was the victor. 

In accordance with his professions, upon taking his 
seat in the Senate, he joined the ranks of the opposi- 
tion. He opposed the tariff; he sixake against and 
voted against the bank as unconstitutional ; he stren- 
uously opjxjsed all restrictions upon slavery, resist- 
ing all projects of internal improvements by the Gen- 
eral Government, and avowed his sympathy with Mr. 
Calhoun's view of nullification ; he declared that Gen. 
Jackson, by his opixDsition to the nullifiers, had 
abandoned the piinciples of the Democratic party. 
Such was Mr. Tyler's record in Congress, — a record 
in perfect accordance with the principles which he 
had always avowed. 

Returning to Virginia, he resumed the practice of 
!iis profession. There was a :pl:t in the Democratic 



JOHN TYLER. 



>aity. His frieuds still legarded him as a true Jcf- 
iersonian, gave him a dinner, and showered comph- 
nients upon him. He had now attained the age of 
forty-six.' His career had been very brilliant. In con- 
sequence of his devotion to piiijHc business, his pri- 
vate affairs had faben into some disorder; audit was 
not without satisfaction that he resumed the practice 
of law, and devoted himself to the culture of his plan- 
tation. Soon after this he remo\ed to Williamsburg, 
for the. better education of his children ; and he again 
took his^eat in the Legislature of Virginia. 

By the Southern Whigs, he was sent to the national 
convention at Harrisburg to nominate a President in 
'839. The maioritv of votes were given to Gen. Har- 
rison, a genuine Whig, much to the disappointment ot 
the South, who wished for Henry Clay. To concili- 
ate the Southern Whigs and to secure their vote, the 
convention then nominated John Tyler for Vice Pres- 
ident. It was well known that he was not in sympa- 
thy with the Whig party in theNo;lh: but the Vice 
President lias but very little power in the Govern- 
ment, his main and almost only duty being to pre- 
side over the meetings of the .Senate. Thus it hap- 
pened that a Whig President, and, in reality, a 
Democratic Vice President were chosen. 

In 1 84 1, Mr. Tyler was inaugurated Vice Presi- 
dent of the United States. In one short month from 
that time. President Harrison died, and Mr. Tyler 
thus -:und himself, to his own surprise and that of 
the whole Nation, an occupant of the Presidential 
chair. This was a new test of the stability of our 
institutions, as it was the first time in the history of our 
country that such an event had occured. Mr. Tyler 
was at home in \Villiamsl)urg when he received the 
ur.expected tidings of the death of President Harri- 
son. He hastened to Washington, and on the 6th of 
.'/:ril v/as inaugurated to the high and responsible 
orfice. He was placed in a position of e.\ceeding 
delicacy and difficulty. All his long life he had been 
opijosed tc tb.e main principles of the party which had 
brought him into power. He had ever been a con- 
sistent, hone t man, with an unblemished record. 
Gen. Harrison had selected a Whig cabinet. Should 
he retain them, and thus suiround himself with coun- 
sellors whose views were antagonistic to his own? or, 
on the other hand, should he turn against the party 
which had elected him and select a cabinet in har- 
n.ony with himself, and which would oppose all those 
s'iews which the AVhigs deemed essential to the pub- 
lic welfare? This was his fearful dilemma. He in- 
vited the cabinet which President Harrison had 
selected to retain their seats. He reccomni-nded a 
day of fasting and prayer, that God would guide and 
bless us. 

The Whigs carried through Congress a bill for the 
incorporation of a fiscal bank of the United States. 
The President, after ten days' delay, returned it with 
his veto. He s»us:gested. however, that he would 



approve of a bill drawn uji upon such a plan as lie 
proposed. Such a bill was accordingly prepared, and 
privatel}' submitted to him. He gave it his approval. 
It A'as passed without alteration, and he sent it back 
with his veto. Here commenced the open rupture-. 
Ic is said that Mr. Tyler was [irovoked to this meas- 
ure by a published letter from the Hon. John M. 
liotts, a distinguished Virginia Whig, who severely 
touched the pride of the President. 

The opposition now exultingly received the Presi- 
dent into their arms. The party which elected him 
denounced him bitterly. All the members of his 
cabinet, excepting Mr. Webster, resigned. The Whigs 
of C ongress, both the Senate and the House, held a 
meeting and issued an address to the people of the 
United States, proclaiming that all political alliance 
between the \Vhigs and President Tyler were at 
an end. 

Still the President attempted to conciliate. He 
appointed a new cabinet of distinguished Whigs and 
Conservatives, carefully leaving out all strong party 
men. Mr. Webster soon found it necessary to resign, 
forced out by the pressure of his Whig friends. Thus 
the four years of Mr. Tyler's unfortunate administra- 
tion passed sadly away. No one was satisfied. The 
land was filled with murmurs and vitujieration. Whigs 
and Democrats alike assailed him. More and more, 
however, he brought himself into svmpathy with his 
old friends, the Democrats, until at the close of his term, 
he gave his whole influence to the support of Mr. 
Polk, the Democratic candidate for his successor. 

On the 4th of March, 1845, he retired from the 
harassments of office, to the regret of neither party, and 
probably to liis own unspeakable lelief. His first wife. 
Miss Letitia Christian, died in Washington, in 1842; 
and in June, 1844, President Tyler was again married, 
at New York, to Miss Julia Gardiner, a young lady of 
many personal and intellectual accomplishments. 

The remainder of his days Mr. T3 ler passed mainly 
in retirement at his beautiful home, — Sherwood For- 
est, Charles-city Co., Va. A polished gentleman in 
his manners, richly furnished with information from 
books and experience in the world, and possessing 
brilliant powers of conversation, his family circle was 
the scene of unnsual attractions. With sufficient 
means for the exercise of a generous hospitality, he 
might have enjoyed a serene old age with the few 
friends who gathered around him, were it not for the 
storms of civil war which his own principles and 
policy had helped to introduce. 

When the great Rebellion rose, which the State-, 
rights and nullifying doctrines of Mr. John C. Cal- 
houn had inaugurated. President Tyler renounced his 
allegiance to the United States, and joined the Confed- 
erates. He was chosen a member of their Congress; 
and while engaged in active measures to destroy, by 
force of arms, the Government over which he had 
once presided, he was taken sick and soon died. 



ELE VENTir PRESIDENT. 



59 




AME^ K, POLK. 








\ AMES K.POLK, the eleventh 

SjPresidcnt of the Ur.i ted States, 
%) was born in Mecklenburg Co., 
,5 N. C.,Nov. 2, 1795. His par- 




ents were Samuel and Jane 

(Knox) Folk, the former a son 

of Col. Thomas Polk, who located 

at tlie above place, as one of the 

first |)ioneers, in 1735. 

In the year 1006, witli liis wife 
and cliildren, ar.d soon after fol- 
owed by most of tlie members of 
the I'oik famly, Samuel Polk emi- 
grated some two or three hundred 
['iP miles farther west, to the rich valley 
of tlie Duck River. Here in the 
midst of the wilderness, in a region 
which was subsequentK called Mau- 
ry Co., they reared their log huls, 
and established their homes. In the 
hard toil of a new farm in the wil- 
derness, James K. Polk spent the 
early years of his childhood and 
youth. His father, adding the pur- 
suit cf a surveyor to thatof a farmer, 
' gradually increased in wealth until 

he became one of the leading men of the region. His 
mother was a superior woman, of strong comuK n 
sense and earnest i)iety. 

Very early in life, James developed a taste for 
reading and expressed the strongest desire to obtain 
:i liberal education. His mother's training had made 
him methodical in his habits, had taught him punct- 
uality and industry, and had inspired him with lofty 
principles of morality. His health was frail ; and his 
father, fearing that he might not be able to endure a 



sedentary life, got a situation for him behind the 
counter, hoping to fit him for commercial [Hnsuits. 

This was to James a bitter disapix>intnient. He 
had no taste' for these duties, and his daily tasks 
were irksome in the extreme. He remained in this 
uncongenial occupation Ijut a lew weeks, when at his 
earnest solicitation his father removed him, and made 
arrangements for him to prosecute his studies. Soon 
after he sent him to Murfreesboro Academy. With 
ardor which could scarcely be surpassed, he pressed 
forward in his studies, and in less than two and a half 
years, in the autumn of 1S15, entered the sophomore 
class in the University of North Carolina, at Chapel 
Hill. Here he was one of the most e.xeniplaiy of 
scholars, punctual in every exercise, never allowing 
himself to be absent from a recitation or a religious 
service. 

He graduated in 1818, witli the highest honors, bc« 
ing deemed the best scholar of his class, both in 
mathematics and the classics. He was then twenty- 
tiiree years of age. Mr. Polk's health was at this 
time much impaired by the assiduity with which he 
had prosecuted his studies. After a short season of 
relaxation lie went to Nashville, and entered the 
office of l'"elix Grundy, to study law. Here Mr. Polk 
renewed his acquaintance wilh .Andrew Jackson, who 
resided on his plantation, the Hermitage, but a few 
miles from Nashville. They had probably been 
sliglilly accpiainted bel'ore. 

Mr. Polk's father was a Jeffersonian Republican 
and James K. Polk ever adhered to the same jwliii- 
cal faitli. He was a jKipular public speaker, and was 
constantly called upon to address the meetings of his 
party friends. His skill as a speaker was such that 
he was iwpularly called the Napoleon of the stump. 
He was a man of unblemished morals, genial aid 



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/AMES K. POLK. 



Murterus in his bearing, and with that sympathetic 
natu'^e in the jo) s and griefs of others which ever gave 
him troops of friends. In 1823, Mr. Polk was elected 
to the Legislature of Tennessee. Here he gave his 
strong influence towards the election of his friend, 
Mr. Jackson, to the Presidency of the United States. 

In January, 1824, Mr. Polk married Miss Sarah 
Childress, of Rutherford Co., Tenn. His bride was 
altogether worthy of him, — a lady of beauty and cul- 
ture. In the fall of 1825, Mr. Polk was chosen a 
member of Congress. The satisfaction which he gave 
to his constituents may be inferred from the fact, that 
for fourteen successive years, until 1839, he was con- 
tinued in that office. He then voluntarily withdrew, 
only that he might accept the Gubernatorial chair 
of T'lnnessee. In Congress he was a laborious 
memSer, a frequent and a popular speaker. He was 
alwnys in his seat, always courteous ; and whenever 
he spoke it was always to the point, and without any 
ambitious rhetorical display. 

During five sessions of Congress, Mr. Polk was 
Speaker of the House Strong passions were roused, 
and stormy scenes were witnessed ; but Mr. Polk per- 
formed his arduous duties to a very general satisfac- 
tion, and a unanimous vote of thanks to him was 
passed by the House as he withdrew on the 4th of 
March, 1839. 

In accordance with Southern usage, Mr. Polk, as a 
candidate for Governor, canvassed the State. He was 
elected by a large majority, and on the 14th of Octo- 
ber, 1839,100k the oath of office at Nashville. In 1841, 
his term of office expired, and he was again the can- 
didate of the Democratic party, but was defeated. 

On the 4th of March, 1845, Mr. Polk was inaugur- 
ated President of the United States. The verdict of 
the country in favor of the annexation of Texas, exerted 
its influence upon Congress ; and the last act of the 
administration of President Tyler was to affix his sig- 
nature to a joint resolution of Congress, passed on the 
3d of March, approving of the annexation of Texas to 
the American Union. As Mexico still claimed Texas 
as one of her provinces, the Mexican minister, 
Almonte, immediately demanded his passports and 
left the country, declaring the act of the annexation 
to be an act hostile to Mexico. 

In his first message. President Polk urged that 
Texas should immediately, by act of Congress, be re- 
ceived into the Union on the same footing with the 
Other States. In the meantime. Gen. Taylor was sent 



with an army into Texas to hold the country. He was 
sent first to Nueces, which the Mexicans said was the 
western boundary of Texas. Then he was sent nearly 
two hundred miles further west, to the Rio Grande, 
where he erected batteries which commanded the 
Mexican city of Matamoras, which was situated 017 
the western banks. 

The anticipated collision soon took place, and wai 
was declared against Mexico by President Polk. The 
war was pushed forward by Mr. Polk's administration 
with great vigor. Gen. Taylor, whose army was first 
called one of "observation," then of "occupation," 
then of "invasion, "was sent forward to Monterey. The 
feeble Mexicans, in every encounter, were hopelessly 
and awfully slaughtered. The day of judgement 
alone can reveal the misery which this war caused. 
It v/as by the ingenuity of Mr. Polk's administration 
that the war was brought on. 

'To the victors belong the spoils." Mexico was 
prostrate before us. Her capital was in our hands. 
We now consented to peace upon the condition that 
Mexico should surrender to us, in addition to Texas, 
all of New Mexico, and all of Upper and Lower Cal- 
ifornia. This new demand embraced, exclusive of 
Texas, eight hundred thousand square miles. This 
was an extent of territory equal to nine States of the 
size of New York. Thus slavery was securing eighteen 
majestic States to be added to the Union. There were 
some Americans who thought it all right : there were 
others who thought it all wrong: In the prosecution 
of this war, we expended twenty thousand lives and 
more than a hundred million of dollars. Of this 
money fifteen millions were paid to Mexico. 

On the 3d of March, 1849, Mr. Polk retired from 
office, having served one term. The next day was 
Sunday. On the 5th, Gen. Taylor was inaugurated 
as his successor. Mr. Polk rode to the Capitol in the 
same carriage with Gen. Taylor; and the same even- 
ing, with Mrs. Polk, he commenced his return to 
Tennessee. He was then but fifty-four years of age. 
He had ever been strictly temperate in all his habits, 
and his health was good. \\'ith an ample fortune, 
a choice library, a cultivated mind, and domestic ties 
of the dearest nature, it seemed as though long years 
of tranquility and happiness were before him. But the 
cholera — that fearful scourge — was then sweeping up 
the Valley of the Mississippi. This he contracted, 
and died on the 15th of June, 1S49, in the fiftv-fourth 
year of his age, greatly mourned by his counirymen. 





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TWELFTH PRESIDENT. 



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%^lJ^,%%^^Y f J^Yii^jR. 









ACHARY TAYLOR, twelfth 
President of the United States, 
was b(3rn on the 24th of Nov., 
1784, in Orange Co., Va. His 
3s father. Colonel Taylor, was 
a Virginian of note, and a dis- 
tinguished [latriot and soldier of 
the Revolution. When Zachary 
was an infant, his father with liis 
wife and two children, emigrated 
to Kentucky, where he settled in 
the pathless wilderness, a few 
miles from Louisville. In this front- 
ier home, away from civilization and 
all its refinements, young Zachary 
could enjoy but few social and educational advan- 
tages. When six years of age he attended a common 
school, and was then regarded as a bright, active boy, 
cather remarkable for bluntness and decision of char- 
acter He was strong, feailess and self-reliant, and 
manifested a strong desire to enter tlie army to fight 
the Indians who were ravaging the frontiers. There 
is little to be recorded of the uneventful years of his 
childhood on his father's large but lonely plantation. 
In 1S08, his father succeeded in obtaining for him 
the commission of lieutenant in the United States 
army ; and lie joined the troops which were stationed 
at New Orleans under Gen. Wilkinson. Soon after 
this he married Miss Margaret Smith, a young lady 
from one of the first families of Maryland. 

Immediately after the declaration of war with Eng- 
land, in 18 1 2, Capt. Taylor (for he had then been 
promoted to that rank) was put in command of Fort 
Harrison, on the Wabash, about fifty miles above 
Vincennes. This fort had been built in the wilder- 
ness by Gen. Harrison.on his march to ri[)pecanoe. 
It was one of the first points of attack by the Indians, 
ed by Tecumseh. Its garrison consisted of a broken 



company of infantry numbering fifty men, many of 
whom were sick. 

Early in the autumn of 181 2, the Indians, stealthily, 
and in large numbers, moved ujxsn the fort. Their 
approach was first indicated by the murder of two 
soldiers just outside of the stockade. Capt. Taylor 
made every possible preparation to meet the antici- 
pated assault. On the 4th of September, a band of 
forty painted and plumed savages came to the fort, 
waving a white flag, and informed Capt. Taylor that 
in the morning their chief would come to have a talk 
with him. It was evident that their object was merely 
to ascertain the state of things at the fort, and Capt. 
Taylor, well versed in the wiles of the savages, kept 
them at a distance. 

The sun went down ; the savages disappeared, the 
garrison sle|)t upon their arms. One liour before 
midnight the war whoop burst from a thousand lips 
in the forest around, followed by tlie discharge of 
musketry, and the rush of the foe. Every man, sick 
and well, sprang to his post. Every man knew that 
defeat was not merely death, but in the case of cai>- 
ture, death by the most agonizing and i)rolonged tor- 
ture. No pen can describe, 1.0 immagination can 
conceive the scenes which ensued. Tlie savages suc- 
ceeded in setting lire to one of the biock-iiouses- 
Until si.\ o'clock in the morning, this awful conflict 
continued. The savages then, baffled at every jwint, 
and gnashing their teeth with rage, retired. Capt. 
Taylor, for this gallant defence, was promoted to the 
rank of major by brevet. 

Until the close of the war, MajorTaylor was placed 
in such situations that he saw but little more of active 
service. He was sent far away into the depths of the 
wilderness, to Fort Crawford, on Fox River, which 
empties into Green Bay. Here there was but little 
to be done but to wear away the tedious hours as one 
best could. There were no books, no society, no in- 



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ZACHARY TAYLOR 



tellectual stitnulus. Thus with him the uneventful 
years rolled on Gradually he rose to the rank of 
colonel. In the Black Hawk war, which resulted in 
the capture of that renowned chieftain, Col Taylor 
took a subordinate but a brave and efficient part. 

For twenty -four years Col. Taylor was engaged in 
the defence of the frontiers, in scenes so remote, and m 
employments so obscure, that his name was unknown 
oeyond the limits of his own immediate acquaintance. 
In the year 1836, he was sent to Florida to compel 
the Seminole Indians to vacate that region and re- 
tire beyond the Mississippi, as their chiefs by treaty, 
iiac'' promised they should do. The services rendered 
he^c secured for Col. Taylor the high appreciation of 
the Government; and as a reward, he was elevated 
tc :he rank of brigadier-general by brevet ; and soon 
after, in May, 1838, was appointed to the chief com- 
mand of the United States troops in Florida. 

After two years of such wearisome employment 
tmidst the everglades of the peninsula. Gen. Taylor 
obtained, at his own request, a change of command, 
;.r,d was stationed over the Department of the South- 
west. This field embraced Louisiana, Mississippi, 
Alabama and Georgia. Establishing his headquarters 
ai Fort Jessup, in Louisiana, he removed his family 
to a plantation which he purchased, near Baton Rogue. 
Here he remained for five years, buried, as it were, 
'"rom the world, but faithfully discharging every duty 
•mposed upon him. 

In 1846, Gen. Taylor was sent to guard the land 
i'ween the Nueces and Rio Grande, the latter river 
^■mg the boundary of Texas, which was then claimed 
ijy the United States. Soon the war with Mexico 
was brought on, and at Palo Alto and Resaca de la 
Palma, Gen. Taylor won brilliant victories over the 
Mexicans. The rank of major-general by Ijrevet 
was then conferred upon Gen. Taylor, and his name 
w<iS received with enthusiasm almost everywhere in 
the Nation. Then came the battles of Monterey and 
Buena Vista in which he won signal victories over 
forces much larger than he commanded. 

His careless habits of dress and his unaffected 
'iinplitity, secured for Gen. Taylor among his troops, 
the sobriquet of " Old Rough and Ready.' 

Tne tidings of the brilliant victory of Buena Vista 
-pread the wildest enthusiasm over the country. The 
name of Gen. Taylor was on every one's lips. The 
Whig party decided to take advantage of this wonder- 
f il popularity in bringing forward the unpolished, un- 

■ "'■ed, honest soldier as their candidate for the 
iresidency. Gen. Taylor was astonished at the an- 
nouncement, and for a time would not listen to it; de- 
claring that he was not at all qualified for such an 
office. So little interest had he taken in politics that, 
for forty years, he had not cast a vote. It was not 
without chagrin that several distinguished statesmen 
who had been long years in the public service found 
O.iir claims set aside in behalf of one whose name 



had never been heard of, save in connection with Palo 
Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey and Buena 
Vista. It is said that Daniel Webster, in his haste re- 
marked, " It is a nomination not fit to be made." 

Gen. Taylor was not an eloquent speaker nor a fine 
writer His friends took possession of him, and pre- 
pared such few communications as it was needful 
should be presented to the public. The popularity of 
the successful warrior swept the land. He was tri- 
umphantly elected over two opposing candidates, — 
Gen. Cass and Ex-President Martin Van Buren. 
Though he selected an excellent cabinet, the good 
old man found himself in a very uncongenial jMsition, 
and was, at times, sorely perplexed and harassed. 
His mental sufferings were very severe, and probably 
tended to hasten his death. The pro-slavery party 
was pushing its claims with tireless energy , expedi- 
tions were fitting out to capture Cuba ; California was 
pleading for admission to the Union, while slavery 
stood at the door to bar her out. Gen. Taylor found 
the political conflicts in Washington to be far more 
trying to the nerves than battles with Mexicans or 
Indians. 

In the midst of all these troubles. Gen. Taylor, 
after he had occupied the Presidential chair but little 
over a year, took cold, and after a brief sickness of 
but little over five days, died on the 9th of July, 1850. 
His last words were, " I am not afraid to die. I am 
ready. I have endeavored to do my duty." He died 
universally respected and beloved. An honest, un- 
pretending man, he had been steadily growing in the 
affections of the people ; and the Nation bitterly la- 
mented his death. 

Gen. Scott, who was thoioughly acquainted with 
Gen. Taylor, gave the following graphic and truthful 
description of his character: — " With a good store of 
common sense, Gen. Taylor's mind had not been en- 
larged and refreshed by reading, or much converse 
with the world. Rigidity of ideas was the conse- 
quence. The frontiers and small military posts had 
been his home. Hence he was quite ignorant for his 
rank, and quite bigoted in his ignorance. His sim- 
plicity was child-like, and with innumerajjle preju- 
dices, amusing and incorrigible, well suited to the 
tender age. Thus, if a man, however respectable, 
chanced to wear a coat of an unusual color, or his hat 
a little on one side of his head ; or an officer to leave 
a corner of his handkerchief dangling from an out- 
side pocket, — in any such case, this critic held the 
offender to be a coxcomb (perhaps something worse), 
whom he would not, to use his oft repeated jjlirase, 
'touch with a pair of tongs.' 

"Any allusion to literature beyond good old Dil- 
worth's spelling-book, on the part of one wearing a 
sword, was evidence, with the same judge, of utter 
unfitness for heavy marchings and combats. In shorf 
few men have ever had a more comfurla '-•>n,. 

saving contempt for learnirg of every kind. 





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THIRTEENTH PRESIDENT. 



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1 ^'MILLflRn FILLMnRE.'^ i 



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ILLARn FILLMORE, thir- 
^ tcenth President of the United 
a' States, was born at Summer 
^ Hill, Cayuga Co., N. Y ., on 
the 7th of January, 1800. His 
father was a farmer, and ow- 
ing to misfortune, in humble cir- 
cumstances. Of his mother, tlie 
daughter of Dr. Abiathar Millard, 
of Pittsfield, Mass., it has been 
said that she |X)ssessed an intellect 
of very high order, united with much 
personal loveliness, sweetness of dis- 
position, graceful manners and ex- 
quisite sensibilities. She died in 
1831 ; having lived to see her son a 
young man of distinguished prom- 
i!-e, ihough she was not permitted to witness the high 
dignity which he finally attained. 

In consetiuence of the secluded home and limited 
ineans of his father, Millard enjoyed but slender ad- 
vantages for educ.Ttion in his early years. The com- 
mon schools, whi( h he occasionally attended were 
verv imperfect institutions; and books were scarce 
end expensive. There was nothing then in his char- 
acter to indicate the brilliant career uikdu which he 
was about to enter. He was a plain farmer's boy ; 
intelligent, good-looking, kind-hearted. The sacred 
influences of home had taught him to revere the Bible, 
and had laid the foundations of an upright character. 
When fourteen years of age, his father sent him 
some hundred miles from home, to the then wilds of 
Livingston County, to learn the trade of a clothier. 
Neai the mill there was a small villiage, where some 



enler|)rising man had commenced the collection of a 
village library. This i)roved an inestimable blessing 
to young Fillmore. His evenings were spent in read- 
ing. Soon every leisure moment was occupied v, ith 
books. His thirst for knowledge became insatiate 
and the selections which he made were continually 
more elevating and instructive. He read history, 
biography, oratory, and thus gradually there was en- 
kindled in his heart a desire to be something more 
than a mere worker with his hands; and he was be- 
coming, almost unknown to himself, a well-informed, 
educated man. 

The young clothier had now attained the age of 
nineteen years, and was of fine personal appearance 
and cf gentlemanly demeanor. It so happened tha* 
there was a gentleman in the neighborhood cf ample 
pecuniary means and of benevolence, — Judge \Valter 
Wood, — who was struck <\ith the pre|)Ossessing a', 
pcarance of young Fillmore. He made hisacquain 
ance, and was so much impressed with his ability an 
attainments that he advised him to abandon hi 
trade and devote himself to the study of the law.' The 
young man replied, that he had no means of his ow.., 
r.o friends to help him and that his previous educa 
tion had been very imperfect. Hut Judge Wood had 
so much confidence in him that he kindly offered to 
take him into his own office, and to loan him such 
money as he needed. Most gratefully the generous 
offer was accepted. 

There is in many minds a strange delusion about 
a collegiate education. .\ \oung man is sup;;osed to 
be liberally educated if he has gr.:dualed at some col- 
lege. 15ul many a boy loiters through university hal' ■ 
tnd then enters a law office, who is bv no means as 



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MILLARD FILLMORE. 



well prepared to prosecute his legal studies as was 
Millard Fillmore when he graduated at the clothing- 
mill at the end of four years of manual labor, during 
which every leisure moment had been devoted to in- 
tense mental culture. 

In 1823, when twenty-three years of age, he v/as 
admitted to the Court of Common Pleas. He then 
went to the village of Aurora, and commenced the 
practice of law. In this secluded, peaceful region, 
his practice of course was limited, and there was no 
opportunity for a sudden rise in foitune or in fame. 
Here, in the year 1826, he married a lady of great 
moral worth, and one capable of adorning any station 
she might be called to fill, — Miss Abigail Powers. 

His elevation of character, his untiring industry, 
his legal acquirements, and his skill as an advocate, 
gradually attracted attention , and he was invited to 
enter into partnership under highly advantageous 
circumstances, with an elder member of the bar in 
Buffalo. Just before removing to Buffalo, in 1829, 
he took his seat in the House of Assembly, of the 
State of New York, as a representative from Erie 
County. Though he had never taken a very active 
part in politics, his vote and his sympathies were with 
the Whig party. The State was then Democratic, 
and he found himself in a helpless minority in the 
Legislature , still the testimony comes from all parlies, 
that his courtesy, ability and integrity, won, to a very 
unusual degrte the respect of his associates. 

In the autumn of 1832, he was elected to a seat in 
the United States Congress He entered that troubled 
arena in some of the most tumultuous hours of our 
national history. The great conflict respecting the 
national bank and the removal of the deposits, was 
ihen raging. 

His term of two years closed ; and he returned to 
his profession, which he pursued with increasing rep- 
utation and success. After a lapse of two years 
he again became a candidate for Congress ; was re- 
elected, and took his seat in 1837. His past expe- 
rience as a representative gave hrni stiength and 
confidence. The first term of service in Congress to 
any man can be but little more than an introduction. 
He was now prepared for active duty. All his ener- 
gies were brought to bear upon the public good. Every 
measure received his impress. 

Mr. Fillmore was now a man of wide repute, and 
his popularity filled the State, and in the year 1847, 
he was elected Comptroller of the State. 



Mr. Fillmore 'lad attained the age of forty-seven 
years. His labors at the bar, in the Legislature, in 
Congress and as Comptroller, had given him very con- 
siderable fame. The Whigs were casting about to 
find suitable candidates for President and Vice-Presi- 
dent at the approaching election. Far away, on the 
waters of the Rio Grande, there was a rough old 
soldier, who had fought one or two successful battles 
with the Mexicans, which had caused his name to be 
proclaimed in tiumpet-tones all over the land. But 
it was necessary to associate with him on the same 
ticket some man of reputation as a statesman. 

Under the influence of these considerations, the 
namesof Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore became 
the rallying-cry of the Whigs, as their candidates for 
President and Vice-Peesident. The Whig ticket was 
signally triumphant. On the 4th of March, 1849, 
Gen. Taylor was inaugurated President, and Millard 
Fillmore Vice-President, of the United States. 

On the 9th of July, 1850, President Taylor, but 
about one year and four months after his inaugura 
tion, was suddenly taken sick and died. By the Con- 
stitution, Vice-President Fillmore thus became Presi- 
dent. He appointed a very able cabinet, of which 
the illustrious Daniel Webster was Secretary of State. 

Mr. Fillniore had very serious difficulties to contend 
with, since the opposition had a majority in both 
Houses. He did everything in his power to conciliate 
the South; but the pro-slavery party in the South felt 
the inadequacy of all measures of transient conciliation. 
The population of the free States was so rapidly in- 
creasing over that of the slave States that it was in- 
evitable that the power of the Government should 
soon pass into the hands of the free States. The 
famous compromise measures were adopted under Mr. 
Fillmcre's adminstration, and tlie Japan Expedition 
was sent out. On the 4th of March, 1853, Mr. Fill- 
more, having served one term, retired. 

In 1856, Mr. Fillmore was nominated for the Pres- 
idency by the " Know Nothing " party, but was beaten 
by Mr. Buchanan. After that Mr. Fillmore lived in 
retirement. During the terrible conflict of civil war, 
he was mostly silent. It was generally supposed that 
his sympathies were rather with those who were en- 
deavoring to overthrow our institutions. President 
Fillmore kept aloof from the conflict, without any 
cordial words of cheer to the one party or the other. 
He was thus forgotten by both. He lived to a ripe 
old age, and died in Buffalo. N. Y., March 8, 1874. 



FOURTEENTH PRESIDENT. 




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RANKLIN PIERCE, the 
irteenth President of the 
■ I'nited States, was bom in 
Hillsborough, N. H., Nov. 
23, 1804. His father was a 
Revolutionary soldier, who, 
with his own strong arm, 
hewed out a home in the 
wilderness. He was a man 
of inflexible integrity; of 
strong, though uncultivated 
mind, and an uncompromis- 
ing Democrat. The mother of 
Franklin Pierce was all that a son 
could desire, — an intelligent, pru- 
dent, affectionate. Christian wom- 
an. Franklin was the sixth of eight children. 

Franklin was a very bright and handsome boy, gen- 
erous, warm-hearted and brave. He won alike the 
love of old and young. The boys on the play ground 
loved him. His teachers loved him. The neighbors 
looked upon him with pride and affection. He was 
by instinct a gentleman; always speaking kind words, 
doing kind deeds, with a peculiar unstudied tact 
which taught him what was agreeable. Without de- 
veloping any precocity of genius, or any unnatural 
devotion to books, he was a good scholar; in body, 
in mind, in affections, a finely-developed boy. 

When sixteen years of age, in the year 1820, he 
entered Bowdoin College, at Brunswick, Me He was 
one of the most ]X)pular young men in the college. 
The purity of his moral character, the unvarying 
courtesy of his demeanor, his rank as a scholar, and 



genial nature, rendered him a universal favorite. 
There was something very peculiarly winning in his 
address, and it was evidently not in the slightest de- 
gree studied : it was the simple outgushing of his 
own magnanimous and loving nature. 

Upon graduating, in the year 1824, Franklin Pierce 
commenced the study of law in the office of Judge 
Woodliury, one of the most distinguished lawyers of 
the State, and a man of great private worth. The 
eminent social qualities of the young lawyer, his 
father's prominence as a public man, and the brilliant 
ixjlitical career into which Judge Woodbury was en- 
tering, all tended to entice Mr. Pierce into the faci- 
nating yet perilous path of political life. With all 
the ardor of his nature he es[>oused the cause of Gen. 
Jackson for the Presidency. He commenced the 
practice of law in Hillsborough, and was soon elected 
to reiiresent the town in the State Legislature. Here 
he served for four yeais. The last two years he was 
chosen s[5eaker of the house by a very large vote. 

In 18.33, ^' the age of twenty-nine, he was elected 
a member of Congress. Without taking an active 
part in debates, he was faithful and laborious in duty 
and ever rising in the estimation of those with whom 
he was associatad. 

In 1837, being then but thirty-three years of age, 
he was elected to the Senate of the United States; 
taking his seat just as Mr. Van Buren commenced 
his administration. He was the youngest member in 
the Senate. In the year 1834. he married Miss Jane 
Means Appleton, a lady of rare beauty and accom- 
plishments, and one admirably fitted to adorn ever>' 
station with which her husband was honoied. Of the 



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three sons who were born to them, all now sleep with 
their parents in the grave. 

lii the year 1838, Mr. Pierce, with growing fame 
and increasing business as a lawyer, took up his 
residence in Concord, the capital of New Hampshire. 
President Polk, upon his accession to office, appointed 
Mr. Pierce attorney-general of the United States; but 
the offer was declined, in consequence of numerous 
professional engagements at home, and the precariuos 
state of Mrs. Pierce's health. He also, about the 
same time declined the nomination for governor by the 
Democratic party. The war with Mexico called Mr. 
Pierce in the army. Receiving the appointment of 
brigadier-general, he embarked, with a portion of his 
troops, at Newport, R. I., on the 27th of May, 1847. 
He took an important part in this war, proving him- 
self a brave and true soldier. 

When Gen. Pierce reached his home in his native 
State, he was received enthusiastically by the advo- 
cates of the Mexican war, and coldly by his oppo- 
nents. He resumed the practice of his profession, 
verj frequently taking an active part in political ques- 
tions, giving his cordial support to the pro-slavery 
wing of the Democratic party. The compromise 
measures met cordially with his approval; and he 
strenuously advocated the enforcement of the infa- 
mous fugitive-slave law, which so shocked the religious 
sensibilities of the North. He thus became distin- 
guished as a " Northern man with Southern principles.' 
The strong partisans of slavery in the South conse- 
quently regarded him as a man whom they could 
safely trust in office to carry out their plans. 

On the 1 2th of June, 1852, the Democratic conven- 
tion met in Baltimore to nominate a candidate for the 
Presidency. For four days they continued in session, 
c-.:id in thirty-five ballotings no one had obtained a 
two-thirds vote. Not a vote thus far had been thrown 
for Gen. Pierce. Then the Virginia delegation 
brought forward his name. There were fourteen 
more ballotings, during whicli Gen. Pierce constantly 
gained strength, until, at the forty-ninth ballot, he 
received two hundred and eighty-two votes, and all 
other candidates eleven. Gen. Winfield Scott was 
the Whig candidate. Gen. Pierce was chosen with 
great unanimity. Only four States — Vermont, Mas- 
sachusetts, Kentucky and Tennessee — cast their 
electoral votes against him Gen. Franklin Pieice 
was therefore inaugurated President of the United 
States on tlie 4th of March, 1853. 



His administration proved one of the most stormy our 
country had ever experienced. The controversy be 
tween slavery and freedom was then approaching its 
culminating point It became evident that there was 
an "irrepressible conflict " between them, and that 
this Nation could not long exist " half slave and half 
free." President Pierce, during the whole of his ad- 
ministration, did every thing he could to conciliate 
the South ; but it was all in vain. The conflict every 
year grew more violent, and threats of the dissolution 
of the Union were borne to the North on eveiy South- 
ern breeze. 

Such was the condition of affairs when President 
Pierce approached the close of his four-years' term 
of office. The North had become thoroughly alien- 
ated from him. The anti-slavery sentiment, goaded 
by great outrages, had been rapidly increasing; all 
the intellectual ability and social worth of President 
Pierce were forgotten in deep reprehension of his ad- 
ministrative acts.. The slaveholders of the South, also, 
unmindful of the fidelity with which he had advo- 
cated those measures of Government which they ap- 
proved, and perhaps, also, feeling that he had 
rendered himself so unpopular as no longer to be 
able acce[)tably to serve them, ungratefully dropped 
him, and nominated James Buchanan to succeed him. 

On the 4th of March, 1857, President Pierce re- 
tired to his home in Concord. Of three children, two 
had died, and his only surviving child had been 
kihed before his eyes by a railroad accident ; and his 
wife, one of the most estimable and accomplished of 
ladies, was rapidly sinking in consumption. The 
hour of dreadful gloom soon came, and he was left 
alone in the world, without wife or child. 

When the terrible Rebellion burst forth, which di- 
vided our country into two parties, and two only, Mr. 
Pierce remained steadfast in the principles which he 
had always cherished, and gave his sympathies to 
that pro-slavery party with which he had ever been 
allied. He declined to do anything, either by voice 
or pen, to strengthen the hand of the National Gov- 
ernment. He continued to reside in Concord until 
the time of his death, which occurred in October, 
1869. He was one of the most genial and social of 
men, an honored communicant of the Episcopal 
Church, and one of the kindest of neighbors. (Sen 
erous to a fault, he contributed liberally fcjr the al- 
leviation of sufferingand want, and many of his towns- 
l>eople were often gladened by his material bounty. 




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AMES liUCHANAN, the fit- 
icciilh I'lesident of tlic United 
States, was horn in a small 
frontier town, at the foot of the 
eastern ridge of the Allegha- 
nies, in Franklin Co., l'enn.,on 
the 23d of April, 1791. The place 
where the lunnble cabin of his 
fatiier stood was called Stony 
Batter. It was a wild and ro- 
mantic s|)ot in a gorge of the moun- 
tains, with towering summits rising 
grandly all around. His father 
was a :;ative of the north of Ireland ; 
a i)oor man, who had emigrated in 
1783, with little property save his 
own strong arms. Five years afterwards he married 
Elizabeth Spear, the daughter of a respectable farmer, 
and, with his young bride, plunj^ed into the wilder- 
ness, staked iiis claim, reared his log-hut, opened a 
clearing will) his axe, and settled down there to per- 
form iiis obscure part in the drama of life. In this se- 
cluded home, where James was born, he remained 
for eight years, enjoying but few social or intellectual 
advantages. When James was eight years of age, Ws 
father removed to tiie village of Mercersburg, where 
his son was |)laced at school, and commenced a 
course of study in English, Latin and Greek. His 
]irogress was rai)i(l, and at the age of fourteen, he 
entered Dickinson College, at Carlisle. Here he de- 
veloped remarkable talent, and took his stand among 
the first scliolars in the institution. His application 
Ko study was intense, and yet his native powers en- 



abled him to master the most abstruse subjects w' 
facility. 

In the year 1S09, he graduated with the highest 
honors of his clas-. He was then eighteen years cl 
age; tall and graceful, vigorous in health, fond of 
athletic sport, an unerring shot, and enlivened with 
an exuberant flow of animal s|)irits. He immediately 
commenced the study of law in the city of Lancaster, 
and was admitted to the bar in 1812, when he was 
but twenty-one years of age. Very rapidly he ro-,e 
in his profession, and at once took undisputed stand 
with the ablest lawyers of the State. When but 
twenty-six years of age, unaided by counsel, he sii.-- 
cessfuUy defended before the State Senate ore of liie 
judges of the State, who was tried ujxin articles of 
impeachment. At the age of thirty it was generally 
admitted that he stood at the head of the bar; ar.d 
there was no lawyer in the State who had a more I 1- 
crative practice. 

In 1820, he reluctantly consented to run as a 
candidate for Congress. He was elected, and fot 
ten years he remained a member of the Lower House. 
During the vacations of Congress, he occasionally 
tried some important case. In ,1831, he retired 
altogether from the toils of his profession, having ac- 
ipiired an ample fortune. 

Gen. Jackson, upon his elevation to the Presidency, 
apjjointed Mr. Buchanan minister to Russia. The 
duties of his mission he performed with ability, which 
gave satisfaction to all parties. Upon his return, in 
1833, he was elected to a seat in the United States 
Senate. He there met, as his associates, Webster, 
Clay, Wright and Calhoun. He advocated tl'.e meas- 
ures i)roix)sed by President Jackson, of m .ling repo- 



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JAMES BUCHANAN. 



sals against France, to enforce the payment of our 
claims against that country ; and defended the course 
of the President in his unprecedented and wholesale 
removal from office of those who were not the sup- 
porters of his administration. Upon this question he 
was brought into direct collision with Henry Clay. 
He also, with voice and vote, advocated expunging 
from the journal of the Senate the vote of censure 
against Gen. Jackson for removing the deposits. 
Earnestly he opposed the abolition of slavery in the 
District of Columbia, and urged the prohibition of the 
circulation of anti-slavery documents by the United 
States mails. 

As to petitions on tlie subject of slavery, he advo- 
cated that they should be respectfully received; and 
that the reply should be returned, that Congress had 
no power to legislate upon the subject. " Congress," 
said he, " might as well undertake to interfere with 
slavery under a foreign government as in any of the 
States where it now exists." 

Upon Mr. Polk's accession to the Presidency, Mr. 
Buchanan became Secretary of State, and as such, 
took his share of the responsibility in the conduct of 
the Mexican War. Mr. Polk assumed that crossing 
the Nueces by the American troops into the disputed 
territory was not wrong, but for the Mexicans to cross 
the Rio Grande into that territory was a declaration 
of war. No candid man can read with pleasure the 
account of the course our Government pursued in that 
movement. 

Mr. Buchanan identified himself thoroughly with 
the party devoted to the perpetuation and extension 
of slavery, and brought all the energies of his mind 
to bear against the Wilmot Proviso. He gave his 
cordial approval to the compromise measures of 1S50, 
which included the fugitive-slave law. Mr. Pierce, 
upon his election to the Presidency, honored Mr. 
Buchanan with the mission to England. 

In the year 1856, a national Democratic conven- 
tion nominated Mr. Buchanan for the Presidency. The 
political conflict was one of the most severe in which 
our country has ever engaged. All the friends of 
slavery were on one side ; all the advocates of its re- 
striction and final abolition, on the other. Mr. Fre- 
mont, the candidate of the enemies of slavery, re- 
reived 1 14 electoral votes. Mr. Buchanan received 
r7 4, and was elected. The [Xjpular vote stood 
1,340,618, for Fremont, 1,224,750 for Buchanan. On 
March 4th. 1857, Mr. Buchanan was inaugurated. 

Mr. Buchanan was far advanced in life. Only four 
-fears were wanting to fill up his threescore years and 
ten. His own friends, those with whom he had been 
allied in ]X)liticaI principles and action for years, were 
soeking the destruction of the Government, that they 
might rear upon the ruins of our free institutions a 
nation whose corner-stone should be human slaverv. 
In this emergency, Mr. Buchanan was hopelessly be- 
wildered He could not, with his long-avowed prin- 



ciples, consistently oppose the State-rights party ir. 
their assumptions. As President of the United States, 
bound by his oath faithfully to administer the laws 
he could not, without perjury of the grossest kind, 
unite with those endeavoring to overthrow the repub- 
lic. He therefore did nothing. 

The opponents of Mr. Buchanan's administration 
nominated Abraham Lincoln as their standard bearer 
in the next Presidential canvass. The pro-slavery 
party declared, that if lie were elected, and the con- 
trol of the Government were thus taken from their 
hands, they would secede from the Union, taking 
with them, as they retired, the National Capitol at 
Washington, and the lion's share of the territory of 
the United States. 

Mr. Buchanan's sympathy with the pro-slavery 
parly was sucli, that he had been willing to offer them 
far more than they had ventured to claim. All the 
South had professed to ask of the North was non- 
intervention upon the subject of slavery. Mr. Bu- 
chanan had been ready to offer them the active co- 
operation of the Government to defend and extend 
the institution. 

As the storm increased in violence, the slaveholders 
claiming the right to secede, and Mr. Buchanan avow- 
ing that Congress had no power to prevent it, one of 
the most pitiable exhibitions of governmental im- 
becility was exhibited the world has ever seen. He 
declared that Congress had no power to enforce its 
laws in any State which had withdrawn, or which 
was attempting to withdraw from the Union. Tlli^ 
was not the doctrine of Andrew Jackson, when, wiO. 
his hand upon his sword-hilt, he exclaimed. " Tl l 
Union must and shall be preserved!" 

South Carolina seceded in December, t86o; nearly 
three months before the inauguration of President 
Lincoln. Mr. Buchanan looked on in listless despair. 
The rebel flag was raised in Charleston; Fort Sumpter 
was bei-ieged ; our forts, navy-yards and arsenals 
were seized ; our depots of military stores were plun- 
dered ; and our custom-houses and post-offices were 
appropriated by the rebels. 

The energy of the rebels, and the imbecility of our 
Executive, were alike marvelous. The Nation looked 
on in agony, waiting for the slow weeks to glide away, 
and close the administration, so terrible in its weak- 
ness At length the long-looked-for hour of deliver- 
ance came, when Abraham Lincoln was to receive the 
scepter. 

The administration of President Buchanan was 
certainly the most calamitous our country has ex- 
perienced. His best friends cannot recall it with 
pleasure. And still more deplorable it is for his fame, 
that in that dreadful conflict which rolled its billows 
of flame and blood over our whole land, no word came 
from his lips to indicate his wish that our country's 
banner should triumph over the flag of the rebellior. 
H*" died at his Wheatland retreat, June i, i863. 




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BRAHAM LINCOLN, the 
sixteenth President of the 
United States, was born in 
Hardin Co., Ky., Feb. 12, 
iSog. About the year 1780, a 
man by the name of Abraham 
Lincobi left Virginia with liis 
family and moved into the then 
wilds of Kentucky. Only two years 
after this emigration, still a young 
man, while working one day in a 
field, was stealthily approached by 
an Indian and shot dead. His widow 
was left in extreme poverty with five 
ittle children, three boys and two 
girls. Thomas, the youngest of the 
loys, was four years of age at his 
father's death. This Thomas was 
the father of Abraham Lincoln, the 
' President of the United States 
whose name must henceforth fo'^ever be enrolled 
iviih the most prominent in the annals of our world. 
Of course no record has been kept of the life 
of one so lowly as Thomas Lincoln. He was among 
I he poorest of the jxior. His home was a wretched 
log-cabin; his food ihe coarsest and the meanest. 
Kd.ication he had none; he could never either read 
or .\rite. As soon as he was able to do anything for 
himself, he was compelled to leave the cabin of his 
starving mother, and push out into the world, a friend- 
ess, wandering boy, seeking work. He hired him- 
self out, and thus s|)ent the whole of his youth as a 
.'iborer in the fields of others. 

When twenty-eight years of age he buili a log- 
1 abin of his own, and married Nancy Hanks, the 
d.iughter of another family of poor Kentucky emi- 
graiils, who had also come from Virginia. Their 
second child was .'Vbraham Lincoln, the subject of 
this sketch. The mother of Abraham was a noble 
'vonian, gentle, loving, pensive, created to adorn 
a ])alare, doomed to toil and pine, and die in a hovel. 
" All that I am, or hope to be," exclaims the grate- 
ful son " I owe to my angel-mother. 

When he was eight years of age, his father sold his 



cabin and small farm, and moved to Indiana Where 
two years later his mother died. 

Abiaham soon became the scribe of the uneducated 
community around him. He could not have had a 
better school than this to teach him to put thoughts 
into words. He also became an eager reader. The 
books he could obtain were few ; but these he read 
and re-read until they were almost committed tc 
memory. 

As the years rolled on, the lot of this lowly familj 
was the usual lot of humanity. There were joys and 
griefs, weddings and funerals. Abraham's sistei 
Sarah, to whom he was tenderly attached, was mar- 
ried when a child of but fourteen years of age, anci 
soon died. The family was gradually scattered. Mr. 
Thomas Lincoln sold out his squatter's claim in 1830 
and emigrated to Macon Co., 111. 

Abraham Lincoln was then twenty-one years of age. 
With vigorous hands he aided his father in rearin;; 
another log-cabin. Abraham worked diligently at thi;- 
until he saw the family comfortably settled, and thei' 
small lot of enclosed prairie planted with corn, when 
he announced to his father his intention to leave 
home, and to go out into the world and seek his for- 
tune. Little did he or his friends imagine how bril- 
liant that fortune was to be. He saw tlie value ol 
education and was intensely earnest to improve his 
mind to the utmost of his power. He saw the ruin 
which ardent spirits were causing, and became 
strictly temi)erate; refusing to allow a drop of intoxi- 
cating liquor to pass his lips. And he had read in 
God's word, " Thou shalt not take the name of tha 
Lord thy God in vain;" and a profane ex|)ression he 
was never heard to utter. Religion he revered. His 
morals were pure, and he was uncontaminated by a 
single vice. 

Young Abraham worked for a time as a hired laborci 
among the farmers. Then he went to Springfield 
where he was employed in building a large flat-boat 
In this he took a herd of swine, floated them down 
the Sangamon to the Illinois, and thence by the Mis- 
sissippi to New Orleans. Whati.-vcr Abraham Lin- 
coln undertook, he performed so faithfully as to give 
great satisfaction to his employers. In this adven 



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ture his employers were so well pleased, that upon 
his return tney placed a store and null under his care. 

In 1832, at the outbreak of the Black Hawk war, he 
enlisted and was chosen captain of a company. He 
returned to Sangamon County, and although only 23 
years of age, was a candidate for the Legislature, but 
was defeated. He soon after received from Andrew 
Jackson the appointment of Postmaster of New Salem, 
His only post-office was his hat. AH the letters he 
received he carried there ready to deliver to those 
he chanced to meet. He studied surveying, and soon 
made this his business. In 1834 he again became a 
candidate for the Legislature, and was elected Mr. 
Stuart, of Springfield, advised him to study law. He 
walked from New Salem to Springfield, liorrowed of 
Mr. Stuart a load of books, carried them back and 
began his legal studies. When the Legislature as- 
seml)led he trudged on foot with his pack on his back 
one hundred miles to Vandalia, then the capital. In 
1836 he was re-elected to the Legislature. Here it 
was he first met Stephen A. Douglas. In 1839 he re- 
moved to Springfield and began the practice of law. 
His success with the jury was so great that he was 
20on engaged in almost every noted case in the circuit. 
' In 1854 the great discussion began between Mr. 
Lincoln and Mr. Douglas, on the slavery question. 
In the organization of the Republican party in Illinois, 
in 1856, he took an active part, and at once became 
one of the leaders in that party. Mr. Lincoln's 
speeches in opposition to Senator Douglas in the con- 
test in 1858 for a seat in the Senate, form a most 
notable part of his history. The issue was on the 
ilavery question, and he took the broad ground of 
.he Declaration of Independence, that all men are 
created equal. Mr. Lincoln was defeated in this con- 
test, but won a far higiier prize. 

The great Republican Convention met at Chicago 
on the i6th of June, i860. The delegates and 
strangers who crowded the city amounted to twenty- 
five thousand. An immense building called "The 
Wigwam," was reared to accommodate the Conven- 
tion. There were eleven candidates for whom votes 
were thrown. William H. Seward, a man whose fame 
as a statesman had long filled the land, was the most 
orominent. It was generally supposed he would be 
the nominee. Abraham Lincoln, however, received 
the nomination on the third ballot. Little did he then 
dream of the weary years of toil and care, and the 
bloody death, to w!ii :h that nomination doomed him: 
and aslittledid hedream that he was to render services 
to his country, which would fix upon him the eyes of 
the whole civilized world, and which would give him 
I place in the affections nf his countrymen, second 
cnly, if second, to that of ^Vashington. 

Election day came and Mr. Lincoln received 180 
electoral votes out of 203 cast, and was, therefore, 
constitutionally elected President of the United States. 
The tirade of abuse that was poured upon this good 



and merciful man, especially by the slaveholders, was 
greater than upon any other man ever elected to tliis 
high position. In February, 1861, Mr. Lincoln started 
for Washington, stopping in all the large cities ox\ his 
way making speeches. The whole journey wasfrought 
with much danger. Many of the Southern States had 
already seceded, and several attempts at assassination 
were afterwards brought to light. A gang in Balti- 
more had arranged, upon his arrival to" get up a row," 
and in the confusion to make sure of his death with 
revolvers and hand-grenades. A detective unravelled 
the plot. A secret and special train was provided tc 
take him from Harrisburg, through Baltimore, at ai 
unexpected hour of the night. The train started at 
half-past ten; and to prevent ai.y possible communi- 
cation on the part ot the Secessionists with their Con - 
federate gang in Baltimore, as soon as the train ha..", 
started the telegraph-wires were cut. Mr. Lincoln 
readied Washington in safety and was inaugurated, 
although great anxiety was felt by all loyal people 

In the selection of his cabinet Mr. Lincoln gave 
to Mr Seward the Department of State, and to other 
prominent op|)onents before the convention he gave 
important positions. 

During no other administration have the duties 
devolving upon the President been so manifold, and 
the responsibilities so great, as those which fell to 
the lot of President Lincoln. Knowing this, and 
feeling his own weakness and inability to meet, and in 
hi-B own strength to cope with, the difficulties, he 
learned early to seek Divine wisdom and guidance in 
determining his plans, and Divine comfort in all his 
triaU, bo'h personal and national. Contrary to his 
own estimate of himself, Mr. Lincoln was one of the 
most courageous of men. He went directly into the 
rebel capital just as the retreating foe was leaving, 
with no guard but a few sailors. From the tinie he 
had left S|)ringfield, in i86r, however, plans had been 
made fjr his assassination, and he at last fell a victim 
to one of them. April 14, 1865, he, with Gen. Grant, 
was urgently invited to attend Fords' Theater. It 
was announced that they would Le present. Gen. 
Grant, however, left the city. President Lincoln, feel- 
ing, with his characteristic kindliness of heart, that 
it would be a disappointment if he should fail them, 
very reluctantly consented to go. While listening to 
the play an actor by the name of John Wilkes Booth 
entered the box where the President and family were 
seated, and fired a bullet into his brains. He died the 
next morning at seven o'clock. 

Never before, in the history of the world was a nation 
plunged into such deep grief by the death of its ruler. 
Strong men met in the streets and wept in speechless 
anguish. It is not too much to say that a nation was 
in tears. His was a life which will fitly become a 
model. His name as the savior of his country will 
live with that of Washington's, ils father; hiscf^untry- 
mc-'i being unable to decide whirh is the greater. 






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NDREW JOHNSON, seven- 
teenth President of the United 
States. The early Hfe of 
Andrew Johnson contains hut 
the record of poverty, destitu- 
tion and friendlessness. He 
7 was born December 29, i8oS, 
in Raleigh, N. C. His parents, 
belonging to the class of the 
"poor whites "of the Souili,Ti'ere 
in such circumstances, that they 
could not c';nf!r ^.-er. the slight- 
est advantages of education uiXDn 
%<)' their child. When Andrew was five 
I years of age, liis father accidentally 
lost his life while herorically endeavoring to save a 
friend from drowning. ^''r\di ten years of age, Andrew 
was a ragged boy abour the streets, supjxjrted by the 
labor of his mother, who obtained her living with 
her own hands. 

He then, having never attended a school one day, 
and being unable either to read or write, was ap- 
prenticed to a tailor in his native town. A gentleman 
was in the habit of going to the tailor's shop occasion- 
ally, and reading to the boys at work tliere. He often 
read from the speeches of distinguished British states- 
men. Andrew, who was endowed with a mind of more 
than ordinary native ability, became much interested 
in these speeches ; his ambition was roused, and he 
was inspired with a strong desire to learn to read. 

He accordingly applied himself to tlie alphabet, and 
with the assistance of some of his fellow- workmen, 
teamed his letters. He then called upon the gentle- 
man to borrow the book of speeches. The owner, 



pleased with his zeal, not only gave him die boo«. 
but assisted him in learning to combine the letters 
into words. Under such difficulties he pressed oi. 
ward laboriously, spending usually ten or twelve houre 
at work in the shop, and then robbing himself of rest 
and recreatio.- to devote such time as he could to 
reading. 

He went to Tennessee in 1826, and located a' 
Greenville, where he married a young lady who pos 
sessed some education. Under her instructions he 
learned to write and cipher. He became prominent 
in the village debating society, and a favorite with 
the students of Greenville College. In 1828, he or- 
ganized a working man's party, which elected him 
alderman, and in 1830 tlected him mayor, which 
position he held three years. 

He now began to take a lively interest in political 
affairs; identifying himself with the working-classes, 
to which he belonged. In 1835, he was elected a 
member of the House of Representatives of Tennes- 
see. He was then just twenty-seven years of age. 
He became a very active member of the legislature 
gave his adhesion to the Democratic party, and in 
1840 "stumped the State," advocating Martin '^ an 
Buren's claims to the Presidency, in op{X)sition to thos^ 
of Gen. Harrison. In this campaign he acquired much 
readiness as a speaker, and extended and increased 
his reputation. 

In 184T, he was elected State Senator; in 1843, he 
was elected a member of Congress, and by successive 
elections, held that important post for ten years. In 
1853, he was elected Governor of Tennessee, and 
was re-elected in 1855. In all these res))ons;lile \a%\ 
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ity, and proved himself the warm friend of the work- 
ing classes. In 1857, Mr. Johnson was elected 
United States Senator. 

Years before, in 1845, he had warmly advocated 
the annexation of Texas, stating however, as his 
reason, that he thought this annexation would prob- 
ably prove " to be the gateway out of which the sable 
sons of Africa are to pass from bondage to freedom, 
and become merged in a population congenial to 
themselves." In 1850, he also supported the com- 
promise measures, the two essential features of which 
were, that the white people of the Territories should 
be permitted to decide for themselves whether they 
would enslave the colored people or not, and that 
the *'ree States of the North should return to the 
3ouLh persons who attempted to escape from slavery. 

Mr. Johnson was neverasharaedof his lowly origin: 
on the contrary, he often took pride in avowing that 
he owed his distinction to his own exertions. "Sir," 
said he on the floor of the Senate, " I do not forget 
that I am a mechanic ; neither do I forget that Adam 
was a tailor and sewed fig-leaves, and that our Sav- 
ior was the son of a carpenter." 

In the Charleston- Baltimore convention of i8i«;, ne 
was the choice of the Tennessee Democrats for tlie 
Presidency. In 1861, when the purpose of the South- 
2rn Democracy became apparent, he took a decided 
stand in favor of the Union, and held that " slavery 
must be held subordinate to the Union at whatever 
cost." He returned to Tennessee, and repeatedly 
imperiled his own life to protect the Unionists of 
Tennesee. Tennessee having seceded from the 
Union, President Lincoln, on March 4th, 1862, ap- 
pointed him Military Governor of the State, and he 
established the most stringent military rule. His 
numerous proclamations attracted wide attention. In 

1864, he was elected Vice-President of the United 
States, and upon the death of Mr. Lincoln, April 15, 

1865, became President. In a speech two days later 
he said, " The American people must be taught, if 
they do not already feel, that treason is a crime and 
must be punished ; that the Government will not 
always bear with its enemies ; that it is strong not 
only to protect, but to punish. * * The people 
must understand that it (treason) is the blackest of 
crimes, and will surely be punished." Yet his whole 
administration, the history of which is so well known, 
was in utter inconsistency with, and the most violent 



opposition to, the principles laid down in that speech. 
In his loose policy of reconstruction and general 
amnesty, he was opposed by Congress ; and he char- 
acterized Congress as a new rebellion, and lawlessly 
defied it, in everything possible, to the utmost. In 
the beginning of 1868, on account of " high crimes 
and misdemeanors," the principal of which was the 
removal of Secretary Stanton, in violation of the Ten- 
ure of Office Act, articles of impeachment were pre- 
ferred against him, and the trial began March 23. 
It was very tedious, continuing for nearly three 
months. A test article of the impeachment was at 
length submitted to the court for its action. It was 
certain that as the court voted upon that article so 
would it vote upon all. Thirty-four voices pronounced 
the President guilty. As a two-thirds vote was neces- 
sary to his condemnation, he was pronounced ac- 
quitted, notwithstanding the great majority against 
him. The change of one vote from the not guilty 
side would have sustained the impeachment. 

The President, for the remainder of his term, was 
but little regarded. He continued, though impotent!;-, 
his conflict with Congress. His own party did not 
think it expedient to renominate him for the Presi- 
dency. The Nation rallied, with enthusiasm unpar- 
alleled since the days of Washington, around the name 
of Gen. Grant. Andrew Johnson was forgotten. 
The bullet of the assassin introduced him to the 
President's chair. Notwithstanding this, never was 
there presented to a man a better opportunity to im- 
mortalize his name, and to win the gratitude of a 
nation. He failed utterly. He retired to his home 
in Gree-nville, Tenn., taking no very active part in 
politics until 1875. On Jan 26, after an e.xciting 
struggle, he was chosen by the Legislature of Ten- 
nessee, United States Senator in the forty-fourth Con- 
gress, and took his seat in that body, at the special 
session convened by President Grant, on the 5th of 
March. On the 27th of July, 1875, the ex-President 
made a visit to his daughter's home, near Carter 
Station, Tenn. When he started on his journey, he was 
apparently in his usual vigorous health, but on reach- 
ing the residence of his child the following day, was 
stricken with paralysis, rendering him unconscious. 
He rallied occasionally, but finally passed away at 
2 A.M., July 31, aged sixty-seven years. His fun- 
eral was attended at Geenville, on the 3d of August, 
witli every demonstration of respect 





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LYSSES S. GRANT, the 
ighteenth President of the 
5§ United States, was born on 
the 29th of April, 1822, of 
Christian parents, in a humble 
home, at Point Pleasant, on the 
banks of the Ohio. Shortly after 
his father moved to George- 
town, Brown Co., O. In this re- 
mote frontier hamlet, Ulysses 
received a common-school edu- 
cation. At the age of seven- 
teen, in the year 1839, he entered 
the Military Academy at West 
Point. Here he was regarded as a 
iolid, sensible young man of fair abilities, and of 
sturdy, honest character. He took respectable rank 
as a scholar. In June, 1843, he graduated, about the 
middle in his class, and was sent as lieutenant of in- 
fantry to one of the distant military posts in the Mis- 
souri Territory. Two years he ))ast in these dreary 
solitudes, watching the vagabond and e.xasperating 
Indians. 

The war with Mexico came. Lieut. Grant was 
sent with his regiment to Corpus Christi. His first 
battle was at Palo Alto. There was no chance here 
for the exhibition of either skill or heroism, nor at 
Resacade la Palma, his second battle. At the battle 
of Monterey, his third engagement, it is said that 
.ie performed a signal service of daring and skillful 
horsemanship. His brigade had exhausted its am- 
munition. A messenger must be sent for more, along 
.1 route exposed to the bullets of the foe. Lieut. 
Grant, adopting an expedient learned of the Indians, 
grasped the mane of his horse, and hanging uix)n one 
side of the anip».-il, ran the gauntlet in entire safety. 






From Monterey he was sent, with the fourth infantry, 
10 aid Gen. Scott, at the siege of Vera Cruz. In 
preparation for the march to the city of Mexico, he 
was appointed quartermaster of his regiment. At the 
battle of Molino del Rey, he was promoted to a 
first lieutenancy, and was brevetted captain at Cha- 
pultepec. 

At the close of the Mexican War, Capt. Grant re- 
turned with his regiment to New York, and was again 
sent to one of the military posts on the frontier. The 
discovery of gold in California causing an immense 
tide of emigration to flow to the Pacific shores, Capt. 
Grant was sent with a battalion to Fort Dallas, in 
Oregon, for the protection of the interests of the im- 
migrants. Life was wearisome in those wilds. Capt. 
Grant resigned his commission and returned to the 
States; and having married, entered upon the cultiva- 
tion of a small farm near St. Louis, Mo. He had but 
little skill as a farmer. Finding his toil not re- 
munerative, he turned to mercantile life, entering into 
the leather business, with a younger brother, at (ia- 
lena, 111. This was in the year i860. As the tidings 
of the rebels firing on Fort Sumpter reached the ears 
of Capt. Grant in his counting-room, he said, — 
"Uncle Sam has educated me for the army: though 
I have served him through one war, I do not fee* that 
I have yet repaid the debt. I am still ready todispharge 
my obligations. I shall therefore buckle on my iword 
and see Uncle Sam through this war too." 

He went into the streets, raised a company of vol- 
unteers, and led them as their captain to Springfield, 
the capital of the State, where their services were 
offered to Gov. Yates. The Governor, impressed by 
the zeal and straightforward executive ability of Capt. 
Grant, gave him a desk in his office, to assist in the 
volunteer organization that was being formed in the 
State in behalf of the Government. On the 15 th of 



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June, t86i, Capt. Grant received a commission as 
Colonel of the Twenty-first Regiment of Illinois Vol- 
unteers. His merits as a West Point graduate, who 
had served for 15 years in the regular army, were such 
that he was soon promoted to the rank of Brigadier- 
General and was placed in command at Cairo. The 
rebels raised their banner at Paducah, near the mouth 
of the Tennessee River. Scarcely had its folds ap- 
peared in the breeze ere Gen. Grant was there. The 
rebels fled. Their banner fell, and the star and 
stripes were unfurled in its stead. 

He entered the service with great determination 
and immediately began active duty. This was the be- 
ginning, and until the surrender of Lee at Richmond 
he was ever pushing the enemy with great vigor and 
effectiveness. At Belmont, a few days later, he sur- 
prised and routed the rebels, then at Fort Henry 
won another victory. Then came the brilliant fight 
at Fort Donelson. The nation was electrified by the 
victory, and the brave leader of the boys in blue was 
immediately made a M.njor-General, and the military 
iistrict of Tennessee was assigned to him. 

Like all great captains. Gen. Grant knew well how 
to secure the results of victory. He immediately 
Dushed on to the enemies' lines. Then came the 
terrible battles of Pittsburg Landing, Corinth, and the 
siege of Vicksburg, where Gen. Pemberton made an 
unconditional surrender of the city with over thirty 
thousand men and one-hundred and seventy-two can- 
non. The fall of Vicksburg was by far the most 
severe blow which the rebels had thus far encountered, 
and opened up the Mississippi from Cairo to the Gulf. 

Gen. Grant was next ordered to co-operate witli 
Gen. Banks in a movement upon Te.xas, and pro- 
ceeded to New Orleans, where he was thrown from 
his horse, and received severe injuries, from which he 
was laid up for months. He then rushed to the aid 
of Gens. Rosecrans and Thomas at Chattanooga, and 
by a wonderful series of strategic and technical meas- 
ures put the Union Army in fighting condition. Then 
followed the bloody battles at Chattanooga, Lookout 
Mountain and Missionary Ridge, in which the rebels 
were routed with great loss. This won for him un- 
bounded praise in the North. On the 4th of Febru- 
ary, 1864, Congress revived the grade of lieutenant- 
general, and the rank was conferred on Gen. Grant. 
He repaired to Washington to receive his credentials 
iind enter upop. 'Ji'^ duties of his new office 



Gen. Grant decided as soon as he took charge ol 
ihe army to concentrate the widely-dispersed National 
troops for an attack upon Richmond, the nominal 
capital of the Rebellion, and endeavor there to de- 
stroy the rebel armies which would be promptly as- 
sembled from all quarters for its defence. The whole 
continent seemed to tremble under the tramp of these 
majestic armies, rushing to the decisive battle field. 
Steamers were crowded with troops. Railway trains 
were burdened with closely packed thousands. His 
plans were comprehensive and involved a series of 
campaigns, which were executed with remarkable en- 
ergy and ability, and were consummated at the sur- 
render of Lee, April 9, 1865. 

The war was ended. The Union was saved. The 
almost unanimous voice of the Nation declared Gen. 
Grant to be the most prominent instrument in its sal- 
vation. The eminent services he had thus rendered 
the country brought him conspicuously forward as the 
Republican candidate for the Presidential chair. 

At the Republican Convention held at Chicago. 
May 21, 1868, he was unanimously nominated for the 
Presidency, and at the autumn election received a 
majority of the popular vote, and 214 out of 294 
electoral votes. 

The National Convention of the Republican party 
which met at Philadelphia on the 5th of June, 1872, 
placed Gen. Grant in nomination for a second term 
by a unanimous vote. The selection was emphati- 
cally indorsed by the people five months later, 292 
electoral votes being cast for him. 

Soon after the close of his second term. Gen. Grant 
started upon his famous trip around the world. He 
visited almost every country of the civilized world, 
and was everywhere received with such ovations 
and demonstrations of respect and honor, private 
as well as public and official, as were never before 
bestowed upon any citizen of the United States. 

He was the most prominent candidate before the 
Republican National Convention in 1880 for a re- 
nomination for President. He went to New York and 
embarked in the brokerage business under the firm 
nameof Grant & Ward. The latter proved a villain, 
wrecked (j rant's fortune, and for larceny was sent to 
the penitentiary. The General was attacked with 
cancer in the throat, but suffered in his stoic-like 
manner, never complaining. He was re-instated as 
General of tiie Army and retired by Congress. The 
cancer soon finished its deadly work, and July 23, 
1885, the nation wenf in mourning over the death of 
the illustrious General. 




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NINETEENTH PRESIDENT. 



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UTHERFORD B. HAYES, 
fel the nineteenth President of 
* the United States, was born in 
Delaware, O., Oct. 4, 1822, al- 
most three months after the 
death of his father, Rutherford 
Hayes. His ancestry on both 
the paternal and maternal sides, 
was of the most honorable char- 
i acter. It can be traced, it is said, 
as far back as 1280, when Hayes and 
Rutherford were two Scottish chief- 
tains, fighting side by side with 
Baliol, William Wallace and Robert 
Bruce. Both families belonged to the 
nobility, owned extensive estates, 
and had a large following. Misfor- 
;ane ov'.-i<aking the family, George Hayes left Scot- 
.and in i6!io, and settled in Windsor, Conn. His son 
George wai born in Windsor, and remained there 
during his liie. Daniel Hayes, son of the latter, mar- 
ried Sarah Lee, and lived from the time of his mar- 
riage until hJs death in Simsbury, Conn. Ezekiel, 
son of Daniel, was born in 1724, and was a manufac- 
turer of scythes at Bradford, Conn. Rutherford Hayes, 
son of Ezekiel ai/d grandfather of President Hayes, was 
born in New Haven, in August, 1756. He was a farmer, 
blacksmith and tavern-keeper. He emigrated to 
Vermont at an utiknown date, settling in Brattleboro, 
where he established a hotel. Here his son Ruth- 
erford Hayes the father of President Hayes, was 



born. He was married, in September, 18 13, to Sophia 
Birchard, of Wilmington, Vt., whose ancestors emi- 
grated thither from Connecticut, they having been 
among the wealthiest and best famlies of Norwich. 
Her ancestry on the male side are traced back to 
1635, to John Birchard, one of the principal founders 
of Norwich. Both of her grandfathers were soldiers 
in the Revolutionary War. 

The father of President Hayes was an industrious 
frugal and opened-hearted man. He was of a me 
chanical turn, and could mend a plow, knit a stock- 
ing, or do almost anything else that he choose to 
undertake. He was a member of the Church, active 
in all the benevolent enterprises of the town, and con- 
ducted his business on Christian principles. After 
the close of the war of 181 2, for reasons inexplicable 
to his neighbors, he resolved to emigrate to Ohio. 

The journey from Vermont to Ohio in that day 
when there were no canals, steamers, noi railways, 
was a very serious affair. A tour of inspection was 
first made, occupying four months. Mr. Hayes deter 
mined to move to Delaware, where the family arrived 
in 1817. He died July 22, 1822, a victiin of malarial 
fever, less than three months before the birth of the 
son, of whom we now write. Mrs. Hayes, in her sore be- 
reavement, found the support she so much needed in 
her brother Sardis, who had been a member of the 
household from the day of its departure from Ver- 
mont, and in an orphan girl whom she had adopted 
some time before as an act of charity. 

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subject of this sketch was so feeWe at birth that he 
was not expected to live beyond a month or two at 
most. As the raontlis went by he grew weaker and 
weaker, so that the neighbors were in the habit of in- 
quiring from time to time " if Mrs. Hayes' baby died 
uist night.' On one occasion a neighbor, who was on 
fimihar terms with the family, after alluding to the 
ijoy's big head, and the mother's assiduous care of 
lini, said in a bantering way, " That's right! Stick to 
him. You have got him along so far, and I shouldn't 
vonder if he would really come to something yet." 

" You reed not laugh," said Mrs. Hayes. "You 
trait and see. You can't tell but I shall make him 
President of the United States yet." The boy lived, 
in spite of the universal predictions of his speedy 
death; and when, in 1825, his older brother was 
drowned, he became, if possible, still dearer to his 
mother, 

The boy was seven years old before he went to 
school. His education, however, was not neglected. 
He probably learned as much from his mother and 
; ister as he would have done at school. His sports 
were almost wholly within doors, his playmates being 
his sister and her associates. These circumstances 
tended, no doubt, to foster that gentleness of dispo- 
sition, and that delicate consideration for the feelings 
of others, which are marked traits of his character. 

His uncle Sardis Birchard took the deepest interest 
in his education; and as the boy's health had im- 
proved, and he was making good progress in his 
studies, he proposed to send him to college. His pre- 
paration commenced with a tutor at home; but he 
was afterwards sent for one year to a professor in the 
\Vesleyan University, in Middletown, Conn. He en- 
tered Kenyon College in 1838, at the age of sixteen, 
and was graduated at the head of his class in 1842. 

Immediately after his graduation he began the 
study of law in the office of Thomas Sparrow, Esq., 
in Columbus. Finding his opportunities for study in 
Columbus somewhat limited, he determined to enter 
the Law School at Cambridge, Mass., where he re- 
mained two years. 

In 1845, after graduatmg at the Law School, he was 
admitted to the bar at Marietta, Ohio, and shortly 
afterward went into practice as an attorney-at-law 
with Ralph P. Buckland, of Fremont. Here he re- 
mained three years, acquiring but a limited practice, 
and apparently unambitious of distinction in his pro- 
fession. 

'^x\ 1849 he moved to Cincuinati, where his ambi- 
tion found a new stimulus. For several years,_ how- 
ever, his progress was slow. Two events, occurring at 
this period, had a powerful influence uixsn his subse- 
quent 'ife. One of these was his marrage with Miss 
Lucy Ware Webb, da\ighter of Dr. James Webb, of 
Chilicothe; the other was his introduction to the Cin- 
cinnati Literary Club, a body embracing among its 
members such men as'^hief Justice Salmon P.Chase, 



Gen. John Pope, Gov. Edward F. Noyes, and many 
others hardly less distinguished in after life. The 
marriage was a fortunate one in every respect, as 
everybody knows. Not one of all the wives of our 
Presidents was more universally admired, reverenced 
and beloved than was Mrs. Hayes, and no one did 
more than she to reflect honor upon American woman 
hood. The Literary Cluu brought Mr. Haye3 into 
constant association with young men of high char- 
acter and noble aims, and lured him to display (ihe 
qualities so long hidden by his bashfulneis and 
modesty. 

In 1856 he was nominated to the office of Judge of 
the Court of Common Pleas ; but he declined to ac- 
cept the nomination. Two years later, the office o) 
city solicitor becoming vacant, the City Council, 
elected him for the unexpired term. 

In 1 86 1, when the Rebellion broke out, he was at 
the zenith of his professional l:f,. His rank at the 
bar was among the the first. But the news of the 
attack on Fort Sumpter found him eager to take md 
arms for the defense of his countr)'. 

His military record was bright ard illustrious. In 
October, 186 1, he was made Lieutenant-Colonel, and 
in August, 1862, promoted Colonel of the 79th Ohio 
regiment, but he refused to leave his old comrades 
and go among strangers. Subsequently, however, he 
was made Colonel of his old regiment. At the battle 
of South Mountain he received a wound, and while 
faint and bleeding displayed courage and fortitude 
that won admiration from all. 

Col. Hayes was detached from liis regiment, after 
his recovery, to act as Brigadier-General, and placed 
in command of the celebrated Kanawha division, 
and for gallant and meritorious services in the battles 
of Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, he was 
promoted Brigadier-General. He was also brevetted 
Major-General, "for gallant and distinguished services 
during the campaigns of 1864, in West Virginia." In 
the course of his arduous services, four horses were 
shot from under him, and he was wounded four times. 

In 1864, Gen. Hayes was elected to Congress, from 
the Second Ohio District, which had long been Dem- 
ocratic. He was not present during the campaign, 
and after his election was importuned to resign his 
commission in the army; but he finally declared, "I 
shall never come to Washington until I can come by 
the way of Richmond." He was re-elected in 1866. 

\w 1867, Gen Hayes was elected Governor of Ohio^ 
over Hon. Allen G. Thunnan, a popular Democrat. 
In 1869 was re-elected over George H. Pendleton. 
He was elected Governor for the third term in 1875. 

]n 1876 he was the standard beaier of the Repub- 
lican Party in the Presidential contest, and after a 
hard long contest was chosen President, and was in 
augurated Monday, March 5, 1875. He served his 
full term, not, hcwever, with satisfaction to his party, 
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AMES A. GARt'IELU, twen- 
tieth President of the United 
States, was born Nov. 19, 
1831, in the woods of Orange, 
Cuyahoga Co., O His par- 
ents were Abram and EUza 
(Ballou) Garfield, both of New 
England ancestry and from fami- 
lies well known in the early his- 
^\^ tory of that section of our coun- 
try, but had moved to the Western 
Reserve, in Ohio, early in its settle- 
ment. 

The house in which James A. was 
born was not unlike the houses of 
poor Ohio farmers of that day. It 
-,ds about 20x30 feet, built of logs, with the spaces be- 
tween the logs filled with clay. His father was a 
aard working farmer, and he soon had his fields 
jleared, an orchard planted, and a log barn built. 
The household comprised the father and mother and 
their four children — Mehetabel, Thomas, Mary and 
Tames. In May, 1823^ the father, from a cold con- 
.racted in helping to put out a forest fire, died. At 
this time James was about eighteen months old, and 
Thomas about ten years old. No one, perhaps, can 
tell how much James was indet.ted to his biother's 
toil and self-sacrifice during the twenty years suc- 
ceeding his father's death, but undoubtedly very 
much. He now lives in Michigan, and the two sis- 
ters live in .Solon, O., near their birthplace. 

The early educational advantages young Garfield 
enjoyed were very limited, yet he made the most of 
them. He labored at farm work for others, did car- 
penter work, chopped wood, or did anything that 
would Ijring in a few dollars to aid his widowed 
mother in he' struggles to keep the little family to- 



gether. Nor was Gen. Garfield ever ashamed of his 
origin, and he never forgot the friends of his strug- 
gling childhood, youtli and manhood, neither did they 
ever forget him. Wiien in the highest seatsof honor 
the humblest fiiend of his boyhood was as kindly 
greeted as ever. The poorest laborer was sure of the 
sympatliy of one who had known all the bitterness 
of want and the sweetness of bread earned by the 
sweat of the brow. He was ever the simple, plain, 
modest gentleman. 

The highest ambition of young Garfield vmiil hi 
was about sixteen years old was to be a captain of 
a vessel on Lake Erie. He was anxious to go aboard 
a vessel, which his mother strongly opposed. .She 
finally consented to his going to Cleveland, with the 
understanding, however, that he should try to obtair 
some other kind of employment. He walked all the 
way to Cleveland. This was his first visit to the city 
After making many applications for work, and trying 
to get aboard a lake vessel, and not meeting with 
success, he engaged as a driver for his cousin, Amos 
Letcher, on the Ohio & Pennsylvania Canal. He re- 
mained at this work but a short time when he wen' 
home, and attended the seminar;' at Chester for 
about three years, when he entered Hiram and the 
Eclectic Institute, teaching a few terms of school in 
the meantime, and doing other work. This school 
was started by the Disciples of Christ in 1850, of 
which church he was then a member. He became 
janitor and bell-ringer in order to help pay his way 
He then became both teacher and pupil. He soon 
" exhausted Hiram " and needed more ; hence, in the 
fall of 1854, he entered Williams College, from whijb 
he graduated in 1856, taking one of the highest h'v - 
ors of his class. He afterwards returned to Hir.-im 
College as its President. -■Vs above stated, he early 
united with tlie Christian or Diciples Church at 
Hiram, and was ever after a devoted, zealous mem- 
iier, often preaching in its pulpit and places where 
lie happened to be. Dr. Noah Porter, President of 
Yale College, says of him in reference to his religion : 



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" President Garfield was more than a man of 
strong moral and religious convictions. His whole 
history, from boyhood to the last, shows that duty to 
man and to God, and devotion to Christ and life and 
faith and spiritual commission were controlling springs 
of his being, and to a more than usual degree. In 
ny judgment there is no more interesting feature of 
Ills character than his loyal allegiance to the body of 
Christians in which he was trained, and the fervent 
sympathy which he ever showed in their Christian 
communion. Not many of the few 'wise and mighty 
and noble who are called' show a similar loyalty to 
the less stately and cultured Christian comnmnions 
in which they have been reared. Too often it is true 
that as they step upward in social and political sig- 
nificance they step upward from one degree to 
another in some of the many types of fashionable 
Christianity. President Garfield adhered to the 
;hurch of his mother, the church in which he was 
trained, and in which he served as a pillar and an 
evangelist, and yet with the largest and most unsec- 
tarian charity for all 'who love our Lord in sincerity.'" 

Mr. Garfield was united in marriage with Miss 
Lucretia Rudolpli, Nov. ii, 1858, who proved lierself 
worthy as the wife of one whom all the world loved and 
mourned. To them were born seven children, five of 
v/hom are still living, four boys and one girl. 

Mr. Garfield made his first political speeches in 1856, 
in Hiram and the neighboring villages, and three 
I/ears later he began to speak at county mass-meet- 
ings, and became the favorite speaker wherever he 
was. During this year he was elected to the Ohio 
Senate. He also began to study law at Cleveland, 
and in 186 1 was admitted to the bar. The great 
Rebellion broke out in the early part of this year, 
and Mr. Garfield at once resolved to fight as he had 
talked, and enlisted to defend the old flag. He re- 
ceived his commission as Lieut. -Colonel of the Forty- 
second Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Lifantry, Aug. 
14, 1861. He was immediately put into active ser- 
vice, and before he had ever seen a gun fired in action, 
was placed in command of four regiments of infantiy 
and eight companies of cavalry, charged with the 
work of driving out of his native State the officer 
'.Humphrey Marshall) reputed to be the ablest of 
those, not educated to war whom Kentucky had given 
to the Rebellion. This work was bravely and speed- 
ily accomplished, although against great odds. Pres- 
ident Lincoln, on his success commissioned him 
Brigadier-General, Jan. 10, 1862; and as "he had 
been the youngest man in the Ohio Senate two years 
before, so now he was the youngest General in the 
army." He was witli Gen. Buell's army at Shiloh, 
in its operations around Corinth and its march through 
Alabama. He was then detailed as a member of the 
General Court-Martial for the trial of Gen. Fitz-John 
Porter. He was tlien ordered to report to Gen. Rose- 
crans, and was assigned to the " Chief of Staff." 

The military history of Gen. Garfield closed with 



his brilliant services at Chickamauga, where he won 
the stars of the Major-General. 

Without an effort on his part Gee Garfield was 
elected to Congress in the fall of 1862 from the 
Nineteenth District of Ohio. This section of Ohio 
had been represented in Congress for sixty years 
mainly by two men — Elisha ^Vhittlesey and Joshua 
R. Giddings. It was not without a struggle that he 
resigned his place in the army. At the time he en- 
tered Congress he was the youngest member in that 
body. Ther*; he remained by successive re- 
elections until he was elected President in 1880. 
Of his labors in Congress Senator Hoar says : " Sinct 
the year 1864 you cannot think of a question whicii 
has been debated in Congress, or discussed before h 
tribunel of the American people, in regard to whict 
you will not find, if you wish mstruction, the argu-. 
ment on one side stated, in almost every instance 
better than by anybody else, in some speech made in 
the House of Representatives or on the hustings by 
Mr. Garfield." 

Upon Jan. 14, 1880, Gen. Garfield was elected to 
the U. S. Senate, and on the eighth of June, of the 
same year, was nominated as the candidate of his 
party for President at the great Chicago Convention. 
He was elected in the following November, and on 
March 4, i88r, was inaugurated. Probably no ad- 
ministration ever opened its existence under brighter 
auspices than that of President Garfield, and every 
day it grew in favo." with the people, and by the first 
of July he had completed all the initiatory and pre- 
liminary work of his administration and was prepar- 
ing to leave the city to meet his friends at Williams 
College. While on his way and at the depot, in com- 
pany with Secretary Blaine, a man stejiped behind 
him, drew a revolver, and fired directly at his back. 
The President tottered and fell, ^nd as he did so the 
assassin fired a second shot, the bullet cutting the 
left coat sleeve of his victim, but inflicting no further 
injury. It has been very truthfully said that this was 
" the shot that was heard round the world " Never 
before in the history of the Nation had anything oc- 
curred which so nearly froze the blood of the people 
for the moment, as this awful deed. He was smit- 
ten on the brightest, gladdest day of all his life, and 
was at the summit of his power and ho|)e. For eighty 
days, all during the hot months of July and August, 
lie lingered and suffered. He, however, remained 
master of himself till the last, and by his magnificent 
bearing was teaching the country and the world the 
noblest of human lessons — how to live grandly in the 
very clutch of death. Great in life, he was surpass- 
ingly great in death. He passed serenely away Sept. 
19, 1883, at Elberon, N. J., on the very bank of the 
ocean, where he had been taken shortly previous. The 
world wept at his death, as it never had done on the 
death of any other man who had ever lived upon it. 
The murderer was duly tried, found guilty and exe- 
cuted, in one year after he committed the foul deed. 



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HESTER A. ARTHUR, 
twenty-first Presi'^.^iH of the 
United States was born in 
Franklin Com ty, Vermont, on 
« the fifthofOc'ober, 1830, andis 
the oldest of a family of two 
sons and five daughters. His 
father was the Rev. Dr. William 
Arthur, a Baptist d .r gyman, who 
emigrated to tb.s countr)' from 
the county Aiit.im, Ireland, in 
his 18th year, and died in 1875, in 
Newtonville, neai Albany, after a 
long and successful ministry. 
J. Young Arthur was educated at 
a^y Union College, S( henectady, where 
j/j he excelled in all his studies. Af- 
ter his graduation he taught school 
in Vermont for two years, and at 
the e-xpiration cf that time came to 
New York, with $500 in his pocket, 
and Ciitered the office of ex-Judge 
E. D. Culver as student. After 
being admitted to the bar he formed 
a partnership with his intimate friend and room-mate, 
Henry D. Gardiner, with the intention of practicing 
in the West, and for three months they roamed about 
in the Western States in search of an eligible site, 
but in the end returned to New York, where they 
hung out their shingle, and entered upon a success- 
ful career almost from the start. General Arthur 
soon afterward niarr<"d the daughter of Lieutenant 



Herndon, of the United States Navy, who was lost at 
sea. Congress voted a gold medal to his widow in 
recognition of the bravery he displayed on that occa- 
sion. Mrs. Arthur died shortly before Mr. Arthurs 
nommation to the Vice Presidency, leaving two 
children. 

Gen. .\rthur obtained considerable legal celebrity 
in his first great case, the famous Lemmon suit, 
brought to recover possession of eight slaves who had 
been declared free by Judge Paine, of the Superior 
Court of New York City. It was in 1852 that Jon. 
athan Lemmon, of Virginia, went to New York with 
his slaves, intending to ship them to Texas, when 
they were discovered and freed. The Judge decided 
that they could not be held by the owner under the 
Fugitive Slave Law. A howl of rage went up from 
the South, and the Virginia Legislature authorized the 
Attorney General of that State to assist in an apjieal. 
Wm. M. Evarts and Chester A. Arthur were employed 
to represent the People, and they won their case, 
which then went to the Supreme Court of the United 
States. Charles O'Conor here esjx)used the cause 
of the slave-holders, but he too was beaten by Messrs 
Evarts and Arthur, and a long step was taken toward 
the emancipation of the black race. 

Another great service was rendered by General 
Arthur in the same cause in 1856. Lizzie Jennings, 
a respectable colored woman, was put off a Fourth 
Avenue car with violence after she had paid her fare. 
General Arthur sued on her behalf, and secured 0. 
verdict of $500 damages. The next day the compa- 
ny issued an order to admit colored persons to ride 
on their cars, and the other car companies quickly 



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followed their example. Before that the Sixth Ave- 
nue Company ran a few special cars for colored per- 
sons and the other lines refused to let them ride at all. 

General Arthur was a delegate to the Convention 
at Saratoga that founded the Republican party. 
Previous to the war he was Judge-Advocate of the 
Second Brigade of the State of New York, and Gov- 
ernor Morgan, of that State, appointed him Engineer- 
in-Chief of his staff. In 1861, he was made Inspec- 
tor General, and soon afterward became Quartermas- 
ter-General. In each of these offices he rendered 
great service to the Government during the war. At 
the end of Governor Morgan's term he resumed the 
practice of the law, forming a partnership with Mr. 
Ransom, and then Mr. Phelps, the District Attorney 
of New Yoik, was added to the firm. The legal prac- 
tice of this well-known firm was very large and lucra- 
tive, each of the gentlemen composing it were able 
lawyers, and possessed a splendid local reputation, if 
not indeed one of national extent. 

He always took a leading part in State and city 
politics. He was apix)inted Collector of the Port of 
New York by President Grant, Nov. 21 1872, to suc- 
ceed Thomas Murphy, and held the office until July, 
20, 1878, when he was succeeded by Collector Merritt. 

Mr. Arthur was nominated on the Presidential 
ticket, with Gen. James A. Garfield, at the famous 
National Republican Convention held at Chicago in 
June, 1880. This was perhaps the greatest political 
convention that ever assembled on the continent. It 
was composed of the 'sading politicians of the Re- 
publican party, all able men, and each stood firm and 
fought vigorously and with signal tenacity for their 
respective candidates that were before the conven- 
tion for the nomination. Finally Gen. Garfield re- 
ceived the nomination for President and Gen. Arthur 
for Vice-President. The campaign which followed 
was one of the most animated known in the history of 
our country. Gen. Hancock, the standard-bearer of 
the Democratic party, was a popular man, and his 
party made a valiant fight for his election. 

Finally the election came and the country's choice 
.vas Garfield and Arthur. They were inaugurated 
vVlavch 4, 1 88 1, as President and Vice-President. 
A. few months only had passed ere the newly chosen 
President was the victim of the assassin's bullet. Then 
came terrible weeks of suffering, — those moments of 
anxious suspense, when the hearts of all civilized na- 



tions were throbbing in unison, longing for the re 
covery of the noble, the good President. The remark- 
able patience that he manifested during those hours 
and weeks, and even months, of the most terrible suf- 
fering man has often been called upon to endure, was 
seemingly more than human. It was certainly God- 
like. During all this period of deepest anxiety Mr. 
Arthur's every move was watched, and be it said to his 
credit that his every action displayed only an earnest 
desire that the suffering Garfield might recover, to 
serve the remainder of the term he had so auspi- 
ciously begun. Not a selfish feeling was manifested 
in deed or look of this man, even though the most 
honored position in the world ivas at any moment 
likely to fall to him. 

At last God in his mercy relieved President Gar- 
field from further suffering, and the world, as never 
before in its history over the death of any other 
man, wept at his bier. Then it became the duty of 
the Vice President to j-ssume the responsibilities of 
the high office, and he took the oath in New York, 
Sept. 20, 1881. The position was an embarrassing 
one to him, made doubly so from the facts that all 
eyes were on him, anxious to know what he would do, 
what policy he would pursue, and who he would se- 
lect as advisers. The duties of the office had been 
greatly neglected during the President's long illness, 
and many important measures were to be immediately 
decided by him ; and still farther to embarrass him he 
did not fail to realize under what circumstances he 
became President, and knew the feelings of many on 
this point. Under these trying circumstances President 
Arthur took the reins of the Government in his own 
hands ; and, as embarrassing as were the condition of 
affairs, he happily surprised the nation, acting so 
wisely that but few criticised his administration. 
He served the nation well and faithfully, until the 
close of his administration, March 4, 1885, and was 
a popular candidate before his party for a second 
term. His name was ably presented before the con- 
vention at Chicago, and was received with great 
favor, and doubtless but for the personal popularity 
of one of the opposing candidates, he would have 
been selected as the standard-bearer of his party 
for another campaign. He retired to private life car- 
rying with him the best wishes of the American peo- 
ple, whom he liad served in a manner satisfactory 
to them and with credit to himself. 




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TEPHEN GROVER CLEVE- 
LAND, thetwemysecond Pres- 
ident of the United States, was 
l)Orn in 1837, in the obscure 
town of Caldwell, Essex Co., 
N. J., and in a little two-and-a- 
half-story white house which is still 
standing, characteristically to mark 
the iuiinble birth-place of one of 
America's great men in striking con- 
trast with the Old World, where all 
men high in office must be high in 
origin and born in the cradle of 
wealth. When the subject of this 
sketch was three years of age, his 
father, who was a Presbyterian min- 
ister, with a large family and a small salary, moved, 
by way o: the Hudson River ascf Erie Canal, to 
Fayetteville, in search of an increased income and a 
'arger field of work. Fayetteville was then the most 
straggling of country villages, about five miles from 
Pompey Hill, where Governor Seymour was borr.. 

At the last mentioned place young Grover com- 
menced going to school in the "good, old fashioned 
way," and presumably distinguished himself after the 
manner of all village boys, in doing the things he 
ought not to do. Such is the distinguishing trait of 
all geniuses and independent thinkers. When he 
arrived at the age of 14 years, he had outgrown the 
capacity of the village school and expressed a most 



emphatic desire to be sent to an academy. To this 
his father decidedly objected. .Academies in those 
days cost money; besides, his father wanted him to 
become self-supporting by the quickest possible 
means, and this at that time in Fayette /ille seemed 
to be a position in a country store, where his father 
and the large family on his hands had considerable 
influence. Grover was to be paid $50 for his services 
the first year, and if he proved trustworthy he was to 
receive $100 the second year. Here the lad com- 
menced his career as salesman, and in two years he 
had earned so good a reputation for trustworthiness 
that his employers desired to retain him for an in- 
definite length of time. Otherwise he did not ex- 
hibit as yet any particular " flashes of genius " or 
eccentricities of talent. He was simply a good boy. 
But instead of remaining with this firm in Fayette- 
ville, he went with the family in their removal to 
Clinton, where he had an opportunity of attending a 
high school. Here he industriously pursued his 
studies until t!ie family removed wi'.h him to a point 
on Black River known as the " Holland Patent," a 
village of 500 or 600 people, 15 miles north of Utica, 
M. Y. At this place his father died, after preaching 
but three Sundays. This event broke up the fainily, 
and Grover set out for New York City to accept, at a 
small salary, the position of " I'.nder-teacher " in an 
asylum for the blind. He taught faithfully for two 
years, and although he obtained a good reputation in 
this capacity, he concluded that teaching was not his 



S. GROVE R CLEVELAND. 



calling foi life, and, reversing the traditional order, 
ne left the city to seek his fortune, instead of going 
to a city. He first thought of Cleveland, Ohio, as 
thfire was some charm in that name for him; but 
before proceeding to that place he went to Buffalo to 
isk the advice of his uncle, Lewis F. Allan, a noted 
stock-breeder of that place. The latter did not 
rpeak enthusiastically. "What is it you want to do, 
my boy?" he asked. "Well, sir, I want to study 
! aw," was the reply. "Good gracious!" remarked 
• he old gentleman ; " do you, indeed ? What ever put 
Ihat into your head? How much money have you 
got.'" •■'Well, sir, to tell the truth, I haven't got 
anv. " 

After a long consultation, his uncle offered him a 
p'ace temporarily as assistant herd-keeper, at $50 a 
year, while lie could "look around." One day soon 
afterward he boldly walked into the office of Rogers, 
Bowen & Rogers, of Buffalo, and told Ihem what he 
wanted. A number of young men were already en- 
gaged in the office, but Grover's persistency won, and 
ne was finally permitted to come as an office boy and 
tiave the use of the law library, for tiie nominal sum 
of $3 or $4 a week. Out of this he had to pay for 
his board and washing. The walk to and from his 
uncle's was a long and rugged one;' and, although 
the first winter was a memorably severe one, his 
shoes were out of repair and his overcoat — he had 
none — yet he was nevertheless prompt and regular. 
On the first day of his service here, his senior em- 
ployer threw down a copy of Blackstone before him 
with a bang that made the dust fly, saying "That's 
where they all begin." A titter ran around the little 
circle of clerks and students, as they thought that 
was enough to scare young Grover out of his plans ; 
Dut in due time he mastered that cumbersome volume. 
Then, as ever afterward, however, Mr. Cleveland 
exhibited a talent for executiveness rather than for 
chasing principles through all their metaphysical 
possibilities. " Let us quit talking and go and do 
;t," was practically his motto. 

The first public office to which Mr. Cleveland was 
elected was tliat of Sheriff of Erie Co., N. Y., in 
which Buffalo is situated ; and in such capacity it fell 
lO his duty to inflict capital pi''.ishment upon two 
cjiniinals. \\\ 1881 he was elected Mayor of the 
City of Buffalo, on the Democratic ticket, with es- 
pecial reference to the bringing about certain reforms 



in the administration of the municipal affairs of that 
city. In this office, as well as that of Sheriff, his 
performance of duty has generally been considered 
fair, with possibly a few exceptions which were fer- 
reted out and magnified during the last Presidential 
campaign. As a specimen of his plain language in 
a veto message, we quote fiom one vetoing an iniqui- 
tous street-cleaning contract: "This is a time fo; 
plain speech, and my objection to your action shall 
be plainly stated. I regard it as the culmination of 
a mos bare-faced, impudent and shameless scheme 
to betray the interests of the peoplr. and to worse 
than squander the people's money." The New York 
Sim afterward very highly commended Mr. Cleve- 
land's administration as Mayor of Buffalo, and there- 
upon recommended him for Governor of the Empire 
State. To the latter office he was elected i:i 1S82, 
and his administration of the affairs of State was 
generally satisfactory. The mistakes he made, if 
any, were made very public throughout the nation 
after he was nominated for President of the United 
States. For this high office he was nominated July 
II, 1884, by the National Democratic Convention at 
Chicago, when other competitors were Thomas F, 
Bayard, Roswell P. Flower, Thomas A. Hendricks, 
Benjamin F. Butler, Allen G. Thurman, etc.; and he 
was elected by the people, by a majority of al>out a 
thousand, over the brilliant and long-tried Repub- 
lican statesman, James G. Blaine. President Cleve- 
land resigned his office as Governor of New York in 
January, 18S5, in order to prepare for his duties as 
the Chief Executive of the United States, in which 
capacity his term commenced at noon on the 4th ot 
March, 1SS5. For his Cabinet officers he selected 
the following gentlemen: For Secretary of State, 
Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware ; Secretary of the 
Treasury, Daniel Manning, of New York; Secretary 
of War, William C. Endicott, of Massachusetts; 
Secretary of the Navy, William C. Whitney, of New 
York ; Secretary of the Interior, L. Q. C. Lamar, cf 
Mississippi ; Postmaster-General, William F. "Vilas, 
of Wisconsin; Attorney-General, A. H. Garland, of 
Arkansas. 

The silver question precipitated a controversy be- 
tween those who were in favor of the continuance of 
silver coinage and those who were opposed, Mr. 
Cleveland answering for the latter, even before his 
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ENJAIMIN HARRISON, the 
'-wciity-tliiid rresident, is 
the descendant of one of the 
historical families of this 
country. Tlie head of the 
family was a IMajor ( Jcnernl 
Harrison, one of Oliver 
Cionnvell's trusted follow- 
ers and fighters. In the zenith of Crom- 
well's power it Ijecame the duty of this 
i-j ^ [^ Harrison to participate m the trial of 
^' L ^ Charles I, and afterward to sign tlie 
death warrant of tlie king. He subse- 
quently i)aid for this wiiii his life, being 
lunig Oct. 13, ICCO. His descendants 
came to America, and tiie next of the 
family that np|)oars in iiistory is IJenja- 
.Tin Harrison, of Virginia, great-grand- 
father of the suliject of this sketch, and 
after whom he was named. Benjamin Harrison 
was a member of the Continental Congress during 
the years »774-.")-0, and was one of the original 
signers of the I)cclaration of Independence. He 
wac three times elected Governor of Virginia, 
Gen William Ilrniy Harrison, the son of llie 




distinguished patriot of the Revolution, after a sue 
cessful career as a soldier during the War of 1812, 
and with -a clean record as Governor of the North- 
western Territory, was elected President of the 
United States in 1840. His career was cut short 
l>y death within one month after his inauguration. 
President Harrison was born at North Bend, 
Hamilton Co., Ohio, Aug. r>0, 1833. His life up to 
the time of his graduation by the Miami University 
at Oxford, Ohio, was the uneventful one of a coun- 
try lad of a family of small means. His father was 
able to give him a good education, and nothing 
more. He became engaged while at college to tho 
daughter of Dr. Scott, Principal of a female schoo 
at Oxford. After graduating he determined to en- 
ter upon the study of the law. He went to Cin 
oinnali and then read law for two years. At tht 
expiration of that time young Harrison receiv..d \k . 
only inheritance of his life; his aunt dying left hia 
a lot valued at ^800. He regariled this legacj' as t 
fortune, and decided to get married at once, 'akj 
this money and go to some E.istern town an . ue- 
gin the practice of law. He sold his lot, and with 
the money in his pocket, he started out witii his 
young wife to fight for a place 'n the world. Me 



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BENJAMIN HARRISOiSk 



iceided to go fo Indianapolis, which was even at 
I h.a time a town of promise. He met with slight 
iiicouragement at first, making scarcely anything 
Llie first year. He worlied diligently, ai)plying liiin- 
self closely to his calling, built up an extensive 
practice and took a lea<ling rank in the legal pro- 
/ession. He is the father of two children. 

la 18GC Mr. Harrison was nominated for tlie 
position of Supreme Court Reporter, and then be- 
gan his experience as a stump speuke- He can- 
vassed the State thoroughly, and was elected by a 
handsome majority. In 18G2 he raised the 17th 
Indiana Infantry, and was chosen its Colonel. His 
regiment was comjiosed of the rawest of material, 
out Col. Harrison employed all his time at first 
mastering military tactics and drilling his men, 
when he therefore came to move toward the East 
witli Sherman his regiment was one of the best 
•iirilled and organized in tiie army. At Resaca he 
Especially distinguished himself, and for his bravery 
"1 Peachtree Creek he was made a Brigadier Gen- 
eral, Gen. Hooker speaking of him in the most 
complimentary terms. 

During the absence of Gen. Harrison in the field 
he Supreme Court declared the office of the Su- 
preme Court Reporter vacant, and another person 
was elected to the position. From the time of Jeav- 
i; g Indiana v/ith his regiment until the fall of 18G4 
ne iiad taken no leave of absence, but having been 
nomir.ated that year for the same office, he got a 
tliirty-day leave of absence, and during that time 
made a brilliant canvass of the State, and was elected 
for another term. He then started to rejoin Sher- 
VLCin, but on the w.ay was stricken down with scarlet 
,ever, and after a most trying siege made his way 
:o the front in time to participate in the closing 
Ecidents of the war. 

In 1868 Gen. Harrison declined z re-election as 
pporter, and resumed the practice of law. In 187G 
■:,e was a candidate for Governor. Altho'igh de- 
eaied, the brilliant campaign he made won lOr him 
I National reputation, and he was much souglit, es- 
peciai.y in the East, to make speeches. In 1880. 
as usi'.fll, he took an active part in the campaign, 
r^nd w:. elected to the United States Senate. Here 
he served six years, and :-'as known as one o: the 
tb'iest men, best lawyer^ ^nd strongest debaters in 



that body. With the expiration of his Senatonm 
term he returned to the practice of his profession, 
becoming the liead of one of the strongest firms in 
the State. 

The jiolitical campaign of 1888 was one of the 
most monioral)le in the history of our country. The 
convention whieii assembled in Chicago in June and 
named Mr. Harrison as the chief standard bearer 
of the Repulilican party, was great in every partic- 
ular, and on this .account, and the attitude it as- 
sumed upon the vital questions of the day, chief 
among which was the tariff, awoke a deep interest 
in the campaign throughout the Nation. Shortly 
after the nomination delegations began to visit Mr. 
Harrison at Indianapi)lis, his home. This move- 
ment became popular, and from all sections of the 
country societies, clubs and delegations journeyed 
thither to pay their respects to the distinguished 
statesman. The popularity of these was greatly 
increased on account of the remarkable speeches 
made by Mr. Harrison. He spoke dailj- all through 
the sunnner an<l autunni to these visitins: delega- 
tions, and so varied, masterly and eloquent were 
his speeches that they at once placed him in the 
foremost rank of American orators and statesmen. 

On account of his eloquence as a speaker and his 
power as a debater, he was called ujwn at an un- 
coii^monly early age to take part in the discussion 
of the great questions th.at then began ( j agitate 
the countr}'. He was an unct)mpromising ant: 
slavery man, and was matched against some of t'.:e 
most eminent Democratic sijeakers of his Statt. 
No man who felt the touch of his blade de:ired t< 
be pitted with him again. "With all his eloq-'ence 
as an orator he never spoke for oratorical effect, 
but his words always went like bullets to the mark 
He is purely American in his ideas and is a spier 
did type of the American statesman. Gifted witli 
quick perception, a logical mind and a ready tongue, 
he is one of the most distinguished impromptu 
speakers in tlie Nation. iiMany of these speeches 
sparkled with the rarest of eloquence and contained ■ 
arguments of greatest weight. Jlany of his terse 
statements have already become ajiliorisms. Origi- 
nal in thought, precise i.i logic, terse m statement, 
j'et withal f.aultless in e!v;>-;^uence, he is recognized as 
the sound st.atesman and brilUan^ orator o tn^. day 





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TEPHEN T. MASON, ihc 
first Govcinorof Michigan, was 
a son of Gen. John T. Mason, 
of Kentucky, hut was horn i;i 
Virginia, in 1S12. At the age 
^^'^ of 1 9 he was appointed Secre- 
tary of Michigan Territory, and 
served in that capacity during tlie 
administration of Gov. George b. 
Porter. Upon the death of Gov. 
Porter, which occurred on the 6th of 
July, 1834, Mr. Mason became .Act- 
ing Governor. In October, 1835, lie 
was elected Governor under the State 
organization, and immediately en- 
tered upon the performance of the 
duties of the office, although the 
?tate was not yet admitted into the Union, .\fter 
the State was admitted into the Union, Governoi 
Mason was re-elected to the position, and served with 
credit to himself and to the advantage of the Stale. 
He died Jan. 4, 1843. The principal event during 
Governor Mason's official career, was that arising from 
the disputed southern boundary of the State. 

Michigan claimed for her southern boundary aline 
running east across the peninsula from the extreme 
southern point of Lake Michigan, extending through 
j^ake Erie, to the Pennsylvania line. This she 
claimed as a vested right — a right accruing to her by 
compact. This compact was the ordinance of 1787, 
;he parties to whicli were the original 13 States, and 
'.he territory northwest of the Ohio; and, by the suc- 
cession of parties under statutory amendments to the 
ordinance and laws of Congress — the United States on 
the one part, and each Territory northwest of the 
Ohio, as far as affected by their provisions, on the 



other. Michigan, therefore, claimed it under the prior 
grant, or assignation of boundary. 

Ohio, on the other hand, claimed that the ordinance 
had been superseded by the Constitution of the 
United States, and that Congress had a right to regu- 
late the boundary. It was also claimed that the 
Constitution of the State of Ohio having described a 
different line, and Congress liaving admitted the State 
under that Constitution, witliout mentioning the sub- 
ject of the line in dispute. Congress had thereby given 
its consent to the line as laid down by the Constitu- 
tion of Ohio. This claim was urged by Ohio at 
some periods of the controversy, but at others she ap- 
peared to regard the question unsettled, by the fact 
that she insisted upon Congress taking action in re- 
gard to the boundary. Accordingly, we find that, in 
1812, Congress authorized the Surveyor-General to 
survey a line, agreeably to the act, to enable the people 
of Ohio to form a Constitution and State government. 
Ownii; to Indian hostilities, however, the line was not 
run till 1818. In 1820, the question in dispute 
underwent a rigid examination by the Committee on 
Public Lands. The claim of Ohio was strenuously 
urged by her delegation, and as ably oi)posed by Mr. 
^Voodbridge, the then delegate from Michigan. The 
result was that the committee decided unanimously 
in favor of Michigan; but, in the hurry of business, 
no action was taken by Congress, and the question 
remained open till Michigan organized her State gov- 
ernment. 

The Territory in dispute is about five miles in 
width at the west end, and about eight miles in width 
at the east end, and extends along the whole north- 
ern line of Ohio, west of Luke Erie. The line claimed 
by Michigan was known as the " Fulton line," ar.d 
that claimed by Ohio was known as the" Harris line,' 



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from the names of the surveyors. The territory was 
valuable for its rich agricultural lands; but the chief 
vaKie consisted in the fact that the harbor on the 
Mauniee River, where now stands the flourishing city 
of Toledo, was included within its limits The town 
originally bore the name of Swan Creek, afterwards 
Port Lawrence, then Vestula, and then Toledo. 

In February, 1835, the Legislature of Ohio passed 
an act e.xtending the jurisdiction of the State over 
the territory in question; erected townships and 
directed them to hold elections in April following. It 
also directed Governor Lucus to appoint three com- 
missioners to survey and re-mark the Harris line; and 
named the first of April as the day to commence the 
■uirvey. Acting Governor M ison, however, anticipated 
this action on the part of the Ohio Legislature, sent 
a special message to the Legislative Council, appris- 
ing it of Governor Lucas' message, and advised imme- 
diate action by that body to anticipate and counteract 
the proceedings of Ohio. Accordingly, on the 12th 
of February, the council passed an act making it a 
crimnial offence, punishable by a heavy fine, or im- 
prisonment, for any one to attempt to exercise any 
official functions, or accept any office within the juris- 
diction of Michigan, under or by virture of any au- 
thority not derived from the Territory, or the LTnited 
States. On the 9th of March, Governor Mason wrote 
General Brown, then in command of the Michigan 
militia, directing him to hold himself in readiness to 
)iieet the enemy in the field in case any attempt was 
made on the part of Ohio to carry out the provisions 
of that net of the Legislature. On the 31st of March, 
(rovernor Lucus, with his commissioners, arrived nt 
Perrysburgh, on their way to commence re-surveying 
the Harris line. He was accompanied by General 
Bell and staff, of the Ohio Militia, who proceeded to 
master a volunteer force of about 600 men. This 
was soon accomplished, and the force fully armed and 
equipped. The force then went into cami) at Fort 
Miami, to await the Governor's orders. 

In the meantime. Governor Mason, with General 
Brown and staff, had raised a force 800 to 1200 
strong, and were in possession of Toledo. General 
Brown's Staff consisted of Captain Henry Smith, of 
Monroe, Inspector; Major J. L Ullman, of Con- 
stantine. Quartermaster; William E. Broadman, of 
Detroit, and Alpheus Felch, of Monroe, Aids-de- 
camp. When Governor Lucas observed the deter- 
mined bearing of the Michigan braves, and took note 



of their number, he found it convenient to content 
himself for a time with " watching over the border. ' 
Several days were passed in this exhilarating employ- 
ment, and just as Governor Lucas had made up his 
mind to do something rash, two commissioners ar- 
rived from Washington on a mission of peace. They 
remonstrated with Gov. Lucus, and reminded him of 
the consequences to himself and his State if he per- 
sisted in his attempt to gain possession of the disputed 
territory by force. After several conferences with 
both governors, the commissioners submitted pro\X)si- 
tions for their consideration. 

Governor Lucas at once accepted the piopositions, 
and disbanded his forces. Governor Mason, on the 
other hand, refused to accede to the arrangement, and 
declined to compromise the rights of his people by a 
surrender of ix>ssession and jurisdiction. When Gov- 
ernor Lucus disbanded his forces, however. Governor 
Mason partially followed suit, but still held himself 
in readiness to meet any emergency that might arise. 

Governor Lucus now supposed that his way was 
clear, and that he could re-mark the Harris line with- 
out being molested, and ordered the commissioners 
to proceed with their work. 

In the meantime. Governor Mason kept a watch- 
ful eye upon the proceedings. General Brown sent 
scouts through the woods to watch their movements, 
and report when operations were commenced. When 
the surveying party got within the county of Lena- 
wee, the under-sheriff of that county, armed with a 
warrant, and accompanied by a jxisse, suddenly made 
his appearance, and succeeded in arresting a portion 
of the party. The rest, including the commissioners, 
took to their heels, and were soon beyond the dis- 
puted territory. They reached Perrysburgh the fol- 
lowing day in a highly demoralized condition, and 
reported they had been attacked by an overwhelm- 
ing force of Michigan malitia, under command of 
General Brown. 

This summary breaking up of the surveying party 
[iroduced the most tremendous excitement throughout 
Ohio. Governor Lucas called an extra session of the 
Legislature. But little remains to be said in reference 
to the " war." The question continued for some time 
to agitate the minds of the opposing parties; and the 
action of Congress was impatiently awaited. Michigan 
was admitted into the LTnion on the condition that 
she give to Ohio the disputed territory, and accept 
in return the Northern Peninsula, which she did. 



SECOND GOVERNOR OF xMICHIGAA. 



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ILLIAM \VO()l)BRID(iE, 
iJ'iiisecond Governor of Michigan, 
jjy' was born at Norwich, Conn., 
yji- Aug. 20, 1780, and died at 
Detroit Oct. 20, 1S61. He 
was of a family of thiec brothers 
and two sisters. His father, 
Dudley VVoodbridge, removed to 
Marietta, Ohio, about 1790. The 
life of \Vm. Woodbridge, by Chas. 
Lauman, from whicli this sketch 
is largely com piled, mentions notli- 
ing concerning his early education 
beyond the fact that it was such as 
was afforded by the average school 
of the time, except a year with the 
French colonists at GaIli[)olis, 
where he acquired a knowledge of 
the French language. It should 
be "borne in mind, however, tliat 
home education at that time was 
an indisijensable feature in the 
training of the young. To this and 
and to a few studies well mastered, 
is due that strong mental discii)line which has served 
as a basis for many of the grand intellects that have 
adorned and iieljied to make our National history. 
Mr. Woodbridge studied law at Marietta, having 
as a fellow student an intimate pergonal friend, a 
ycung man subsequently distinguished, but known 
at that time simply as Lewis Cass. He graduated at 
the law school in Connecticut, after a course there of 
nearly three years, and began to practice at Marietta 
in 1806. In June, 1806, ho married, at Hartford, Con- 
necticut, Juleanna, dauL;hter of John Trumbell, a 
distinguished author and judge; and author of the 



peom McFingal, which, during a dark period of the 
Revolution, wrought such a magic change upon the 
spirits of the colonists. He was happy in his domes- 
ticrelationsuntilthedeathof Mrs. W., Feb. 2,19, i860. 
Our written biographi'.-s necessarily speak more 
tuily of men, because of their active participation in 
l)uijlic affairs, but human actions are stamped ujxjn 
the page of time and when the scroll shall be unrolled 
the influence of good women upon the history of the 
world will be read side by side with the deeds of men. 
How much success and renown in life many men owe 
to their wives is probably little known. Mrs. W. en- 
joyed the best means of early education that the 
country afforded, and her intellectual genius enabled 
her to improve her advantages. During her life, side 
by side with tlic highest type of domestic and social 
graces, she manifested a keen intellectuality that 
formed the crown of a faultless chaiacler. She was 
a natural poet, and wrote quite a large number of fine 
verses, some of which are preserved in a printed 
memorial essay written upon the occasion of her 
death. In this essay, it is said of her "to contribute 
even in matters of minor importance, to elevate the 
reputation and add to the well being of her husband 
in the various stations he was called uixsn to fill, gave 
her the highest satisfaction " She was an invalid 
during the latter ixjrtion of her life, but was patient 
and cheerful to the end. 

In 1807, Mr. W. was chosen a representative to the 
General Assembly of Ohio, and in 1809 was elected to 
the Senate, continuing a member by re-election until 
his removal from the State. He also held, by ai>- 
pointment, during the time the office of Prosecuting 
Attorney for his county. He took a leading part in 
the Legislature, andin 1812 drew upadeclaration and 
resolutions, which passed the two houses unamiuously 



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and attracted great attention, endorsing, in strongest 
and nuist eni|jitatic terms, tlie war measures of Presi- 
dent Madison. During the period from 1804 to 1814 
the two law students, Woodbridge and Cass, liad be- 
come widely separated. The latter was Governor of 
the Territor) of Michigan under the historic "(lOvernor 
and Judges" plan, with the indispensable requisite of a 
Secretary of the Territorry. This latter position was, 
in 181 4, without solicitation on his part, tendered to 
Mr. W. He accepted the position with some hesita- 
tion, and entered upon its duties as soon as he could 
make the necessary arrangements for leaving Ohio. 
The oftice of Secretary involved also tlie duties of 
collector of customs at the [wrt of Detroit, and during 
the frequent absences of the Governor, the dischargeof 
of hii duties, also including those of Superintendent 
of Indian Affairs. Mr. ^V. officiated as Governor for 
about two years out of the eight years that he held the 
office of Secretary Under the administration of "Gov- 
ernor and Judges," which the people of the Territory 
preferred for economical reasons, to continue some time 
after tiieir numbers entitled them to a more popular 
representative system, they were allowed no delegate 
in Congress. Mr. W., as a sort of informal agent of 
the people, by correspondence and also by a visit to 
the National capital, so clearly set forth the demand 
for representation by a delegate, that an act was 
passedin Congressin iSigauthorizingone tobechosen. 
Under this act Mr. \V. was elected by the concurrence 
of all i)arties. His first action in Congress was to secure 
'.he passage of a bill recognizing and confirming the 
old French land titles in the Territory according to 
the terms of the treaty of peace with Great Britain 
at the close of the Revolution ; and another for the 
construction of a Government road through the "black 
swamps" from the Miami River to Detroit, thus open- 
ing a means of land transit between Ohio and Mich- 
igan. He was influential in securing the passage of 
bills for the construction of Government roads from 
Detroit to Chicago, and Detroit to Fort Gratiot, and 
for the improvement of La Plaisance Bay. The ex- 
pedition for the exploration of the country around 
Lake Superior and in the valley of the LTpper Mis- 
sissippi, projected by Governor Cass, was set on foot 
by means of representations made to the head of the 
department by Mr. W. While in Congress he stren- 
uously maintained the right of Michigan to the strip 
of territory now forming the northern boundary of 
Ohio, which formed the subject of such grave dispute 
between Ohio and Michigan at the time of the ad- 
mission of the latter into the LTnion. He served 
but one term as delegate to Congress, de- 
clining further service on account of personal and 
family considerations. Mr. W. continued to discharge 
the duties of Secretary of the Territoiy up to the time 
its Government passed into the "second grade." 

In 1824, he was appointed one of a board of 
commissioners for adjusting private land claims in 



the Territory, and was engaged also in the practice of 
his profession, having the best law library in the Ter- 
ritory. In 1828, upon the recommendation of the 
Governor, Judges and others, he was appointed by the 
President, J. Q. Adams, to succeed Hon. James With- 
erell, who had resigned as a Judge of what is conven- 
tionally called the "Supreme Court" of the Territory. 
This court was apparently a continuation of the Terri- 
torial Court, under the "first grade" or "Governor and 
Judges" system. Although it was supreme in its ju- 
dicial functions within the Territory, its powers and 
duties were of a very general character. 

In 1832, the term of his appointment as Judge ex- 
piring. President Jackson appointed a successor, it is 
sui)|)osed on political grounds, much to the disappoint- 
ment of the i)ubl)c and the b,ir of the Territory. The 
partisan feeling of the time extended into the Terri- 
tory, and its people began to think of assuming the 
dignity of a State government. Party lines becom- 
ing very sharply drawn, he identified himself with 
the Whigs and was elected a member of the Conven- 
tion of 1835, which formed the first State Constitution. 
In 1837 he was elected a member of tie State Senate. 

This sketch has purposely dealt somewhat in detail 
with what may be called Judge W's. earlier career, 
because it is closely identified with the early his- 
tory of the State, and the develojjment of its politi- 
cal system. Since the organization of the .State Gov- 
ernment the history of Michigan is more familiar, and 
hence no review of Judge W's career as Governor 
and Senator will be attempted. He was elected Gov- 
ernor in T839, under a popidar impression that the 
affairs of the State had not been prudently adminis- 
tered by the Democrats. He serv'ed as Governor but 
little more than a year, when he was elected to the 
Senate of the United States. 

His term in the Senate practically closed his polit- 
ical life, although he was strongly urged by many 
prominent men for the ^Vhig nonrination for Vice 
President in 184S. 

Soon after his appointment as Judge in 1828, Gov- 
ernor W. took np his residence on a tract of land 
which he owned in the township of Spring Wells, a 
short distance below what was then the corporate lim- 
its of Detroit, where he resided during the remainder 
of his life. Both in his public papers and private 
communications, Governor W. shows himself a mas- 
ter of language; he is fruitfid in simile and illustra- 
tion, logical in arrangement, happy in the choice and 
treatment of topics, and terse and vigorous in expres- 
sion. Tudge W. was a (!)ongregationalist. His opmions 
on all subjects were decided; he was earnest and 
energetic, courteous and dignified, and at times ex- 
hibited a vein of fine humor that was the more at- 
tractive because not too often allowed to come to the 
surface. His letters and addresses show a deep and 
earnest affection not only for his ancestral home, but 
the home of his adoption and for friends and family. 



GOVERNORS OF MICIIfGAN. 





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OHN STEWARD liARRY, 
'^Governor of Michigan from 
Jan. 3, 1S42, to Jan. 5, 1846, 
and from Jan. 7, 1850, to Jan. 
I, 1852, was born at .\mhersl, 
N. H., Jan. 29, 1802. His par- 
ents, John and Ellen (.Steward) 
l!arry, early removed to Rocking- 
Kun, Vi., where he remained until 
' 4> lie became of age, working on his 
father's farm, and pursuing his 
studies at the same time. He mar- 
ried Mary Kidder, of (irafton, Vt., 
and in 1824 went to Georgia, \'t., 
where he h;;d ciiarL'.e of an academy 
for two years, nieamvhile studying 
law. He afterward practiced law in 
that State. While he was in Georgia he was for some 
time a niemljer of the Governor's staff, with the title 
of Governor's Aid, and at a somewh.at earlier period 
was Captaia of a comi)any of State militia. In 1831 
he removed to Michigan, and settled at White Pigeon, 
where he engaged in mercantile business with I. \W 
Willard. 

I'our yc.irs after, 1834, Mr. Harry removed to Con- 



stantine and continued his mercantile pursuits. He 
became Justice of the Peace at \Vliite Pigeon, Mich, 
in 1831, and held the office i;mil the year 1835 
Mr. Barry's first jiublic ottice was that of a member 
of tiie first constitutional convention, which assembled 
and flamed the constitution upon which Michigan 
was admitted into the Union. He took an important 
and prominent part in the proceedings of that body, 
and showed himself to be a man of far more than 
ordinary ability. 

Upon .Michigan being admitted into the I'nion 
Mr. Barry was chosen State Senator, and so favorably 
were his associates impressed with his abilities at the 
first session of the Legislature that they looked to him 
as a party leader, and that he should head the State 
ticket at the following election. Accordingly he re- 
ceived the nomination for Governor at the hands 
of his party assembled in convention. He was 
elected, and so [xjpular was his administration that, in 
1842, he was again elected. During these years 
.Michigan was embarrassed by great financial diffi- 
culties, and it was through his wisdom and sound judg- 
ment that tlie State was finally placed uix)n a solid 
financial basis. 

During the lirst year of '.lov. Barry's first term, the 
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JOHN STEWARD BARRY. 



of students. The Michigan Central and Michigan 
Southern railroads were being rapidly constructed, and 
general progress was eveiywhere noticeable. In 1842, 
the number of pupils reported as attending the public 
schools was nearly fifty-eight thousand. In 1843, a 
State land office was established at Marshall, which 
was invested wi'.li the charge and disposition of all 
the lands belonging to the State In 1S44, the tax- 
able property of the State was found to be over 
twenty-eight millions of dollars, the tax being at the 
rate of two mills on the dollar. The expenses of the 
State were only seventy thousand dollars, while the 
income from the railroads was nearly three hundred 
thousand dollars. At this time the University of 
Michigan had become so prosperous that its income 
was ample to pay the interest on the University debt; 
and the amount of money which the State was able 
to loan the several progressing railroads was one 
hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Efforts were 
made to increase the efficiency of the common schools 
with good results In 1845, when Gov. Bariy's' sec- 
■ ond term expired, the population of the State was 
more than th'-ee hundred thousand. 

The constitution of the State forbade more than two 
consecutive terms, but he was called upon to fill the 
position again in 1850 — the only instance of the kind 
in the history of the State. He was a member of the 
Territorial Legislature, of the Constitutional Conven- 
tion, and afterward of the State House of Represent- 
atives. 

During Mr. Barry s third term as Governor the Nor- 
mal School was established at Ypsilanti, which was 
endowed with lands and placed in charge of a board 
of education consisting of six persons. A new con- 
stitution for the government of the State was also 
adopted and the '■ Great Railway Conspiracy Case " 
was tried. This grew out of a series of lawless acts 
which liad been committed upon the property of the 
Michigan Central Railroad Company, along the line 
of their road, and finally the burning of the depot 
at Detroit, in 1850. 

At a setting of the grand jury of Wayne County, 
April 24, 185 I, 37 men of the 50 under arrest for this 
crime were indicted. May 20, following, the accused 
parties appeared at the Circuit Court of Wayne, of 
which Warner Wing was resident jidge. The Rail- 
road Company employed ten eminent lawyers, m- 
cluding David Stuart, John Van Arman, James A 
Vai D,-'<e, Ja:ob M. Howard, Alex. D. Fraser, Dan- 
iel Goodwin and William Gray. The defendants were 
rei5res"'nte<l by six menbers of the State bar, led by 
William H. Seward, of New York. The trinl occupied 
four mo Mhs, during which time the plaintiffs exam- 
ined 246 witnesses in 27 days, and the defendants 
249 i 1 40 days. Mr. Van Dyke addressed the jury 
for the prosecution; William H. Seward for the 
defense. 

Jh? great lawyer w^s cortvincecl of (he innocence 



of his clients, nor did the verdict of that jury and the 
sentence of that judge remove his firm belief thai his 
clients were the victims of purchased treachery, 
rather than so many sacrifices to justice. 

The verdict of " guilty " was rendered at 9 o'clock 
p. M., Sept. 25, 185 I. On the 26th the prisoners were 
put forward to receive sentence, when many of them 
protested their entire innocence, after which the pre- 
siding judge condemned 12 of the number to the fol- 
lowing terms of imprisonment, with liard labor, within 
the State's prison, situate in their county : Arami 
Filley, ten years; Orlando L. Williams, ten years; 
Aaron Mount, eight years; Andrew J. Freeland, eight 
years; Eben Faniham, eight years; William Corvin, 
eight years; Richard Price, eight years; Evan Price, 
eight years; Lyman Champlin, five years; Willard 
W. Champlin, five years; Erastus Champlin, five 
years; Erastus Smith, five years. 

In 1840, Gov. Barry became deeply interested in 
the cultivation of the sugar beet, and visited Europe 
to obtain information in reference to its culture. 

He was twice Presidential Elector, and his last 
public service was that of a delegate to the National 
Democratic Convention held in Chicago in 1864. 

He was a man who, throughout life, maintained a 
high character for integrity and fidelity to the trusts 
bestowed upon him, whether of a public or a ])rivate 
nature, and he is acknowledged by all to have been 
one of the most efficient and popular Governors the 
Slate has ever had. 

Gov. Barry was a man of incorruptible integrity. 
His opinions, which he reached by the most thorough 
investigation, he held tenaciously. His strong con- 
victions and outspoken honesty made it impossible for 
him to take an undefined position when a principle 
was involved. His attachments and prejudices were 
strong, yet he was neve:' accused of favoritism in his 
administration of public affairs. As a speaker lie was 
not remarkable. Solidity, rather than brilliancy, char- 
acterized his oratory, which is described as argument- 
ative and instructive, but cold, hard, and entirely 
wanting in rhetorical ornament. He was never elo- 
quent, seldom humorous or sarcastic, and in manner 
rather awkward. 

Although Mr. Barry's educational advantages were 
so limited, he was a life-long student. He mastered 
both ancient and modern languages, and acciuired a 
thorough knowledge of history. No man owed less 
to political intiigue as a means of gaining posi- 
tion. He was a true statesman, and gained public es- 
teem by his solid worth. His political connections 
were always with the Democratic party, and his opin- 
ions were usually extreme. 

Mr. Barry retired to private life after the beginning 
of the ascendency of the RepuMican party, and car- 
ried on his mercantile business at Constantine. He 
died Jan. 14, 1870, his wife's dealh having occurred a 
year previous, March 30. tS6o. They left no childv:"!^ 





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LPHEUS FELCH, the third 
Governor of Michimn, was 



)orn in Limerick, Maine, Sep- 
tember 28, 1S06. Hisgrand- 
« father, Ahijah Felch, was a sol- 
dier in the Revolution ; and 
when a young man, having with 
others obtained a grant of land be- 
tween the Great and Little Ossiiiee 
Rivers, in Maine, moved to that re- 
gion when it was yet a wilderness. 
The father of Mr. Felch embarked in 
mercantile life at Limerick. He was 
tiie first to engage in that business in 
that section, and continued it until 
his death. The death of the father, 
followed within a year by tlie death of 
the niothci, left the subject of this sketcli, tlien tliree 
years old, to the care of relatives, and he found a 
home with his paternal grandfather, where lie re- 
mained vnitil his death. Mr Felch received his early 
education in the district school and a neighboring 
academy. In 1821 he became a student at Phillips 
Exter .'Vcademy, and, subsciiuently, entered liowdoin 
College, graduated with the class of 1827. He at 
once began the study of law and was admitted to 
practice at Bangor, Me., in 1830. 

He began the practice of his profession at Houlton, 
Me., where he remained until 1833. 'I'he severity 
of the i:limate impaired his health, never very goud, 
and he fouiul it necessary to seek a change of climate. 
He disposed of his library and started to seek 
a now home. His intention was to join his frienil, 



Sargent S. Prentiss, at Vicksburg, Miss., but on his 
arrival at Cincinnati, Mr. Felch was attacked by 
cholera, and when he had lecovered sufficiently to 
permit of his traveling, found tliat the danger of the 
disease was too great to permit a journey down tlie 
river. He therefore determined to come to Miclii- 
gan. He first began to practice in this State at Mon- 
roe, where he continued until 1843, when he removed 
to Ann Arbor. He was elected to the State Legisla- 
ture in 1835, and continued a member of that body 
during the years 1836 and 1837. While he held this 
office, the general banking law of the State was enact- 
ed, and went into operation. After mature delibera- 
tion, he became convinced that the proposed system 
of banking could not prove beneficial to the public 
interests ; and that, instead of relieving the peo|)le 
from the pecuniary difficulties under which they were 
laboring, it would result in still further embarrass- 
ment. He, therefore, opposed the bill, and ix)inted 
out to tiie House the disasters which, in his opinion, 
were sure to follow its passage. The public mind, 
however, was so favorably impressed by the measure 
that no otlier member, in either branch of the l.,egisla- 
ture, raised a dissenting voice, and but two voted with 
him in opixjsition to the bill. Early in 1838, he was 
appointed one of the Bank Commissioners of the 
State, and held that office for moie than a year. I )ur- 
ing this time, the new lianking law had given birth to 
that numerous progeny known as "wild-cat" banks. 
."Vlmost every village had its bank. The country was 
flooded with depressed "wild-cat" money. The ex- 
aminations of the Bank Commissioners brought to 
lii^ht frauds at every ixiint, which were fearlessly re- 



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ported to the Legislature, and were followed by crim- 
inal prosecutions of the guilty parties, and the closing 
of many of their institutions. The duties of the of- 
fice were most laborious, and in 1839 Mr. Felch le- 
signed. The chartered right of almost every bank 
had, in the meantime, been declared forfeited and 
the law repealed. It was subsequently decided to 
be constitutional by the Supreme Court of the State. 
In the year 1842 Governor Felch was appointed 
to the office of Auditor General of the State; but 
after holding the office only a few weeks, was com- 
missioned by the Governor as one of the Judges of the 
Supreme Court, to fill a vacancy caused by the resig- 
nation of Judge Fletcher. In January, 1843, '"^ ^'^s 
elected to the United States Senate for an unexpired 
term. In 1845 he was elected Governor of Michigan, 
and entered upon his duties at the commencement of 
the next year. In 1847 he was elected a Senator 
in Congress for six years ; and at once retired from 
the office of Governor, by resignation, which took 
effect March 4, 1847, when his Senatorial term com- 
menced. While n member of the Senate he acted on 
the Committee on Public Lands, and for four years 
was its Chairman. He filled the honorable position 
of Senator with becoming dignity, and with great 
credit to the State of Michigan. 

During Governor Felch's administration the two 
railroads belonging to the State were sold to private 
corporations, — the Central for $2,000,000, and the 
Southern for $500,000. The exports of the State 
amounted in 1846 to $4,647,608. The total capacity 
of vessels enrolled in the collection district at Detroit 
was 26,928 tons, the steam vessels having 8,400 and 
the sailing vessels 18,528 tons, the whole giving em- 
ployment to 18,000 seamen In 1847, there were 39 
counties in the State, containing 435 townships ; and 
275 of these townships were supplied with good libra- 
ries, containing an aggregate of 37,000 volumes. 

At the close of his Senatorial term, in March, 1853, 
Mr. Felch was appointed, by President Pierce, one of 
the Commissioners to adjust and settle the Spanish 



and Mexican land claims in California, under the 
treaty of Gaudalupe Hidalgo, and an act of Congress 
passed for that purpose. He went to California in 
May, 1853, and was made President of the Commis- 
sion. The duties of this office were of the most im- 
portant and delicate character. The interest of the 
new State, and the fortunes of many of its citizens, 
both the native Mexican population and the recent 
American immigration ; the right of the Pueblos to 
their common lands, and of the Catholic Church to 
the lands of the Missions, — the most valuable of the 
State, — wereinvolved in the adjudicationsof this Com- 
mission. In March, 1856, their labors were brought 
to a close by the final disposition of all the claims 
which were presented. The record of their proceed- 
ings, — the testimony which was given in each case, 
and the decision of the Commissioners thereon, — 
consisting of some forty large volumes, was deposited 
in the Department of the Interior at Washington. 

In June of that year, Governor Felch returned to 
Ann Arbor, where he has since been engaged piinci- 
|i,illy in legal business. Since his return he has 
been nominated for Governor and also for U. S. Sen- 
ator, and twice for Judge of the Supreme Court. But 
the Democratic party, to which he lias always been 
attached, being in the minority, he failed of an elec- 
tion. In 1873 he withdrew from the active practice 
of law, and, with the exception of a tour in Europe, 
in 1875 has since led a Hfe of retirement at his home 
in Ann Arbor. In 1877 the University of Michigan 
conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. For 
many years he was one of the Regents of Michigan 
University, and in the spring of 1879 was appointed 
Ta|)pan Professor of Law in the same. Mr. FelcJi is 
the oldest surviving member of the Legislature from 
Monroe Co., the oldest and only surviving Bank Com- 
missioner of the State, the oldest surviving Auditor 
General of the State, the oldest surviving Governor of 
the State, the oldest surviving Judge of the Supreme 
Court of Michigan, and the oldest surviving United 
States Senator from the Stat? of Michigan, 




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I ILLIAM L. GREENLY 

;£.;»( lovernor of Michigan for the 
year 1847, was born at Hamil- 
ton, Madison Co., N. Y., Sept. 
18,1813. He graduated at Un- 
ion Cc'.lege, Schenectady, in 
1 83 1, studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1834. In 
836, having removed to Michi- 
gan, he settled in Adrian, where 
he has since resided. The year 
following his arrival in Michigan 
he was elected State Senator and 
\^ served in that capacity until 1839. 
i In 1845 lie was elected Lieut. Gov- 
ernor and became acting Governor 
by tlie resignation of Gov. Felch, 
who was elected to the United 
States Senate. 

Tlic war with Mexico was brought 
to a successful termination during Gov. Greenly 's 
administration. We regret to say that there are only 
few records extant of the action of Michigan troops 
in the Mexican war. That many went there and 
fought well are points conceded ; but their names and 
nativity arq hidden away in United States archives 



and where it is almost impossible to find them. 

The soldiers of this State deserve much of th" 
credit of the memorable achievements of Co. K 3d 
Dragoons, and Cos. A, E, and G of the U. S. Inf 
The two former of these companies, recruited in this 
State, were reduced to one-third their original num- 
ber. 

In May, 1846, the Governor of Michigan was noti- 
fied by the War Department of the United States to 
enroll a regiment of volunteers, to be held in readi- 
ness for service whenever demanded. At his sum- 
mons 13 independent volunteer companies, 1 1 of 
infantry and two of cavalry, at once fell into line Of 
tiie infantry four companies were from Detroit, bear- 
ing the honored names of Montgomery, Lafayette, 
Scott and Brady uiKin their banners. Of the re- 
mainder Monroe tendered two, Lenawee County three, 
St. Clair, Berrien and Hillsdale each one, and Wayne 
County an additional company. Of these alone the 
veteran Bradys were accepted and ordered into ser- 
vice. In addition to them ten companies, making the 
First Regiment of Michigan Volunteers, springing 
from various parts of the State, but embodying to a 
great degree the material of which the first volunteers 
was formed, were not called for until October follow- 
ing. This regiment was soon in readiness and pro- 
ceeded by orders from Government to the se.it of war. 



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HE HON. EPAPHRODI- 
■.» 'I'US RANSOM, the Seventh 
(Governor of Michigan, was a 
native of Massachusetts. In 
that State he received a col- 
legiate education, studied law, 
and was admitted to tlie bar. 
Removing to Michigan about 
the time of its admission to the 
Union, he took uj) his residence 
at Kalamazoo. 

Mr. Ransom served with marked 
atjility for a number of years in the 
State Legislature, and in 1837 he was appointed As- 
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court. In 1843 he 
was promoted to Chief Justice, which office he re- 
tained until 1845, when he resigned. 

Shortly afterwards he became deeply interested in 
the building of plank roads in the western portioi^. of 
the State, and in this business lost the greater portion 
of the property which he had accumulated by years 
of toil and industrj'. 

Mr. Ransom became Governor of the State of 
Michigan in the fall of 1847, and served during one 
term, performing the duties of the office in a truly 
statesmanlike manner. He subsequently became 
President of the Michigan Agricultural Society, in 
which position he displayed the same ab'"'*"" that 



shone forth so jirominently in his acts as Governor. 
He held the office of Regent of the Michigan Univer- 
sity several times, and ever advocated a liberal policy 
in its management. 

Subsequently he was apix)inted receiver of the 
land office in one of the districts in Kansas, by Pres- 
ident Buchanan, to whicli State he had removed, and 
where he died before the expiration of his term of 
office. 

We sum up the events and affairs of the State un- 
der Gov. Ransom's administration as follows: The 
Asylum for the Insane was establised, as also the 
Asylum for the Deaf,. Dumb and Blind. Both of 
these institutes were liberally endowed with land?, 
and each of them placed in charge of a board of five 
trustees. The appropriation in 1849 for the deaf and 
dumb and blind amounted to $81,500. On the fiist 
of March, 1848, the first telegraph line was com- 
pleted from New York to Detroit, and the first dis- 
patch transmitted on that day. '['he following figures 
show the progress in agriculture: The land reiwrted 
as under cultivation in 1848 was 1,437,460 acres; of 
wheat there were produced 4,749,300 bushels; other 
grains, 8,197,767 bushels; wool, 1,645,756 pounds; 
maple sugar, 1,774,369 pounds; horses, 52,305; cat- 
tle, 210,268; swine, 152,541; sheep, 610,534; while 
the flour mills numbered 228, and the lumber mills 
amounted to 730. 1847, an act was passed removing 
the Legislature from Detroit to Lansing, and tempo- 
rary buildings for the use of the Legislature were im- 
mediately erected, at a cost of §12,450. 





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OBERT McClelland, 

Governor of Michigan from 
an. I, 1852, to March 8, 1853, 
was born at Greencastle, Frank- 
Un Co., Penn., Aug. i, 1807. 
Among his ancestors were several 
officers of rank in the Revohition- 
ary war,and someof his family con- 
nections were distinguished in the 
war of 1S12, and that with AFexico. 
His father was an eminent physician 
and surgeon who studied under Dr. 
Benj Rush, of Philadelphia, and 
practiced his profession successfully 
until si.K months before his death, at 
I the age of 84 years. Although Mr. 
McClelland's family had been in good circum- 
stances, when he was 17 years old hj was throivn 
upon liisown resources. After taking the usual i)re- 
liininary studies, and teaciiing school to obtain tiie 
means, he entered Dickinson College, at Carlisle, 
Penn., from which he graduated among the first in 
his class, in 1S29. He then resumed teaching, and 
having completed the course of study for the legal 
profession, was admitted to the bar at Chambersburg, 
Penn., in 1831. Soon afterward he removed to the 
city of Pittsburgh, where he practiced for almost a 
year. 

In 1833, Mr. McClelland removed to Monroe, in 



the Territory of Michigan, where, after a severe ex- 
amination, he became a member of the bar of Michi- 
gan, and engaged in practice with bright prospect of 
success. In 1S35, a convention was called to frame 
a constitution for the proposed State of Michigan, of 
which Mr. McClelland was elected a member. He 
took a prominent part in its deliberations and ranked 
among its ablest debaters. He was apix)inted the 
first Bank Commissioner of the State, by Gov. Mason, 
and received an offer of the Attorney Generalship, but 
declined both of these offices in order to attend to his 
professional duties. 

In 1838, Mr. McClelland was elected to the State 
Legislature, in which he soon became distinguished 
as the head of several imixirtant committees. Speaker 
pro tempore, and as an active, zealous and efficient 
member. In 1840, Gen. Harrison, as a candidate for 
the Presidency, swept the country with an overwhelm- 
ing majority, and at the same time the State of Michi- 
gan was carried by the Whigs under the popular cr)' 
of " Woodbridge and reform " against the Democratic 
party. At this time Mr. McClelland stood among the 
acknowledged leaders of the latter organization ; was 
elected a member of the State House of Representa- 
tives, and with others adopted a plan to regain a lost 
authority and prestige. 

This party soon came again into power in the State, 
and having been returned to the State Legislature M/. 
McClelland's leadership was acknowledged by his 
election as Speaker of the House of Representatives 



ROBERT McClelland. 



in 1843. Down to this time Michigan had consti- 
tuted one congressional district. The late Hon. Jacob 
M. Howard had been elected aganist Hon. Alpheus 
Felchby a strong majority, but, in 1843,50 tlioroughly 
lad the Democratic party recovered from its defeat 
A .840 that Mr McClelland, as a candidate for Con- 
grt -s, earned Detroit district by a majority of about 
2,5LO. Mr. McClelland soon took a prominent po?i 
lion in Congress among the veteians of that body. 
Daring his first term he was placed on Committee on 
Coff'-jieice, and organized and carried through what 
-verc known as the " Harbor bills." The continued 
confidence of his constituency was manifested in his 
election to the 29th Congress. At the opening of this 
session he had acquired a National reputation, and so 
if.Torably was he known as a parlimentarian that his 
name was irentioned for Speaker of the House of Rep- 
iesentatives. He declined t'e offer in favor of J. W. 
Davis, of I.idiana, who was elected. During this term 
he became Chairman of Committee on Commerce, in 
which position his leports and advocacy of important 
measures at once attracted public attention. The 
members of this committee^ as an evidence of the es- 
teem in which they held his services and of their 
personal regard for him, presented him with a cane 
'vhich he retains as a souvenir of the donors, and of 
his labors in Congress. 

In 1847, Mr. McClelland was re-elected to Con- 
gress, and at the opening of the 3olh Congress be- 
came a member of the Committee on Foreign Rela- 
aons. While acting in this capacity, what was known 
as the " French Spoliation Bill" came under his spe- 
cial charge, and his management of the same was such 
as to command universal approbation. While in 
Congress, Mr. McClelland was an advocate of the 
■ight of petition as maintained by John Q. Adams, 
when tne petition, was clothed in decorous language 
."..nd presented in the proper manner. This he re- 
's arded as the citizens'constitutional right which should 
iiot be impaired by any doctrines of temporary expe- 
diency. He also voted for the adoption of Mr. Gid- 
aings's bill for the abolishing of slavery in the District 
of Co'umbi-;.. Mr. McClelland was one of the few 
Democrcts associated with David Wilmot, of Penn- 
jylva.'iia. in bringing forward the celebrated "Wilmot 
Proviso,' with a view to jirevent further e.xtension of 
slavery ii; new territory which might be acquired by 
Jie United States. He and Mr. Wilmot were to- 
gether at the time in Washington, and on intimate 
:.nd confidential terms. Mr. McClelland was in sev- 
eral National conventions and in the Baltimore con- 
vention, which nominated Gen. Cass for President, 
:,-■ 1848. doing valiant service that year for the elec- 
tion of that distinguished statesman. On leaving 
Congress, in 1848, Mr. McClelland returned to the 
practice of his profession at Monroe. In 1850 a 
convention of the State of Michigan was called to 
revise the State constitution. He was elected a 



member and was regarded therein as among the ablest 
and most experienced leaders. His clear judgment 
and wise moderation were conspicuous, both in the 
committee room and on the floor, in debate. In 1850, 
he was President of the Democratic State convention 
which adopted resolutions in supix)rt of Henry Clay's 
famous compromise measures, of which Mr: McClel 
land was a strong advocate. He was a member oi 
the Democratic National convention in 1852, and in 
that year- in company with Gen Cass and Governoi 
Felch. he made a thorough canvass of the State 
He continued earnestly to advocate the Clay com 
promise measures, and took an active part in the 
canvass which resulted in the election of Gen, Pierce 
to the Presidency. 

In 185 I, the new State constitution took effect ant^ 
it was necessary that a Governor should be elected 
for one year in order to prevent an interregnum, and 
to bring the State Government into operatic '. rnder 
the new constitution, Mr McClelland was elected 
Governor, and in the fall of 1852 was re-elected fc 
a term of two years, from JaU: i, 1853. His admin- 
istration was regarded as wise, prudent and concilia- 
tory, and was as popular as could be expected at a 
time when party spirit ran high. There was really 
no opposition, and when he'resigp.ed, in March, 1853, 
the State Treasury was well filled, and the State 
otherwise prosperous. So widely and favorably hat 
Mr. McClelland become known as a statesman that or. 
the organization of thecabinet by Pr sldent Pierce, in 
March, 1 85 3, he was made Secretan/ cf the Interior, in 
which capacity he served most creditably during four 
years of the Pierce administration. He thoroughly 
re-orgar.ized his department and reduced theexpend- 
iture^ He adopted a course with the Indians which 
relieved them from the impositions and annoyances 
of the traders, and produced harmony and civilization: 
among tliem. During his administration there was 
neither complaint from the tribes nor corruption among 
agents, and he left the department in perfect ordei 
and system. In 1867, Michigan again called a con 
vention to revise the State constitution. Mr. McClel- 
land was a member and here again his long experi- 
ence made him conspicuous as a prudent adviser, a 
sagacious parliamentary leader. As a lawyer he was 
terse and pointed in argument, clear, candid and im- 
pressive in his addresses to the jury. His sincerity 
and earnestness, with which was occasionally mingled 
a pleasant humor, made him an able and effective 
advocate. In speaking before the people on political 
subjects he was especially forcible and happy. In 
1870 he made the tour of Europe, which, through his 
extensive personal acquaintance with European dip- 
lomates, he was enabled to enjoy much more than 
most travelers, 

Mr. McClelland married, in 1837, Miss Sarah 
E. Sabin, of Williamstown, Mass. They have had 
six children, two of whom now survive. 



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N1)RI-,W PARSONS, Gover- 
nor of Michigan from March 
8, 1853 to Jan. 3, 1855, was 
horn in the town of Hoosick, 
County of Rensselaer, and 
""^ State of Now York, on tlie 2 2d 
/j2 day of July, 1817, and died June 
6, 1855, at the early age of 38 
years. He was the son of John 
Parsons, born at Newburyijort, 
(Mass., Oct. 2, 1782, and who was the 
son of Andrew Parsons, a Revolutionary 
soldier, who was the son of Phineas 
Parsons, the son of Samuel Parsons, 
a descendant of Walter Parsons, horn 
: ill Ireland in 1290. 
(Jf this Ucinie and family, some one hundred and 
iliirty years ago, Bishop Oilson remarked in his edi- 
tion of Camden's Britannia: "The honorable family 
of Parsons have been advanced to the dignity nf 
Viscounts and more lately Earls of Ross." 

■{'he following are descendants of these families: 
S:r Joim Parsons, born 1 481, was Mayor of Hereford; 
Robert Parsons, born in 1546, lived near Bridgewater, 
Ivngland. He was educatetl at Hallial College, Ox- 
ford, and was a noted writer and defender of the 
Romish faith. He established an English College at 
Rome and another at Vall.^dolia. Frances Parsons, 
liorn in 1556, was Vicar of Rothwell, in Notingiiam; 
Bartholomew Parsons, horn in 1618, was anotlici 
noted member of the family. In 1634, Thomas Parsons 
was knighted by Chailes 1. Josciih and Benjamin, 
brothers, were born in Great Torrington, England, 



and accompanied tiieir father and others to New 
England about 1030. Samuel Parsons, born at Salis- 
bury, Mass., in 1707, graduated at Harvard College in 
1730, ordained at Rye, N. H.,Nov. 3, 1736, married 
Mary Jones, daughter of Samuel Jones, of Boston, 
Oct. 9, 1739, died Jan. 4, 1789, at the age of 82, in 
the 53rd year of his ministry. The grandfather of Maty 
Jones was Capt. John Adams, of Boston, grandson 
of Henry, of Braintree, who was among the first set- 
tlers of Massachusetts, and from whom a numerous 
race of the name are descended, includir.g two Presi- 
dents of the United States. The Parsons have be- 
come very numerous and are found throughout New 
England, and many of the desccdants are scattered 
in all parts of the United States, and especially in 
the Middle and Western States. Governor Andrew 
Parsons came to Michigan in 1835, at the age of 17 
years, and si)ent the first sutnmcr at Lower Ann 
Arbor, where for a few months he taught school which 
he was compelled to abandon from ill health 

He was one of the large number of men of sterling 
worth, who came from the East to Michigan when it 
was an infant State, or, even prior to its assimiing 
the dignity of a State, and wlio, by their wisdom, 
enterprise and energy, have develojjed its wonderful 
natural resources, until to-day it ranks with the proud- 
est States of the Union. These brave men came lo 
Michigan with nothing to aid them in the conquest 
of the wilderness save courageous hearts and strong 
and willing hands. They gloriously conquered, how- 
ever, and to them is due all honor for the labots 
so nobly performed, for the solid .md sure foundation 
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In the fdU of 1835, he explored the Grand River 
Valley in a frail canoe, the whole length of the river, 
fioni Jackson to Lake Michigan, and spent the following 
UHiter as clerk in a store at Prairie Creek, in Ionia, 
County, and in the spring went to Marshall, where he 
resided with his brother, the Hon. Luke H. Parsons, 
also now deceased, until fall, wlien lie went to Shia- 
wasseCounty,then with Clinton County, and an almost 
unbroken wilderness and constituting one organized 
township. In 1837 '^^''^ territory was organized into 
a county and, at the age of only 19 years, lie (An- 
drew) was elected County Clerk. In 1840, he was 
elected Register of Deeds, re-elected in 1842, and 
also in 1S44. In 1846, he was elected to the State 
Senate, was appointed Prosecuting Attorney in 1848, 
and elected Regent of the University in 1851, and 
Lieutenant Governor, and became acting Governor, 
in 1853, elected again to the Legislature in 1854, and, 
overcome by debilitated healtli, hard labor and the 
responsibilities of his office and cares of his business, 
retired to his farm, where he died soon after. 

He was a fluent and persuasive speaker and well 
calculated to make friends of his acquantances. He 
was always true to his trust, and the whole world 
could not persuade nor drive him to do what he con- 
ceived to be wrong. When Governor, a most power- 
ful railroad influence was brought to bear upon him, 
to induce him to call an extra session of the Legisla- 
ture. Meetings were held in all parts of the State 
for that purpose. In some sections the resolutions 
were of a laudatory nature, intending to make him do 
their bidding by resort to friendly and flattering words. 
In other places the resolutions were of a demanding 
nature, while in others they were threatening beyond 
measure. Fearing that all these influences might 
/"ail to induce him to call the e.xtra session, a large 
sum of money was sent him, and liberal offers ten- 
dered him if he would gratify the railroad interest of 
the State and call the extra sessioTi, but, immovable, 
he returned the money and refused to receive 
any (avois, whether from any party who would at- 
tempt to corru'n 'nm by laudations, liberal offers, or 



by threats, and in a short letter to the people, after 
giving overwhelming reasons that no sensible man 
could dispute, showing the circumstances were not 
"extraordinary," he refused to call the extra session. 
This brought down the wrath of various parties upon 
his head, but they were soon forced to acknowledge 
the wisdom and the justice of his course. One of 
his greatest enemies said, after a long acquaintance: 
"though not always coinciding with his views 1 never 
doubted his honesty of purpose. He at all times 
sought to perform his duties in strict accordance, 
with the dictates of his conscience, and the behests 
of his oath." The following eulogium from a politcal op- 
ponent is just in its conception and creditable to its 
author: "Gov. Parsons was a politician of the Dem- 
ocratic school, a man of pure moral character, fixed 
and exemplary habits, and entirely blameless in every 
public and private relation of life. As a politician he 
was candid, frank and free from bitterness, as an ex- 
ecutive officer firm, constant and reliable." The 
highest commendations we can pay the deceased is 
to give his just record, — that of being an honest man. 
In the spring of 1854, during the administration of 
Governor Paisons, the Republican party, at least 
as a State organization, was first formed in the LTnited 
States " under the oaks" at Jackson, by anti-slavery 
men of both the old parties. Great excitement pre- 
vailed at this time, occasioned by the settling of 
Kansas, and the issue thereby brought up, whether 
slavery should exist there. For the purpose of permit- 
ting slavery there, the " Missouri compromise " (whic'i 
limited slavery to the south of 36° 30') was re- 
repealed, under the leadership of Stephen A, Douglas. 
This was repealed by a bill admitting Kansas and 
Nebraska into the Union, as Territories, and those who 
were opposed to this repeal measure were in short 
called "anti-Nebraska" men. The epithets, "Ne- 
braska" and "anti-Nebraska," were temporally em- 
ployed to designate the slavery and anti-staveiy 
parties, pending the desolution of the old Democratic 
and Whig parties :ind the organization of the new 
Democratic and Republican parlies of the present. 



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INSLEY S. BINGHAM, 
, Governor of Michigaii from 
1855 to 1859, and United 
States Senator, was born in 
Camillus, Onondaga County, 
N. Y., Dec. 16, 1S08. His 
father was a farmer, and his own 
early life was consequently de- 
voted to agricultural pursuits, but 
notwithstanding the disadvan- 
tages related to the acquisition 
« / of knowledge in the life of a farmer 
he managed to secure a good aca- 
demic education in his native State 
and studied law in the office of 
Gen. James R. Lawrence, now of 
Syracuse, N. Y, In the spring of 
1 833, he married an estimable lady 
who had recently arrived from Scot- 
land, and obeying the impulse of a 
naturally enterprising disposition, 
he emigrated to Michigan and 
purchased a new farm in company 
witli his brother-in-law, Mr. Robert 
Worden, in Green Oak, Livingston County. Here, on 
the border of civilization, buried in the primeval for- 
est, our late student commenced the ardi^ous task of 
preparing a future home, clearing and fencing, put- 
ting up buildings, etc., at sui h \\ rate that the land 



chosen was soon reduced to a high state of cultivation. 

Becoming deservedly prominent, Mr, Bingham was 
elected to the office of Justice of the Peace and Post- 
master under the Territorial government, and was the 
first Probate Judge in the county. In the year 1836. 
when Michiga 1 I ecanie a State, he was elected to the 
first Legislature. He was four times re-elected, and 
Speaker of the House of Re|)resentatives three years. 
In 1846 he was elected on the Democratic ticket, Re[~-- 
rescntative to Congress, and was the only practical 
farmer in that body. He was never forgetful of the 
interest of agriculture, and was in particular opposed 
to the introduction of " Wood's Patent ('ast Iron 
Plow " which he completely prevented. He was re- 
elected to Congress in 1848, during which time he 
strongly opposed the extension of slavery in the 
territory of the United Sta'es and was committed to 
and voted for the Wilmot Proviso. 

In 1854, at the first organization of the Republican 
party, in consequence of his record in Congress as a 
Free Soil Democrat, Mr. Bingham was nominated 
and elected (rovernor of the State, and re-elected in 
1856. Still faithful to the memory of his own format 
occupation, he did not forget the farmers during his 
administration, and among other profits of his zeal in 
their behalf, he became mainly instrumental in the 
estal)li»hment of the Agricultural College at Lansiiig. 

In 1859, Governor Bingham was elected Senator in 
Congress and took an active part in the stormy <am- 
piign in the election of Abraham Lincoln. He wit- 



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iic-ssed tlie coiuinenceinent of the civil war wliile a 
lueiiiber uf the United States Senate. After a com- 
|).tratively short life of remarkable promise and pub- 
lic activity he was attacked with appoplexy and died 
suddenly at his residence, in Green Oak, Oct. 5, 1861. 

The most noticable event in Governor Bingham's 
first term was the completion of the ship canal, at tlie 
Falls of St. Mary. In 1852, August 26, an act of 
Congress was approved, granting to the State of Mich- 
igan seven hundred and fifty thousand acres of land 
lor the purpose of constructing a sliip canal between 
Lakes Huron and Superior. In 1853, the Legislature 
accepted the grant, and provided tor the appointment 
of commissioners to select the donated lands, and to 
arrange for building the canal. A company of enter- 
prising men was formed, and a contract was entered 
into by which it was arranged that the canal should 
be finished in two years, and the work was pushed 
rapidly forward. Every article of consumption, ma- 
chinery, working implements and materials, timber 
for the gates, stones for the locks, as well as men and 
supplies, had to be transported to the site of the canal 
from Detroit, Cleveland, and other lake ports. The 
rapids which had to be surmounted have a fall of 
seventeen feet and are about one mile long. The 
length ot the canal is less than one mile, its width one 
hundred feet, depth twelve feet and it has two locks 
of solid masonary. In May, 1855, the work was com- 
pleted, accepted by the commissioners, and formally 
delivered to the State authorities. 

The disbursements on account of the construction 
of the canal and selecting the lands amounted to one 
million of dollars ; while the lands which were as- 
signed to the company, and selected through the 
agency at the Sault, as well as certain lands in the 
Upper and Lower Peninsulas, filled to an acre the 
Government grant. The opening of the canal was 
an important event in the history of the improvement 
of the State. It was a valuable link in the chain of 
lake commerce, and particularly important to the 
interests of the Upper Peninsula. 

There were several educational, charitable and re- 
formatory institutions inaugurated and opened during 
Gov. Bingham's administrations. The Michigan Ag- 
ricultural College owes its establishirient to a provision 
of the State Constitution of 1850. Article 13 says, 
" The Legislature shall, as soon as practicable, pro- 
vide for tlie est.iblishment of an agricultural school." 
For the purpose of caryinginto practice this provision, 
legislation was commenced in 1855, and the act re- 
quired that the school should be within ten miles of 
Lansing, and that not more than $15 an acre should 
be paid for the farm and college grounds. The col- 
lege was opened to students in May, 1857, the first of 
existing argricultural colleges in the United States 
Until the spring of i86i,it was under the control 
of the State Board of Education; since that time it 
has been under the rnanagement of the State Board 



of Agriculture, wiiich was created for that purpose. 

In its essential features, of combining study and 
labor, and of uniting general and professional studies 
in its course, the college has remained virtually un- 
changed from the first. It has a steady growth in 
number of students, in means of illustration and 
efficiency of instruction. 

The Agricultural College is three miles east of 
Lansing, comprising several fine buildings; and there 
are also very beautiful, substantial residences for the 
professors. There are also an extensive, well-filled 
green-house, a very large and well-equipped chemical 
laboratory, one of the most scientific apiaries in the 
United States, a general museum, a meseum of me- 
chanical inventions, another of vegetable products, 
extensive barns, piggeries, etc., etc., in fine trim for 
the purposes designed. The farm consists of 676 
acres, of which about 300 are under cultivation in a 
systematic rotation of crops, 

Adrian College was established by the Wesleyan 
Methodists in 1859, now under the control of the 
Methodist Church. The grounds contain about 20 
acres. There are four buildings, capable of accom- 
modating about 225 students. Attendance in 1875 
was 179; total number of graduates for previous year, 
121 ; ten professors and teachers are employed. Ex- 
clusive of tlie endowment fund ($80,000), the assets 
of the institution, including grounds, buildings, furni- 
ture, apparatus, musical instruments, outlying lands, 
etc., amount to more than $137,000, 

Hillsdale College was established in 1855 by the 
Free Baptists. The Michigan Central College, at 
Spring Arbor, was incorporated in 1845 It was kept 
in operation until it was merged into the present 
Hillsdale College. The site compr'ses 25 acres, 
beautifully situated on an eminence in the western 
part of the city of Hillsdale. The large and impos- 
ing building first erected was nearly destroyed by fire 
in 1874, and in its place five buildings of a more 
modern style have been erected. They are of brick, 
three stories with basement, arranged on three sides 
of a quadrangle. The size is, respectively, 80 by 80, 
48 by 72, 48 bj' 72, 80 by 60, 52 by 72, and they con- 
tain one-half more room than the original building. 
The State Reform School. This was established 
at Lansing in 1855, in the northeastern portion of the 
city, as the House of Correction for Juvenile Of- 
fenders, having about it many of the features of a 
prison. In 1859 the name was changed to the State 
Reform School. The government and dicipline, have 
undergone many and radical changes, until all the 
prison features have been removed except those that 
remain in the walls of the original structure, and 
which remain only as monuments of instructive his- 
tory. No bolts, bars or guards are employed. The 
inmates are necessarily kept under the surveillance of 
officers, but the attempts at escape are much fewer 
than under the more rigid regime of former days. 





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%1^ Michigan from 1859 to 1861, 
was born in hprnigport, Cayu- 
ga Co.. N Y., June 3, 1815. 
His earl) education was only 
what could be obtained at a 
common school. Agricultural labor 
and' frugality of his parents gave 
him a physical constitution of unus- 
ual strength and endurance, which 
was ever preserved by temperate hab- 
its. In 1837 he emigrated to Michi- 
Vi^' gan and purchased a farm in Lapeer 
County It was new land and he at 
I'P.ii once set to woik to clear it and plant 
crops. He labored diligently at his 
task for two years, when he gave up 
the idea of being a farmer, and removed to Pontiac, 
Oakland Co. Here he commenced the study of law 
in the office of his brother, George W. Wisner, and 
Rufns Hosmer In 1841 he was admitted to tli^ b.ir 
and established himself in his new vocation at the 
village of I.apeer. While there he was appi'ointed 
by Cov. \\"codbridge Prosecuting Attorney for that 
county, in which capacity he acipiitted himself well 
and gave promise of that eminence he afterward at- 
tained in the |)rofession. He remained at Lapeer but 
a short time, removing to Pontiac, where he became 
a member of a firm and entered fully u]X)n the 
practice. 

In politics he was like his talented brother, a Whig 
of the Henry Clay stamp, but with a decided anti- 
slaver) bias. His practice becoming extensive, he 



took little part in [xjlitics until after the election of 
Mr. Pierce to the Presidency in 1852, when he to(;k an 
active part against slavery. As a lawyer he was a 
man of great ability, but relied less ui»n mere book 
learning than upon his native good sense. Libeial 
and courteous, was he yet devoted to the interest of 
his client, and no facts escaped his attention or his 
memory which bore upon the case. He was no friei^d 
of trickery or artifice in conducting a case As an ad- 
vocate he had few equals. When fully aroused by the 
merits of his subject his eloquence was at once grace- 
ful and powerful. His fancies supplied the most 
original, the most [winted illustrations, and his logic 
became a battling giant under whose heavy blows the 
adversary shrank and withered. Nature had be- 
stowed ujxjn him rare (pialities, and his powers as a 
popular orator were of a high order. 

On the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 
1854, repealing the Missouri comjjroniise and opening 
the Territories to slavery, he was among the foremost 
in Michigan to denoimcc ine shamful scheme. He 
actively participated in organising and consolidating 
the elements opposed to it in that State, and wns a 
member of the popular gathering at Jackson, in July, 
1854, which was the first formal Republicaii Conven 
tion held in the United States. At this meeting the 
name "Republican " was adopted as a designation of 
the new party consisting of Anti-slavery, Whigs, 
Liberty men. Free Soil Democrats and all oiliers ojv 
l)osed to the extension of slavery and favorable to its 
expulsion from the Territories and the District of 
Columbia. At this convention Mr. W. was mgeri to 
accept the nomination for .Attorney Geneta! of th<? 



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State, but declined. An entire State ticket was nom- 
inated and at the annual election in November wa^ 
elected l.y an average majority of nearly 10,000. 
Mr. ^V. was enthusiastic in the cause and brought to 
its siii)|)ort all his personal influence and talents. In 
his views he was bold and radical. He believed from 
the beginning that the [xjlitical jxjvver of the slave- 
holders would have to be overthrown before quiet 
could be secured to the country. In the Presidential 
canvass of 1S56 he supported the Fremont, or Re- 
|)ul)lican, ticket. At the session of the Legislature of 
1857 he was a candidate for United States Senator, 
and as such received a very handsome support. 

In 1858, he was nominated for Governor of the 
State by the Republican convention that met at De- 
troit, and at the subsequent November election was 
chosen by a very large majority. Before the day of 
the election he had addressed the people of almost 
every county and his majority was greater even than 
that of his popular predecessor, Hon. K. S. Bingham. 
He served as Governor two years, from Jan. i, 1859, 
lo Jan. I, 1861. His first message to the Legislature 
was an able and statesman-like production, and was 
read with usual favor. It showed that he was awake 
to all the interests of the State and set forth an en- 
lightened Stale |)olicy, that had its view of the rapid 
settlement of our un> ultivated lands and the devel- 
opment of our immense agricultural and mineral re- 
sources. It was a document that reflected the highest 
credit iqion the author. 

His term having expired Jan. i, 1861, he returned 
;o his home in Pontiac, and to the practice of his 
profession. There were those in the State who 
counselled the sending of delegates to the peace con- 
ference at Washington, but Mr. W. was opposed to all 
such temporizing expedients. His counsel was to 
send no delegate, but to prepare to fight. 

After Congress had met and passed the necessary 
.egislation he resoUed to take part in the war. In 
the spring and summer of 1862 he set to work to 
raise a regiment of infantry, chiefly in Oakland 
County, where he resided. His regiment, the 2 2d 
Michigan, was armed and equipped and ready to 
march in September, a regiment whose solid quali- 
ties were afterwards proven on many a bloody field. 
Col. W's. commission bore the date of Sept. 8, 1862. 
Before parting with his family he made his will. His 
regiment was sent to Kentucky and quartered at 



Camp Wallace. He had at the breaking out of the 
war turned his attention tu military studies and be- 
came proficient in the ordin.iry rules and discipline. 
His entire attention was now devoted to his duties. 
His treatment of his men was kind, though his disci- 
pline was rigid. He possessed in an eminent degree 
the sjjirit of command, and had he li\ cd he would 
no doubt have distinguished liimself as a good 
officer. He was impatient of dela)- and chafed at 
being kept in Kentucky wnere there was so little 
prospect of getting at the enemy. Rut life in camp, 
so different from the one he had been leading, ana 
his incessant labors, coupled with that impatience 
which was so natural and so general among the vol- 
unteers in the early part of the war, soon made their 
influence felt upon his health. He was seized with 
typhoid fever and removed to a private house near 
Lexington. Every care which medical skill or the 
hand of friendship could bestow was rendered him. 
In the delirious wanderings of his mind he was dis- 
ciplining his men and urging them to be prepared for 
an encounter with the enemy, enlarging upon the jus- 
tice ot their cause and the necessity of their crush - 
ng the Rebellion. But the source of his most poig- 
nant gnef was the prospect of not being able to come 
to a hand-to-hand encounter with the "chivalry " 
He was proud of his regiment, and felt that if it could 
find the enemy it would cover itself with glory, — a 
distinction it afterward obtained, but not until Col W. 
was no more. The malady Ijaffled all medical treat- 
ment, and on the 5th day of Jan., 1863, he breathed 
his last. His reinains were removed to Michigan ai-.d 
interred in the cemetery at Pontiac, wliere they rest 
by the side of the brave Gen. Richardson, who re- 
ceived his mortal wound at the battle of Antietam. 
Col. W, was no adventurer, althougii he was doubtless 
ambitious of military renown and would have striven 
for it with characteristic energy. He went to the war 
to defend and uphold the principles he had so much 
at heart. Few men were more familiar than he with 
the causes and the underlying principles that led to 
the contest. He left a wife, who was a daughter of 
Gen. C. C. Hascall, of Flint, and four children to 
mourn his loss. Toward them he ever showed the 
tenderest regard. Next to his duty their love and 
welfare engrossed his thoughts. He was kind, gen- 
erous and brave, and like thousands of otheis he 
sleeps the sleep of the martyr for his country. 



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USTIN BLAIR, Governor 
of Micliigan from Jan. 2, 
^1 i86r, to Jan. 4, 1865, and 
ji kown as the War Governor, is 
and illustration of the benifi- 
cent influence of republican in- 
V stitutions, having inherited neith- 
er fortune nor fame. He was born 
in a log cabin at Caroline, Tomp- 
kins Co, N. Y., Feb. 8, 1818. 
His ancestors came from Scot- 
land in the time of George I, and 
for many generations followed the 
%<)' pursuit of agriculture. His father, 
1 George Blair, settled in Tompkins 
County in iSog, and felled the trees and erected the 
first cabin in the county. The last 60 of the four- 
score and four years of his life were spent on that 
spot. He married RhodaBlackman,who now sleeps 
with him in the soil of the old homestead. Thefirst 
17 years of his life were spent there, rendering his 
fatlier what aid he could upon the farm. He then 
spent a year and a half in Cazenovia Seiiiinary |ire- 
l)aring for college; entered Hamilton C'ollege, in 
Clinton, prosecuted his studies \intil the mIdillL- ut 
the junior year, wiien, attracted li)- the fame of 1 )r. 
Nott, he changed to Union College, from which he 
graduated \\\ the class of 1839. I'pon leaving col- 
lege Mr. Blair read law two years in the office of Sweet 
& Davis, Owego, N. Y., and was admitted ;o|iractire 
ic 1041, and the same year moved to Michigan, locat- 



ing in Jackson. During a teni[)orar_\ residence in 
Eaton Rapids, in 1842, he was elected Clerk of Eaton 
County. At the close of the official term he returned ,u 
Jackson, and as a Whig, zealously esix)used thecau>e 
of Henry Clay in the campaign of 1S44. He was chosen 
Representative to the Legislature in 1845, at \\hit:li 
session, as a member of the Judiciary Committee, he 
rendered valuable service in the re\ ision of the gen- 
eral statutes ; also made an able rejjort in favor c;l 
abolishing the color distinction in relation to the elec- 
tive franchise, and at the same session was active in 
securing the abolition of capital punishment. \\\ 1848 
Mr. Blair refused longer to affiliate with the Whig 
party, because of its refusial to endorse in convention 
any anti-slavery sentiment. He joined the Free-soil 
movement, and was a delegate to their convention 
which nominated Van Buren for President that year. 
Upon the birth of the Republican party at Jackson, 
in 1854, l)y the coalition of the Whig and Free-soil 
elements, Mr. Blair was in full sympathy with the 
movement, and acted as a member of tlie Committee 
on Platform. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney 
of [ackson County in 1852 ; was chosen State Senator 
two years later, taking his seat with the incoming Re- 
publican administration of 1855, and holding the 
ixjsition of parliamentary leader in tne Senate. He 
was a delegate to the National Convention whicli 
nominated .\braham Lincoln in i860. Mr. Eiair 
was elected Governor of Michigan in i860, and re- 
elected in 1862, faitiifuUy and honorably diEchargi-'t^ ■ 
the ard'.ous duties of tlie office during that moiimo- 



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A USTIN BLAIR. 



mentous and stormy period of the Nation's life. Gov. 
Blair possessed a clear comprehension of the perilous 
situation from the inception of the Rebellion, and his 
inaugural address foreshadowed the prompt executive 
policy and the administrative ability which charac- 
terized his gubernatorial career. 

Never perhaps in the history of a nation has a 
brighter example been laid down, or a greater sacri- 
fice been made, than that which distinguished Mich- 
igan during the civil war. All, from the " War Gov- 
ernor," down to the poorest citizen of the State, were 
animated with a patriotic ardor at once magnificiently 
sublime and wisely directed. 

Very early in 186 1 the coming struggle cast its 
shadow over the Nation. Governor Blair, in his mes- 
sage to the Legislature in January of that year, dwelt 
very forcibly upon the sad prospects of civil war; and 
as forcibly pledged the State to support the principles 
of the Republic. After a review of the conditions 
of the State, he passed on to a consideration of the 
relations between the free and slave Stales of the 
Republic, saying: " While we arecitizensof the State 
of Michigan, and as such deeply devoted to her in- 
terests and honor, we have a still prouder title. We 
are also citizeas of the United States of America. By 
this title we are known among the nations of the earth. 
In remote quarters of the globe, where the names of 
the States are unknown, the flag of the great Republic, 
the banner of the stars and stripes, honor and protect 
her citizens. In whatever concerns the honor, the 
prosperity and the perpetuity of this great Govern- 
ment, we are deeply interested. The people of Mich- 
igan are loyal to that Government — faithful to its con- 
stitution and its laws. Under it they have had peace 
and prosperity ; and under it they mean to abide to 
the end. Feeling a just pride in the glorious history 
of the past, they will not renounce the equally glo- 
rious liopes of the future. But they will rally around 
the standards of the Nation and defend its integrity 
and its constitution, with fidelity." The final para- 
graph being: 
" I recommend you at an early day to make mani- 



fest to the gentlemen who represent this State in the 
two Houses of Congress, and to the country, that 
Michigan is loyal to the Union, the Constitution, and 
the laws and will defend them to the uttermost ; and 
to proffer to the President of the United States, the 
whole military power of the State for that purpose. 
Oh, for the firm, steady hand of a Washington, or a 
Jackson, to guide the ship of State in this perilous 
storm ! Let us hope that we will find him on the 4th 
of March. Meantime, let us abide in the faith of our 
fathers — ' Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, 
now and forever.' " 

How this stirring appeal was responded to by the 
people of Michigan "will be seen by the statement 
that the State furnished 88,1 II men during the war. 
Money, men, clothing and food were freely and abun- 
dantly supplied by this State during all these years of 
darkness and blood shed. No State won a brighter 
record for her devotion to our country than the Pen- 
insula State, and to Gov. Blair, more than to any 
other individual is due the credit for its untiring zeal 
and labors in the Nation's behalf, and for the heroism 
manifested in its defense. 

Gov. Blair was elected Representative to the 
Fortieth Congress, and twice re-elected, to the Forty- 
first and Forty-second Congress, from the Third Dis- 
trict of Michigan. While a member of that body he 
was a strong supporter of reconstruction measures, 
and sternly opposed every form of repudiation. His 
speech upon the national finances, delivered on the 
floor of the House March 21, 1868, was a clear and 
convincing argument. Since his retirement from Con- 
gress, Mr. Blair has been busily occupied with his ex- 
tensive law practice. Mr. Blair married Sarah L. 
Ford, of Seneca County N. Y., in February, 1849. 

Their family consists of 4 sons — George H., a postal 
clerk in the railway mail service; Charles A., partner 
with his father; Fred. J. and Austin T., at home. 

Governor Blair's religion is of the broad type, and 
centers in the "Golden Rule." In 1883, Gov. Blair 
was nominated for Justice of the Supreme Coi.Tt 
of the State by the Republican pirty, but wns defeated- 



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ENRY HOWLAND CRAPO, 
Governor of Michigan from 
■ 1865 to 1869, was born May 
24, 1804, at Dartmoutli, Bris- 
tol Co., Mass., and died at 
Flint, Mich., July 22, 1869. 
He was the eldest son of Jesse 
and Phoebe (Howland) Crapo. 
His father was of French descent 
and was very poor, sustaining his 
) family by the cultivation of a farm in 
Dartmouth township, which yielded 
I nothing beyond a mere livehhood. 
His early life was consequently one 
t?/j^ of toil and devoid of advantages for 
J intellectual culture, but his desire for 
an education seemed to know no bounds. The in- 
cessant toil for a mere subsistence upon a compara- 
tively sterile farm, had no charm for him ; and, longing 
for greater usefulness and better things, he looked for 
them in an education. His struggles to secure this 
end necessitated sacrifices and hardships that would 
have discouraged any but the most courageous and, 
persevering. He became an ardent student and 
worker from his iioyhood, tiiough the n\eans of carry- 
ing on his studies were e.vceedingly limited. He 
sorely feltthc needof adictionary; and, neither having 
money wherewith to purchase it, nor being able to 
procure one in his ni-ii;hborhood, he set out to L()m|)ile 
one for iiimselt. In order lu aicjuire a knowledge of 
the Knglish language, he i:opied into a book every 
word whose meaning he did not comprehend, and 
upon meelini; the same woril again in the newspapers 
und li n)k-, whicli r.ime into his haiuls, from the 



context, would then record the definition. Whenever 
unable otherwise to olitain the signification of a word 
in which he had become interested he would walk 
from Dartmoutli to New Bedford for that purjwse 
alone, and after referring to the books at the library 
and satisfying himself thoroughly as to its derinition, 
would walk back, a distance of about seven miles 
the same night. This was no unusual circumstance. 
Under such difficulties and in this manner he com- 
piled ipiite an extensive dictionary in manuscrip' 
which is believed to be still in existence. 

Ever in pursuit of knowledge, he obtained jxjssej- 
sion of a book upon surveying, and applying hiiusel'' 
diligently to its study became familiar with this art, 
which he soon had an opportunity to practice. The 
services of a land surveyor were wanted, and he was 
called upon, but had no compass and no money with 
which to purchase one. A compass, however, he 
must and would have, and going to a blacksmith shop 
near at hand, upon the forge, with such tools as hs 
could find in the shop, while the smith was at dinner, 
he construc:ted the compass and commenced life as a 
surveyor. Still continuing his studies, he fitted him- 
self for teaching, and took charge of the village school 
at Dartmouth. ^V'hen, in the course of time and un- 
der the pressure of law, a high school was to be 
opened, he passed a successful examination for its 
principalshi[) and received the apixjintment. To do 
this was no small task. The law required a rigid 
examination in various subjects, which necessitated 
days and nights of study. One evening, after con- 
cluding his day's labor of teaching, he traveled on foot 
to New Bedford, some seven or eight miles, called 
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a severe examination. Receiving a certificate that 
lie was qualified, he walked back to his home the 
same night, highly elated in being possessed of the 
acquire-iients and requirements of a master of the 
high school. 

In 1832, at the age of 28 years, he left his native 
town and went to reside at New Bedford, where he 
followed the occupation of land surveyor, and oc- 
casionally acted as an auctioneer Soon after becom- 
ing a citizen of this place, he was elected Town Clerk, 
Treasurer, and Collector of taxes, which office he held 
until the municipal government was changed, — about 
fifteen years, — when, upon the inauguration of the city 
government, he was elected Treasurer and Collector 
of taxes, a position which he held two or three years. 
He was also Justice of the Peace for many years 
He was elected Alderman of New Bedford ; was 
Chairman of Council Committee on Education, and 
as such prepared a report upon which was based the 
order for the establishment of the free Public Library 
of New Bedford. On its organization, Mr. Crapo was 
chosen a member of the Board of Trustees. This 
was the first free public library in Massachusetts, if 
not in the world. The Boston Free Library was es- 
tablished, however, soon afterwards. While a resident 
in New Bedford, he was much interested in horticul- 
ture, and to obtain the land necessary for carrj'ing out 
his ideas he drained and reclaimed several acres of 
rocky and swampy land adjoining his garden. Here 
he stalled a nursery, which he filled with almost every 
description of fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs, 
flowers, etc. Li this he was very successful and took 
great pride. He was a regular contributorto the New 
England Horticultural Jo'-irnal, a position he filled 
as long as he lived in iVIassachusetts. As an indica- 
tion of the wide reputation he acquired in that field 
of labor, it may be mentioned that after his death an 
affecting eulogy to his memory was jironounced by the 
President of the National Horticultural Society at its 
meeting in Piiiladelphia, in 1869. During his resi- 
dence in New Bedford, Mr. Crapo was also engaged 
in the whaling business. A fine barque built at Dart- 
mouth, of which he was part owner, was named the 
"H. H. Crapo" in compliment to him. 

Mr. C. also took part in the State Militia, and for 
several years held a commission as Colonel of one of 
the regiments. He was President of the Bristol 
County Mutual Fire Insurance Co., and Secretary of 
the Bedford Commercial Insurance Company in New 
Bedford; and while an officer of the municipal gov- 
ernmenthecompiled and published, between the years 
1S36 and 1845, five numbers of the New Bedford 
Directory the first work of the kind ever published 
there. 

Mr. C. removed to Michigan in 1856, having been 
induced to do so by investments made principally in 
pine lands, first in 1837 and. subsequently in 1856. 
fie took up his residence in the city of Flint, and en- 



gaged largely in the manufacture and sale of lumber 
at Flint, Fentonville, Holly and Detroit, becoming 
one of the largest and most successful business men 
of the State. He was mainly instrumental in the 
construction of the Flir.t & Holly R. R., and was 
President of that corporation uniil its consolidation 
with the Flint & Pere Marquette R. R. Company. 
He was elected Mayor of that city after he had been 
a resident of the place only five cr six years. In 
1862 he was elected State Senator. In the fall of 
1864 he received the nomination on the Republican 
ticket for Governor of the State, and was elected by a 
large majority. He was re- elected in 1866, holding 
the office two terms, and retiring in January, i860, 
having given the greatest satisfaction to all parties. 

While serving his last term he was attacked with a 
disease which terminated his life within one j'ear 
afterwards. During much of this time he was an in- 
tense sufferer, yet often while in great pain gave his 
attention to public matters. A few weeks previous 
to his death a successful surgical operation was per- 
formed which seemed rapidly to restore him, but he 
overestimated his strength, and by too much exertion 
in l.)usiness matters and State affairs suffered a relapse 
from which there was no rebound, and he died July 
33. 1S69. 

In the early part of his life. Gov. Crapo affiliated 
with the Whig party in politics, but became an active 
member of the Republican party after its organization. 
He was a member of the Christian (sometimes called 
the Disciples') Church, and took great interest in its 
welfare and prosperity. 

Mr. C. married, June 9, 1825, Mary A. Slocum, 
of Dartmoutli. His marriage took place soon after 
he had attained his majority, and before his struggles 
with fortune had been rewarded with any great meas- 
ure of success. But his wife was a woman of great 
strength of character and possessed of courage, hope- 
fulness and devotion, qualities which sustained and 
encouraged her husband in the various pursuits of 
his early years. For several years after his marriage 
he was engaged in teaching school, his wife living 
with her parents at the time, at whose home his two 
older children were born. While thus situated he 
was accustomed to walk home on Saturday to see 
his family, returning on Sunday in order to be ready 
for school Monday morning. As tlie walk for a good 
part of the time was 20 miles each way, it is evident 
that at that period of his life no cummon obstacles 
deterred him from performing what he regarded 
as a duty. His wife was none the less consci- 
entious in her sphere, and with added responsibilities 
and increasing requirements she labored faithfully 
in the perfo-mance of all her duties. They had 
ten children, one son and nine daughters. His son, 
Hon. Wm. W. Crapo, of New Bedford, is now an 
honored Representative to Congress from the First 
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ENRY P. BALDWIN, Gov- 
ernor of Michi ja'.i from Ian. 

.•ft ' . 

•4, 1869, to Jan. I, 1873, IS a 

lineal descendant of Nathan- 

_ iel Baldwin, a Puritan, of Buck- 

VS--r.'-:,;,!J-,f/ inghamshire, England, who set- 
tled at Milford, Conn., in 1639. 
His father was John Pialdwin, 
a graduate of Dartmouth Col- 
lege. He died at North Provi- 
dence, R. I., in 1826. His 
paternal grandfather was Rev. 
Moses Baldwin, a graduate of 
Princeton College, in 1757, and the 
first who received collegiate hon- 
ors at that ancient and honored institution. He died 
at Parma, Mass., in 1813, where for more than 50 
years he had been pastor of the Presbyterian Church. 
On his mother's side Governor B. is descended from 
Robert AVilliams, also a Puritan, who settled in Rox- 
bury, Mass., about 1638. His mother was a daughter 
of Rev. Nehemiah Williams, a graduate of Harvard 
College, who died at Brimfield, Mass., in 1796, where 
lor 21 years he was pastor of the Congregaiionalist 
Church. The subject of this sketch was born at 
Coventry, R. I., Feb. 22, 1814. He received a New 
England common-school education until the age of 
12 years, when, both his parents having died, he be- 
came a clerk in a mercantile establishment. He re- 
mained there, employing his leisure hours in study, 
until 20 years of age. 

At this early period Mr. B. engaged in business on 
his own account. He made a visit to the West, in 
1837, which resulted in his removal to Detroit in the 
spring of 18^8. Here he established a mercantile 
house which has been successfully conducted until 
the present time. Although he successfully conducted 



a large business, he has ever taken a deep interest in 
all things affecting the prosperity of the city and 
State of his adoption. He was for several years a 
Director and President of the Detroit Young Men's 
Society, an institution with a large library designed 
for the benefit of young men and citizens generally. 
An Episcopalian in religious belief, he has been 
prominent in home matters connected with that de- 
nomination. The large and flourishing parish of St. 
John, Detroit, originated with Governor Baldwin, who 
gave the lot on which the parish edifice stands, and 
also contributed the larger share of the cost of their 
erection. Governor B. was one of the foremost in 
the establishment of St. Luke's Hospital, and has 
always been a liberal contributor to moral and relig- 
ious enterprises whether connected with his own 
Church or not. There have been, in fact, but few 
public and social improvements of Detroit during ;he 
past 40 years with which Governor 15.'s name is not 
in some way connected. He was a director in the 
Michigan State Bank until the expiration of its char- 
ter, and has been President of the Second National 
Bank since its organization. 

In i860, Mr. Baldwin was elected to the State 
Senate, of Michigan ; during the years of tS6i-'2 he 
was made Chairman of the Finance Committee, a 
member of Committee on Banks and Incorporations 
Chairman of the Select Joint Committee of the iw 1 
Houses for the investigation of the Treasury Depuri 
ment and the official acts of the Treasurer, and oi" 
the letting of the contract for the improvement ,-> 
Sault St. Marie Ship Canal. He was first elccteJ 
Governor in 1868 and was re-elected in 1870, serviny 
from 1S69 to 1872, inclusive. It is no undeserved 
eulogy to say that Governor B.'s happy faculty of es- 
timniiug the necessary means loan end — the knowini; 
of how much effort or attention to bestow upon the 
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success that has attended his efforts in all relations 
of life. The same industry and accuracy that dis- 
tinguished him prior to this term as Governor was 
manifest in his career as the chief magistrate of the 
State, and while his influence appears in all things 
wit:-, which he has had to do, it is more noticeable in 
the most prominent position to which he was called. 
With rare exceptions the important commendations 
of Governor B. received the sanction of the Legislat- 
ure. During his administration marked improve- 
ments were made in the charitable, penal and reforma- 
tory institutions of the State. The State Public School 
for dependent children was founded and a permanent 
commission for the supervision of the several State 
institutions. The initiatory steps toward building the 
Eastern Asylum for the Insane, the State House of 
Correction, and the establishment of the State Board 
of Health were recommended by Governor B. in his 
messa;.,e of 1873. The new State Capitol also owes 
its origen to him. The appropriation for its erection 
was made upon his recommendation, and the contract 
for the entire work let under this administration. 
Governor B. also appointed the commissioners under 
whose faithful supervision the building was erected in 
a manner most satisfactory to the people of the State. 
He advised and earnestly urged at different times 
such amendments of the constitution as would per- 
mit a more equitable compensation to State officers 
and judges. Thelawof 1869, and prior also, permitting 
municipalities to vote aid toward the construc- 
Vion (if railroads was, in 1870, declared unconstitu- 
tional by the Supreme Court. Many of the munici- 
palities having in the meantime issued and sold their 
bonds in good faith. Governor B. fell that the honor 
and credit of the State were in jeopardy. His sense 
of justice impelled him to call an e.xtra session of tlie 
Legislature to propose the submission to the peo])le a 
constitutional amendment, authorizing the payment 
of such bonds as were already in the hands of hona- 
fide holders. In his special message he says : "The 
credit of no State stands higher than that of Michigan, 
and the people can not afford, and I trust will not 
consent, to have her good name tarnished by the repu- 
diation of either legal or moral obligations." A spe- 
cial session was called in March, 1872, principally for 
the division of the State into congressional districts. 
A number of other important suggestions were made, 
however, ard as an evidence of the Governor's la- 
borious and thoughtful care for the financial condition 



of the State, a series of tables was prepared and sub- 
mitted by him showing, in detail, estimates of receipts, 
expenditures and appropriations for the years 1872 to 
1878, inclusive. Memorable of Governor B.'s admin- 
istration were the devastating fires which swept over 
many portions of the Northwest in the fall of 187: 
A large part of the city of Chicago having been re- 
duced to ashes, Governor B. promptly issued a proc- 
lamation calling upon the people of Michigan for 
liberal aid in behalf of the afflicted city. Scarcely had 
this been issued when several counties in his State 
were laid waste by the same destroying element. 
,\ second call was made asking assistance for the suf- 
fering people of Michigan. The contributions for 
these objects were prompt and most liberal, more than 
$700,000 having been received in money and supplies 
for the relief of Michigan alone. So ample were 
these contributions during the short period of abou' 
3 months, that the Governor issued a proclamation 
expressing in behalf of the people of the State grate- 
ful acknowldgment, and announcing that further 
aid was unnecessary. 

Governor B. has traveled extensively in his own 
country and has also made several visits to Europe 
and other portions of the Old World. He was a pas- 
senger on the Steamer Arill, which was captured and 
bonded in the Carribean Sea, in December, 1862, by 
Capt. Semmes, and wrote a full and interesting ac- 
count of the transaction. The following estimate of 
Governor B. on his retirement from office, by a leading 
newspaper, is not overdrawn: "The retiiing message 
of Governor B., will be read with interest. It is 
a characteristic document and possesFes the U:cid 
statement, strong, and clear practical sense, which 
have been marked features of all preceding documents 
from the same source. Governor B. retired to private 
life after four years of unusually successful adminis- 
tration amid plaudits that are vmiversal throughout the 
State. For many years eminent and capable men 
have filled the executive chair of this State, but in 
painstaking vigilance, in stern good sense, in genuine 
public spirit, in thorough integrity and in practical 
capacity, Henrj' P. Baldwin has shown himself to be 
the peer of any or all of them. The State has been un- 
usually prosperous during his two terms, and the Stale 
administration has fully kept pace with the needs of 
the times. The retiring Governor has fully earned 
the public gratitude and confidence which he to-day 
possesses to such remarkable degree, 




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\1 fWN JUDSON 13AGLEY, 
w (Jijvernor of Michigan from 
^' iJ^73 to 1877, was born in 
n Medina, Orleans Co., N. Y., 
-V ' v^ '^v^ J"'y ^4' 1^32- ^•'' father, John 
ixisC^l/ Haglcy, was a native of New 
Hampshire, his mother, Mary M. 
Bagley, of Connecticut. He at- 
tended the district school of Lock- 
^V> port, N. v., until he was eight years 
old, at which time his father moved 
to Constantine, Mich., and he at- 
tended the common schools of that 
village. His early experience was 
like that of many country boys whose 
''m\' parents removed from Eastern States 
to the newer portion of the West. 
His father being in very poor circum- 
J^ri stances, Mr. B. was obliged to work 
as soon as he was able to do so. 
Leaving school when 13 years of age 
he entered a country store in Constan- 
tine as clerk. His father then re- 
moved toOwosso, Mich.,and he again 
engaged as clerk in a store. From 
early youth Mr. B. was extravagantly fond of reading 
and devoted every leisure moment to the perusal of 
such books, papers and periodicals as came within 
his reach. In 1847, he removed to Detroit, where lie 
secured employment in a tobacco manufactory and 
remained in this position for about five years. 

In 1853, he began business for himself in the man- 
ufacturing of tobacco. His establishment has become 



one of the largest of the kind in the West. Mr. B. 
has also been greatly interested in other manufactur- 
ing enterprises, as well as in mining, banking and in- 
surance corporations. He was President of the 
Detroit Safe Company for several years. He was one 
of the organizers of the Michigan Mutual Life Insur- 
a\ice Company of Detroit, and was its President from 
1867 to 1872. He was a director of the Amer- 
ican National Bank for many years, and a stock- 
holder and director in various other corporations. 
Mr. B. was a member of the Board of Education two 
years, and of the Detroit Common Council the same 
length of time. In 1865 he was ap[K)intcd by Gover- 
nor Crapo one of the first commissioners of the 
Metropolitian police force of the city of Detroit, serv- 
ing six years. In November, 1872, he was elected 
Governor of Michigan, and two years later was re- 
elected to the same office, retiring in January, 1877. 
He was an active worker in the Repu!)lican party, and 
for many years was Chairman of the Republican 
State Central committee. 

Governor Bagley was quite liberal in his religious 
views and was an attendant of the Unitarian Church. 
He aimed to be able to hear and consider any new 
thought, from whatever source it may come, but was not 
!)Ound by any religious creed or formula. He held 
in respect all religious opinions, believing that noone 
can be injured by a firm adherence to a faith or de- 
nomination. He was married at Dubutjue, Iowa, Jan. 
16, 1855, to Frances E. Newberry, daugliter of Rev. 
Samuel Newberry, a pioneer missionary of Michigan, 
who took an active part in the early educational mat- 
ters of the State and in the establishment of its ex- 
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L'-.rough his exertions that the State University was 
founded. Mr. B.'s family consists of seven children. 
As Governor his administration was charac- 
terized by several important features, chief among 
which were his efforts to improve and make popular 
the educational agencies of the Slate by increasing 
the faculty of the University for more thorough in- 
struction in technical studies, by strengthening the hold 
of the Agricultural College n^xm the public good will 
and making the general change which has manifested 
itself in many scattered primary districts. Among 
others were an almost complete revolution in the 
management of the penal and charitable institutions 
of the State; the passage of the liquor-tax law, taking 
the place of the dead letter of prohibition; the estab- 
lishing of the system of dealing with juvenile offend- 
ers through county agents, which has proved of great 
good in turning the young back from crime and plac- 
ing the State in the attitude of a moral agent; in se- 
curing for the militia the first time in the history of 
Michigan a systematized organization upon a service- 
able footing. It was uixin the suggestion of Gov. B. 
in the earlier part of his administration that the law 
creating the State Board of Health, and also the law 
creating a fish commission in the inland waters of the 
State, were passed, both of which have proved of great 
benefit to the Slate. The successful representation 
of Michigan at the Centennial Exhibition is also an 
honorable part of the record of Gov. B.'s adminis- 
tration. 

As Governor, he felt that he represented the State 
— not in a narrow, egotistical way, but in the same 
sense that a faithful, trusted, confidential agent rep- 
resents his employer, and as the Executive of the 
State he was her " attorney in fact." And his intelli- 
gent, thoughtful care will long continue the pride of 
the people he so much loved. He was ambitious — 
ambitious for place and power, as every noble mind 
is ambitious, because these give opportunity. How- 
ever strong the mind and powerful the will, if there 
be no ambition, life is a failure. He was not blind to 
the fact that the more we have the more is required 
of us. He accepted it in its fullest meaning. He 
had great hopes for his State and his country. He had 
his ideas of what they should be. \\ith a heart as 
broad as humanity itself; with an intelligent, able and 
CL'ltured brain, the will and tlie power to do, he 
asked his fellow citizen to give him the opportunity to 
labor for them. Self entered not into the calculation. 



His whole life was a battle for others; and he entered 
tlie conflict eagerly and hopefully. 

His State papers were models of compact, busi- 
ness-like statements, bold, original, and brimful of 
practical suggestions, and his administrations will long 
be considered as among the ablest in this or any 
other State. 

His noble, generous nature made his innumerable 
benefactions a source of continuous pleasure. Liter- 
ally, to him it was " more blessed to give than to 
receive." 

His greatest enjoyment was in witnessing the com- 
fort and happiness of others. Not a tithe of his char- 
ities were known to his must intimate friends, or even 
to his family. Many a needy one has been the recipi- 
ent of aid at an opportuire moment, who never knew 
the hand that gave. 

At one time a friend had witnessed his ready re- 
sponse to some charitable request, and said to him: 
"Governor, you give away a large sum of money ; about 
how much does your charities amount to in a year?' 
He turned at once and said: " I do not know, sir; I 
do not allow myself to know. I hope I gave more 
this year than I did last, and hope I shall give more 
next year than I have this." This expressed his idea 
of charity, that the giving should at all tim^s be free 
and spontaneous. 

During his leasure hours from early life, and espe- 
cially during the last few years, he devoted much time 
to becoming acquainted with the best authors. Biog- 
raphy was his delight; the last he read was the "Life 
and Work of John Adams," in ten volumes. 

In all questions of business or public affatrs he 
seemed to have the power of getting at the kernel of 
the nut in the least possible time. In reading lie 
would spend scarcely more time with a volume than 
most persons would devote to a chapter. 7\fter what 
seemed a cursory glance, he would have all of value 
the book contained. Rarely do we see a business 
man so familiar with the best English authors. He 
was a generous and intelligent patron of the arts, and 
his elegant home was a srudy and a pleasure 
to his many friends, who always found there a 
hearty welcome. At Christmas time he would spend 
days doing the work of Santa Claus. Everj- Christi.ias 
eve he gathered his children about hinr and, taking 
the youngest on his lap, told some Christmas story, 
closing tlie entertainment with "The Night Before 
Chrisinias," or Dickens's " Christmas Carol." 




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HARLES M. CROSWELL, 
|§j^ Governor of Michigan from 
Jan. 3, 1877 to Jan. i, i<S8i, 
was bom at Newburg, Orange 
County, N. Y., Oct. 31, 1825. 
He is the only son of John and 
Sallie (Hicks) Croswell. His 
father, who was of Scotch-Irisli 
extraction, was a paper-maker, 
and carried on business in N'cw 
York City. His ancestors on 
his mother's side were of Knicker- 
bocker descent. The Croswell 
family may be found connected 
with prominent events, in New York 
i^i and Connecticut, in the early exis- 
tence of the I\.e[)ul)lic. Harry C'ros- 
well, during the adniinisiration of 
President Jefferson, published a pa- 
jjer called the Balatue, and was 
prosecuted for libeling the President 
under the obnoxious Sedition Law. 
He was defended by the celebraled 
Alexander Hamilton, and the decis- 
k>^ ')[ the case establised the important ruling that 
thfc truth might be shown in cases of libei. Another 
member of the family was Edwin Croswell, the fam- 
ous editor of the Albany Argus ; also, Rev. William 
Croswell, noted as a divine and poet. 

When Charles M. Croswell was seven years of age, 
his father was accidentally drowned in the Hudson 
River, at Newburg ; and, within three months preced- 
ing that event, his mother and only sister had died, — 
tlius leaving him the sole surviving member of tlie 
familv, without fortune or means. Upon the death 



of iiis father he went to live with an uncle, who, in 
1837, emigrated with him to Adrain, Michigan. .At 
sixteen years of age, he commenced to learn the car- 
penter's trade, and worked at it very diligently for 
four years, maintaining himself, and devoting his spare 
lime to reading and the acciuirement of knowledge. 
In 1846, he began the study of law, and was ap- 
pointed Deiuity Clerk of Lenawee County. The du 
ties of this office he performed four years, when he 
was elected Register of Deeds, and was re-elected 
in 1852. In 1854, hetook part in the first movements 
for the formation of the Republican party, and was a 
member and Secretary of the convetion held at Jack- 
son in that year, which i)ut in the field the first Re- 
publican State ticket in Michigan. In 1855, he 
formed a law partnersliip with the present Chief-Jus- 
tice Cooley, which continued until the removal of 
Judge Cooley to Ann .Arbor. 

In 1862, Mr. Croswell was appointed City Attorney 
of .Adrian. He was also elected Mayor of the city 
in the siiring of the same year; and in the fall was 
chosen to rei)resent Lenawee County in the State 
Senate. He was re-elected to the Senate in 1864, 
and again in 1866, during each term filling the ix)si- 
tions above mentioned. Among various reix)rts made 
by him, one adverse to the re-establishment of the 
death penalty, and another against a proposition to 
pay the salaries of State officers and judges in coin, 
which then commanded a very large premium, may 
be mentioned. He also drafted the act ratifying the 
Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, 
for the abolishment of slavery, it being the fi'rst 
amendment to the instrument ratified by Michigan. 
In 1863, from his seat in the State Senate, he de- 
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lio-.i of Emancipation issued by President Lincoln, 
and uf his general policy in the prosecution of the 
war. This, at the request of his Republican associ- 
ates, was afterwards puljlished. In 1S67, he was 
elected a member of the Constitutional Convention, 
and chosen its presiding officer. This convention 
was composed of an able body of men ; and though, 
in the general distrust of constitutional changes 
which for some years had been taking possession of 
the people, their labors were not accepted by the pop- 
ular vote, it was always conceded that the constitu- 
tion they proposed had been prepared with great care 
and skill. 

In 1868, Mr. Croswell was chosen an Elector on 
the P.tpablican Presidential ticket; in 1872, was 
elected a Representative to the State Legislature 
from Lenawee County, and was chosen Speaker of 
the House of Representatives. At the close of the 
session of that body his abilities as a parliamentarian, 
and the faitness of his rulings were freely and form- 
ally- acknowledged by his associates ; and he was pre- 
sented with a superb collection of their portraits 
handsomely framed. He was, also, for several years. 
Secretary of the State Board for the general supervis- 
ion of the charitable and penal institutions of Michi- 
gan ; in which position, his propositions for the amel- 
ioration of the condition of the unfortunate, and the 
reformation of the criminal classes, signalize the be- 
nevolence of his nature, and the piartical character 
of his mind. 

In 1876, the general voice of the Republicans of 
the State indicted Mr. Croswell as their choice for 
Governor; and, at the State Convention of the party 
in August of the same year, he was put in nomination 
Ly acclamation, without the formality of a ballot. At 
tne election in November following, he was chosen to 
the high position for which he had been nominated, 
by a very large majority over all opposing candidates. 
His inaugural message was received with general 
favor; and his career as Governor was marked with 
the same qualiiies of head and heart that have ever 
distinguished him, both as a citizen and statesman. 



Governor Groswell has always prepared' his ad- 
dresses with care; and, as his diction is terse, clear, 
and strong, without excess of ornament, and his de- 
livery impressive, he is a popular speaker; and many 
of his speeches have attracted favorable comment in 
the public prints, and have a permanent value. He 
has always manifested a deep interest in educational 
matters, and was for years a member and Secretary of 
the Board of Education of Adrain. At the formal 
opening of the Central School building in that city, 
on the 24th day of April, 1869, he gave, in a public 
address, an " Historical Sketch of the Adrian Public 
Schools." 

In his private life. Governor Croswell has been as 
exemplary as in his public career he has been suc- 
cessful and useful. In February, 1852, he was mar- 
ried to a daughter of Morton Eddy, Lucy M. Eddy, 
a lady of many amiable and sunny qualities. She 
suddenly died, March 19, 1868, leaving two daugh- 
ters and a son. Governor Croswell is not a member 
of any religious body, but generally attends the Pres- 
byterian Church. He pursues the jjrofession of law, 
but of late has been occupied mainly in the care of his 
own interests, and the quiet duties of advice in 
business difficulties, for which his unfailing pru- 
dence and sound judgment eminently fit him. Gov- 
ernor Croswell is truly popular, not only with those of 
like political faith with himself, but with those who 
differ from him in this regard. 

During Gov. Croswell's administration the public 
debt was greatly reduced ; a policy adopted requiring 
the State institutions to keep within the limit of ap- 
propriations; laws enacted to provide more effectually 
for the punishment of corruption and bribrery in elec- 
tions; the State House of Correction at Ionia and the 
Eastern Asylum for the Insane at Pontiac were opened 
and the new capital at Lansing was completed and 
occupied. The first act of his second term was to pre- 
side at the dedication of this building The great riot 
at Jackson occured during his administration, and it 
was only bv his promptness that great distraction of 
both life ar,d property was prevented at that ,time. 



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\^ DAVID H. JEROME, Gover- 
^;,v. nor of from Jan. i, 1881, to 
Jan. I, 1883, was born at De- 
troit, Mich,, Nov. 17, 1829. 
His parents emigrated to 
Mirhigaii from Trumansburg, 
Tompkins Co., N. Y., in 1828, 
locating at Detroit. His father 
died March 30, 1831, leaving 
nine children. He had been 
twice married, and four of the 
children living at the time of his 
death were grown up sons, the off- 
spring of his first union. Of the 
five children by his second marriage, David H. was 
the youngest. Shortly after Mr. Jerome's death, his 
widow moved back to New York and settled in 
Onondaga County near Syracuse, where they remained 
until the fall of 1834, the four sons by the first wife 
continuing their residence in Michigan. In the fall 
of 1834, Mrs. Jerome came once more to Michigan, 
locating on a farm in St. Clair County. Here the 
Governor formed those habits of industry and ster- 
ling integrity that have been so characteristic of tlie 
man iii the active duties of life. He was sent to the 
district school, and in the acciuisition of the funda- 
mental branches of learning he displayed a precocity 
and an application which won for him the admiration 
of his teachers, and always placed him at the head 
of his classes. In the meantime he did ciiores on 
the farm, and was always ready with a cheerful heart 
and willing hand to assist his widowed mother. The 
heavy labor of the farm was carried on by his two 



older brothers, Timothy and George, and when 13 
years of age David received his mother's permission to 
attend school at the St. Clair Academy. While attend- 
ing there he lived with Marcus H. Miles, now de- 
ceased, doing chores for his board, and the following 
winter performed the same service for James Ogden, 
also deceased. The next summer Mrs. Jerome 
moved into the village of St. Clair, for the puri)ose of 
continuing her son in school. While attending said 
academy one of his associate students was Sena- 
tor Thomas W. Palmer, of Detroit, a rival candidate 
before the gubernatorial convention in 1880. He 
completed his education in the fall of liis i6th year, 
and the following winter assisted liis brother Timothy 
in hauling logs in the pii:e woods. The next summer 
he rafted logs down the St. Clair River to Algonac. 

In 1847, M. H. Miles being Clerk in St. Clair Coun- 
ty, and Volney A. Ripley Register of Deeds, David 
H. Jerome was appointed Deputy to each, remaining 
as such during i848-'49, and receiving much praise 
from his employers and the people in general for the 
ability displayed in the discharge of his duties. He 
spent his summer vacation at clerical work on board 
the lake vessels. 

In i849-'5o, he abandoned office work, and for the 
proper development of his physical system spent 
several months liauling logs. In the spring of 1850, 
his brother "Tiff" and himself chartered the steamer 
"Chautauqua," and "Young Dave" became her mas- 
ter. .\ portion of the season the boat was engaged 
in the passenger and freight traffic between Port 
Huron and Detroit, but during the l.itter part was 
used as a tow boat. At that time there was a serious 
obstruction to navigation, known as the "St. Clair 
Flats," between Lakes Huron and Erie, over which 



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v'-ssels could carry only about to,ooo bushels of grain. 
Mr. Jerome conceived the idea of towing vessels 
from one lake to the other, and put his plan into 
operation. Through the influence of practical men, — 
among tliem the subject of this sketch, — Congress 
removed the obstruction above referred to, and now 
vessels can jjass them laden with 60,000 or 80,000 
bushels of grain. 

During the season, the two brothers succeeded 
in making a neat little sum of money by the sum- 
mer's work, but subsequently lost it all on a contract 
lo raise the "(ien. Scott,'' a ves'iel that had sunk in 
Lake St. Clair. David H. came out free from debt, 
but possessed of hardly a dollar of capital. In the 
spring of 185 i, he was clerk and acting master of the 
steamers "Franklin Moore" and "Ruby," plying be- 
tween Detroit and Port Huron and Goderich. The 
following year he was clerk of the propeller "Prince- 
ton. " running between Detroit and Buffalo. 

In January, 1853, Mr. Jerome went to California, 
ov way of the Isthmus, and enjoyed extraordinary 
success in selling goods in a new place of his selec- 
tion, among the mountains near Marysville He re- 
iiiained there during the summer, and located the 
Live Yankee Tunnel Mine, which has since yielded 
millions to its owners, and is still a paying investment. 
He planned and put a tunriel 600 feet into the mine, 
but when the water supply began to fail with the dry 
season, sold out his interest. He left in the fall of 
1853, and in December sailed from San Francisco for 
New York, arriving at his home in St. Clair County, 
about a year after his departure. During his absence 
liis brother "Tiff" had located at Saginaw, ana in 
1854 Mr. Jerome joined him in his lumber operations 
in the valley. In 1855 the brothers bought Black- 
mer & Eaton's hardware and general supply stores, 
al Saginaw, and David H. assumed the management 
of the business. From 1S55 to 1873 he was also ex- 
tensively engaged in lumbering operations. 

Soon after locating at Saginaw he was nominated 
for Alderman against Stewart B. Williams, a rising 
young man, of strong Democratic principles. The 
ward was largely Democratic, but Mr. Jerome was 
elected by a handsome majority. \\'hen the Repub- 
lican party was born at Jackson, Mich., David H. 
Jerome was, though not a delegate to the convention, 
one of its "charter members." In 1862, he was com- 
missioned by Gov. Austii. B'air tc raise one of the 



six regiments apportioned to the State of Michigan. 
Mr. Jerome immediately went to work and held 
meetings at various points. The zeal and enthusiasm 
displayed by this advocate of the Union awakened a 
feeling of patriotic interest in the breasts of many 
brave men, and in a short space of time the 23d 
Regiment of Michigan Volunteer Infantry was placed 
in the field, and subsequently gained for itself a bril- 
liant record. 

In the fall of 1862, Mr. Jerome was nominated by 
the Republican party for State Senator from the 26th 
district, Appleton Stevens, of Bay City, being his op- 
ponent. The contest was very exciting, and resulted 
in the triumphant election of Mr. Jerome. He was 
twice renominated and elected both times by in- 
creased majorities, defeating George Lord, of Bay 
Cit)', and Dr. Cheseman, of Gratiot County. On tak- 
ing his seat in the Senate, he was appointed Chair- 
man of the Committee on State Affairs, and was ac- 
tive in raising means and troops to carry on the war. 
He held the same position during his three terms of 
service, and introduced the bill creating the Soldiers' 
Home at Harper Hospital, Detroit. 

He was selected by Gov. Crapo as a military aid, 
and in 1865 was appointed a member of the State 
Military Board, and served as its President for eight 
conseciUive years. In 1873, he was apjjoinced by 
Gov. Bagley a member of the convention to prejiare 
a new State Constitution, and was Chairman of the 
Committee on Finance. 

In 1875, Mr. Jerome was appointed a member of 
the Board of Indian Commissioners. In I876 he was 
Chairman of a coi.imission to visit Chief Joseph, the 
Nez Perce Indian, to arrange an amicable settlement 
of all existing difficulties. The commission went to 
Portland, Oregon, thence to the Blue Hills, in Idaho, 
a distance of 600 miles up the Columbia River. 

At the Republican State Convention, convened at 
Jackson in August, 1880, Mr. Jerome was placed in 
the field for nomination, and on the 5th day of the 
month received the highest honor the convention 
could confer on any one. His opponent was Freder- 
ick M. Hollowav of Hillsdale County, wlv was si,d- 
ported by the Democratic and Greenback partieb 
The State was thoroughly canvassed by both parties, 
and when the polls were closed on the evening of 
election day, it was found that David H. Jerome had 
been selected by the voters of the Wolverine State tc 
occupy the highest position within thefi gift. 








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OSIAH W. BEGOLE, the 
.[ 'resent (1S83), Ciovernor of 
' Michigan was born in Living- 
ston, County, X. V., Jan. 20, 
1815. His ancestors were of 
''^f/' French descent, and settled at 
an early period in the State of 
l^ij 11 Maiyland. His grandfather, Capt. 
* Bolles, of that State, was an offi- 
cer in tlie American army during 
|l tlie war of the Revolution, .\bout 
the beginning of the present cent- 
ury both his grandparents, having 
become dissatisfied with the insti- 
tution of slavery, although slave-, 
holders themselves, emigrated to 
Livingston County, N. V., tiien 
a new country, taking with them a 
j" number of tlieir former slaves, who 
volunteered to accompany them. 
His father was an officer in the 
.\merican army, and served during 
the war of 1S12. 
Mi. B. received his early education in a log .school- 
house, and subsequently attended the Temple Hill 
.\cademy, ut Geneseo, N. Y. Being the eldest of .a 
f imily of ten children, wliose parents were in tnoder- 
■ite though conifortaljle circumstances, he was early 
taught habits of industry, and when 2 1 years of age, 
being ambitious to better his condition in life, he re- 
solved to seek his fortune in the far West, as it was 



then called. In August, 1836, he left the parental 
roof to seek a home in the Territory of Michigan, 
tiien an almost unbroken wilderness. He settled in 
Genesee County, and aided with his own hands in 
building some of the early residences in what is now 
known as the city of Flint. There were but four or 
five houses where tiiis flourishing city now stands 
when he selected it as his home. 

\\\ the spring of 1S39 he married Miss Harriet A. 
Miles. The marriage proved a most fortunate one, 
and to the faithful wife of his youth, who lives to en- 
joy with him the comforts of an honestly earned com- 
petence, Mr. Begole ascribes largely his success in 
life. Immediately after his marriage he commenced 
work on an unimi)roved farm, where, by his perse- 
verance and energy, he soon established a good home, 
and at the end of eighteen years was the owner of a 
well improved farm of five hundred acres. 

Mr. liegole being an anti-slavery man, became a 
member of tlie Republican party at its organization. 
He served iiis to>vnsmen in various offices, and was 
in 1856, elected County Treasurer, which office he 
held for eight years. 

.\t the breaking out of the Rebellion he did not 
carry a musket to the front, but his many friends will 
bear witness that he took an active part in recruiting 
and furnishing supplies for the army, and in looking 
after the interests of soldiers' families at home. The 
death of his eldest son near .\tlanta, Ga., by a Confed- 
rate bullet, in 1864, was the greatest sorrow of his life. 
When a few years liter he was a member in Congress 



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Gov. Begole voted and worked for the soldiers' 
bounty equalization bill, an act doing justice to the 
soldier who bore the burden and heat of tlie day, and 
who sliould fare equally wiih him who came in at the 
eleventh hour. That bill was defeated in the House 
on account of the large appropriation that would be 
required to pay tlie same. 

In 1870, Gov. Begole was nominated by acclama- 
tion for the office of State Senator, and elected by a 
large majority. In that body lie served on the Com- 
mittees of Finance and Railroads, and was Chairman 
of the Committee on the Institute for the Deaf and 
Dumb and Blind. He took a liberal and public- 
spirited view of the importance of a new capitol 
building worthy of the State, and was an active mem- 
ber of the Committee that drafted the bill for tlie 
same He was a delegate to the National Republi- 
can Convention held at Philadelphia in 1872, and 
was the chosen member of that delegation to go lo 
Washington and inform Gen. Grant and Senator 
Wilson of their nominations. It was while at that 
convention that, by the express wish of his many 
friends, he was induced to offer himself a can- 
didate for the nomination of member to the 43d Con- 
gress, in which he was successful, after competing for 
the nomination with several of the most worthy, able 
and experienced men in the Si.xth Congressional Dis- 
trict, and was elected by a very large majority. In 
Congress, he was a member of the Committee on 
Agricultural and Public Expenditures. Being one of 
the 17 farmers in that Congress, he took an active 
part in the Committee of Agriculture, and was ap- 
pointed by that committee to draft the most impor- 
tant report made by that committee, and upon tlie 
only subject recommended by the President in liis 
message, which he did and the report was printed in 
records of Congress ; he took an efficient though an 
unobtrusive part in all its proceedings. 

He voted for the currency bill, remonetization of 
silver, and other financial measures, many of which, 
liiough defeated then, have since become the settled 
ix)licy of the country. Owing to the position which 
Mr. Begole occupied on these i]uestions, he became a 
" Greenbacker." 

In tlie Gubernatorial election of 1882, Mr. Begole 
was the candidate of both the Greenback and Dem- 
ocratic parties, and was elected by a vote of 154,269, 
the Republican candidate, Hon. David H. Jerome, 



receiving 149,697 votes. Mr. Begole, in entering 

upon his duties as Governor, has manifested a spirit 
that has already won him many friends, and bids fair 
to make his administration both successful and pop- 
ular. 

The very best indications of what a man is, is what 
his own townsmen think of liini. A\'f give the fol- 
lowing extract fiom the Flint GMh\ the leading Re- 
publican paper in Gov. Begole's own county, and it, 
too, written during the heat of a political campaign, 
which certainly is a flattering testimonial of his ster- 
ling worth: 

"So far, however, as Mr. Begole, the head of the 
ticket, is concerned, there is nothing detrimental to 
his character that can be alleged against him. He 
has sometimes changed his mind in politics, but for 
sincerity of his beliefs and the earnestness of his pur-- 
pose nobody who knows him entertains a doubt. He 
is incapable of bearing malice, even against his l)it- 
terest political enemies. He has a warm, generous 
nature, and a larger, kinder heart does not beat in 
the bosom of any man in Michigan. He is not much 
given to making speeches, but deeds are more signif- 
icant of a man's character than words. There are 
many scores of men in all parts of the State where 
Mr. Begole is acquainted, who have had practical 
demonstrations of these facts, and who are liable to 
step outside of party lines to show that they do not 
forget his kindness, and who, no doubt, wish that he 
was a leader in what would not necessarily prove a 
forlorn hope. But the Republican party in Michigan 
is too strong to be beaten by a combination of Demo- 
crats and Greenbackers, even if it is marshaled by so 
good a man as Mr. Begole." 

This sketch would be imperfect without referring 
to the action of Mr. B. at the time of the great calamity 
that in 1881 overtook the people of Northeastern 
Michigan, in a few hours desolating whole counties 
by fire and destroying the results and accumulations 
of such hard work as only falls to the lot of pioneers. 
While the Port Huron and Detroit committees were 
quarreling over the distribution of funds, Mr. Begole 
wrote to an agent in the "jburnt district " a letter, from 
which we make an extract of but a single sentence: 
" Until the differences between the two committees 
are adjusted and you receive your regular supplies 
from them, draw on nie. Let no man suffer while 1 
have money." This displays his true character. 





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USSELL A.ALGER,Governor 
of Blicliigau for the tcjrai coiii- 
monciiig Jan. 1, 1885, was 
born in Lafii^'ette Township, 
I\Ic(lin:i Co., Ohio, Feb. 27, 
I) 18.jG. Having lived a tem- 
'sT i)eiate life, he is a comparative 
young man in apiieanuice, and pos- 
sesses those mental faenltius tliatare 
tiie distinguishing ciiaractcrislics of 
robust, mature and cdnoated man- 
Wiien 1 1 years of age both 
"Srv^^^siyf liis [larents died, leaving iiim .vitlia 

-'" '^" Vdunger brother and sister to sup- 

port and witliDUtaiiy < if the substan- 
tial means of existence. !>;iciiing tiie oi)i)ortunit}-of 
liettereni|)loyn)ent, he woriied uu a farm in Hiciifield, 
Ohio, for the greater part of eaeii of the succeeding 
seven years, saving money cnougii to defraj' his ex- 
penses at Riciifield Academj^ during the winter 
terms. He dlitaineil a verj- good English education, 
and was enabled to teach schod for several subse- 
quent wintci-s. In 1S,")7 he commenced tiie stud_v of 
law in the odices of '\VoIcott & Upson at Akron, re- 
maining until March, 1S.")0, when he was adiuittcd 
to tlic liar 113- the Oiiio Supreme Court. lie then 
removed lo Cleveland, and entered the law dllicc of 
Otis ife Coffinbury, where he remained sevcr:d 
months. Here he continued iiis stu<lies witii iii- 
crea.sed zeal, an<l did much general reading. Ilanl 
study auil close confinement to oflice work, however, 
began to tell on his constitution, "and failing health 
warned him lh.it he uiu.-t seek other occupation. 



He therefore reluctantly abandoned the law and re- 
moved to (irand Rapids, Mich., to engage in the 
lumber business. 

When Michigan was called upon to furnisli troops 
for the war, Mr. Alger enlisted in the Second Mich. 
Cav. and was mustered into the service of the 
United States as Captain of Co. C. His record as 
a cavalry officer was brilliant and honorable to 
hiuLsclf and his companj'. He participated in sonic 
of the fiercest contests of the rebellion and wa.^ 
twice wounded. His first injury was received ii 
the battle of Hoonevillc, .^liss., Jul^' >, IHOi". 
His conduct in this engagement was so ilistiii- 
guishcd that he was promoted to the rank ol 
Major. On the same occasion his Colonel, the 
gallant I'hil. Shuridan, was advanced to the lauk 
of Brigadier General. A few months l.-iter, on the 
l(;th of October, Major Alger became Lieutenant- 
Colonel of the Sixth .Mich. Cav., and was ordered 
with his regiment lo the Army of the Potomac. 
After marked service in the early campaign of ISC.'?, 
he was again .advanced, ;uid <iu .Tunc 2 received his 
commission as Colonel of the Kifth Mich. Cav. His 
regiment at this time was in Cnstci"s famous .Alichi- 
gan cavalry brigade. On the Cth of .Tuly occurred 
the battle of Boonesboro, Md. In this conflict lie 
was again wounded. His heidih received a more 
than lcm|)orary impairment, and in October, 1861, 
he wa> oliliged to ictire from the service. His 
career as a soldier included many of the most cele- 
brated contests of the war. He w.-is an active charac- 
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Potomac, from tbe time of the invasion of Maiy- 
iand by Gen. Leo in 1S(J3, up to tlie date of his 
retiienient, with tlie exception of tliuse engagements 
whicli occurred wiiile he was absent from duty on 
account of wounds. In all he took part in 66 bat- 
tles and skirmishes. At the close he was breveted 
Brigadier General and Major General for "gallant 
and meritorious services in the field." 

Aside from regular duty, Gen. Alger was on 
private service during tlie winter of 1863-4, receiv- 
ing orders personally from President Lincoln and 
visiting nearly all the armies in the field. 

Gen. Alger came to Detroit in 18G5, and since 
that time has been extensively engaged in the pine 
timber business and in dealing in pine lands. He 
was a member of the well-known firm of Moore & 
Alger until its dissolution, when he became head of 
the firm of R. A. Alger & Co., the most extensive 
pine timber operators in the West. Gen. Alger is 
now president of the corporation of Alger, Smith & 
Co., which succeeded P. A. Alger & Co. lie is also 
president of the Manistique Lumbering Company 
and president of the Detroit, Bay City & Alpena 
Railroad Company, besides being a stockholder and 
director of the Detroit National Bank, the Peninsu- 
lar Car Company and several other large corpor- 
ations. 

While always an active and influential Republi- 
can, Gen. Alger has never sought nor held a sal- 
aried office. lie was a delegate from the First Dis- 
trict to the last Republican National Convention, 
but aside from this his connection with politics has 
not extended lieyond the duties of every good cit- 
izen to his party and liis country. 

Gen. Alger is now forty-nine years of age, an 
active, handsome gentleman six feet tall, living 
the life of a busj" man of affairs. His military 
bearing at once indicates his army life, and although 
slenderly built, his square shoulders and erect 
carriage give the casual observer the impression 
that his weight is fully 180 pounds. He is a firm, 
yet a most decidedly pleasant-appearing man, with 
a fine forehead, rather a i)rominent nose, an iron- 
gray moustache and chin whiskers and a full head 
of black hair sprinkled with gray. He is usually 
iltired in the prevailing style of business suits. His 
favorite dress has been a high buttoned cutaway 



frock coat, with the predominating cut of vest and 
trousers, made of firm gray suiting. A high collar, 
small cravat, easy shoes and white plug hat com- 
plete his personal apparel. He is very particular 
as to his appearance, and always wears neat clothes 
of the best goods, but shuns any display of jewelry 
or extravagant embellishment. He is one of the 
most approachable men imaginable. No matter 
how busy he may be, he always leaves his desk to 
extend a cordial welcome to every visitor, be he of 
high or low situation. His affable manners delight 
his guests, while his pleasing face and bright, dark 
eyes always animate his hearers. 

Gen. Alger is a hard worker. He is always at bis 
ofHce promptly in the morning and stays as long as 
anything remains that demands his attention. In 
business matters he is always decided, and is never 
shaken or disturbed bj^ any reverses. He has the 
confidence of his associates to a high degree, and al. 
his business relations are tempered with those little 
kindnesses that relieve the tedium of routine office 
life. Although deeply engrossed in various T>usi- 
ness pursuits, Gen. Alger has yet found time for 
general culture. He owns a large library and his 
stock of general information is as complete as it is 
reliable. His collection of paintings iias been se- 
lected with rare good taste, and contains some of 
llie finest jtroductions of. modern artists. His team 
of bays are pei'haps the handsomest that grace the 
roads of Detroit, and usually lead the other outfits 
when their owner holds the reins. 

Gen. Alger has an interesting family. His wife 
was Annette II. Henry, the daughter of W. G, 
Ileury, of Grand Rapids, to whom he was married 
A[)ril 2, 18G1. She is a slender woman of fair com- 
plexion, bright and attractive, and a charming host- 
ess. She is gifted with many accomplishments and 
appears quite young. Tlicre are six children. Fay. 
a lively brunette, and Caroline A., who is rather tah 
and resembles her mother, have completed r. course 
at an Eastern seminary, and during the past yeai 
traveled in Europe. The remaining members of 
the farailj' are Frances, aged 13; Russell A., Jr., 
aged 1 1 ; Fred, aged 9, and Allan, aged 3. All are 
liright and promising children. Gen. Alger makes 
his home at his handsome and large new residence on 
Fort street, at the corner of Fii'st street, Detroit, 



GOVERNORS OF MICHIGAN. 



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YRUS GRAY LUCE, the 
present Governor of Michi- 
gan, combines in his charac- 
ter the snbstantlal traits of 
the Now England ancestry 
of his father, and the cliival- 
V '* rous and hospitable elements 
pecnliar to the Southerners, which 
came to him from his mother's side -of 
the house. The New Englanders, act- 
ive in the cause of American liberty, 
after this desired result was accom- 
plished, turned their attention to the 
growth and development of the 
country which their noble daring had 
eonstitutea independent of foreign rule. The pri- 
vations they endured and the struggles from which 
they had achieved victory built ui) in them those 
qualities which in the ver3'' nature of events could 
not be otherwise than transmitted to their posteritj', 
and this posterity comprises a large number of the 
men who to-day, like the subject of this history, 
are making a record of which their descendants will 
be equally proud. 

Gov. Luce was born in Windsor, Ashtabula Co., 
Ohio, July 2, ls-24. His father was a native of 
Tolland, Conn., served as a soldier in tiie War of 
1812, and soon after its close emigrated from New 
England and settled on the Western Reserve in 
Northern Ohio. His mother, who in her girlhood 
was INLss Mary Gray, was born in Winchester, \:\. 
Her father, tinctured with Abolitionism, found his 
home in the Old Dominion becoming uncomforta- 
ble as an abiding-place at that time, and accord- 
ingly, with his wife and family of young children. 



be also migrated, in 1815, to the wilds of Northern 
Ohio. There the parents of our subject, in 1810, 
were united in mnrriage, and continued residents of 
Ashtabula County until 1836. There also were 
born to them six sons, Cyrus (i. of this sketch being 
the second. 

The incidents in the earlj' life of Gov. Lnce were 
not materially different from those of other boys 
living on the farms in that new country. He was 
taught to work at anything necessary for him to do 
and to make himself useful around tlie pioneer 
homestead. Wlieu twelve years of age his parents 
removed further West, this time locating in Steu- 
ben County, Ind. This section of country was still 
newer and more thinly settled, and without recount- 
ing the particular hardships and privations which the 
family experienced, it is sullicient to say thatbut few 
enjoyed or suffered a greater variety. Markets were 
distant and difficult of access, the comforts of life 
scarce, and sickness universal. Young Luce, in com- 
mon with other boys, attended school winters in the 
stereotyped log school-house, and in summer as- 
sisted in clearing away the forests, fencing the 
fields and raising crops after the land was improved. 
He attended three terms an academy located at On- 
tario, Tnd., and his habit of reading and observation 
added essentially to his limited school privileges. 
When seventeen years of age the father of our 
subject erected a cloth-dressing and wool-carding 
establishment, where Cyrus G. acqiiircd a full 
knowledge of this business and subsequently had 
charge of the factory for a period of seven years. 
In the meantime he had become interested in local 
politics, in which he displayed rare judgment and 
sound common sense, and on account of which, in 
1848, he was nominated by the Whigs in a district 
composed of the counties of DeKalb and Steuben 
for Representative in the State Legislature. 1U> 
j made a vigorous canvass but was defeated l)y eleven 
j majority. This incident was but a transient bub- 
ble on the stream of his life, and that same year 



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CYRUS QRAT LUCE. 



Mr. Luce purchased eighty acres of wild land near 
Gilead, Brauch Co., Mich., the improvemeiit of 
which he at once entered upon, clearing away the 
trees and otlicrwise making arrangements for the 
establishment of a homestead. In August, 1849, he 
was united in marriage with Miss Julia A. Dickinson, 
of Gilead, and the 3'oung people immediately com- 
menced housekeeping in a modest dwelling on the 
new farm. Here they resided until the death of the 
wife, wiiich took place in August, 1882. Mrs. 
Luce was the daughter of Ohed and Experience 
Dickinson, well-to-do and highly respected residents 
of Gilead. Of her union with our subject there 
were born five children, one now deceased. 

In Novv^mber, 1883, Gov. Luce contracted a sec- 
ond marriage, with Mrs. Mary Tliompson, of Bion- 
son, this State. He continued on tlie same farm, 
which, however, by subsequent purchase had been 
considerably extended, until after his election to tlie 
office of which he is now the incumbent. In tiic 
meantime he has had a wide and varied experience 
in public life. In 1852 he was elected to represent his 
township in the County Board of Supervisors, and 
two years later, in 1854, was elected Representative to 
the first Republican Legislature convened in the State 
of Michigan. He served his township altogether 
eleven years as a member of the Board of Supervisors. 
Iw 1858 he was elected County Treasurer of Branch 
County and re-elected in 1860. In 1864 he was 
given a seat in the State Senate and re-elected in 
1866. In the spring of 1867 he was]nadcamember(>f 
the Constitutional Convention to revise the Consti- 
tution of the State of Michigan, and in all of the 
positions to which he has been called has evidenced 
a realization of the sober responsibilities committed 
to his care. To the duties of each he gave the most 
conscientious care, and has great reason to feel pride 
and satisfaction in the fact that during his service 
in both Houses of the Legislature his name appears 
upon every roll-call, he never having been absent 
from his post a day. 

In July, 1879, Mr. Luce was appointed State Oil 
Inspector by GoV. Croswell, and re-appointed by 
Gov. Jerome in 1881, serving in this capacity three 
and one-half years. In the management of the 
duties of this office he is entitled to great credit. 
The office was not sought by him, but the Governor 



urged him to accept it, clniming that the office wa,-. 
the most difficult Ik; had to fill, and was one wliicli 
required first-class executive ability. He organized 
the State into districts, appointed an adequate force 
of deputies and no more, secured a reduction of the 
fees by nearly one-half, and in everj' way managed 
the affairs of the office so efficiently and satisfac- 
torily that above all expenses he was enabled to 
pay into the State Treasury during his management 
«i;32.000.49. 

In August of the year 1886 Mr. Luce was nom- 
inated by the Republicans in convention assembled 
at Grand Rapids, for the office of Governor O- 
Michigan by acclamation, and on the 2d of Novem- 
ber following was elected by a majority of 7,432 
over his chief competitor, George L. Yaple. Ii: 
1874 he became an active membev of the farm- 
ers' organization known as the Grange. Believing 
as he does that agriculture furnishes the basis of 
National prosperity, he was anxious to contribute to 
the education and elevation of the farming com- 
munity, and thus availed himself of the opportuni- 
ties offered by this organization to aid in accom- 
plishing this result. For a period of seven years he 
was Master of the State Grange but resigned the 
position last November. Fidelity to convictions, 
close application to business, whether agricultural or 
affairs of State, coupled with untiring industry-, are 
his chief characteristics. As a farmei', legislator 
executive officer, and manager of county as well as 
State affairs, as a private as well as a public citizen, 
his career has all along been marked with succes's 
No one can point to a spot reflecting discredit ii 
his public career or private life. He is a man of 
the people, and self-made in the strictest sense. His 
whole life has been among the peojile, in full sym- 
pathy with them, and in their special confidence and 
esteem. 

Personally. Gov. Cyrus G. Luce is high-minder;, 
intellectual and affable, the object of many 
and warm friendships, and a man in all respects 
above reproach. To the duties of his high position 
he has brought a fittir.g dignit3', and in all the re- 
lations of life that conscientious regard to duty of 
which we often read but which is too seldom seen. 
especially among those having within their hands 
the interests of State and Nation. 




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GOVERNORS OF MJCtilGAAf. 



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EUWIN B. WINANS, 

rlio began his duties as 
iovernor of Micliigaii , 
Jaiiuaiy 1, 1891, is a son 
jf the Empire State, of 
which his parents also were 
From German ancestry on 
y;^ the father's side, he derives the in- 
©^@^^ stinets of frugality and careful con- 
sideration of ways and means, and 
these are strengthened by the sub- 
stantial traits of the Puritan fore- 
fathers of his mother. Botii lines 
have transmitted to him the love 
of country and home that has led 
thousands into untrodden wilds where they migiit 
secure tiiat which would be for tiie future good of 
tiiemselves and posterity. 

John and Eliza (Way) AV^inans remoi/ed from 
New York to this State in 1834, and settled on a 
farm in Livingston County, where the boyhood of 
Gov. Winans was passed. He was about eight 
years old at the time of the removal, having been 
bcrn at Avon, Livingston County, N. Y., May IG, 
1826. Up to the age of eighteen years he attemlcd 
the district school, and he then entered Albion 
College, from which he was graduated in 18.50. 
The excitement attendant upon the discovery of 




gold in California had not died out, and young 
Winans felt a sti'ong desire to visit the coast and 
try his fortune in the mines. He decided in favor 
of the overland route, crossed the plains in safety, 
and spent the ensuing eight years in seeking the 
precious metal — a quest that was fairly successful. 

Returning to Livingston County, this State, Mr. 
Winans bought land and engaged iu general farm- 
ing. He has retained the farm as his home through 
all the changes various ofllcial positions have 
brought him, and joyfully returned to it whenever 
his faithful disciiarge of public duty would allow. 
His estate now includes four hundred acres of land 
under a high state of cultivation and improved 
with buildings of the best construction and modern 
design. In connection with general farming Gov. 
Winans has given considerable attention to raising 
stock of higli grades, and his understanding of 
agriculture in its various dcparlments is broad and 
deep. He believes that his success in political life 
is largely due to his thorough identification with 
the agricultural interests of the Stale and no doubt 
he is right. 

The public career of Gov. Winans began in 1860, 
when he was elected to represent his county in the 
State Legislature. He served two consecutive 
terms, covering the period from 1860 to 1865. In 
1867 he was a member of the Constitutional Con- 



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EDWIN B WINAN-S. 



vonlion of the State, and in 187G he was elected 
I'lobate Judge of Livingston County for a term 
of four years. Tiic next imijorlant [josition occu- 
|)ip(l by (iov. Win.'ins was that of Congressman dur- 
ing tlie Forty-eighlii and Forty-ninth Congresses, 
representing llie Sixth District. It was always his 
lot to he nominated for ollice wiien the Democratic 
party was decidedly in the minority, but sucii were 
his personal charncterislics and his reputation as 
one interested in the welfare of that great class, 
the farmers, th.'it in every ease he niaile a successful 
race. When he was put up for C'ongress the oppo- 
sition had a majority in the district of three thou- 
sand votes, but he was elected by a plurality of 
thirty. While in Congress he took nn active part 
in all measures tending to tin; public good and 
served on the Committees on Agriculture and Pen- 
sions. In the fall of 1H91 his name headed the 
Democratic ticket and lie was elected Governor of 
the State. 

In his private life Gov. Winans has been as ex- 
emplary as in his public career he has been useful 
and influential. lie is a consistent member of the 
Episcopal Church and in his religious faith and 
practice has the close sympathy of his wife, who 
belongs to the same society. His marriage was 
solemnized in Hamburg, Livingston County, in 
1855, his bride being Miss Elizabeth Galloway, who 



was l)orn and I'cared on the farm she still calls home, 
as it was bought f)f licr father l)y (iov. Winans. 
She is a daughter of George and Susan (Haight) 
Galloway, who are numbered among the early 
settlers of Livingston County, whither they came 
from New York. She is an educated, refined woman, 
whose mental attainments and social (pLalities lit 
her for the position which she occupies as hostess 
of the Gubernatorial mansion. Governor and Mrs. 
Winans have two sons, George G , who is now act- 
ing as his f;ither's private secretary, and Kdwin H., 
Jr., a graduate of West Point. 

Gov. Winans has in former jears shown himself 
capable of close application to the duties which l.ay 
before him, and his judicious decisions and wise 
course when attempting to bring about a worth}' 
object, are well known to those who aie acquainted 
with the history of the State. Although it is often 
said that it is scarcely safe to judge of a man until 
his career is closed, 3'et Gov. Winans has acted his 
part so well thus far in life that he is confidently 
expected to add to the credit that already belongs 
to the great commonwealth of Michigan, and which 
to a certain extent lies in the hands of those who 
have been and aie its chief executives. Among his 
|)ersonal characteristics are those of a love of truth, 
justice and progress, and a cordial, kindly- sjiirit 
which makes warm friends and stanch adherents. 




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I IE time lias arrived wlien it 
Incomes tlie duty of tlie 
, cnjile of this county to per- 
l)etuate the names of their 
pioneers, to furnish a record 
of their early settlement, 
and relate the story of their 
i.:(-gress. 'I'he civilization of our 
day, the enlightenment of the age 
and the duly that men of the pres- 
ent time owe to their ancestors, to 
themselves and to their posterity, 
demand that a record of their lives 
and deeds should be made. In bio- 
graphical history is found a power 
to instruct man by precedent, to 
enliven the mental faculties, and 
to waft down the river of time a 
eafc vessel in which the names and actions of the 
(Hiopie who contributed to raise this coujitry from its 
primitive state may be preservi;d. Surely and ra[)idly 
the great and aged men, who in their i)rime entered 
I he wilderness and claimed the virgin soil as their 
heritage, are passing to their graves. The number re- 
maining who can relate the incidents of the first days 
if settlement is becoming small indeed, so that an 
actual necessity exists for the collection and preser- 
vation of events without delay, before all the early 
settlers are cut down by the scythe of Time. 

To be forgotten has been the great dread of mankind 
from remotest ages. All will be tbrgotten soon enough, 
in spite of their best works and the most e.irnest 
efforts of their friends to perserve the memory of 
their lives. The means employed to \)revent oblivion 
and to perpetuate their memory has l)een in propor- 
tion to the amount of intelligence they possessed. 
Th ; pyramids of Rgvpt were built to perpetuate the 
names and deeds of their great rulers. The exhu- 
mations made by the arclieologists of Egy|)t from 
V>uried Memphis indicate a desire of those people 



to perpetuate the memory of their achievements 
The erection of the great obelisks were for th.e same 
purpose. Coming down to a later period, we find the 
Greeks and Romans erecting mausoleums and monu- 
ments, and carving out statues to chronicle their 
great achievements and carry them down the ages. 
It is also evident that the Mound-builders, in piling 
up their great mounds of earth, had but this idea — 
to leave something to show that they had lived. All 
these w-ovks, though many of them costly in the ex- 
treme, give but a faint idea of the lives and charac- 
ters of those whose memory they were intended to 
perpetuate, and scarcely anything of the masses of 
the people that then lived. The great pyramids and 
some of the obelisks remain objects only of curiosity ; 
the mausoleums, monuments and statues are crum- 
bling into dust. 

It was left to modern ages to establish an intelli- 
gent, uudecaying, immutable method of perpetuating 
a full history — immutable in that it is almost un- 
limited in extent and perpetual in its action; and 
this is through the art of printing. 

To the present generation, however, we are in- 
debted .for the introduction of the admirable systeno 
of local biography. 15y this system every man, thougl 
he has not achieved what the world calls greatness, 
has the means to perpetuate his life, his history, 
through the coming ages. 

The scythe of Time cuts down all ; nothing of the 
physical man is left. The monument which his chil- 
dren or friends may erect to his memory in the ceme- 
tery will cruml)le into dust and pass away; but his 
life, his achievements, the work he has accomplished, 
which otherwise would be forgotten, is perpetuated 
by a record of this kind. 

To preserve the lineaments of our companions we 
engrave their portraits, for the same reason we col- 
lect the attainable facts of their history. Nor do we 
thir.k it necessary, as we speak only truth of them, to 
wait until they are dead, or until those who know 
them are gone: to do this we are asluimed only to 
pubHsh t-) the world the history of those wliose livf 
are unworthy of iiublic record. 






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FOHTHAIT AND BI0(4KAPIIIC'AI. Al^Hl.M. 



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■S( Al{ ( I.ITK. M.S.. 111.- Pie.s. 

idem «it' the ^Iifliii;;iii .Vu 

lyl ri<-ullui;il ColIciTf. i> .-i hm- 

O^ (i\(' (if \i\v Viiik. Iiiirn in 

Al- 

1 1- 
1m;{7. Ili> ;iiiccst(>r> wore .•iiiKHii; 

tlic i-aily settk'isin Saratoif:) C'(»m)t\' 
and cuine froiii Holland. Likf ninn\ 
%/[^15^ of the men who have t.'tkoii pionii- 
ncnt |io>ition.- in ('(lucational m> will 
as ( iovi'innii'iital atfaii>. I'lcr^idcnt 
(lute is (U'sci'n<k'd fioni paients 
« ho.M' livo wci'c dt'(li<-;iti-<l tip till' 
Mfrricultuial callint;. lli> lather wa,- Hichaid ( lute 
and Lis mother's maiden name was I.iiey Clements. 
When our sulijeet wa.- ele\en years of aije hi.- 
mother died, and the family lieinu lirokeii up. he 
went to live in \'alatie. Columliia ( ount\ . N. '\'.. 




as I'iini-i|.al of the Oak Street .School, where he 
had lieen a pupil. Theie he i-enuiiiied for one 
year and tiien feelinir the need of a more thoiousjh 
|)ieparatioii for lii> chosen profe.ssion. he entered 
till' Sus(iueh,ainia Seminary, actinu .as assist.-inl 
teacher and at the .same time taking; advanced 
work. The want of funds ajraiii compelled him to 
seek a po.Mtion as teaeiier. and he liecame Principal 
of the i)nl)lie school at Chenaniio Forks. N. ^^ 

III 1H.')7 I'rof. (lute came West and located in 
Ionia. thi> State, where he tau!,dit a private school 
foi- several months. In the fall of IM.')!) |k> entered 
the Sophomoic class of the .Viriicultural Collesre. 
lull iluiinii the winter v.acalion of the same \ear 
lie lii'came I'rincip.al of the Ionia .schools. The 
tie.xt year he returned to the colleire and was trrad- 
uated with the (lass of '(>2. which was the .second 
class that was iiraduated from the Michiiran .Vo:ri- 
<-ultur;il t'ollejiV. .Mr. (lute hears the distinction 



in the iiome of .lulin ( oniinir: there he remained of deliveriuii the first oration that wa.- ever yiven 



two and a half years attendini;- the distriet school. 
after which he entered the ( )ak Street School .-it 
Bingliampton, remaining there one year. When 
seventeen years of age lie was cho.sen Principal of 
the First AVard School in Uinghamptun and the 
.second year he seciired .i more res|)f>nsihie position 



l>y a graduate fiom an agricultural college in 
.Vmerica at a college (ommencenient. the lirst cia.s.s 
not having commencemenl exeivises as the major- 
ity of the graduates entered the army when the 
lirst call was made for troops. 

.\fter linishintr his collpge course i'rof. (lute 



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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 



was made Principal of the DeWitt schools, but was 
soon called hack to liis Alma Mater as instructor in 
mathematics. In two year's time he was ijiven the 
Chair of ^[athematics and retained that position 
\nitil IS(j(). finally resignine; it to take a year's 
course of study in tlie ^Sleadville, I'a., Theological 
Seminary. Becouiinu a Unitarian minister lie ac- 
cc))lcd a pastorate in A'ineland. X. .1.. and there 
remained for six years. During the first \ear of 
his ministry he returned to the Agricultural Col- 
lege and entered into the matrimonial relations 
with ^liss ^Iar\' Merrvlees, a sister of the wife of 
ex-1'resident Abbot. After the time of iiis pastor- 
ate mentioned above lie was called to Newark. N. 
.1.. wliere lie remained for two years. His next pas- 
torate was in Keokuk. Iowa, wliere lie spent four 
years and then became pastor of a cluuc-li in Iowa 
City, remaining there for eight years. While in 
Iowa several eminent parishouers sat imder his 
preacliing. Among the number may be mentioned 
the Iion.(ieorge W. McCrary, M. C., and Secretary 
of War inider ex-President Hayes; also Justice 
Samuel F. Jlilh-r, of the United States Supreme 
Court. 

From Iowa City I'rof. Cliite went to Pomona, 
Cal.. and tliere organized a new church over which 
lie was pastor for one yeai'. At this time lie was 
chosen President of the Michigan Agricultural 
College liy the State lV)ard of Agriculture, and 
assumed charge of the institution in INIay, \WJ. 
Since that time he has lieen exclusively engaged in 
the adniinistratix'e work of the college. President 
Clute and his wife have been favored with a fam- 
ily of seven children. Tlieie are four Iwys and 
three girls whose names in order of liirth are as 
follows: William is now (18!)1) twenty-two years 
old; Oscar twenty-one; Lucy eighteen; John died 
at the age of three; Kathai'ine is thirteen years old; 
Kdward eleven and Marian seven. 

In early life President Clute was a strong anti- 
slavery man and naturallv joined the Republican 
parly, but in 1872 he was an adherent of the party 
which favored and nominated Greelej^and at that 
time accepted the nomination for Congress in the 
first district of New Jersey. He was defeated in 
the campaign, since which time he has been inde- 
pendent iu politics, usually affiliating with the 



Prohibition party. While in Iowa he did some 
telling work for the temperance cause and was 
President of the .bjhnson County Temperance .\1- 
liance during the great constitutional amendment 
campaign in that State. It was carried by thirty 
thousand majority Imt the Supreme Court declared 
it unconstitutional. 

President Clute has always been strongly inter- 
ested in .agricultuial matters. When a student at 
IMichigan Agricultural College he was editor of 
the J[est^rn liuraJ, a journal published in Detroit, 
and while in Vineland. N. J., he found time to 
conduct the agricultural de])artment in a weekly 
paper theie ami was a woiker in the A'ineland Dis- 
trict Fair .Vssociation. He w.as for some time 
President of the ^'ineland Farmer's Clul), at that 
time the lai'gest in the United States and having a 
meinliership of four hundred. While in Iowa he 
was for a time editor of the Iowa Stock Journal of 
Iowa City, and in the last named ])lace he liecame 
interested in bee culture, first taking it up as a re- 
creation from the fatigue of his study, but finally 
the liusiness grew until he was al)le to realize a 
crop of seventeen thousand |iounds of honey dur- 
ing one season. 

President (lute is a brother of the Hon. Lemuel 
Clute, a prominent lawyer of Ionia. Mich., and also 
of .Tames ^lonroe Clute, an engineer living at 
Schodaek Landing, N. Y. His father died in the 
'GOs; his motlier in 18,5(1. The degree of Master of 
Science was conferred upon him some }• ears ago by 
liis Alma Alater in recognition of his research and 
discoveries in the scientific field. His busy life has 
not prevented him from becoming a popular lec- 
turer on subjects pertaining to education, agricul- 
ture, temper.ance and other vital questions of the 
d.av. He has also been a frequent contributor to 
the reviews and magazines of the United States, in 
subject matter covering the fields of S|)eculative 
philosophy, physical science and practical ethics 
and education, lie lias written ;i nuiiilier of short 
poems which have received praise from able critics. 

During the brief administration of President 
Clute the college has reached the highest degree of 
prosperity that it has ever enjoyed. A fair meas- 
ure of this success is due to his efforts and ability, 
and from his wisdom, power and experience the 



PORTRAIT AND BlUCiRAPlIK AL ALIUM. 



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('iii'ii(i> (if the Micliiuaii Auiicullunil ( olli'uv mn\ 
confideiilly expect to see the interests uf this in- 
stitution ndvanced to tiie hisriiest i>ossiliit' deuiec 
The hthoyrapliic portiait (if I'lcsidcnl ('lute is 
presented in conncclidii with liis lii(ii>i:iphi( al 
notice. 



I^-^MITII W. liOWKKS. The areatei- portion 
^^ of tlic life of llic ticntlcnian wliosc hioi;- 
ra|)liv we sliall attempt to give lu'hiw, lias 
l)een devoted to aurlcultui'al eallinir. lie 
has now. however, retired from the active pursuit i 
of this class of lalior and is (IcIiLjhtfully situated in 
tlie ph-asant city of Iloweli. Mr. liowers. like so 
many otliers in tlic county, is a native (if the Em- 
pire State, lie wasliorn in Cayiisia County Feb- 
ruary H. IKTi. and is a .son of Wliitaniorc and Susan 
(Ward) JJowers, natives (if \'criM(int and \cw .h-r- 
sey respectively. Tlie furmcr was a mcclianic. 
beini; a manufacturer of wrouijlit nails. lie was 
in the War of 1H12, and haviiiir kept .-i popular 
hotel in the city of New '^dik there met many 
(if the prominent characters in .\mcrican histor\ 
and society. His decea.se took place in IHI.j. In 
New York Stale. 'I"he mother came West and .set- 
tled in Michigan with a sun in 1H35. She died in 
Washtenaw County, this State. Her father was 
Jonas Ward, who is a natix c of New .lersey. and 
who had served as Cajitnin of the New .Icrsey 
State Militia and also as a soldier in the Revolu- 
tionary War. Mrs. Bowers was one of a family of 
nine children horn to her parents. 

The gentleman of whom we are writing i> one 
of a family of eight children. Now. howevei'. he 
is the only living representative of this geneia- 
tion. lie was reared a farmer hul in ( ayug.'i 
County. N. V. There he received a good common- 
school education and after finishing his cour.se was 
engaged as a teacher for a peritid of four vears, 
one year of which was spent in New '^drk :ind the 
other three in Washtenaw Countx. this State, 
having come here in IH8.T.,M'ttling first in the town 
(if Superior, where lie puicha.<ed fifty acres of land 



to which he later added other land, so that he was 
the owner of one liiindred and twenty acres. 
I'heie he lived for thirty-three years. In the 
meantime he acquired a lart;-e amount of other 
lands in the .same count \. 

The years in which our suliject was a.'-.-.ociated 
with the interests, of the town of Superior were not 
coiiline(| xilely to the accnmuhuion of propertv 
for himself !i!one. to the exclusion of other inter- 
ests, for he gave much time and attention to local 
government, hiiving been for a number of years 
Supervisor and also filiingdthcr oflices. In \H(ir> 
he sold out his interest and c:inie to Howell, where 
he purchased one liiiMdred ;iii(l tifty acres of l;md 
lying within the corporate limits of the village, 
and here he has lived ever since. 

The original of our sketch was mai licd in .\la\ . 
I><12. to Mi.ss Charlotte Warner, a native of (ien- 
esee County, N. V. She was a daughter of Darius 
Uarner. She died in IHot; and oui- subject was 
again married two years later in .\pril. IH.')8. to 
Miss I'olly P.lood. of M'.a.shtenaw County, this 
State. Two children are the fruit of this union — 
Kllen and Frank. .Mrs. I'olly liowers passed awa\ 
from this life November 1. IS(!7. 

Mr. Ilowcrs fr.-iternizes with the b'epubliean 
party, believing fully in the doctrines as held bv 
that party. He is a puhlic-.spinted man who is 
ever ready to hel]) on .i worthy enterpri.se and has 
been one of the chief jiromotei-s in the upbuildinsr 
of cliurches. schoolhouses and roads. Havin"' 
.almost attained his fourscore years, he is now one 
of the substanti;il men in every sense of the word 
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rZZFV .1. (.().s.s. .V man of recognized 
literary ability, of liberal ideas, .-ilw.avs 
looking forward into the future for .-i 
broader evolution of the understanding of 
life, our suliject is regarded as one of the most 
intelligent, loyal citizens of this place. He was 
born in Windsor County. Vt.. December I, 1H21. 
His father. Daniel (Jos.*, was born in <TreenHeld. N. 




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H., May 20, 1775. His mother, whose maiden 
name was Sally Tuck, was also horn in New Hamp- 
shire in 1778. and died in Lorain County, Oliio. 
in 1848. His father passed away in tlie same 
State and county .hine 1 1, 1838. The latter was a 
carpenter and joiner, and the proprietor of a farm, 
wliieh he conducted successfully. 

Our subject's grandsire. Tuck (4oss, was a sea 
captain, his ancestors coniinij' originally from Eno- 
l.and. Our subject worked on the farm owned l)y 
his father until lie was fourteen years of age attend- 
ing a district sclmol a portion of the time. He 
removed to Ohio in I 83 (>, making a stay there of 
four years, fanning and attending a school. In 
1842 he returned to New Hampshire and entered 
an academy, where lie remained for one year. He 
then went back to Ohio and studied under the 
tutelage of a brother, who had a collegiate educa- 
tion and was a very skillful teacher. He remained 
in Ohio until 1 8(5 1. working on the farm most of 
the time, l)ut that year he came to Michigan and 
bought eighty acres of land on section 33, Meridian 
Township, Ingham County, the same farm which is I 
now owned by him. 

At the time Mr. (Joss came here there was only 
a small clearing on the place, he having made all 
the improvements which it now boasts. Married 
July 4, 18.50. to Sarah I). Vincent, of Lorain, Ohio, 
the domestic life of our subject has been very 
happy. Three children have been added to the 
domestic realm: Elsie, who was born in 1855, still 
remains at home witli her parents; Mary, born in 
1859, married Benton Moore, who is now working 
the farm whicli Mr. (ioss owns; they have one 
child. Kittle, who is eleven years old; Helen, who 
was born in 1861, married Alplionso Bigelow; they 
also liave one child, Frank, who is one year old. 

Since living on iiis present fai'in, the original of 
oui- sketch frequently worked at his trade, which is 
that of a carpenter and joiner. He is a man of 
correct literary tastes, although he never en- 
tered college. He prepared for Oberlin, but was 
disappointed in pursuing his course. He purchased 
a small farm near the town and on this he lived 
for thirteen years, working at his trade. While in 
Ohio he studied medicine for two years under a 
preceptor, with a view of becoming a physician, 



He was compelled to relinquish the project, but 
from the knowledge obtained from the study of tlie 
suliject, he was enabled to prepare what is known 
as (ioss' Blood Cleanser, of which our subject is 
the proprietor. It is a popular remedy and has 
very large sales. 

]Mr. (ioss is a Spiritualist and is well informed 
on the subject of the occult sciences and religions. 
In [H.ilitics he is a (ireenltackei', having gone to that 
party from the Democratic ranks. While in Ohio 
he spent seven years teaching in the district schools, 
making a si)ecialty of penmanship. iNIr. (ioss has 
lieen a frequent contributor to various leading 
jieriodicals of the State, on subjects of general 
interest. He has contributed numerous articles for 
tlie L.ansing papers. He has Iwen elected to till tiie 
offices of Drain Commissioner and School Inspector 
of Meridian Township. 



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AIMES BOOAN. The farmer owning the 
fine tract of land on section 15, Cienoa 
Township, Livingston County, is a native 
of the Emerald Isle, being there born in 
County Tyrone, November 1, 1826. His father 
was Patrick Bogan, who w.as liorn in the same 
county August 11, 1803. His grandfather was 
Edward Bogan, who was a farmer in Ireland and 
there died in middle life. The father of our 
subject came to America in 1830, being at that time 
about thirty years of age. He brought his wife 
and family of five children with him and first 
settled in New York City where he lived for two 
years, thence moved to Hobletou, N. J., where 
he lived for a time, thence went back to New 
York. He traveled over Rhode Island and Penn- 
sylvania, prospecting for a [)Iace to locate and 
was finally attracted by the glowing reports of the 
new State — Michigan. 

Patrick Bogan came to Michigan in 1836, first 
stopping with his family in Detroit. He then pro- 
ceeded to Genoa Township, Livingston County, 
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spriiiif of 1H;!7 he lii<iiiiilit lii- fiiiiiily liitluT. Iimv- 
iiifj taken ii|) forty a<Mrs wliicli In- was engaged in 
farniinir. 'I'lu'ir lirst home was a log house in the 
Miidsl of the wooils. I'hei'e were at the time nnin- 
licrs of Indians who would have begged tlu-in out 
of house an<l home had they nfit lieen (inn. Thei'e 
were plenty of deer and wolves against which llu'y 
IkuI to guai'd and manv arc the hears that our suli- 
ject has shot. Deer were seen in dro\e> as com- 
monly as sheep now are. 

( )in' snliject's father was a hard worker and not 
a great while elajised before the foit \ acies as- 
sumed the appearance of civilization, and to his 
original purchase he added three eighty-acre tracts 
anil these he farmed as fully as liis agricidtural 
imi)lements and the limited aid that he coidd get 
would enable him. Those were the days of the 
slow ox-team. Patrick Hogan died at the .age of 
seventy-nine years — August l!t. 1H7(>. lie was a 
mi'mber of tlu- Catholic Church and in politics a 
Democr.'it. Ills wife was a fellow countrywoman 
of hi> own. She bore him six children and died 
at the age of tifty-Bve years. 

When only four years of age our subject crossed 
the "three thousan<l miles of wet." lie attended 
school in New York City and later in New .lersey 
and after coming West spent one year in a school- 
room in Detroit, that being a memorable tjue, as it 
wa- lielil in a logsehoolhouseand had slab benches, 
(piill pens and was carried on by the rate bill .sys- 
tem. He also attended one winter — IH:)2 — at 
Howell. In l><.').i our subject went to the copper 
regions of Lake Superior. For sixteen months he 
worked in the nnnes. In IH,")() his fathei- deeded 
him eighty acres of land and l:iler he bought hi^ 
present line faiiii. 

Our stdiject could nnl mi.iUc up lii> mind to 
desert the bachelor ranks until late in life ami has 
now { I81M) enjoyed marital felicity for.seven years, 
his marriage being celebrated February 12, 18«4, 
when he was united to Kate Milet, who w,as born 
in California .'ind is now quite yining. They have 
two children — Mary and Helen and our subject 
only regrets that his happiness has been delayed so 
late. The owner of one hundred and fifty acres 
of land, .Mr. ]!ogan has one hundred acres under 
tho plow; lie engages in mixed farming, a good 



deal of his land being planted in cereals. He also 
raises considerable stock, graded .sheep and cattle. 
Our siil)ject and his wife are members of the Cath- 
olic Church. .Ml'. Hogan is a Democrat in [jolilics 
and is an ardent l>elicver in the divine right fif 
free trade. In 1«H1 lie of whom we write built a 
line frame resideine upon Ins place at a cost of 
^IHDO. It is commodious and comfortable and is 
the happy home of a happy grou]) of people. Our 
subject well remembers when he was obliged to 
take his wheat to Detroit to find a market for it 
and the way of getting there was by an ox-team, 
so that the carriage was slow and expensive. Indeed 
it took about a week to go and return. For eleven 
years the original of our sketch held the otflce of 
Postmaster of what was (Icnoa Station. At the 
I'xpiiation of tliat time it ceased to be a mail sta- 
tion. 



GKOW.K ]•:. HOI (iHTALI.NC.. The enter- 
prising farmer and good citizen whose 
^J nanu' we now give is a native son of the 

Wolverine .stati', being born August 31, 1K36, 
in Lyons. Oakland County. Garrett and Kachel 
(Thomp.son) lloughtaling were his ))arents and his 
paternal grandfather was Richard lloughtaling. 
who was lioni in New York .and devoted him.self 
through life to farming |)ursuits. He came to 
Michigan about IK.S.'i and p.as.sed the remainder of 
his days with his son. ( iarrett, ami soon after his 
decease his wid(^w also pasM'd away. 

This worth}' couple brought to years of maturity 
and usefulness a large family of cliildreu as fol- 
lows: .Tohn. David, Henrv, Garrett, Peter, Mahala, 
Hannah. Ik'tsey and .Margaret, and all are married 
except Peter and Mahala. The father of our 
subject had his birth in New York and was twice 
married, lirst to Lydia (iales. liy whom he had Xwx> 
son. William O. and Samuel t;.,and after her death, 
which occurred in Lyons, Oakland County, he 
married the mother of our subject, who bore him 
one Mm, George. She died in IHGX. 

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and came to Michigan about 1820, settling in 
Wayne County, where he followed his trade at 
Waterford until lHo7, wlien he came to Green Oak 
Towusliij). Livingston County, and establislied 
himself. He was prosperous iu his l)usiness, and 
accumulated a comfortalile comjietency, acquiring 
a farm of about five hundred acres, all of it located 
on section 23. This he improved and cultivated 
and made his home upon it until he was called 
from earth at the age of forty-eight in the year 
1845. His religious convictions brought him into 
union with the Christian Church and his political 
views allied him with the old "Whig party. 

The mother of our suliject was born in Columbia, 
Herkimer County, N. Y., and was a daughter of 
]Moses and Margaret (Morris) Tliompson, who were 
from Xew Jersey, their early home beiug near 
Morristow^n. The father was a farmer and he 
moved to New York, and in 183.5 came with his 
team through Canada to Michigan, being two weeks 
on the road. He settled in the woods where Howell 
now stands and built a sawmill. He was a man of 
means and took up some two thousand acres of 
land in Livingston County and in Oakland County. 
His life in Michigan was cut short hy death as he 
was called away from earth in 1841, wliile living a 
little noi'th of Howell, rind his faithful wife who 
was the mother of nine children, survived him 
until 1807. She died at the age of eighty-five. 

The happy married life of Mr. Houglitaling be- 
gan August 21, 1862, and his bride was Maiy, 
daughter of Heniy and Olive (Carpenter) Randall. 
This lad^' was born in Huron, Erie County. Ohio, 
and became the mother of seven children who liave 
ill evejy way ])i'ove(l ;\n honiir to their f.iithful 
parents, who through their childhood and youth 
gave them all necessary oppoitunities for self im- 
provement and development, .lennie M. is a grad- 
uate of Albion College and a teacher in Howell; 
Mary A., who is an artist, is the wife of Clarence 
Pearce, while the remaining children arc: Edward 
vS., Edith C., Girace O.. Bertha L., and Eva R. For 
more than thirty years our subject and his wife 
have been prominently identified with the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church Mini they mic Iciidcis in its 
■|»ork and social circles. 

The early training of our subject was received 



upon the farm and in the schools of Oakland 
County, and after th"^ death of the father las 
mother was united in marriage with Alva Preston. 
The son remained at home until he reached the age 
of twenty-six, when he liegaii for himself upon one 
hundred and twenty-six acres on section 23. He now 
owns two hundred and forty-four acres although 
he met with a serious loss through endorsing for a 
friend and he was obliged to sell one hundred 
acres in order to pay this debt; yet it is evident 
that he may fairly be called a successful man. He 
has served as Townshi)) Treasurer and Clerk and is 
well-known in every circle of life in Cohoctah 
Township where he has lived since 1847, with the 
exception of four years which he spent in Albion, 
to which he moved in order to educate his children. 
He and his household are among the most highly 
respected members of society in this part of the 
county, and are worthy of the esteem which is 
srranted tliem. 



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; ]OHN II. MOYEU. We are gratified to be 
able to present the life-history of the prom- 
inent citizen of Locke Township, Inghain 
Count}', whose name appears at the head of 
this writing, and whose beautiful home may be 
seen upon section 7. He is a native of Oxford 
County, Ontario, Canada, and was boru .June 1 L 
184(1. Ilis father, .loseph iMoyer, and his niothei', 
Asenath (Tuttle) Mover were natives of New York, 
and his paternal ancestors were of (German blood, 
while on the mother's side he comes of old Englisii 
and Holland stock. His maternal grandfather wa> 
a soldier in the War of 1812 and his paternal 
great-grandfather was a German by birth and a 
Revolutionary soldier in the American army, and 
suffered scalping at the hands of the Indians, who 
were in the service of the British. 

Our subject emigrated with his parents to Ing- 
ham County, Mich., in 1855, and the family settled 
upon the farm which is now occupied by him in 
Locke Township. His father. .Joseph Moyer, estali- 
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of that abode are still standing upon the farm, 

I'lniiiinsj one uf tlic old pidiiccr l;iii(liii;irks <if the 
iifii;lilKirlii)<i<l. Till' Intlicr passed from eartli A|iiil 
11. !«><!•. and liis aood wilV had lici-ii taki'ii fnun 
Ills sidi' Nn\ciiil)or I."). \XM. TIicn liad duiu' a 
"•rcat aiiuiuiit of pioiu'cr work and had lirnnii:li( up 
tlu'ir childivn amidst trials and hardships of wlii( li 
the pri'siMit LftMU'ratioii knows litth'. ())' llicir 
lionscliold of seven ehildren. six are now livinL>. 
namely: .lohn 11.. Peter, llaniiali, wife of Kzra 
Spc.irs. .I.'icoli. .lames, and Mary, wife of (ieoriic 
Piper. 

.Vniidst the seenes of pioneer life .John Mover 
iiiew to manhood. assistinsj his ]);irents in suliduini; 
the wilderni'ss and eiiltivating' the farm, and \ipon 
him the laliors of the home were so severe as to 
irreatl\ limit hi> edueational opportunities, lie 
lieeame an extensive rea<ler and his mental devel- 
opment has lieen mostly that which he has attained 
hy his own forethonijhl and effort, lie was mar- 
i-ied .V|)iil 1."). lf(72. to .Mary .1. Maxon. a native 
of Livingston County and daughter of Klias and 
•Joanna Maxon, formerly of Livingston Count\ . 
In their later years they made their home in Loike 
Township and here their life terminated. 

Three children have brightened the home of 
onr sulijeet. inimely: May. Emery, and .John II. 
.Ir. Mr. .Mover has been a lesident of the farm he 
now owns sinee his boyhood, and he has a fine 
estate of two hundred and sixty-seven acres. In 
lii.s political convictions he is in sympathy with the 
Democratic party, and both he and his good wife 
are leading members of the social circles of the 
township. and are eminently useful in the Wesleyan 
Methodist ( hurch. l-'or one yeai' he served as 
Highway Commissioner of the township and is 
universally recognized as one of it-s solid and in- 
tluential citizens. 



^ILLIAM H. SHOOK. This respected farmer 
living in Tyrone Township, Livingston 
County, was born Novemlicr 2, i8.S!>, in 
Phelps, Ontario County, 2v'. Y., 'where his pareute, 




John and Delilah (Sehad) Shook then resided. The 

fathei- was liorri in the western i)art of Allegheny 
County. Pa., and was twice married; his lirst wife 
was a Mi.-^s Kenyon who bore him four sons .'inil 
one daughter and the second wife(whose name we 
have alread\' given) was the mother of five chil- 
dren, and died at the age of seventy-seven. Her 
rliildren were \\'illi;im II.. Amos. Peter. .Mai\' and 
I'errv ('.. who died at the age of twenty-live, while 
Amos died in infancy. 

.lohn Shook emigrated from New York to .Michi- 
gan in November. 18oK and here made his home 
in the township of Tyrone, where he cleared and 
improved si.xt\' acres of land and lived in tlii> 
townshi]> until his death which took place .March 
2;i. 1.S77. lie was at that time seventy-five years 
old and had long been an earnest worker and de- 
vout communicant in the Meth(jdist K|)iscopal 
Church. His good wife also lived to about the 
same age. dying August 12. IKM9. She was born 
in Pennsylvania and was a daughter of Peter .Scliad, 
whose family name was formerly' spelled Schort. 
He was a fai-niei- in the Keystone State and later 
lived in New York, and finally came to ^lichigan 
about the year 1844. He was the father of live 
sons and three daughters. 

The district schools and the routine of farm life 
supplied the training of this boy and he remained 
upon the farm until he reached his eighteenth 
year, when he began for himself upon a faim in 
I8(>7. i)urcliasing one hundred and twenty acres on 
section 28. Tyrone Township, the ver\- land upon 
which he now resides. This [)r^)perty lie at once 
proceeded to put in first-class condition for farming 
and he has ma<le it of great value. He has also 
taken time to serve his township as Highway Com- 
missioner and his term of service did much toward 
improving the roads of the township. 

Mr. Shook was married ( )ctober 21 . I8('>H. to .Miss 
.Miiia A. Castor, a daughter of Christopher and 
Polly (Hendricks) Castor, who came from New 
York. Mr. Castor was a carjienter by trade and 
died in Hollj- in June. 1889. His wife passed from 
earth four years earlier while they were living in 
Rose Township. To them have been given four 
sons and five daughters and all of them grew to 
maturity. One son, Albert, served bravely in the 



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War of tlie Rebellion and Elisha E. is now^a Metli- 
odist Episcopal clergyman of no little i-epute. 

Kittie May Sliool%, tlie only child of our subject, 
was born November 24, 1869. and is now a young 
lady of culture and refinement. She is a graduate 
of the Fenton Normal school where she pursued a 
thorough course of education and did much to de- 
velop her talents. Mr. and Mrs. Shook are both 
active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and .Mr. Shook is a member and has been for thirty 
years, of the P'ree and Accepted Masons, lie is 
now the only representative of his father's family 
that is left in this country. 



'OHN J. LIVERMORE. The pioneers who 
brought their families to Michigan in the 
early days of the '30s, traveling with ox- 

i/J team and prairie schooner from the p]ast 
and settling upon almost unbroken land with no 
prospect of an immediate income, must have been 
possessed of brave hearts and a wonderful capacity 
for enduring liaid>hi|)s. and tlicv are worthy of 
honorable mention. 

Such an one was the father of the man who>e 
name appears at the head of this sketch, who 
passed through all the hard times incident to fron- 
tier life and with his brave companion forced nature 
to give up her treasures and to provide a handsome 
competency- for their declining years. This father. 
.Tames Livermore, was a native of ^lassachusetts 
who when a lioy went to Maine and there grew uj) 
on a farm. lie Mas a soldier in the War of 1812. 
being a young man at that time, as he was born in 
1789. Ills wife, whose maiden name was Susan 
"Watson, was born in Massachusett> in 1788. 

.James Ijivermore. Sr., the grnndfather of our 
subject, was a farmer who died when his son James 
w.as still a small child, lie therefore had to look 
out for himself and early became independent. 
The parents of our subject were married in Tomp- 
kins County. N. Y.. and resided there until the 
father came to .Michigan in 1836, making the 
journey in a wagon, coming around through Illi- 



nois, and being in Chicago when there were but a 
few houses on the site of what is now known 
throughout the world as the World's Fair City. 

He located in 183.5 upon one hundred and 
twenty acres of wild land, upon section 24, Una- 
dilla Township. There was then no .settlement 
within two miles of him but he bravely went to 
work and having built a log house, broke ten 
acres of land and sowed half of it to wheat. 

In 1836 James Livermore returned to the East 
for his family, bringing them in a wagon drawn liy 
two yoke of oxen, being about six weeks on tiie 
way. He located them on his homestead and made 
that his home until death. He was a hard-working 
man and .accumulated a handsome jiroperty. lie 
added to his farm until he had four hundred acres 
and he cleared and fenced a large portion of this 
and built a log house in 18;)0. The death of his 
wife occurred in 1864, and he passed away in 1H72. 
They were the parents of seven children, four of 
whom are still living, namely: Julia, Mrs. .1. D. 
Reeves; our subject; Susan, Mrs. Silas Richmond; 
and Emma, Mrs. John Richmond. The mother was 
highly esteemed for her genuine Christian charac- 
ter and was an active member of the Presl)yteiiaii 
Church. 

The birth of our subject took place in Tompkins 
County, N. Y.. October 29. 1822. and lie received 
very little schooling after coming West, at which 
time he was fourteen years of age, for he had much 
hard work to do in assisting his father. He used to 
drive six yoke of cattle in breaking the upland 
soil. His marriage took place in December, 1848, 
wlieii he was married to Charity Ann .Sayles. a 
daughter of Benjamin and Abl)y (Pugh) Sayles. 
the latter lieing a native of New Jersey, and the 
former a Xew Y'orker. After their marriage in Toini)- 
kins County, N. Y., they came to Michigan in 1847, 
and settled on section 26, Unadilla Township. Here 
they made a permanent home, adding foi'ty acres 
of improved land to their original eighty and here 
Mr. Sayles died December 19, 1889, at the .age of 
eighty-four years. His widow, who still survives 
in good health, has reached the age of eighty-three 
\ears and of her three children Mrs. Livermore is 
the only survivor. 

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■r(>iii|ikiii> Ciiiinty X. v.. mimI wm^ ciulitci'M \f:iis <it' 
:iiri' when slif (•.•iiiu'lii MicliiLr.'iii. lliivilii; received 
a good eoinmon-.seliool I'diicntion in tiie East, she 
found herself in demand as a teacher in tiii' new 
oountrv and found enii)l()ynienl in this way for 
some time. Iler parents were active memliers uf 
the Methodist Episcopal Cluircli. in which her fa- 
ther was a Class- [^eader. One sister. Sarah, mar- 
ried a Mr. C. 1?. Ko.se, and died in 1H4H. 

After spending one year with Mr. Liverniore's 
parents the y<jnn<j couple l)egan life in their new 
home — a log house upon tiie same site where they 
have now lived for forty-two years. Their eai-thly 
possessions were then seventy-five acres of land, 
all uncultivated, a log house, a yoke of oxen, a 
cow. ten sheep and a pig. Their present beautiful 
home was built in 1870. at a cost of *2.0()0 and the 
barn, which cost ?5(>0, was erected in IK;') 4. Two 
hundred acres form the home faini. all of which 
are improved with the exception of twenty-live 
.acres which are still in timljer. They have both done 
genuine pioneer work and liave passed through 
years of hard labor. 

This worthy couple arc tlic ikuciUs of eight 
children, six of whom are now living, namely — 
Sarah Jane, born October 3, 18;j0, died October 13, 
1852; Mary A, born February 12. 1854, now the 
w^ife of James M. Packard, living at Lansing; 
Abby A., born November 28, 18.')7, is the wife of 
A. A. Wood of Ijinsing, and the mother of three 
children; Susie E., born September 10, 1859, wife of 
William F. Dryei' and living in Bath. Clinton 
County. Mich, with her husltand and two children: 
Julia A., born April 17. 1861. lives at Lansing and 
is the widow of Clark ( ). Chapman, and the 
mother of two children; James 15., born April \9. 
1863, still resides at liome; Eunice A., born Novem- 
ber3.186;». died February 5, 1878; Ch.attie K., born 
November 3. 1872, resides at home. To all of 
these children has been given an excellent common 
."school education, and their inolliei'. who is a mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian Church has conscientiously 
instructed tliem in the faith and duties of the 
Christian religion. Three of the daughters have 
been teachei's and Miss Chattie is now a student at 
the Business College at Lansing. 

The gentleman of whom we write has for many 



years been a nuiiilicr of the School Board and he 
take> an active interest in politics, being an ardent 
Re|)ublican, altiiough he was formerly a Whig and 
then a Know N(jthing. He has filled the office of 
Road ( ommissioner and for twelve years or more 
was an agent for the June threshing engine. He 
worked at the carpenter's business when a young 
man although he never served his time at that 
trade, lie w-as a member of the militia company 
here in whi<-li .Mi-. NVinans, now Gov. Winans was 
one of his coniiades. In this company he held the 
position of .Second Sergeant. He is pleased to say 
that in tiie old days he and his neighbors had 
jolly good times in their log cabins and had no 
reason to envy those who were housed in more 
pretentious homes. 



'OHN N. (JREENE, M. I). The young pro- 
fessional men of Leslie, Ingham County 
are an element in the development of this 
'^^/ progressive little town, and are a centraliz- 
ing force in drawing within its boundaries the best 
per)ple in that section of the county. By their 
character and repute they are adding to the repu- 
tation of the town and giving it a standing among 
the other corporations in this county. None is 
HKU'c thor<nigliiy respected for skill and charact<?r 
than he of whom we now write. 

David Greene was the father of our subject and 
.Mary (Olin) (ireene was the mother to whom he 
owes so much for his early training and education. 
The\' were both natives of Lawrence, Otsego 
County, N. Y., whence they came to Michigan in 
1851, and settled at Rochester. Oakland County,' 
where they sjjcnt the remainder of their days. 
While in New York David (ireene was a woolen 
manufactiu'er, but after coming to Michigan he de- 
voted himself to farming. He died in 1852. at 
Rochester. Mich., and his wife survived him for 
many years and finally p.i.s-ed away in .^|)ril, 188;i. 
In his early manhood the father was in very c(.>m- 
fortable circumstances, but later in life he met with 



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Iiea\\' losses. IJis political views were such as to 
call him to sympathize with the Whig part_v,as did 
most of the Quakers, among whom they belonged. 

The grandfather of our subject was a Quaker 
minister named Edwin R. Greene. He was a man 
of great wealth and resided in Otsego County, N. 
Y. In 1843 he removed to Genesee County and 
spent his last days at Batavia. The Greenes are of 
English ancestry, while tlie Olins, from whom the 
mother of our subject came, trace their origin to 
Wales. The parents of our subject had nine chil- 
dren, n.amely: Phoebe. Sarahette, Emily, Ellen, 
Edwin R., Imogene, William H.,John H. and David 
M. After the death of the father* the widowed 
mother was again married to Jacob Cain, of Roches- 
ter, Oakland County, Mich., by whom she had three 
children. Emily. Edgar and Carrie. 

lie of whom we write had his nativity in Bata- 
via, Genesee County, X. Y., March 22, 1851, and 
grew up upon his father's farm, first in Xew York 
and afterward in Avon Township, Oakland Countj^, 
not far from Rochester. His primary education 
was taken in the district schools and he afterward 
attended the High School at Rochester, and later 
he spent two years in the Literary department of 
the University of INIichigan, although he did not 
remain to take his dii)loma. Even before entering 
the university he had been reading medicine, and 
in 1882 he entered the Medical department of the 
University of Michigan, and after stud_ying three 
years, graduated with high honors in the spring of 
1886. 

The first practice of this young medical man was 
in connection with his brother, Dr. David M. 
(ireene, who was at that time located at Plain- 
field, Livingston County, and afterward went to 
Iosco, where he followed Ids i>rofession until Octo- 
ber, 1888, when he removed to Ann Arbor and 
took a full nine months' post graduate course in 
the Medical department of the university. 

Our subject located at Leslie in .June. 1889. and 
took up the practice which his brother had laid 
down, as Dr. D.avid had been jjursuing his profes- 
sion at Leslie for a year and a half pievious. The 
young Doctor has built up an extensive practice 
and is already considered one of the leading prac- 
titioners of the countv. He is a member of the 



Michigan Medical Association and his views on 
political questions have led him into sympathy and 
atliliation with the Republican party. Still, he 
pays little attention to political movements, pre- 
ferring to devote himself exclusively to his pro- 
fession and his home. 

It w.as in September, 1882, that Miss Jessie M. 
Doying, of Cass City, Tuscola County, this State, 
and a native of that city, was united in marriage 
with Dr. Greene. This lady is the daughter of 
James and Joanna Doying and is possessed not 
only of a lilieral education and more than ordinary 
culture, but also of good capabilities, sound judg- 
ment and admirable social qualities. One son has 
come to brighten this home, little Wilford. to whose 
care and education the Doctor and his wife are 
devoted with true parental solicitude. 



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ci^^HOMAS A. WALKER. Amcmg the notable 
families which the Empire State has be- 
queathed to her younger sister, Michigan, 
none is more worthy of our consideration than the 
one represented b^' the name at the head iif this 
paragraph. Both by character and connections this 
family is entitled to rank along the best in Living- 
ston County, and has for many years lieen known 
far and wide by all who had any acquaintance with 
Oceola Township. 

Mr. Walker's beautiful farm is to be found on 
section 17, Oceola Township, and comprises five 
hundred forty .acres of excellent land, where is 
carried on a general farming business. I'pon it 
may be found two hundred and fifty head of 
sheep, and some ¥12, (KM) Avorth of wool and sheep 
were sold from this farm last year. This gentle- 
man was born in the township of M.anchester, On- 
tario County. N. Y., January 23, 1830. His father, 
Heuson Walker, was a native of Maryland, being 
born near Baltimore, where he had his early edu- 
cation. He there married ilatilda Arnel, a native 
of Maryland, and soon after that union removed 
to New York, and located in Ontario County, 
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for a ft'"" months in Wixsliteiunv Cotinly. iiiui tluii 
roniiuf; on to Livingstoji (uuiity. Inok up I'iulity 
acres of land on section 2',t. 

The tirst lionie of the family m this county was 
tlie one that was liastily erected by them after 
their arrival. It was the log shanty covered with 
liarl<. measiiriiif;- l.j\l.") teet and had a slali lloor 
and stick chimney. In this they lived for al)oul a 
year, after which they built another log house, 
which Inid no floor and there they lived for two 
j'ears. The place was improved and in the course 
of time a frame house was erected, in wliich the 
family resided until the father's death in 1857. 
He was an earnest and active Republican and a 
prominent man in those early days. The mother 
of our subject lived to reach the extreme age of 
ninety-two years, and was the mother of ten chil- 
dren, seven sons and three daughters. 

He of whom we write was five years old when 
he came to Michigan with his parentii. and his first 
education was taken in a log schoolhou.se, with a 
stick chimney and slab seats in Oceola Township. 
He finished his schooling in the log schoolhouse on 
section 21, remaining with his father until after 
he gained liis majority. The happy married life 
of Mr. Walker, began November 12, 1851, when he 
was married to Dorcas E.. second daughter of 
Francis and Dorcas (Smith) llard\. This lady 
was born in Livingston County, N. Y., Octolier.30, 
18.37, and was thirteen years old when she came to 
Michigan with her parents, who settled upon sec- 
tion 17, Oceola Townshi]j. Both parents lived to 
a good old age the father dying wlien seventy-two 
years old and the iiiother living to cdntplete eighty- 
one years. 

The first home of the ynung wedded conjilc was 
in a log house, 2(1x22 feet in dimensions located 
on section 17. Oceola Township. After one year 
in this house they removed to the present location 
and made their home in antjther log house, .\ftei- 
dealing up and imi)i-oving the farm they began 
to think of having a better residence, and erected 
the pleasant house in which they now live in 
18()(t. He fenced his land, .«et out orchards, 
built barns, and put the i>Iaoe in a fii-st-cla.ss con- 
<litiiin. 

With the exception of two who died in infancy. 



Ihc seven ciiildrcn who bles>ecl tlii» primitive home 
have grown up to occup\ positions of responsi- 
bility in the community. They are as follows: 
Sarah Kiiiina was the wife of Charles Young, and 
has now passed from this life; Adelbert resides 
upon a farm in tliis 'township and _ has taken to 
wife .liilia Brown, wiio has presented to him two 
children — OUie and (ioldie; Phtebe J., who is the 
wife of James Filkin, resides in Howell Township, 
and is the mother of tlie following children — .Arn- 
old, Dexter and Herbert; Juddie resides at home; 
and Elsie, now Mrs. Elmer Arm.strong, resides in 
Hartland Township. 

Our subject has two hundred and ^i.xly acres of 
good land on his home place, one hundred acres on 
section 29. all under cultivation, as well as one liun- 
dred acres of finely tdled land in Howell Townsiiip. 
He also has a half interest in a (louring mill in 
Hartland Township, known as the Parshall mill, 
besides property in the city of Howell. All this 
has been acquired by his own efforts, seconded by 
the helpfulness of his faithful companion, as they 
began without capital. He has given his son 
Adelbert eighty acres, a good house and barn and 
all the other appurtenances of a fii-st-dass farm. 
He and his good wife are bringing up a little 
grandson. Herbert Walker Filkin, the son of their 
second daughter. His political views have 
brought him into active co-operati(m with the 
Republican party, in which he has great con- 
fidence, and for whicli he is glad to east his 
vote. 



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^^ HRI.STLVN BREISC H. The Northern Cen- 
IL ^ tral States are so productive of grain that 
^to/' it is not surprising that the milling business 
should have representatives not only in the large 
cities, which are the centers of trade, as in ^linne- 
apolis, .St. Paul, Diiluth "and Chicago, but every 
town (»f any pretentions whatever has mills that 
are equipped with the latest and most approved 
appliances for converting our cereals into the far- 



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inacious products. Many of the largest of these 
mills are owned and conducted by Germans, who 
show special aptitude for conducting the mechani- 
cal portion of the business as well as the broader 
management of exporting, and finding a market 
that shall bring in the highest returns. The city 
of Lansing, being so accessible to the grain dis- 
tricts bj' rail is an important point for shipping- 
grain to the mill, and of the mills of this kind none 
are larger or more important than that of which 
our subject is manager. 

The flnely-equipped mill in North Lansing en- 
joys the general oversight of Christian Breisch, 
who was one of its organizers, the organization 
taking form and becoming an accepted fact in 
March, 1889. It was oHicered as follows: J. F. 
Schultz, President; D. C. Hurd, Vice-President; 
Charles H. Osborn, Secretary and Treasurer and 
Mr. Breisch, Manager. He is also one of the largest, 
in fact the principal stockholder. The North Lan- 
sing Milling Com])any Iniilt their piesent mill in 
1889. The building comprises four stories with a 
basement. It has a frontage of forty feet and is 
sixty feet deep and has a capacity of turning out 
two iiundred and fifty Ijarrels per day. The mo- 
tive power employed is steam and also watei'. 

Mr. Breisch, who is one of the most energetic 
of young men, is also a stoekluildei- aud Director 
in the People's Savings Bank and in fact almost 
every entei-prise that has the least prospect and 
promise Of a successful issue is not complete without 
his name as an active and interested agent. Be- 
sides the mill above spoken of the North Lansing 
Company have leased tlie Pearl Mill. It also has 
a, capacity of two hundred and fifty l)arrels per day 
."ind the motive power used here is also steam and 
water. Both these mills employ the full roller pro- 
cess, by which tloui- is turned out so much moie 
easily and quickly and is also liettei- and whiter 
than by the old process. 

< )ur subject is a native of this State and although 
he has come to the front so early as a liusiness man 
of the best aud highest qualifications, he is still 
very young and much may he expected of him in 
the future in commercial life. He was born in 
Ann Arbor, Mich., July 13, 1863. His father. 
Christian Breisch, Sr.. was a native of Germany 



and was there reared and educated. His grand- 
father, Gotlieb Breisch, was a butcher in the Fath- 
erland, but brought his family to America at a 
very early day, after which he engaged in the 
butcher business. He came to Lansing Township 
and bough a farm, settling at an early day in Ing- 
man County where he remained for some years. 

Our subject's father was also a butcher and he 
engaged in his calling for a number of years. On 
the breaking out of the Rebellion he enlisted in the 
war, first serving as a private, but was advanced 
to an officer's post in Custer's Brigade and served 
until the close of the struggle, when he was hon- 
orably discharged and came to Lansing where he 
engaged in the butcher's business. He was drowned 
in (Trand Kiver at thehead of the race December 
29, 1876, breaking through the ice while attempting 
to cross the river. Oiu- subject's mother was Bar- 
bara Goss. She was born in Germany and is now a 
resident of Lansing where she enjoys the knowl- 
edge that her children have become honored and 
respected citizens, her son taking a prominent 
jilace in the municipal and commercial interests of 
the city. She is the mother of two children. The 
elder, Carrie, is now Mrs. Langenltacher, of this 
cit\'. The younger is our subject. Our subject's 
mother was married a second time to Andrew Lan- 
genbacher. By this marriage she became the 
mother of one child whose name is Robby. 

Mr. Breisch was reared and educated to the age 
of thirteen years in this city. At the age above 
mentioned he went to Marshall and apprenticed 
himself to a cabinet and furnituie m.aker for a 
term of three years. During this time he worked 
under ^Ir. .1. F. (iauss. Then he returned and en- 
tered the employ of D. W. & M. .1. Buck, where he 
remained for seven years. September 1, 1885, he 
left this employ and Mrs. Langenbacher being the 
owner of the Pearl Mill early in 1886 our subject 
rented it and at (mce engaged in milling, continu- 
ing to conduct it until ISKK on his own account. 

In 1888 the old plant was burned during the 
month of Decemljer and soon after our subject 
showed his enterprise Ity immediately setting about 
organizing a company to build up a new mill and 
remodel the old. Both mills have a capacity of five 
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facture of (lour in the State outside of l)eti-oit. Tiie 
coinpany l)uy their wheatat the elevators aiul ship 
to the Kasteiii markets, liavintf a lartre market in 
Liveri)ool and (Jlasjiow. However, most of their 
profliK't.s are sent to Maine and M.issacliusetls and 
they enjoy a large loeal trade. Tlie leading lirand 
whii h is manufaetured here hears the attractive 
name - Jlornins (ilory" and it is a favorite ijrade 
of Hour with hoii.sewives in this |)ortion of the 
eountry. 

Prulitinii: hy tiiea(lvi<'(' liiven in script\nes, that it 
is not iiDod for ni.'iu to liveaU)ne. Mr. Hreiscli was 
ill the city of Lansing Septcmhcr 2(). 1888. to Miss 
Emma Cushing. .She is a native of the Kmiiire 
State, having been horn in that lieautifiil HttU' 
seminary t<jwn — C'azenovia. .She is a daughter of 
Tlioiiias 1\. Cushing. now a real-estate man in l)e- 
Iroil. Mrs. Hrei.sch received lier education for tlic 
most part in this city. She is a charming woman 
with attra(;tive persouelle and pleasing, affalile 
manners. One child has hles.sed this union — a 
(laugher who is called Irene. 

The original of our sketch is a Free and .Vc- 
eei)ted .Mason and has attained to the Koyal .\rch 
degree. He is in liis pDlitical preference a Demo- 
crat and uses his iiitliiencc and vote in llic service 
of that ])art\ . In religious matters he is liluijil: 
his wife, however, is a uiciiilier nf Ihc I'"irst Preshy- 
terian Chnrcli. 



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\l^^ KNin 15. B.VKKH. .V. .M.. .M. I).. IVllow of 
jj, the Royal Meteorological Society of Lon- 
don, honorary nienilicr of the French 
^ Society ot Hygiene. l-",x-l'resident of 
the American Puhlic Hciltli Ass<ieiation. .Sce- 
retary of the Michigan State Board t)f Health, 
etc.. was horn at Hrattlelioro. \'t.. Deceinliei- 
2'.(. 18:i7. He is a son of Kzra and Dcliorah 
K. (Bigelow) Baker, ^\'hell twelve years of age 
he removed. lK)wever. with his stei>-fathei' to Mich- 
igan, his own father having died when our sub- 
ject was but three years of nge. The family >i't- 
tled in Hunker Hill. Ingham Couiitv. aiicl there 



lived about a year, when they removed to Mason 
in the year 18r)(). Our subject's education liegan 
in his native State, and was continued in Ma.s.sa- 
chusetts and Michigan. He left home and Ijegan 
work for hiiiiself before he was fourteen years of 
age. Mild worked and attended school at intervals. 

At the breaking out of the late war Dr. Baker 
was teaching school in .Southern Illinois. He re- 
turned to Michigan and began the study of medi- 
cine, reading with Dr. I. H. Bartholomew, at Lan- 
sing. He attended medical lectures and pursued 
the study of chemistry in the rniversity of Jlieh- 
igan in 18(;i-()2. In the summer of 1862. unal)le 
to longer resist the zeal of jiatriotism, he enlisted 
ill the Twentieth .Michigan Infantry, in Company 
-A, compo.sed of young men from the State capital 
— clerks and men of that st;i1ion in Lansing. He 
served during the first two years as Hospital 
.Steward, and during the last year was As.sistant 
Surgeon in medical charge of the regiment. His 
first two years, however, were memorable ones to 
him in that he was enabled to gain iiiuch lU'actice 
and valuable information in .surgery, being in 
reality an assist.ant at the operating tal>le whenever 
and wherever there were battles in which his di- 
vision was engagi'd. He was jiresent at about every 
battle in which his regiment took part. At the 
clo.se of the war he received .'in honorable dis- 
charge and returned to l.iinsing. where he con- 
tinued reading medicine. 

The next nine months of Dr. Baker's career were 
spent in New York in work .at Bellevue Hospital 
Medical College, in which he was a student: and 
he wjis graduated fitnn this institution in the 
spring of 18(;(;. Immediately aftei- receiving his 
diploma, he returned to Lansing and began to 
practice medicine with Dr. I. 11. Bartholomew, 
i'lie following two years were spent in the jirae- 
tice of mcilieine in Weiuma. now called West Bay 
City. At the exjiiration of that time he again re- 
turned to Lansing in 187(t. as <uie of a coniinittee 
from the .State .Medical St)eiety to superintend the 
compilation of vital statistics collected by the Sec- 
retary of St.'ite. Many of the forms of the tables 
employed in the statistics mentioned (hiring the 
\K\-\ twenty years have been d(\signed by Dr. 
IJaker during the thiiteeii vcars that he had charge 



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Ill' the compilation of tliet^e statistics. When he 
came here, in 1870. he Iji'ousiht with him a bill de- 
signed to create a State Board of Health, which at 
tliat time was an innovation, there being only one 
or two States in the I'nion at that time wjiicii 
were tluis snpplied. The bill that Dr. Baker made 
dift'ereil fnini [treceding ones in that it ]n'ovidc<l 
foi- an advisory lioard. It was not intended to 
usurp functi<jns of local lioards. l)Ut to do a gen- 
eralizing work wliirli they couhl not perform, and 
to collect tlie results of the work of each local 
lioards. which could be compared with advantage 
with the slat istic- from otlier State boards. Dr. 
Baker believed that liy tliis nu'asure a more gen- 
eral knowledge could lie gained of disease and 
successful treatment of the >ame. This |iriiliosed 
bill was discussed with [jrominent members of tlu' 
medical |)rofession and legislators, and other ])er- 
.s<.ins wlio were ca|jable .'ind cojiiiident judge.- of 
the fpiestion offered their suggestions and correc- 
tions, so that the bill was made as |jeifect as pos- 
sible. It was presented to the Legislature of IKTO- 
71 bv Senator C'ravath. then of this count\. It 
did not, however. l>ecaine a law. but doubtless its 
discussion led to a dee|)er com-idi'ration of this most 
important matter. 

Instead of returning to hi.- practice. n> he lia<l 
intended. Dr. Baker remained in the ottice of 
Secretarv of State and was engaged as Superin- 
tendendent in the compilation of vital statistics 
and also the general statistics of ^licliigan of 
187(1. This last compilation was made from data 
collected for the Ninth I'nited .States census, and 
formed .-I \(iliuiie comprising eight liundied and 
thirty-five pages. At the laying of the corner- 
stone of the State Capitol the lion. William .\. 
llowai'd. who made the principal addi'ess on that 
occasion, based his remarks largely upon this sta- 
tistical report, contrasting the resources of the 
State in I>i7(t with a report made to Congress by 
a commi.ssion that visited the State early in its his- 
tory. They leported tt) Congress that there was 
no land in Michigan lit for cultivation, it being 
one vast swam)). In stiiking contrast to this state- 
ment were the facts proved by the statistics in the 
volume which our subject comjiiled. and which 
showed Michigan to be one of the foremost .States 



in the Union in farm |)roducts and commercial re- 
sources. The numl)er of both public and private 
schools and chnrehes compared favorably with 
those of older States, and most particularly wa> 
the health of tlie jjcople proved to be exceptional. 

At the next session of the Legislattire, in 1872- 
7;i. Dr. I. II. Bartliohimew. of Lansina-. first flavor 
of the city, and many times re-elected, was elected 
to the Legislature for the especial purpo.-^e of ad- 
vocating the cstabli.-hment of the State Board of 
Health, according to the bill which our subject had 
previously submitted. His diligent labor through- 
out the session w;is crowned with -ucces-. and the 
board became an established fact .luly H(i. 187;i. 
.\t its first meeting oni subject was unanimously 
elected its pei-inauent Secretarv. which position he 
has tilled to the present time. Tlu' design of the 
board, and the plan of its work had already been 
detcriniiie(l liy the hill, wliicli ha<l hcen framed, 
revised .and perfected by Dr. Baker, therefore the 
carrying out of the jihin. while entailing much 
work, wa- .-it the .-:ime time pleasimt. the cause 
being dear to him. Dr. Baker has brought much 
enthusiasm to the work. For the tirst few years 
the Ikiard had i\ desperate struggle for existence. 
.Not only were the peoi)le at large antagonistic to 
it through iiinorance of the scope and design of 
the work, liut theie was active o[)iK)sition from 
men who tlnjught their money interests antago- 
nized. The movement for the control of danger- 
ous illuminating oil was met with jiersistent o|i[io- 
sition from oil retiners. Dr. Baker ]ierformed 
many expei'iments with oil lamjjs and testing ap- 
paratus foi- the purpo-e of learning the facts as re- 
gards the source of danger, and the results of 
these exjieriments are on record in the earlier re- 
ports of the State Board of Health. 

Our subject has kejjt up his association with the 
City .Medical Society and the State .Medical As- 
sociation, and ha- heen instrumental lu creating 
<ither a-<-OL-iatioii- especially designed for the pro- 
motion of iiublic health. He has been a member 
of thr American I'ublic Health .Association since 
1M7;L and was President of the .V,-.-ociatioii in 
1889-90. He was a delegate to the national con- 
ference of the State Boards of Health, which is in 
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subject has been iiistruinental in estal>lishin^. To 
a certain limited extent it lills the ofliee tif what 
sliouUl he a National 15oard of llealtli, which for 
a few years the National Government niaintainefl. 
The National Hoard of Health was estalilished 
thiouirh a hill introduced in t'onjiress hy the Hon. 
.Inn:i> II. Mc(iowan.of Michioan. at the instance 
of Dr. Haker. who for years has lieen lalioiiiii; to 
thai end. and because of a groat epidemic of yel- 
low fcvei- he was able to see his designs fulfilled, 
t'onirress. however, failing to supi)ort it. the Na- 
tional IJoard came to an untimely end. Dr. Maker 
is also an honorary member of .several medical so- 
cieties, and for many years has lieeu the X'iee- 
I'resident of the .American .Social Science Associa- 
tion. 

In connection with the other work of the Stale 
Hoard of Health, Dr. Haker has used his odd mo- 
ments for the building up of a sanitary climatol- 
ogy. Some of the papers contril)uled are as fol- 
lows: "Causation of Cold Weather Di.sea.ses" and 
••Cau>alioii of I'licuniouia." These papers appeared 
in the annual report of the Michigan State Hoard 
of Health in 1H,S(;. ••Hclati<)ns of certain meteoro- 
logical conditions to diseases of the lungs and air 
passages as shown by statistical and otlu'r evi- 
dences." This appeared in the re|H)rt of I8H«. 
"The Climatic Causation of Consumption," which 
a|)peared in the journal of the .Vnieriean Medical 
Association in the months of .lanuary and Febru- 
ary. 18!»(i. "Relations of Certain .Meteorological 
Conditions to Diseases of the Lungs and Air Pas- 
sages in Colorado," which appear in tlu' trans- 
actions of the American ( limatological .\s.sociation. 
for the meeting liehl at Denver, Col., in LSIIO. 
"Causation of Inlluenza. ' which appeared in the 
report of the proceedings of the .StJite Hoard of 
Health in .^pril. IHitl. The paper "Notes on de- 
lation of Hain Fall and Water Supply to Cholera" 
ai)|)earc<l in the transactions of the American Pub- 
lic Health Association in volume 11. and has been 
favorably eonuiu'Uled upon and u.sed l)y health 
authorities, and regarded with especi.il favor by 
the medical .sficicty in Cidciitt.-i. India, the Imnu'of 
cholera. 

In this series of papers should he mentioned one 
on the "Scientific Collective Investigation of Dis- 



ease" that appeared in the journal of the Ameri- 
can Medical Association in October, 1887. and 
which gives an outline of the .system employed by 
tlir .MichigaM .State Hoard of Health in making sta- 
tistic s of sickness and disease. Also in 1888 ap- 
l)eared an important paper in the joiu'nal of the 
.Vmerican Medicjxl Association on "Malaria and the 
Causation of Periodic Fever." .Vn article on "Ma- 
laria and the Cau.satiou of Intermittent Fever" 
appeared in the journal of the ,\merican Medicjil 
Association October 18. 1890. A i>aper on the 
"Causation of Inlluenza and some allied di.seases, 
with suggestions for tlieii- prevention" was read 
before a section of the American Medical A.ssocia- 
tion at Nashville, Tenn., in .May. IK'.IO. and is a 
sunuuing up of the facts concerning the meteoro- 
logical conditions known to have existed diu'ing 
ei)idi'mics of inlluenza from the year I.JIO to May, 
IJ^'.H). Also each one of the Miinual reports of the 
Michigan State Hoard of Health has contained 
comparative tables showing the relations of mete- 
orological conditions to each of the important 
diseases for the year preceding. 

.Another series of papers, on another to|iic. is 
that written b\ Dr. Haker on the restriction and 
prevention of dangerous conununicable diseases. 
These papers have been prepared and read at 
various sanitary conventions that h.ave been held 
in the St.atc of .Michig.'in. More or less work h.as 
at.so been done by o\u- subject on the several special 
treatises issued by the State I'.onid of llealtli on 
the restriction and prevention of small-pox. sear- 
let fever, diphtheiia. typhoi<l fever. consum|)tion 
and niea.sles. The thirty-eight (me thous:>nd page 
volumes of copies of letters sent out from the 
otlice of the .State Hoard of Health contain ad- 
vice to local olliivis throughout the Stale on pub- 
lie health work. Duiing the existence of this 
board the public health laws of the .State have 
been compiled at three dififerent times under Dr. 
Haker's direction. The last volume is entitled 
"Laws of the .State of .Michigan relating to the 
public health in force in 18b(0." 

Dr. Haker was married to Jliss Fannie II. How- 
ard, a daughter of .Sanford Howard, who was 
at the time Secretary of the .State Board of 
Agriculture, at Lansing. The marriage was sol- 



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emiiised at Lansing. September 9. 1867. They are \ 

till- |i:irent8 of six eliildreii. (h'C sons aiui (nic 
(laughter. Two of the .-^oiis ;ire deceased. The 
livinu' cliitdren are Howard K.. Henry B., Jr.. lUir- 
lon .Vdaiiis and HeU-ii F. Our >nlijeet helped to 
eslalili.sli the .ALisonir lodiic at West Bay City. ' 
and is still a meniliei-; Imt was made a Jlasoii in i 
Lodge \o. .S.'i. ill lyansiiiy. haviiit; entered in 
18.58. He is a inenilier of the .Masonir Chapter. 
.No. 9. of Lansing, and of {'(nnniandei v, Xo. 11. 
K. T., at Ionia. Socially hi- lieloiigs to tlie 1' and 
I Clul>, of ]>ansiiig. 

l^lsewhere in this N-dhinie tlic reader will iiotiee 
a lithograiihie portrait of Dr. Baker. 






CHARLES W. BE.\RDSLEV. I'hi^ popular 
. gentleman lias been engaged in tlic dry 
goods business for over twenty-li\(' yi'.-irs 
and is considered one of the leading merchants of 
Williamston. His father was Whitmore Beards- 
ley, son of Aram Beardsiey of ^'erlnollt. who at an 
early day removed his family to(i('ui'see County. 
N. Y. After the death of his lirst wife he niarriiMJ 
a Miss Barker who became the mother <if Whit- 
more Beardsiey. The grandfather of our ^ulijcii 
took part in the War of 1812. tint followed farin- 
inu through life, sjiending his hisl years in Ivic 
Connty.X. Y. Both he and his wife died in 187(;. 
when each had reached the \ciicralile aue of four- 
score and ten years. 

(ienesee County was the iiatixe home of Whit- 
more Beardsiey. and there he was married to Diana 
X'edder a grand-daughter of .leremiah Spaulding. 
To this couple were born two sons, Charles W. and 
(Jeoi'ge B. In 18ofi the family removed from Eric 
County. X. Y.. to Wheatfield Township. Ingham 
County, and after ten 3'ears Mr. Beardsiey made 
his home in Perry Township. Shiawassee Count\ . 
where he resided for another decade and linallv 
die<l wiiile with his son Charles at >\'illiamston. 
lie was a fur buyer and followed that business for 
a series of years. He belonged to the Order of 
( )dd Fellows and he and his wife were both at- 



tached to the Presbyterian Church. His political 

views led him into sympathy with the Republican 
party and he was a Supervisor both in Wheatfield 
and l'err\- for se\'eral terms. 

He of whom we write had lii> liirth in Erie 
County. \. Y.. in 1841. and was twelve yeai> old 
when he migrated witli hi> parents to ^Michigan. 
I'pon reaching his in.'ijority lie took a position as 
clerk with II. II. Spaulding of Williamston. and at 
the end of six years purchased Mr. Spanlding's in- 
terest and carried on the Imsiness alone for a year. 
After this he was at \ariou> tiiiies in jiaitnership 
with Mr. Bowermaii and witli Mr. Hortoii. his 
father-in-law. but is now carrying on the enter- 
prise alone and has a well selected .•-tock of dry- 
goods, boots and slK>es. He is also one of the 
stockholders in the State Bank at Williamston. 

His inan-iage with ^lary A., daughter of Thomas 
and Sophi.-i Hoitoii. took place in 1875 at William- 
>1on. Fuither mention is made of this po|mlar 
and re^pecled family U|)oii another page of this \-ol- 
iinie. 'l"o our subject and his wife have been born 
three children — George IL. Fred R. and Kate >I., 
and all are still at home. The political principles 
of Mr. ISeanlsley being in sympathy with the Re- 
publican party, and his energy and entei'prise, as 
wed as the contidence which his neighbors repose 
in him have made him a member of the School 
lioard. a Trustee of the village ;iiid President of 
the CoMimou Council. He is an active ineinber of 
the AiK-ieiit Order of I'nited Workmen and 
dee])ly interested in the plans of that oruaniza- 
lioii. 



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ASOX I). ClIATTFirroX wa.- liorii in 
Mount I loll \. I!utl;ind ( ounty. \t.. August 
:'<. 1«;!8. .luiie 2. I8.")l. he came to Michi- 
gan with his jiaients. two bi-others and a 
sister, anil stopjied temporarily with C. I). Woleott 
in X<irtli Farmington. Oakland ( Unnty. while hi> 
father prospec^ted for a home. On the 23d of the 
same month his father bought a farm of Horace 
Ha\'ens. two miles west of the village of Okemos, 



PORTRAIT AM) mofiRAI'lllCAr- ALHCM. 2(i!i 

ill Mil iili.in Tciwiisliiii. liiiiliMiii {'i)mil\. Mini mi (iicuil ( mirl. riiiiiniissiuiiiT of Iii<r|i:iiii (niiiin. 

.Inly 7 fidliiwiiiji' tin- tainilv rcniu\c(l to tins |il;uc. mihI lu-ld thai position tor four voiirs. from \Hti\ 

Tlu' |);uviit.< of our sulijct-t were Daniel and lolMCI). He was also i'lc<-tffl to llic (i(ticiM)f Judsic 

l{i't>i'\' (.Ifwi'It I ( liaUcrloii. The fallior ua> lioni of llic j'ldlialc ( ouii of Iiijiliain ('ouiit\ ami 

l-Vliruaiy \'2. l>^(tH. and was \\h' \ ouui>Vst son of soivcd as sucli from .laiuiary 1. 187:5, to .lanuai\ 

David {'liattcrton. AfK'r Ilic dfatli of liis father 1. IM81. He was I'lcsident of the villatre (now 

he iMirehased from the olhei lieir- tin ulil home- eily) of Mason for tlie vear IH72. 'l"he honor was 

stead where he was horn in \ Ciinont. and tiure lie ronferred ii|ii>ii him of ie|»i-esentin<;' the Sixth 

resided until .Inne. DS.jl. Tlieii' home in Meridian ( (iniiressiona! District of Miehiiran in the National 

was for several yi'ars in a lot; house in the midst i;e|mlilican ( dincnl ion which nomiuMled .Inmes 

of heavily timliered land, lie continued tolisi' (i. Hlaine for I'resident. The additional lionoi- 

thereuntil the time of his death. im|irovini; the was tendered him in IHSl of a|i|iointment as 

farm and iiiaUini;' a home until it iiccamc.-i lieauli- I'liilcd States (Oiisiil lo Aiicklaml. New Zeahind. 

fill iilacc. Iiiit this honor was declined. 

Daniel ( h.attcitoii was an eaiiicsl uoiUcr in the .Mr. Chatterton commenced the |iiactice of law 
iiaptist ( hiircli while residini;- in \'ermoiil .-md was at ( )kenios in IHdI. Thence he iemo\('d to.Ma.son 
an etlicient and aenerous liel|ier. lie died .\|iiil in the spiina' of llStiT) and came to Lansing in De- 
It. |H()(i. ;ui<l his wife followed him eleven ye.iis ciinlier. \XM. While a resident of Mason he whs 
later; both :ii'e interred in the cemetery at .Meri- elected I'resident of the l':irmeis' liaiik. Iicina 
di.iii. Uoth lie .'ind his wife were "j'^'atly beloved elecle<l to this oflice on the oroanization of the 
in the locality in which they lived. They wer<' institution — Iiine 7. IKHti. lie has held that jiosi- 
li\ie ( hiistiaiis and li\cd closely to the |iiincilihs lion ever since. In 1X82 he s|penf one hundred 
that iiui'l*' II"' life of a follower of the iiiceU .•iiid days in Kurope. si ah t -see in a. at the .-anie time act- 
lowly ()iic. in<>' aj^ ^pt'eial corres|)on<leiit of the l,;insina S/nli- 

Mason 1). wa- one of a family of foni children. Republican. 

whose names arc as follows: (Jeoijie .V.. now of In 1888 .Mj-. ( hattertun cummeneed wiiliiii; a 

Mt. I'leasant; Sarah K., the wife of .Vu^n.-^lvis I.. book on the law and iiraetiee in Probate (.'oiirl*. 

Slura''-"^- ""^^ "' ' •kciiios. Inaham County; .md This is bcina puslied to conijiletion as fast as |JO!<- 

.lewetf IC now a resident of .Mt. I'leasant. sibli>. ami from the prospectus it will undoubtedh' 

Our subject w:u- the lirsl student examined ;iinl be a \aliiable addition to legal libraries, .luiie 2. 

admitted to the Aaricultural CoUeae, where he I8(; I. he was united in niarriasje with Jliss Mary .\. 

remained for thicc years. Aftii- that he spent one .Morrison of Okenios. This union has been lilest 

year in tli«' St;itc Normal School, and M:ir<'li 27. by the birth of one child, a son. Floyd M.. who is 

IKfil, a'''"'"''l''"' fi'om tin' la« dcp.-iitmcnl of the now attcndina the .\ai'ifiil"'ial Collejie. .Mrs. 

Michiuaii I iiixersily. receivina tin' dcaiec of ( hatteiton is a dauahter of Norris and .lane Mor- 

Hacheloi of Laws, and .-ifterwanl llic dej^ree of rison. who came to this county at .a very early 

.Master of Science from the Aaiiciiltiir.'il College. day and .settled on a farm south of Okenios. .She 

He determined to divote hiniscif to the leaal pro- was born in Ohio February 2<l. 18;i!». 

fession and went into the study preparatorv for A\'liatever success Mr. Chatterton has attained 

the practice of his chosen callina with ;dl the has been throuah his own exertions. Connneneina 

energy that has char.Mcterizcd his whole student at the bottom round of the ladder he has literally 

cour.<e. .March 2:i. 18(11. he was admitted to the noiked his w;iy tlirouah college. l)oardina himself 

bar of Michigan, and September 2. 1871. to the and living in sk\ parlors. Me knows allot the 

bai of liuted States courts. He has held many advantages and disad\antaai's of being poor, and 

inumciiial ollices. ;uid was .an incumbeii'. of the entertains a true sympathy for those who are bat- 

otfiee of Town C lerk for the township of Meridian tliiig to overcome the ditliculties that lie along the 

for theyeais I SCI -(;2-(!;i: was ele<l(i| to the otiice of patliwa\ of one in ^tijiighteiied ciri'umstaiK'es. 



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He has attained to the degree of Knight Templar 
in the Jlat^onie order. He is a stockholder in two 
banks in the capital city and in one at Leslie. 
The greater part of his attention has been given to 
the practice of his profession, although he has 
dealt more or less in moneyed securities for a 
mini her of years. 






^*L^ EXHY C. KLOC'KSIEM. Among the promi- 
nent liiisiness iirms of Lansing we are 
pleased to mention that of Klockseim A: 
,j Bailey, dealers in real estate, who have also 
a loan office and insurance business in which our 
subject has been engaged for the last nine j^ears. 
He is one of our (4ermau- American citizens who 
are a credit alike to the land of their birth and the 
country of their adoption, and his characteristic 
(ierman qualities have helped to keep him in the 
\;ui among the leading men of Lansing. 

Mr. Klockseim was born in Germany in Febru- 
ary, 1849, and is the son of John and Fredericka 
(Miller) Klockseim. It was in 1854, when, having 
come to this country, he located at La Porte, Ind., 
where he remained for some time. While tliere 
his two elder brothers were in the Tnited States 
niiiiy. and tot)k part in the AVar of the Rebellion. 

At the age of eleven years our subject entered 
the store of John Richter, which was a general 
store and grocery, and remained witli him for 
twelve years, growing up from a little errand boy 
to l)eing the trusted and confidential clerk, and 
finally managing the business when his principal 
was away. ]Mr. Richter is the only man for whom 
M r. Klockseim ever worked, as when he was t weiity- 
llni'c years old he engaged in Ijusiiiess for himself 
:it l,:i Porte, continuing thus for eleven years, 
:i It hough the last eight years of that time he was 
in this city carrying on his business, having a full 
line of groceries and crockeiy. 

It was in 1876 that Mr. Klockseim came to Lan- 
sing, and having carried on his store for some time 
successfully he closed it out and with Mr. S. H. 
Miller opened an office for the transaction of real 



estate, loan and insurance business. This partner- 
ship continued until the death of Air. Miller in 
ISSS, wlien our suliject associated with him Mr. 
.1. W. Bailey, and in this connection has remained 
ui) to the i)resent date. 

At the present time the gentleman of whom we 
write is not officially connected with any corpora- 
tion .although he has been connected with each of the 
banks. He has been the Alderman and Supervisor 
of the Fiftli Ward for two years, and also of the 
Fouitli A\'ard. which is in both cases quite remark- 
alile. as both wards are strongly Democratic while 
he is an ardent Republican, and has been such from 
the time he cast his first majority ballot. He is a 
member of the Knights Templar of the Masonic 
order, and of the Royal Arcanum, and is .also a 
member of the Blue Lodge of Masonry, having 
been made Mason at the first meeting of the Lodge 
after Jie was twent3'-one years old. 

The happy marriage of our subject took place 
Feliruary 1, 1870, and he w.as then united to 
Miss Anna R. Walter, of Sandusky County, Ohio, 
and to them have been granted one lovel)' daugh- 
ter — Lilly E. ;Mis. Klocksiem was born in San- 
dusky Count}-, Ohio, and is the daughter of .John 
L. AValter, a farmer in that region, and one of the 
most prominent men in that section of Ohio. The 
beautiful residence which was erected by our sub- 
ject in 1888 is in a delightful part of Lansing, 
and is considered one of the finest residences in 
the citv. 



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representative of one of t 
of Livingston Count}-, as 



<^ ]/,ILLlAM K. HOSLEY. We have here a 

the first families 
the grandfather 
of our subject came hither from Madison County, 
X. v., in 1836, and settled in Deerfield Township. 
Here he took seven hundred and twenty acres of 
Government land, all covered with heavj- timber, 
and lived upon it for many years, subduing it 
from the condition of a wilderness to that of a 
highly cultivated farm. His first home was a log 



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huiiM' .•mil lii.- (';iilit'sl iH'iirlili()r> were lii(li;iii>. .\li>. llo.-lox. Tlii?- uentleiiian i- :i Proliihitioni^t 

while the licst i(i;i(l\v;iys wliii-li lie Iniiiiii \\<tc In- in hi.- political views mikI like his fiithcr is m I'lii- 

(lian trails and hiaziMl ticcs «irr llic milv >ii;n : \cisalisl in rclisjioiis liflicf. lie came tu .Mii-liitran 

posts at :iM c'Mi l\ (law lieilijT one of tlu' 1ii>t in Livii)<r- 

W'illiani llosli'v. a son of tliis pionctT. is now a 1 ston ( iimit\. and settled at Oak drove where his 

letiied farmer and has seen many years of exjier- ■ son William K. was limn. He had six hundred 

i<'nce and lalior. ;is he was'liom in Snili\:in. .M:\di- and foity acics of hi-a\y timher and estalilished a 

son County. N. \.. .Inly 7. \X'2\. and is the son of stoiv. besides the mills o| whi<li \vr liaxc ali'eaflv 

.Joseph .and S;irali ( Xorlhrop) llosley. who were spoken, and in I H« 1 renio\ I'd to m t:irm on .-eetioii 

natives of \ ernmnl .•md New York respectively. ; K!. wheic he resided until l.s!l|. when he removed 

'I'hcy had two sons, our suhjecfs father. William to the \illai;;e of Howell, lie. like man\ othcis. 



and Holland. His politi<'al views lirouiiht him into 
alliance with the Demociatic |iMrty and his relifr- 
ioiis comictions made him a niemher of the I'ni- 
versalist Church, while his wife was .-in earnest 
Methodist. 

William llosley recei\'e(l liul .i limited education 
and remained .at home lakinii chariic of the farm 
until the death of his paient.s. when the property 
i-ame into his po.ssession. He lived on the same 
for ni;in\ years and tinalh purchased :\ iirist mill 
and a sawmill .-md now own- one hundred .'ind 
forty acres of lan<l hesides having- <>iven .a f.arm to 
each of his sons. His seven children .arc Miner. 
Betsey. Ivlij.ah. ( arric. William, l-'.sthcr ami l-lmma. 
The chihlren are all mairied .and each one has pre- 
teiited their proud father with beautiful i>i;ind- 
childien. Aliner marrieil >Iiss Clara Kneeland 
and hi- three childicn are Lula. l'>[\y and I'.d.-i: 
l-ula lieiiiL; now Mrs. Dickerson: l!etsc\ is .Mrs. 



had a very decided touch of the uold fevei. and in 
puisiiil of tli.at precious metal traveled to Pike's 
I'e.ak and New Mexico. 

\\ illiam K. llosley. who is LainiiiiL; on section 
l;!, of Howell Township, has :\ line tract of one 
hundred and fort,\' acres . -111(1 is .also a liiiyer of 
stock of all kinds which he ships to Detroit and 
Buffalo. lie li.Ms a lie:iutifiil home o\'er which pre- 
sides the lady who liecaiiu his wife. Shi' was 
known in in r maiden da\s .as .lanet .Millar, .and 
her home previous to marriau'c w.as in Detroit. 
The liirthplace v( oui' suhject w;is ( »ak (iidve. I,i\- 
iiiiistiui County, and he tir.<t saw the liiilit .lune 
24. l8/)2. He had his eilncation in his new home 
and started out when eiiihteen \eais old selliiiii 
nursery stock, and Ir.avcled for four \fais. 

.Somewhat later our suhject tia\eled toC.alitVu- 
nia as airent for a .sewing- machine and spent some 
two years upon the co.ast. and it was upon his re- 



Miller, who has two children. Belle .•iml Stephen. I luni 1o M ii-hig-.-iii that he estalilished his home .and 



and as Belle mariied .Mr. I'urdy and has one child. 
Claude. William Hosley is now a trreat-uiandfalhci-. 
Klijah mariied Maria I,!iw-tliei- and has three chil- 
dren — William. Nellie and May: C.arrie is now 
^Irs. Nickel and has oiie child. Millrose: Msther. 
now .Mrs. llcardsley. h:is live children —l-",tliel. 
Maud. Claud. I-loyd. and an unnamed infant. and 
Knima is Mrs. Oreen. whose two children are Clyde 
and .Mabel. 

The mother of this famih. to whom William 



look Id himself a wife. Mrs. IIosle\ 's iiarent.-". 
Willi.-uii and .l;iuel .Mill.-ir. .■ire Scotch b\- birth and 
came to Anieiica about IMdC. ;ind settled in De- 
troit where Mr. .Millar carried on .-i wholes.ale ui-o- 
cery store, but has now retired from busine.-s. His 
Ihiee children are .Mrs. llosley. Belle. ( .Mr.-. M'illiain 
Cross), and Lillia. 

Aftrr marriauc the origin.al of this sketch came 
(into llie farm where he now re.-ides and has j-e- 
mained here, except .is he has gone away oeeasion- 



llosley was united in 1H|1. bore tlu' maiden nann' [ ally to buy stoi k. lie and his lovely wife are the 

of Jliss Kliza Beach. She died in iHiMI. and Mr. | h.'ippy parents of four childi'en — (Jrace. Blanch, 

llosley is now united with .Mrs. Deboi-.ah .1. ( :ii dell. : ( airicaiid \\ illi.am .M. The mother of these little 

ilaughter of Lemuel :ind Mary Fuller, who li;id I ones is a iiiadliate of the ||iir|i .School of Detroit 

ten ehildren. ()nly two of the uumbei- .-i re now I .and is hiirhly educated boi h in music and in a lil- 

living. Ml-. .M(d-'ai-land of Jackson. .Mich., .ind erar\ w:i\ and is a woman of more th.an ordinar\ 



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talent. Mr. Hosley is one of the prominent and 
leading men in the county and thof^e who are 
associated with him in the movements of the 
Democratic partN- predict still greater success in 
life. lie has already filled several minor offices 
and has been both successful and satisfactory in 
the discharge of his business. ■ 



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AY C'ADV. This ])rogressive, intelligent 
and thrift\- agriculturist, who enjoys the 
confidence of llie liusiness community re- 
sides on section .S 1 . Leroy To^vnship. Ing- 
liani County. He is n native of AVayne County, 
^lich.. and was liorn .Ianuar\ 11, 1H34. His i)arenls, 
David anil 3Iary (Ihitton) Cady. were Iwth natives 
of the Empire State, who became early settlers of 
Wayne C<iiuity. Mich., and had born to them a 
large family of children, the following being the 
s\u-vivors; Lewis, David. Clinton, Jesse, (ieorge, 
Aruna, .lay and William. The grandfather Cady 
was a Revolutionary soldier and his memory is 
highly honored in the family. During the early 
years of Wayne County, the fatiier served as .Jus- 
tice of the Peace and 'was iirominent in pulilic 
affairs. 

.lay Cady grow u)) amid the scenes of pioneer 
life and early took up llic \v(^rk of a farm. His 
early education fitted him for practical life, 
although he did not go beyond the curriculum of 
the district school. His wedding day was .June 29, 
1856 and he was then married to Martha Coyken- 
dall who was born in Xew York November 22, 
1832. She was the daughter of W. Coyken- 
dall of the Stale of New York and of (Ger- 
man extraction. When a child Mrs. Cady emi- 
grated with her parents to Wayne Countw Mich., 
where they became pioneers. 

To our subject and his worthy wife have come 
four children, only two of whom are now living, 
namely: Omar and Nelson E., while the two who 
have passed on to the other world are Clara and 
Wells. Tlie brothers and sisters of Mrs. Cady are 



Jerome and Cyrus who lives in Branch County. 
Mich.; Nelson who lives in Montcalm County and 
Sophro'nia, wife of George Rash, whose home is in 
Washtenaw. 

In 1857 our sul)jectcame tolngham County and 
made his home in the forest, where now lies his 
richly cultivated farm. He first built a log cabin 
18x24 feet in dimensions and lived therein until 
1886. at which time he erected the attractive resi- 
dence which is now the family home. He now has 
fifty-five acres of rich and aralile land and in the 
accumulation of this property he has been ably 
seconded by his faithful helpmate. He is a Demo- 
crat in his political convictions, and is earnestly 
devoted to the ]nogress of that party, but has 
never been an otHce-seeker. Both he and his 
worthy wnfe are highly esteemed among their 
neighbors and his reputation for integrity and 
fair dealing is known throughout the county. 



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ANFIELD W. COLE. During the dark 



.^AN.IL 

OfXs' 



of the Civil War, Michigan did her 
share in supplying troops to defend 
the honor of the old flag and maintain that union 
of States which h.as proved to be the strength and 
glory of our nation. The record of those sf>ns. 
whom she sent forth, forms a story of hardships 
nobly I lorne. battles braveh' fouglit, marches sturd- 
ily undertaken, and imprisonment nobly endured 
from motives of purest patriotism, and it is with 
pleasure that the l)iographer takes up his pen to 
give a life sketch of any one of these heroes, 
among whom we are glad to name the gentleman 
who is represented in this narrative. 

Mr. Cole was born April 12, 18;51,in the State of 
New York and is therefore now sixty years old. 
Ilis grandfather, Daniel Cole, was born in Connec- 
ticut and his father, Timothy Cole, was. like him- 
self, a native of New York and a farmer. Betsey 
Canfield became the wife of Timothy Cole, and 
to them were granted ten children, three daughters 
and seven sons and our subject is the seventh child 
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Till' rliildrcn of Tiiiiotliy Mini lU'tsey ('<.le Mre 
MS follows: ConlcliM. hoiii AiiLjiist "21. 1M19, the 
wilt' of < ). II. Bnicc ami tin- iiiollu'i' of three sons: 
CliMrles ((leccMsed). horn Ocfolier 1.'), IH-Jd Mnd 
inMiriecl to MMiifMiet I'Mtteison liy whom he had 
t W(i eliihlren ; ( mIIsIm. horn Ailiiust 10. 1^21. who 
married William T. .1. 'I'ucki'r of Wisconsin, is the 
mothei' of ten children; (u-ori^e II. who was horn 
Decemhcr (J, 182;{ and married to Susan (iillett hv 
whom he is the fatherof three children; K. .M. horn 
Septemher 5. IHiC; William II. horn .Inly 2. 1H2H, 
and lives in KMnsa.s; our suhject horn April 12. 
11^31; .lames horn ^lareh 11, 1882 and live.s in 
Ohio; Temi)erMnce T.. deceased, horn April 19. 
IH.'VI and married Mr. ]{oper hy whom she had one 
chilli: .Vlliert A. horn Novemher :W. IS.'JG. 

He of whom we write had his hirtli in New Yoik. 
His first wife, Sarah Eli/.alieth \anHuren, hy name. 
was a distant relative of President ^'an]^uren. To 
her he w-.as united ajxin Christmas Day, 1859, and 
their wedded life extended over a (leriod of twenty 
vears, as she died Septemher .'JO, 1H79. His second 
union hrou^ht to his home Mai'v .V. Ila.-kin to 
whom he was married in ^liehiaan. She lived 
some ten ,vears after her marriage with him, dying 
June 14, 1H89. The present Mrs. Cole hore the 
maiden name of Kmily J. Coon, and she became 
the wife of our suhject in 1H90. Her social inter- 
course is in\icli restricted on account of her afflic- 
tion hy deafness, which is a great drawback to her 
enjo.yinent of society. 

In early life Mr. Cole learned the trade of a har- 
ne.ss-maker in A'ew York, but has not adhered to 
that business through life. While in Pennsylvania 
he carried on a farm and after he returned to New 
York he learned the trade of a carpenter which he 
worked at for some time after coming to Michigan 
in 181)2. In 18(il he eidisted in the defense of his 
country".'- banner, joining Company (i. Tenth 
Michigan Cavalry, and was a member of the arm\ 
until the close of the war when he was mustered 
out and received an honorable discharge. 

Our subject is carrying on general farm work 
and keeps upon his place the usual amount of good 
stock which is to be found upon a tirst-class farm 
but does not make a specialty of this branch of 
agricultui-e. In years past he has belonged to the 



( )rder of ( )dd Fellows, hut is not now- an active 
memher of any six'iety except the (Jrand .\rmy of 
the Ueiuihlic. He is upon the pension list of the 
I'nited States which he richly deserves on account 
of the biave lighting he did dining the war. He 
is a lirm believer in the doctrines embodied in the 
jilMtfoiin of the Ivcpuhliran pMrly but hi.- interest 
in thecMU.-eof tcmperMnce leMils him to cast his 
\ otc foi- Piohihition whenever he has an op|)ortu- 
iiit\. He attend> the Free Methodist Church. 



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OL. KKEDKHK K .SCIINEIDKH. This gen- 
'^, tleman is interested in several branches of 
(■' business, viz: Notary public, conveyancing, 
real estate, insurance, foreign collections, exchange 
Mild passage agent, moneys loaned and invested, 
ami titles examined. His office is located at No. 
224,1 .North Washington Avenue, Lan.sing. in his 
own block, which comprises Nos. '2'2'2 and 224 
North Washington Avenue. This block is an im- 
posing building, having stores below and flats and 
offices in the second and third stories. It is in the 
center of the business part of the city, and is in 
demand for every department for which it was 
built. 

Col. Schiieiiler is loyal to the State in which he 
was horn and feel- tli;it having given him life, it 
will also give him n maintenance among the peo- 
ple with whom for years he has been associated. 
He was born at .Saline, W.a.shtenaw County, Mich.. 
Xovember21. 1811) and i.- a son of I'eter .Schneider, 
now deceased, who wa? a farmer. and a man largely 
engaged in business at and near Detroit where he 
was a resident from boyhood. Our subject spent 
the lirst three years of his life at .Saline, when with 
his parents he removed to the city of Detroit. His 
mother was before her marriage. Mary Huehle. 
a daughter of John \'alentine Huehle and his 
wife Susanne (Kronenwett) Huehle. Our subject's 
paternal grandfather was Balthasar Schneider. Both 
jiaternal and maternal giaudparcnts and live other 
German families came to this country in 1832 and 
settled at Detroit, they being, so far as is now 



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known, the first German families who came there 
to make tlieir liomeis, or iiidocd. who settled in 
what was then the territory of Michigan. John 
Valentine Ruchle. .Sr.. was a distinguisiied citizen of 
Baden, (kninany. having been an officer in the 
War with Najjoleon. and also .serving as Burgo- 
master of liis native town for a number of years. 
He was a man of intelligence and energy, bound 
to succeed wherever placed. 

Shortly after his marriage, Peter Schaeidcr re- 
moved to Saline. Washtenaw County, but soon re- 
turned to Detroit where he again engaged in 
ousiness, living part of the time on his farm which 
is now incorporated in the city. There he engaged 
in dairying, stock-breeding, manufacturing and 
building. He remained until IKTfl, when he sold 
tint all his interests and removed to White Bear 
Lake, Minn., ten miles nortii of St. Paul. There, 
with three of his sons, he engaged in farming on a 
large scale and carried on his agricultural interests 
ver^' successfully until they were checked by his 
death which occuried December 31, 1878. The 
death of his wife had occurred three months before 
his decease. They left a family of seven children 
comprising four sous and three daughters, who are 
as follows: Frederick, the subject of our sketch, 
who is the oldest member of the family now living; 
John Henry, Peter and Charles William. Mary. 
Sophia and Caroline. Peter Schneider w.as a 
cliarter memlier of the old Washington Lodge of 
the Indejiendent Order of Odd Fellows of De- 
troit, the first lodge that w.as organized in this 
State, and an active memlier of the old Fire Depart- 
ment of Detroit and of the Detroit Scott Guards, 
and was an ardent Free Soil AViiig. 

Our subject received both a common school and 
academic education in Detroit and afterward grad- 
uated from Biyant and SlrattonV Commercial Col- 
lege, of the same city. AMjen he had tinished his 
education he went to Chicago, and was there em 
ployed .as a ti'aveling agent, and later became a 
shipping clerk for a wholesale grocery and com- 
mission house. Before leaving iiome he had be- 
come a member of theDetioit Seott (iuards. an old 
military orgaiiization tlial iiad beiMi lirsl organized 
by his uncle, .1. A'. Ruehle..h.. in 1840. lie being its 
fust Captain, afterward Major in the First 3Iichi- 



gan Infantry in the Mexican AVar. .and later a 
Lieutenant-Colonel in tbe Sixteentli Infaiitiy in 
the AVar of the Relielli(^in. 

Our subject remained in Chicago as a shipping- 
clerk until tlie first call foi- troops made by Pre.;ident 
Lincoln. April 1.5, 1861, on which day he enlisted. 
He was not an untrained soldier for he had [irevi- 
(ju.-ly drilled witli the Detroit Scott Guards and 
with the Ellsworth Zouaves of Chicago and was 
familiar with military drill. The next d.ay after 
his enlistment at Chicago he received a tele- 
gram from the .Secretaiy of the company in De- 
troit, of which he was still .an honorary member, 
stating that the whole company had enlisted, and 
tliat he (the writer) had saved one jilace for Mr. 
.Schneider. •■Would he come.'"" Our subject im- 
mediately had bis Cliicago enlistment caiuelled . -111(1 
wired back tliat he would come to Detroit by the 
next train, which he did. The call was for three 
months" volunteers. The Chicago firm for wliom 
he had been working .-issured iiim that iiis salary 
should go on, which the}- paid him, .and if he came 
back he sliould have his position again. Young 
Schneider entered the company as a private and 
was soon after sent to the front, hiscomp.any being 
the second to offer its service in this State, follow- 
ing the Detroit l^iglit (iiiards liy only twent\- 
minutes. This early response to the call for volun- 
teers gained his company the option of second place 
in the First Regiment, or first place in the Second 
Regiment, and it was decided to take the first posi- 
tion ill the Second Regiment, which was being 
formed simultaneously with the First Regiment. 
In the meantime, the War De|)artnient had ordered 
that only one regiment should be mustered from 
Alichigan for three months. All others must enter 
for three years, or for the duration of the war. 
,•111(1 thus his (■(impanv was the first that enlisted 
tortile three years" service. 

Mr. Schneider was mustered into the United 
States service on Alay •25, 1861. Prior to tliat time 
he was ))idinoted to be Company Clerk and from 
that |iost to Cor)ioral. He wasaihanced from that 
position toSergeant and a> Mich wm> mustered into 
the United States service in Company A. of the 
Seconcl Michigan Infantry. He served with his 
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all its niMrclu's. >kiriiii>lK'> and halllcs, with tin' 
I'xc'i'ptiiiii of lw(i engafit'inenls that took place 
while lie was a piisoiior <>f war and at the same 
tiniesiifferiii<j from a wdund. lie held nearly every 
position in tiie rejjinient durintr its term of ser- 
vice, from i)riv!ite to Colonel and was the last Com- 
niauder of his regiment. During the war he was 
twice wounded in liattle, and once seriously hurt, 
while t)n a march, at which time his regiment was 
engaged in the famous seven da\s' light during 
(Jen. McCellan's change of h.a.se on the peninsula. 
Col. Schneider fell into the hands of tlie enemy at 
three different times, escajjing twice. The last time, 
however, he wai* re-captured and held a jjrisonerof 
war at Petersburg, Liliby Prison. Salislmry Stock- 
ade and Danville, and was finally exchanged 
February 22, IHfil, rejoining his regiment tlie day 
after the storming of Petersburg. lie would have 
taken ])art in this engagement had he ni>l been re- 
strained liy order nf the Provost Marshal, wlm 
tirdered that all nu'u arriving be held back until 
the first results of the grand advance were known. 

After rejoining and a.ssuming command of his 
regiment. Col. Schneider was ordered after the sur- 
render at Appomattox, to Wii-sliington, and was .ts- 
signed to duty with his regiment as Provost (uiard 
at the Capitol. He remained at this post until 
finally mustered out of service with his regiment 
Jul^- 2^, 1865, after which he came home with the 
men who had been associated with him so inti- 
mately throughout that desperate struggle. A 
joyous and grand reception awaited them on their 
return, and a few days after tlie regiment w.is paid 
off and disbanded. Col. Schneider having .served 
for four and a liaif years. 

On returning again to the life of a civilian. Col. 
Schneider was married .Viigust 22. 18(>.") to Miss 
l^izzie .Strengson, of Detroit, a daugliter of Chris- 
tian .Strengson. He had made arrangements to soon 
thereafter go into business at Kansas City. ^lo.. 
but was induced lo relinquish the project and ac- 
cepted the nomination of City Treasurerof Detroit. 
His acceptance was made by the urgent advice of 
his numerous friends and relatives (m the Republi- 
can ticket, but the ticket was defeated the follow- 
ing November in the siibseciuent election. In 
Jauunry, 1866, a clerkship was offered him in the 



Auditor-Genciars office at Lansing, by Audit<>r- 
(Jeneral Kniil .\nneke. This he accepted and en- 
tered on the duties of that olHce February 1, lH(>fi. 
and after being an incumlient of that position for 
one year, he w,is (domoted to the positi<m «jf Chief 
of the -Vbstract Department, which place he held 
until December 31, 18'.MI. covering a period of 
twenty-five years, minus one month. There lieing 
a change of administration, he resigned, his resigna 
tion to take effect December ;{1. He went out with 
the old administration, having served llic State for 
a (luartcr of a century. 

Ill lHfi7. Col. Schneider was appointed agent loi- 
Central Michigan of an old foreign exchange and 
baiikiiighou.se in New York, which aiiiiointment he 
still holds. Shortly afterward he was appointed 
correspondent of the German Imperial Consulate, 
and has ever since been engaged in making foreign 
collections, outside of his otlicial duties. In 1870 
he. in company with his father and two of his 
brothers, invested in wild lands at White Bear 
L.-ike. Minn., and becairiC interested in farming 
on a large scale. In the year of 1885, he sold 
out his land interests in the State of Minnesota and 
invested in Lansing city property, erecting the 
Schneider Block on North Washington Avenue. It 
is a. handsome brick and stone structure, three 
stories and basement in height, having forty-four 
feet frontage and being one hundred feet deep. It 
coni])ares favorably with any of the business lihn'ks 
of this city. 

Since oursul>ject's retirement from State service, 
he has greatly enlarged his business in foreign col- 
lections, and has added real estate, lire and life in- 
surance, to whicii he devotes his attention at the 
present time. Socially Col. Schneider is as pop- 
idar as lie is well known in the city of Ioni- 
sing. His wife is a whole-souled, intelligent, .-iiid 
cultured woman, whose presence would be in 
itself a means of insi)iration and impetus to any 
inaii. Slic w:i- liorn in ( iermany February 2. I8I(i. 
at Tuttliiigen in Wurtemberg. and is a daughter 
of Christian .Strengson formerly a niei-chant and 
Government otlicial in his native city in fJermany. 
He emigrated to the I'nited .States and settled in 
Detroit about 18511, where he ciigageil in business 
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1888, he being at that time eighty-five years of 
age. Miss Siren gson vvlio came to Detroit in her 
infancy, was educated in Detroit in the same school 
in which our subject was a student and remained 
at liome with lier parents in that city until her 
marriage. 

Five children have been the issue of the marriage 
of our subject .and his wife but only two still 
live, namely: Charles Frederick, born at Lansing 
August 14, 1866, who graduated from the Michi- 
gan Agricultural College, and was awarded the de- 
gree of Biichelor of Science in the Cl.ass of '85. 
He afterward took a post-graduate course, passed a 
creditable examination, and was admitted to the 
United States Signal School at Ft. Meyer, Wash- 
ington, D. C, from which, after graduating he was 
assigned to duty as oliserver in the United States 
signal service .at Colorado Springs and Pike's Peak. 
He there remained until October, 1888, when he 
was transferred to the station at Detroit, where he 
is still on duty. He has a home and family of his 
own, having been married May 6. 1890, to Miss 
Carrie Kasl, of Detroit. The youngest of our 
subject's children is a davigliter, Elizabeth Helen, 
who w.as born .July 28, 1889. Col. and Mrs. 
-Schneider are members of the Plynioutli Congre- 
gational Church. They have u pleasant home at 
No. 716 Seymour Street, where they have lived 
since May 12, 1866. 

The attention of the reader is invited to the 
lithographic portrait of Col. Schneider, which is 
presented in connection with this sketch. 



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1 OBERT M. LAMOREAUX. The prosperity 
and progressiveness of Ingham County, and 
. \\\ indeed of Michigan itself, is largely due to 
^^ the unllagging efforts of the newspaper 
men of this section, who from the time the first 
printing press was set up in the Wolverine State 
have persistently and intelligently called the atten- 
tion of investors to the riches to be found in the 
soil, the waters, the mines and the cliniate of Mich- 
igan. The resources of the State were here Just as 



much in that early day as they are now, but of 
what avail would they have been to the people of 
the overcrowded P'.ast had they not been advertised 
in the columns of these newspapers. It is therefore 
with peculiar pleasure that the biographer responds 
to the call to give a sketch of the life of any one 
of the newspaper fraternity. 

Mr. Lamoreaux, the editor of the Ingham County 
Republican, which is published at Leslie, was born 
in Steuben Country, Ind., February 8, 1865, his 
honored parents being Henry and Martha (Jones) 
Lamoreaux, whose native Slates are New York and 
Ohio respectively. They are married in .\ngola. 
Ind., and now make their home at Battle Creek. 
Jlich. Henry Lamoreau.x is in moderate circum- 
stances and carries on a farm C)f eighty acres near 
Battle Creek, Mich. He has been a Republican all 
his life but has never been in oHice as he pieferred 
to devote himself to his cho.'-cii vocation of .-i 
farmer. Both he and liis gu(.)d wife are earnest 
and conscientious memljers of the ^lethodist Ei)is- 
copal Church and the parents of four childrin: 
Charles, Robert JI., Lee and Anna. 

The subject of this sketch is tlie second child in 
age in his father's family and grew u)) upon the 
fiiriii in Scott Township, Steuben County, until he 
reached the age of eight years, at which time his 
parents moved to Fennvillc. ^Vllegan County, Mich., 
and four years later removed to Calhoun County. 
The district school gave this boy his elementary 
education, which was supplemented by attendance 
upon the High School at Battle Creek. He re- 
mained with his father, assisting him upon his 
farm, and learning practical lessons of industry, 
perseverance and thrift until he reached hismajoi- 
ity, when he determined to learn the piinter's 
trade and entered the olHce of the Daily Moon. a( 
Battle Creek, as an apprentice. He remained in 
that office for three years and subsequently work- 
ed at his trade in Kalamazoo, Decatur, and South 
Bend, Ind. 

Somewhat later the young printer conceived the 
idea of making an independent start in the news- 
pa])er line and going to Augusta, Mich., he pur- 
chased the Augusta Chronicle, which he published 
for a year and a half, after which he sold out and 
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Mich. .Vfter operating this paper for a few inuiitlis 
Mr. l,;iiiiorcaiix went to Detroit and worked on 
llie Ecen.iig 2^etvii for a short time, after wliicii he 
came, on New Year's Day, 1891, to Leslie, and 
l)ouglit out the Ingham County Republican^ the 
organ of the Republican ])arty in this section, liav- 
mg nt the tin\c a circulation of live hundred. 15y 
lii> punhaM' lie icmU t-iitirc cliarge of tlic papei 
and is now sulc I'ditor and proprietor. 

.Ml'. I^aniurcaux, as is natural to one in hi- ])osi 
lion, lako a Ui'cn intcrol in pulilic affairs and i> 
specially inteiotcd in the movements of the He- 
(nililican party, which he I'eprcscnts. Ileisa warm 
Mclvocate of temperance and ji member of the order 
of (lood Templars. Ilis marriage which took place 
Si'ptemlier 8. 1891. brought to his home Clara I?., a 
daughter of William and Maria (Connor) Wick- 
ham, of Calhoun County. Midi. Two years prior 
to her marriage, Mrs. Lamoreaux was graduated in 
stenography and type-writing and has become a 
faithfid partner in Imsiiiess with her husband. On 
November 1. 1891, Mr. Lamoreaux ventured still 
further in the journalistic tide and established tlie 
Battle Creek Tribune, a firm adv(x-ate of Republi- 
canism. Ilis lirst issue came out the week of elect- 
ion giving Oiiio's victory. In Battle Creek he has 
taken up liis permanent abf>de with oflice and 
hon.seliold, and already ranks among tlie foremost 
citizens of tlie place. 



GEORtxK DINCKEL, the present efficient 
- and popular .Supervisor of Locke Town- 
sliip, Ingham County, whose home is lo- 
lated on section 28, was born in Ontario, Can.a<la, 
.luly 24, 1829. His parents were Nicholas F. and 
Catherine Dunckel. and both were natives of New- 
York and of (ierman ancestry on both sides. Their 
progenitors settled along the beautiful Mohawk 
Valley in New York several centuries ago, and 
many of them were valiant soldiei-s in the Revolu- 
liitionary War and also in the War of 1812. 

WluMi Init a small boy oui- subject emigrated 



with his parents to Micliigan when it was yet a 
Territory, and for several years the family resided 
in Wayne County, whence they removed to Liv- 
ingston County, and resided there for a lime, 
coming to Ingham County in the fall of 1842. 
Here the family made its home in Locke Town- 
ship, and both parents died in this new home. Of 
a large family of children born to them the fol- 
lowing survive, namely: .Mrs. Mcginenjii. (Jshea 
O., Daniel, George, William and .Mrs. Cornelius 
Diet/.. 

The father of our subject was one of the repre- 
sentative i>ioneers of this county, and had reached 
his eighty-sixth year when he pa.ssed from earth, 
his loss being greatly felt in the neighborhood. 
His son George was reared to manhood in Locke 
Township, amid the scenes of pioneer life, and did 
his full share in the clearing of the forests and 
breaking up of the virgin soil. Ilis father was a 
carpenter and joiner, and at the age of eighteen 
the young man decided to learn his father's 
trade, and follow^ed it for over a quarter of a cen- 
tuiy, becoming a contractor and builder, and em- 
ploying at times a large number of h.inds. It is 
claimed that he has built as many barns and mills 
in Ingham County' as any man who can be named, 
and much of his handiwork is still to be seen in 
the residences and barns of Locke Township. 
I For the last few years Mr. Dunckel has devoted 
' him.self exclusively to agricultural jmrsuit.-i. He 
received the rudiments of his education in the 
early district schools of this county. His own ef- 
fort.* have made of him a well-read gentleman 
and lie has earnestly co-oi)eratcd with every effort 
to advance the best interests of the comniunilv. 
His marriage with Lydia Hill, September 30. 1855, 
l>rought him eight children, of whom the follow- 
ing survive: Marcena, Lina, Robert, Kdmi and 
Stanley. 

The present .Mrs. Dunckel became the wife of 
our subject in July, 1884, and she has l)orne him 
one son, Moses. Before her union with him she 
was a widow, Mrs. Henrietta Fairbanks. Mr. 
Dunckel now owns two hundred and seventy-six 
acres of land, most of which is well cultivated. 
He has served for a number of years as Treasurer 
of Locke Township, and is now upon his third 



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term as Supervisor, where lie is serving with credit 
both to himself and his constituents. He is one 
of tlie leadino- agriculturists of Ingham County, 
and is a public-spirited and enterprising man and 
warmly interested in the movement of public af- 
fairs and the progress of the Republican party, to 
which he is deeply attaciied. 




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[l^\ RS. MARY A. CURTIS. Until within a 
few years there has been a cruel practice in 
vogue in Hindostan in which the widow 
of a deceased husband immolated herself 
upon the funeral pyre of her deceased spouse in 
order to pi<jve beyond a doubt her fidelity and 
loyalty. In more enlightened countries that same 
devotion is better proved bj- living, and taking up 
the dropped threads that have fallen from the 
nerveless fingers of the departed, the loving sur- 
vivor completes the. fabric, making it harmonious 
and lovely. Thus has done the lady whose name 
is above and whose biogra]jhy it is our pleasant 
privilege to here chronicle. 

Our sul)ject is tlie vvidow of Benjamin Curtis, 
who was born in Madison County, N. Y., August 
21, 181(). Ills parents were Victory and Mary 
(Tucker) Curtis, natives of New Y'ork, whence they 
came West in 1836 iind settled in the town of 
Howell, where they spent the remainder of their 
lives in farming, passing away at a good old age in 
this State. Mr. Curtis received his education in 
his native JState and came West with his family. 
He was reared a farmer and became the owner of 
two hundred and eighty acres in this county. Dur- 
ing his life he was honored liy tlie appointment or 
election to various offices in the township of Handy 
He lived here fifty years and during that time his 
interests became entirely bound up in the place; 
lie died in 1874. For many years he had been an 
ardent Democrat, adhering strictly to the original 
principles of the i)arty. in their purity. 

Mr. Curtis and our subject were married .June 
14, 1838. She wiiose name is at the head of this 
sketch was prior to lier union with ]Mr. Curtis, Miss 



Mary A. Bush. She was born in Danby Township, 
Tompkins County, N. Y., February 26, 1816. She 
is the daughter of John and Hannah (Dykeman) 
Bush, natives of Pennsylvania and Connecticut, 
respectively. They were married in New York 
where he was engaged in farming and in 1H37 
came to Handy Township, where he first took up 
two hundred and seven acres of land from the 
(xovernment. He at once built a comfortalile log 
lunise, which, however^ during the first summer 

; was without doors or chimney. He cleared the 
farm and at the time of his decease owned over 
seven hundred acr^ of fine land. On first coming 

I to the State the country was very wild and the shy 
denizens of the forest had not yet learned to be 
fearful of man. Mr. Bush frequently went out 
before breakfast and killed a deer. Politically he 
was a Democrat. His death occurred June 19, 
1862, his natal day having been November 4, 1793. 
Mrs. Curtis' mother died November 17, 1879; she 
was born October 5, 1794. Of four children she 
of whom we write is the oldest and only surviving 
one. The second one was Eilecta, who married Mr. 
A. Barnard. David, and INIaria who became Mrs. 

' Sylvester Tanner. 

Mrs. Curtis was educated in New Y'ork at a dis- 
trict school and after completing her course .she 
taught for five terms in her native State. She 
came West with her parents, tliej' taking the lake 
route to Detroit, and thence coming hither liy 
private conveyances. They stopped im the way 
Brighton, Livingston County, Mich., at a store and 
while there Mrs. Curtis engaged to teach school, 
taking charge of the school two weeks, and having 
been tlie first teacher in that village. She taught 
for three months and received 11.50 per week and 
her board. Her first school was in Conw.ay Town- 
ship and w.is kept in a-shanty with a bark roof 
and Hoor. 

The original of our sketch is a lady of unques- 
tionable culture and refinement. After her mar- 
riage and giving up her teaching she engaged in 
farming with her husband, being his co-partner and 
worker until his death. Six children came as a 
pledge of their wedded .affection, four of whom are 
now living and all being men and women grown 
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ter. .lustiiiii. i> .\Ir>. Kiios Sowli's. n( Howell Towii- 
jiliip; she is tin' iiK^tliei- of two cliildivii — Mary an <1 
Hosji. ArmiiUlia is Mrs. ('. lIoi)kins and iias Hmk' 
children — Eva, Lottie and Amelia. Uiial niaiiied 
Miss Harriet Winer. By a former wife, Hannah 
Hyae, lie is the father of tiiice chihlreii — Xellie. 
Myrtle and Lloyd. Frank II. nuuricil .lulia Tomp- 
kins and is the father of three ehihlren — Fred. 
Clyde and Nellie. Permelia. who lieeame .Mrs. 
Adams, died in lH(!;i, leaving oneehild. a daughter. 
Carrie. Mrs. Curtis rents her homestead and re- 
side'^ in a beautiful home in Fowlerville. .She is 
known far and near and lier friends are man v. 



_ A. D.ViaVIX. .Vniony the fainilie- who 
*^ came to Miehiiran early in the "30s. is 
the one represented by the gentleman 
whose name appears at the head of this 
paragraph. They went throuufh with the \isual 
experienees of early settlers, and liravely endured 
hardships and helped to luiild up a pio>i)erous and 
intelliirent eommunity for future fjeneralions. 
Searccly enough praise ean be .said in honor of 
those early families wlio builded bettei- tli.in lhe\ 
knew, and wliose worth ean only be appreciated 
by Iheir ehihlren and by those who study deejiiy 
into the real root of the present we.allh and hitih 
>tanding of the Wolverine State. 

Sclli C. Darwin, the f.alhei- of our sulijeet, wa.~ a 
native of JIas.siehusetts. wlio married a woman of 
his own State, Wealthy .Merrill by name, and made 
his home with her in IH17 in Monroe County. N. 
Y. There they lixed until l^>;i."). when he eanu- to 
.Michig.an and bought land in Maiion Township. 
l-i\ingstou Counl\-. taking live liundred andsixt\- 
acres of wild l:nid. lie returned to New York and 
resided theie for .-ieveral years, and then came lo 
.Mi<higan and nia<le his home for a year with hi.- 
>on S., after which lie moxcd into a log hou^e 
in .M:nion Township, where he lived for a nnnilier 
of year>. After thi,- he sold his property there 
and moved li> Ann Arlioi. where hi> daughter was 
making her home, having m.arrieil Dr. Iluttdii. of 



the I'niversity, who, after leaving the University, 
practiced medicine in Detroit. Setli Darwin had 
lost his wife in IHl.'i, and he survived her many 
years. They were the pai-ents of eight children, 
four of whom ari' now living. 

He of whom we write was born in Pittslield. 
Mass., March 2>f, lHi;j. and was granted a common 
school education and such advantages a.s lii.s 
friends I'ould secure for him, and came tf> Michi- 
gan when he was twenty-three years old. He .>-et- 
tled upon one hundred and twenty acres in Mai'ion 
Townshi]). Livingston County, and here he 
brought lii.^ bride, to whom he was united in mar- 
riage Marcii l.i. lH3(i. This lady. Sarah Ann I5ul- 
lard by name, was born in Ontario County, N. Y.. 
in 1MI7. Before liringing iiei- on he had built a 
log house, and as they were very poor, and .Mi-s. 
Darwin was anxious to help forward not only in 
the civilization of their new home, but in the 
family expenses, she taught school at Ypsilanti foi- 
one term. Their log cabin was of the most ininii- 
tive kind, as it had no floor and no gable end. 
They built the fire next to the logs, as they had 
no regular cliimney. Indians and wild animals 
abounded, and venison was easy to procure. 

Fight acres of land was soon cleared and wheat 
sow-n in it. and in winter he jiroceeded to fence 
his land. They were a robust and healthy young 
eouiile. and greatly enjoyed this camping-out 
kind of life. and. like the sparrows, tr\isted in their 
Heavenly leather that their food would not fail. 
During the few years that they lived there they 
|)Ut >ixty acres under improvement, but linally 
sold out and, coming to Putnam County, settled 
upon (Uie hundred and twenty acres that had been 
partly improved and had uinm it a <'oiiifortable 
frame house. 

In 1H()3 they had the misfortune of losing their 
home and everything it contained by lire, luit Mr. 
Darwin promptly rel)uilt and erected a jilea.sant 
and commodious home, in which he has lived ever 
>ince. One liundred of his broad acres are now 
under cultivation, and twenty still remain wood- 
l;iiid. .Mthough now much past hi- threescore 
years and ten. he carries on the farm with the hel]) 
of a hueil man. Two daughters and one son were 
granted to thi.- excellent couple — Fllen A. and 



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Frances A. have both taught, and Frances is now 
the wife of Charles Stickles. The son. Edwin A., 
was killed bv a tree falling upon him when he was 
twenty-four years old. He left a wife and one 
child. The mothei- is .an earnest and etHcient 
member of the Congregational Church, lint is now 
an invalid and confined to her bed. which is a 
severe trial to all the family. 

Mr. Diirwin has tilled a number of important 
official positions, having been a member of the 
School Board, and in Clarion Township he was a: 
Constable for two years. He is a temperate man 
in his habits, and in his political opinions .sympa- 
thizes with the Republican party, in which he 
takes a great interest. He has been a hard worker 
all his life, but still enjoys excellent health. He 
began without means, as he received nothing from 
his father, and his success is entirely due to the 
combined efforts of himself and wife, who have 
worked in harmony for the success of every 
endeavor. He has some inventive genius, and has 
a bean planter which is entirely his own design, 
and which he h.as been using this year, operating 
it with a single horse, and planting ten acres jier 
day with it, which is a great improvement upon 
the old methods. 



ifc i > 1 1 1 I » I I 



"if OSEPH FRANK. .Tust north of Fowler- 
ville may be seen a beautiful farm, which is 
adorned by a handsome residence and has 
•^g/ flrst-class farm buildings upon it. There is 
a beautiful orchard, and in its fields and its stock 
barns are to be seen the finest grades of stock, such 
as Short-horn cattle, Shropshire sheep and fine- 
grade horses. This is the property of the gentle- 
man whose name we have just given, who came 
to Handy Township. Livingston County, in 
1874, and purchased one hundred and twentj- acres 
of land. 

Our subject was l)orn in England. February 22, 
1845. and his parents were .lames and .Sarah 
(Bradlej-) Frank, who came to America in 1852, 
and made their first home in New York, where for 



three 3ears they engaged in farming. After that 
time they concluded to try their fortune farther 
west, and coming to ^Michigan, purchased a farm 
of eighty acres in Conway Township, Livingston 
County. This new home was a heavily tim- 
bered property, and they took up their abode in a 
log liou.se. This place is now finely impmved, 
and upon it may be found as good a house and 
barns as may be seen in many a mile's ride. 

The father of .lames Frank was a farmer in 
England, aftd bore the name of .John. Of his 
family of five children two still survive — Hawkins, 
who remained in the old country; and .lames, who 
became the father of our subject. The niaternal 
grandfather of our subject was also, an English 
farmer, with a large family of children, only two 
of whom. .Sarah. Mrs. Frank, and her brother. 
John, have come to this country. James and. Sarah 
Frank had thirteen children, and eight of those 
are still pursuing their earthly career, namely: 
Our subject, William. Hannah (Mrs. Cassiday), 
Alice (Mrs. (xould). Elijah, James, Nelson and 
Sarah (Mrs. Kingsley). The father lielongs to the 
Union Lalior party, and is one of the i)rominent 
men of this belief in Conw.ay Townshii). He has 
I held various township offices, and his services 
have been uniformly satisfactory to his constitu- 
ents. 

.Joseph Frank was educated in the district schools 
of Conway Township, .and lived at home until he 
was eighteen years old, when he began farming in 
an independent waj'. and bought in Conway 
Township eighty acres of timber land, which he 
proceeded to clear off. Somewhat later he sold 
that property and came to Handy Township. He 
has held various township and .school offices, and 
has been especially useful as Commissioner of 
Highw.ays. It was in 1871 that he married Mi.«s 
Joycie Tanner, daughter of John .V. and Nancy 
(Gould) Tanner, both natives of IMichigan. Four 
children iiave blessed this hajipy home — lay. ^Fin- 
nic, M.ay and G. I). 

The Democratic party embodies in its declara- 
tions the principles which ;\Ir. Frank believes to be 
most conducive to the prosi)erity of the country, 
and he there ftue gives to it his vote .and voice. He 
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1-Vllows. Mrs. Frank is possessed of a liberal edu- 
cation, liavin.ii- eonii)leted lier studies at Ilowell, 
and slie is an aetive woriier in tiie Sunday-soliool 
and clnircli. liemi;- connected witii tlie Metliodist 
Episcojial Cliurcli. 






E0H(;K K. RANNEY, U. D.. Suifreon of 
^^ Second Michigan Cavalry. Biography treats 
of the individual; it is not history. His- 
tory treats of men in the mass; it is not biography. 
Still, tlu' two are intimately and all but inextri- 
cably intertwined. Twin sisters they are, looking 
on each other with the kindliest smile; both feed- 
ing the lami)S of knowledge, but pouring pure their 
oil from different vessels. 

\'erv forcibly are we reminded of this remark of 
Bayne's in the present sketch. I'p to a certain 
point it is biograi)hy, pure and simple; then it be- 
comes biography and liistory in about equal pro- 
jjortions; then once more it returns to biographw 
and history disappears, still leaving behind it. like 
tlie rivers of California, golden sands too precious 
to remain ungatliered. 

The good State of Michigan has received the 
best of compliments for the excellence of its sol- 
diers in the great war of the I'nion from that grand 
old jjatriot, (ien. (ieorge II. Tlumias. We tmce 
heard a dying Massachusetts otticei- say that siie 
"was equally good in infantry, cavalry, artillery, 
and the corps of engineers." But high as the com- 
pliment was, it does not give her the full meed of 
praise tliat slie deserves. The green sash had its 
honors as well as the red; the yellow tlag its mis- 
sion as well as the stars and stripes; tliei'e were 
times when the knife of the surgeon was as indis- 
pensable and required as much fortitude in its 
proper use .is tlie sword. The writer of this sketch 
well remembers a day, after the greatest of all our 
l)attles, as the wounded lay in thousands and the 
surgeons were few. when lie would willingly have 
given up all other kinds of knowledge save one — 
to know how to make a proper u.se of a box of 



surgical instruments. With the modesty of true 
science, the results of their labor liave been re- 
corded, but too often we are without record as the 
danger and cost at which those results were 
achieved. Only, then, has biography found its 
true use when it possesses the power of transfusing 
character into the reader, and where it widens into 
history, causing our homage to the nation to tran- 
scend our homage to the man. We honor the phy- 
sician who has bravely maintained his post during 
a pestilence, if he lives, as a hero; if he dies, we 
lament him as a martyr, and erect an enduring 
monument to his fame. Why not similar honor be 
given to the hero-surgeons of the war? and among 
others, to our modest friend and worthy fellow- 
citizen, Surgeon Ranney. of the Second Michigan 
Cavalry .' 

In modern sketches of biography we notice that 
increasing attention is given to the question of an- 
cestry. As in animals, so in iimn, there is a general 
law of heredit\ that asserts itself too plainly to be 
denied. The time was when Coleridge remarked 
tliat "the history of a man for the nine months pre- 
ceeding his liirth would probably be far more in- 
teresting and contain events of greater moment 
than all the threescore and ten years that follow 
it." It was ridiculed as a siieculation far more 
curious than useful. But it is so no longer. The 
received opinion now is that character is the result 
of innumeralile influences from without and from 
within, which act unceasingly thrbugh life. AVho 
shall estimate the effects of these latent forces en- 
folded in the spirit of a new-born child — forces that 
may date back centuries, and find their origin in the 
life and thought and deeds of remote ancestors — 
forces, the germs of which. enveloi)ed in the awful 
mystery of life, have been transniittcd silently 
from generation to generation and never jjcrish.' 
All cherishing Nature, provident and unforgetting, 
gathers up all these fragments that nothing maybe 
lost, Init that all may ultimately re-a])pear in new 
combinations. Each new life is thus the heir of all 
the ages, the possessor of qualities which only the 
events of life can unfold."* Especially in the life 
of a ph^'sician, to give some particularsconcerning 

•(Jen. Gartields Oration on the Life and Character of Gen. George 
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lii> |i;u'eiitat;t' i> not hi iiuirli a luattfr of laudable 
pride as of seientitiu iiifoniiatioii. Many things 
that will liert'uftei' ajipear in this sketeli. arc thus 
readily aeeounted I'oi that woidd not lie under- 
stood otherwise. 

(ieorge K. lianney was lioin .liuie 13. 1)^3'.*. in 
Hatavia. N. \.. the tounty town of (ienesee. and 
alnnist e(|ui-distant from lUiffalo and Rochester. 
Ills father, urandfatherand ureat-arandfather wen- 
liorn in .\shlield. .Mass. His father's name was Joel 
lianney: that of the old jjatriareh. who eame to 
New Enuland from .Scotland in Ki'id. Thomas Raii- 
ney. .Many of liis descendants liave been men of 
intUience and position, and not a few of the family 
are still found in their original county of Frank- 
lin. It is something to come from a stock that has 
sta\ing qualities and does not run out; it is some- 
thing more to inherit the perfpnu'dinu iiujeiuiim 
Scoto'niiii; aii<l in this respect, as in so man\ oth- 
ers, a g(^od nnin leaveth an inheritance to his chil- 
dren and his children's children to the remotest 
generation. 

The mother of l^r. Hanney was Klizabetii 1'. 
C'liami)lain, the daughter of Francis C'hamplain.wlio 
died at the early age of thirty-two. from injuries 
received m the War 1812. He was the direct lineal 
descendant of .Samuel Cimmi)lain. the celebrated 
French naval otlicer. who. in lOO!!. discovered the 
lake that still bears his name, founded (Jueliec in 
llibf*. and to whose courage and enterprise France 
was indebted for the establisliment of lier Colony 
of C'anaila. Mis. Ranney still lives with her son 
in a happ\' and peaceful old age. and with a keen 
i-elish and re<-ollection of events pulilic and private 
in the long, long ago. As often happens, the 
son "favors" his mothei-. and to a practiced eye 
the French lineaments in his countenance are ol)- 
\ious. In the early days of our history the Scotch 
and Fi-ench fre(piently united in marriage, each 
havinii' a common Celtic origin. 

.(oel Ranney received an excellent education, 
and for some years turned it to good account .as 
an intelligent farmei' and dealer in stock. Then 
came the crash of 1887. a debased currency, stag- 
nation in busines.s, and bankruitcv all over the 
huul. The long-continued "hard times" had at 
least one uood ettect — it compelled multitudes to 



"go West;" .and but for this enforced liegii;i fi-om 
the Fast. Michigan would not lia\clu'eii themight\ 
commonwealth she now is. 

Mr. Ranne_\-. with his wife and four children, re- 
moved to Kent County. Mich., and after their full 
share of malarial illness and oilier inevitable hard- 
ships of )iioneer life, he secured a good home and 
eighty acres n( land about three miles sontliwest of 
(irand I^iiiids. Then came calamity indeeil. Long 
Ijefore the farm had been cleared oi' rendered |n-ii- 
ductive. the good husband and fatlier died, and 
( ieorge. now a lad of twelve, had to form the 
brave puriiose of lighting the battle of life ak)ne. 
The offer of work for wages on a farm, with the 
privilege of attending winter school, w.as at once 
accepted, and from that time forward he went 
thi-ough the young .Vmerican's regnlai- curriculum 
of farming, driving team, clerkingand railroading. 
\t the early age of seventeen he found himself at 
Stafford. X. V.. as freight and ticket agent of the 
lluffalo. Corning A- Xew York Railroad. In hisen- 
deavor to keej) order at his station, there weie 
some who despised his youth, and occasionally got 
the worst of it. One of them, the son of a Director,* 
com])lained to his father, and the Director insisted 
that (iecirge should be dismissed. X'othing daunted, 
however, he a])iH'aled to the Superintendent and 
asked him to incinire of the citizens as to the merits 
of the case. The result of this inquiry was that 
(ieorge was indeed removed from his positicm. Imt 
only to another and a better one in the Superin- 
tendent's own ottice. Sucii an incident is as credit- 
able to the young defender of his rights, as it is 
mean and contemptible on the jiart of the cowardly 
aggressois. The victory was .something, but the 
good opinion of the Superintendent, that "(Jeorge 
was cajialile of occupying a much better jiosition." 
w.as a good deal more. It gave him a new impulse 
in his attention to duty, and very soon he was pro- 
moted to \Va\land — excepting two. the most im- 
portant station on the roail. His determined cool- 
ness and pluck, and his abilitx' to overcome oppo- 
sition and to avail himself cif opportunities of 
.achancement. were marked characteristics of our 
\()ung railroad agent, of which we shall see num- 
erous illustrations in his future career. In an ebb- 
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will soon (urn ai;aiii. Only a dead fisli lloats with 
tlic stream. 

Meanwhile, underlying all otlier things in young 
Kannev"sniind was an intense desire for knowledge. 
Hence his saenfiees to attend winter school; lienee 
his exemplary diligence at Stafford Academy, under 
Parson Hadlev; at Rushford Academy, under Prof. 
Saylles; at Cary Collegiate Seminary, undei' Dr. 
Eastman. Hence his enthusiastic attachment to 
some <if his fellow-students, especially to Thaddeus 
('. Pound, afterward t)f U'isconsin, who.se sul)se-. 
quent success in jxilitical life fully justified the ad- 
miration of his friend. This attachment was one 
of the kind that tho.se only undeistand who have 
had the [irivilege of enjoying it. "The union of 
two minds." .says the greatest reflective thinker of 
all time, "from that sympathy which is the result 
of unity of aim in the acquisition of truth, is the 
hightest to which they can aspire." Like that of 
comrades in war, the attachment of classmates is 
proverbial. This is the true Platonic love: what , 
so often goes under the name is luit a base and un- 
worthy counterfeit. 

In addition to the desii'e of knowledge, young 
lianney had also a very definite ideal before his 
mind of the kind of man he would like to be. Of 
all the men with whom he had come into more im- 
mediate contact, none had more deeply enlisted his 
youthful admiration than a certain beloved phy- 
sician, in whom the "code of ethics" was most 
happily exemplified. Would his coming ever lie 
watched for with so much anxiety.' the door be 
opened with as much reverence for his opinion in 
matters of life and death.' Would he ever have it 
in his power to confer similar benefits on the sick 
and suffering.' The way did not seem to be easy, 
but there was a way, and he found it. The grim 
lions that so often seem to be in the path of sloth 
and cowardice are found by the brave and indus- 
trious to be chained <ui either side. 'I'hey are not 
in the path itself. 

Our biography now widens into history. In 
1H,")JS young Kanney came to Charlotte, Mich., and 
after spending some time in a drug store, began 
the study of medicine under Dr. .loseph V. Hall. 
In l.s(;(i-i;i lie attended his first term of medical 
lectures in the I'liiversity of Michigan. Uut those 



were times in which men were studying the condi- 
tion of their country more than anything else. 

"Oh, sad and slow the weeks went by! Each held his anxious 

breath, 
Like one who waits, in helpless fear, some sorrow great as 

death ! 
Oh, scarcely was there faith in God, nor any trust in man, 
While fast along the Southern sky the blighting shadow ran ! 
It veiled the stars one after one, it hushed the patriot's song, 
And stole from man the sacred sense that parteth right and 

wrong ! 

"Then a red flash— the lightning across the darkness broke, 
And with a voice that shook the land the guns of Sumter 

spoke ! 
Wake ! sons of heroes, wakej the age of lieroes dawns again I 
Truth takes in her hand her ancient sword, and calls her loyal 

men ! 
Lo ! brightly o'er the breaking day shines Freedom's holy star- 
Peace cannot cure the sickly time. --all hail the healer, war!" 

"War a healer" .seems strange doctrine to many 
who do not distinguish between war and mere 
bloodshed, but not to such philosophers as I)e- 
•-iuincej', or to such poets as Wordsworth, There 
are times when the body politic requires the sword, 
just .as the body physical requires the knife. AVar 
in a good cause is not the greatest evil which a na- 
tion can suffer. If slavery will not give waj* to 
freedom, nor freedom to slavery, the sword is the 
only umj)ire that can settle the controversy. 

In September. 1861, young Kanney enlisted as a 
private under Capt. H. A. Shaw, and a,«sisted him 
in recruiting a company for the Second ^lichigan 
Cavalry, His knowledge of medicine soon made 
him its third Hospital Steward, 'i'he radical change 
of habits in a thousand men recruited from their 
homes imposed arduous duties upon the surgeons, 
and in the summer of 1862 the Hosjjital Steward 
was temporarily assigned the duties of an Assistant 
Surgeon at New Madrid, Mo. By overwork and 
exposure he was there taken ill. and the disease be- 
ing severe and long protracted, he wiis mustered 
out of the service. During his convalescence he 
attended another term at the Michigan Universit}', 
,and was graduated in March, 1863, But it was not 
his lot to lose time waiting fiu- ))atient.s I^etters 
from his regiment to Gov, Blair, recommending 
l)r, Raiiuey as their unanimous choice for .Second 
.Vssistant .Surgeon, at once secured him the appoint- 
ment, and on the 13th of .lune he joined his old 
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Thosi' who know what cm \alry service is, as com- 
pared with that of iiifantn-. iiow desperate are tlie 
raids, and how frequent the slvirmishing, can well 
believe that Surgeon Ranney's position required 
no little fortitude and self-possession. Take a few 
(■xani|)les: On the first day's advanee from Triune I 
there was a lio'ht at Rover, in whicli a soldiei- lie- I 
longino to another brigade, was .severely wounded 
ill tlie arm. Ilis own surgeon confessing his utter 
inability to oiierate on account of his trembling 
nerves, the medical director himself was obliged to 
operate, and took Dr. Ranney to assist him. The 
ti-einbliug surgeon was not alarmed witho\it cause. 
The scene was exciting in the extreme. Bullets 
whizzing thick and fast; squadrons dashing here 
and there; everything uncertain as to the result of 
the contlict; the wounded man just on tlie ground 
where he fell, and no time to take him anywhere 
else — these, it must be confessed, were not very de- 
sirable conditions for a capital operation. But the 
two surgeons, solely intent on their work, made 
the amputation .as reipiired. I'roni tli.it liay on. 
tlir(»ugh the entire campaign. Surgeon Hanney 
found a true friend and a kindred spirit in .Medi- 
cal Director (xieer. Knowing that the post of honor 
was the post of danger, the Director took the full 
measure of his calm and resolute assistant, and 
thenceforward lost uo o|)portnnitv to give him bet- 
ter positions. 

Take another example; In the Atlanta camjjaigu. 
during the hundred consecutive days in which the 
l''(>deral forces were under fire, a soldier of the brig- 
ade having lost his leg. it was, of course, the duty 
of his own surgeon to operate, but when every- 
thing was ready he confes,sed that he could not 
operate under tire. .Vt his recpiest Di'. Ranney 
made the am|)Utation. and being seen by many of 
the comb.atants. it thus gained him a reputation for 
nerve and self-possession that he never afterward 
forfeited. Soldiers love and admire courage, not 
onh' in other officers, but in clia|ilains and sur- 
geons. 

Take a third examitle; A Wisconsin brigade suf- 
fered .severely in killed, wounded, and prisoneis. 
one of the prisoners lieing the Colonel himself. 
Their (jwn ambulances not being accessible, those 
of Dr. liaunev's brigade were ordered u|i. .\larined 



))V the near ap])roach of the enemy, the Brigade- 
Major and his assistants tied U) the rear, reporting 
their own hairbreadth escape, and the certain cap- 
ture of .Surgeon Ranney and his .assistant. (Jreatly 
to the chagrin, however, there came an order from 
Dr. Ranney for more ambulances. They arrived 
prom])tly. and with them an order from Director 
(xreer for Dr. Ranney toassnmcthe duties of Brig- 
ade Surgeon. The promotion was a rajiid one, but 
it was well deserved, and the Doctor held the posi- 
tion with increasing honor during the remainder 
of the very active and trying cainiiaign that cul- 
minated in the capture of .Vtlanta. 

But it was at the memorable battle of C'hicka- 
mauga where Dr. Ranney was in the greatest ]ieril. 
One day in September, 1863, a telegram came to 
the War Office at Washington — "The army is in 
total rout!" By iiooii came another telegram — 
■•(ieu. Thomas still holds the center!" Never were 
President Lincoln and Secretary Stanton in more 
complete bewilderment. rnfortunately for Dr. 
Ranney. his place on this trying day was not the 
center with Gen. Thomas. The right wing, struck 
heavily in the Hank, was sent tlying in disorder 
toward Chattanooga. The cavalry covered the re- 
treat, first massing at Crawfish Springs, and then 
retreating about half a mile and massing again. 
While still near the sjirings the enemy were threat- 
ening and firing at long range. .V detachment 
under (ien. Rucker dashed up to get the |iositioii 
and strength of the Federals, fired at them, and re- 
treated. Dr. Ranney thus far during the retreat 
had been in the immediate rear of his regiment, 
but meeting a wounded man making his way to- 
ward the hospit.al and quite exhausted from loss of 
blood, he dismounted and a})iilied dressings to stop 
the bleeding. In the meantime the cavalry had 
started, leaving Dr. Ranney a short distance in the 
rear; he hastened to overtake them, .lust at thai 
moment, however. (Jen. Rucker 's command charged 
the I"\>deral cavalry from the tlank and rear, and 
the rebel cavalry having got in between the sur- 
geon and his lirigade. lie found himself in a very 
ditlicult position. Making his way to a road about 
three miles distant, and which ran jiarallel with the 
road to Chattanooga, he re.ached it in advance of 
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wild \v!is covering the rotivnt on tlir smiii' roiid 
iu;ii the liaH' of the ridgo. 

Riflinji rsipidly aloiisj'. j<>\<pu> mihI ion lidful nl 
his escape, lie came to a diauoiinl road crossiu" the 
two otliers. Hut tlie clalter of horses" feet, the 
reliel yell, and (he ciiiiiiiiand to hall IVoiii a eoin- 
paiiy ol Texiis rangers charging down upon liiiii 
not twenty rods off, .showed him at once that his 
hopes were disap|)ointed. (Quickly turning his 
horse, lie tiled to reach an undergrowth of oak. 
which niiglil partially ohslrucl the rangers' view. 
Those at the head of the column having fired three 
sh()t~ at him, to ax'oid any nioic he jumped from 
his horse without checking his spet'd. hoping the 
animal would continue its course on the road. 
.Much to his surprise and alarm, the horse sto])ped 
and endeavored to follow him into the Inishes. 
Thicc of the rangers halted to take him and his 
liorsc, liut not ilaring to stop long enough, thc\' 
got the horse only. 

The liring of the rangers at Dv. Wanney having 
lieeii noticccl by some rebel cavalry in the rear, 
they foi nicd a line across the open field in the im- 
mediate vicinitN of the woods, where the Doctor 
was hugging the ground as clo.scly as possibh' be- 
hind a friendly r.ail cut, ;diout half the size of 
his body. Skirmishers came across the held .'ind 
into the woods, and one came ovci' within ten rods 
of his hiding place. Watching foi- him toraise his 
gun and take aim before he cried for (luarter. the 
Doctor concluded to wait until the very last mo- 
ment. Fortunately the skirmisher was lookinu 
higher and beyond him, and not finding any one 
to shoot at. returned to his horse. From behind 
his slender |)roleclion the Doctoi- watched the 
horse's legs \nitil he was glad to see those at the 
end of tlic column. 

It was now evening, .and the sun was just going 
out of sight. One thing was certain, the relielshad 
fairly cutlum off from his own .army, lie had had 
a hard d.ay of it. Hearing the firing at the front, 
just as he li.ad .sit down to breakfast, lie snatched a 
hard-tack, and .-ifter the whole weary d.-iy of work, 
this was all he had to eat. Tired and liuiigr\- ;ind 
cold, heat last found a dead man's blanket soaked 
with blood, and wi;ipping himself up in it laid 
down in a fenee-conier and slept until morning. 



W'h.it could he do.- Between him and his own army 
was that of the lelicls. On his right were some 
twenty miles of liarren and inhospitable inount4rms. 
lie did the only thing possible in tiie circumstances. 
and reporte<l him.self to Surgeon llawlev (now of 
I'eori.-i. 111.), who w'as then in charge of the well- 
tilled hospital at Crawfish .Spring, and where he 
was iinmedialely as.signed to duty. 

Soon (ien. Hragg's Adjutant-Cicneral. and others 
belonging to his staff, including Dr. Fiuellin, hi> 
medical director, visited the jiIjicc to p.arole the 
wounded soldiers and some surgeons who had been 
taken prisoners. The surgeons were asked to sign 
the same parole as the soldiers. .Some did so with- 
out hesitation. When Dr. Hanney's turn came to 
sign, he said that according to the cartel existing 
fietween the Federal and Confederate Oovernments 
the surgeons, as non-comliatants, could not legally 
be made prisoners of war. lie ;ilso >aid that if the 
Federal (lovernmelit were liolding ( onfederale 
surgeons who were ca])tured in the legitimate dis- 
charge of their <luties he was willing to be held a> 
a iiostage until the wrong was redressed, but he 
would not sign the parole. The contro\'ersv grew 
hotter and hotter, until the Adjiit:uit-( icneral told 
the Doctor he must either sign the p.aiole oi- be put 
under guard. 

"Put iiie under guard, then," said thepluckv 
surgeon. "I will look to my own (io\'einment to 
see that justice is done in the case." 

Foitunately. at this critical juncture Dr. Fiuellin 
submitted a paper, which is still in Dr. Kannev's 
possession, an<l reads as follow>: 

•'We. surgeons and assistant surgeons of the 
Inited States ( iovernnu'iit, c:i|)turc<l at the bjittle of 
Chickamauga. on Septemlier 20, ISti.'i. do solemnly 
swear that we will not bear aims against, or give 
any information detrimental to. the Confederate 
Stall's ( iovernmenl. nor in an\ wa\' or manner as- 
sist the Inited .States ( iovernment until we leave, 
or are exchanged for such Confederate surgeiuis as 
have been captnreil in the legitimate discharge of 
their duties ;ind lield by the I nited Stales (Govern- 
ment. .Vnd as we are only ])aroled to attend the 
Federal wounded, we will i-eport to the conunand- 
anl of the post ;it .Vtlanta. (ia.. as soon ;i.» our sei- 
\ ices can lie^dis|iensed with." 



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Wlieii a man's head is in the lion's nmuth. it re- 
quires some grit to objeet to the terms on wliieh 
the king of beasts may see lit to let the head out 
again: but this is just what John Knox did wiien 
a slave on board the galley, and what Dr. Kanney 
did when a prisoner at Crawfish Springs. In the 
end. all were satisfied witli the jmper except the 
Adjutant-General, who had to pocket the affront 
from the sturdy "Yank" as best he could. The 
subsequent experience of the Doctor for forty-four 
days in the Libl)y Prison is, unfortunately, too 
familiar to need detail. One thing, however, at 
Lililiy was quite characteristic. Having picked up 
a work on medical jurisprudence, he read it with 
more interest than one would expect in such un- 
favorable circumstances. 

Karly in .July. 1864, the portion of the Second 
Regiment then in the held, was ordered to return 
to Franklin, near Nashville, and there join the 
other part of the regiment, which had been absent 
on veteran leave. Arrived at Franklin, the post 
hospital was \n\t in charge of Dr. Ranney, and 
shortly after he received veteran leave of absence 
for thirty days. 

Returning to his old friends at Charlotte, he cm- 
ployed his last eleven days in recruiting men to 
fill the quota for the towns of Eaton and Carmel. 
The first two days he enlisted twenty-seven, and 
before the exi)iration of his furlough the whole 
quota of fifty-one. These recruits, equally to the 
surprise and delight of his old regiment, now re- 
duced to a minimum, he marched into their camp, 
thus securing for some t\\enty officers the rank to 
whicii their commissions entitled them. The Sec- 
ond Regiment soon had an opportunity of showing 
their newly acquired strength by repelling a raid 
of the rebel cavalry under Gen. Wheeler, and driv- 
ing him beyond the Tennessee. Almost immedi- 
ately the raid was repeated under Gen. Forrest, and 
in the engagement at Pulaski, lasting a whole day, 
the Federals suffered the heaviest loss, but the Con- 
federates abandoned the field. 

While at Pulaski, Dr. Kanney Avas called from 
the field to operate for the First Brigade. The 
chuich used as a hospital, being full to overflow- 
ing, he was ordered to establish another hospital, 
and furnished with assistants for that purpose. Be- 



ing the (Hily medical otKccr with his regiment, he 
was relieved from the hospital and allowed to ac- 
company his command when it removed from Pul- 
aski. Forrest was driven across the Tennessee, but 
only to be succeeded by Hood and his entire army, 
now reinforced by the army of Dick Taylor. Af- 
ter some severe skirmishes with the Second Cavalry 
and other regiments who were acting as pickets to 
prevent Hood crossing the river, his overwhelming 
numbers soon enabled him to accomplish his design 
with much loss to the Federals. 

A more intensely interesting moment than this 
was scarcely known during the war — Sherman cut- 
ting loose from his base and starting southward 
from Atlanta on his great march to the sea; the 
sagacious Thomas keeping his own counsels and 
organizing a new army out of ever\thing on whicli 
he could lay his hand; Gen. Grant leaving Rich- 
mond for ^Vashington on his way Westward to find 
what it all meant; and Hood with characteristic 
audacity determined to carry the war into Africa. 
In vain the Union cavalry contested the ground 
inch by inch, felling trees, and fighting behind 
biu-ricadcs on every hill that would give them ad- 
vantage; thect>lumns of the enemy were too heavy. 
Schofield fell back from I'ulaski to Columbia, and 
after fighting all day and marching twenty-five 
miles at night, got into position early October 30, 
at Franklin. Never were the rebels in better spir- 
its. Hood had delayed his attack until all his 
forces could lie brought uj), some fifty-five ilmu- 
sand men. Opposed to him, under Schofield, were 
only twenty thousand men. "Break those lines," 
shinited the impetuous Hood, "and there is nothing 
more to withstand you this side of the Ohio River. 
On to Nashville, and you will have nothing to do 
this winter but eat and drink and sit by the fire 
and swa]) jack-knives." 

The Second Michigan Cavalry, occupying the ex- 
treme left and actively engaged from early morn- 
ing, were driven liy noon across the little Har[)etli. 
While crossing, the rebel infantry rushed forward, 
flaunting their flag, and shouting triumphantly, 
"You are our prisonersi" But their exultation was 
altogether premature. Skillfully availing himself 
of a little bend in the river and of .an adjacent 
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ill auiliii.-li. ()|H'iiiiii> uiMiii tlu' oui'iiiN . IV ojalling | 
:ind oiililndinu- tire upon liis Hank, the Second Cav- 
alry 1()>1 111) tinif in iniprovint;' tlicir ciiiportunit y 
t(i tlu' utiii()>t, and >u. to tlie jrivat eliajiiin of tlic 
ri'licls. made good tlicir escape to the other >ide. 

Tlie anilinlances were tliu.s lhro>\ni into a very 
hazardous position on the Hats between Ihe two 
rivers, and an orderly was dispatched hy (Jen. Crox- 
ton to Dr. Raiiiiey. telling him that his command 
would soon tall hack, and he must lookout for the 
conse(iuences. Hut the order not being peremptory, 
the Doctor continued to gather up the wounded 
men ill the train now slowly moving to the rear 
;iihI near the centre, which was in the village of 
I-'ianUlin. A si'cond time the orderly galloped up. 
with positive ordeis to move on at once if he diri ^ 
not cxiiect to be captured. P>ut the order was more I 
easily given th:in obeyed. I- 1. (.ranger, which the 
.Second Ca\alr\ had helijed to build, and which ; 
they had called after their old C<ilonel. now opened [ 
1 heir b:i1 tcries on the enemy's line. The (.oiifed- 
eiate artillery returned the lire with eipLal spirit, j 
While thus between the lircs the Federal center J 
gave \\:w. and the enemy perceixing their advan- 
tage, rushed in like a tor.rent. carrying the hill. , 
taking eight of our guns, and planting the rebel ' 
liau' on our bieastwoik>. But again their rejoicing; 
was not to last. Col. ()pdyke, in one of the most [ 
splendid counter assaults of the cain|)aign. retook '< 
our min> and captured ten rebel Hags and three 
hundred prisoners into the bargain. 

It was now night, and the train of .•imbulanccs 
was still in very criticril circumstances. ()iir own 
cavahv had galloiicd through Helds and woods. • 
miles away to the left and rear, to guard oiirtlanks. i 
■|"lie soldiers about the fort were beginning to start 
camp- tires, when suddenly Dr. K.'iiiney heard the 
command, "put out those (ires!"' ;iiid in the sten- 
torian voice recognized that of Col. Streiglit. whose 
acquaintance he had m;ide a few months before in 
Libby j'riMin. At once making him.-^elf known to 
the Colonel, he asked for further orders. "Moxc 
on to Xashville." wa.- the reply: "for iinle.-<s you 
and \()iii' .•unbulances occujjy the field alone, there 
is no other way for you. I .-un now in i-omiii;in<l 
of the rear-guaril. and sli.all soon move then' my- 
self." Just in time to get in advance of the rear- j 



guard. Dr. Uanney had tlie satisfaction of bring- 
ing every ambulance and every soldier .safe within 
the defenses of Nashville. That was a proud day 
in the history of the young surgeon, which none of 
his friends, either in the army or out of it. are will- 
ing should be forgotten. 

Hut the work of the ambulance .'ind its \arious 
attendants is not \ et done. By December '.I. Hood 
had established his lines >oiitli of Nashville. 'I'he 
.season is against him. for it i> a week of >evei'e 
cold. Numbers are no longer in his favor, for the 
Fabian policy of T'homas had been >uccessfnl. The 
besieged (?) were more than the besiegers, .and in 
all respects in much better shape. To sit by the 
lire at Nashville, they must pass through .another 
lire nincli worse than that of Franklin. Thomas 
orders an advance. The first dtiy's work gives 
him sixteen guns .■mcl twelve hundred pii>on- 
ers; the second day's work gives him in all four 
thousand four hundred .and sixty-two prisoners, 
two hundred .-iiid eii;lity-se\-eii otiicers. and (ifl\- 
tliree guns. 

One of llic-e prisoner.--, t.eii. F. \\'. Jiueker. in 
eomm.-uidof :\ division of rebel ca\alr\. was known 
by the Federal cavalry a> "the man on the <>ra\- 
horse." who often dashed up to the I'Vder.al lines 
to get them, into a position to exchaiiire shots. 
While lighting hand to hand with a I'liion captain, 
his left arm was shattered just below the shoulder 
by a ball. As the Mist Federal surgeon to see him. 
Dr. l{anney courteously offered the ( ienerars staff 
.•-urgcon lii> assistance, and the professional cour- 
tesy was returned by :i recpicst to perform the np- 
eration himself. The next morning he sent him 
in a comfortable conveyance to Nashville. The 
last time Dr. K'aiiucy saw "the iii.an on the irra\ 
horse" previously was just before the charge at 
Chickamaiiga. which resulted in his capture. 

After Hood's defeat liy (icn. Tliom.as. ii hot piii- 
>uit was made by the ca\alry. and coiisecpieutl\- 
many Confederate wounded fell into the hands of 
the Federal surgeons for treatment. Hood <>-ot 
over the Tennessee with a remnant of hisarnivand 
the los,- of hi> last gun. The I'nioii cavalr\'. hav- 
ing reacheil the Teiines>ee. wintered .-it F'lorence 
and Waterloo. .Meantime. Dr. Rannev li.ad been 
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departments of his corps being' organized into divi- 
sions, lie was put in charge of the Urst Division 
Hospital Department, and a|i|ii>inted its chief o))- 
erator. 

Tennessee once more repossessed, now for Ala- 
bama 1 While Gen. C'anby was operating from the 
South, the movement at the North was led by Gen. 
.lames H. Wilson, det.ached by (ien. (irant from 
tlie Army of the Potomac, and sent West with his 
veterans for this particular purjjose. His command 
consisted of about fifteen tliousand men. and was 
known as tlie Cavalry Corps of the Military Divi- 
sion of the Mississippi. His objective point was 
Selma, where, after a long and fatiguing march, a 
decisive l)attle was fought, resulting in the capture 
of many jirisoners and a large amount of army 
stores. ■\\'ilson |)ursued the enemy to ^Montgomery 
which surrendered under a flag of truce, and then 
l)uslied on to Columbus, and Macon, Ga. 

It may be well imagined that this was an ex- 
ceedingly active campaign, .and that the number of 
sick and wounded requiring surgical aid was ver}- 
great. At Macon the hospit.al departments of the 
three divisions constituting the corps were consoli- 
dated. Dr. Ranuey was ordered to receipt for all 
medical stores to the surgeons in charge of the 
other divisions, and to establish a corps hospital in 
tin- building formerly used by the State of Georgia 
as an asylum for the deaf, dumb and blind. About 
three Inindred patients were gathered here from 
various pLaces on the line of march, and some ninety 
soldiers who had been under the care and treat- 
ment of the rebels. The case of the latter was pitia- 
ble in the extreme. Either through meagre facili- 
ties, or .actual neglect of rebel surgeons, their 
wounds had been suffered to become gangrenous; 
arteries had sloughed and required ligation. In 
some cases amputation had to be resorted to to 
save life, l)ut in the end not one of that nuiiitier 
died. 

Macon being only twenty miles from Anderson- 
ville, when the rebel armies surrendered the prison- 
ers at this murderous and ever-accursed place were 
of course released. The poor starved and emacia- 
ted prisoners who were unable to join their own 
commands or bear transportation home were pro- 
vided for in the corps hospital. The horrors of that 



well-known stockade or "prison-pen" will be re- 
membered long after those of the '"Old Sugar- 
House," in the days of the Revolution are forgot- 
ten. It was just as much crossing the death-line 
to go into Andersonville Prison as to go out of it. 
So indignant was Dr. Ranney at the enormous out- 
rage here perpetrated on civilization and humanity 
that he comjjlained of Capt. Wirtz for his brutal- 
ity, and had liim .arrested and placed under guard. 
In this connection it ma}' be .as well to remember 
that when the war was ended Capt. Wirtz was the 
only rebel that was legally hung, and most richly 
did he merit it. The only regret is that those in 
higher office who shared in his unparalleled crime, 
did not have a similar share in his well-deserved 
punishment. 

Nor was this the only instance in which Dr. Kau- 
ney resented the abuse of ofHce. When he found 
those of our own army who were deliberately' tak- 
ing advantage of their position for private and 
mercenary purposes, at the expen.se of the iniblic 
good, he did not hesitate over his own name to 
notify Gov. Blair and other authorities at home, 
and secure efficient measures for the remedy of such 
abuses, l^ros Tyriuaw nilii nullo diacrimine agetur. 
Rebel or "Yank," it was all one to him; where cor- 
ruption was, it must be cauterized and its progress 
arrested. 

During the month of .luly, 18G5, the Second 
Michigan Cavalry was mustered out of service, but 
the ability of Dr. Ranney as a surgeon was now 
too well known to leave him without employment. 
Gen. C'roxton, of Gen. Ed McCook's Division, un- 
der whom he had served in the Chattanooga cam- 
paign, offered him a commission as surgeon of the 
One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Colored Infantry, 
which he accepted, and with which he remained 
until it was mustered out, in .Tanuarj', 1866. Dur- 
ing the latter part of his service he was at Augusta, 
and, his duties with his regiment being light, he 
attended a course of lectures in the Georgia Medi- 
cal College. 

And now, having gone through the war, as Lee 
has it in his farewell to his disbanded army, April 
0, 1865, our history once more returns to bio- 
graphy. 

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.self as physician and siiro:eon in Lansinsj, IMicli. 
Here he has luiill up a solid and stenflily increasina 
practice, and now holds an enviahle position in liis 
profession, not only in the capital city, hut in all 
the adjacent country. In 1XG(! he assisted in the 
organization ol' tlic Michigan State Medical Society, 
of which he was then elected, and of which he ha.s 
ever since contimnMl to be. the Recording Secre- 
taiy. In 1873 he served as President of the Mich- 
igan t'entral Jledical Society. In the same 3'ear 
he was elected cones|)onding nieniher of the Old 
Wayne County Medical Society. In IHT'i he was 
C'hairni.'in of the Lansing Board of Health. He has 
lieen Resident .Surgeon at Lansing to the Lake .Sjiore 
iVr Michigan Southern Railroad Company, and the 
Chicago iV' Lake Huron and the Chicago it North- 
eastern Railroads. He is a member of the Ameri- 
can iledical Association, and has often been a dele- 
gate to that body from the Michigan .State Medi- 
cal Society, and served .as the Committee on Ne- 
crology for Michigan in 1879-80. Nor have liis 
labors been confined merely to the practical duties 
of his profession. To its periodical literature he 
has contributed papers upon "Bandaging for the 
Relief of Inflamed ^lammiv;" "Lipera;" Bad AVa- 
ter a Cause of Typhoid Fever;"' "Progress of Medi- 
cal Science, with Hints upon Vulgar P>rors impend- 
ing it." etc. 

Dr. Rauney is an h(morary member of the Pere 
Marquette Medical Society and the Saginaw Hos- 
|)ital Staff; corresponding member of the Detroit 
Library ^Vssociation; member of the American Pub- 
lic Health Association; the American Medical As- 
sociation and British .Medical As.sociation ; Fellow 
of the British (iynecological Association, etc., etc. 
In 1886 he was a delegate so the British Medical 
Association held in Brighton, England. He is Su- 
perintendent of the J^ansing City Hospital, and is 
now (1891) President of the Michigan State Medi- 
cal Society. He is also a member of the Associa- 
tion of Railroad Surgeons of ilichigan. lie is 
Division Surgeon of the Detroit, Lansing & North- 
ern I?iiilroad. and of the Chicago iV- Grand Trunk 
Railnjad; belongs to the Pension Examining Board 
of Lansing; and is a member of the Loyal Legion 
of the I'nited States. 

As a physician he is unusually quick and skillful 



in his diagnosis of disease; simple, judicious and 
conservative in his treatment; very gcntlemanlv 
and conciliatory in his contact with his patients; 
and just that kind of physician, wlio, when imcc 
known, is most valued, and loved alike bv rich and 
poor. The men of all otheis for whom he seems to 
entertain a most vehement dislike, are the various 
(|uacks and pretenders to medical knowledge, whom 
a wise and stringent Legislature ought long since 
to have driven from a State as intelligent as that 
of ISIichigan. 

In politics, though Ijy education and choice a 
Republican, he is not of the noisy kind, or at all 
inclined to make himself conspicuouson tlieslump. 
In religion he has equally decided opinions as in 
medicine. He believes that its tendencies and re- 
sults ought always to characterize the medical man, 
who at every step in his career, in the very tissues 
and organs of the human frame, should not fail to 
see sublime and beautiful evidence of the wisdom, 
power, and goodness of the Great Creator. Its true 
demonstration he thinks is quite as often in the 
life as in the elaborate argiuueiit. 

It would natiu'ally be expected that a man wIk) 
had gone through so varied and trying an experi- 
ence woidd endeavt)r to secure for himself a happy 
home. In September, 1869, Dr. Ranncy was united 
in marriage to Isabella E. Sparrow, daughter of 
Bartholomew Sparri>w, late of Kellebeg Euuis- 
corthy, Ireland, a woman of great tenderness of 
disposition, and admirably ada]ited l>y her many 
virtues to dignify and adorn domestic life. They 
have one son, now ( 1891) eighteen yeai-s old. 

It was Dr. Ranney's misfortune to lose his 
daughter, Florence, . I line 4, 1891, aged ten years 
and three months. She was a child beloved by all 
who knew her. and of her Hisho)) Davies wrote, 
that she impressed him as one of the brightest and 
most beautiful girls he ever saw. 

.Many — oh. how inanyl — were our unreturniiig 
brave who died on the battle-field, who perished 
by the wayside, who wasted away their inestimable 
lives in rebel hosjiitals and prison-pens through 
starvation and neglect. The evil which of all oth- 
ers has threatened the body politic of late has been 
])overty of blood. It will lake more than tme gen- 
eration to make good the loss. Yet one thing is 



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ever to be remembered: but for such surgeons as 
Dr. Rauney,who jeopardized their lives in the high 
places of the field, ovir loss would have been incal- 
culably greater. They have returned, indeed, many 
of our Boys in Blue, without a leg or without an 
arm, tnit, thank God! they have at least brought 
liack their undying love for the Union, and enough 
of their glorious spirit has been left to save us from 
a Civil AVar far worse than Rebellion, and thus 
give us the grandest prospect of a national devel- 
opment which has ever opened upon the human 
race. We close, then, our sketch in the same 
spirit in which we commenced it, — Honor to tiik 

OKEEX .S.VSII \S WELL AS TO THE RED. 

(tEOKOE 1)i KKIKLU. 



>^">^T*^**'^"^^^^ 



jTpV, EV. HARVEY HODSKISS. This well-known 
lt?if temperance orator and revered minister of 
IAS \\\ the Gospel residing in Locke Township, 
'\@; Ingham County, was liorn February 12, 
1818, in Pratts' Town. Steuben County. X. Y. Gn 
the paternal side he is of Puritan descent and his 
maternal grandfather was for a short time a mem- 
ber of the Revolutionary army. When very young 
he removed with his parents to what is now known 
as Orleans County, and when ten years old he re- 
moved to Chaiitauqua County, and tliere grew to 
manhood. 

Having arrived at manlmod, young Hodskiss 
learned the trade of a cooper, which lie followed 
for a number of years. His early life in the woods 
and cm tlie farm had not been adapted to giving 
great advantages in the line of education, but his 
own love for learning and intense ambition led 
him (m. and he became a thorough student. 

Desire Hill was the maiden name of the lady 
who became our subject's bride in Chautauqua 
County, X. Y.. April i», 1837. .She was born De- 
cember 9, 1817, in Genesee County. X. Y., and her 
parents were R<:)be't and Ilannali (Sullivan) Hill. 
She is of good patriotic stock as her grandfather 
Hill was a Rcvolutionnry soldier. By her union 
with Mr. Hodskiss tliere were horn five children. 



only one of whom is surviving: Louisa, wife of 
Leander Wright, residing in this county, who has 
a .son, Harvey, who is working the farm of our 
subject. He has a son now six years of age. 
Those who have passed away are: Nancy, Ann 
M., Plimpton and one who died m infancy. The 
father joined the Jlethodist Ejiiscopal Church 
when about eighteen years old, and began preach- 
ing and exhortuig at the age of twenty-three, 
and has continued in the work up to the present 
time, part of the time serving in that churcli 
and part of the time in the Wesleyan denomi- 
nation. He has never had the advantage of 
college learning, but studied at home, and many 
a night sat up until midniglit or 2 o'clock in tlie 
morning, in order that he might gain the knowl- 
edge which he felt was necessary for one who 
would speak acceptably to the people. He passed 
a successful examination before the Conference 
and became a regular preacher in Ohio in 184.'). 
He came to Michigan in 18.55. and located in 
Locke Township, this county. For nearly four 
3'ears he officiated as Chaplain of the Jackson 
State Prison, but he resigned that position to take 
a regular appointment from the M?thodist Epis- 
copal Church. He is now. even at his advanced 
age, filling numerous pulpits in this vicinity. 

This reverend gentleman has been an extensive 
lecturer on the theme of temperance and an active 
worker in that cause. In his political views he 
was long attached to the Reinililican party, but 
is now an active Prohibitionist, and both he 
and his wife arc helpers for every good cau.'^e. In 
the early days in Ohio he was a strong Abolitionist 
and a Free Soiler. He now owns one liiindred 
and twenty acres of land, which he has gained b\ 
strict economy and persevering labor. 

When the Republican party was first organized 
Mr. Hodskiss lectured extensively in its interests 
throughout Tngh.am County, and in 1860 he was 
a candidate for the Legislature on that ticket, but 
was defeated by a minority of fourteen votes. His 
lectures have been well known throughout Ing- 
ham, .lackson, .Shiawassee. ^Manistee and Oceana 
Counties. While he was residing in Ohio he was 
instrumental in helping to organize the Wesleyan 
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eopal C'liiircli on tlie (iiicstiiiii uf the abolition of 
slavery. On tlie iltli of Ainil, IHK8, Air. Ilodsivi.ss 
and Ills devoted eoni|ianion eele)iialed the <;olden 
anni versaiv of tlieir wedding day, wliieli was a 
liM|)|iy occasion tu all wlio iiiiow and love tliis 
worthy couple. ( )iii Mihject is iiiiite active and 
vigorous foi- a man of his years. 



O.SKPII T. MrKiniUX is a son of Alexander 
^IcKililiin who came to Ingham Connty in 
18()1 and located in Lansing, owning aud 
eariying on a farm in l^ansing Township. 
He was a native of Pennsylvania and his wife, 
whose maiden name was JNIary Dunlap, was a native 
of IMttsbui'g, Pa., and lived in that city until they 
lenioved to Detroit in 1841. He was at first en- 
gaged in the grocery business and afterward under- 
took a wholesale hardware trade. This was pre- 
vious to 18.")7, at which date he removed to Lan- 
sing. 

.\lexander ^rcKilibin located on Washtenaw 
Avenue, just south of where the (irand Trunk 
Railway now runs, which section was then a solid 
forest. He erected one of the first brick houses 
that were put up here, and he still owns on the 
honieslead eleven acres of land just inside the city 
limits. This ti'act is finely shaded and comprises 
some of the best .acres within the limits. He still 
continued to carry (m the farm even after he com- 
pleted his three-score years and at the time of his 
death he had a large landed estate. 

.Mrs. McKibbin also had a farm in I,;insing 
Township. This lady is still living. They weie 
both for ni.'Uiy years members of the Presbyterian 
('iiureh, and in it they were active In every good 
work, (lur subject had his nativity in Detroit. 
January lo. l.S4(). and had the advant.age of city 
life in his boyhood, taking a thorough drill in the 
schools of Detroit and iinishing his education at 
Mt. Pleasant Military Academy at Sing Sing, X. Y.. 
after which he engaged in a wholesale clothing 
trade at Isew York City with Lougstrect, Bradford 



it Co., as salesman. He remained with this com- 
pany for one year after which he came here in 
18(18, and engaged in farming. He is still the 
trustee of his own estate and gives it his entire 
attention at the i)resent time. 

The subject of this life record was united in the 
ha|)i)y bonds of wedlock with Miss Emma Barnes. 
Their marriage w.as celebrated at the home of the 
bride's parents, September 20. 186U. They have 
become the parents of six children who are named 
as follows: May E., Grace M., Jennie. I^aila, Frank 
B. and Clifford. The gentleman of whom we write 
is the only representative of the old and honored 
McKibbin famil}' now living here, and lie is held 
in the highest esteem by all with whom he has 
dealings, and is considered as an unostentatious and 
square-dealing man. In his political views he 
attiliates with the Democratic party in a (juiet way. 



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F;ARUN BOTSFOHD. .V loving daughter 
dictates the notes for the following bio- 
gra])hical sketch of her father, who has 
>''' from childhood been her hero and model of 

all excellence. Heisnow^the owner of a fine farm 
on section 2, of Williamstoii Township. Ingham 
County. He is a son of Samuel F.otsford. a nati\e 
of Millfoid. Xew Haven Coiintx'. Conn. Thence 
he went to Xew York, where he was married to 
Lucy Bullcn, from which union six cliildren were 
born, four sons and two daughters. Mr. Botsford 
came to jMichigan October 21. 18.'5.3. and lived 
in Washtenaw County until his death, which took 
place September 2(1. 1878. The mother died .Jan- 
uary 28, 18(!1. ^Ir. Botsford w.as a carpenter by 
trade and w.as in the War of 1812. 

Aaron Botsford, was born .lunc l.">. 1M8. in 
Wyoming County X. Y., and w^as sixteen jcars of 
age when he came to Michigan with his parents 
and lived .at home until he was of age. He then 
went on a farm and bought (>ighty acres of land in 
Washtenaw County. After his purchase on taking 
an inventory of his possessions he found that he 
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He cleared and broke the ground and lived there 
from 1840 to 1H61. His marriage took place No- 
vember 27, 1.S42, at which lime he was united to 
Elizabetli Savage, a daughter of David Savage, a 
native of Orange County, N. Y. They were, how- 
ever, early settlers in AVaslitenaw County. 

To our subject and liis wife were born the fol- 
lowing children : Henry, Eugene, Ann j\L, Willard, 
Mary E., Irvin, .Julia A.,]\Iinnie and Olin. In 186(1 
our subject came to the tliis county and set- 
tled on a farm of two hundred and twenty acres. 
Of this he has given a portion to his children and 
now has but one hundred, lie has made most of 
tlie improvements upon his farm. Politically he 
is a strong adherent of the Republican part> , and 
has been Justice of the Peace for three years. The 
wife of Mr.Botsford died March 21, 1887. 

She who dictates thisslvetch. Mrs. .Julia A. (Jill- 
bert, a daughter of our subject was born .\pril 14. 
1861. She was married April 1, 1888, to Andrew 
Gilbert, a son of Daniel and Lucinda (iill)ert. the 
former a native of Alleghany County. X. Y.. and 
and latter of Ohio. To tiiem have been born tun 
sons and tluee daughters. ^Ir. (iilbert was a car- 
penter liy trade and on lirst coming to the State 
settled in Eaton County, Benton Township, where 
he lived for a number of years, thence removing 
to Midland County, and there died in 1882, the 
motlier |iassing' aw.ay in 1886. To ^[r. and Mrs. 
(iilliert lias been born one son. K(iy. >vhose natal 
day was Seiitemlier 29, 1889. 



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A\II) HOHISON. Tlic lu.norablc rec(,rd 
I; in botli peace and war of tliis worthy 
{nv^fr resident of Howell Township. Livingston 
County, is a pleasant theme for the pen 
of the biograplier. His life since his early years 
has been an ojien page to be read by all the citi- 
zens of this county, and u|ion it tiiere is n<jt one 
blot nor l)lur and all are glad to do iionor to a 
man whom they respect and whose career is worthy 
of t!ie regard whicli lie icceives. 

A splendid farm of two hundred and seveuty- 



five acres upon which can l>e found graded stock 
and Short-horn cattle, employs the energies of Mr. 
Koliison. It is located on sections 4 and 9, of 
Howell Township, and by its well-kept appearance 
and productiveness shows to every pas.ser-by the 
master hand of him whom owns and operates it. 
Canada is the birthplace of our subject, who was 
born in 1839. His parents, John and Martha 
(Funston) Robison, were natives of Ireland, wlio 
came to Canada after their marriage and there en- 
gaged in farming. At an early day they migrated 
to Howell and purchased the land now owned Ijy 
our subject. Tliey improved the land and brought 
it into a high state of cultivation and lived on the 
same until death intervened. The decease of tlie 
motlier took [)lace in 1876 when sjie had reached 
the age of seventy-six years, .t; lier birth was co- 
incident with the beginning of this centuiy. Tlic 
father survived ten years longer, and reached the 
age of ninety-one. Of their seven children four 
are now living, namely: James, David, Mrs. Dunn, 
and Catharine (Mrs. Roth.) Tiie father was a 
Democrat in his political views and one of the well- 
to-do men in his township. 

The early education of David Robison was given 
him in Canada and he followed up his studies 
after reaching Livingston County. He had 
thoi-ough practical training ujKin the farm and re- 
mained on the old homestead taking charge of tlie 
same as his parents were in declining years. He 
\vA> thus had the management of the estate from 
the time he was quite a young man, and .since that 
time he has added to it l)y purchase to a consider- 
able extent. 

In the winter of 1863 Mr. Robison made up his 
mind to leave home and enlist under the banner 
of oui- country, and he enlisted as a private in 
Company I. Fifth Michigan Infantry, continuing 
in service until July, 1860, when he received his 
honorable discharge. During the battle of Spott- 
.sylvania Court-house, which took place May 12, 
1864, this brave soldier was wounded by a ball 
through the aim and was for some time in the hos- 
|iital at Fredericks! uirg and later was sent toAVash- 
ingldii for treatment. The most .serious disaster 
which befell him during his service was his captiv- 
j ity. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Hatchiesj 



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Uiiii ;ui(l W.MS k(_-|)t :l pi'isonei' in l.ililiy I'lisou fniui 
October 22, 1861, until March I. 186,'). He liecamc 
very much emaciated durinff his imprisonment, 
lie is n man who stands five feet, nine and one- 
li:ilf inches in heiiiht. and when he entered prison 
lie wcisi'hed some one liuudi'ed and sixty pf)nnds. 
hut dui-iuii' captivity was reduced to seventy-five 
ponnds. 

ilavina' I'eceived an lionoralile discliarsjc .liil\- 12. 
I8(!,'), Mr. Uoliison now returned lionie and tooU 
cliaroe of Ids f.nrni. lie is ;in cnthusi;istic inciniier 
of the (irand ArMi\' of tlie l{ei)ulilic. and lias no 
greater pleasure than in remiions with his old com- 
rades, lie lieloni,'s to the Waddell I'ost of Howell. 
He is a Democrat in his political preferences and is 
now miinji the otHce of Justice of the Peace. His 
lieautiful home which he erected in 1H72. is pre- 
sided over by his niece, ^liss Mamie t'ummisky, 
as he h.as always remained single. The social, 
jiolitical and aiiricultural circles of the coiuity 
esteem Mr. Hobison as one of their most prominent 
members, and his ivealth and enterjn'i.se make him 
.•1 felt power in the community. 






ROBERT (. KEDZIE, A. M.. M. 1). The 
genealogy of the Kedzie family, to which 
•i \\\ our subject belongs, reads within the last 

'^^ three generations as follows: His grand- 
father. Adam Ivedzie, was liorn in Hawick in 1746, 
and passed a jjortion of his life in his native .Scot- 
land, where he was occupied as a farmer, in the 
s|)ring of 1795, accompanied by his family, he 
came to the I'nited States and settled in Delaware 
County. N. Y., where, in the village of Stamford, 
he and liis wife died. His son, William Kedzie, 
father of our subject, was also jiorn in Scotland 
in 17Hl,in the .same place of wliicii Ids father 
was a native. He. too, was reared as a farmer and 
came to the United States when foiu'teen years of 
age witii his parents. He made his home for a time 
in Stamford, X. Y.. thence removed to Delhi, and 
coming to Michigan in 182(!, .settled in what is 
now known as Deerfield, Lenawee County-. He 



was a Scotch Pre.sbyterian. and after living a life 
of usefulness, he passed away in Deerfield, in 1828. 
The mother of our subject, wlio was known in her 
maideidiood as Margaret Telford, was V)orn in 
Caml)ridge, N. Y.. .lune 29, 1792. and was the 
daughter of .himes Telfoi'd. a farmer. 

The subject of this sketch was one of eight chil- 
(ben lioin to his piu'cnts, thi-ee of whom are living. 
'Hu'V ;ir(' the Rev. Adam S. Kedzie, who is the 
edildi- .'ind pro])i-ietoi- of the (!rand Haven Herald; 
William, of Adrian. .Mich., who is a retired farmer, 
and {{obcrt t'„ of this sketch. Dr. Kedzie lived in 
Deei'lield for lifteen years, during which time he 
attended tlie district school. Wlien seventeen years 
old he entered Oberlin College, and after a student 
life of six yeai's he was graduated in 1847. For two 
yea IS he was engaged in teaching in Rochester 
.Vcademy, Mich., and he then devoted himself to 
the study of medicine, being graduated fr(mi the 
medical department of the Michigan University, 
at Ann .\rbor, in 18r)l. He first located in Kala- 
mazoo. iH'maining there about one year, then spent 
eleven years in N'crmonlville and one year in the 
army its Surgeon in the 'I'welfth .Michigan In- 
fantry. 

In 1863 Dr. Kedzie was ajjpointed Professor of 
Ciiemisti'v in Michigan Agricultural College, anrl 
has ever since held that position. He has published 
a handbook on chemical analysis, which has been 
of \i.se in colleges and among scientific people. He 
has also written many jiapers in connection with 
the State Boaid of Health, of which he is a char- 
tei- member, for four years its President, and foi' 
eight years connected with the Board, declining 
re-appointinent. He has also been President of tlie 
American Health Association and Vice-President of 
the American Medical A.ssoeiation. He is a Fellow 
of the American Association for the advancement 
of Science and Vice-1'resident of the Department 
of Chemistry in said society. He is also Fellow of the 
American Academy of Medicine. A practical chem- 
ist, his interest is chietly in laboratory work and ap- 
plied chemistry. In 1867 he was a member of the 
State Legislature, representing the northern lialf 
of Ingham County, being elected as candidate of 
the Republican paiiy. 

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Miss Harriet E. Fairchild, a sister of the ex-Presi- 
dent of Oberlin College. Mrs. Kedzie is a talented 
woman and a suitable companion for her scholarly 
husband. They are the parents of three children 
— William K., who was born July 5, 1851, was a 
graduate of the Michigan Agricultural College in 
the Class of '70, at which time he took the degree 
of Bachelor of Science, and in 1873 Master of 
Science. In 187.3 he was a|)pointed Professoi- of 
Chemistry at the Kansas Agricultural College, at 
Manhattan, which position he held for five _years, 
and was then appointed Professor of Chemistry of 
Olierliu College, where he remained for two years. 
He died April 10, 1880, while in office. He was 
married to Miss Ella M. Gale, of Manhattan, Kan., 
and left to his bereaved widow two children — 
Ella Pearl and William Koscoe K.,aged fourteen and 
twelve years respectively. Our subject's second son, 
Robert Fairchild, was a graduate of the Agricul- 
tural College in 1871, took the degree of Bachelor 
of Science, and subsequently the degree of -Master 
of Science. He was Professor of Chemistry in the 
Agricultural College of Mississippi for two years, 
and died February 13, 1882, at the age of nearlj- 
twenty-nine years. lie left a widow, whose maiden 
name was Nellie Sawyer, of Manhattan, Kan. The 
third son, Frank Stewart, was born in 18.57, and 
W.1S graduated with the class of '77 from the Agri- 
cultural College, like his brothers taking the de- 
grees of Bachelor of Science and subsequently 
Master of Science. He is now Adjunct Professor 
of Chemistry in the Michigan Agricultural Col- 
lege. After his graduation he spent six months 
in Berlin, Germany, studying chemistry. He mar- 
ried Kate Marvin, of Lansing, this State, in De- 
cember, 1887. 

For the past forty years Dr. Kedzie has been as- 
sociated with the Congregational Church. The 
last twenty-five years he has been a member of 
that denomination at Lansing, as is also his wife, 
and as were his two eldest sons. His membership 
with the Pcninusular Chapter of the Alpha Delta 
Phi of the State I'niversity of Michigan, and its 
old members has been the source of much pleasure 
as the years have passed. In jiolitics he has been 
a life-long Republican. The chief work of the 
life of Dr. Kedzie has been ffi^en to the State 



Agricultural College. Dr. Kedzie has a very firm 
hold on the students and graduates of the Michi- 
gan Agricultural College, of which he has not only 
been a finished instructor but a friend, and it is 
safe to say that no other professor is held in higher 
esteem than he. His many student friends earn- 
estly trust that he may be spared still many years 
to grace the college hall with his presence. 

A lithographic portrait of Dr. Kedzie accom- 
panies this sketch. 



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AMES PEACH. Among the i)rominent and 
successful farmers of Green Oak Township, 
Livingston County, is the enterprising 
Englishman whose name appears at the 
head of this writing. His beautiful farm and at- 
tractive home constitute one of the ornaments of 
the township and by his integrity, g(Kid will and 
intelligence he has made himself a place in liis 
adopted country. 

This farmer w.as born in Cambridgeshire, Eng- 
land, November 17, 1833, and is the son of Charles 
and Ann (Ankar) Peach. The mother passed 
from earth in 1880, but the father is still living 
and now at the age of eighty-four is enjoying the 
affectionate care and comfort afforded him by his 
son. These parents had eleven children, eight of 
whom are still in this life. 

While quite young .James Peach enjoyed the ad- 
vantages of good schools, but his school life was 
not long prolonged, as he began work at the age 
of thirteen, and for his first endeavors received 
only the nominal stipend of -$15 a year. He 
worked upon farms and in various ways from year 
to year but did not make much headway in acquir- 
ing means until after he came to America. 

In 1854 James Peach and his parents came to 
America and landing in New York, journeyed at 
once to Ann Arbor. Mich., where the young man 
engaged in various kinds of emplo.yments for a 
short time and then entered the service of William 
St. Clair, witli whom he remained for six years. 
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Imil |iuirliM>t'il :\ f;ilin on x'ctiiui X. ;niit licii- lie 
li!i.- iiiMik' Ills Ikhuo lioiii lliMt liinc 1" lliis. After 
eoiniiig to tliis countrv lie took an iiitelliii'enl in- 
terest in party niovemcnts and allied himself with 
the Hepuhlicniis, hut he is nt)\v more actively in- 
terested in Prohibition movements. The Preshy- 
terian Church is the religious l)ody with which he 
has cDunected himself and he is looked upon as an 
ellicient helper therein. 

It was with exceedinii'ly liniited means that this 
ijentleman began life l)ut he has gained a hand- 
some farm of one hundred and twenty acres of 
tirst-class land. Ho devotes considerable time and 
effort to the raising of stoclc and makes a si)ecialty 
of slieei). Since his coming to this countrv he has 
tw^ice revisited his (^Id home and finds much 
pleasure in thus reviving the memories of his 
earlv davs. 



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ILIAAU U. WENK. Of the many wide- 
\ , ^ /' awake and progressive German-American 
*f '^ settlers in this State, no one is more re- 
spected for his various good qualities than is he 
whose name adorns the liead of this sketch. Clear- 
sighted, with a good reasoning faculty, and l)eing 
l)nident and providential, he has succeeded in at- 
taining a most comfortable position in agricultural 
life. He was born Seiitemlier 28, 1820 in Longen- 
salya. in the province of Sachsea. Piiissia. and is a 
son of .lohn C. and Mary ( Miuhold ) Wenk. who 
wei'c born in the same jilace as was our suliject. 
The father was a machinist by trade. He served 
in foui' wars, all of which weic directed agaiM>l 
Napoleon and his generals. His military experi- 
t'lice extends over a period of eleven years during 
which lime he traveled over a great portion of 
(iermany. .Australia and France and w.as subjected 
to the severest military discipline, for Prussia is 
notorious for the severity directed against its sub- 
jects who are drafted into service. 

Our subject's father was twice married, he of 
whom We write being a child of the first union 




and one of three children Ixirn to his parents, of 
whom two grew to maturity — William II., our suli- 
ject, and Christiana, wlio came to the I'llited 
States. The second wife w.as Dorothea Marhold. a 
sister of the first wifi'. She was the mother of two 
children whose names were Christian and .loana, 
the latter of whom came to the United 8tate.s. Our 
subject's father died December 6, 1832. The con- 
sort of his youth pa.ssed away in 182.5. and his 
second wife departed this life in 18 1(1. All were 
members of the Lnther.an church. 

The original of our sketch is a grandson of 
Christopher Wenk, who was a carpenter and .served 
in the Prussian Army under Frederick III. He 
was the father of two sons and two daugh- 
ters. She who gave our subject birth was a 
daughter of Andreas Marhold, who was a woolen 
weaver. Reared in his native village, William H. 
Wenk received the advantages of a good education 
in his native land. At the age of fourteen he be- 
gan to learn the cooper's trade, at which he worked 
for four years without an}' remuneration. This lie 
followed until he came to the United States, Octo- 
ber 10, 1852, at that time leaving Germany on 
board the sailing vessel "Hampton" and landing 
in New York City Februaiy 8, 18r)3. They suf- 
fered a stormy and perilous voyage and more than 
once desiiaired of reaching land. 

The original of our sketch lirsl located at New- 
stead. Erie county. X. Y., February 13, 18;')u. He 
came to ilichigaii and settled in Oceola where he 
followed his trade and three years later invested 
in his first real-estate venture in this country, it 
comprising ten acres which he farmed in connect- 
ion with his trade, tinally acquiring thirty acres 
which he sold, and, April 12, 187;>, he located on 
eighty acres where he now resides on section 20, 
I )ei'iHeld township, Livingston County. This he, 
has gradually reduced to the most perfect slate of 
order and ijroductivcness, at the same time con- 
tinuing to run his coopering business. The fact 
that Mr. Wenk was without a dollar when he 
landed in Erie County is a coinnientarv in it.self 
upon the unliriiiii indiistiy and hopefulness with 
which he has devoted himself to accunnilating a 
[)roiierty that shall supjiorl him in his declining 
vears. 



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Our subject was married September 26, 1847, to 
Miss Rebecca Francisca Hertzer. who was born No- 
vember 21, 1825, in tlie same city as was her hus- 
band. She is a daughter of C'hristiaji and Caroline 
(Tahl) Ilertzor, who were also natives of her own 
native city. The father was a cooper and he gave 
to his four children such advantages as were pos- 
sible in his station of life. The names of the chil- 
dren are, R. Frances, 'Mary F., Dr. August H., who 
resides in North Abington, this .State, and Edward 
II., all of whom came to the I'nited States. Mrs. 
Wenk's parents came to this country in the year 
of 1853, landing April 28, .after an ocean voy- 
age of six weeks, Botli our subject and his wife 
are adherents to the Lutlicran faith and are honored 
and respected members of society, and are good 
illustrations of what will, seconded by energy, can 
accomjjlish for a man in this country. 

Mr. and Mrs. AVenk have no children of their 
own, but on March 6, 1869, they adopted William 
Ilarman. He and his wife — Nora House, in her 
maiden days, reside with our subject. They have 
one child, nanieil Flora Ilelmaine. 




ARRISON TOBIAS. The immediate gene- 
alogy of our subject reads as follows: Har- 
rison Tobias is a son of Henry and Henri- 
y) etta (Lake) Tobias, natives of Livingston 
County, N. Y. On beginning their domestic life 
they sought to raise their standard as high as pos- 
sible, and the five sons and three daughters that 
came to them, if they did not have the luxuries 
that money could buy, at least had the advantage 
of the valualile inheritance of an honorable and 
unstained name. Our subject's father served as a 
soldier in tlie AVar of 1812. He was a farmer and 
at quite an early day removed to Pennsylvania, 
and after spending ten years in the (Quaker State, 
he removed to Livingston County, Mich. 

Five years were passed by the original of our 
sketch in the place to which he first came. He 



then removed to Ingham County and settled on a 
farm of twenty acres, whicli lie later sold, investing 
in eighty acres, which he also sold. Mrs. Henrietta 
Tobias died in 1865. The old gentleman was 
again married to Elizabeth Plum, who did not sur- 
vive a great while. Probably worn out by pioneer 
life which he had experienced in both Livingston 
and Ingham Counties, Henry Tobias died in 1878. 

Harrison Tobias was born May 25, 184.3, in Liv- 
ingston County, Mich., and remained at home 
most of the time until he reached maturity. His 
bo.yhood and early manhood years were employed 
on the home farm. On reaching his majority he 
worked out for a time by the month and Anally, on 
September 15, 1870, he persuaded Mi.ss Delia Haddy 
to leave a life of single blessedness and take up the 
threads of a new existence with him. Their nup- 
tials were solemnized in Williamston, Ingham 
Clounty. Mrs. Tobias is a daughter c>f Jacob Haddy, 
a native of Germany and one of the early settlers 
of Wheatfield Township. His first acquisition of 
property here w-as forty acres, to which he later 
added one hundred and sixty acres, and to this he 
bent his energies in clearing and improving. Mrs. 
Tobias' mother was before her marriage Sarah 
Eeker and she and her husband were the parents 
of nine children. Mr. Haddy has always been a 
farmer, being one of the progressive men who have 
made Ingham County notable for their fine farms 
and good class of buildings. He came to Michigan 
about 1842-43. 

Mrs. Tobias was born June 4, 1847, in Wheat- 
field Township. Since her marriage with our sub- 
ject five children have been born to them. They 
are Hattie, Mamie, Charles, Etta and Ida. The 
eldest daughter is now the Avife of George B. Has- 
kell and resides on a farm in Wheatfield Township. 
The children are all bright and accomplished young 
people, who are greatly resiiected in the commu- 
nity in which they live. Our subject in 1875 
bought eighty acres of land, some of which he sold, 
but has added one hundred and twenty acres. He 
has cleared about forty acres and has erected some 
good buildings. Following in the wake of the 
liojjular political belief, our subject is a Democrat. 
]Mrs. Tobias' great-grandfather, Isaac Haddy, was a 
soldier in the regular armv of Germany. 



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R. GEORGE D. GREEN. The gentleman 
)jl whose portrait appears on the opposite page 
has arrived at that age when one expects to 
see some evidence of his early work. Success rarely 
crowns tlie efforts until the second score of yeai-s 
lias l)een reached, and indeed, a man's character is 
not really lixed until his fortieth jear has been at- 
tained. Though jiaving as a young man to com- 
iiat with many obstacles that wei-e in the way of 
iiis progress, Dr. Green surmounted them all, and 
is to-day one of the best men and most popular 
physician in the town of Mason. He is a follower 
of the new scliool of medicine that was instituted 
l>y llalinemann, and which lielieves in that evasive 
scientific theory, the potentiality of dilution. 

l)r. (Ireen was born at Albion, Orleans County, 
X. v.. December 13. 1851, and is a son of "N'elorus 
and Cordelia (Olmstead) Green, both natives of 
New York, the father born in Oswego and the 
mother somewhere in tiie ^lohawk Valley. His 
iiinthcr died when be was but nine years of age, 
and thus the bond tliat made llie domestic life was 
severed and he was tliereafter ignorant of the real 
meaning of a binue until be formed one for him- 
self, lie worked liy the month u|)()n a farm and 
attended, school during the winters, keeping this 
up until lie reached the age of sixteen years, when 
he came to Holt County, this State. 

L'pon his advent in Michigan. Dr. (Treen was 
employed at first as a farm laborer and thus he 
woiked until twenty-one years of age. attending 
school during the winter time. On reaching his 
majority, he went to \\'est IJay Cit\', where lie eii- 
gaiied ill tlie Keystone Salt and Lumber Coiiipaii v. 
scaling and inspecting luiiilier. and he remained in 
tlie employ of this company for about four years, 
after which lie iTturned to Holt, where he was mar- 
ried to Miss Klieii K. Watson, Xovenilier Ifi, 1874. 
She is the daughter of William B. Watson, of Holt. 
Ingham County, this State. After taking upon 
himself this sacred obliiiation he began farming on 
his own account, and followed the calling of agi'i- 
culliire until the fall of lH8;i, when he went to 
.Villi .\rbor, Mieli.. and was there engaged in study 
ill the meilic.'il depaitiiieiit of the college for two 
year>. He then went to Chicago, entering Ibe 
Hahnemann College. Here he was graduated in 



1885, his earne.st work in this department receiving 
its due reward by honorable mention. 

.\fter obtaining his dipbmia. Dr. Green lirsl be- 
gan practicing his profession in Morrice, Shiawas- 
see County, this State, but in 1889, removed to 
Mason where he has since been and where he is 
engaged in an extensive practice. He has a beau- 
tiful residence upon one of the choice residence 
streets of the town, and this is presided over most 
gracefully by his estimable wife. Their union has 
been blessed by the advent of three children: Mabel 
K., Mattie C. and Harold S. The eldest, who was 
born iu Delhi Township, June 1, 1876, is a bright 
young girl and is advanced for her j'ears, in her 
studies, being now in the eighth grade in the 
Mason public school. Mattie C. was born at Holt, 
February 19, 1881, while the son, Harold S., was 
born at Morrice June 1(1, 1889. Dr. (Ti-een is 
a progressive and aspiring nature that will not 
recognize defeat or discouragement and by these 
characteristics his success in the future is assured. 



^RANK C. BENNETT. It has often been 
1 observed that business capacity is an in- 

herited trait and that to one who has this 

characteristic opportunities for success seem to 
come almost unsought. Social and educational 
advantages of course add to the capability of Mich 
a man, but lie must have these native traits in 
order to succeed in life in a Inisiness way. Such 
eaiiabilities belong to our subject, who is engaged 
in steam and hot water heating, iiliimliing and 
gaslltting and who handles besides an extensive 
stock of seneral furnishing liousehold goods. 

Mr. r>eniietl. who is one of the Board of Alder- 
men of Lansing, Ingham County, was born in 
Bethlehem, now a part of the city of Albany. 
X. v.. June L"), 1853. His fatlier. Sanford Bennett, 
was a native of the same city and his "randfather 
who bore the same iianie. came from Connecticut. 
He took .'1 f:inii of two bundled acres near Albany 
wbieb he eultixated until he removed tol'enn Yan 
in Yates County, where lie died in 1859. Tlie 



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raiiiil\ is uf Scotch descent and l)oasts the posses- 
sion of lilue lildud. Tlie fatlici-. wlio was a gradu- 
ntf of thi' department of hiw of tlic Iniversity of 
Niw VoiU at Alliany, piaeticod liis profession for 
Mwliile and was Justice of thePeaceand Associate 
■lustice of a lower court and durinj); the war acted 
as enrollins' officer. Later lie went into the mer- 
cantile business and in isiTf came to Lansinii', 
wiiere he located and is li\intr a ri'tired life. He 
was strong in his conxictions, Ituth as to political 
and reli.uious matters, and was identified with the 
lve|nililican paity .and Presbyterian Church. 

The mother of our subject liore the maiden name 
of Klizalieth .1. ( ongdon. and she was also a nati\(' 
of .Vlliany. Her father. William T. Congdoii. w,-is 
liorn ni-ar Boston, lie cari'ied on a sawmill and a 
knitting mill on the Norman Skill Cieek ne;n- 
.Albany. His daughter, the mother of our T-ulijecl. 
is now fifty-eight years of age and has three sous 
— AVilliam S., who is bookkee|)er with his biotlur: 
I'. ('.. and Clinton C.. who is a ti'aveling salesni.au 
with his heaihiuartersat Cleveland. Ohio. 

lie of whom we write was reaicd .and educated 
in .Vlbany. taking a course in the .\ll)an,\' llii^h 
School and at the age of about sixteen years lie 
learned engineering, making a specialty of station- 
aiy enaines. I'',\'en before coming to Lansing lie 
was employed by the Walworth Manufacturing 
Company of lioston. It was in the winter of 
\x7\-i2 that ln' came to this city and engaged in 
engineering here in the mills ••ind look charge of 
the steam heatinu in the .Vgricultural College. He 
was still in the eniphy of the Walworth ^lanu- 
facturing Companx and while the ca])itol Avas 
being finished he became foreman of the steam- 
heating dep.'irtnii'nt. which he held until the close 
of the job. lie then acted in the same capacitv 
for the woik on the Ionia Piison and also on the 
Pontiac ,\syhim. .VU of these large con tracts gave 
him the benetit of a lirond experience. He le- 
mained in the employ of this lioston tirm until 
about the year IST'.t, when they closed their work 
ill JNIicliigan and our subject ceased his coniuH-tion 
with them. 

Mr. Bennett, in l».S(l. started the furnishing 
business in which he now is and took as i)artner 
.Mr. Jacques for a short time and then Mr. AVhite 



for a few months, since which he has carried on the 
liusiuess alone, gradually increasing it. In DSM;') he 
liought the ijluiiibing eslablishment of Charles 
Hcrrick, and took as his partner in that line of 
work George T. Gordon. The basement of his 
establishment is devoted to that branch of the 
business — general plumbing and water and steam- 
heating. He kee|)s from twelve to fifteen men at 
work and takes contracts for large job.s. In his 
store he keeps everything in the line of general 
house furnishing and has a fine storeroom, 22x90 
feet. Besides other real estate, he owns a pleasant 
residence at >>'o. 'M)7 A\'aliiut .Street. 

The marriage of .\Ir. Bennett, which took place 
.May .io, l«7si. united^ him with Miss Agnes .S. 
\\'iley who was Ixirn in Lansing, her parents hav- 
ing been early settlers here. Their three children 
are Frani-. Carrie and Aggie. Besides tilling the 
office of .Uderman as he is now doing for the Sec- 
ond \\ard. our subject was Supervisor for (,)ne 
teiiii. lie was the only Republican Alderman elec- 
ted this year (ISIM) and there .are only two of 
that party now in the Council. He is identitied with 
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, being now 
Notile (iraiid in Lodge. No. 45. He is also a mem- 
ber of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and 
of tile Kniiihts of Pythias. He is prominently ;h- 
ti\e in the First Presbyterian Church at Lansing 
.and is a very influential man in his party, being 
often made delegate to county con vcntiiins. 



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OIIN .1. Tl'TTLK. Those of us who liave 
encountered dillicnlties in life, sui-li as come 
to men who are striving to better their 
financial condititni. imagine that we know 
what "hard times" means, but if wt' could conipai'c 
our experiences with those of the geiitleniau whose 
n.'inie we gi\i'. we would conclude that we could 
not c\ en spell the beyinniiig of this much-used 
term. When a man ha> cut his road through 
dense forests from the outer world to his farm, has 
built a log cabin and lived in it five years before 
any team of either neighbor or traveler passed his 
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cabin but his own, and had stiuofffled tlirough 
poverty and scarcity of opportunities to <;ain a 
bare subsistence, we may well lielievc that lie 
Icnows tiicfull definition of tlie terni,"lianl times." 

'Phis pioneer farmer resides on section 7. of the 
township of Leslie and was born in Mentz, CajHiga 
County. N. Y., June 14, 1812, I)einjj the son of 
Jabez and Betsey (Ayres) Tuttic, natives of New 
Jersev and New York respectively. .labez Tuttle 
first saw the light in Klizabetlitown, N. J., in 1701, 
and wliile still a young man he removed after his 
marriage to Men tz,N. Y., where he and liis good wife 
made their home for the remainder of tiieir days. Me 
was a ])i(meer tliere and followed l»>tii carjjentering 
and fanning, and also operated a distillery on 
his farm for many years, for in those days tem- 
perance reform had not begun and distilling was 
considered a very reputable calling. This pioneer 
W.1S also a Revolutionary soldier for a short time 
and also served in the War of 1812. He became a 
Whig and upon the organization of the Hepulili- 
can party joined that liody, but never took any 
part in public service. Notwithstanding his war- 
like experience, he was ever a faitliftil member of 
the Society of Friends, while his wife was an ear- 
nest and zealous member of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Ciiurch. She was born on Long Lsland, N. Y., 
about the year 1771 and died at the age of seven- 
ty-six years. 

These parents were blessed with Inin' sons and 
three daughters, namely: Phd'be, Sallie, Hannah. 
Benjamin, James B., John J. and Samuel. James 
B. and John J. aie the only survivors of the 
family and they were reared upon tlicir father's 
farm. Our subject remained at home until he 
reached the age of sixteen years, at which time he 
was bound out to learn the blacksmith's trade in 
Auburn, N. Y., but not liking the man to wlumi 
he was apprenticed he ran away, and going to 
Weedsport, N. Y., there served an apprenticeship 
for three years at the tanner's and currier's trade. 
He then engaged in the tanning business, using 
his father's old still-house on the home farm as a 
tannery, and carried on this business for two years. 

During the Black Hawk War he took a contract 
from the Government to butcher and supply the 
friendlv Indians with meat and was located at 



Chicago, which was then a village of perhaps one 
thousand inhabitants. He at that time owned a 
half acre of land on which the Tremont House in 
that city, and which, if he had held it to the pres- 
ent time, would have made him immensely wealthy; 
but Chicago comer lots had not seen the advance 
which they now hold and he disjjosed of his prop- 
erty. 

In November, 1834, this gentleman retm-ned to 
New York and followed farming for two years, 
when he decided to give u]) his work there and 
come West. It was in the fall of 1837 that he 
purchased eighty acres of forest land where he 
now resides in Leslie, Ingham County, and in the 
following spring he brought his family to the new 
homestead. They came fioni .\ul)urn to Detroit 
by water and from Detroit to his farm by team 
through the woods, cutting their way through the 
heavy timlier. 

Nothing was so scarce as monc\' in those days 
and often when the family received a letter from 
the East it would be weeks before they could 
obtain the two shillings which must be paid for its 
delivery. They struggled along through ditiicul- 
ties which to the modern man would seem insur- 
mountable, but never faltered nor fainted by the 
way. With his own right arm and his own trusty 
ax he cleared the timber from one hundred acres 
of his farm, and with the help of others hiis cleared 
another one hundred acres. For scA'cral j-ears he 
was surrounded by Indians and wild beasts, but as 
he was alwiiys friendly- and true in his dealings 
with the red man he had no trouble with him. He 
has added to his possessions until he now ha.> one 
thousand and fort^^ acres all in one bod3',a portion 
of which he gives to his son. 

Mr. Tuttle is one of the wealthiest men in this 
county and has made his property by hard labor 
as he has never speculated. Besides his farm prop- 
erty he also owns farm property in Leslie and is a 
stockholder in the People's Bank, in which he has 
been a Director since its organization. He is a 
man of verj' decided convictions and is strong in 
his preference for and belief in the Republican 
party. During tlie days of the Civil War he was 
Township Supervisor and has been Justice of the 
Peace for fourteen vears, besides fillinsr various 



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townsliiij oltiees. lie ha^ placed all the impiovc- 
iiK'iit< wliifli aio iiuw to 1)0 seen upon liit^ fanii 
.■111(1 li:i> a iaro:^ two-story IVamc lioiise. liesides 
L'xct'lk'iit liai'iis, and his land is ainonu' the Hiu'~t 
tracts to lie found in Inaiiani ( ounty. 

The iiKiniaiie of this |piuneei' iientlenian look 
place Maich 12, IH:U'). and he then took to wife 
^liss Emma A. ^^'an•en. of Palmyra. Wayne County. 
X. v.. wlio was liorii in Camden. N. .1., April (J, 
1«12. .She was a danuhter of William and Mary 
(Horn) Warren and uranddauiihter of (tcu. War- 
ren of Revolutionary fame. Mrs. Tuttle died .Sep- 
l.'uilier 2. lf*H7. leavini;- three children. Her eldest. 
Sarah .J. is now the wife of Daniel Frary. a farmer 
ill this township, and >lie i> the mother of three 
children. Elizaheth. Ilmina and Blanche. The 
next child is ( )ud(Mi \'.. a farmer in this township 
who married ^Iis> ]-;iizalietli INIc.Vrthur of New 
York and has two children. Artie .1. and (ii'ace. 
The younoest child. Celestia. died when a beauti- 
ful younji lady of eii;hteeii years. The maunitit-cjut 
record which this gentleman lias made and the 
lionorable character which he sustains, form :\ 
liright siiot in the annals of Inoham County, for 
his wealth has not been made out of the necessities 
and distiesses of his fellow-men but has been hon- 
orably acijuired and is his by evei-y rioht. hotli 
human and dixinc 



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OX. CORXELIi:s A.(iOWER. the Sujieiin- 
tendeut of the State Refortn Scliool at 
l-ansino'. Injjliam County, was lioin in Ali- 
bott. Me.. .Inly ;5. 1845. He is a son of 
Cornelius X. and Abioail (llawes) Cower, the 
former of whom was also horn in Maine and there 
made his home until his son and our subject had 
attained years of manhood. Me of whom we write 
received the fundamental portion of his education 
in his boyhood's home and took the preparatory 
cour.se for college at AVaterville. after which he 
attended Colby University in the same city in his 
native State, lie eomiileted his cour.se. however, 
at the Univer.sity of Michigan being graduated in 



18(57. at which time the degree of liachelor of Arts 
was conferred uijon him. Prior to his graduation 
and during the intervals of his college cour.se he 
taught three winters on the coast of Maine and 
also in Massachvisetts. His early life was spent on 
a farm. 

.\fter graduating he engaged in teaching f(M' 
one year, during which time he was employed in 
the lligli School at .Vnii Arhor. \{ the same time 
he was a student in the law department of the 
University. In 18()H he was in\ited to become 
l^'inci|ial of the |iiilihc school at Fenton. Mich., 
and there remained for three years, when he was 
elected Suiierintcndent for (;ene.>ee County. This 
position he tilled for three years during wliicli he 
diseharged the duties incident to the ottice most 
.-satisfactorily. ,\t the expiration of that time he 
resigned in onler to accept the position of .Super- 
intendent in the city scho(.)ls of Saginaw. Heentered 
upon his duties in IK74. and in 1>^7H while still so 
engaged he was appointed hy (io\-. Crosswell as 
Superintendent of Public Instruction to fill a 
vat'ancy made by the resignation of Hon. 11. S. 
T.-irliell. The same fall he received a comiiliment 
(laid to his alile <liscliarge of the duties incident to 
that ottice by an election to the place, and again 
in 1H«(I was re-elected. 

In Feliruarv. 18H1 he was appointed Superin- 
tendent of the State Reft)rm .School. Here he has 
remained ever since, and the success of that insti- 
tution is due in no small degree to his able admin- 
istration. Mr. (lower was united in marriage at 
F'enton. .September 12. 1iH71. to .Miss Dora L. 
Walton, of the same city in which their marriage 
was solemnized. They are the parents of three 
cliihlren who are Helen 1).. Charles A. and t lara 
.\. They are all young peoiile of whom their 
jiarents ma\ well be [iroud. Xaturally bright and 
surrounded from e.-irliest years with those inllu- 
ences that would naturally develop the best side 
of their natures, they early displayed an unusual 
riclme-s of cli.-iracter. ^Iis. (iower is a native of 
llartl.'uid. Livingston (ounty. this State, and is a 
daughter of Earl E. and Helen ^^'alton. The 
father of our subject is still li\ ing. residing in 
Wisconsin. 

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lisliiiitj ('(ini|):ui y, (if wliirli ;i lii>tiiry iiuiy lie t'liinnl 
undfi- tlu' liioiiriipliiivil sUctcli ul' llic Ivcx . ( '. II. 
l)c;ili' in .iiiollu'i- ii;ii1 <•( \\\i> Ai r.iM. 'I'lir la>l 
named <;ontl('niaii i.s sccretaiy and editor oi' tlii> 
paper, wliieli is the State oroaii nf the ( oiisiiviia- 
tioiial Society. It was ])iircliased liy tlie present 
company in 1887 and lias an extensive eireulation 
tliroiijiiiout the State. Our subject has fin- the 
past ei!>:ht years heen intimately connected witli 
Messi>. I',. I'liincnt A- Sons, manufacturers. :uid 
wlicn the lirm was incoi poratcd. lie -was elected tlie 
lirst \'ice-President and he lias evei' since licid 
that position, lie has ever taken a deej) interest 
in reliiiious inntteis as may lie inferred from his 
connection witli so ini])ortant a leliirious ori>an as 
the Beacon. For several years he h.as liccn a nieiii- 
her of the Slate Committee on Home Mission>of the 
('on^re<i;ational Church, and the work th;it he h.as 
accomplishe(l while in this po.-ition has not been 
iiu onsidi'ralilc. Mr. (iower is a nieniher and iicn- 
erous .•-\ip|)orter of the I'lymoiith Cona're£;ational 
Chui'ch of this city, lie is a Kniaht 'rcmplar. hut 
is not l.-irucly intcrc>ti-(l in scciet ^ocieties. lia\'- 
iui;' all that he can attend to in his own jiiofes- 
sional liiK' an<l hi> church woi-k. Ih' i> a ni.an who 
is held in the hiahe^t otccm by all the ])eoplc of 
the community. Politically he is a l{ei)ublican. 



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I AMKS W. riLLOTSON. Itioj/raphies of 
successful men are most iisefid as liuides and 
incenti\'cs to otlici> ;ind hen<-e a volume of 
this cliaract<'r. containini;' the life rt'cords of 
the most piomiiu'ut and representat i ve <-it i/,cn> of 
the county, serves to stimulate the \o\uiaand in- 
vite their em\ilation. Mr. Tillotson is well known 
throuiihout lniih;im Comity as an inlluenli.al 
farmer and business man of Lansina Township, 
where he resides on .section >^. His line farm of 
iiiu' hinidred .and forty-live .acres adjoins the cil\' 
of Lansina and forms :i lie.autiful coutra>t. with il- 
w.'ivina arain and areen orch.ards. to the iniposina 
structures of the capital city. 

The paternal grandfather of Mr. Tillot>on boie 
the name of Zadock Tillotson. and was a nati\e of 



New ^drk. of Knaiish extraction. The immediate 
proacnilois of our subject were Krastus .V. and 
Phidelia ( .Mathei-) Tillotson. the former a native 
of the Kmpire .State and the latter born in Ohio. 
It was in the latter State that their destinies for 
life were unite(l in 1 ."^ I 1 . the ceremony I)eing ]ier- 
fornu'd at the bride's home in Medina Count_\'. 
Only two children ble.ssed their happy married life 
— .James W.. of this sketch, beina' the elder, and 
born .\uaust '.t. 18i;i. His brother. ICrasl\is. now 
enaaiicd in the postal seivicc .and a resident of 
Omaha. .Neb., was horn in IHl.'i. on Octolier .'i. 
His wife bore the maiden name of Laura Williams. 
Oui- subject was reared on a farm and trained a 
common -school education by taking' advantajrc of 
ail the opportunities afforded by the district in 
which he resided. In the meantime he a:ained a 
thorouirh pi'actical knowledae of aariculture in its 
\arious de|iartincnts and became well littcd to take 
charii'c of a farm of \\\> own. .Naturally, when the 
time came bir him to select a calliui;' in life he 
chose aai'icultui-e. .and the succe.s'« which has at- 
tended his etforts [)i-o\es the wisdom of his choice. 
I'litil he was nineteen \ears old he remained with 
his father, but at that ai;i' >tarted out in life for 
himself. 

In 18(11. .Mr. Tillotson came \\e,-l to .Michia.an. 
of whose adv.antaa'es much w.as >aid in those days 
and from whose fertile soil it was predicted for- 
tunes could be aaiiii'd. .Vftei he located here he 
lirst woike<l by the month .and I'areful econonn' 
en.ablcd him to soon make a purchase of properlv 
foi- himself. In IS?.'! he was mari'ied to Miss Halil- 
win. .and one <lauahter vva> lioiai to them — Xina 
.\l.. \vhosc nat.al day was A|)ril 2(1.1x71. She is 
now .ittendina school in the city of Lansina and 
i- (pntc proficient in her studio. She briahtens 
the home other father and is not only the object of 
his dexoted interest, but also that of her arand- 
inotlicr. .Mrs. I'hidelia Tillotson. who proide.- with 
dig-nit\ and ijraee over the household of hi r >on. 
.\ sjravel mine or bank on Mr. Tillotson > farm 
furnisho thousands ol tons of iiravel for >t reel 
puiposes in the city of I.ansina and is .a consider- 
able .source of revenue. .Mr. Tillotson devotes his 
attention to mixed farming and finds in the dis- 
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turist. abundant opportunity for his energy and 
ability to be utilized. His father bought the farm 
which is now his property, in 1851, it being then 
all timber land, and containing few evidences of 
its present prosi)erity. But the father survived to 
see a city grow up from a wilderness. He died 
.luly 7, 1887, at the ripe old age of seventy years. 
The mother, as above stated, is still living in the 
enjoyment of good health and with faculties un- 
impaired. 

In politics Mr. Tillotson adheres to the princi- 
ples of the Republican party and cast his first vote 
for Abrah.am Lincoln in 1864. Socially he belongs 
to the Lansing Lodge, No. 33, A. F. & A.M. The 
mother is a devoted member of the Methodist 
Episcopal C'hurcli. 



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ROF. ROBERT BARKER. One of the 
])] most touching tributes which was given 
by "the common people" to our Saviour 
when on earth was that " He maketh the 
blind to see." Men of benevolence and scientific 
research have followed in His sacred steps in work- 
ing for those to whom sight has been denied, and 
in alleviating the misfortune which has fallen upon 
them. Many skillful oculists have brought the 
sweet light of day to "those who sat in darkness", 
and where this has been imiwssible the benevolent 
and wise have sought out means of mitigating the 
affiiction Vjy giving such instruction as shall bring 
the unfortunate ones within the circle of human 
intelligence, thus breaking down some of the bars 
which had risen up between them and their fellow- 
men. To give a sketch of the life and work of the 
Superintendent of the Michigan School for the 
Blind is a task to which we gladly respond. 

This gentleman was born in Berry Township, 
Orleans County, N. Y., May 13, 1827, and there he 
grew to manhood. His father, Joseph Barker, was 
born in Lincolnshire, England, and the grandfather, 
John, was an English weaver and a farmer after 
coming to America, which change of residence he 
made about the year 1812. He was a devout 
member of the Church of England and died La 



Orleans County, X. Y., to which he had removed 
from Ontario County. The father, who came to 
America at the age of thirteen followed farming, 
as we have said, in Berry Township, until his de.ath 
at the age of seventy-seven years. He was a sturdy 
Jacksonian Democrat in his political views. 

Tlie motlier of our subject came of an old New 
England family, and was early made an orphan by 
the death of her father. She was born in Benning- 
ton. A't., and bore the maiden name of Submit 
Cowles. She died in Berry Townsliij) at the age 
of fifty years having been the mother of nine chil- 
dren, of whom our subject was the third in order 
of age. He attended the common school and after 
that took a course of study in Melville Academy, 
and when eighteen years old he began teaching. 
Having spent two terms at the teacher's desk he 
entered the New York State Normal School at Al- 
bany wliich was at that time the only normal school 
in the country and for wliich he was so well,prepared 
that he was able to enter the junior class. He 
graduated in 1848 at the age of twenty-one. 

Tlie young man now entered the profession of 
teaching in earnest and tauglit one year in Eagle 
Harlior, one year in Palmyra, and three years at 
Geneva. In 1853 he went to Tennessee and 
traveled in that State and Kentucky. At Paducah 
he had a i)Osition tendered him as Professor of 
Mathematics and Natural Sciences in Paducah 
College. He accepted this chair and at the end of 
a year removed to the Paducah Female Seminary, 
of which he became Principal, Imt after five years 
was offered the principalship of Winchester Female 
Institute which he accepted and held foi' four 
years. 

During Prof. Barker's sojourn in the South he 
had a varied experience and saw a great deal of 
guerrilla warfare. He was a member of the Kentucky 
Home Guards from the time of its organization 
until it disbanded, and was ever fearless and out- 
spoken in his loyalty to the Union flag. In August, 
1864 he came to Lansing and engaged in mercan- 
tile pursuits for a short time, and then undertook 
for about three years the work of a special super- 
vismg agent for the ^Iitna Fire Insurance Company 
in Michigan, and was also bookkeeper for the Ionia 
& Lansing Railroad for one year, H^ was engaged 



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in llu' inamifafturc of di'iiiii tilr Mnil lirii-l<. nliitli 
Im^inoss he I'arrii'd on from 1«7I In l.s.ss. Mud in 
.lamiarv. 18mt lie Ih'cmhu' Sir\v;ii(l and Imm)Iv1<ci'|)it 
ill the Mifliigan Scliool for llic lUind. 'i'lu' iiiaiiauv- 
iiK'iit of tlii.-< scliool was so picasi'd witii lliifi ii'i'iillc- 
nianV intelliiJjt'iicf and a|i|)ri'ciated .so liisjhly tlu' 
l)road cxperieiKc wliicli lie had ^aiiUMl tliat aftei' 
t.ix montlis ill tlie iiislitulioii in thi> sidiordiiiaU- 
])(>t;ition lie was tendered llie Sii|>eriiiteiideiK-\ . 
whieh lie accepted in .Inly. is«'.i. 

The Mieliigan Scliool for the Blind was in its 
I'.-irh' years connected with the Deaf and Dunili 
Institution at Flint, lint in l.sT'.t steps were tiiken 
to e.stalilisii a separate si'liool and there were several 
l)laces canvassed as proper locations, notably. De- 
troit and .Iones\ille. It was finally decided to 
pnrt'hase this place which was the old Odd Fellows 
Institnte. It was piircha.sed in 1878 and, l)einjr 
remodeled, ha-s grown to its present tine propor- 
tions. James F. McKlroy was its first .Snperinteiid- 
eiit, his snceessor being acting-Snpeiintendent \\ . 
(;. Kaci'. Following him was (u'oige Barnes .•iiid 
then the present Snpi'rintcndent. our subject. The 
school is in a rtourishing condition, having eighty- 
five pnpils enrolled and the gidiin<ls i-om|irise a 
tract of forty-hve acres, all finely improved, being 
in meadow and i)asture land. .\ beautiful lawn of 
ten acres i'ont:i ills the main iiall. Iiroom shop, en- 
gine house and other bniUlings necessary for the 
))roper carrying on of the .school. 

The inaniifactoi-y of In ick and tile which was 
started by I'rof. liarker at INIason is still in ojiera- 
tion under the firm n.ame of Barker <fe Co. .Since 
coming to Michigan he has taken ;in active interest 
in organizing the Lansing .schools according to a 
grailed system and after he was elected a member 
of the School Hoard he helped to organize the 
schools on the most advanced plans. For eight 
years he w,as a member of the Board and during a 
])Oi'tion of that time jiresided over that body and 
W'as most of the time on the committee on schools 
as well as the one on teachers. 

The marriage of I'rof. Barker to .\li» Kmily 
Cornell took place in Bei-ry T(.)wnship. N. > .. .May 
12. 1H.")ii. That lady was born in Steuben ( ount\'. 
N. Y., and i^ a daniihter of .Stephen .'ind .Mai'V 
Cornell, her father being well known in that re- 



gion :is a mechanic. She w;is educated in the 
Academy at .VIbioii and became .-i teacher. Her 
four children are: Mary. .Mrs. B. 1). Northrup of 
Lansing: S.-illie .M.. a graduate of the ^'psilanli 
Normal School .•imi a teachei' in the city schools 
here. ( h.-irhs S.. who is in the cnipio\- of the Chi- 
cago A' (irand Trunk Railway at Port Huron and 
William ('.. who resides at .Mason where he is 
carrying on the business eslablisheil by hi> father. 
I'l'of. Barker is an .active m.in in the I{epnblic;in 
ranks having been an old-time l-'ree Soiler. and 
has the high respect of his confreres. He is in 
every w-a\' a prominent. public->pirited and enter- 
])rising man and his broad and rich education aiul 
his unfailing fund of information gives him .a con- 
troling influence over many minds. He is a mem- 
ber of the Franklin Street I'resbyterian Church in 
which he li;i» been an lOlder for twenty years, and 
where he superintended the Sunday-school for six- 
teen years. He is now suffering in health on ac- 
count of a pai-alytie stroke which has effected him 
on the left side and he has a^ked ;i release from the 
liea\y responsibilities which lie upon liim. 



^T/()SKI'1I .\I. Mc(().\IB. Our subje.l is a 

farmer and stock-rai.ser residing on section 

I If), of \'evay Township. Ingham Connt\, 



where he is the owner of fiftv-three acres 

under most excellent culti\.ation. lb' was born 
in Oenesee County. Mich.. ( )etober I.!, isl.'). He 
is the son of (hcstt'r .and I-'ideli:i (L.-ike) McConib. 
the f.Mthei- a native of Canada and of Scotch origin, 
the mother a native of New York. Our subject's 
p.aients were married in (Jenesee County where 
he was born. Chester McComb, his father, was a 
small farmer in (iene.see County, this St.ate. wlnre 
our subject was reared. He was not an exception 
to other boy> of that day in either the way he was 
brought up or the advantages that he received, for 
there is ;i f;islii<m in rearing chihlren as there is ;i 
fashion in clothes and the food that one eats. 

()iir subject received a fair common-school edu- 
cation in his bo\ hood days. He had liardh lin- 
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out and be enlisted in tlie Fifth IMicliigan Calvaiy, 
Company K, in January, 1864. He was detailed 
to the Army of the Potomac and joined the regi- 
ment about the 1st of June, serving under that 
veteran soldier wlio afterward lost liis life in the 
encounter with the Indians. He has the most 
vivid remembrance and imprtssion of Gen. 
Custer's dignity and bravery under Are. The 
young man was in every engagement that occurred 
from the time he entered the war until its termin- 
ation, that is, in every engagement in which his 
regiment took part, and had a numlier of very 
close calls, as it was his nature in the ardency and 
impetuosity of youth to always get into the thickest 
of the fight, where shells were bursting around about 
him and the Are of musketry was onlj^ subdued b\- 
the louder boom of the cannon. After the General 
Review at Washington, the brigade to which Mr. 
McComb lielonged was transferred to Gen. Stagg, 
who led his men by the overland stage route 
from Denver to Salt Lake, and during this period 
they saw much duty, although not so exposed to 
danger as in the thick of battle. 

Our subject was mustered out of service March 
10, 1866, having been with the army two years, 
two months and ten da_vs. After his discharge he 
spent some time roving around the West and be- 
came familiar with the physical and geographical 
condition of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, at 
which time he saw much of frontier life, some of 
it in its roughest and crudest state. On returning 
to Michigan he staid at his home place for two 
years, but the Bohemian spirit was still upon him 
and at the expiration of tliat time he went to Kan- 
sas and then to Missouri where he carried on the 
cooper's business. His fli'st marriage occurred 
while in the last named State. His wife was Miss 
Lucy E. Battle and their marriage was solemnized 
Christmas, 1874. By this union there is one child, 
a daughter, whose name is Mabel L. 

The original of our sketch returned to Michigan 
and settled in Cheboygan County, where he located 
land from the Government. He remained here 
about seven years during which time he was mar- 
ried to Miss Emily B. Hill, their marriage taking 
place January 1. 1882. By this marriage there 
have been bom three children whose names are as 



follows: Fred G.. who was born July 7, 1885; Daniel 
and Phrebe IMay, twins, who were born Sei)tembei 
20, 1886. From Cheboygan Mr. Comb moved his 
family to his present home in the fall of 1885. 

He of whom we write affiliates with the Repub- 
lican party and has held many local offices under 
its lead. He has been School Moderator both here 
and in Cheboygan County and was Justice of tlic 
Peace two years, also School Director for two 
years. He was formerly a member of the Indeiien- 
dent Order of Odd Fellows, but has severed his 
connection with that society. Besides himself two 
of his brothers served in the War of the Rebellion, 
and although they were mere bo.ys in age at the 
time of their enlistment, they did good and honor- 
able service. His brother, Charles, died at Bowling 
Green, Ky., a victim of black measles. Another 
brother, Ozro S., was several times refused on vol- 
unteering for enlistment on account of his youth, 
but by a little strategy on the boy's part was 
finally accepted and enlisted in the Third Michi- 
gan Cavalry, seeing much service and in his army 
experience, gaining a knowledge of men and of the 
condition and resource* of the great land in which 
he lives, that the ordinary man under ordinary 
circumstances would have required a lifetime to 
learn. 



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RANKLIX F. RUSSELL. No man is more 
truly helpful in building up the best ele- 
ments of social and intellectual life than he 
who caters to the literary tastes of the people. It 
must be a great satisfaction to a right minded man 
to feel that he is thus helping forward the educa- 
tional processes bj' which a city makes real progress 
out of the commonplace into a higher life. 

The gentleman of whom we write has had the 
pleasure of supplying the public of Lansing, lug- 
ham County with their literary helps and has car- 
ried a full line of books until quite lately. He is 
now devoting himself more closely to a specialty, 
and handles nothing except stationery, news and 
periodicals. He was born in Walpole, N. H., May 
6, 1820. His father. Thomas Russell, Jr., was a na- 
tive of the same place and his grandfather, Thomas, 



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was a Coniieoticut farmer and hlacksiiiitli as well as 
a ropo-iiiakor. At an early day lie removed to 
\\'Mlii(>le where lie was very sneeessful in Imsiness 
and lieeanie a rieli man for those days, altliouu:li he 
was a erijUjle from the age of sixteen, and had to 
make the journey of life on (•rutche> until lie 
jiassed to a better world after eompleliiii;' ninel\- 
six years of upriiiht and usef\d life. 

Thomas iJussell Jr., was a shoemaker by trade 
and a farmer and he also lived toan .'idvaneed age, 
dyinsr when ei<>:hty-seven years old. His ijood wife 
whose maiden name was Il.-mnah I'lint, was a na- 
tive of Massachusetts and heeame the mother of 
live I'hildren, her son Franklin lieini>' next to the 
eldest in aire. lie was reared upon ihi' farm in 
New Hampshire where he went to .■•ehool during 
three months in the winter, hut this privilege ex- 
tended over only three 3-ears, and from that time 
on what education he has received has heen gained 
by his own efforts. 

.Vt the age of. ten this boy began to work his 
own way first on a farm and then learned tlu' 
siioemaker's trade, at which lie worked for a num- 
ber of years. In 1838 he went to Schenectady. 
X. Y., and liegan to learn the hatter's trade and 
after two years he went to Rochester and finished 
learning his trade. After working for oth(u-s awhile 
he started in the business for himself undertaking 
the finishing of hats and a retad business and in 
the fall of 18;')6 he came to Lansing and located 
here. He formed a partnership with V. Cannell in 
the letail hat and shoe business, but after one year 
this partnership was dissolved and our subject con- 
tinued in the business alone for awhile. 

Somewhat later Mr. Russell engaged as a clerk 
with A. J. Viele in the news, hook and stationery 
line and remained with him for ten years. In 
1871 he started in the business for himself at the 
present stand and has carried it on with good 
judgment and success. He was married in Roches- 
ter, X. Y., in 184.5 to ^liss Ellen j\I. Iline who was 
born in Catskill. X. Y., and died after their removal 
to Lansing. 

The second marriage of our subject took place in 
this city in 1876. his bride being Mrs. Sophronia 
il. Knott, widow of R. B. Knott. She is a native of 
Xew York and to her has been granted one child. 



Frances F. The pleasant home at the corner of 
(Jrand and Lenawee Streets is tlie seat of true 
domestic hiippiness. Mrs. IJussell is an earnest and 
devoted member of the Meth<jdist Kpiscojial Church. 
The doctrines of protection and the other princi- 
ples of Kepiililieanism are dear to Mr. Russell, who 
is ardent in his attachnu'ut to his party. He is 
prominently identified with the Free and Accepted 
Masons, belonging to Lodge Xo. (iti at Lansing. 









V OlLN W. TAYLOR. Xothing gives the jjal 
riotie biographer more pleasure than to tell 
the story of the life of one of our '-brave 

boys in blue" who .sacrificed all that he held 

dearest upon the altar of our country, and the 
sight of one of our maimed and crii)pled soldiers 
who has left a limb ujjon the battlefield, causes the 
heart to thrill again with the emotions which made 
life so full and vital in the days of the Civil War. 
The gentleman whose name appears at the head of 
this paragraph and whose portrait is shown on the 
oi)posite page, is one whose jjatriotic record is of 
interest to everyone who will f)pen the covers of 
this volume. 

Mr. Taylor is one of the prominent business men 
of Lansing, Ingham County, and is the proprietor 
of Taylor's Bazaar of Confectionery, besides lieing 
one of the firm of the Michigan Folding Table 
Company, which manufactures an invention of his 
own. This firm is com])osed of Mr. Tavlor and 
3Ir. Barrett. Mr. Ta\ lor wa> born in Camden. Rav 
County, Mo., April 30. 1810, and his father, .lolin 
Taylor, w.as a native of Yorkshire, KngL-ind, and 
a wagon manufacturer. After coming with his 
family to this country he located at Camden, 
and estalilisheda wagon factory, but later ensaired 
in fanning. He was one of the lirst settlers of 
Hay County, and wjis a famous huntsman. Durinu' 
the war he was a strong L'nion man although resid- 
ing in a neighborhood full of Secessionist*. Xot 
feeling at home among them he removed to AVau- 
kesha County, Wis., where he engaged in farming 
and still resides. He is a strong Republican in his 
political convictions. His wife, Elizabeth Briggs. 



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is also a native of Yorkshire, and ovir subject is 
their only child. 

John "\V. Taylor was reared on the farm in Mis- 
souri and his school advantages were meager. 
^Vhen the wnr liroke out there were two Rebel 
camps near their home, Wellington and Lexington. 
and although the family was anxious to leave that 
part of the counti-y they could not get through to 
the Union lines. The Confederacy offered all kinds 
of inducements to our subject and his father to join 
their service but the young man was able to escape 
conscription, and enlisted in July. ISGl. in the 
Union forces, joining Company D, Fifth Mis.s(niri 
Infantry. His three months of service in that body 
was spent in skirmishing and he was mustered out 
August 31. The following day he enlisted again 
in Company K, Eighth Kansas Infantry, being 
mustered in at St. Louis, and taking a three years' 
term. 

The military experience of ilr. Taylor brought 
him into the following general engagements, Chick- 
amauga, Perryville and fStone River as well as 
other conflicts. On the 19th of September, 1863, 
he was wounded at Chickamauga, by a shell which 
struck his left leg, and he was taken prisoner at 
the same time. An operation became necessary 
and his leg was amputated by Dr. Seeley of the 
Twenty-second Illinois Regiment. Three weeks 
later he was jiaroled and entered the parole cam]) 
at Chattanooga, wliere he remained until one week 
previous to the battle of Missionary Ridge, when 
he was sent to Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, 
and was mustered out of service May 24, 1864. 

This young hero next went to Milwaukee, and 
took a commercial course in Bryant cfe Stratlon's 
Business College, studying telegraphy also, under 
Prof. Spencer. He then entered tlie em]iloy of the 
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Raih-oad, being 
station agent first at Columbia, Wis., arid tlien at 
Fall River, Wis., until 1872, when he came to 
Michigan in the service of the Detroit, Lansing cVr 
Northern Railroad. He was agent at Brighton 
until 1874, when he took the agency at North 
Lansing for one year. The 1st of April, 1875, was 
the day when he entered the general office of the 
Auditor General of the State as Clerk, and he re- 
mained there just sixteen years to a day. During 



all the time that he was employed in that office he 
lost no time, but gave himself steadily and faith- 
fully to the work of the office and became the liead 
of the purcliasing and paying department. In 
1881 lie built the block known as the Taylor Block, 
Willi dimensions of 25x80 feet, furnishing accom- 
modation for two stores, and here in 1891 he en- 
gaged in the confectionery business. He also built 
in 1878, the Postofflce Block in North Lansing, 
20x90 feet which is occupied by the postoffice and 
also by Hedges <fe Reck, druggists, of whom more 
may be found under their respective names in this 
volume. 

In ^lay, IS'Jl, Mr. Taylor patented his folding 
table and went into partnership with ;\Ir. Barrett 
in its manufacture. There are forty-four different 
kinds of folding tables on tlie market, but Mr. 
Taylor's friends think that his claim is just in call- 
ing this the best one offered to the trade on account 
of its simplicity and durability. This gentleman 
was married in Milwaukee, in 1869, toMLss Joanna 
M. Ryan, a native of that city. Their three children 
are, Samuel W., Pierce R., and Marie. The eldest 
son is a graduate of the Commercial College at 
Lansing, and is now in the United States mail ser- 
vice at Chicago. The mother of these children 
is a Roman Catholic in her religious views. The 
political views of Mr. Taylor are strongly Repub- 
lican, and he is prominent among the men of his 
jiarty, being a frequent delegate to county and 
State conventions and acting as Chairman of the 
city and ward committees. He is a prominent 
member of the G. A. R., belonging to Charles T. 
Foster Post, No. 42. 



<^/ LBERT J. WILSON. 



The results of indus- 
try and unflagging ])erseveiance are shown 
!ii in the life of the above-named gentleman 
who owns and occupies one of the most 
beautiinl homes of Leslie, Ingham County. His 
life iiftords a striking example worthy of imi- 
tation liy ytiung men who are easily discouraged 
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content themselves to dawdle on through life on 
small salaries because they have not the enerjjy 
rccjuisite to a greater success. A lirief outliiu' of 
tlic laliors'in which Mr. Wilson has been enga^fcd 
and in which for some years past he has been well 
supported by his better-half will be of interest to 
our readers. 

In the pateriKil line Mr. Wilson is dcscendccl 
from Enfflish ancestry who made settlement in New 
Jersey in Colonial days. His immediate progeni- 
tors, William S. and Margaret (Shotwell) Wilson, 
were liorn and reared Quakers in New Jersey and 
early in life took up their residence in New York 
and were married near Waterloo, in that State, 
February 2, 1842. They subsequentlj' lived in 
Wayne County, N. Y., until early in the '40s when 
they removed to Michigan and settled on a piece 
of wild land in Raisin Township, Lenawee County. 
A few years later they made a visit to the old 
home in New Jersey and while on their return to 
^Michigan Mrs. AV^ilson died, in Elba, N. Y., .June- 
2.T, 1847, being then only twenty-six jears of age. 

William S. Wilson returned to his Alicliigan 
homestead soon after this event and in 1848 he 
was .again married, taking to wife Elizabeth Mott, 
of Jackson County. ^Ir. Wilson has made his home 
in Michigan, in the counties of Lenawee and , 
Jackson, following the peaceful pursuit of agricul- 
ture. He has always been a money-maker Init has 
met with many reverses and is not a wealtiiy man, 
although he has secured a comfortable conijietence 
and now having completed threescore and ten 
years of useful and upright living is spending his 
later days in q\iiet retirement in Adrian, Mich. 
He is a man well read and most interesting in con- 
versation. In jxilitics he was originally a Whig 
and was very tirm in his opposition to slavery. 
.Since the organization of the Republican party he 
has supported it, although he is now a Prohibition- ' 
ist. He has never sought office and with the excep- 
tion of .some minor township and village offices has 
never held any position. 

The father of our subject is one of the chief pil- 
lars in the Free Methodist Church of Adrian, hav- 
ing been a Deacon and an active worker there for 
many years. He is a man of sterling integrity, has 
a keen sense of right and wi-ong and is helpful 



in promoting any enterprise or institution which 
he believes will upbuild and better the community 
in which he lives. His parents, Asa and Amy 
(Shotwell) Wilson, were natives of New Jer.scy, 
who spent the greater part of their lives in New 
York but came to Michigan at an early date and 
spent their last days in Lenawee County. The ma- 
ternal grandparents of our subject were Jose|)h and 
Margaret (Elston) Siiot well, who were born in New 
Jer.sey and there lived and died. Only three of 
William Wilson's children lived Lo the age of 
maturity, namely: Albert J., Joseph S. and Edwin 
M. The last named was a child of the second 
marriage who married Emma De (ireen and died 
in 188',t, at the age of forty years. leaving a family 
four children. 

He of whom we write first opened his eyes to the 
light of da}' in Marengo, Wayne County, N. Y., 
July 22, 1842, and came with his parents to Mich- 
igan when an infant. His boyhood aniu.seraents 
and school days were such as average farmer boys of 
that day enjoyed, and he completed his schooling 
at the Raisin Institute where he .acquired a fair, 
common-sense business education. As he was the 
eldest child much of the labor and responsibility 
of sul>duing the forest and cultivating the farm 
fell uj)on him. 

This young man remained with his father, giv- 
ing him the lienetil of his labors until August 11, 
1862, when he joined the aiiny as a private in 
Company A, Seventeenth Michigan Inlantry. which 
was attached to the Ninth Army Corps, then 
known as Burnside's Corps. Witliin two weeks of 
the day he left Washington he was taking part in 
the battle of South .Mountain, and he afterward 
was engaged in the great conllictsof Antietaiii and 
Fredericksburg. Entering uiK)n the Kentucky 
campaign he joined (iianf s army and was ])resent 
at the siege of Vieksburg and numerous other bat- 
tles and skirmishes of less importance. .Vl Fred- 
ericksburg he was wounded li\' .m piece of shell which 
Struck him [m the right hip. .Vfter the siege of 
Vicksliuig he was j)laced on detached duty in the 
Paymaster's department at Louisville, Ky., and re- 
mained there until June, 1865, when he received 
his final discharge. 

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awee County and resumed farming, but in 1868 he 
came to Ingham County and Itought sixty acres of 
land one mile and a half southeast of the village 
of Leslie. Upon this he settled and here he has by 
honesty, industry and perseverance accumulated 
considerable property and established a reputation 
which entitles him to the distinction of being one 
of the representative men of Leslie. His landed 
possessions now consist of one hundred and ninety 
acres of splendid land, all well improved and in a 
high state of cultivation. In 1886 he left his farm 
and removed to the village, where he has since re- 
sided as his sons have relieved him of the details 
of farm work. 

Mr. "Wilson is a stockholder in the People's 
Bank of Leslie and occupies a jiromiiient position 
in social and financial circles here. He started out 
in the world with willing hands and heart niid a 
clear head, and his possessions are the result of his 
own exertions. There is nothing reniMrkablc in his 
personality or liistory and he is a ])l:nii. uii(»ten- 
tatious man, singularly free from :iiiy evidence of 
that gras|nng. over-reaching spirit by which many 
men luive made themsches ricli in a new conntry. 
He has never aspired to ottice, preferring the (piiet 
of home to the strife and turmoil of public life, 
but moves along quietly, doing much good that 
the world knows not of. He is not connected with 
any religious deuomination but is a believer in the 
establishment and maintenance of churches and 
gives freely of his means to charitable institutions. 

This gentleman is a stanch Republican and an 
ardent supporter of the principles announced by 
tliat party. He cast his lirst Presidential vote for 
Abraham Lincoln and his last for Benjamin Harri- 
son. He is a memlier of the Independent Order of 
Odd Fellows and is one of the organizers and a 
charter member of the Dewey Post, >'<>. 60.Ci. A. R., 
of Leslie, and has held the position of Comman- 
der of the Post. 

Mr. Wilson was married, November 3, 1864, to 
Miss Martha A. Wilson, <>t Raisin, Lenawee County, 
Mich. The place of her birth is Marengo, AVayne 
County, N. Y., and she is a daughter of .Vmos and 
Anna L. (Wq,res) Wilson. This lady possesses rare 
qualities of mind and disposition and has been an 
able assistant to her husband, taking a just pride 



in his success and sustaining the standing and repu- 
tation of the family, and were this record to fail to 
perpetuate her good name in connection with her 
husband's it would fail in one of its chief purposes. 
The union of this worthy couple has resulted in 
the birth of seven children, namely; AVilliam A.. 
Edgar J., Bertram E., (reorge B., I'rances M., Mary 
G. and Herbert S. All are living except the 
youngest who died when eight years of age. Will- 
iam A. is married to Miss Lillian Hill; Edgar. I. 
married Miss Nina JIanley and had one child — 
Harry .!., now deceased; and Bertram E. married 
Miss Jennie Watson. These sons are sustaining 
most manfully and nobly the high reputation 
wliicli the family has held in ])ast generations. 



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'^p^^ENMS F. I'ATRKK. White Oak I'own- 
r I ship. Ingham Counl\. is i)uiely an agricnl- 
i^ lural district and depends foi- its prospei'ity 
not only iqion its soil lint upon its men. anil it is 
rich in both respe«-ts. foi- tlie land i> arable and 
pi'oductivc and its farmers are thoroughgoing, in- 
dustrious, systematic and enterprising. Such a 
combination is .sure to result in inosperity and no- 
where in Michigan can hapjiier home^ and more 
tidy farms be found than here. 

The gentleman of \\hom we write was born on 
the 1st of May, 1829, in County Queen. Ire- 
land, and was a little babe of only three months 
when his parents brought him to Canada where 
they remained for some two years before removing 
to New York. There they made their himie for 
five years so that Dennis had reached the age of 
seven years when he came to Michigan. 

The father of our subject was Thomas F. I'a trick, 
who was bom on the Emerald Isle in 1812 and 
chose him a wife in his early manhood, being uni- 
ted when only eighteen yeais old with Bi'idget 
McGinnis. To them were born four children, three 
of them being sons and one a daughtei'. and our 
subject was the second in order of age. Their 
names are as follows: Bridget, who married Mr. 
William Lcnnni and is the mother of seven chil- 
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tlie second is our subject, and the third Thomas, 
who married Hannali Bullis, to whom h:i\f ln-i'ii 
born two children. The youngest child died in 
iiif:uu-y and his name is not known to our subject. 
'L'hc |i;iternal grandfather of our subject bore the 
name of Thomas and lived and died in his native 
Irehind. 

Mar\' Havens is the maiden name of the lady 
who became the wife of our subject on Ai>ril 1 I. 
IM.'jit. Her father, Stevens IIa\'cns, was horn in 
New ^'oik ;niil his daniiiiter was liorn in Miehiiian. 
■riieie were ten ehildicn in the^a\■^■n^ ianiilv. 'I'o 
Mary (Ihncns) I'atiiek. were Ixirn two ilaimhiers 
ami one >on. namely: (athei'ine. who was horn in 
AN'hite Oak Townslii|). ( )etol>er I 1. 1M.")SI. .•nid mai- 
ried (leorge Barnell. Iiy whom she had one c-liild. 
She has now ])assed to tlie other wdild. Tin' ohlol 
Sim. William F. Patrick, was horn November I. 
lH(i2, and in IMMS was united in marriage to .\n- 
gusta .Miller, who has lieconie the niothei- of one 
child, (lay I'atriek. deceased, the yonngi'>t son 
was lioin in 1867. 

The second mai'ri.age of Mr. I'atriek \initril him 
with Mary (raft, a native of Xi'w York State, who 
was born in 1K4.'3. Her father. William Craft, was 
born in theCiernian Fatherland, and he had twelve 
children in his family. This union which took 
|)lace in lM7',t. has l)een crowned by the birth of 
one cliild,. Millard Fillmore. With his son William, 
,Mr. Patrick is carrying on a general f.-irming bn.'^i- 
ness, and takes a s])ecial interest in line ^tock and 
kee])s Jiogs and sheep of excellent breeds, as well 
as some fine specimens of the Jlcsscngei' bii'ed of 
hor.ses. 

In former years Mr. P.atrick has been a radical 
lve|)nlilic;ni. hut he and his son are now specially 
interested in promoting the interest of farmers and 
b:)th belong to the Farmeis' Mutual Benelit Asso- 
ciation in State, county and lown>hip organiza- 
tions. His son is now .School ^loderalor and he 
ha« held the olHce of Highway Commi>sioner. an<l 
great credit is due him for the splendid condition 
of the roads of this townshiji. Where our subject 
now lives upon section 2, his property embiaccs 
farms which formerly belonged to .]. Ha\en.-, W. 
Wightman. .1. ISentlcy and .1. Paynor. This large 
property was acquired partly by trade and |)aitly 



by purchase. Most of this he has improved and 

much of it is newly cleared land. Upon it he has 
erected a haiulsome home which cost some *3,(K)() 
and is one of the prettiest farm houses in White 
Oak Township. His half brother lives on the old 
homestead which is situated on section 31, in quite 
the opposite corner of the township. This family 
belongs to the Protestant Methodist Church and 
they are liberal and active in promoting the pros- 
perit\- of relioions institutions in their midst. 



OIIN M. DKFssKIi. .Mthongh in the prime 
of manhood and \igor, the gentleman whose 
name is at the head of this sketch has attain- 
ed the high standing in business and linan- 
eial life that his unceasing efforts and energy, 
united with sterling worth and high- business qual- 
ifications, deserves. He is at present Cashier in 
the Farmers' Hank in Mason. He is a prime mover 
here in every measure that is sought to I>e ad- 
vanced for the interests and benefit of the com- 
munity at large, and his pleasant home is the 
rendezvous for the be.st people of the place. His 
wife studies to second the interests of her husliand 
that tend to the elevation and refinement of their 
social life .and the welfare of the community. A 
l.ady of striking personal attractions, she .adapts 
herself admiralily to the position to which her hus- 
band has risen. 

Our subject was born in Rochester, N. Y,, 
.lanuary 24, 1851. He is a son of John M. and 
Su.san A. (Pierce) Dresser, the father a native of 
Pomfret, Windsor County, Conn., and being of 
Knglish ancestry. He moved with his family to 
Michigan when onr sniiject was but a small child, 
only four years of age. Although he was a nat- 
ural l>orn mechanic, he followed various occupa- 
tions. Karlv in his life he devoted himself to 
farminy;. Later he owned and operated a boat on 
the Frie Canal, and .after coming to .Michigan he 
followed the carpenterV trade for some years, the 
service of builders and carpenters being at that 
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land in the vicinity of Mason and here he spent 
the remainder of his days. Our subject's fatiier 
seems to have been a very popular man, as he was 
elected Township Treasurer six or more times, and 
no matter what majority the opposite political 
party might have, he was quite sure of election. 

The original of our sketch spent his boyhood 
days on what was known as the old Pixley farm 
and had only liiiiited opportunities at that time 
for acquiring an education. But the boy was ambi- 
tious to a degree, and underneath his patience 
there w.as a fixed detciiniuation that some day he 
should be looked u]) to for his mental attainments. 
At the age of fifteen he began to attend school in 
the village of Mason and there he studied for two 
winters, the last one under Prof. Vroman, now 
of the Normal School. Although his school days 
ended here, he continued his efforts in self-cultiva- 
tion. A lover of l)<)oks and a natural student, the 
midnight oil was ccnistantly binned that he might 
keep up with the young men who were his ideals 
in an intellectual respect. 

At the age of seventeen, the gentleman of whom 
we wiite left home and liegan doing for himself. 
Prior to that time he had never been awa}' from 
home and claims to have been very unsophisti- 
cated. He started out canvassing and met with 
very good success, following the business for about 
one year, spending i)art of his time in 3Iichigan,part 
in Illinois, and [lart in Iowa. In this way he ac- 
quired an extended and intimate knowledge of 
human nature, and also something that was even 
of greater advantage to himself, for self-control is 
to a canvasser of all things necessary. At the 
exijiration of his year, he went as far south as 
New Orleans, expecting to join what was 
called the filibustering exiiedition to Cuba. 
This, as is now well known, fell through. He next 
sailed for Europe, starting out .Tune 17, 1869, on 
the "• St. .Tames " for Havre, France. He was this 
time about eighteen years of age and went with a 
full determination of becoming a sailor and seeing 
as much of the world as possible. He was at that 
time very thin in flesh, weighing but one hundred 
and fifteen pounds. Prior to his shipping on the 
above-named vessel he was reduced to almost des- 
perate straits, having .spent two days without food, 



while hunting a place on a vessel, being entirely 
without money and ashamed to beg. After a few 
trips he returned to Michigan, not rich in pocket it 
is true, but having received great physical benefit 
from his trip, for he returned a perfect athlete in 
form and strength. He has never regretted his sailor 
experience though he did not care to repeat it, 
even after the alluring offer of %2.5 per month, 
which was made him if he would continue with 
the ship's ccunpany. 

After returning from his voyage Mr. Dresser 
attended a select school during the winter and 
worked eight months on a farm, losing nf> time 
whatever. Out of 1112 which he earned he 
saved 190 and in the intervals of his scholastic 
work during the winter he chopped wood and 
from these earnings saved 140, which he put out 
at interest. 

Our subject purchased forty acres of land and 
then spent some time in the lumber regions, act- 
nally pulling a cross-cut saw, and was well known 
among the denizens of the lumber district as a first- 
class workman. Indeed, he has participated in 
many kinds of hard manual labor. In August, 
1875, he of whom we write came to Mason and 
began the study of law, walking back and forth 
from his father's farm to the law office. Meantime 
to meet current expenses, he began collecting and 
also soliciting insurance. This business increased 
so rapidly that during the first year he was able to 
pay his expenses and lay up ^400. After the first 
six weeks in which his success was assured, he quit 
walking back and forth and added real estate and 
the lending of money to his other business. 

Our subject never finished his law studies as his 
other occupation had jiroved so remnnerati\'e and 
his collecting and insurance business had developed 
so rapidly. Being in a position to wed, he was mar- 
ried in November, 1876, to Miss Octavia A. Bush, 
a daughter of A. H. Bush, of Vevay Township. His 
allegiance had been pledged to the young lady for 
some little time and they had only awaited the 
time when the young man could provide a com- 
fortable and suitably home for his bride. By this 
marriage there are two children whose names are 
respectively Maud, who is twelve years of age, and 
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attractive children, and are a ^reat comfort to 
their parents whu luol< forward to the future to 
their hein"; inlelliijfenl aiid eultured women. 

Mr. Dresser's interest in banlving- he<>au l).v his 
being: a stoekliolder in the First National Bank of 
Mason, after which lie became a Director and filled 
this position for some time. A man who is never 
salislied unless he tiiorousiiily iinderstands what- 
ever he is interested in. the bankint;' business soon 
became entirely familiar to him, and as there 
seemed to lie an excellent open ing' for that branch 
of Itusinos. Marcli 1. \HHi. lu' staiteda |)rivate 
liank. The institution found its tirst quarteis in a 
rented buildinsr. Tiiis he carried on Iiy himself, 
and by fall one-half the deposils of tiu' place were 
made in the Dresser Bank, lie continued in the 
private bankinjj: business until June H, 188(5. and 
lie was in the lead of the National Bank on dep- 
osits to an amount of ¥l."i,00(). 

At the last named date oiu' subject, witli others. 
oi-sj:anized a State Bank, with a paid up capital of 
^To.OOO. and thirty of tlie best men in the town 
and township ap|)cared as stockholders. The 
prime mover of this orsiauizatiiui was Mr. Dresser, 
and he still holds the position of Cashier in the 
institution and h.as in it a laryc interest. Oursub- 
jcct ill hi> politieal relations casts his vote with the 
Republican party. He has never been an ollice- 
seeker. fi'cling that other men who had an inclina- 
tion ill that direction and whose time was more at 
their own disjjosal than he felt his to be. were 
better fitted for it. Mr. and ]\Irs. Dres.^er are act- 
ive members of the Presbyterian Church in wlijcli 
our snbjeet is a Trustee. 



I ()ll.\ .1. BlSJI. To be descended from hon- 
orable, talented .■iiid representative men is 
in itself a tru.arantee of ability and honor 
which any man who is ;i true •renllenian 
may well lejoice in. Tiie proprietor of the Hush 
Road Cart {'oni])any at Lansinsj. lni;iiain ( ounty, 
is the son and urand.son of prominent business 
men who were early settlers in that city and 
who helped to make it what it is to-d;iy. Ills fa- 



ther, John J. Bush, Sr., was born in Tompkins 
County, N. V., as was also his father, the Hon. 
Charles P. Bush, wlio.-^e natal year was 1809. He 
was a farmer and a speculator, and after marriage 
began to think of coming West. 

In 18;?.j tlie Hon. Charles P. Bush made his first 
visit to Michigan and in 1836 he came again and 
spent the summer, buying Government land in 
Fowler Township. Livingstcju County, where he 
built a log house and the following year brought 
on his family. In less than a year he sold that 
])iopeity to Mr. Fowler, and located in the town- 
ship of ( ienoa, Livingston County, where he owned 
thirteen hundred acres. He was successful 7iotonly 
as a farmer but also as a speculator and a politician. 
He served in the State Legislature from 1840 to 
184(j, and during the year 1847 belonged to the 
State Senate. While a member of that body he was 
I'le.^ident of the Senate and acting Lieutenant- 
(iovernor and adinini>tcred the oath of office to 
new otlicials in the woods of Lansing before the 
old capitol was built. Some vears later he .served 
again as State Senator for .several terms. He was 
greatly interested in the removal of the cajiital 
from Detroit to Landing. He was a born leader, a 
gcxid orator, and one of the foremost and promi- 
nent men of the State. 

In 1847 .Senator Bush came to Lansing and 
wi'ut into iiartnershii) with Messrs. Thomas cVr Lee, 
buying and platting an addition and building the 
Benton House which is now known as the Everett 
House. In partnershij) with Mr. Thomas he en- 
gaged in general merclijuidising under the firm n.ame 
of Bush cV Thomas, and they were successful 
pioneer merchants. He died July 4, 1858. His 
wife was Minerva Walker a native of Montgomery 
County, N. V., who died in Lansing in 1886 at the 
age of seventy-six years. She was an .active mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

The father, John J. Bush, .Sr., came to Michigan 
when young and w.as reared at Long Lake, taking 
his higher education at the Normal School at Ypsi- 
lanli mikI the Seminary at Northville. Before 
leaching his majority he began a mercantile busi- 
ness at Howell, where he was married at the age of 
twenty-one and continued there in merchandising 
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State and at Aurora, N. Y., went into a banking 
and real-estate business, a business which extended 
through Tompkins and Cayuga Counties. He had 
a successful business tliere involving over $200,000, 
and in 1809 he came to Lansing and entered into 
a jjrivate liaiik whicli was operated for several 
years under the firm name of Isabelle lii Bush, and 
was finally luergcd into the Lansing National 
Bank. This new corporation he organized and was 
its President for ten years, lieing also organizer 
Mild Directoi- of llic Central Michigan Savings 
Bank. 

Real estate business at tiie same time absorbed 
part of the energies of this gentleman and he 
platted the Bush, Butler cfe Sparrow addition, which 
is now an important addition to the city of Lans- 
inj;- lie also engaged in selling farm and pine 
lands and manufactured shingles and lumber in 
Oceana County at Pentwatcr, where he also carried 
on merchandising. While making monej' in his 
general business he lost some in indorsing for 
friends. He was a member of the Arm which was 
known as the Lansing Boot and Shoe jSIanufactur- 
ing Company and also had a mill and mercantile 
business in Ottawa County. He was a man of much 
pul)lic spirit and did all within his power to ad- 
vance the interests of the city. The Butler Block 
was i)ut up by him and he was a member of the 
School Board and for years acted as its Treasurer. 
At one time he was State Librarian. He died in 
1886 on the 10th of October, having reached the 
age of fifty-two years. 

The mother of our subject bore the maiden name 
of Eliza Smith and was born in Kender, Tioga 
County, N. Y., being a daughter of Hiram Smith, 
who was a representative of one of the best fami- 
lies of Connecticut. He was a dealer in real estate 
and lands and had milling interests in Tioga, being 
one of its most prominent citizens. Mrs. Eliza 
Bush still resides in Lansing. She is a devout 
member of the Episcopal Church and the mother of 
three children, two of whom grew to manhood, 
but the brother of our subject, Charles PL, died at 
the age of twenty-two, just after his graduation. 
He was born in Mottvi lie, Tompkins County, N.Y., 
May 19. 1863. 

The aentleman of whom we write came to Lans- 



ing at the age of six years and here attended school 
and never missed a day until he left the High 
School which took place when he was sixteen. He 
then entered the State Agricultural College, where 
he took his degree of Bachelor of Sciences and tiie 
same 3-ear received a diploma from the High School 
hei'e. He had helped his father some in his busi- 
ness u\) N<jrth and after his graduation became 
Cori'esponding Clerk in the Central Michigan Sav- 
ings Bank and was with them four years, being 
l)romolccI to the responsible position of Teller. At 
tins time he became administrator of his father's 
estate and in order to attend to that business found 
it necessary to leave the bank. 

The marriage of Mr. Bush with Miss Minnie F. 
Day took place in Milwaukee, Wis., October 20, 
1887. This lady is a native of that city and a 
daughter of Dr. F. H. Daj-, a prominent physician 
there and the President of the State Board of 
Health, as well as a well-known geologist. She 
completed her higher education at the IMilwaukee 
College and the conservatory of music. Mr. Bush 
formed a partnership with Mr. L. Anderson, estab- 
lishing the Road Cart Company, which was first 
located at the foot of Washington Avenue at North 
Lansing, and a year later was moved up into the 
city, soon after which our subject bought out his 
partner's interest in the business and continued it 
alone. 

The lUish Road Cart Company manufactures 
jihaetons. speeding and skeleton carts and spindle 
road wagons. They have an output of two thou- 
sand carts and a well established trade in every 
State in the Union, keeping two men on the road. 
Their products are also sent to foreign countries 
where they have an established reputation. The 
company lias a side track leading up from the r.ail- 
road to the factory and is carrying on a reasonably 
successful business. 

Mr. Bush has considerable interest in Lansing in 
the re.al estate business and has ever been inter- 
ested in farming. He had at one time the largest 
herd of registered and im]Kirted Galloway cattle in 
the State and still has a fine herd of these splendid 
animals. He is now closing them out, but still has 
in addition to them a number of excellent Jerseys. 
His father was a lover of fine stock and cattle and 




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owiumI sonic of the finest horses in the State, anionji' 
which were '•Roti.yih and Ready" and "Hay 
Prince." 

Our suliject is a niemlier of a nuniher of social 
t)rders lieing identitied witii tlie Free ;nid .Xccejjted 
Masons and Conunander of the I iiiforined Hank of 
Ivniiihts of Pythias and beinji' tiie leadinji' Knii>:hl 
in the Lodjie of Elks. He is Chairman of tlie 
Board of Directors of the (^rand Rivei- Boat Chili 
and \ici'-President of Michigan for the I'Cniiilils 
of tlu' (iiip, in which business organization he was 
Secretary last year. He is a member and Director 
in the Bicycle Club. He is now a niemlier of the 
Aldeiiuanic Board and was the President ])ro tern, 
of the Council for two years. In connection with 
the City Council he is chairman of the coniiiiittee 
on city aflairs which is considered the most iniiior- 
tant committee. He is standi in his adherence to 
the jirinciples and ])olicy of the Democratic part\' 
and is generally sent as a delegate to the city, 
county and ccmgressional conventions. One child 
only has l)le.s.sed his home, Howard Da\ . who was 
born Octolier "27, 1888, and gives fair pidinise of 
inheriting the fine abilities of his father, grand- 
father, and great-irrandf.'ither. 



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\\/j\jf ii man's horses are a part of his family and 
*y \)^ any ill to one of these gentle yet high-spir- 
ited bearers <if burdens is con.sidered as much of a 
family calamily as sickness or death even to a child 
of the household. The tent that is the home of 
the sliiek with his wife and children, is also the 
liome of the steeds that the wanderers of the deserts 
guard as their most precious treasure, and cruelty 
to their horses is regarded as disgraceful. It is to 
be questioned whether any people undcistanil the 
natures of tlu'sc almost human animals better, but 
medicine and .~urger\- h;ive develoiH'd a branrh to 
alleviate the suffering caused often b\ the Ihoiight- 
lo.ss and ignorant if not cruel abuse of man. There 
is no more skillful pr-actitioner in this esjiecL-il 
branch in thi> portion of the countr\' than the 



gentleman whose name is at the head of this sketch, 
and whose portrait is shown on the ojiposite Jiagc. 
His is a humane nature and one that understands 
the lower animals, lie has the largest practice in 
veterinary surgery of any one in this county. 

Our subject is the iiroprictor of the institution 
know as Dr. Thorburn's A'eterinary Infirmary which 
is the i)lace of rest and tender, skillful care for in- 
jured or debilitated horses that the name would 
indicate. Dr. Thorburn was born in Holt, Delhi 
Township, Ingham County, August 18, 1808. He 
is of Scotch ancestry, his father being John Tlior- 
biirii, born in Scotland. His paternal grandfather, 
.lames Thorburn, \\.as a weaver. Our subject's 
grandfather came to America on the death of his 
father and engaged in farming in this State, being 
thus employed until his decease, which took place 
in May, 1872. in Delhi Township. The father was 
a blacksmith by trade and w.as about twenty-five 
years of age when he came to this country, bring- 
ing his family with him. 

.lohn Tlioibuin first located in Pittsburg, Pa. 
after coming to this country and was there engaged 
in following his trade, and as a lior.se-shoer. In 
1849 he came to Ypsilanti and there at once en- 
g.aged in his trade. In 18,")2 he came to Lansing 
and buying out the firm of Ferguson, of North 
Lausing.built the first brick block which was erected 
in that jilace. There he located his shop and by 
close application to his business, in which he was 
oliliged to stand much of the time over the furnace, 
he lost his health and was obliged to give up active 
business. He then located on a farm in Delhi 
Townshii), where he still resides. On first coining 
to Ypsilanti our subject's father inircliased Govern- 
ment land and bent his eiieigies tt) imiiroving the 
same. He followed farming for some time most 
successfully and is now the owner of over one 
tlnuisand acres of fine, ai'able land in Ingham 
County, seven hundred and twenty-five acres of 
wliiih is includt-d in one farm. This is well im- 
|)rnved and stocked and is one of the most valuable 
as well as attractive farms in the county, as its 
owner is one of the most prominent as well as 
largest fanners here. He is engaged extensively 
ill breeding Short-hoin cattle. Merino and York- 
shire hogs. 



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Fur iiiiiii\ years Mi'. Tlunlnuii. Si-. has identified 
tiiiu.--elf witli elimvli work in the Pieshyterian de- 
iHiininiiliun liavinu- lieeii I'^lder in the eluircli of 
wlii<-h 111- i> a iiienilier for niaii\ \eai>. Onr siili- 
jcti 's niotlu'i was. in liei' maiden days, .Miss Hannah 
.1. Olds. She was hoin in Biattlehoro. Vt.. and was 
a (laiiiiliter of Alanson Olds, who was also a nati^•e 
of \'ernioiit. He was a eabinet-nialver and loeated 
:(l i.ansinii in I.si7. I>ul after coming luthei he 
enu-aged in the hotel husines> of Xoi'tli Lansing 
and afterward hxated on a farm in Conway, Liv- 
ington County, where lie die<l. ( )ur suhjeet's 
motliei- died in March. \HH',). :it the .'ige of sixty 
years. She was a woman of sterling worth and 
strong i)ers(mality and bequeathed these tr.aits to 
her son. She was the mother of three children. 

\V. W. Tliorburn was raised on the home farm 
and received tlie rudimentary pt)rtion of his edu- 
cation at the district seliool of Mason, aftei- which 
he attended the High .School, from which lie was 
graduated with honors. When iuit nineteen years 
of age he began life for himself, working the home 
farm, then taking the adjoining farm under his 
proprietorship and continuing the cultivation of 
this until he was twenty-two. In \XHl he entered 
the Ontario \'eterinary College where he pursued 
his studies for two years, graduating in 18H3. at 
which time he received the title of \'eterinary 
Surgeon. 

In February. IHMl. Dr. 'rhorluirn located at Lan- 
sing and has siiu'e continued to practice his pro- 
fession here. In IKH7 he puicha.sed tlie ground and 
liuilt the infirmary of which he is at present pro- 
prietor. This institution is complete in eveiv de 
tail, having all the latest improvements and lieing 
built according to the most advanced .sanitary 
tiieories in use in such places. It has fine liox 
stalls, pneumatic troughs and is perfectly venti- 
lated and lighterl. It is, moreover, well located, be- 
ing convenient and accessible, both by reason of 
high road and railway advantages, to every jjortion 
of the surrounding country. Dr. Thorburn was 
the first graduate of veterinar\' surgery to locale 
in Lansing, and is the oldest pr.acticing one now 
here. ]Much of his patronage is from adjoining 
counties, as well as from his own locality. Horse 
dealers and owners in Katon. Clinton. Iiitrhani, 



Ionia and other counties find Dr. 'rhoriunn 's In- 
firmary the safest and surest phici- to send line 
animals that jjerliaps ha\e been hurt or lia\e con- 
tracted some disea.se. 

Our subject adds to his veterinary piactiee farm- 
ing, being the owner of two hundred and forty 
acres of fine land in Delhi Township, imly four 
miles from the city of Holt. It is devoted to stock- 
farming anil here one may find some of the finest 
specimens of ciiuinc be.-inties. He is engaged in 
raising blooiled horses. Slioit-horn <-attle and fine 
wool sheep. His personal attention, however, is 
given to his infirmary, having an exi)erienced fore- 
man as supervisor of the stock farm. This last- 
named place is well improved, having good build- 
ings and beautifully-tilled soil. 

Dr. Thorliurn was married in Morrice. Shi.awas- 
.see County, October 20. 1886. His bride was a 
Mi.ss Marion Lany. who was a native of Scotland, 
liaving been born in Lark Hall. Lanarksiiire. .\ug- 
iisl l.s. |8{;i. She is a daughter of .lohn J.,ang, 
who is a iiati\'e of the same place and was there a, 
carter. Her grandfather, Thomas Lang, was also a 
carter. Her father came to America in 188(1 and 
located in Delhi Township where he engaged in 
farming. He is now in Alaiedon Township, this 
county. ^Mrs. Thorburn "s mother was in her 
maiden days. Miss Mary Cleland. also of .Scotch 
liirtli and ancestry. .She was a daughter of Thomas 
Cleland. a farmer in Sciotland. Her family were 
adherents of the Presbyterian Cliuich. which has 
so large a following in Scotland, of the strictest 
Calvinistic kinds. .Mrs. Thorburn is the fourth child 
in a family of twelve children who li\-ed to be 
grown. .She was reared anil educated in her 
native country and came to .Vmeric.-i in 1 «M in 
the steamer "Bolivia," a delightful trij) of nine 
days from her starting jioint to New York. Their 
sailing ijort was ( ireeiiock. .Vfter coining to this 
country they at once located in Delhi Township, 
wlicic she lived with her pan nts until her niariiage. 
( )uc child graces this union, a boy. who is the pride 
and object of the fondest hopes on tlie part of 
both |iaient.s. 

Our subject interests him.self in e\ery way that 
can be of advantage to him in the acquiring ot 
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inoiiihor of the Slate Veti'i'iiiarv Medical Associa- 
tion and is uii the standing committee in regard to 
legislation in veterinary matters. He is a constant 
attendant n[)<)n all the State meetings and is an 
active worker in this society. In his church rela- 
tions our subject is by inclination as by bringing 
uj). ;i ln^'nllH•l• of the Presb^yterian denomination 
and has been Treasurer of the church in Holt for 
a number of years. In his political predilection 
he is a thorough Republican, finding in the tenets 
and doctrines of that party the balance of what is 
best and truest in political life. 



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/^^ AMIKL W. HAMMOND. He whose 
^^^ name is at the head of this sketch has 
ll\£_^) for twenty years been engaged in settling 
the dis])utes of peojjle whose frailty of 
temper or strained ideas of er|nity bring them into 
the .Justice C'o\nt. and during that time he has 
commended himself to the good graces of just 
men. and become the terror of offenders against 
oui' laws. He was liorn in Ontario County, X. 
v.. .lune .'5(1, \X2i. and is the son of I'otter and 
Huldah (Robin.son) Hammond, l)oth natives of the 
Empire State. The mother having died, May 
I.'), 1h:37, our s\ibject with his father soon after 
came to Michigan, locating in Hanover, .lackson 
County, where tiie iattCL- entered some (iovernment 
land. 

Spendinu' Ills boyhood d;iys in the i)rimitive and 
often uncle.'UiMl wilds of .lackson County, the lad 
grew ni> ;i thoughtful young man, with a natural 
trend toward logical reasoning. He there began 
the stuil\' of medicine, leading ;ill the Iiooks upon 
wliicli he could lay hantls. He aftei'ward attended 
the Medical (OUege at Cleveland. (>liio. where he 
graduated in the regular practice. He atti'iw.-ird 
located at Charlotte. Katoii County, where he 
practiced for .•ibont two years. In the meantime 
he to(ik upon himself the respoiisiliilitio of 
married life, his bride being .Miss Mary Liiidcr- 
iiian. a daughter of Peter and Caroline (Marlon) 
l.iiiderman. 

In 18.52 our subject determined to go to Cali- 



fornia, and uncertain .as to whether it would be 
better to remain there, he moved his family to 
Mason until he should decide upon the best course 
to pursue in regard to their following him. There 
they remained until he had been gone two years. 
His journey out was made by the overland route, 
and his experience in crossing the i)lains is a mem- 
orable one. He came back, however, by way of 
the Isthmus, and found the variety of this trip de- 
lightful to a degree. While practicing his profes- 
sion in the land of the Golden Gate, he was also 
engaged in mining. On his return he established 
himself at Okemos, in Ingham County, where he 
lived until the breaking out of the Rebellion, when 
he joined the army, being appointed bj^ Gov. 
Blair as Surgeon in the Twenty-second Michigan 
Infantry. He was with that regiment until the 
close of the war, and was often placed in many 
dangerous positions while in the line of duty on 
the field of battle. He was a participant in the 
campaigns before Atlanta, Nashville and in other 
liattles. At Nashville the rebels fired upon the 
hospital in the face of some half dozen yellow 
flags, which were the recognized hospital emblem. 
During his service he suffered a severe spell of sick- 
ness, which developed into spasmodic asthma, and 
after his return from the army he had to discontinue 
the practice of medicine, because of the shattered 
condition of his constitution. 

Mr. Hammond moved to the town of JLa.son, 
Ingham County, in l^>7(i, and was .soon after 
elected to the position of .lustice of the Peace, in 
which capacity he has ever since served, with the 
exception of one year. Many cases have been 
tried before him, and the decisicni of but few has 
been (luestioned or reversed. Our subject has 
three children, who have taken honorable positions 
in professional and social life. The eldest child, a 
daughter, Kate M., married Dr. Ferguson, of Oke- 
mos. He is a graduate of both the old school 
and the school of homeoiiathy. uniting in the two 
the best theory and inaclice found in each. Ku- 
geno is a ))rinter, engaged in work at I'liilndelpliia. 
Chailes Fremont is a rising lawyer in the city of 
Lansing, this state. 

The original of our sketch votes with the Re- 
publican party. His first vote was cast in 1S44, 



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fur lien IV (lay. lint since tin- formation of llic 
l»f|inl)lit-an party, lie has oiveii the weiolit of lii> 
vote and intiuencc to it. Mr. llaninuDid is a nuMii- 
lii-r of the I'rcsliyterian C'huii'h. and is a genert>ns 
snp|)orter and nijholdei- of the same. In his social 
life he i> a Mastei- Mason. 



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NSKl. 1!. L. ( ()\KHT. The uentleiuan of 
whom we write is jileased to trace his an- 
cestors hack throuyh "cnerations of honor- 
((^1 able men and women to France, wheie the 

name «'as oriuinally t'oiivei'. The family was 
<lriven out of their native land and took refngc in 
Holland where the ])reflx \'a]i was added to tlie 
name. (Jeorae \'an('onver. thi' distinguished na\i- 
5iator, was a meniher of the family durin"; that part 
of its history. Those who came to America soon 
drojjped the Dutch prefix and finally chanijed the 
name tt) Covert. The mateinal t;iandparents were 
Isaac and Polly (handler, natives of New .lersev 
who settled in Seneca County. X. Y.. at an earl\ 
date and came to ^Iicliii>an. settlina in N'evay 
Township, Inoham County, early in the history 
of that .section. 

Our suhject was horn in Covert, Seneca County. 
N. v.. .lune \'2. 1h;S 1. his parents lieino- Mahloii 
and Sallie (Chandler) Covert, natives of the same 
town. The jjaternal orandjiarents wereBergun and 
.Vnn (overt, natives of New .lersey. who M'ere 
early sottleis in Seneca County. N. V. The town- 
ship of Covei't in that ctmntx took its name from 
this family and at one time no one hut Coverts 
lived within its bounds. The pai'ents of oiu' sub- 
ject orew u]) together from childhood being close 
neighbors, and were married in Covert and made 
their home there until 1)^87. when they cann' to 
Michigan and settled on a farm in what is now 
Leslie Township. Insrham Cmuity. The land which 
they took was all in a wild condition and hea\ily 
timbered and they did thorough pioneer work in 
subduing it and putting it in a state of cultivation. 

The widowed nnither who was bereaved of hei- 
husband in February, IHHK when he had completed 
his four-score years, .still lives on the old place 



where she settled in her e.arly married life, lifty- 
foiw years ago. She has now completed eighty 
years of fiiithful and useful life. Her husband was 
:i farmer all his lifetime and although he began 
without means obtained a handsome property l)e- 
fore his death. He worked his way up alone and 
being a man of decided ojiinions and beliefs, pos- 
.sessed of steiling integiity :iiid ii keen sense of 
right and wiimg. he won the respect and admira- 
tion of all who kncM- him and exerted a decided 
influence o\er those with whom he came in con- 
tact. He was oi'iginally a Whig bul finally became 
a Hepublican. 

The ottice of Su|)ervisor of Leslie Township was 
twice tilled by ^lahlon Covert, besides numeriuis 
other township offices, liotli he and his wife found 
]>leasure in active cluu'cli work and were members 
of the l);i|)tist Chui'ch. Fo|- more than fifty years 
he was a Deacon in that body .-ind exerted a great 
inrtuenct' in the matters of icligion and was in 
every sense useful In his d.ay and generation. They 

I h;i<l foui' children, namely : Ansel R. L.. Sainan- 

\ tha ('.. Mar\ .V.. and Monmouth I. all of whom 
are li\ing. 

The farm in Leslie Townshij) w.-is tlie scene of 
the eai'ly life of our subject after his parents re- 

' nni\ed thither ill IS.'!?. I le recei\ed his eiliicatioii 
in the common .schools and took one term .-it wh;il 
is now the I lillsdale College, then located at Spring 
Arbor. Mich. He remained on the farm with hi> 
father, teaching school during the winter, until In' 
reached the age of twenty-six years, when he w.is 
elected Count\- Clerk of Ingham County by the 

j Hepublicans in the fall of 1S,-|(;. ;ind hclil that 

j office for four years. 

.\fter leaving his del ksliip .Mr. Covert came to 
lA'slie and engaged in general merchandising in 
liartneishi]) with Thomas II. I{eed and at the same 
time held the ottices of .lustice of the I'e.-ice and 
Township Cleik. After three years he gave up lii- 
othei' bnsiiie-.-< .-ind devoted himself entirely to hi> 
work a- ;i .lustice and after a year when the .lack- 
.son. Lansing iV- Saginaw IJailroad was built through 
Leslie he was made its agent, and has been railroad 
and express agent ever since. He is now serving 
his twenty-sixth year in that capacity. The rail- 
road we have just mentioned is now known as 



roiauAiT AM) i'.i()(ii;Anii( ai. ai.iu .\i 



•2()'.t 



till' SiiiiiiiMw l)i\ i.->i(iii III' tlip MifliiiJaii ( piitinl. 
with wlii( li idMil Mr. ( dx i it i> now cimiicctcil. lip 
owns sldck ill the l'c<i|iK''~ li.-mk ol' Li-lic .-11111 li:i> 
!ici|lliic(l tlu' l)()»p>si(ili (it :i lini' ciiillly-Mc-ir t.-il ill 

ill Leslie 'Pown.'^liiip. 

The hilly who .-in ur.'ii-ii>ii>l\ prcsiik's ()\'cr tlic 
lioiisclHild of our siiliji'ct licc.'inif Mr.s Covert 
.Sejiteiiilier 22. ISAH. Her iiiiiiileii name was ^[arv 
( ". liool .■mil lier Imiiie \va> in M;imiI1. .Mieli. She is 
a iiati\'e of the Wolverine State, liaxinji' been horn 
ill I'lyniouth. \\'ayiie County, in IHHit and is a 
ilanuliter of Slejihen Kool. .\li. .-iiiil .Mrs. Coxert 
have liad sixcliildreii. namely: .lohn 1-". ( deeeased ): 1 
Carrie. \'ernie (deeeasedl. (iertriide. (Jiaee and ! 
Katie. 

Carrie is the wife of Willis K. I'iekett of the ' 
South Omaha (Neli.) National l>ank. .She i> a 
ly jiewriler .-iiiil >teiioi;r!iiilier. and is the only one 
of the eliildreii who is away from home. .Mr. 
( o\ ert ;iiid his wife are active and intlueutial 
nieiiiliers of the iiajitist ( liiireh. and tiu-irs is one 
of the re|iresenlati\'e f;imilie,> of Iiiyhiim County, 
a~ their hmi; resideiiee here, their superior eliar- 
ai-ter. their hiuli iiitelliL;eiiee :iiiil aliility. as well as 
tlit'ir social inialities place them upon the hiirhest 
plane. The political \ lews of oursuliject h:i\f led 
him 111 alliliale wilh tin- Uepulilic.-in party and he 
is respected as one of its stronii' men. lie is also a 
i-epresentative memlier of the Independent ( )rdcr 
of Odd Kellows and is liiu'hly respected hy the fia- 
teniit \ . 

' , .U'.KZ r.. 1.1 rilKU. is a farmer .•iiiiUtock- 
laiser on >ectioii '.1. of Delhi Township. 
Inuhani (ounty. Mich. I le h;is pa.s.sed iiioie 
than the three.scoie and ten years usually 
allotted to man. and yet his mental faculties areas 
unclouded as ever. lie li.is here ninety acres of 
land of which he himself is tlie active proprietor, 
and which seem to suffer no diminution of e;iie 
and attention from the early years when it was his 
pride to keep his farm on a par with the hest in 
the comity, lie is a natixe of the lunpin' State, 
having been horn in Clinton ( ountx'. N. Y. 



.March 1. |M20. He is the son of William and 
Knnice (.Vllen) Luther, the former a native of 
U'hode Island, thai little State that \x a- a pioneer 
in tlu' Uevolutiouarx methods adopted toxvard the 
mother country, and xvhicli sent out the first ship 
to liallle for iiidepen<leiice. The mother was a 
natixe of X'ermont. xvhere ihex were married in 
South lU'ro. They moved to Nexv ^drk where 
.Mr. Luther. Sr.. w;is eni>aued in farniiii;; until he 
remoxcd to Lenaxvee County, in I.S.i.'i. 

When our suhject's parents tiisl enteied Mieli- 
i;.r:iii. they proceeded immediately to enter l;iiid 
from the ( iovernnient. and to thereon make .a 
home, ((nrsuhject xva^ the yovini;<-st of a faiiiilx' 
often childrin. all of whom ^rexv up .•mil ni.-ide 
homes for themselves. There are ]iow. hut three 
memlieis of the familx' lix inii'. It is lielieved lix' 
m;iiiy nieinlieis of the family .-iiid indeed, llicre is 
evidence of the truth of the lielief. that the familv 
are descendants of .Martin Luther, the father of 
the threat reform moxemeiit in l-'.urope. 

Col. Khenezer .Vllen. our siiliject's Ljrand- 
fatlier. xvas a .soldier in the K'ex oliitioii.-irx \\ ar 
and xvas an oxvn cousin of Lthtm .Mien, thai IJexo- 
lutionarv hero xvlio xvon the victory of Ticondei- 
<H>a. On the xer\- day that the death of the old 
hero occurred, he xvas at .Mr. Luther's sjrandfather's 
house and jjurcliased a load of hay. XVIiile drix - 
inii' home in the "loaminu. he was suddenlx' strick- 
v\] down, a xictiin ofai)oplex\. ()nr sulijeet has 
been three times married. His liist wife lixed 
only three months and ten days after their mai- 
riaue. Two members of lii> familx. his xvife and 
his father, xvere taken in two con.secutive months 
of ISll.both victims of malaria, that dre.ad dis- 
ease of early settlers. His xvife expired in the 
month of September and his fatlu-r in ( )etober. 
.Mr. Luther came to his |ireseiit farm in IS 12. piir- 
chasiuu one liundred and twenty acres of his 
brother, and tradinjj' his interest therefor in the 
homestead in Lenaxvee County. The years since that 
time have been tilled xvith a constant improvement 
.•md culture of hi> place, and it is noxv one of the 
prettiest plots in the toxvnship. Iiavino' a uoorl cla.ss 
of luiildinffs and the acres sjireadin^i on either side 
lieing as xvell tilled .'ind fruitful .'is lliey are fertile. 
1 Four children xverc born of Mr. Luther's 



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second marriage. Only one of these is liv- 
ing, now residing on a farm in .Taekson County, 
Mich.; lie lias two children, a boy and a 
girl. One grandchild, a stm of Jane, whose 
name is J. I. Shaw, survives, and is at the 
present time a boy of ten vears of age. By the 
third marriage there were no children. The land 
of which our subject is jji-oprietor, is worth at least 
$80 per acre, being under tlie best of cultivation 
and having good ini])rovements. Politically, our 
subject has alwa\s been a Democrat. Now, how- 
ever, he is an Alliance man. believing that if there 
is any advantage to be gained for the class of 
which he is one and a representative, that his 
brother .agriculturists must unite and voice their 
desires through one of their own representatives. 
He has never had any ambition to fill public 
office and has always refused to serve in any such 
capacity. 



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^lf%, ERRY HENDERSON. Age has its prerog- 
j JJI atives. No matter what the conditions of 
. i^' life or the social standing, there are some 
i \ things before which youth instantly and 
involuntarily uncovers in the presence of the 
silent appeal which gray hair and stooping should- 
ers present. One of its prerogatives should be 
rest from the laliors for there are surely young 
men and women enough to take the burden from 
the shoulders that have so long borne them. He 
of whom we write has shifted the burden, and is 
now living in retirement from the active duties 
incident to business life, having formerly been a 
merchant and miller in the city of Mason, Ingham 
County. Beginning at an early age the serious 
Inisiness of caring for himself, he continued through 
life to be prudent and industrious and in his old 
ac^e is able to retire with a comfortable conipctencv 
that insures him immunity from want or care. 

Mr. Henderson was born in the town of Tully. 
Onondaga County, N. Y., October 1, 1815. He 
is a son of Phineas and Rachael (Miller) Hen- 
derson; the father was a Scotchman liy birth, and 
settled in New Jersey at an early day. The mother 



who was born in America, was of German descent. 
Our subject was bereft of both parents when but a 
mere child, his mother's decease occurring when 
he was but seven years of age, and the father pass- 
ing away when he was only eight. His oldest 
brother, Peter, was the first white child born in tlie 
town of Tully, Onondaga County, N. Y. Our 
subject was the youngest of a family of nine chil- 
dren, of whom there were six boys and three girls, 
and on his parents' decease he was taken into his 
brother I'eter's family and cared for by him. 

Perry Henderson spent his bo\'hood days on a 
farm which his brother Peter operated, until he 
was eighteen years of age. He received but a 
common-school education, but liy close application, 
he was enabled to become a teacher at the age of 
nineteen. He taught for several winters, spending 
the summer months in farming. He then worked 
by the numtli for one year. The following year 
he operated a farm which he had hired and then 
inirchased a small farm of seventy-five acres, and 
the fact that he was enabled so to do, proves that 
he had been economical, hoarding his earnings 
until they aggregated quite a sum. He continued 
to own the farm referred to. until he came to 
Michigan in 184.^. He was married February. 1838 
to Miss Huldah Christian, a daughter of John and 
Huldah (Heath) Christian. By this marriage there 
were seven children, three of whom are still living. 
Those who died left no families. The living 
children are Henry P.. Wade J. and a daughter, 
whose name is Catherine E. Henry P. was born 
in Tully Township, (hiondaga County. N. Y , 
February. 1843. After coming to Mason with his 
parents, he studied law and here married. He was 
appointed by President Cleveland, Territorial 
.ludge for the Territory- of Utah and served for a 
period of four years. His home is now in Ogden, 
Utah, where he is engaged in the juactice of his 
profession. He is married but has no children. 
Wade J. was born in ^'evay Townshiji. Ingham 
County. 18.t3. He has been engaged in the boot 
and shoe trade in Portland, Mich. His partiiei- in 
life is decea>ed and their only son, Richard 1{. 
Henderson, makes his home with our subject. He 
served as a page during the last meeting of the 
Michigan Legislature. He is but fifteen vears of 



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!n;v. ••111(1 f;iiui'(l •■<2.")ii. ((Ill- MihjcrlV uiilv liviiiL: wilhin licr lii>un(taiii'>, anil il is imivci"Sallv mi- 
(l:iui;liti.'i-. Catliariiif I-). llt'ii(U'i><>ii. wjis lioni in iiiittiil ih.it no portion of tlio State has lieen iiii- 
IM;");"). Slu' lias aiwaxs sulTcrcil llic disaihantaiic provi-d ton srreater exti'iit than the vicinit\ of thi- 
of Imviiiii poor lieaitli. She iiiaki's hei lioine witli capital cit \. Business and pleasure often eall the 
her father. liavcler to \aiioiis portions of the township, and 

Mr. lIciidiTMMi i-aiiie to .M iciiiyaii in 1 M l.'i. loi-at- as he pas.ses aloiit; the I'iiie Lake lioad. he inva- 
iiii.;- in Leroy 'rownship. liiiihaiii ( oiinty. where he rialily pauses with aihniriiia tifaze at the lioine- 
purehased a farm, livini;- upon il for .'i |>eriod of stead of Mr. .Smedley. which is plea.'-autly loealeil 
nine M'ars. .\t tlu' expiration of that tinic he one-lnilf inilc north-east of thecitv limits of l.aii- 
was elected Sheriff, and it lieiuii' necessary that he siiii;. 

should have a more central residence he reinoxed II is only tliroiiiih lonu coiitinueil effort th.at 
to M.'ison. .Mild was elected Sii|)eriiiti iident of the .Mr. Smedley has attained to his present ))ositioii. 
County I'oor. ser villi;' in this caiiaeity two terms of where he can reflect upon tiie past with satisfac- 
two ye.'irs each. lie had previously lieen .Su|)ci- tiou and look forward to ;i future spent in the en- 
visor of Lerov Township for live \ears. and after joymeut of a comfortalile coin|ieteiu-y. His fine 
coining to Mason, was elected Supervisor of X'evay farm on section 2. comprises one hundred .acres, and 
Township four times. This was |)revious to its is emliellished with a suhstantial set of liiiildins>s. 
separation from tlie citv iiroper. the most iioticealile amoiiL; them lieiiii; the commc- 

I^ililically our snhjeet is a Deniocrat of the dious residence wherein he and his estimahle wife 

.lefteisoniau stami) and tyjie. He was Ma\iir of dis|)ense a ijeneroiis hospitality. The liariis are 

the cit\- for oiu' term :ind lias served as .\ldeim:in conveniently ;irraiiiifd and a(l.a))ted to the storaue 

from the first ward a nunilier of times, in his of araiii and shelter of stock, while the fertile soil ' 

reliiiioiis connection he is a niemlier of the Uaplist yields to the careful husliaudmaii a liountifiil liar- 

Chiirch as i- also his wife, anil he performs the \est of golden i;rain. 

ofliee of Deacon iiith.at liod\. Our siilijeet was I'he owner of this line property is the .son of 

the oi iii'inator .and uplniilder of the Phienix Flour- Solomon (J. and I'olly (W'riiiht) Smedlev. native.-v;- 

iiiii' .Mills, erectinu' the huildiiiL; ;ind startiiiii il to of the State of \eriiiont.who remo\ed to Tios^a 

runniiii; in the fall of liS."),s. He was connected County. X. V.. in 1.S22. and from there to Ouoii- 

witli the mill some ten years, at the .same time d.aii.a (ount\. the sanu' .State. In that count\ 

li.avinii a partnership in the hardware liiisiness and Mlislia I!., of this sketch, was liorn .l.aii ii;irv 23. 

Siivinu' it a <ieneral o\eisieht from the \eais IHd.s I,h27. and there his early ye.-irs were uneveiitfullv 

to IHS."). He has handled aLjriiultnral iinplements |ia.--sed. His fatlu'r followed the trade of a lilack- 

to some extent, and has also auctioneered. He smith, .-ind was also, -i farmer. He was a soldier in 

feels that at his aire he does not i^are to ai^ain the Warof l.s 1 2. and sei\ed on Lake Ch.ainiilain 

enter Inisine.ss and indeed, there is no necessity for as .'i .Minute .Man. .\n honoralile inau. whose e\erv 

his doinsi' so. ;ielioii was char:icleri/.ed liy inteafritv. liv dint of 

his iiidustr\- he raised himself front a Immlile rauk 

_,'4.^.i.4.^a'S&»-}"i"i-i ' '" =' position of intluenee in the conunnnity where 



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=■ he so long resided. His death oecurred in IHHU. 
at the aire of niiiet\ -one years. The ])ateriial iiiaiid- 
!») LISILV 1{. S.MLDLKV. That per.si.steiit in- father of our siilijeet. .Samuel Smedley. w.a.s also a 
dustry and <>ood jurtijmeiit almost iin.i- native of ^■el■lllonl. 
rialily win success is a fact whose truth li.i^ r]ion airiviiii; .-it man's estate. our siilijeet coin- 
never lieen disputed, and upon the possessor of meneed in life for himself .-is a farmer, and pur- 
these traits of eh.aracter fortune usually -howers sued the e\en tenor of hi> way. euaaufed in a 
her hlessiiiiis. Laiisinii Township. Inah.ain (ouiitx. peaceful ecnilliet with the uiiimiiroved and weed- 
)s noted for the many lieantifnl farms whii li lie prodiicina soil, for m.-iny years he worked alone. 



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but flnaUr concluded that he could accomplish 
more with the aid of an efficient helpmate, and ac- 
cordingly he wooed and won as his wife Miss 
Sarah M. Russell, a dausihter of Nathan Russell, a 
native of AVayne County, N. Y. The bride was 
liorn in tliat county, August 31, 1842, and was 
carefully trained by her parents for the duties 
which afterward came to her. The ceremony 
which united her with our subject was solemnized 
September 9, 1869, and of the happy union three 
children have been born. Frank L., who was born 
October 22, 1874, is now attending the Interlake 
Commercial College of Lansing, and preparing 
himself ft)i a eonimercial life; Orriu E. and War- 
ren L., twins, were born January 14, 1879. War- 
ren died in infancy, and Orrin still remains under 
the parental roof. 

In 186G Mr. Smedley came to Michigan, pro- 
ceeding directly to the farm upon which he is now 
located, and which he had purchased one year pre- 
vious to his permanent location here. It was at 
that time timber land, and all the improvements 
upon it stand as monuments to his industry and 
energy. In ])olitics he is a Republican, and has 
served his fellow-citizens in various positions of 
responsibility. He is an attendant of the Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church, to whieh his wife belongs. 




URTIS E. HAUGHAWOUT. The business 
■ 1 men of L.ansing, Ingham County, are a class 

of whom the city may well feel proud, as 
they have added gre.atly, not only to her financial 
strength, Imt also toher rei)utation among the cities 
of Michigan. Their pr<)bity and enterprise, their 
intelligence and united efforts for the upl)uilding 
of business interests in the capital city have been a 
power which cannot lie lightly estimated. 

( )ur suViject, who has one of the finest stores in 
the city and is a man of genuine and widespread 
p(_>pularity, is in the retail grocery trade. He was 
born in Brimfleld, Portage County, Ohio, January 
7, 1856 and is the son of Charles Haughawout who 
was a farmer and an early settler in Brimfield. 



The grandfather, Peter, was a Pennsylvanian by 
liirth Init died in Brimfield. The father came to 
^Michigan in the fall of 1871 and located at North 
Lansing where he engaged in farming and still 
owns a farm of eighty acres adjoining the corpora- 
tion. The mother, who was Sarah, daughter of 
John Boosinger, was born in Brimfield, Ohio, and 
died in North Lansing at the age of fifty-five years. 
She was a devoted member of the Fniversalist 
Church, and our subject was her only child by 
this union. By her first marriage she has one son, 
E. D. Sawyer, who enlisted in 1861, in the Forty-sec- 
ond Ohio Infantrj', and served until the close of the 
war, coming out of the army with the rank of a Ser- 
geant. He now resides in Cleveland, Ohio, and is a 
prominent citizen of that city, being the ex-Sheriff of 
the county. 

He of whom we write was brought up as farmer 
boys are upon the farm and attended the district 
school. He attended the North Lansing School 
and later the High School and at the age of eigh- 
teen years took a course in Bartlett's Business Col- 
lege. He tlien olitained a situation as bookkeeper 
for B. E. Hart, a miller at North Lansing, and re- 
mained with him for some time, finally taking 
charge of the l)usiness whenever Mr. Hart was awa^'. 
After being manager of this concern for some five 
years, he started into business for himself. He had 
meanwhile engaged in buying wheat on the street 
at North Lansing for Hart Bros. 

In 1883 o\n' subject started in the grocery busi- 
ness, becoming a partner with liis father under the 
firm name of Haughawout ct Son. They established 
themselves first in North Lansing on Turner Street 
and afterward on Franklin Street. Three years 
later t\wy started a liranch store on Washington 
Avenue in Lansing, which was especially under the 
charge vf the son, while he still continued as part- 
ner in tlie original store. After an ex|ieriniental 
six months, the young man sold out his interest in 
the old store to his father and devoted liimself en- 
tirely to his new stcire, enlarging it and improving 
it and soon lieing able to buy out his father's in- 
terest in the Lansing enterprise. Two years later 
he sold out the entire business and then began in a 
drugstore, in the Smith Block on AVashington Ave- 
nue. Six months later he removed his stock to his 



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incsfiit st.'inil and ;i(l(U'(l :i liiicnf ijroccric-. lie 
t'oiiiid tliis til Ik- the nioiv |)i(iliUililc veiitiiic. mikI 
(li.-|i<»ini: of his dniu' hii^iiness lias since tlicn iii- 
larsivd and inipiovcd liis irrooei v stoic, unlii lie has 
one of the l)cst cstalilishincnts in the city. 

Ida HIder wjis the name Uy which Mrs. II:in;:ha- 
woiit . was known in her maiden days. She was 
manicd in IHTi) and isa daugliterof ('apt. Mathew 
i'',hlc|-. an iuchitect liy l)l'0fC8.sion. who (HimI IVoni 
the I'lTect of a wound which he received at (iettys- 
l.nrii'. His wife departed this life in 1««1. .Mr. 
llaiiu'hawoiit has served one term a> .\ldci'ni;in of 
the First Ward and has also Ijei'n .Supervisor for 
one year. He is prominently identified with the 
Free and .Accepted JMasons and the Kniulits of 
P\tliias. .Mthougli he does not devote niucli time 
to politics he "ladly serves his i)arty iqion the Ward 
( oniniittee. and he has an unfailing conlideiice in 
Ihc future pros|)crity of the Democratic parly. 



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r^HKDEHICK .1. Li:i:. On thcopiiosite page 
r\G) appears a portrait of I\[r. Lei', who is a 
1 piomment capitalist located in Howell. 

Mich. He isa worthy rejjreseatativc of a ilistin- 
guished family in whicli warriors, educators and 
men who have been potent in comniereial life lia\e 
lieen conspicuous. ^Ir. Ja'c isa native bf (ireen- 
vill, (ireeii County, N. Y.. and was horn .May 1^*. 
lH-21. He is the son of (4iu^'. and Sall_\- (Kene- 
y^ diet) I,ee, natives of Castleton. ^■t. and Danhurv. 
Conn. The former was a farnierand came to Michi- 
gan in 1H;}() at which time he purcha.sed four hun- 
dred acres of land in Marion Township, this county, 
located on sections 7 and X. 

For twelve years (iuyC. I^ee resided upon the 
farm that he purchased on first m.aking his advent 
in this State and then tr:idcd it for :\ farm of two 
hundre(l acrc~ lying within the village limits of 
Howell. I pon this jilace he I>nilt a home and 
li\ed until hi> decease, which took plaic in \X.'i\ 
Hi> wife dierl in 1H73. They had a family of live 
children, whose names areas follows: Ceorge \\'., 
Hem v 1).. l.aurcUa. Clara and Fredeiick .L ()n!y 
two of these arc now living, they licingour sulijtct. 



of wlioni we .-iiall .attempt to give aeorreci though 
concise biographical sketcli, and Henry 15.. a wealthy 
miitlemau who lives in Ypsilauti. 

Our sul)jeetin lii.s boyhood was surrounded with 
the best of inlluences. llis father, who was con- 
sidered one of the very wealthy men of the county, 
while not a church member w.as a strictly moral 
man. Profanity was unknown to his lijjs, neither 
did he use tobacco or stimulants of an\- kind. He 
was a railical temperance man and observed the 
Sabbath day very strictly, llis father and our sub- 
ject's grandfather was Col. Xoah Lee. his wife be- 
ing Dorcas (Bird) Lee. They were liolh natives 
of Connecticut. The former was a fanner by 
occupation .and served as Colonel in the Revo- 
lutionary War. He also .served during the French 
and Iiuliaii \\ ar. having first enli.--ted when lifteen 
vears of age, but was afterward rejected on account 
of his youth. One of the staff of otticer.s standing 
by when he went to enlist said, "enlist him and I 
will take him as a waiter." Thus he was accejited 
and sworn in as a soldier, this being in ITtil. 

.Vfter the war Col. Xoah Lee with Amos Bird 
w;is the first white man that ever stopped over 
iiiuht in Castleton Townshi|), Rutland County. \t. 
They secured a large amount C)f land and became 
settlers of proininence. The gentleman was asso- 
ciated with .some of the Colonial heroes and the 
following is a letter written by Ethan Allen to ( ol. 
Lee: 
"From Kthan .Vllen, 

TicoNDKKooA, May 2.i, 177.J, 
C.viT. XoAii Lkk, 

SKKKXnOROtlMl. 

Sir: — i'liis moment I lia\e received yours of the 
2.'id. 'I'rue, I am much encumliered in business, 
nevertheless I am appri.sed that .Skeeiiborough is 
an imjiortant post which must be occupied l)v the 
army for liberty. I am .satisfied that you have 
conducted worthily in that station and am con- 
tented you shoiilil command that post, exce|)t you 
take some adeciuate command with me in the front 
part of the army. 1 expect shortly the Continental 
Congress will ai>i)oint a commander for this deiiart- 
ment, so that you need not hold your preferment 
under either the corps of ( L Jl. Boys or Col. .Vrnold. 
Indotibtcdly we shall all be rewarded according to 
our merits in this or the coming worhl 
From your frienit. 

IvniAN ,Vi.i.i;\.'" 



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Col. Noah Lee enlisted the Green Mountain 
boys on his own accf)iint and was an active leader 
in the eanipaia:n, supijlyinj:! the needs of the soldiers 
from his own private resonrces. He was married 
in 1772 and died May 5. 1840, at C'astleton, Yt. 
His wife died in March, 1830. Their family com- 
prised eight children. The first of this branch of 
the Lee family to come to this country was John 
Lee, who was horn in Essex County, England, in 
1(J20. He crossed the ocean in 1634 and settled 
at Hartford, Conn. Our subject belongs to the 
fifth generation who have lived in this country. 

Frederick J. Lee, our suliject, received his edu- 
cation at C'astleton and attended the academy in 
Canastota. ]\Iadison County, X. Y., and after com- 
ing West with his parents he attended the Ann 
Arbor academy and then returned to C'astleton, Yt., 
where he entered the C'astleton Seminary. After 
finishing his education he returned to Michigan 
and was engaged in teaching school in the township 
of Unadilla, Livingston County. C4ov. Winans 
was one of his pupils at this time and our subject 
assures us that the (Governor was one of the bright- 
est boys in school. The winter of 1844 our subject 
spent as a clerk in the liou^e of F. Denison, in Ann 
Arbor. 

On returning to Howell our suliject engaged in 
the mercantile business with his brother, Cjeorge 
W. Lee, under the firm name of Lee tt Bro. They 
remained together for six years at which time 
Cieorge W. bought out the interest of our subject 
who took as his partner !Mr. Lemuel Spooner, en- 
gaging in luisiness with him for two .years. At 
the end of that time they sold out their business 
and our subject entered the real-estate business, 
being one of the first to launch out in this direction. 

The Livingston Repvb/irau, which first appeared 
in 1853 and was the first Republican paper of this 
county, was largely indebted to the personal energ}' 
of Mr. Lee for its inception. In 1868 our subject 
was Revenue Collector of this district, which com- 
prises six counties — Livingston. Oakland, Lapeer, 
Macomb, St. Clair and Sanilac. After serving for 
two years he resigned his office. He has also been a 
member of the Council and School Board and during 
the war was most of the time Dejiuty United States 
Marshal and also Marshal of the village for one year. 



Mr. Lee has added several additions to the town 
of Howell. In 1887 he with L. S. Montague platted 
.'111 addition, and with Mr. McPhersons, of tiiis 
town. i)latted an addition to the city of Buffalo, 
N. Y. The addition comprised thirteen acres. 
Tills was in 1881. Mr. Lee is the owner of a large 
tract of land in tiie Northern part of this State 
and also was quite a large jjroperty owner in Mis- 
sissippi. His residence on Walnut Street is un- 
doubtedly one of the finest places in the town, as 
well as one of the most pleasant homes. He also 
lias a number of other houses in the village which 
lie rents, besides business property. 

In 1847 Mr. Lee was united in mai'rlage with 
Miss Martha Alcott, of Rockingham. \t.. the 
daughter of Elias Alcott. Only one child was the 
fruit of this marriage, a daughter named Rosa E.. 
now Mrs. E. G. McPherson. She is the mother of 
four children whose names are George, John. Wil- 
liam and Belle. Mrs. JIartha Lee died in Septem- 
ber, 187.5. By a second marriage our suliject was 
united with Miss Harriet Norton, of Detroit, who 
presented her hu.sband with one child, a daughter. 
Hattie. Mrs. Harriet Lee died September 22. IHHIi. 
B\- a third marriage our subject became the hus- 
band of Miss Alice A. Lee, of Poultney, Yt. She 
is a daughter of Cieorge L. and Eliza (Ciraham) 
].,ee. Mr. Lee is a Republican and one of the 
prominent men of the countv. 



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RED I). WOODWORTH, M. 1). Wo are 
pleased to give in our list of the best citi- 
zens of Ingham County, the professional 
men who have made their mark therein, and we 
take special pleasure in presenting the name of Dr. 
Woodwortli, of Onondaga, who was born in Black- 
man Township. Jackson County, Mich., December 
y, 1846. This gentleman, who has made for him- 
self a name and place in the profession, is a son 
of Geoige W. and EUzabeth (Mcintosh) Wood- 
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to Miclii<>:nn the 1st of Septcniher. 1H31. Tlie 
liiu'ajiv :iii(l fiirly liistorv of this iiitiMcstiiii;- family 
is worth till' iKTiisal of the reader, ami will lie 
fouiul in eoiinectioii witli tlie sl<eteh of .1. I). 
Woodwoitli. M. I)., to lie found elsewiiere in this 
volume. 

iMUlit eiiildren of this family ijrew to maturity, 
and Fred was the ^-oungest of the dock. He was 
reared upon the old homestead in Blackman Town- 
sliip, .Taek.sou County, and availed himself thor- 
ouiihlyofa common school education, attending 
High School also at Jackson. He remained with 
his mother until 18(i(i. and for three years [)iU>v to 
that date he had been stiidying civil engineering, 
liut he linally decided t<> aliandon the pursuit of 
that branch of education and to give himself thor- 
oughly to preparaticm for the medical professsion. 
He was. no doubt, largely influenceil in this deci- 
sion by the fact that he would be able to study 
under the superintendence of his brother, Dr. .1. 1). 
Woodworth, of Leslie. 

After reading for some time with his lirother he 
entered the medical department of the I'niversity 
of Michigan, and after a two years' course there 
became a student of the Detroit Medical College, 
where he took his dijjloma in the spring of 1869. 
The young Doctor then began his practice at Les- 
lie, and after a year and a half located in 1872, in 
the village of Onondaga, where he has built up an 
excellent practice, having given himself entirely 
to the pursuit of his professi(m. He ow^ns a small 
farm in the vicinity and takes a lively interest in 
its culture. 

The Republican platform and declarations em- 
body the political views which are held by Dr. 
Woodworth, and in the prosperity of that party 
lie feels a deep interest. He has held sundry local 
offices, such !is TowMiship Supervisor, Township 
Clerk, School Ins[)ector, and is a member of the 
County Committee. He has attained to the third 
degi-ee in the order of Free and .Vccepted Masons 
and is also idenlitied with the Ancient (\)rder of 
United Workmen. 

Dr. Woodworth was happily married to Miss 
Louise C. Baldwin. October '.t, 187.i. This lady 
was born in Livonia. Livingston County. \. Y.. 
March 2,183."), .and previous to her marriage had 



been a resident of Onondaga. Her parents were 
Thomas K. and Dorcas ((iieene) Baldwin, are na- 
tives of \'erm<>nt. Xo children have brightened 
the home of Dr. and Mrs. Woodworth. lint their 
kindly nature leads them to make life pleasant for 
others, ami (lieii- inlluence in the community is al- 
ways foi' good. 

OSEPII W. U.VILKV. One of the pleasant- 
est homes in Lansing, Ingham County, is 
the one which is jointl\' presided over by 
^Ir. and Mrs. ISailey. whose intelligence and 
affaliility create about them a delightful atmosi>Iiere 
of hospitality and genuine enjoyment. In their 
society their friends find a pleasant respite from 
the cares and fatigues of business and home duties, 
as well as an intellectual stimulus in the best di- 
rection. 

Our subject, who is carrying on Inisiness in the 
line of real estate and insurance in connection 
with his partner, Mr. Klock.seim, was formerly an 
editor in Portland, Ionia County. He was born 
in Battle Creek, on the 11th of April, 1847, his 
lumored father being .lames Bailey, a Yorkshire- 
man, who was a fancy silkweaver and also a music 
teacher. His weaving was of a superior kind and 
one of his specialties was the manufacture of hand- 
some vest patterns, which were at that time ex- 
ceedingly pojiular. He came to Battle Creek in 
1842, and engaged in work, both at his trade and 
as a teacher, but later acquired a farm in Eagle 
Township, Eaton County, which he carried on 
farming during the summers, and spent the win- 
ters in teaching. 

In 1856 he sold his )n-0])erty in Eaton County 
and removed to Portland Town.ship, hmia County, 
where lie took an improved f.arni of one hundred 
and eighty-three acres, and remained there until 
his death, which occurred in 1884. His father, 
Richard Badey, had come with him to Ionia County 
where he spent the remainder of his days. He was 
a miner in England. Soviiia Pitchfortli, the mother 
of our subject, who was also of Yorkshire birth, 
came hither with him and died in 188(1. Of her 



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nine children our subject was tlie next to the 
youngest and was brougiit u\> upon :i farm and 
educated in the disti'ict schools until he reached ' 
the age of nine years, after which he attended the 
Portland schools. 

At the age of nineteen our subject ))egan Imsi- 
ness life as a cleric in a dry-goods establishment. 
but after one year he decided to enter the news- 
paper business in connection with the Portl.and 
Adrertiser, which had already been inaugurated, 
but wliich was at that time printed in (irand 
Rapids. After nine months' experience the young 
man bougiit out his partner in tliis paper and con- 
tinued it alone, and soon enlarged it and continued 
it under the name of the Portland Observer. It 
became a six-column quarto, and besides putjlish' 
ing the paper the office became well known as an 
efficient job office, where excellent work could be 
liad upon prompt time. He gradually worked into 
tlie real-estate business, and in 1882 sold out his 
paper and devoted his time entirely to this new 
line of work. He built the Observei- Block and 
continued there until 1888, and finally bought out 
Mr. S. :\[. Miller, of the firm of Miller ct Klock- 
seim, which now became Klockseim iVr Bailey. Vriiile 
living in Portland he platted eighteen acres, which 
is known as "Bailey's Addition to Portland." lie 
still owns Portland property and is also one of 
the largest real-estate dealers in this city. Besides 
this specialty the firm is largely interested in in- 
surance and represents some fifteen companies. 

The marriage of our subject, whicli took place 
August 20, 1872, and which was solemnized in 
Eagle Township, brought to his home an amiable 
and faithful helpmate, in the per.son of Miss Dana 
.lenison, daughter of tiie lion. William F. .leni- 
son. This lady was Vjoin at Eagle, t'linton County. 
where her family were early settlers, and she re- 
ceived iier education at Ypsilanti and taught in 
the Lansing schools before her marriage. Mr. .leni- 
son is a prominent and wealthy farmer in Clinton 
County and for some time acted as its Sheriff. Six 
children have blessed the home of ^[r. and IMrs. 
Bailey, namely: Mary. Willie. l,fn:i. Slfll:i. l-'.v:i 
and Bessie. 

The fifteen years during which Mr. Bailey was 
engaged in newspaper work in Portland were 



years of prosperity and progress in that little 
town, and liis work no doubt contributed largly 
to promote many of the movements for mi- 
piovemeut which were being forwarded at that 
time. That he Avas appreciated in this way was 
evident from the fact that he was made President 
of the village for two years, and was at the time 
of his i-emoval from Portland and for several years 
previous Village Assessor. In his political views 
he is a decided Republican, and during the days 
when he had the ear of the people through hi> 
paper his"trum])et sent forth no uncertain sound." 
He is identified with the Free and Accepted ^la- 
sons at Portland, and is connected with the I'ni- 
versalist Church. .Vs a citizen of thorough integ- 
rity, enterprise and intelligence, he is highly prized 
in Lansing. 



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^z^N OL. -lOllN (i. SNOOK. The honorable title 
[I that prefixes our subject's name is an in.--ig- 

*\^!' nia of the loyalty with which he has sei'ved 
his time and nation. Over a century ago, it would 
have been thought degr.ading to have taken up 
arms for wh;it manv people even to-day, consider 
an inferior race, luit the essence of truth and [nin- 
ciple was lacking in our nation as long as there 
was a freedom restricted to certain classes, and 
those who were consistent and loyal to the Consti- 
tution to which the wisest men of our nation gave 
their approbation and countenance, could only be 
maintained b\- concessions on one side or a forced 
fight foi' loe:il rights. 

He of whom we write now I'esidesin .Mason, lug- 
ham County. .Mich., where lie has a pleasant and 
attractive home. He was born .lune .5, 1815, at 
Waterloo, Seneca County, N. Y., and is a son of 
Casper and Caroline ((4roflf) Snook, natives of 
Sussex County, and Seneca County, N. Y. 
res)iectively. His t'alliei-. who was a larnier. uiovi'd 
from ^Michigan when our subjeel wm> abo\it three 
yeai's old .■mil located in .\rgentiue Township, 
tienesee County. Here our subject spent his boy- 
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to tlie lifi' of a faiiiier lad, and ciiiiaiivil in laying 
during- tin- winter months, tlii' foundation for a 
good common-school education. 

\\hen only a lad. Mr. Sn<)ol< enlisted in the War 
of the Hehellion joining the regiment in Se|ilem- 
her. 1«(;2. lie was one of ('ompany I), of the Sixth 
.Michigan Cavalry, and lirst served as a private in 
(ien. Custer's Michigjin Hrigade. of Sheri<lan's 
division. He is [n-ond of the fad that he sei'ved 
in thirty-seven engagements. He was wounded at 
the battle of Falling Water, .luly 1 1. lH(!:i. ;dthough 
prior to this he had a horse shot under him .at Ce- 
dar Creek in 1864. At the time of Sliciidan's 
famous ride, their brigade was detailed to cover the 
retreat. He was in the hospital about eight months 
after the l)attle of Falling Water, having been 
wounded in the right thigh, a ball from an enemy's 
rifle shattering the bone without breaking it. lie 
was at the time of liis wound, .serving as ('ori)oral 
and was afteiward made Sergeant. At the close of 
the war. his time not yet Inning expii-ed, he was 
sent West under (len, Custer, to have anovei-sighl 
over the Indians. This occupied about six months, 
during wliich our subject was in one engagement 
.•It Willow Springs, Dak. His time ex|)iring, during 
tlie Indian compaign he was held over time and at 
the expiration of the outbreak at which the iiidi.-ins 
were sulidued. he was discharged. 

After Mr. Snook's return fnmi the army it was 
necessary that he learn some busine.ss by which he 
could sujjport himself, and he at once bent his en- 
ergies to making himself familial' with the harness- 
makers' (rade. being so engaged in Linden, (ien- 
esce County, Mich, lie worked at that trade for 
aliout five years, and in the meantime was married 
December -i;?, IHGX, to Miss .Mary Beach, whose 
home w;is in the s.'inie place at which he was occu- 
pied. .She is a daugliler of Chilion and Flizabeth 
A. (S(|uires) Heach and was born May .'id. IH")!). at 
Kochester. N. 1 . 

Till' oiiain.al of oui' sket<'h tiansferred his atten- 
tion to the business of carriage trimming which he 
followed ill the town of Linden for about sixteen 
years and in .Vjjril. IHiS.'). |a' removed to .Mason, 
where he began the same work, and is yet thus en- 
gaged, being successful to a gratifying degiee in 
his chosen callinii. and indeed, it could scarceh' be 



otherwise, for so neatly is his work done, and so 
perfect tiie finish that it could not fail to find pat- 
ronage. Oursnbji'ct 1 1. as three children who have 
come to l>righten the home of hini.self and wife. 
Carrie K. was boi'n in Linden, this .State. .lune 19, 
\X1 \. She. howcvi'i. uniteil her fortunes with those 
of a young farmer in \'evay Townshi|), by name, 
.V. M. Young. William C. who w:is liorn .lanuary 
30, in7;i. isa graduate of the High .Scliool, than 
which there are none l)etter throughout the State. 
Tt prepares its graduates for the Freshman cla.ss in 
any I'niversity in the State. He has also taken one 
\ear in .VIbion College, and is ambitions to fit him- 
self for a professorship in some of our higher insti- 
tutions of learning. Casper .1.. the third child, was 
born at Linden. February o, 188.^. 

Casper Snook, oni' snliject's father, was born 
March 17. ISI7. and his decease occurred February 
i;?, \H,')H. ( )\u' subject's mother was born Octolier 
;». 182(1. and is still living, making her home with 
him of whom we write. Formerly theoriginal of our 
sketch affiliated with the Kepublican party, but 
since 1872 he has identified himself with the Pro- 
hibition party, feeling that in the i)roniulgation of 
the principles not only of temperance, but in the 
prohibition of the making and selling of intoxicat- 
ing liquors, is the safeguard to which we have to 
look to the future prosperity of our land. He is a 
Ca])tain of Company F, of the First Regiment of 
the .State ^lilitia. In his church relations lie has 
been identified for many years with the Methodist 
Kpiscopal Church, in which ho 's both Steward and 
Class- Leadi'r. 

ii I i> ) > ^ j > I > 



I'OIIX F. HorsK. Our subject is a native 
I of the city that ilicliigan is proud to claim 
as her educational center, and one whose 
colleiic standing in many dejiartments ranks 
with the best universities in the land. .Mr. House 
now holds the |i()sitioii of County Clerk in the 
town of Miuson. Ingham County, and in this cajjac- 
ity finds many an opportunity to make hini.self of 
trreat service to the people and is always obliging, 
attentive and readv to do what he can. He was 



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born at Ann Arbor. .July 28, 1851. and is tlie son 
of John and Catherine (Leadley) Rouse, both na- 
tives of Germany. Mr. Rouse's parents were botli 
children when they came to this country with their 
parents. His father, who was a cooper, followed his 
trade in Ann Arbor and in Chicago, where lie lived 
some eleven years. 

While living in the metropolis of Illinois, .Jcihn 
Rouse responded to the call for vt)lunteers in the 
War of the Reliellion, and enlisted in Company (i, 
of the Fifty-first Regiment of Illinois Infantry, in 
1864. He served .about eighteen months, and al- 
though in eleven battles, received only a few 
slight wounds. The mother moved to Michigan 
soon after her husband's enlistment in order that 
she might lie among her own people in his absence. 
After his discharge, our subject's father came to 
this State, and located in Lansing where he started 
a cooper shop of liis own. and followed his trade 
until tlie time of his death, which occurred April 
1, 1891, in the city of Lansing. 

The original of our sketch in Ins boj'hood re- 
ceived a good practical education, enjoying the 
advantages offered by the public .schools of the city 
of Chicago, and afterward taking an additional 
course in the Commercial College of Lansing, this 
State. After finishing bis education he learned 
telegraphy and served in the cap.acity of operator 
for about ten years in Lan.sing. While still man- 
ager of the telegraph office he was elected City 
Clerk, .and was re-elected at diffei-ent times until 
he served .seven terms in all. After the expiration 
of his term on his last election, Mr. Rouse engaged 
in the coal business, running a general retail trade 
in which he was proprietor of several local of- 
fices. 

He of whom we write was elected County Clerk 
of Ingham Comity, Mich., 188H, and he served in 
this position for four years. May i;!. 188(1, he 
took the important step of uniting his fate for bet- 
ter or worse with that of Miss Catherine Sattler. a 
daughter of Charles L. and B.arbara (Hux) Sattler. 
^Irs. Rouse was born at Freedom, Washtenaw 
County, August 28, 18,53. Her parents were, like 
her husband's, both f)om Germany. One child luas 
come to their home to brighten the domestic life 
and to make stronger the bond that binds to- 



gether husband and wife. She was born ]\I.<iy 23, 
1881. and her name is Nellie B.. a bright attractive 
little miss, who is the joy of her fiind parents. 

AVhile in Chicago, Mr. Rouse met with an acci- 
dent in .Jones & Chapin's cooper shop, by which 
he lost his left arm. At the time he was only 
eleven years old and the accident was deeply de- 
plored by himself and parents. He is the eldest in 
a family of eight children, all of whom are still 
living. Albert F., the second son in the family, 
is at attorney-at-law in the city of Lansing; he 
also, strange to say, liy an accident similar to that 
of his brother, is deprived of his arm. His loss 
was caused by the running away of a team. The 
other children are Emma, Catheiine, William F,, 
j\Iary, Edward and George. Emma is now the 
wife of C. Adelbert Cary, who is a clerk in Lan- 
sing; Catherine married Arnold Brown, who w.as a 
large lumber dealer in Jjansing; William F, also 
makes his home in Lan.siiig', where he conducts a 
large meat market; Mary married Frank Nice, who 
is engaged as an engineer on the Michigan Central 
road, making his headciuarters and home at Lans- 
ing; Edward, who is a cooper by trade, and (ieorge, 
who is a clerk in a large clothing store, lioth reside 
in Lansiuo'. 



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OIIN D. WOODWORTH, M. D, It is not 
merely by a knowledge of drugs and nos- 
trums that a physician gains success. In 
order to attain true eminence he must pos- 
sess the spirit of patient research into the intricacies 
of the human ftirm divine, and kindly sympathies 
which will give to those who have called liini in 
counsel confidence in liis huinanity as well as his 
skill. The career of l)i-. Wt)odworth of Leslie 
Townslnp. Ingham Count\'. one of the leading 
practitioners, has been creditable in the extreme, 
both professionally and iiersonally. A man of fine 
attainments, intellectually, with broad and liberal 
views, he has fortified his mind with a store of 
useful knowledge both special and general through 
his habits of thought and observation. He com- 
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and financial circles and is the occupant of a pleas- 
ant lioniX' in tlic villaiii' ol' Leslie. 

Anmnu Ilie liiessins^s wliicli Uiml i'lovidenee lias 
liestowed upon Dr. Woodvvortli is his aniialilo and 
excellent wife, a lady of rare qualities of mind and 
eli:uac(ci-. who h:is in all respects been his assist.-int. 
lakiuii' pride in his success and in sustaininu' the 
reputation and standinij of the family. The native 
place of l)i-. Woodworth was Pembroke, Genesee 
County. N. V.. and the dale of his birth Fehi-uary 
2H. 1 S2(i. His immediate piooenitors were ( teorjie 
W. and Kliz.-ibeth (Mclnlosh) Woodworth, the 
former of whom was a native of Otsego County, 
N. v., and the latter was born in Rensselaer Connt^•, 
the same State. 

The paternal i;randparents of our subject were 
Samuel and Sybil (i)aiiforth) Woodworth. natives 
of New Knylanil. who .-.cttled in Western Xew 
York at an early day. Samuel Woodworth served 
in the Revolutionary Army and our subject now 
has a relic \vhii.-h was made by liini while in the 
service, at the time the troops were stationed at 
\'alley Fori>e. He died in Western New York and 
his widow came to Michigan many years ajjo and 
spent the remainder of hci- days in .lackson ('(unity. 
The maternal iirandparents of Dr. Woodworth 
were Scotch |)eoi)le, both of whom were liorn in 
Kdinbnrjj'. The grandfather died in ^Vestern New- 
York and the grandniothcr in .l.ackson County, 
Mich. 

George and Klizabelli ^\dodworth were reared 
and married in Central New York and tocik np their 
residence in the Tei'rittn'v of Michigan in \M\ 
They had been living in (ienesee County, N. Y., 
whence in 18:50 Mr. W^oodworth came West and 
took np .-i tract of land which now forms the estate 
of LaRiie H. AVoodworth, a brother of our subject. 
This land is filuated on section 22. RIackman 
Township, .lackson County. Kclnrning to the 
Kasl III' broughl his family lo this homestead, which 
(•(intinued his place of residence from that lime 
UTilll the middle of I''i'bruar\-. \Xi\2. when he cldsid 
his eyes in death. 

\'ery few families wcic living in thi> vicinity ;it 
the time cif Mr. \\'oodwoith "s arrival here, and 
many privati(,>ns were endured by these pioneers. 
The journey was accom|)lislied by teams to Ruffahi. 



thence across the Lakes to Detroit and the remain- 
der of the journey was made with ox-teams. It 
was a trip of almost untold hardships, a.s they were 
obliged to ford all the streams which were without 
bridges and to remove many impediments w'liich 
wiTc in their way. I'hey were constantly in dan- 
ger from wild beasts and the savages who still lin- 
gered near. Mrs. Woodworth walked the whole 
distance from Detroit to .lackson, with a babe in 
her arms as the roads were bad and the wagons so 
heavily loaded that she could not ride. 

After the arrival of this family in their new 
home they found the Indians very troublesome, 
and at times the few white settlers were obliged to 
go to .lacksdii for protection. .Mrs. Woodworth 
was at one time severely injured b\- being kicked 
around the yard by an ln<lian. With untlagging 
energy and sturdy determination ^L■. and Mi's. 
Woodworth struggled on amid privations which 
wc can scarcely realize, instilling into the minds of 
thi'ir childicn the principles which animated their 
own lives, and gradually gathered about them the 
comforts which they so richly merited. Mr. Wood- 
worth erected a good house and made other sub- 
stantial imiirovements upon his farm, iilacing the 
one hundred and twenty-live acres which comprised 
it under excellent cultivation. Mrs. Woodworth 
is still surviving at the advanced .age of eighty- 
nine years, having lieen born April 28, 1802. She 
now makes her home with her son, LaRue H., on 
the old homestead in .lackson County, and is en- 
joying the fruits of her arduous toil in earlier 
years. She retains her faculties remarkably well 
and still reads without glasses in her declining 
years. The parental household consisted of a fam- 
ily of nine children, namely: .John D., Helen. 
Jeaniiette, Thomas .1., George ()., Henry L., Corne- 
lia, Frances, and Fred I). 

lie of whom we write is the eldest of his father's 
family and was brought to Michigan in 1831 by 
his jiarents. being then only live years of .age. His 
boyhood was passed on his father's farm in IJlack- 
m:in Township. .l;u-kson Couiily. in the way cus- 
toiu.uy in that early time. I If remained at home 
laboring with his father, until he reached the age 
of eighteen when he went to .Jackson to attend 
school. His earlier studies had been ])ursued in 



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the common district school and under the influence 
of careful parental training he became imbued with 
those sentiments of honor and morality which have 
given him so high a standing among his fellow-men. 
After four years m Jackson which he spent in ac- 
quiring an academic education he began reading 
medicine witli Dr. Abram Sager, then of Jackson. 
In 1848 he entered Rush Medical College at Chi- 
cago taking his diploma from that institution in 
the spring of 1851. Very soon afterward he lo- 
cated in Leslie, and since that time has been con- 
stantly and actively engaged in the practice of 
medicine, having filled out forty years of profes- 
signal service. 

The Doctor is a plain, unostentatious man, who 
moves quietl\- tlirougli the world, doing much 
good that most of those who know him know not 
of. Following in tlie footsteps of his honored 
father, he is a decided Republican and without 
neglecting his profession he has found time to in- 
terest himself in the ]3ublic and political affairs of 
his county. After filling other positions of trust 
and responsibility he was brought forward by the 
Republican party as their candidate to the State 
Legislature, and was duly elected in 1861 and re- 
elected two years later, serving in both sessions 
with credit to himself and satisfaction to his con- 
stituents here. The position of Supervisor and 
other minor town, village and school oftices have 
been well filled by him. He is not connected with 
any religious denomination, but believes in the 
establishment and maintenance of churches, and 
gives freely of his me.ins to church and charitable 
organizations, attending the Congregational Church 
of Leslie of which his wife is a member. He has 
taken the Royal Arch Degree in the JMasonic order. 

The lady who became Mrs. Woodworth January 
15, 1850, was known in her maidenhood as Mary 
Orcutt, and was then living in Jackson. She was 
born near Rutland, Vt., in 1829 and is a daughter 
of Zebina and Mary (Hall) Orcutt, both Yermont- 
ers. Mr. Orcutt died in Pennsylvania and Mrs. Or- 
c utt u\ Chicago, 111. Dr. Woodworth and his young- 
wife began life together in a modest residence in 
tiie village of I^eslie, forty years ago, and have 
laljored together to establish a pleasant home which 
without pretentions to elegance, is encircled by an 



air of culture and refinement and a delightful re- 
treat from the work and worry of the outside 
world. The Doctor has secured a comfortable com- 
petence and owing to his advanced age, he is now 
gradually withdrawing from professional duties, 
and is preparing to spend the evening of his life in 
quiet retirement. The union of this couple has 
been blessed by the birth of five children, namely: 
Mary, Zach, Blanche, Ward and George. The last- 
named child died at the age of two and one-half 
years, but the others are living. 

Dr. Woodworth is personally one of the most 
agreeable of men, genial and companionable, a 
man who never fails to make friends wherever he 
goes. The family occupies a high position in the 
social circles of this county, and the Doctor's chil- 
dren are helping to reinforce the social prestige 
which their parents have established. Tiie name 
of this skillful and useful physician will be held in 
remembrance long after he has been gathered to 
his fathers. 



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[PT7/RANKLIN C. Mc EUEN is the owner of a 
r~(G\) very productive farm of one hundred and 
l\ sixty -three acres on sections 17 and 20, 

Alaiedon Township. He was born in Delhi Town- 
ship, Ingham County, May 13, 1854. His father, 
Albert Mc Euen, was bom in Concord, Ohio, in 
1825, and is a retired farmer now living in Ovid, 
Mich. In his younger days he was a Methodist 
minister and preached in various places in the State, 
having come here in 1853. Our subject remained 
at home until he was twenty-five years of age, 
working on the farm and attending district school. 
AV'hile living in Ovid he spent two j-ears very 
jjrofitably in the Union schools, laying a solid 
foundation for a good English education. He then 
worked on his father's farm for one .year, the fol- 
lowing year purchasing seventy-five acres of the 
farm which he now owns, but running heavily in 
delit for the same. ■ 

That our subject has not worked in vain during 
the years that have passed since his purchase is 
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farm from time to time until he now owns one 
luindrod and sixty acres of good land, that is well 
improved and all free from incumbrance. Febru- 
ary 28, 1877, he was married to .Joanna Keiuiedy, a 
(laiiirliter of Willian Kennedy of Alaiedon Town- 
ship. From this union two children have been born: 
(iracie, whose birthday is September 24, 1880; and 
(icrtie, who was born .July 4, 1884. During the past 
eleven years, Mr. Me Euen and his wife liave done 
an incredible amount of hard work and they have 
made more money in that time than any other 
young couple in the township of Alaiedon. Start- 
ing with no assistance from any quarter they have 
from the income derived from the farm alone paid 
nff all indebtedness and made improvements, while 
the average farmer has found it difficult to pay the 
interest on liis indelitedness. Mr. ^Ic Kueu has lifted 
a large mortgage and secured a competency that is 
usually acquired only after a lifetime of hard work 
and economical saving. 

In jiolitics our subject is a firm Republican and 
is recognized by his party as one of tlieii' strongest 
rejjrescntatives in Alaiedon. For the past three 
years he has lieen Supervisor of liis townshi]), and 
when we remember that the township is solidly 
Democratic his continuance in othce sjieaks worlds 
for his standing in the township, lie is well in- 
formed on all questions of the day. Personally 
Mr. Mc Euen is a very genial gentleman and has 
a host of warm friends in Alaiedon Township. 



A lis. MAROARPyr CrSTKK CALllorX, 
•' the present State Librarian, was appointed 
lii to the position JIarch, 1891; .-ihe is a sister 
of (ieii. Custer and widow- of TJeut. .James 
('.illioiiii. heroes in the battle of the Little Big 
Horn. The lady, who is distinguished not only 
for lier high connection with miritary heroes, but 
also for her fine presence, striking individuality, 
culture and accomplishments, holds her friends and 
admirers by the magnetism of individual and jier- 
sonal power. .She was born in Harrison County, 
Ohio, and is a daughter of Emanuel H. and Maria 
(Ward) Custer. Her father was a farmer at the 




time of her birth, and removed from Ohio to Mon- 
roe, Mich., when Jlrs. Calhoun was but a small 
child. 

Mr.s. Calhoun, whose ]wrtrait is presented on the 
opposite ])age, was educated and spent her girlhood 
days in Monroe. One winter she spent with her 
brother, Gen. Custer, at Ft. Leavenworth. Kan., 
and at that time (1870) met Lieut. Calhoun. 
Those who have read Mrs. Custer's charming book, 
"Boots and Saddles" can understand how a woman's 
presence is appreciated in camp life on the frontier, 
how every soldier, from general down to scullion, 
willingly bows before a charming woman and offers 
her the delightful compliment of his devotion. 
Miss Custer took the hearts of all by storm, but 
after two years spent in a courtship that was car- 
ried on chiefly liy correspondence she became the 
liride of Lieut. Calhoun. After their marriage he 
was stationed in Elizabethtown, Ky., being with 
Gen. Custer's Seventh Cavalry. Later he was de- 
tailed farther South to Lincolnton and Charlotte, 
X. C, and in the spring of 1873, with their regi- 
ment went to Dakota. Mrs. Custer and Mrs. Cal- 
houn made the journey of five hundred miles up 
the Mis.souri River from Yankton to Ft. Rice, 
in'oceeding thence to Bismarck, the entire trip be- 
ing made on horsel)ack. During the summer of 
the .same year Mrs. Custer and Mrs. Calhoun re- 
turned to Monroe, Mich., to visit the parents of 
the latter, while the regiment was sent to the 
Yellowstone to guard the engineers who were sur- 
veying the route for the A'orthern Pacific. 

In the fall of 1873, when the regiment went in- 
to winter quarters, Jlrs. Calhoun went back to Ft. 
Abraham Lincoln where she remained f<jr the win- 
ter. The following summer the regiment went out 
on the Black Hills exiiediticm, during which time 
Mrs. Calhoun again returned home, going back to 
her husband at Ft. Lincoln in the autumn of 1874. 
Tlie regiment did not leave tiie ensuing summer, 
remaining near the fort in temporary camp. In 
1876 the regiment for the last time took leave of 
their dear ones and went forth to what proved to 
be a most terrible liattle, that of the Little Big 
Horn in Montaii;i. They were surprised by the 
Indians .June 2o, and the result of that expedition 
is one that darkens the page of the annals of his- 



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torv oii^wliicli it Miipcais. In-iiit;' well known to all. 
There Lieut. C'mUhiUH. tlii'ee ol' the ln'otliers of Ml>. 
Cillhiiiin Mini :i nephew were killed. Tlie hidies 
reiiKiineil in llie \\'e.sl until .^uyust. when they 
returiUMl to the lie;iit-liioken parents in Miehioau. 
The lolldwinu' wintei' Mr.--, t'uster went to Xew 
York, and Mrs. Calhoun staid at lier home, givinji 
her tindivided time and thouaht to earing for her 
iinalid mother whose sad life was prolonged until 
.laniiarv. l>^^->. lU-\- fathei- is still (18i)l) living, 
aged eighty-roiii-. 

The family heiiigso i'e<luced in iiumliers only the 
father l)eing left besides lu'rself. ari-angements were 
made liy wliiih he should make his home with a 
brother who lives on a farm not a great distanee 
frt)m Monroe. Mis. Calhoun, feeling that she 
must have some abstnbing occupation, went to 
Detroit to study dramatic ekiciition under Mrs. 
Kdna ( haffe-Xoble. who is the head of the cele- 
brated training school of elocution liearing her 
name. Her naturally tine talent being here ciilti- 
\ated and |iolishcd. she has since devoted her 
attention to this liranch of art and has given read- 
ings throughout different parts of the country. She 
was thus engaged when her appointment of .State 
Librarian was made known to her. and although 
she has always been received most cordially .-ind 
graciously by the public, she has gladly taken the 
position to which she is aijpointed as a token of 
res])ect that the citizens of her .'ulojitcd .State give 
to the dear ones who are gone. 

.Mrs. .Margaret Custer Callioun h:is made a great 
success as an elocutionist. She has much of the 
dash and enthusiasm of her rlistinguished brother, 
and personally is gifted with great ease, grace, 
power and magnetism. 'I'he press notices that ha\'e 
been given her throughout the c(mntry show her 
tc) be an elocutionist of the highest order, and one 
who does not .ape the style or mannerisms of some 
one else, lint whose impersonations show a genius 
in their originality of concejition. She is jjossessed 
of a very sweet and clear \-oice and her readings 
are given with such power of expre.s.sion that one 
loses his identity in listening to lier. She has imt 
worked for herself alone but lias given various 
benevolent institutions the advantage of her splen- 
did talent. So gracious has been her submission to 



to the great trouble to which she has been subjected 
and so unseltisli her work, that we are reminded of 
the summing up of the character of Lucile. 

"The mission of genius on earthi To uplift, 

Purify and confirm by its own gracious gift. 

The world, in despite of the world's dull endeavor 

To degrade and drag down and opjjose it forever. 

The mission of genius: To watch and to wail. 

To renew, to redeem and to regenerate. 

The mission of woman on earthi * * * 

***** liorn to nurse. 

.Vnd to .--oothe. and t<i .solace, to help and to heal 

The sick world that leans on her." 









K.MiV 1). BAUTllOLoMKW . \. .\l. It is 
iV .s:utl that the three ino.st po|nilar profes- 
sions at the present day are medicine, law 
and <avil engineering, ami the weight of 
favor among the young graduates that are yearly 
turned out from our colleges seems to be in the 
last-named direction. It was not so when our sub- 
ject took up this study, althongh perhaps the sup- 
lily was fully eipial to the demand, for there were 
not then so many r;iilroads or mammoth public 
buildings that required the aid of the scieiitilic en- 
gineei' as at the |)resent time. Mr. IS.artholomew 
was born in Waddriiglon. then in ^ladiid Town- 
ship. St. Lawrence County. X. Y.. February l."(. 
lH.'il. and during his lifetime he has seen great ad- 
vancement made in the piogress of lii> cliosen 
calling. 

The gentleman of whom wc write is the son of 
Ch.Mrlcs I), llartliolomcu. a native of tlie same 
[ilace with his .son and born .January ID. I.SdIi. 
Our subject's grandfather wa's l.saac llartiiolomcw. 
a nati\c of ]'"armiiigt<iii. Conn., and there boin in 
171)1. lie was in the lve\"ohitionai'\ War from 
17H(I until the elose. and in 17^<(i remo\ed to Tin- 
mouth. \ t.. where he was engaged ill fa|-milig until 
IHKl.aud then removed to \Vaddington Town- 
ship. X. Y. He was the first militi.a captain com- 
missioned in St. Lawrence County. X. Y. He was 
a thorough-going Whig and greatly interested in 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 



Ahraliam Hartliolomew who died in Connecticut 
while yet in early manhood. His father was also 
named Aliraham and his father was Isaac. The 
next ancestor was William and the one preceding 
him was also William Bartholomew, who was born 
at Biiford, Eniiland, in 1602. The town of Bu- 
ford is only ei<jhteen miles northwest of 1 lie old 
University City of Oxford. This last n.-imcd Will- 
iam Bartholomew came to America Septomhcr 18, 
16:<."), landino in Boston at that time. He made 
the journey hither on the sailinfr vessel " (Jriffin" 
and soon after landing located at Ipswich, Mass. 
He was there engaged as a merchant and at that 
early d.ay was the hero of many adventures. His 
daughter, Abigail, was taken prisoner by the In- 
dians when only four years old and with twelve 
t>tlier children was carried away to Canada. They 
were kept in the tribe until their parents had [jaid 
a ransom of £200 sterling, their return home being 
made in May, lfi78, and having been prisoners for 
eight months. Tiiey were the first prisoners taken 
liy the Indians from Ma.ssachusetts-to Canada for 
the purpose of exacting a ran.som. This ancestor 
lit' our >uliiect was the general court representative 
foi- Suffolk County and received a commission as 
Lieutenant in command of the militia of the town. 

Ciiarlcs I). Bartholomew, the father of the orig- 
inal of our sketch was reared on liic hoiiu' farm in 
St. Lawrence County, N. Y. He followed iiis 
calling of agriculture steadily, never having been 
away from the home farm for a whole month. He 
was considered well-to-do for the time, having 
been the owner of four iiundred acres of good 
land in Waddington and Lislion. He was Captain 
of the State Militia and was elected major of the 
einnpany, but refused the conunission. He died 
l-"clHu;n\ 11. 188il. For M u UMil>cr of years liefore 
his death he was Deacon in tlie I'niversalist 
Church. 

.\s a young lady Mr. Bartholomew's mother was 
Bet.-;ey Hawlev. She also was born in Wadding- 
ton. .•iltliouyii her father, John Hawlev, was a na- 
tive of \(TUiout. He. however, eniigratiMl at .-in 
early day to St. Lawrence County, locating on .a 
farm there in 18li;5. His first home here was on 
the lianUs of the St. Lawrence River at the n.'U'- 
rnws. hut six vears later he located in .Madrid 'i'owii- 



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•ship and there resided until his decease. His father 
who was of English descent, was born in Con- 
necticut but died in Vermont, and his mother 
died in the year of 1862. .She was the parent of 
eight children, four of whom are still living. Of 
the eight he of whom we write is (he third in Ordei- 
of birth. He was reared on the home farm and in 
his boyhood attended the common schools in the 
district and was thoroughly grounded in the Eng- 
lish branches. He remained at home on the farm 
until he was past twenty years of age attending 
school at the Ogdensburg and Canton Academy. 
During the winter he pursued the study of the 
Latin and French languages, following the same 
outline of study that he had in .school. When 
twenty years of age he entered the New York Cen- 
tral College at McGrawville, Cortland County, 
and there attended over one year. In 1853 he 
entered the University of Michigan with a determi- 
nation to acquire a degree in the classical course. 
He entered the junior year and was graduated in 
.lune, 1854, having the right to append to his name 
the lumorable initials A. B. He then became the 
assistant of J. M. (iregoi'y in his school at Detroit 
and continued with him \uitil 1856. 

In the spring of that year, he of whom we write, 
went to Chicago and became a teacher in the 
(iregory Commercial School, remaining in that po- 
sition for one year. The following yeai' he became 
a book-keeper iu the |)acking estalilishment of 
Crairin iV Co.. and the next year was engaged in 
teaciiing in (Jregory's Kalamazoo Commcicial 
School. January 1, 185SI, .Mi'. Bartholomew came 
to J.,ansing, Ingliam County, and soon after went 
into |)artnership with Dr. I. H. Bartiiolomcw in the 
drug business. They were also proprietors of the 
grocery store. At the end of two years, however, 
(jur subject sold out his interest and in 1861 be- 
came a clerk under John Owen, the .State Treas- 
urer, and in 1867 hi' succeeded James Turner as 
the Dei)Uty State 'I'reasurer. and held that oltice 
vintil April, of 1871, during which time he had en- 
tire charge of tlic luisiness. These oftices were all 
tendered him and were entirely unsought. In 
187-1 he resigned his position and soon after went 
to New York and went back to his old home C)n the 
farm where he remaineit for fiiur \ ears. His wife's 



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lu'nitli t'Miled in IHTis. :ind soon after in tlie fall lif 
ictumc'il til .Miciiiti'an, and in 1H7',) was appointcil 
City Survt'viir. whicli positidn In- has held with 
lliat iif Civil KniiineC'i' ever siuee. In 1»89 lie 
liecanie Secietaiv nf the I'nion IJuildini;- and Loan 
Assutiatioii in this eity. 

Mr. llai'tholonu'w is called upon to do nearly all 
the |ilattiny tliat is done in and alioiitthe city and 
also in different parts (if the State and has been 
special examiner of eity plats sinee 1885. Our stib- 
jeet was niari'ied in Detioit in July. 18;").'), to Miss 
.lulia Spiauue. a native of New Yoik. She dietl 
without i.ssue in the eity of lyansiny. lie was :\ 
second time united in marriage, his bride beinii 
Miss .lane K. Howe. Their nuptials were cele- 
brated in Manchester, this State, in May. 18(i2. 
She also was a native of Xew York State, boin in 
liainliridiie. ()neida ( 'laiiity. and came to Michi- 
yan in \M\ with her jiarents. .SIieenjo\s the dis- 
tinction of being the oldest livint;' white woman in 
the city of Lansing. She came here on a visit .m 
week after the caj)ital had lieen located here. Only 
two children are the fruits of this union. The 
eldest, a danghter, Uessie, still lemains at home. The 
younger. George 1).. is a teacher in the Metropoli- 
tan .Mu.seuni of Xvl in New York, being an archi- 
tect of no .small reputation. Two Other children 
are deceased — Katie was drowned in the St. Law- 
rence Hiver at the age of sixteen. The other child 
died in infancy. Air. liarlholomcw is a member (if 
the I'niver.salist Church, in which denomination he 
is a l)eac<in. Politically he is a lie|)ublican and 
one of the stanchest soit. His wife is a membei' 
of the K|iisc(ipal ( 'liurch. 



-y H.VNK .\. DIJKW. The following is a clip- 
S> ping from a well-known daily paper: -'A 
curioiLS memorial stone ha.s recently been 
|)laeed in an old cemetery at Kingston, Mass. It 
is a rough block of granite live feet high, into 
which is sunken a large slate talilet. bearing a 
genealogical inscription of the Drew family, the 



founder of which was knighted by (^ueen Klizabeth 
in 1,)8;)". The representatives of the Drew family 
living in the I'nited States are all related. Those 
of the .Vmeric.an branch of the family are de- 
scended from an ancestor who came to this C-ountry 
at an early day and settled in the East. That one 
of the family of whom we shall endeavor to give 
tlie salient points of his career, is a general farmer, 
I'esiding on a tine and feilile tract of land located 
on section ■id. .Vlaiedon Township, Ingham County, 
and which compi-ises eighty aci'cs of land. Me also 
manages two bundled .-ind sixteen acres of land 
owned by his father. Isaac Drew, on section ill. of 
the same township. 

The original of our sketch was born in the town 
of .Mason. Ingham County, this .State. December 28, 
18.")8. His father. Isaac Drew, is a retiied farmer 
now living in Alason. lie isa native of New York, 
and w.-is born .Se|itember 28. 1827. He c:inie to 
.Michiu'.'in when a young man and purchased the 
farm upon which his son is now H\ing. His mother, 
that is the uiothci- of our subject. Alaria (Stillnian ) 
Drew, came into the townshiii with her father. 
Daniel Stillniau, at an early day and was early made 
familiar with every phase of pioneer life. She w.as 
born October 2!). 1882, and died :Marcli :!. 18(i.'). 

He of whom we write remained under the pa- 
rental roof until he was twent,\-one years of age. 
and attended the Mason and district school. On 
reaching his majority he moved ii|)on the farm 
willed to him by a friend, and has been engaged in 
farming ever since. .May II. 1880. Mr. Drew was 
married to Miss Belle \'an Bianken. a daughter of 
^Villiam \'an Branken. a merchant of .Mason, where 
Mrs. Drew was born. She was educated in tin' 
pidilic schools of that town. Our subject and his 
wife are the parentsof two bright children: Blanche, 
who w-as born .Vugust 18. 1882; and Bessie, born 
.laiuiary 2(i. 188 1. 

The oi'iiiiiial of our sketch is liberal in his relig- 
ions views. His wife isa member of the I'resby- 
lerinn Church of Mason. In politics he of whom 
we write is a st:incli Democrat, and has been hon- 
ored by his party in being elected Townsliip Clerk. 
a position he has held for three terms. I'ersonaljy. 
Mr. and Mrs. Drew are very superior young |)eople. 
Thev are of the highest social .standing and no one 



I'Olil'liAir AND HKXiKAl'lIK Al, AI.UIM. 



•>KH 



in the townsliip li!is iiKnc warn) tVii'iids. (>iir>uli- .Inly 2. IMfifi. |''(iiir cliildieii Iimvc licen lioiii In 
jcct is ;it pro-fill siift'iTJin;' t'luiii ill-licnitli mikI \\\> \\\\> \\(irtli\ cuuiilc. Tlu-y arc .Icimy S.. Nettie N.. 
many fi'leiid- ill llii> section cMniestl\ trust lliat lie Mamie !•',.. anil Fi:iiil< .1. The eldest was linrii 
may onjoy a speedy recdvery. lie is a yoiinu man Scptcnilier lit. IXt'iX. After spendiiiii two leniis in 
(if niurc than ;i\-er.aue iiilelllyciicc and foresiiiht the Flint Ndrni.al .Sclioiil she went into tiainini;: to 
and kecp> wcll.infnrincil nii the events nf tlu' day. * liccniiie a iiiirx'. which she nnw i>. and has ae(Hlired 

a Hiitterint;- lepiitatinii in this line. Nettie, wliu 
was liurn .Inly !•. 1 ><(!;•. spent unc year in the Mason 
Iligli SfllOol and then iiradnated in tin- Kiiideii;!ii- 
ten department of the Ilailmann School of l.ai'orte, 
Ind.. in ISKil. She is now eiiiiaucd a> a piiiii!ir\ 

^HKDKIUCK IIINl-'.S i- the owner of a ^ood teacher in the pnMic scl I- of .M;im>ii. Iia\iiii; h.-id 

tarin of eiii|it\ .■icrts. locali'd on .section 21, ; an experience of three veais. >Iainie K., who wa> 



.\laiedon Township. He was horn Oct olier horn Se|itemlier 1!*. IX7I. was ijraduated from the 

8, IStO, in Wurtemherg-, (lermany. Ills father Mason Iliiili School in 1Mk:i and is .i >ncces>fiil 

was also named Frederick Ilines and was » native 1 teacher of tiiree ye;ir>' e.\|)erieiHe. Frank, who 

of Wiirtemhei'i; and while a resident in his nati\e ' w;i> horn .Scptcnilier 12. IH7(i. resi(U'> at home, 

land was eniiaijcd as a rope-maker, lie lirounht The whole family are nieniliers of the Methodi>l 

his family to the liiited .States in IH48. and setth'd Kpisc-op^l C'huich of Ahisoii. .Mr. Ilines is coii- 

witli them in Huron Cotinty. ( )hio. The sniiject uecled with the Farmers' Alli.-incc of Delhi, 

of our sketch >peiit one ye:ir In the pulilic school- ( )ur suhject is a Repulilican in hi- political atlilia- 

of (ieriiiany lieforc cominu' to this country and : tious. He .-iiid Mrs. Ilinc- li;i\c cle.-ired up the 

after locatini;' here .•ittended the district school and ! farm they lion own and lia\e secured a comfortalilc 

also the pulilic -cliools of Norwalk. more or les.-, , lionie for tlieiiiseUe.- and their f.amily and are justlv 
until h( was nineteen years of aL;'e. 

rp to the time of the lireakiiiy out of the war 
the oiii;in;il of oiii -ketch was engaged in woikiut; j clas- of literature. Nine o-ood pnlilicttions are 
on the I'miiii :Mid in a lil.-icksmith shop in Norwalk. 1 l;iken and it is safe to say th;il ever\' joninal re- 
in which last-named lui-ine— he wa- i'mplo\'ed for ceixes a careful pern.sal. They ari' proun 



proud of their liriuht .'ind interesting i>roii|) of 
childi-eii. The family are all interested in a good 



e-si\-c ueo- 



two and a half years. \\'lien the war hi'oke out 
he patriotically res])onded to the call of hisadopted 
country and went to the front with the ( )ne Hun- 
dred and Sixty-sixth Uegiineut of the N.ational 
(iiiard.-. .U'ter three month-' service he was di-- 
chargeil liecaiise of disahility. Iiiit recovering his 
health in a measure he afterw;ird responiled to a 
call for machini-ts to woik in Nash villc.Tciin.. and 
was there enaaged for aliout six inoutli,-. 

.\t the clo.se of the war ^Ir. Ilines and hi- fatliei- 
came to Al;iiedoii Town-hip. luL;liaiii ( oiint\. .-lud 



pie in the liest sense of the term. 



.\.MFS II. IKlSll. (till- -llliject heh.ng> to :i 

j family that has made itst'lf an honorahle 

uanu' in the ann;ils of .Vmei'ican historv l>v 



It- devotion to the cinintry and its lo\alty 

houglil the farm now owned hy him. His father | to the cause of freedom and right. Facli genera- 

dieil ill I.HTis. ()ui- -iilijet-t was niairied to Chris- tion since the days of the Hevolntioii. has -ent rep- 

tiaiia Siimmerx iilc. ;i d;Hightcr of Iliel:ite \\'illi;im ie-i'nt;ili\-e- to light for the llag. .ind for union. 

Suinmcrville. of Delhi Town-hip. .she wa- lioru He whose name is at the head of this -ketch has 

near (ilasgow. Scotl;iud. .lanuary II. ist'.l. and not been .'in exception hut has added another page 

came to the liiilcd States with her parents when to the lioiioral'le rec<ird in the family archives, for 

hut a -mail cliild. Their niarri.-iai' wa- -olemnize*! , he serxed thronufh the War of the Kelicllion. help- 



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ing- to put down the enslavement of hundreds of 
thousands of human beings, and to preserve the 
unity of the States. To-day he still bears evi- 
dence that to every loyal American citizen must Ije 
a badcje that is most honorable for the owner to 
wear. 

Mr. Irish is a farmer and stock-raiser residing on 
section 1, of Vevay Township, Ingham County, 
where he has forty acres under cultivation. He 
was born in Logan County, Ohio, April 8, 1843, 
and is the son of Talcott and Sara (Madison) Irish. 
The father was a native of Summit County. Ohio, 
and the mother, of Pennsylvania. The family 
moved to ^liciiigan in 1X;>2 and located on section 
SG, of Alaiedon Townshiij, Ingham County, where 
he purchased eighty acres of land, spending the re- 
mainder of his life with the exception of the time 
that he was in the army, in cultivating his pur- 
chase. 

Our subject's father and a brother served 
throughout the war being volunteers in the 
Twelfth Michigan Infantry, both in Company G. 
The father's service extended over a period of 
three years, and tlie brother served over four years. 
Both saw much hard fighting. Talcott Irish, our 
subject's father, was taken prisoner at Shiloh and 
confined at Macon, Ga, for a period of about | 
six months. He was exchanged and returned to 
his regiment, where he served for nearly two years 
longer, his death finally occurring and was caused ! 
bv disease which had been contracted in the army, i 
The old gentleman, although never a man of 
wealth, was in comfortable circumstances and so 
abhorred debt that his sons early learned to beware 
of speculative dealings. The farm which he owned 
was never under mortgage duiwng his life. 

Our subject's boyhood days were spent on tlie 
farm, and his opportunities for education were 
very limited, as he was the oldest son left at home 
and the responsibility of caring for the family and 
of promoting the resources of the land fell on him. 
His youthful blood was fired by the letters that 
came from his father and brother containing des- 
criptions of battles and camp life, and in 1864, he 
could stand it no longer, but enlisted in the Eighth 
Michigan Cavalry, in Company L. He was cap- 
tured by Forrest's Cavalry, soon after he was sent 



to the front and was confined in Andersonville 
Prison about five months. He has ever since been 
disabled, having suffered intensely from the priva- 
tions and cruelties to which he was then subjected. 
After his liberation at the close of the war, Mr. 
Irish was sent to Camp Chase, (3hio, and there re- 
mained some four weeks, after which he returned 
to Michigan, and within a year after his home com- 
ing he purchased eighty acres of laud. 

He of whom we write was married September 1.5. 
1868 to Miss Eva Stroup. She is a daughter of 
.Tolin and ;\Iary (Linden) Stroup and was liorn in 
Washtenaw County. .Tiily 16, 1848. Our sul)jcct 
witli his wife and family, lived on the farm which 
he inuvhased directly after the war for a jjeriod of 
ten years. He then sold his place and with the 
proceeds purchased his present home. Four children 
have graced oiu- subject's home by their advent 
and i)resence. They are bj- name, Blanche L., 
Bertha S., Madge A. and J. Fred. Blanche was 
born August 1, 1869. She is a graduate from the 
Mason High School and has since devoted herself 
to the work of teaching, in which she has been very 
successful. She lirings to her work a zeal and con- 
scientiousness that cannot but have an effect for 
good upon the young minds that she is developing 
and forming. Bertha was born September 29, 1871, 
and is just blossoming into the beauty of perfect 
womanhood. Madge was born November 11. 1875, 
while the only son made his appearance in the 
world March 9, 1884. 

Our subject atliiiates with the Repul)lican jjarty 
in whose executive power he has all conlidence and 
faith. He has been School Inspector for three terms, 
and has lirought to the work an intelligent over- 
sight and judgment that have redounded greatly 
to the advantage of educational affairs in the town- 
ship. He himself has been engaged in the work of 
teaching, having thus been occupied for sixteen 
consecutive winter terms. After returning from 
the war, he determined to gain more of an educa- 
tion and to feel himself on a par with men who 
had learned to think in accordance with advanced 
methods, and he had strength of inu-pose enough, 
man as he was, to attend the school at Mason, and 
]ty diligent study both in and out of school, he ac- 
quired a good common-school education, and is 



POiri'liAl'l' AM) I'.KH.l; Al'lIK Al, AI.IU .\l. 



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ri'i-osiiiizi'd in liis t<>wiislii|) ns lieiiiu m 111:111 lA' ihdic i|iii(tii(lf ut lioiiic 1<> tlii' tuiinoil ol |nililic lifi'. lli- 



than ordiiiaiy attaiiinu'iils. His cxaiiiiilc >liiiiil(i 
111' an ciUMiuraiji'nuMit In yuuiii; iiicu wIki. like liiiii- 
self, have been di'inivcd of advantaues in their 



and his wife were consistent inenihers of tlie liap- 
tisl ('lilii<-h :ind he was a Deacon in Iheliethany 
(liniili for almost liftv \('ais. ilc lived a life 



early veais. With only the ri<>lit kind of aniliition. aliove repioach anil died mourned liy a wide circle 

and an uiiswerviiiii' ener<>\'. a man can make of of friends, who a|i|)rci'iated his worth of character 

himself what he wishes. Mr. Irish is a memlicr of ;ind his integrity. His death, as well as that of his 

the (Jrand .Vrnn' of the lve|)iililic. .-iiid is Scrueant wife, occurred in (ienesee County, where they had 

Major ill Ihc I'hil ^IcKernaii I'osl. and lie li.as .-ilso lieen iiianieil ni.any years liefore. 

iH'eii Senior \ice Commander. 'I'he patern.al uraiidi>aren ts of oui- suliject were 

The urandfather of the ucnllenian of whom we .Icsse and .\nna ( .Vshley ) IJumsey. who were nat- 

wi'ite. whose name was Aliel Irish, w.as liorn in ives of \'ei-iiioiit anil mo\ eil thence to Western 

\'ermont. lie served as a .soldier in the War of New Yoi-k at an early da\'. The maternal u'land- 

IHTi and was one of the pioneers of Summit parents were Daniel and llulda (Main) Cantield. 

Coiint\ . ( )hio. scltlini; near the present town of ii:itives of Connecticul. The lion. .Mr. Kiinisey is 

.Vkron. which is so noted for its manufactures of one of six children, who were named as follow>: 

various kinds, lie died in .Maii'don Township. Morilla M.. Daniel ('..( ieoii>e W.. Jr.. .Marshall V... 

Inijhani Countv. this .State, .al the .aue of .•ilioiit Allicrt .Land Xalhaii I-',. The fourth cliilfl. our 

.seven tv-eiaiit vears. One of Mi'. Irish's hrotliers. suliject. passed his lioyhood on his father's farm in 

.Vnilirose, was taken prisoner in the early part of Itethaiiy. (Jeiiesee County. N. Y.. .•mil received an 

the War of the licliellinn and shot in cold lilooil academic cduc.-ition .il Hethans Centre and (ien- 

Mav !'. l!^()2. lie was taken liy Stewart 's \'irf;'inia esee. Liviiiii'ston County. \. \. I iitil he w.-is 

Black Horse Caxalrv. ( )iir suliject is the recipient twenty-one ye.ars of aiie he reiiiaiiied under the 

of a pension of =<l(i per month liy the Covcrii- luirental roof, teachini; school durinii the winter 

nient in rei'oiriiition of the services ilmic and the and workiiii;' on the home fMiiii in the sumnier 

sufferinii endured duriiiii the war. season. 

.Vt the au'e of twenty-two ycais. nui -uliject left 
the Kini)ire Stale and aoinji' to ('hieajio. eni>aged 
in trade in hides until IHf)7. when he came to this 
Slate. Here he at once located in Leslie, and em- 
liaikcil in linsiness in hiinheriiiii'. farming, real- 
[(__ ON. M.\liSll.U,L K. lU.MSKV. I'resident estate and liankiiia. Succe.-s has crowned his 
)|, of till' People's IS.'ink of Leslie. Inirham efforts in liiiiham (onnty.and he is now the owner 
•' Couiitw was liorn in liethany. (icnescc of .'i tine farm of three hundred and forty acres 
(ouiil\. N. v.. .Iaiiuar\ 17. I .S Id. .•ind is the .-iiljoininii the Leslie Corporation. He also owns con- 
son of (icoiuc \\. and Fannie .M. (Cantield) liuiii- sideralile land in different parts of llie country and 
se\. natives i'es])ectively of New York and (on- has done l;iri;e lumlieriny; hu.siness in the Michigan 
necticnt. The father was very proniinent in the pineries. His laliors as a real-estate dealer have 
affairs of the coniniunity where he jia.s.sed hisentiri' liecn marked liy shrewd jndsi'ment and keen fore- 
life and became well-to-do. Politically, he was lirst siuht. and in f.-ict. in whatever direction his ;itten- 
n Whiff, lint upon the oriianizatinn of the L'epuli- lion li:is lieeii turned, he has always li'iveii to the 
lican partv liecanie identilied therewith, .■mil relaiii- duties attendinu it hi> lic'^t etfoi'ts. 
eii the comiection until liis death in l.s.^l. ( )ii :ill The lirst hank in Leslie \va> Walker. .Vlleii .V 
topics of local and natimi.'il importance he was ( o.'s private hank and the Hnii. .Mr. Uum.-ey was 
well informed and w.-i- tirni in lii> opposition to one of its organizers. Later the National Rank i.if 
slavery. lie followed the calliiii; of a farniei .■md Leslie was organized with him as \'ice-President. a 
was ver\ domestic in his iiatnre. pi-eferriiiL; the po>itioii he retained until in .\u<rust. ISSM. when 



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he was elected President of tlie hank. He remain-* 
ed in that caiiacity until January, 18JS7, when the 
bank surrendered its charter and was organized as 
the People's Bank with our subject as President. 
He'is studious in matters relating to his profession 
and has made It his life habit to do tliorouoh and 
systematic readiusj, both professional and miscel- 
laneous. He has a good private library and from 
that and other sources has kept himself abreas-t 
of the 'times upon all current topics, especially 
those pertaining to economic, social and political 
welfare. He is a typical self-made man. having 
commenced in life with no other capital than a 
clear head and willing hands, and maj' feel justly 
proud of the success which he has attained. 

The first Presidential vote deposited bj- Mr. 
Rumsey was for Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and he 
is still a strong Republican and a leader in the 
party. In every campaign since he became a voter 
he has been active for the political principles of his 
adoption, _>et he is aloof from party prejudice and 
allows it to have no weight in his social and busi- 
ness relations. His varied experience long ago 
taught him to accord to others the same enjoyment 
of opinion which he demands for himself. He is 
especially qualified for [luhlic life, and this fact 
being recognized by his fellow-citizens he has been 
called to several important and responsible posi- 
tions. For several years he served as a member of 
the Common Council of Leslie, and for fifteen 
years he was on the School Board. 

In 1884 the Hon. Mr. Rumsey was elected to the 
Legislature from Ingham County on the Repub- 
lican ticket and was re-elected to the House of 
1887-88. During both sessions he was Chairman 
of the Committee of Ways and Means, and was 
ever found faithful to the interests of his constit- 
uency. He came within four votes of being made 
Speaker of the House in 1887. He has never as- 
pired to office, and in fact, the positions filled bv 
him have always been accepted reluctantly and 
almost forced on him. He is a genial companion 
and a man of fine physique. Socially, he 
belongs to the Masonic fraternitj-, and is a 
Knight Templar. In his religious belief he is a 
Baptist, although he is not connected with the 
church. In 1872 he and Arnold Walker built 



twenty-two miles of the Detroit & Bay City Rail- 
road from Vassar to Bay City, Mich. 

On May 15, 1865, the interesting ceremony was 
performed which united in marriage the Hon. Mr. 
Rumsey and Miss llattie X. Wickwire. The bride 
was born in Akron, Erie County, N. Y., and is the 
daughter of Rensselaer and Sarah (Wliipple) Wick- 
wire, n.atives res]>ectively of Connecticut and Ver- 
mont. Her father still survives at the venerable 
age of eighty-six years, but the mother died in 
February, 18'J1, aged eighty-two. The eleg.ant 
home of our subject and his wife was brightened 
by the presence of two children, one of whom — 
Edward 'SI. — died when seventeen years old. The 
daughter, Fannie M., is the wife of Fred Haynes. 
of Leslie. 



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Vf]AME.S W. TWAITS, Jk. Many of tlie 
most able and efficient business and profes- 
sional men of IMichigan are English by 
birth and parentage, but have made them- 
selves by training and in their sympathies thor- 
oughly American. We have small appreciation 
c>f those who come to America from foreign lands, 
and retaining all their Old- World prejudices and 
notions, hold themselves aloof from the interests 
and institutions of our country, refusing to be 
naturalized or to help in conducting and inijjrov- 
ing. according to their best judgment, our pul)lic 
affairs; l)ut to those who come here, realizing that 
this a composite country and that we were all once 
foreigners, yet seeing the grandeur and appreciat- 
ing the spiiit of Americanism, and having the full 
intent to become one of us, we give a most hearty 
welcome. 

Mr. Twaits, who is one of tlie most (prominent 
men of North Lansing, is such a man. He was 
born in Norfolk, England, December 1, 1849. 
His father, James W. Twaits, and grandfather, 
James, were both natives of England, who trace 
their lineage back to France and the Huguenots. 
Their ancestors escaped from France by crossing 



PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 



293 



t"te channel in boats, and finally, after ^fenerations ' 
of livintf in Enirland, liave sent some vepreseiilii- 
tives to America. The grandfather of our suh- 
jcct was an officer in the Knsrlish ii;i\y. and one 
of his sons was also with him in that line of 
service. 

The father of our subject was a baker by trade, 
wliicli he followed f<n' a number of years in early 
life, lie linally decided to locate permanently in 
tills etmnliv. and brouffht his wife and family with 
him. Before cominc; here he became mixed up 
with tlie Chartist party, and the liritisli soldiers 
suriomided the bnildini;' where they held their 
nieeliiiir, to arrest the deleijates, but he with a few 
others made his escape. Later, however, he w.as 
arrested, and after underijoina; an examination, he 
was put tinder surveillance by the Britisii Govern- 
ment. This grated upon the feelings of the 
honest and sturdy Kiiglisiiman, and he made 
up his mind that in America he would find 
larger liberty and a riglit to exercise his own 
o])inions. 

The senior Mr. Twaits located in Cleveland, and 
took a ])osition to run on the lake as cook. .Vfter 
several years' experience in this line, he had man- 
aged to gain a knowledge of lumber, and entered I 
the emi)loy of Harmon it Crow], linnlier dealers, 
taking the jiosition of lumber inspector. He soon 
took chiirge of the yards at St. Charles, ^lich., as 
inspector, and followed it there foi- ;i number of 
years, after which he went to Saginaw, where he 
still resides and is in the same line of work, al- 
though he is past seventy-five years of age. He is 
a man of sti-ictly temperate hal)it,s, and has ever 
been in favoi' of all movements in this line. He 
is connected with the Congregational Church, as 
was also his wife, the mother of our subject, whose 
maiden name was Mary Leggett; she died in S,agi- 
naw at the age of forty-nine years, having been 
the mother of nine children, of whom our subject 
is the oldest now living. After her death 
Mr. Tw.aits married for his second wife a Mrs. 
Mason. 

The subject of our sketch was so young when 
he came to this country that he remembers only 
two or three incidents of his life in Merrie Eng- 
land. The pass.age across the Atlantic Ocean, 



which was made in a sailing vessel, made a deep 
impression upon his mind, as it was a long trip, 
.'iiid the winds and waves were boisterous. He 
was reared in Cleveland until he reached the age 
of about six years, when the family removed to 
St. Charles, Mich., and in IHH.'i they came to East 
S.aginaw, where he faithfully attended the city 
schools, and was within a few weeks of graduation 
at the High School when he ceased his studies. He 
was not much more than thirteen years old when 
he began ■'hustling for himself," and has been ever 
since. 

The youth now became clerk in the ])Ost-oftice at 
East Saginaw under Hon. DeWitt C. Gage, ex- 
Secretary of State, and after three years' service 
he came, in the fall of IHGH, to work at Lansing 
for the corporaticm which is now known as the 
Michigan Central Railroad, but which w.as then 
called the .Tackson, Lansing \' Saginaw Railroad. 
He c(mtinued in their emi)lo\' for some three or 
four years.and then served various parties .as book- 
keeper, being at different times in the establishment 
of Ml-. A. Turner, with .1. I-;. \\'arner it Co., and ,1. 
F. Schultz A Co. 

It was not until a year liefoi'c this young man 
l)ecaine a clerk in the law department of the State 
Library that he became interested in legal matters, 
and determined to turn his attention and energies 
in that direction. In the spiiiig of 1 M,S(; he was 
given the entire charge of that department of the 
library-. He began to study under C. E. Hammond, 
and finished in the law department of the State 
Library, and was admit IimI to tlie bar .June Ifi. 
1K87, receiving liberty to practice as an attorney, 
solicitor and counselor in all the com ts of Michi- 
gan, his admission Ijeing granted by lion. .Tames 
V. Campbell, then Chief .Justice of the Suin-eme 
Court, after examination by a coinmittee of attor- 
neys in open court. He continued as clerk in the 
library until May L). 1891, when he retired from 
that pf)siti(ni that he might devote himself to the 
practice of law in Lansing. He has built for his 
family a beautiful home at Xo. 627 Cedai' .Street. 
His wife, who bore the name in maidenhood of 
Lizzie Price, was born in Lansing, and is a daugh- 
ter of Cajit. John H. Price, who was a Captain in 
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learned of this interesting family in the sketch of 
C'apt. Price, which appears elsewhere in this 
Ai.BUJi. This lady, who became Mrs. Twaits May 
25, 1882, is a graduate of the Lansing High School 
and taught in different places in 3Iichigan for a 
number of years before her marriage. Both she 
and her excellent husband take an earnest interest 
in all matters of education, and he is now a mem- 
ber of the School Board. Two'children have lilessed 
this home — Bessie E. and Ford .1. 

A number of the social orders claim Mr. Twaits 
ill their membership, as he belongs to the Free and 
jVccejjted Masons, the Royal Arch Masons, the 
Royal Arcanum, and w.as an Odd Fellow, lint is 
not now an active one. He is a true-blue Reinib- 
lican, and besides being a member of the City Cen- 
tral Committee and tlie County Committee, is 
Chairman of the Fii'St Ward City Committee and 
a frequent delegate to county and State con\'en- 
tions. He is a man of unusual intelligence and 
enterprise and liberal and broad in his tliought 
and life. His lovely wife is a prominent mem- 
ber of social circles in Lansing and an active 
worker in the Presbyterian Church. 



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ANIEL BARRINGER. Tlie beautiful cap- 
ital of Michigan, with its stately public 
buildings, its business streets lined witli 
handsome stores and manufactories, and 
its avenues of beautiful homes where dwell the in- 
tellect, wit and beauty of the city, resembles nu 
the map nothing so much as a fat spider with nu- 
merous legs of railway sprawling in ever\ direc- 
tion. The fact of its being a railroad center i,> t() 
a student of ethics a most important item, for it 
proves the place to be an important manufactur- 
ing as well as distributive point, where the brawn 
and sinew that make the social structuie integrally 
strong is to lie IV)und. ( )f the iiu'n who have worked 
with the single \iew t<i the upbuilding and sup- 
port of the city, none are more deserving of credit 
than he whose name is at tlie head of this sketch. 
Unassuming and simple, doing conscientiously his 



best in his own line of business, at the same time 
he has always held a broad outlook over general 
improvement and evolution, never omitting to 
say the word that would cast the balance in fnvf>r 
of Lansing. 

Mr. Barringer. who by lilrth owes allegiance to 
England, is well and favorably known in Lansing 
as being the efficient incuml)ent of the position of 
Deputy City Treasurer. He is now serving his sec- 
ond term in this capacity. He was born in IMid- 
dlesex, England, in the Parish of Ilillingdon, 
.hnni.iiy 25, 184'J. His father, Daniel Barringer 
Sr., was a native of the same country. He was a 
wheelwright by trade and died in his native laud. 
The maiden name of oui- subject's mother was 
Elizabeth Goodall, like lier Imslmnd. a native of 
^Middlesex, England. 

Our subject was reared and educated in New 
Market, Canada, arriving here in the spring of 
18(55. He first was in the employ of a Mr. Buck, 
with wlK)m lie learned the trade of a cabinet- 
uiaker. He liegan at the fnot of the ladder but 
worked his way up to the position of foreman, 
and continued in that position for eight ^cars, 
suiieriutending the entire shop. In the spring of 
1H,S!S Ih' was elected City Treasurer on the Demo- 
cratic ticket, and officiated in this capacity for two 
years. In 189(i he became Deputy Treasurer, and 
since thus employed his time has been entirely oc- 
cupied by attention to his official duties. 

After thoroughly establishing himself in busi- 
ness in the city, our subject found life incomplete 
without a home, and in 1874 he established a do- 
mestic relation, placing over his house as sover- 
eign ruler ^liss Sarah Patten. Their marriage was 
solcniiiizt'il ill ls7t. The l;iily was boiii in Ilaiiiil- 
ton. Canada, luit was reared and educated here. 

I'or four years ^Ir. Barringer has served as Al- 
derman in the city — from 1883 to 1887 inclusive — 
and foi' one year he held the chair as President 
pro tern. .Socially he belongs to the Independent 
Order of ()dd l-Vllow>. lie also belongs to the 
Foresters, and has .•is,so<-i:i1ed liimself with the 
Kniji'hts of L.-ilioi'. in Nvhicli ordei- he is a l';ist Mas- 
ter Workniati. and has been Representative to the 
.State bodies of the snid orders. Politicalh' he 
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of the best representatives of that political body in 
this city. l)eiiijj noted for hi;* intcurilN niid adiipr- 
ence to princiijk' ratlier than to |)nrty |)iv)udii'f. 
Jlr. Baninsjer is a most ciitci prisiny: ijcntU-nian. 
and is lilieral and liroad-niiiidffl hoih in hi> socImI 
and piilitical rchitions. 



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'I/OSKIMI H. LAROSK. This orontleman. who 
is a jiartntM' with Mr. Voiselh' in tlie deco- 
ratinsi' and freseoinu- linsine>s, cxliibits some 
of Ihi' tincst traits of the French nation, 
from which lie has sprunij. His marked intelli- 
oence, acumen and shrewdness, his facility in lan- 
<):uaji:c and the taste which lie has disi)hiyed in 
business all mark him as lielonging to the F"rench 
people. He was born in Oswego, N. Y., May 22. 
1850, and his father, whose name was Francis 
Xavier, was a native of Quebec, while his grand- 
father, Fournie De La rose, was a native of France. 
The father droi)i>ed the title, and as the grand- 
father died in (Quebec some years ago. the prefix is 
HOW extinct. 

The father of our subject was a ship carpenter, 
who learned his trade in youth and located at Os- 
wego, where he was engaged in building the canal 
boats, and at various times was working at his 
trade in Buffalo, Toledo, Milwaukee, Chicago and 
t^uebec. He also took contracts to build bridges, 
mills and houses, and his last days were spent in 
Troy, N. Y., although he had passed some time at 
Portland, Me., and was in the I'nited States serv- 
ice in the Department of Engineers aiul Mechanics 
all thrcnigh the war. AVhen he jiasscd away, in 
]87."5, he had completed fifty-three years of life. 

The nidtlur of our subject, Leonore De Lisle by 
nann'. was born in (Juebec, her father, Antonias 
De Lisle, being ;i farmer. She died in Troy and 
left thirteen cliildren, seven of whom grew to ma- 
turity and six are still living. The son of whom 
we are writing was in Milwaukee from the age of 
four until lie reached the age of ten. .Mnd then was 
in (^ueliee for some years, ln'ing educated in Kng- 
lish, (German and French, When eleven years old 



he was apprenticed to the painter's trade, and after 
four years of service he went to Troy. When only 
sixteen years old he was so good a workman as to 
receive *2.,")0 a day. He traveled and found work 
III xaiioiis cities, visiting Savannah. (;a.,and after- 
ward Detroit. In December, 1877. he came to 
Lansing, Ingham County, and was employed upon 
the State Capitol. Here he worked with Mr. Voi- 
selle, as they two did all the best work in the fresco- 
ing of this magnificent building, after which they 
formed a partnership, which .still stands. 

The pleasant home of ]Mr. Larose, which is at 
Xo. 719 Allegan Street, is presided over most gra- 
ciously by the lady who became his wife in Detroit 
in 1876. She bore the maiden name of Melvina 
Robarge, and her birth])lace was (Quebec, although 
she grew to womanhood in Detroit. They have 
three lovely children^Mary Maud, Ervy Emerson 
and Edith Rose. Mr. Larose Ijelongs to the order 
of the Royal Arcanum, and both he and his part- 
ner aie members of the National Builders' Ex- 
change and of the Master Painters of the United 
States, in which a.ssocialion .Mr. Larose is Sergeant 
at Arms. Like his partner, he afhliates with the 
Democracy, and like him does not take an active 
part in public affairs, being content to cast his vote 
according to his conscience and best judgment. 



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^^EORGE A. EARLE. Our subject is a man 
fl| ^— , who has had much exi)erience in various 
^^^ij! directions although he is comparatively a 
young man. Few men fall into a position :it the 
outset of their career which is suited to them in 
every way, and few men really settle down to the 
serious bu.siness of life, making anything of it that 
in the least resembles a success, until they aie about 
forty years of age. It is no sign that becau.<e a 
young ni;in changes his occupation that he is vacil- 
lating liy nat\ire, for he who knows how to get 
out of :\ wrong position ;ind one to which he is not 
adapted. >liows more (li>eretion lli;\n he who. know- 
ing lie has made a mistake, is loo stnlil)orn to ac- 
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settling down in his present lucrative and large 
business Mr. Earle occupied himself in various 
ways, and in each he gained an experience that 
will be of value to him in the general current of 
commercial life. He is now a member of the firm 
Earle & Lewis, the largest hardware house in the 
city of Mason, Ingham County. 

Our subject was born in Ontario, March 21 1. 1X5.3. 
He is a son of George and Jane (Maxon) Earle, the 
former a native of New York and the latter of 
Canada. Our subject's boyliood days were si)ent 
on a farm, and from the district school in the neigli- 
borhood lie was early trained in the branches com- 
mon to an Englisli education. After lie had finished 
school he began for himself, first engaging in teach- 
ing, but he soon found he was not adapted to this 
work. He then followed railroading, being station 
agent on the Micliigan Central road for a nntnbei' 
of years. He then was a partner in an elevator 
for a period of four years, at the end of which time 
he began clerking in the hardware store in which 
he is now a partner. He was thus engaged for 
about three months wlien he liecame a partner 
under the firm name of DuB(^is A' Earle. He li.-is 
ever since remained in the firm, it being now run 
under the name of Earle iV Lewis, Mr. Lewis 
having purchased Mr. DuBois' interest .lune 1. 
1891. The Arm carry a very good stock of hard- 
ware and farming imjilements, the latter being of- 
the latest and most approved styles. 

The original of our sketch was married in Novem- 
ber, 1887, to Miss Mary vSeeley, a daughter of Col. 
John and Caroline (Frederick) Seeley. The lady 
was born in Ingham County, in June, 1802. By this 
marriage one little girl has made her advent into 
the household and is one of the most important 
members therein. Her name is Earnestiue and she 
was born in Mason December 26, 188',). Our .sub- 
ject is a Repulilican in i)olitics and has once been 
Alderman in the first ward of the town. He filled 
the position of City Clerk for two years, and is now 
Supervisor of the Seccmd Ward. 

Mr. Earle is the oldest of a family of twelve 
children, nine of whom are still living. Four 
brothers reside in this State. John runs a bakery 
in Owosso. (Iliarles and Frank run a bakery in 
Adrian, and James is in a bakery at Flint. Mv. 



Earle 's mother still survives, making her home in 
Canada. His father died in 1878. Mr. Earle is 
one of the brightest and most progressive business 
men of Mason and well deserves the confidence 
and respect of the citizens which are rejioscd in him. 
The offices that he has held in the gift of the town- 
ship haveJieen confen-ed by reason of his superior 
intelligence and his good executive ability, and 
that confidence has never been found to have been 
misplaced. 



]OB T.CAMPBELL, was lH)rn in the town- 
I shii) of Onondaga. Ingham County, .luly 9, 
I 18;');'), and is a son (if ^larshall and Maria 
^j! Campbell, who moved to that township from 
Buffalo, X. v., in 185(1. At the tender age of 
seven years he suffered the loss of iiis mother 
who died in 1862. and the family of twelve chil- 
dren, of which he was one, was soon scattered. At 
twelve years of age he liegan the work of maintMin- 
ing himself, and was engaged by tlie month in 
working upon a larni dnring the suininer and in 
the winter lie attended district school, working lic- 
fore and after hours in order to pay for his lioaid; 
his first six months' work bringing him ?42. 

In Decemljer, 187;i, our subject went to Erie 
('(uinty, N. Y., and tliere dwelt one year, during 
wliicli he spent three months in school in a district 
on what is known .as the Transit road, and dnring 
live months of that year he was engaged in work 
on North Buffalo dock, handling wood and coal for 
the firm of Chester tV Esser. and the remaining four 
months he was employed as an apprentice molder 
in the Malleable Iron Works of Pratt tfe Letch worth 
in that city. Tlie financially hard winter of 1874 
and 187;') reduced wages to sucli a degree that he 
could not earn liis lioaid there, and he returned to 
Michigan and was employed as a hired hand on 
different farms, as before spending his winters in 
attendance at the district schools. 

In the winters of 1878 and 1879, he taught 
school at the brick school house three miles east of 
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I'ldiii Ia'.-Ho llijili ScliDol nfter eiglit nunitlis spent 
:it difft'R'iit tiiiu'snt llic institution. In Ihc sijiinir 
of 1H8(), lie wa.s appointed Deputy Clerk of Ing- 
ham t'ountv, which position he held for tiiree years, 
liaviufT full ehai'ge of the olliee for two years, 
while his prineipal ('. ('. Walker, was ensraged ex- 
ollicio. as elevk of the .Supreme Court at Lausinij. 
Apiil K). 1883, Mr. Cami>l)ell heeame the ownei- 
;inil pulilisher of the Leslie Local, published .-it the 
villaii'e of Leslie, lie was very siieeessful in this 
venture, and August 20, IKSd. niort" tlian three 
vear.s after lie had purehnscd the paper, he sold 
out his business at a largely advaneed prii'e. .Soon 
thereafter he piuehased the I'inekney Despatch of 
Livingston County. This he sohl in .buniary ISHU 
and then entered the L;uv .School at Ann Arbor, 
having given considerable attention to the study 
of law during his other occu])ations. 

.Vfter spending live months at \uu Aibor, he of 
whom we write returned to JLi.son where he was 
admitteil to the bar b\ .ludge Kra>tus Peek. .Inuc 
lit. IKK',), lie pr.Mcticed his profession very suc- 
cessfully at ;\Iason, until November 11, 18K'.(. when 
llnding newspaper woik more <-ongenial an<l an op- 
portunity offering itself he puivhascd the Ingham 
Counlv J^eim. ii pioneer papei- devoted to the inter- 
est8 of the county, and this he now publishes most 
successfully, .lune Hi, 1884, ,Mr. Campbell was 
married to Miss Kva .M. Huntington, of Ma.son. .She 
was born in that city October 21. 18.'):i. Her father. 
Collins I). Huntington, was b(,>rn at .st. .Vlbans. 
Vt., February 2.'), 18:51, and came to Ingham 
Conntv in his boyhood, lie is ;i member of one 
the oldest .and best known families in this county. 
.Mrs. Campbell's mother, Margaret (Lewis) Hunt- 
ington, was born in ()nondaga County, X. Y.. Dec- 
ember:!!, 18:34, and came to Michigan with her 
parent.- who settled in Ingham County, when but 
tlii'ee years of age. The\' wei'c ni.-iiried .March 
2(), I8.")4. .Mrs. Campbell is one of the most busy 
an<l ind\istru)Us little hou.sewives. .•ind a decided 
lielpuiale to the subject of thi> sketch. \\'heiever 
Iheir home has been he has enjoyed the eonlidence 
of the jieople who have tendered him important 
posiiiiins of lru>l. 

In the fall of 1882 .Mr. Campbell was nominated 
by the Uepul)licans to the olliee of County Clerk. 



He ran far ahead of his ticket but with all the 
others was defeated by a wmibination of the Dem- 
ocratic and (Greenback parties of the county. While 
a resident of I^'slie, he was three times elected 
Clerk of the township, and w:is a member of the 
Common Council of the village for a time, and was 
at the time of his removal, a memlier of the School 
Hoard. ^lay 17, 1889, he wiui appointed Circuit 
Court Commissioner of Ingham County by Gov. 
Luce, the term of office expiring December :i 1 , 1890. 
.\t the present time our subject is President of the 
Mason Board of Education, and Supervisor of the 
First Ward of that city, having been elected to the 
former position September 2, 1889, and to the lat- 
ter April (i. 181)1. 

Soci.ally his associates testify to his usefulness 
and draw upon him in many ways. He is M.aster 
of the Masonic Lodge, a trustee of the first Pres- 
bytei-ian Clnireh of Mason, .and has for years been 
active in forwarding Sunday-school work. While 
l)eople of the vicinity frequently call him out for 
public addi'esses on social, memorial and patriotic 
occasions. Since leaving home .as a boy, he has 
been deiiendent entirely upon his own lesources, 
and the good practical education he enjoys has 
been obtained at the expense of m.any privations 
and hard knocks. 

It will not be amiss here to give a short sketch of 
our subject's fathei', Marshall Campbell. He was 
born in lierks County, Pa., October 1:3, 1808, and 
is still li\ ing. now a resident of Onondaga, Ingham 
Countv. His fathei- was JIatthew Campbell, born 
in 1771), wlio was left an orphan at a very tender 

! age, having had but little i-ecollection of his parent.s. 
.Marshall Cam|)beirs mother was Catherine Loyer, 

i who was born in Montgomery County. Pa., and 
who was one of a large family who.se members and 
connections are .scattered throughout the State, and 
whose ancestors emigrated from Prussia soon after 
Penn 's Treaty. Matthew Campbell w^as early bound 
out as an appientice to leain the manufacline of 
spinning wheels, and servcil s\ich apprenticeship 
until he was twenty-one yeais of age. In the year 
!8()(). he started out in life for himself, working 
hard at his tr.-ide an<i in l.S(i7 was mai'iicd to the 
above name(l Catheiine Loyer. As man and wife 
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years biciuglit them but little and in 1825, with 
Marshall and seven other children, they emigra- 
ted to Williamsville, Erie County, N. Y., where 
they arrived afler a hard jaunt of fourteen days 
over the hills and mountains. In 1827, Marshall 
learned tlie cooper's trade, at which he worked for 
several years. In 1831, he went back to Pennsyl- 
vania and taught school that winter at a place 
called Skii)])ackville, near Humneytown. He was 
a IJaptist in faith, but from the Dunkards and Qua- 
kers who lived there, he imbibed a more liberal 
view of Christiauily than he ever before had, and 
has ever since believed that where true and 
living faith exists, there is the Church of God. 

In 1832, Marshall Campbell began clerking for a 
coal, lumber and ])roduce dealer cm Schuylkill 
Canal, but th.at year the Asiatic cholera made its 
first appearance on this continent, and was particu- 
larly seveie at Pliiladel|ihia ilr. Camiibell was taken 
sick and fearing the results lie went to his home 
in New York. He soon returned to Pennsylvania, 
however, and entered the employ of his uncle Dan- 
iel Boyer a general mcrciiantat Boyerstown. From 
there he entered tiie employ of the keeper of the 
l)Oor house of that county, keeping the books of 
the institution and looking after tlie wants of the 
one hundred and fifty paui)ers. He was there about 
five years, and was dining that time married to 
Miss ^laria Boyer. 

In 1.S41. the young couple moved to Black Rock 
now known as North Buffalo. N. Y.. where he 
worked at his trade as a cooper and in the meantime 
discharged the duties of village and township 
Clerk. In 1850 they canu' to Ingham County, Mich, 
and settled on land in Onondaga, where they built 
a log house and cleared up a good home. Twelve 
children were born to them, whose names in order 
of ages are as follows: Boyer II., Catherine, Sarah, 
Daniel, Matthew, Willi.am, Homer II., Angeline, 
Charlotte. .lob T., :Marshall L. ;uid Maria. They 
are all still living with the exception of Matthew, 
who was drowned in the Kankakee River, in Ill- 
inois, March i), 1H!)0. and :Maria (Mrs. Davis), who 
died in Leslie Township, Feliruary 16. 1891. 

After the family came to Michigan they dwelt 
liapjiily and prosperously at the homestead until 
the death of the mother in October. 1862, whose 



cares, augmented by the enlistment of her three 
eldest sons in the Rebellion, bore her to her grave 
and deprived the family of her whom they most 
needed. The three sons served through the War 
and returned but from the hour of their going and 
the death of their mother, the family was scattered 
forever on earth. Mr. Campbell afterward married 
Mrs. ^'ashti Cochran, who is still living and who 
brought with her to the family a daughter, Ella. His 
life has lieen one of hard work but a good examjile 
to all. Honesty and industry are his virtues and 
in his declining years, he looks with pride and aff- 
ection u])on his remaining children and iiopes for a 
bles.sed futurity. Within his recollections are the 
Wars of 1812. 1845 and 1861, and wherever he 
could by thought, deed or sacrifice, he has exercised 
a noble pati'iotism. In the Township of Onondaga, 
where his hard work for his county was done, he 
was a member of the To\^^lshil) Board for many 
years, and as an early Justice of the Peace, settled 
many a controversy between his neighbors. By 
working at his trade, and making his adz and ham- 
mer ring from four o'clock in the morning to ten 
o'clock during the winter, and <in tlic farm fi'om 
daylight until dark during the summer, he succeeded 
in rearing his family to take care of themselves 
and in paying for the farm purchase. At the age 
of eighty-three he is still hale and hard at work. 










!*^ ARTIN .1. STABLER. The future of otu- 
great ccmnnonwealth depends upon the 
stability and integrity of the young peo- 
ple of to-day, and among those who are 
contributing to the general progress is the gentle- 
man whose name introduces these paragraphs and 
whose life thus far has been crowned with success. 
One of the young and enterprising agriculturists 
of Lansing Township, Ingham County, his pleasant 
estate is located on section 7, where he is the for- 
tunate owner of seventy-six acres of fine land. He 
has emliellished his farm with a commodious resi- 
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the i-Diiifort iif llic li<in>clnil(l. Mr. Stabler devotes 
eonsideralile alleiitiuu to llie lireediujr of .slcick and 
lia.-- large Itarii.s and u;ood stalilinjr, as well iis oilier 
<nitl)iiildiiifrs wliieli a i)ro<j;res.sive fanner now 
deems essential to the |ii'o])er management of his 
estate. 

Mr. .Stabler is now in the early ])rinie of lil'c. 
having been born .binmuv 28, 1H()((. His parents. 
Charles and llarbara (Holler) .Stabler, were natives 
of (ii'rmany. and jiosscssed those ((ualities of thrift 
and fnei'gv which are |)ron)inent eharacteristics of 
that nation. About the year of LSI ^( they enii- 
grated to Anieriea. and immediately after landing 
proceeded to .Michigan and settled in Ann .\rbor. 
That city then bore 1ml few indications of its 
jiresent liigli de\ elo|)meiit and was only a little 
hamlet in the midst of uncultivated surroundings. 
.After residing there three years the parents re- 
moved to Lansing, where Martin .1.. of tliis sketcli, 
was liorn. lie is proud to claim the ea|iital city 
as his birthplace and now ranks among the most 
iiiduential native-born citizens <^f Ingham County. 

At the age of three years our suliject accom- 
])anicd his parents in their renio\al to Clinton 
County, where he was reared to manhood, lie le- 
ceived a good education of which he is making 
practical use, and keeping thoidUL;lil\ posted upon 
all events of interest he ranks among the well-iu- 
foimed men of the community. I'ntil he was 
twenty-four years of age he \\orked for his father. 
in the meantime acquiring habits of thrift and 
prudence. On October -I. lHX;i, lie was liappih' 
inarrii'il to the lady who now gracefully presides 
over his household. .She bore the maiden name of 
Mary L. Burke jind is the daughter of John and 
Elenora l'>urke. natives of (Germany. In tli.at 
country Mrs. Stabler was born Se|)tember .<, IHtil. 
and thence at the age of four years she accompanied 
her parents to the New World. They .sojourned 
in Ohio until IS72. when the\ removed to Clinton 
County, Mich., where they still reside. One child 
iuis been born to .Mr. and Mrs. .Stabler, a daiighler. 
Florence K.. who was born .May IG. 1887. 

.Uways interested in evei'V movement calculated 
to adxauee the general welfare of the count\. .Mr. 
St,'ililer feels that the best interests of the common- 
wealth are sub>ei\ed liv the Republican ijartx' and 



his vole and .sympathies are usually with the can- 
didates pledged to the principles of that party. 
Healizing his ability his fellow-eitizeus have often 
called upon him to aid in the carrying on of pub- 
lic affaiis and these duties he has always discharged 
to tli'e -satisfaction of all. lie was Treasurer of 
Lansing Township tw(^ years and was there as else- 
where faithful to the trust reposed in him. lie and 
his amiable wife are members of the (ierman Melli- 
odist Church and enjoy the e.steein of those who 
ha\c been associated with them since they first lo- 
cated on section 7. 



SETH A. PADDOCK. One of the repre- 
sentative men of Mason, Ingham County, 
whose financial growth has been synony- 
mous with the history and growth of the town 
is the gentleman whose name is at the head of this 
sketch and who is so intimately connected with 
many of its interests. He is a member of the firm 
of S. A. Paddock iV .Son. dealers in lumber, lime, 
coal. etc.. and also of the Klectric Lighting Compan3- 
of Paddock iV Henderson. Mr. Paddock has a 
charming home in the city that is made ideal by 
the presence of his gracious and lovely wife, and 
the love that is shed between the members of the 
f.unily. and the appreciation of each individual 
effort to liriiig about the happiness and content of 
others. 

Setli A. I'addoek was born in Commerce Town- 
ship. O.'ikland County. Mich., January (J, 183t). He 
is the son of Charles II. and Iluldah M. (Gates) 
Paddock, both natives of Herkimer County. N. 
Y. They came to Oakland County in 1834. 
The head of the family w.'is a merchant and miller. 
He built the rtourishing mills in Oakland County 
and after they were burned he rebuilt, eventually 
selling tliem. In 18.')2, he with his family moved 
to Huilson. .St. Croix County. Wis. 

The gentleman of whom we write, served an 
.ipprenticeship of about three years to the trade of 
a c;irpenter and builder, and was then engaged iu 



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journeyman's work for a similar space of time, 
after which he went to contracting and jobbing, 
in which he was reasonably successful. He was 
married September 11, 1860 to Miss Mary A. 
Ayres, of >.'ew York City at the time when they 
were married, although she had formerly livc"d in 
Oakland County, Mich., where Mr. Paddock formed 
her acquaintance previous to going to Wisconsin. 

On beginning their married life he took his wife 
to AVisconsin and there tliey lived until 1863, his 
eldest child being born tliere. At the la.st named date 
he moved to Jackson, Mich. He followed selling 
territory for a patent right, and at the same time 
was engaged in recruiting for the army. He cleared 
the second and third ward of Jackson, Mich., of 
draft under contract, and in the fall of 186.5, he 
removed to iSIason, and here became engaged in 
the work of architectural drafting and contracting. 
He has been the architect for the principal build- 
ings erected in this city. He supeiintended the 
building of the first Baptist Church at Portland, 
Ionia County, and finally became a partner of the 
firm of Brown. Paddock & Co., builders and con- 
tractors, and specialists in architectural drafting. 
Mr. Paddock was naturally gifted in the line of 
architectural and artistic drawing and had culti- 
vated this gift assiduously making special )irepa- 
ration for his architectural work. 

Our subject hiis l)een particularly fortunate in a 
business way. A genial, whole souled man, he 
has commended himself kindly and favoralily to 
all classes of business men. He prides himself on 
the fact that he never had to ask for a day's work 
in his life and vet always received the liighcst 
wages. After a time he bought out one partner 
in the firm of contractors to which he belonged, 
and aliout five years later he bought out the other. 
He is not only the luiilder, but also the owner of 
the Paddock Block of Mason, which is a fine Ijrick 
structure that is imposing in dimensions and style 
of architecture. 

Mr. Paddock is tiie father of six children, of 
whom three died young. Those living are Minnie, 
born ISIarch 14, 1865. Harry E. and Fred PI The 
only daughter and eldest child, Minnie, is now the 
wife of G. J. Charles, of Lansing, who is engaged 
in the real-estate and insurance business. They 



are the parents of one child, Harrj- E. who was 
born in April. 1867, is a partner with his father. 
He has made himself a home, and has a wife to 
whom he is entirely devoted. He is a pleasant 
young man and successful in business. The young- 
est son, Fred E. was born December 16, 187;3. 

Our subject was formerly a Democrat, but of 
late years he has been a Republican, the stand that 
that party has taken in the advancement and per- 
fection of commercial life, suiting his ideas of gov- 
ernment. Mr. Paddock has served two terms as 
Supervisor of the Second Ward, and also lieen a 
member of the School Board for several years. 
He has been one of the main sujjports of the Pres- 
byterian Church, aiding it greatly, not only pecu- 
niarily but by example and precept. He is also a 
memlier of several secret societies and is a Royal 
Arch Mason. Although the original of our sketch 
acquired nothing by inheritance, he has been able 
to accumulate a handsome little fortune, and this 
has been accumulated by his own efforts. Mr. 
Paddock's father's decease occurred at Santa Bar- 
bara, and there his mother, onl\- sister, and three 
brothers still reside. One brother is in Imsiness in 
Wisconsin. 



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yVlLLIAM M. DOBIE, The gentleman whose 
/ name is at the head of this sketch is a gen- 
'^^J eral farmer, owning a fine tract of land 
comprising two hundred and forty-five acres on 
.sections 15, 16 and 22, Alaiedon Township, Ingham 
County.. He was born in Adrian, Lenawee County, 
Mich., October 28, 1838, and is a son of Alexander 
Dobie, one of the old pioneers of Alaiedon Town- 
ship. ()nr subject's mother was previous to her 
marriage, a Miss Maria Willey, Her decease took 
place October 20, 1848. 'Sir. Dobie remained at 
home until he was nineteen years of age, at which 
time he went to the Pacific Coast, where he re- 
mained for seventeen years, spending most of the 
time in farming and stock-raising. 

Tlie first years spent by our subject on the coast 
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was s])ent in Nevada. He was very successful iu 
liis stock business and also liad a short exijerience 
(if uiiiiina. On rcturninsi from tlie West he came 
lionic and assumed the proprietorship of his father's 
farm, wiiicli lie worlied for a year or so and tlien 
houuiit the nucleus of his present farm, making the 
jiurcliase of forty acres in 1877, and to this he 
added from time to time until he is now the owner 
of a tinely-iiroductive farm of two iiuudred and 
forty acres of land lyins;' in a body. 

Mr. Dobie was married April HI, 1877, to ^liss 
Louisa C. Mayer, of Lucas County, Oiiio, and a 
dauuliter of .lohn Mayer, a farmer and an old pio- 
neer in that section of the country. He was a 
native of Wurtemberg, Germany. ( )ur sulijeet and 
his wife are the parents of four ciiildren, whose 
n.'imes wei'e as follows: Lulu A., liorn M.ay 7, 1880; 
Laui-.'i Ann, February 7, 188;5; William A., Febru- 
ary 21, 188.5; and Elmo, .January 1!). 1888. Mr. 
Doliie has made a success in his efforts in agricul- 
ture. He enjoyed the advantage of aid from his 
fatlier at the outset, but tlie gre.at portion of his 
Ijroperty h.as been acquired by his individual 
efforts and constant attention to his calling. Polit- 
ically, lie is a Democrat and h.as been honored l)v 
his party in having been elected .lustice v{ tlie 
IVacc. an otHce which he held during one term, 
lie has made many improvements on tiie farm since 
coming here, having brought the liest of judgment 
and taste to bear in his man.agement. Personally, 
he is a jileasant man, thoroughly reliable in every 
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HARLE.S S. FITZ SIMMONS. Tlie extent 
to which a community indulges in the de- 
lights of the tloral world may well serve as 
a measure of its culture and progress. Lansing, 
Ingham County, is not behind in this matter and 
attests, not only in its beautiful homes and the 
higiily cultivated grounds wliich surround them, 
but also in its patronage of those who engage in 
floral culture, to the love of its jieople for true 



beauty and the best things of nature. A fine trade 
has been built up by our subject in the line of a 
florist's business, as he is the proprietor of the 
Riverside Greeniiouses which is a flourishing insti- 
tution and supplies a large amount of first-class 
work to the peoiile of Lansing. Besides his trade 
in flowers he lias an excellent business in market 
gardening, having ten acres of gai-den one mile 
south of Lansing. 

Mr. Fitz Simmons was born .lune 26, 1854, iu 
Camden Township, Hillsdale County, Mich. His 
father, Stephen, was liorn iu Chemung County, 
N. Y, The grandfatiier.Tliomas, was also a native 
of Chemung County and in 1837 came to ilichi- 
gan and located in a log house in the woods near 
AVheatlaiid, Hillsdale County. With him in this 
house (measuring l()x20 feet) lived also the juoneer 
who has been familiarly known as old Uncle Henry 
Humphrey, They were farmers and hunters and 
at first lived by their guns, Aliout a year later 
they removed to Camden in the western part of 
that county, and going into the woods Mr. Fitz 
Simmons hewed out a farm of one hundred and 
sixty acres. He was a prominent man in his day, 
being Supervisor, .lustice of the Peace, ^lethodist 
Episcopal Class-Leader, and served as a delegate to 
tlie famous convention which was held under the 
old oaks at .Lackson in 18.54, at the time the Re- 
publican party sprang into existence. The family 
is of Xorman-French extraction. 

The father of our sulijeet spent his boyhood 
days in New York. He began working on the Erie 
Canal as a tow boy and came to Michigan when a 
young man. He took a course of study in civil 
engineering and became the County Surveyor of 
Hillsdale County. At the time when he went into 
the army he owned a farm of one hundred and 
sixty acres which he had entered from school lands 
when he was twenty-one years old. It w.as in the 
spring of 1864 that Stephen Fitz Simmons enlisted 
in Company I, Eleventh Michigan Cavalry. His 
regiment was ordered South and he never returned 
home, as he died of pneumonia at Lexington. Ky., 
in 1865. He w.as an earnest Rei)ublican in his po- 
litical views and a warm supporter of the Govern- 
ment for which he gave his life. 

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uiiu liecanie tlie niothpr of our subject ami ]\Ias^a- 
rliusi'tts was the State of her uativity. Her father 
was a farinei' in the ohl Hay State, who removed to 
New Voik and hiter to Michigan, where lie was 
one of the early setth'rs in Lenawee (ounty, h)eat- 
iui; on Ihe (liieauo I'ike. west of 'reeuniseh. After 
reinaininu' there a few years he renioved to ^Vood- 
liridii'e. Ilills(hile County. where lie improved eiglity 
•■leres of (iiie land. 'I'liis family of Stevens was of 
llie liest stoek of Xew England and lioasted that 
ill their x'eins ran blue hlood. whieh assertion was 
well earried out liy their true and upright lives 
.•md their lose for all of the liest thintl's of life. 
The mother dieil in D^.'id. ( )ur siihjeet was the only 
ehild of his jiarents, hut his father was married a 
seeond time to .Miss Adeline Heem who was born 
in Xew York, and had three dausihters. She now 
resides in Sturgis, this State. 

diaries S. Fitz Simmons was born June 26, 18.'>4, 
and liad his early training and education upon a 
farm, taking what schooling he could acquire in 
the log schoolhouse with slab benches. After his 
father's death he remained at home until he was 
sixteen years old. as from the age of ten years he 
had the responsibility of looking after the home 
farm. The old home was disposed of by sale and 
the family lived on eighty acres in AVoodbridge, 
where the youth remained until he reached the age 
of eighteen years. He spent one winter in the pine 
woods at Xewaygo. working in hnnber. and then 
was for awhile with an uncle in Tecumseh, Lena- 
uee County, lie attended .school at that place in 
the old Inioii High School and |)iit a four years' 
course into three years, taking Hfteen months' tui- 
tion in Latin extra, and at the same time learned 
the })rinter"s trade, by means of whieh he supported 
himself and paid his tuition, lie was graduated 
from that school in 187(>. 

After leaving school the young man engaged in 
various lines of business, in store, saw-mill and other 
ways until 1H79. and then with what money he had 
accumulated purchased a manufacturing busines.s. 
This, however, did not prove remunerative, so in 
IHHl he came to Lansing as he already had con- 
nections here \\hicli drew him to this place, lie 
had married m December, IS^i). Miss Delia A. 
Diiiuinan. dautfliter of William K. Dinanian. from 



Schoharie Connty, X. V. lie was a manufacturer 
of |)aper and also had chaiiie of a woolen factory 
at Leeds, (iieeiie County. X. V..als<j at Sliiy\esant 
Falls, where he was an enterprising and successful 
manufacturer. Later he came to Michigan and 
located in Tec\miscli and a few years latei- retired 
from business and came to Lansing, where for sev- 
eral vears he w:is in the grocery liusincss. lie 
finally retire(l from acti\-e work and died here in 
1«84 at the age of seventy years. His excellent 
wife, I'hebe Kmeline Hinckley, was liorii in Lee. 
Berkshire County. Alass.. and passed from life in 
Tecumseh in IM«,s. ( )f their eight childi-en four 
grew to ni;iturity. and the wife of our subject is 
the I'Idi'st now li\ing. She was lioni in Lee. .Mass.. 
reared in Xew Yoi'k and completed her education 
at .Vshland Seminary, after wliicli she taught for a 
short time. 

The young couple located on a farm in ^Meridian 
Township where they carried on general farming 
and yardeiiing. and it was while li\ing there they 
that they conceived the idea of starting a green- 
house for the Lansing trade. In 1!^H!) .Mr. Filz 
Simmons obtained a lot on Kalamazoo Street, lint 
could find no building here which he could make 
use of as a greenhouse. He began with .a small 
business and has enlarged his place from what it 
was at Hist. lHx72 feet, until he now has a plant 
which covers eight thousand square feet and is 
gradually increasing it. The raising and propaga- 
tion of plants and cut Howers occupies his energies 
and he keejis (lowers on hand to sup|)ly room dec- 
orations and floral designs. His greenhouse is 
heated by hot water and hot air. and he has a tine 
garden of ten acres to siqiply stock for his market 
garden business, as well as a beautiful tlower gar- 
den in connection withthe greenhouse. He devotes 
three acres to celery, in which he is unusually suc- 
cessful and he is said to ha\'e the largest celery bed 
in the county. lie owns a lioat house which he 
rents and also another house. 

A leriilile .•iltlielion befell this excellent couple in 
!><«!) when, upon .lanuary HI and 23, their (nily 
children. Madge I), and Alvin C., were snatched 
from their arms by that terrible scourge — scarlet 
fever. Mrs. Fitz Simmons is a devoted member of 
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in tlie Ladies' Society and otlier clmrcli lienevo- 
lencc*. Like his fatlier and irrandfatiier, our sul)- 
ject is attached to the Republican party. In IHTI! 
he joined the First Rcii-iment in the Micliii^'an 
Militia, in wiiicli lie did service until \W-), and 
left it with tlie rank of Sergeant. This regiment 
was in I87it called out to quell the lahoi' riot at 
Jackson and then proved itself etlicient and ready 
for action. 

Elsewhere in this volume will be found a litho- 
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' LONZO B. IIAYNES. One never feels the 
truth of the saying that the "ways of 
4 truth are devious," so much as when con- 
sidering the intricacy o< the simplest case 
that is .under the legal jurisdiction. Yet of all the 
liberal professions, in no other is there such mental 
acumen, such quickness and clearness of perception 
necessary as in the legal profession. It is of all 
other callings the one most dependent upon nat- 
ural endowments, and a man if not having a logical 
reasoning power, with a ready or facile understand- 
ing. might study Blackstone and the whole libiary 
of legal lore, without ever becoming n lawyer. 
There are lawyers and lawyers, hut the only true 
lawyer is he who unites with skill in his calling, 
truth and humanity. 

.\lonzo 15. llaynes, who is a most successful jjiac- 
titioner in the town of Mason, Ingham County, 
this Stale, is an honor to his profession, being a 
man with inherent principles of honor, and one 
whose opinions are not to be moved liy any nie:nis 
of corrupti(m. He was born in Steuben County, 
N. v., February 7, 18r»l, and is the son of C. Amos 
and Mary (Gray) Haynes, both natives of the Kni- 
pire State, where the former followed the calling 
of a farmer. Our subject was raised on a farm, 
and as a young man his athletic pursuits and work 
in the open air developed a physical freedom that 
left his mental [uogress (jerfectly unchecked and 
unrestrained. His mind developed under the (piiet 
intlnenies li\ whicli he was earlv surrt)unded, into 



the perfect intellectual blossom. He sustained a 
great and irreparable loss in early childhood in the 
death of his mother who was taken away when he 
was but four years of age, and later, when he had 
reached the age of ten he was doubly ori)haned by 
the loss of his father. 

In a family of seven children, the original of 
our sketch was next to the youngest, but notwith- 
standing this fact, on his father's death, young as 
he was, he was thrown on his own resources. He 
however, received a good common-school educa- 
tion, which he pursued to such purpose that after 
leaving his studies he was enabled to obtain a good 
position as teacher, which calling he followed for a 
number of years. He then studied at the Normal 
School of Gcneseo, Livingston County, N. Y. At 
the age of nineteen he came to Michigan, deter- 
mined to make for him.self a recognized position 
among the legal fraternity-. Prior to coming to 
this State he had studied law while teaching, his 
legal preceptor being John Wilkinson, of Dansville, 
N. Y., and after reading extensively with this gen- 
tleman, he entered the law school of Alliany.N. Y., 
from which he graduated in September, 1871. He 
also studied in the law de])artment of the Union 
Universitv, the Dean of which, Lsaac Edwards, was 
author of several text books in the use of the law 
department of various schools. Mr. Haynes had 
practiced prior to eventually settling in ^lason, at 
Dansville, N. Y., for a period of about three years. 
AVhile pursuing his course of studies in .\lbany, 
N. Y., he met jNIiss Jennie A. Bellows and was 
married to her .September 6, 187(5. 

Having come to Mason, Ingham Count}', this 
State, in 1879, our subject has here built up an 
extensive and lucrative jniictice. He is licensed 
to i)ractiee l)otli in the Supreme and United States 
Courts, and his .-ippcals and arguments have ever 
been noted for their lucidity and ingenuity. Mr. 
Haynes h.as served as City .Attorney for three 
years, which time has lieen fully occupied with 
jjublic work, many demands having been made 
upon him in a public way. He of whom we write 
is a direct <lescendanlof the same family of Haynes 
whose great legal representative debated with the 
orator and statesman, Webster. 

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hi.- « ill' lieiiisi :i woman noted foi' her inU'lleetual 
.•iltiiiiiiiR'iit'*. as well a.- her marked |jeixinal attrac- 
tions. .Vs they have no family, tiieir attention 
and interests are more liroadly distrihnted than that 
of the majority of married iieople. and the social 
demands made upon tliem are not few. nor are 
they slow in doinji what they can to form and 
perfect wiiatexcr spirit is apparent in the com- 
nninity that promi.ses to be to the uplifting of the 
peo|ile. In his i^olitical views, preferences and re- 
lations, our suliject is a liepulilican, co-operatinii 
with tliat pai'ty most actively in its loi'al political 
interests. He has lieen a Senior Deacon and Senior 
Warden in the ^Masonic fi-aternitv. 



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,^s HAKLES 11. LEMON. Wlnle formerly it 
was almost considered an opprobrium to 
speak of a man as a "traveling" man, to-day 
they have so strong and firm a footing in commer- 
cial life and seem so absolutely indispensable that 
in spite of their I'eputation for being the "joUiest 
men on earth" and the best livers, as many gentle- 
men ai'e found there as elsewhere. Our subject is 
an ex-traveling salesman and no exception to the 
rule of traveling men in his temperament and na- 
ture. He is now engaged in the dry-goods busi- 
ness, and also deals in clothing, lioots, shoes, etc. 
His two sons are his partners in the business, and 
they conduct the liusiness \inder the lirm name of 
Lemon Bros. 

( )ur subject is a native of this State, ha\ing 
lieen li(jrn in ( )akland County, November 27, 1H3,"). 
His father was .lohn Lemon, who w.as born in the 
city of Dublin, Ireland, where he made his living 
by weaving, being an expert in this business, and 
doing all sorts of fancy weaving. Mr. Lemon's 
parents came to Steuben Comity, X. V.. and .set- 
tled in the town of Painted Post, when the father 
was a very young man. He was one of the very 
lirst settlers in Avon, taking boat to Detroit, and 
from there proceeded b\- ox-team to Avon, where 
he located on a farm, lieintr an agent for Mai. 



Kearslev.he had an excellent opijorl unity to exam- 
ine the liest land and procure a line farm, engaging 
ill his trade, which is that of weaving, and finding 
his .services at that early day in c<mstaiit demand. 
He raised tlax and wove it into cloth. In 1S42 he 
removed from .\.\'on and located in Shiawassee 
Township. .Shiawassee County, and there he did 
the work of weaving for the whole county, and 
found his business so remunerative tliat he was 
able to purchase some of the finest land in the 
couiitrv, and at the time of his death, which oc- 
curred in lfi-4;5, he was the owner of fi\c liundied 
and si.xty acres of land. 

Our subject's mother was before her marriage a 
.Miss .lulia .Villi Trowbridge, a native of >.'ew Jer- 
sey, though when a child her parents had taken 
her to Steuben County. N. V. Her father was a 
fainier. He .-ilso was an early settler in ,\von and 
there died. Our subject's parents, although both 
earnest and ardent Christians, were brought up in 
different churches, the father worshiping witli tlit 
Presbyterian denomination, and the mother at- 
tending the Metluxlist Church. They were the 
parents of tweh'c cliildren. nine of whom ai'c 
still lix'ing. and of these oiir subject is the young- 
est. 

Fiom the age of .six years Mr. Lemon was reared 
in Shiawa.ssee Township, and there received what 
education, in the way of .school advantages, he 
enjoye<l. During his boyhood there w*'rc still 
plenty of Indians in the State, and from them he 
learned .'is much of woodcraft as he learned of 
farming from his father. The school he .•ittendcd 
was of the rudest sort, built, as most of them were 
in tho.se early d.ays. f)f the most accessible material 
— logs, with M slick chiinncv. It was furnished 
with slab seats and a heterogeneous supi)l\- of tcxl- 
books. The jjens that they used were of (piills. 
and one of the earliest arts and .•uromplisliiiu'iils 
that they were rei|uired to learn was that of cut 
ting and pointing these (|iiills and making tlieiii 
ready for use. 

When about nine years of age, the original of (jur 
sketch went and made his home with a married 
sister, Mrs, C. Seargent Shari). and there he re- 
mained until sixteen years of age. Jn those earl\ 
da\s sixteen vears was considered an age at which 



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!Uiy nlil«'-l»i<Iii'il ytiuiit; man >lunild In' iililc to siip- 
|)()rt hiiiisi'lf. :iltli<>iii;li lu' \v;i> iiol siippost'd In 
li;i\f fit her (liM-rt'tiuii or juiliiiufnt riHiu;;li Id lie 
Iciiiilly r('.-|)()ii^ilik'. t )iii' .••iil)i(.'i-t. like most yoiiiii; 
men. \v;i.- ;it tliiit timi' tlirown upon liis own rc- 
M)ui('c~. Mini he wi'iit to liyrdii. liiiiiis 'ro\vii>lii|i. 
;iii(l ciiti'ii'il ;i stole n> cliTk. leiiiaiiiiiii; tlii-rt' for 
tlirci' years, diiriiiii wliicli he aaiiifd an iiisiiilit 
into llic ^■l•lll■^al nicicliaiKUsc luisini'ss. At tln'a<;i' 
of iiincti'i'ii lie lii'iiaii Inisiiu'ss for himself. i>oiii<>; 
into ufeneial niereliaiHlisiii<>. and liavinji' as part- 
ner (';ipt. I), (i. I{oyee. This gentleman went to 
the war on the lneaUinii' out i>f the Keliellion. and 
was killed. 

Mr. I.i'inon.in is.'il or !«;').">. went into the grist- 
mill Imsiness, and also hiiilt a sawmill. These lie 
ran until I><()l,and then sold out. In {K('r2 he 
had lieeu appointed Postmaster of liyron. and 
kept that ])ost foi' sixteen years. In lisT'.t he pur- 
chased the mill and store liloek. ninning the former 
until IS.Sd. Mild diiriiii; that lime lie put in the 
new roller .-iystein, produeing one liiiiidrcd mihI 
lifly thousand barrels of Hour in a Near. .Most of 
his product wms sliijiped to Portl.'uid and to the 
East, his shipping rale lieiii<i at one timi' ;is low ;is 
twenty-eiuhl cents a lijiircl. ;iiid .-it one time as 
high as cii;hly-live <-eiits. In l.H.Sd he sold out his 
milling intere.-t and went upon the roatl as a trav- 
eling salesinan, represent ing .lacoJp Brown A' Co.. 
of Deti'oit, dealers in furnishing goods and 
notions, lie traveled for this company for ten 
years, his r<iut<' lieing chiefly through the Sljile of 
.Mieliiyan. 

'riavelini; having lieconie inonotonous to our 
siilijeel. In the fall of IHSHI he retired from the 
road, and ha> since engaged in the liusine.ss with 
his sons, mentioned at the lieginniiig of the sketch 
In 1882 he located in the city of Lansing, and in 
1887, in the month of May, he o))ened a drv-goods 
store, also selling 1 loots and shoe>. Ili> mhis, who 
are engaged with him in business. , are twin,*, and 
are :iiiioni; ihe most popular business men in the 
city. ( ienial. courteous .-iii'l wliole->oiiled. ii i.. m 
pleasure to ii.atronize such a linn. 

The uentleman of whom we write owns a \er\ 
pleasant lionic in Lansiny. on Willow Street, and 
it is presidecl o\ ci most bcrnilifnlh b\ hi~ .amiable 



and accomplished wife. Their marriage took place 
ill the town of IJyron in Itstid, the lady being a 
\li» I'Mi/.abelh Kelsey. who was a native of the 
place in which she was married. .She is a daughter 
of .Judge Kelsey. who was I'roliate .ludge of Shia- 
wassee County for twelve years. Tht ir union h;is 
bet'ii lile.ssed by the advent of live childien. who 
are all bright .and accomplished. 'The sons who 
are in partneishi|i with .Mi', l.einon. and who .are 
commoiily spoken of :is the twins, aie Ivail and 
KiMiik. The eldest daughter. Lizzie, is employed 
also in Ihestore, while the two youngest daughters, 
(irace and Fanny, remain at hoiiu^. 

Trior to coming to I^ansing. .Mi-. Lemon had held 
several local offices, having been the Sujiervisor of 
llurns Township, and also Township Clerk. He 
also has the honor of having been the first l'ie.~i- 
dent of the village of Hyron.aiid was siibse(|iiently 
Chairman of the \illage Hoard. During the war 
his patriotism and zeal were so fired that he was 
anxious to enlist, but was debarred from doing .so 
by an imperfection in his eye-sitrht. lie. however, 
.•icted as drill master for three yeai>. liitil going 
on the road he belonged to the Independent ( )rder 
of ()d<l Fellows. Politically he attiliates with Ihe 
Republican party, being one of its st.-uiclicst .and 
most loyal followers in this city. In religious 
m.-itlers he is liberal. His wife is a member of the 
Presbyterian Chuich, and lie himself is ;i generous 
supporter of the .same. 



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WILI.IA.M II. POST. Most -if the faniilio 
who have settled in White ();ik Township 
, ^ have their descent from lines whiih have 
for generations been residents of this countrv and 
iii.ay be classed anions; the old families of Ahh'IK'M. 
That which is re|)resented by the name at the head 
of this sketch is one of these, as he traces his line- 
age <iii hi> iiiothei'> side back to the early ( olouists 
of ( oniiecticut and feels that in the making of the 
history of that .-ection of the country his fore- 
fathers had their shar<'. 

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1854 lived on the old homestead on section 32, 
having been born on section 13, in AVhite Oak 
Township. His father. W. (". Post, was born in 1811 
in Connecticut and died June 30, 1875. and his 
early years were sjient there with his parents before 
the removal of the family to New York. In the 
Kmpire State they remained for some live j'ears, 
during which time the boj' received his education 
before removing lo Iosco Township, Livingston 
County, Mich. 

The father of our siiliject was in 1840 united in 
the bonds of niatriiiiDiiy with I'rsulla Smith, a na- 
tive of New York who w.as residing in White Oak 
Township. Our subject was the youngest of the 
four children who came to his parents. The two 
first-l)orn were Corcnna and Emma, twn sisters. 
Corcnna married J. A. Sly .and is the mother of 
three children, and Kmnia married C. H. Wood and 
resides at Leslie with her husband and five children; 
the third sister of our subject was named Sallie and 
she became the wife of James Paddock who resides 
at Detroit, and is the mother of four children. 

AV. II. Post ui)on reaching maniiood agreed 
most heartily with the Holy Scriptures where it I 
says that it is not good for man to live alone, and ! 
united his life with Klla Dakin, who was born in 
Ingham Township, Ingiiam County. One child 
only has liiightened this home, and her name is 
Lottie. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Post was 
Robert Smith, who was also the progenitor of ]Mr. 
Willard Smith, whose sketch is foiuid elsewhere in 
this volume. The great-grandfather Iwre the same 
name, Kobert Smith, and was a native of England. 
There were nine children in this old country fam- 
ily, of whom five were sons, who bf)re the names 
of John, William. Kobert. Aliram and Isaac. Itis re- 
corded in the annals of the family that some of these 
brothers were among the early settlers of James- 
town, N. Y , in lfj07. The old family Bible of the 
Smith fainily bears the date of l(i20. This Bible is j 
in the possession of Willard Smith and is a choice | 
heirloom. j 

A nourishing liusiness in general farming is car- 
ried on by our subject, and his farm is well stocked. 
He devotes himself exclusively to Ills business and 
has never consente(l to occupy any township or 
county olUces, althc)ugh he is sincerely interested in 



political matters and an intelligent observer of the 
public movements of the day, being a stanch Dem- 
ocrat and warmly devoted to the prosperity of that 
party. He is a member of a number of social orders, 
being identified with the Odd Fellows, the Farmers' 
Mutual Benefit Association, the Knights of the 
Maccabees and the Grange. His f.amily are con- 
nected with the Protestant Methodist Church and 
in its work Mr. and Mrs. Post are actively inter- 
ested. 



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SIDNEY' O. RUSSELL. It is of interest to 
record the life of the oldest settler in the 
) village and township of Leslie, who lias 
been one of the most active jiromoters of 
this part of the county and h.as achieved excellent 
success in business in Leslie. His days of activity 
are over now, as he suffered a stroke of jjaralysis 
and is now confined to the house and is quite fee- 
ble, so that he has to i)lace his business in the hands 
of a foster son. His superior character, ability 
and record since coming to this county make him 
worthy of a prominent place in our annals. 

Our subject w.as born in East Bloomlicld, N. Y'., 
October 1, 1812, his honored parents being J.ames 
and Electa (Scpiares) Russell, natives of New 
Jersey. The family removed to ^Michigan about 
the year 1838 and settled in Saline, Washtenaw 
County, where they spent the remainder of their 
d.ays. They had eight children and our subject 
remained at home until alK)ut the .age of sixteen, 
when he went away to serve .an apprenticeship at 
the cari)enter's trade near Seneca Falls. His ear- 
lier years were sjient on the farm near Seneca 
Falls and lie received a common-school education. 
He worked at his trade until 1836. when he came 
to Michigan and settled on a farm on what is now 
sections 17 and 18, in the townshiji of Leslie. 
There were only two other white settlers in the 
township at that time, 

III making the jonrne\- to the new West l\lr. 
Kusscll came ity water to Detroit and completed 
the trip with an ox-team, fording all the streams 



I'ouritAir AM) i;I()(.i;ai'III( Ai. ai.i;i .\i. 



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;iii(l iifti'ii liccdiniiiii s<inki'(l on !ici<imil iif rMiii> Siiiccii (uiiiity. N. ^'.. \v:i> ;i iiiit i vc of tliiit cuuiiU 
Mliil liiirli ".•il<'i>. Ilrlii>l liiiill M liiii >hMnly 1 l\IS :iii(l Ikhi' llir iiiniclcii n;unc iiC Mmi\ I'<i\. I Ici' pMi- 
fi'fl ill (liiiu'ii^ioii.- Miitl ill i1 lie f.-l:ilili>lif(l lii>\vilV cut.--. \Nilli;iiii and I liilda Kox. wi'iv unlive- of New 
.'111(1 (iiif liltFc child. Matilda. W'ilil uiinic :ind .Iciscv. ;ind li\cd for iiian\' vi'ar.>i in Scncc.-i 
Indians .•iliuiiiiijcd lliroiiiih all lli.al icuiuii .-iiid llic ( (Minl\, Mi. :ind Mrs. IJussi'll had six (.■liildicn. 
old Indian chii'f. ■•( )k(in()s." w.as a fr('(Hii'iil must .Matilda. .Mary, l-jnina. .Myioii. .Seward, and a twin 
in this caliiii. Mr. Uiisscll |iroci'i'dcd to clear liis whodicd in early inlancw The niotheidf thesecliil- 
f:iriii .-iiid iiii|iid\e it. j'A I'li ill that ('.•Illy day he dieii die(| sonic years ;iL;o ;iiiil .M r. liussell was mar- 
was full of deteriniii.ation to succeed, as lie came to ried a .second time to Miss l!iiiiiiii:i ll.aynes. .\uuusl 
.Micliii;!iii witli the full intent to make a home and 1. IH(;;i. This lady waslix iiiu in Laiisiiii>;it the time 
lie w illinu'ly worked .and siilfered |iri vat ions which of licr union with .Mr. Kussell. Siie was horn in 
we of this later i;eiiernlioii can scarcely realize. .Meiitz Towiishii). ('.-lyusia ('ount\. N. V.. Keliru:ir\- 
.\fter farmiiit;' a few years our subject iiio\ ed ■>•>. 1 M I H. lieiiiii- a (Laiiirhter of William and .Mihv 
his faiiiilx to Leslie .and .afterward lioiii;lil aii<l (.\iiiiahle) ilayncs. natives of New .lerse\- and 
o|icrated a sawmill Init .soniewh.at later sold that Massachusetts res|)ecti\-el\ . .Mr. ;iiid .Mrs. Ila\nes 
|Mo|)eity and cii^aiicd in the mercantile linsiness. came to New York when youiiii and there were 
lieinij' one of tlic-\crv first iiirichaiits of the |il;ice. married and resided until his death, after which 
and contiiuiiii;^ in liusiiies> in Leslie for almost his wife and chiidrcM came to .Micliiu'.an and set- 
lifl\ ye.ais. Ih' lie;;;iii life with nothiiii;. .as his tied in ( )iioiidat.':i 'i"owii,~hi|i. iiiiili.aiii ('ouiitv. in 



father was :i man of small me.aiis. .and he has made 
all he now | io.sse.s.ses hy his own efforts, siipple- 
ni(aite(l li\ the wise eo-o|icr;it ion of his f.aithful 
:iiiil ellicieiil hel|iiiiale. liis luisiiiess hasslcadih' 
yniwn and is now the laraest mercantile house and 
the only dry-iiooils house in lA-slie. 

This pioneer neiitleiii.an has .acquired coiisider- 
alile pro|i(Mt\ ill real estate and i- a heavy stock- 
holder in the reople's Hank :it Leslie. jn his 
earU life he w.as ;i stroliu .lackson iii.aii .and aftei- 
u.aiil lielon-icd to the \\'liii; parly .and w.as an e.ar- 



IH.'iT. Mrs. Ilayncs, liowe\-er. came to make her 
home with her d.ail^iiter. .Mrs. i\Us>ell. a few 
months lii'forc lua- deiiartiire to the other world. 



FliKDKIMC K riK 
LansiiiL;'. in^lian 
culahle d.'hl to 



liKDKIMC K TilO.M.VN. Mich a city as 

nil ( Ouiity. owe.- an iiic.al- 

tlio.se of her Inisiness men 



uesl Aholitionisl ; later he hecame a decid<'d who have liei'ii siilliciently liroad mid fuivsitflited 
Ivepulilicaii. lie held some minor town ollice- and to pl.an such c<niveiiiciices and improveilieutsin file 
was .a dele<.^ale to I lie con \ cut ion that ort;aiM/.ed city:!- conduce to the prt.isperity of Imsiuess and 
liiiiham County, and also hilped to lay out the tluai-fore to the u'li'^th of the town. .Such ;in one 
villajfeof Leslie, i le has li \ cd in this township for is he id' whom we write, who was one ot the prin- 
liftv-tivc \earsaiid has .acciiiniilated a laru'c prop- cipal promoters of tlu' liiiihlini! of the 'I'lansit 
erty. Iiavinj; lieeii a man of unu.-iial eiieri;\' .and IJailroad track wiiicli iiiii> aloiiu' li\ the side of his 
steriinjJT inteii'vity. mill and .all other factories of the West Side. con- 
In the early d.ays llie ne.aresl tradiiii;' point was nectinu them with .all the railroads of the cit\'. This 
.lack.-oii. which Lay .at .a distance of tifteen miles is one of the most xalnaljle im])rovement.- to the 
tlirouiih the forest. .Mr. ivus.sid! erected his pres- cil\ and i;a\e a luiich needed stimulus to the iiian- 
eiit residence, .a li.andsome lirick stiiictiire. in \SS'.i. 1 1 fact u lint;' interests of the West Side, 
.•ind it is one of the most heaiiliful home- in the Thi- neutlemaii. who lieloii;>s to the tirm of !•". 
villaiTc. In his youimcr daxs he u.a- :i i;re:il 'I'hoinaii .V I'.ro.. proprietors of the ( )rieiitai .Mill at 
hmit.sinan and -till delights in recount iiii; the l^aiisinu. w.as lioiii al old |-'t. Il.amilton in New 
|)leasnres of the cli.ase. Vork llarhor. .May '.'. I.s(l.f. .Vliout three \eais 
Tlie wife of liis youth, to whom he wa.- united in later he w.as lir<niL;ht hy hi- parents to t'rawfofd 



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County, Ohio, where he received his education in 
the common schools of Crestline. His father, John 
A., was born at Rhine Falls, Germany. 

At the age of sixteen our subject became fireman 
on the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Railroad 
and two years later took charge of an engine as 
engineer l)etween Crestline and Pittsburg. During 
the last year of the war he was in the Government 
employ as engineer in the South. He was married 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., in October, 1866, to Miss Mary 
E. Reitz who was born in Brooklyn, and was there 
reared and educated. After this event Mr. Thoman 
went to Indiana as an engineer.still making his home 
in Crestline until the spring of 1868 when he came 
to Lansing with his brother-in-law, Mr. F. A. Reitz, 
with whom he foi'med a partnership under the flrni 
name of Reitz & Thoman. In IMay of that year they 
began the con.struction of the present mill which 
was finished during the fall and put in operation 
on New Year's day. 

These gentleman remained in partnersliip for 
eighteen months and then Mr. Thoman sold out to 
Mr. Reitz, and six months later the latter died, 
after which our subject purchased the whole prop- 
erty and continued sole proprietor until 1885, 
when he took his brother, J. P. Thoman, into part- 
nersliip with him under the firm name of F. Tlioman 
it Co. The mill is located in the heart of the citj^ 
and has a capacity of two hundi'cd barrels a day. 
They ship large quantities of flour to the Eastern, 
iSouthern and foreign markets. 

Mr. Thoman was elected Alderman of the sec- 
ond Ward in 1878 and 1879, and he is now Alder- 
man and Supervisor C)f the Sixth Ward. He is Vice 
President of the Central Michigan Savings Bank, 
having held the office for some eight or ten years. 
He is one of the incorporators of the Lansing 
Wagon Works and has been President of that 
company from 1877, when it was organized into a 
stock companj'. He is a member and Director of 
the Capital Investment. Building and Loan Asso- 
ciation, and is also a Director of the Lansing- 
Wheelbarrow Works. He was one of the incorpor- 
ators of the Lansing Electric Light Company,wliich 
was merged with the Gas Com])any,of which he is 
one of the Directors. He was one of the prominent 
men iu organizing the Millers' Mutual Fire Insur- 



ance Company of Michigan and has been its Treas- 
urer for the past six years. He is also considerably 
interested in real estate in Lansing. Mr. Thoman 
is a member of the Masonic order, which he joined 
upon reaching his majority, and is a member of 
Capitol Chapter. No. i). Royal Arch Masons, which 
he joined in 1873. His political views have led 
him to aftiliate with the Democratic party, and he 
is deeply interested in its national issues. 



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UILLIAM F. HAllN is a gentleman who dis- 
plays at once marked intelligence, sagacity. 
^J^/ keenness and ready wit. His affaliility 
wins him friends and his tliorough culture and 
well-informed mind gain for him the respect and 
esteem of .all who know him. He is an experienced 
and practical workman, being one of the finest 
watchmakers .and jewelers in Lansing, Ingham 
County, or Central Michigan. Besides carrying a 
beautiful and well-chosen stock of jewelry he han- 
dles clocks .and silverware and is agent for some of 
the principal European Steamship companies, the 
German Lloyd Line, the Hamburg and American 
Packet Company, the Inman Line, the Red Star 
Line, the White Star Line, besides the AU.an Line, 
the Union Line, and several otiiers. 

This gentleman w.as born in Jauer, in the Province 
of Silicia, Prussia. His father, William F. Hahn, 
had his nativity in 1809, in Scliweitnitz, Silici.T, 
Prussia, and his grandfather, who also bore the 
name of William F., was a native of the same place 
where lie owned a farm, and lived to complete 
almost fourscore years. The father entered the Ger- 
man army when a young man and was in the ser- 
vice of the Government for fifty years, thirty years 
as a soldier and twenty' years as an officer of the 
civil government. He entered as a private, be- 
came Paymaster, and before he had comjileted his 
term of service he was placed in a jjosition corres- 
ponding to our otHce of Auditor CJeueral. He was 
a Lutheran in his religious belief and died about 
the year 1882. 

The mother of our subject was Fredericka Hess^ 



PORTRAIT AND BIOaRAPIIICAL ALHUM. 



Hll 



by name, and was born in .Taner, where her father, 
William Ilesse. was a dcMlfr in iiriiiliicc. Tin' 
mfitlier was t'diifaU'd as a Catliolif, and dic(l in 
18H1. Slie had four children — <mr sulyoct wlio is 
the youngest, being the onl.\' one wlio came to 
this country; Eniil. Mary and Seinia all reside at 
l.iirnitz, Ciermauy, where Kniil is the Postmaster. 

Mr. Ilahn attended first the pulilic school and 
then the gymnasium at Jauer, in which latter insti- 
tution he spent four ^-cars and took a course in 
Latin and French. \i the age of sixteen he was ap- 
prenticed for four year.s to the jeweler's trade at 
•Tauer and after becoming a journeyman he trav- 
eled through Germany in different provinces, also 
iMigland and France. lie was in Paris during the 
Franco- Prussian War, and when in England spent 
much time in London, Oxford and Liverpool. 

In .luly 1872, this gentleman left Liverpool by 
the steamer "Cit3' of Berlin", of the Cunard line. 
and after a V03^age of twelve days landed in New 
York. He came at once to Lansing and started in 
the jewelry business here, working up his trade 
from small beginnings to his pi'csent pros|)erity. 
He has the experience of a lifetime and is one of 
the oldest jewelers in Lansing. He keeps on hand 
a fine display of rich and rare gems. He is a 
member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows 
at Lansing and in politics is independent, as he 
does not care to be trammeled I)}- party ties and 
])refers to cast his vote for the man whom his judg- 
ment approves, and whom he considers best fitted 
for tlie otHce in qirestion. 



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ir^ EV. EDWIN HARLEIGH BROCKWAY is 
^;*f now a general farmer on a fertile tract of 
lis \V of sixty-five acres, located on section 3 1 . 
*^9) Alaiedon Township, Ingham County. He 
was born m Dansville, Steuben County. N. Y.. May 
21, 1825. His father. Elisha AVade Brockway. was 
born in Lyme. New London County. Conn.. Sep- 
tember 1, 17SHI. He was a faiincr liy c.nllini;. 
tlKuigli in earlier days he wnseniployiMi as a school- 
teacher and gained an enviable rejiutation in that 



direction. He removed to New York in 1796 and 

live there until 18211, dealing up a farm of wild 
land. 

In 18211 oui' suliject's father removed to ^licln- 
gan and settled ni'nr Ann Arbor, Avliere he lived 
for five years. In 18;it he i-emoved to Livingston 
County and located near Wliitmore Lake, here he 
cleared up a farm of one hundred acres of wild 
land. During the first year spent by the family in 
Jlicliigan the members subsisted principally on 
corn bread. They had lUl the hardships incident to 
pioneer life. Ann Arbor was at that time a village 
of only a few buildings. Our subject's mother, 
Mary Lemen, was also a native of Dansville, N. Y., 
being born there September U, 18(12. She was a 
daughter of Samuel Lemen, a farmer of that place 
and died in 1874. at Byron, Shiawassee County. 
Her husband preceded her by several years, his de- 
cease having taken place July I, 1861, passing 
away in Constantine, Mich. 

Edwin II. Brockway remained under the paren- 
tal roof until twenty-two years of .age, his atten- 
tion licing divided between his school duties and 
those of the farm. After the years above men- 
tioned he worked out for three and a half years on 
a farm and then entered Albion College, where he 
remained for two \ears and then was admitted to 
the Detroit Methodist Ei)isco])al Conference in the 
fall of 1804. 

The first charge given to our subject as a minis- 
ter of the Methodist E])iscop.aI Church wa,s at 
Mason, where he remained for one year. He then 
went to Chelsea, where lie was located for two 
years, after which he spent two years in Blissfield, 
two years in Rome, two years in Medina, two years 
in Franklin and then was variously stationed at 
Milford, Oakland County, and at Unadilla and 
Fowlcrville, then at Byron, Swartz' Creek, Gaines 
and Albion, where he remained three years in 
order to give his daughter educational advantages. 
He then spent three years in Medina, when he en- 
tered the list as a superannuated preacher in 188:5. 
nnd purchasing the farm wliereon he now resides, 
has devoleil himself toagricultural work the greater 
pMi'l of the time since thi'ii. 

.Mr. r>roekwa\- was niairied .Vugust 24, 18.55, to 
Miss Cordelia S. Thompson, a daughter of Henry 



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Thompson, and a sister of J. Q. Thompson, of 
Alaiedou. Two children liave been the result 
of this union; Mary E., was born April 24. 18.58. 
.She has marked abilit^• in a musical direction and 
is a graduate from the conservatory of Albion 
College, where she spent four years. She is now 
very successfully engaged as a teacher of music. 
Ida who was born July 18, I860, is with her sister, 
the life and light of the home. In 1852 Mrs. 
Brockway came to Mason as an assistant teacher to 
a gentleman who had charge of the Mason schools. 
In a short time the gentleman resigned in lier 
favor. She had seventy pupils and taught for a 
-$1.50 per week, boarding around in the district. 




^^ANIEL B. JOHNSON. Those men who 
came to Ingham County in the very early 
days and made the first settlements here 
were men of more than ordinary calibre, 
broad in their views, earnest in their life aims and 
full of enterprise. They"builded better than the^- 
knew" and laid the foundation for the splendid 
development which we see to-day. Their early 
work prepared the way for those who came after 
them to liuild up the institutions of education, 
business and society which make Ingham County 
so desirable a home. 

Mr. Johnson, who is now a retired farmer resid- 
ing at Lansing, was born in the township of Lans- 
ing, Tompkins County. N. Y.. February 15. 1821. 
and remained there until he reached the age of 
eighteen years. Ilis father. Dr. Daniel 15. Johnson. 
Sr.,wasboni in Canterbury, (unii.. (K-tubcr 1. 1795, 
and the grandfatlier. Dr. Rufu^ .lohnson, who had 
his nativity in Canterlniry. Windham County, 
Conn., November 24. 17(!;i. was a physician and 
surgeon and died in Conneclicul November 2, 
18;5li. During the \\':\v <if the Revolution, he 
served under his fathei-. :i Colonel in Washington's 
Army. This otticer who was ( >badiah (third), was 
lioi-nin ^lassachusetts. February 18. 1785, and his 
father, Obudiah (second), was born January 24, 



1701. He was married November 6, 1723 to Lj'dia 
Cleveland an immediate ancestor of ex-President 
(i rover Cleveland; then we come to Obadiah John- 
son the first whose birth is not given. The family 
record can be traced back for one genpratic)n more 
to Isaac Johnson who was born in Engl.'ind and 
came over in the •■Arabella" in 1628. 

The father of our subject was a graduate of the 
Medical Department of Yale College, through 
which he made his own way by hard work. In the 
beginning of his practice he removed to Lansing 
Township, Tompkins County, which was then 
almost a wilderness, there he found the lad}- who 
became his wife. In January, 1839, he removed to 
Aurelius. Cayuga County, and located on a farm 
to be relieved from practicing his profession, which 
was becoming too heavy for him in his declining 
years. He came to Lansing, Mich., in 1848 and 
died here at the age of seventy years. He w.as a 
Universalist in his religious belief. 

Sarah S. Bacon was the maiden name of the lad\- 
who became the mother of our subject, and she 
was born in Lansing, Tompkins Count}-, N. \., 
being a daughter of Daniel Bacon, a native of 
Connecticut, who was an early settler in Lansing 
which was called Milton at that time. He was 
Justice of the Peace for a number of years and a 
farmer, and died at the age of forty years. He 
was a .son of Pierpont Bacon a native of Connecti- 
cut. Mrs. Sarah Johnson died in Lansing, when 
.she had reached the age of three-score and ten. 
Her two children were our subject and Frances P., 
who is now INIrs. 1). 11. B. Sliank. residing in Lans- 
ing. 

Our subjc'-l was reared in Lau.>ing. \. Y.. until 
he reached the age of eighteen years, taking liis 
education in the district schools and helping his fa- 
ther in thi' ilrug store, \\lien the family removed 
to Cayuga County he took further scholastic ad- 
vantages in the Cayuga Academy and the .\ubiu'n 
Academy and two or three years later settled (»n 
his latln'rV fanu of one hundred and fifty acres 
two :\)\i\ one-half miles east of Cayuga. That 
pr(i|iiil\ was located on tlie main turnpike, com- 
ing from llic A\'est. which was then the great thor- 
oughfare for emigiation. He operated this faini 
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stage from Dexter to this city. Here he spent the 
winter and in thespring of 1849 he purcliased and 
made his lionie on a farm of two liiindi-ed and 
seventy acres upon section 7, DeWitt Township, 
Clinton County. Tliis property was only partially 
improved and he began farminu; in true pioneer 
style. He placed excellent buildings on this prop- 
erty and had a fine flock of three hundred sheep and 
having it well improved liy 18(11, he sold it and 
came to Lansing where he purchased one hundred 
and twenty acres in the south part of the city in- 
side th(! corporate limits. Here again he built and 
made improvements and again located on Grand 
River, wlierehe followed farming and stock-raising 
for thirty years until 1891, when he sold his prijp- 
erty and retired from active business to a beau- 
tiful ho7ne whuli he purchased in the city of 
]>ansino. 

. In Montezuma, X. Y., Mr. .lohnson was married 
May 31, 1848 to Miss C. Elmina Topping who was 
born In that town December 1, 1825. Her father. 
Deacon Topping, was born in Morristown, X. .1.. 
and lived there until he reached the age of nine 
years when he came to Caynga County and gi'ew up 
to he a farmer there and a Deacon in the Baptist 
Cliurch. He w-as a surgeon in the War of 1812 
and was stationed at Lewistown, Canada, where 
he died at the age of fifty-six. The grandfather, 
Harris Topping, was a New Jersey farmer, who in 
his early life settled in New York. He was of 
English descent and was active in the Revolution- 
ary A\'ar. 

The mother of oui' snl)ject's wife who was known 
in maidenhood as Betsey Atwood, was l)orn in 
Rensselaer County, X*. Y. Her father, Isaac Atwood 
was an Englislunan who died in New Voi'k when 
she was quite young. She died at the age of eighty- 
three at the house of her son Dr. Tojiping at De 
Witt. She was an earnest and .active member of 
the Baptist Cliurch. Of her nine children five 
grew to maturity and Mrs. Johnson was the young- 
est daugliti'r and was educated in .Montezuin.i and 
at tile Oswego College. 

Tlic cliildren of .Mr. and Mrs. .lohiiMin have (h-- 
veloi)ed traits of elijiiMcter and abilities whieli may 
well make their parents rejoice that tliey have been 
able to give them op[)ortunities in life. Tlieir 



eldest, Helen S., is now Mrs. L. H. Briggs of Mar- 
quette; Frank B. is the Mayor of Lansing and be- 
sides his oilicial duties still keeps an interest in his 
grocery business; Charles T. is a fruit grower in 
this city and Herbert E. their youngest is a busi- 
ness man here. 

Lucius D., who was next to the youngest in age 
was a youth of precocious ability. He graduated 
before he was twenty-one and was admitted to the 
bar at the age of eighteen. He took the degree of 
Bachelor of Laws in the Law Department of the 
University of Michigan and engaged in practice 
here, serving as City Attorney two tei-msand also 
as Circuit Court Commissioner. He was considered 
"Nature's Lawyer" and was, as he has been called 
•'a complete bundle of law." He died at the age 
of thirty-two Feltruary 2.j. ls;91. passing awav at 
the home of his father. No man stood higher in 
the community than did this young man as lie had 
the confidence of the people and also of the pro- 
fessional men and it was a common saying that 
"Lucius Johnson knew everything." Between the 
ages of eighteen and twenty he assisted Judge 
Cooly of Ann Arborin compilinglaw books, which 
are now published under the name of Cooly's Edi- 
tion of Criminal Law Pleadings. He was a Demo- 
crat in his political views. 

He of whom we write has been a surveyor and 
civil engineer and laid out many roads in DeWitt, 
Clinton County, lie and Dr. Slunik was the first 
Masons to enter tlie order in Lansing. He is a 
Democrat in politics and a Iniversalist in his 
church connections and a iiiaii whose ])rosperil\' is 
rejoiced in by .ill who know him. 



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1^ EDW.VRD ROE. It has often been said 
that the live young business men of any 
city are wliat keeps the blood of the com- 
_^ iiuinity in circulation. Tlie men wlio :ire 
well est.ablislied in years and wealth are often con- 
lent to sit back and enjoy the pros|)erity which 
they have M) hardly eaiiied in their yonnger d.avs. 
and they are not so active ami .■dive to the inter- 



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ests of the community nor so ready to push with 
a good will any enterprise for the upbuilding of 
the town. To the young man we must look for 
such aggressive action, and in such as our subject 
Lansing, Ingham County, i.s rich. 

Mr. Roe, wlio is the Secretary and Treasurer of 
the Lansing Iron & Engine Works, was born in 
Ithica, N. Y., March 24, 1862. His father, Nathan- 
iel .1. Roe, had his birth in Caroline, Tompkins 
County, N. Y., May 14, 1833, and the grandfather, 
John M., was born near Owego, N. Y. He was 
the son of Capt. William Roe, who was born on 
Long Island and served with Gen. Putnam in the 
Ilighlnnds through the Revolutionary War and 
died in Caroline, Tompkins County. The family 
was originally from French Huguenot stock and 
came with William Warren to England, whence 
tliey migrated to this countr\- generations ago. 
The name was formerly spelled DeRoe. 

The grandfather of our subject was engaged in 
the manufacture of pine lumber in Caroline and 
was a successful business man and a AN'liig in his 
political views. His son Nathaniel was his assist- 
ant in the business and became a jjractical sawder. 
Somewhat later he took charge of the mill and 
farm and managed them until the water power was 
lost on account of a Hood. He then continued 
farming until 1869, when he put a tenant ujion the 
place and engaged as a clerk at Ithica until he 
came AVest. In 1874 he came to Lansing and here 
engaged in the grocery business which he is still 
carrying on. His excellent wife, who bore tlie 
name of Sarah Green and was a native of the same 
town as himself, is a daughter of Samuel E. Green, 
a hotel man and farmer at Caroline. Both she and 
the father of our subject arc active members of the 
Congregational Church and the father, who is a 
Democrat in his political views, served as Alder- 
man for one year. 

.1. P^dward Roe was the second child in a family 
of three and was reared in Ithica until his twelfth 
year, when he accomjianied his parents to Lansing 
in May, 1874. He attended Ihe High School here 
until just Ijefore the time tor his graduation, at 
the age of sixteen years, when he became Collec- 
tion Clerk for the Lansing National Bank. After 
serving in that capacity for eighteen mcniths lie 



became bookkeeper for one year and then teller, 
which office lie occupied for two years. 

In 1883 our subject liecame interested in the 
Iron i Engine works of Lansing, which are oper- 
ated l)y the firm of -larvis. Barnes (t Co., and 
taking a position with them, undertook the care of 
their books and their financial affairs. At tlie time 

I of the re-incorporation of this company in Janu- 
ary, 1 885, Mr. Roe liecame its Secretary and Treas- 
urer and since that date has held the position just 
named in tiiis rapidlj'-growing enterprise. 

It was in 1871 that the business with which Mr. 
Roe is connected was started on a small scale and 

j was not at first very successful. The original cor- 
poration failed and in 1880 it was revived in a 
small way and two .^ears later it was considerably 

j enlarged. These works are engaged in the manu- 
facture of engines, making a specialty of compound 

i engines for electric light purposes, and furnish a 
large number every year of these valuable adjuncts 
to our civilization. They also build boilers and 
engines of all kinds, making many for sawmills and 
manufacture the double-acting "Maud S." pump 
for windmills and ordinary wtlls and "Picket 
Mills." Their building occupies over a block and 
is the second largest manufactory in the city, em- 
bracing among Its other works a foundry and 
other necessary adjuncts. It is one of the largest 
manufacturing establishments in Michigan and the 
^econd largest of its kind in the State. They 
build the only first-class compound steam engine 
made in Michigan, and i)roudly claim that the 
product of their manufacture uses the least fuel 
for acquiring the greatest power. They also l)uild 
stand-pipes and other items too numerous to men- 
tion. The business extends over the entire CnitiMl 
States amounting to over §30(t, (*('(> a year. 

The subject of our sketch has a beautiful resi- 
dence on Capitol Avenue which is presided over 
most charmingly by his accomplished and amiable 
wife. Mrs. Roe takes a special pleasuii in lieaiiti- 
fyiiig hci- lioiuc nnd mlding to its attractiveness in 
every way. Mu' i> ;i delightful elocutionist and 
her sjeneral i'ultur<' (•o^re^p^llld^ wi-U with the iiiic 
education of lici husband. They were married in 
Troy. Ohio, .luly 25, 1888, and her maiden name 
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Ohio, and lluMo >Ih' \v;i> tthioitcd. t^oinplotiiij; her 
studies ill tlii' Ada Noiiiial and iiiaduatiiiii- also at 
the Clevehiiid .School of eloiulion in lf<Hl. Pro- 
vioiis to in'i- inaniaLjc she jiavo roadiiiiis in many 
proiniiuMit towns tiirough Ohio and Michiu:an. Siic 
is a iikmiiIkt of the Congregational Cliurch and 
aetive in diffeieut I'liiircli lieiievolciK'ii's. 

IJesidi's his lioiiie (iropc'rty.Mr. Koc o\vii-a nuinlicr 
of excellent luiildiiig spots in l^ansinji. He travels 
some for tiie coiii|)aiiy, ,i;<>ing out upon the road to 
interest purchasers in tlie product of their factory. 
He is a member of the l' and I Club and is Senior 
AVarden in the Order of Kniiihts Templar liesidcs 
being a ineinber of the Free and Accepted Masons 
and of the Hoyal Arch Masons. His political affi- 
liations are with the Democratic party, but he lias 
little time to devote to politics otherwise than to 
do his duty al the polls as a man and citizen. 



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^^\ ARC^llS 1). TODD. Anioiiii- llie prominent 
and enterprising business men and finan- 




ciers of Lansing we are pleased to mention 
Mr. Todd, who is Cashier of the Ingham 
County Savings Hank — one of tlic shrewdest and 
most successful men in this city. He was born in 
Otsego County, N. Y., at Toddsville, April 1. 1834. 
His father, Zcrah, was liorn in New England and 
was an early settler of Otsego County, and the 
village in which our suliject was born received it.s 
name from his family. 

The fatlier of this gentleman took part in the 
War of 1812 and when (piite young did signal ser- 
vice for tlie American army, riding a horse from 
Sandy Creek to Hilllown, carrying the informa- 
tion that the English were coming, that it might 
reach Sackctt's li.irlior in lime to save the day. 
Like the good horse, Koland. who "lirought the 
good news from (ihent to Aix" this noble steed 
fell dead at the end of his journey. 

Zerali Todd afterward engaged in woolen iiiaii- 
iifacture and set u|) tlie tirsl loom which was placed 
in Otsego County. About the year |.s:i.") he re- 
moved to I'oitlanilville and otablislied a woolen 



factory and in 1814 went to West Lawrence where 
he engaged in the same business, in which he was 
very successful, being a hard worker and a good 
liiiancler. He helped to build the first dam in the 
Siiscpiehaniia River at Portlandville. A tanner\ 
below drew olT the water and he began a suit which 
lasted ten years, but which he finally won. About 
the year 18o(i he went to Oriskiny Falls, Oneida 
County, to enter upon the woolen business with a 
son. He died there in 18,53 at the age of fifty-four 
3'ears from a carbuncle. One of his brothers was a 
dcM'tor in I'ultnev, ^\'!lyne County, X. Y., one is a 
farmer and merchant at Toddsville. The son of 
another brother, Charles, is a prominent attorney 
in St. Louis, Mo. His political sympathies led him 
into the Whig party and he was prominent in the 
Masonic order. Me traced his ancestry from some 
of tlu' best blood of New England and trained his 
children to believe that the honorable lineage from 
which they came demanded of them true and noble 
lives. 

The mother of our subject w.as known in her 
maidenhood as Almira M. McKey. .She was born 
near I'tica, X. Y., and when sixteen years old rode 
on horseback behind her father to .Jefferson County, 
a tri]} of one hundred miles. They located there 
near Ellisville, on Sandy Creek, a point which was 
much sought by the Indians during the War of 
1812, and during the times of conflict they used 
(Grandmother ]McKey's stores of linen to bandage 
the wounded. .lotham McKey, the father of Al- 
mira, was a large fanner on Sandy Creek, and he 
lived to (luite an advanced age. He belonged to 
an old Eastern family of Scotch descent. After 
the removal of the family to Oswego- it became 
their permanent home and the mother of our sub- 
ject remained there through life. She passed awa.\' 
in 1890 having reached the age of almost ninety- 
four years. She was a devout member of the 
Episcopal Church and a woman of great benevo- 
lence, which is shown by her rearing two orjihans 
besides her own nine children. 

The children of this hou.seliold were, Lodema, 
Mrs. Welsh, who resides in Iowa; Zerali A., a lum- 
ber dealer and merchant who makes his home in 
Madison County, X. Y.; Ardelia, Mrs. Riciiards, 
who lives ill Oswego C<iiiiity; Maria, Jh's. Curtis, 



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of Seattle; Julia, Mrs. Sanborn, who died in Oswego 
County-, N. Y.; Franklin, who died in Leelanaw 
County, this State; Horace, a farmer in Oswego 
Count_y. N. Y.; Marquis D., our subject; and Mary. 
Mrs. Brand, who died in Utica, N. Y. 

Having been reared in Portlandville, Otsego 
County, N. Y., after ten years the boy removed to 
West Lawrence, same county, and resided there for 
five years before going to Oriskiny Falls. After 
attending the common district schools he completed 
his education at Eastman's Commercial College, 
Oswego, and worked in a factory learning the busi- 
ness of a woolen manufacturer. At the age of twenty 
he took charge of a jack of two hundred and forty 
spindles which he worked himself. This was too 
much for him and leaving this work he began 
clerking in a general store at Oswego and also 
took a complete course at Eastman's Commercial 
College in that city. In 1855 he came West and 
tried to get a job as bookkeeper in Ottawa, LaSalle 
County, 111. Not succeeding in this he went into 
the carpentry business with his brothers, working 
in this way for some eighteen months. 

Returning to Oswego, N. Y., in the fall of 1867, 
he acted as clerk in his brother's hotel for one year 
and then availed himself of an opportunity to buy 
some land in Leelanaw County, Mich., and removed 
there October 6, 1870. lie also bought some tim- 
bered land at Glen Arbor, going there with some 
S>1,000 in cash. He started a store and kept it in 
operation for seven years and came out with 
149,000, with liabilities to the amount of 112,000. 
He disposed of his entire property and returned 
to New York. Previous to his removal to the 
East he built the bridge across the Narrows which 
are one hundred and twenty rods long at (ilen 
Lake, doing this in ninely days, and he made 
$3,000 in three months. 

In 1868 Mr. Todd was united in marriage in 
Oneida County, N. Y., to Miss Lizzie J. Holmes, 
daughter of Philo Holmes, a farmer in that county. 
This lady had taught after completing her school 
education up to nearly the time of her marriage. 

The young couple now came West and settled 
at Farwell, Claire County, this State, where Mr. 
Todd engaged in the hardware business. After 
six years he was urged by Mr. Scott Garrish to ao 






into the mercantile business with him. They es- 
tablished the finest store on that road and had a 
trade which reached #2.300 in one day, carrying 
general stock and lumber supplies. This business 
was continued for one year only at a profit of 
$20,000 although they had to run accounts with 
many of their customers. They sold out to "Little 
Jake," of East Saginaw, and disposed of the whole 
business, real estate and all, in the fall of 1879. 

Mr. Todd then came to Lansing and bought out 
Hibbard & Klocksiem and engaged in tLe grocery 
business with a nephew, under the firm name of 
Todd (k Sanborn. After operating it for six 
months they sold, and bought the grocery store of 
Allen Nichols which they placed under the man- 
agement of Mr. Klocksiem for three years, part of 
which time om- subject spent in Dakota where he 
was engaged in buying and selling land. He 
bought property in the counties of Cass and La- 
Moure from the Northern Pacific Railroad and 
operated farms, each of which comprised a section 
of land, and upon them he raised wheat and other 
grains. He at one time owned four and a half 
sections of land in LaMoure County and remained 
there for nearly three years. He still has land in 
both of those counties as well as real estate at 
Fargo and at Morehead, and there is said to be no 
finer land in Dakota. 

In June, 1885, he of whom we write helped to 
organize and inaugurate the work of the People's 
Savings Bank of North Lansing, and for the first 
year he was one its Vice-Presidents and Directors. 
He then withdrew from that bank and upon No- 
vember 1, 1886, he started the Ingham County 
Savings Bank, in which he became Cashier and 
Director. This institution has been remarkably 
successful as it has nearly doubled its money in 
five years besides paying five per cent, interest on 
deposits. It is called the most successful bank in 
iu the county, having a eapit.al of $50,000 and a 
surplus of $40,000 made in four year's business. 
The President of this institution is the Hon. H. H. 
Smith, of Jackson. In connection with their bank- 
ing business they also have a safety deposit vault 
for the accommodation of the citizens. 

]Mrs. Todd is a lady of more thau ordinary abil- 
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Siiiulay-.sfhool and Ladies' Society of the Coiifrre- 
gational Church, to wliich they l)elong, and for 
the building enterprise of which they gave gener- 
ous assistance. She presides with grace and dig- 
nity over the pleasant home on (4rand Street, one 
of the handsomest residences in Lansing. His 
|)()Iitical convictions ally him with the Republican 
party and he is an earnest worker for its success. 
His one child, Juna May, is studying in High 
School and will graduate in the Class of ".)."{. Slic 
is also pursuing the stnd\- of music in which she 
promises to be a proficient. 



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■\y\ RS. LYDIA A. SWKKT. A srood woman is 
'V one of the most gracious gifts of (Jod to 
^' mankind. She v>f whom we write has been 
nobly endowed by nature and her native 
talents have been polished and beautified by ecluc- 
ation and culture, and as the years have p.-isscd 
and chastenings have conic lo her as to otliers, 
a sweet spirit of resignation has settled like a 
benediction over her character, giving it a gentle 
dignity and sweet reserve. She has known the 
blessings of wifehood and motherhood, and lias 
dignified her position in either case. She is the 
widow of iL A. Sweet and now makes hoi resi- 
dence in the town of Mason, Ingham County, 
wliere she is iiighly respected and esteemed. 

Mrs. Sweet is a daughter of .losej)!! K. Williaiiis. 
She was lioni in Xortln'ille. Livonia 'rowiishiii. 
Wayne County, this State, April l.'L l^t3;». If tiieie 
is anytiiiiig in pre-natal influences, her predilection 
for inlcllectiial pursiiils is ;iccouiitcd for by tlie 
fact that her (larents were both teachers, her mother 
b^^ing so engaged in tlie town of Xortliville on be- 
coming .acquainted with .Mr. ^^'illialns. They were 
married at Nortlnille and there liegaii lioiisekeep- 
ing. tiic father continuing his work .as a teacher. 
An irreparable loss was sustained in tlie eliildhood 
of our suliject by the decease of her mother, wlieii 
tlie child was <mly two years of age. Thereafter 
>he made her home in various t'ainilies. ;ind al- 
tlioiigli her f.'itlier was -^till enir.'m'ecl in ivlui-atioiiMl 



work, she was under his loving guardianship. In 
those days it was not thought so essential that a 
woman should receive the advantages of higher 
education, and Miss \\'illiams did not enjoy excep- 
tional opportunities in an educational wa}', and 
when only sixteen yejirs of age — u mere child, as 
one would say — she was married, her wedding 
being celebrated on Thanksgiving Day, November 
25, 1855. Her husband was a Mr. Henry S. Ben- 
nett, who was by occupation a carpenter and 
farmer. 

Henry S. Bennett, our subject's first husband, 
went to California in 1852 or 1853. Losing his 
health there he returned to Michigan and his 
decease took jilaee in 18Gtl. There are no surviv- 
ing children as the issue of the first marriage 
although our subject lost one son at about the 
age of four years. His name was Adelbert and the 
blow was a severe one. The original of our sketch 
was married a second time, February 2, 1861, to 
Mr. E. A. Morgan, who had been a soldier in the 
Mexican War. and was also in the Civil AVar, hav- 
ing enlisted as a private in the Fifth Michigan 
Infantry in l.sCl. He died in May. 18(>2, of 
rheumatism. There were no children of the sec- 
ond marriage. 

It seemed that our subject had seen enough of 
trouble .and woe, and she hoped that some happi- 
ness was yet in store for her in the companionship 
of a true and good man. She was again united in 
marriage, March 9, 1865, to Mr. ^I. E. Sweet, who 
was a prosperous and prominent grocer of the town 
of Mason, lie was a self-made man in every sense 
of the word, and the striking eimtrast between his 
slender resources at the beginning of his first ven- 
tui'e and his striking financial success before his 
decease marks him to have been a person of ability 
and judgment. He started out with only *35, but 
this pid\ed to be like Aladdin's magic coin that 
turned into gold everything it touched. Before 
his decease he built the block which is now known 
.as the I'ioneci' Block, and which at present is owned 
by his widow, our subject. Two children were 
the outcome of this marriage, by name. Nettie and 
AUie M. Nettie was born in Mason. ,Iune 1, 1867. 
."^he was graduated from tlii' Mason High School 
I when she was eighteen years of age. and soon 



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after became tlie wife of Thomas McMauaman, a 
builder and eoiitraetor in his busi7iess calling, and 
she makes her home at present in Middlesboro, 
Ky. She is the mother of two bright and inter- 
esting children. The second child, Allie M., was 
born in Mason, March i), 1877. She is a bright 
and i)rogressive young lady deeply engaged in the 
pursuit of her studies, being a student in the JIason 
High School. 

Our subject's [)alernal grandfather was a soldier 
in the Revolutionary War, and was taken ])risoner 
by the British. A souvenir of his prison experi- 
ence has been treasured by his descendants. It was 
a box, elegantly carved by hand, with the work of 
which he employed himself during the long days 
of his confinement in i)rison. This was owned by 
Mrs. Sweet, who regarded it as one of her most 
precious keepsakes, until the year 1872, when it 
disappeared from the house, probably stolen. Mrs. 
Sweet was again subjected to the grief of bereave- 
ment, her husband passing away February 21, 
1880. Mr. Sweet had been a Democrat all his life, 
but was never an otHce-seeker. 



<*! IV-ILLIAM LEE CLARK, was born in Wil- 
\rs,j// mington. 111., .lanuary 1, 1859, and when 
^^/^' but one year old his parents removed to 
Yorkville. in the same State. On the breaking out 
of the war his father enlisted in the army, and 
while away from home our subject being at the 
time about four years of age, the mother died, 
wiiereupon he was brought to tiie Inmie of his 
grandparents in Bunker Hill Township, Ingham 
County, and here he remained until January 2, 
1865, when he came to his ])resent residence in the 
town of Mason. 

As a boy, he of whoni we write attended the 
public schools of Mason until .July 5, 1870, when 
he commenced to learn the art preservative in the 
Tiigham County News printing oflice under Ken- 
dall Kittridge, Esq., where he continued with the 
exception of a short time spent at school, until 



March 31, 1873, when he went to Lansing and 
was employed on the Lansing Journal under Col. 
George P. Sanford, where he set the first type 
placed in a stick in the building now occupied by 
the iState Democrat. In 1875 he returned to Mason 
and again entered school, where he continued 
greatly interested in his studies foi' one year. 
In .lanuary, 1K7(J, he went to Charlotte, Eaton 
County, and was there employed on the liepubli- 
caii foi- three years, under his first preceptor in the 
business, Mr. Kittridge, and the following year he 
coiitiniK'il under Mr. Kittridge's successor. Gen. 
D. B. Ainger. 

Mr. Clark in .January-, 187;», went to I'.aton 
Rapids and again entered the employ of Mr. Kit- 
tridge as foreman of the Eaton Rapids Jovriial, in 
which jiosition he remained for eighteen months. 
About this time, a very imi)ortant event occurred 
in his career, which was no other than that of tak- 
ing to himself a wife. His bride was INIiss Millie 
Brosseau. of Charlotte, and their nuptials were 
solemnized September 23, 1880. Immediately after 
marriage oui- subject went to North Lansing, where 
for two months he was in the em|)loy of the firm 
of Clark & Lewis,who were engaged in the drug and 
grocery business. This firm failing in business he 
returned to his old home in Mason, and in the 
latter part of February, 1881. again commenced 
work upon the paper where he began to learn his 
profession l)ut this time taking a position as fore- 
man instead of apprentice. Thus he was engaged 
for nearly nine years. 

During his residence in Mason Mrs. Millie Clark 
died .January 22, 18^12. and was interred at (irand 
Rapids. December 3, 1 88,'), he was married in Mason 
to Mi.ss Delia Barber and lives pleasantly in a com- 
fortable, though not expensive home in that city. 

In September, 1881), the original of our sketch 
purchased the interest of D. I'. AVhitmore in the 
Inylmm Covnti/ Democrat, the firm now liearing the 
name of AV. L. Clark it Co., ]Mr. A. L. Rose, who 
learned his trade in the oflice and who has held all 
the positions from "devil'" to proprietor, lieing the 
"Company." The business of the paper h.as con- 
stantly increased under its present management, 
last year being the most prosperous in its history 
and this year promises to be a still better one. 




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Mr. Clark is FinaiiL-ial Secretary of the Mason 

BiiildiiiiT and Savingfs Association, wliere he is 
sorving iiis fourth year. He has been an ollicer of 
this association from its organization, liaving been 
both Vice-President and President. He of wliom 
we write has a reputation in tlie comnuinity of 
l)eing an '• all 'round good fellow," with whom 
everbodv likes to associate. 




^1 AYTOX ,1. BUCK. The stirring young 
business men of Lansing, Ingham County, 



A are a power which cannot be ignored in 
studying the history either commercial, 
social or educational of the city of Lansing. They 
imiwrt to its every de|)artment of activity a vital- 
ity which is pniductive of great results. It is not 
aliiiic what tliey do, although that is worth our 
observation, but more than that is im|)lied in tlie 
intluence which they exert anil the atnuispliere 
which they create. 

.Mr. Buck, who is the present City Treasurer and 
one of the most prominent of our active luisine.^s 
men, is the son of Daniel W. Buck of whom our 
reailers will be [jleased to know more by icferring 
to ins biogiaphy which will lie found in this 
volume. The son was born in Lansing, August 
22, lnr)4, and having grown to manhood here is 
known to every one in the city. He completed 
his schooling at the city High .School and Bartlett's 
Business College. In 1872 he bought a stock of 
fiiinitiirc in North Lansing and engaged in the 
sale of tli.'it class of goods. For eight months he 
carried on this business and then sold it out to 
enter the employ of his father, serving him as 
bookkeeper until 1X7;"), when he formed a partner- 
ship with his f;ither in the furniture business and 
in IHH.) became the sole proprietor of the establisli- 
iiieiit. Besides this branch of business he also acts 
as funeral director and is building up an excellent 
business in this line, for whii'h he is well adajitcd. 
The building in which Mr. F>uck's business is 
carried on was erected some years ago, but it was 
improved and a new front added in 18SKI. In May 



of the same year Mr. Buck took as a partner in his 
business his brother Bailey M. thus making the 
firm M. .1. it 15. JI. Buck. He h.as a double store, 
measuring 44x267 feet upon the ground and it is 
well filled with a fine line of goods; an elevator 
adds to the conveniences of the establishment 
which covers three floors and other modern con- 
veniences are added to make this store popular 
and commodious. The arrangement is exception- 
ally good and it is by far the largest establishment 
of its kind in Central Michigan, outside of (irand 
Rapids. Up to 1889 the firm also carried on the 
manufacture of furniture, making a large variety 
of excellent wares, but closed out this branch of 
the business at that time. 

In times of afflictiim an added pang is often 
inflicted upon those in sorrow through the mistakes 
and awkwardness and possible lack of consideration 
on the part of one who has the funeral in charge, 
and for this reason a man like Mr. Buck, who 
makes a study of his business and whose kindly 
heart impels him to lighten the burden of others, 
is doubly welcome in the house of sorrow. Mr. 
Buck is alwitys sought for in this capacity, as his 
thoughtfulne.ss is thoroughly appreciated by those 
who have had to pass through the dark shadows 
of life. In this connection it is well to remark 
that Mr. Buck has been made the l^resident of the 
State Association of Funeral Directors, which met 
in Traverse City in .Viigust, 1891. 

The marriage of ^Ir. Buck to Miss Lizzie A. 
Allen, daughter of .Vbraham Allen, took place 
February 8, 1878, but their happy wedded life was 
brief as the beloved wife was taken away by death 
November 7, 188(l. liailey M. Buck the junior 
member of the firm was liorii in Lansing, December 
28, 180.5. and was here reared and educated, grad- 
uating at Bartlett's lUisiness College. He then 
became ' book-keeper for his father and brother 
until 188,s, after which he entered into partner- 
ship with \Villiam \'anBuren (now United States 
Marshal) m the niaimfacturing of furniture at the 
Buck Furniture Factory. After operating this bus- 
iness for a year, they sold it (lut and in May. 1890 
Bailey M. became a partner with his brother in the 
jjrescnt firm. 

M. J. Buck is ideulilicd with the .Masonic lodges 



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fOBTKAJT A.\b BltJUKAJ'HlCAL ALi5l .\J. 



:iii(t Kiiiiilils 'IVinplMr in wli iclr order he lias for 
flc\rii yc;il> lu-lil ottiuc. ;ni(l now i> I'jisl Kiiii- 
luiit ( (iiimi.-iiKlcr. lie is ;i cluirtcr iiifiiiln'r mid iiu 
iilli(i;d ill Ihe Order of Klks ;iud is the t'litlier <il' 
llie lldjit ('lull vvliieli he iv-orwanized in 1.SM2 .iiid 
III' which lie has lieeii President I'ur two years. The 
(•rand lJi\er IJoat C'liili was lirst oiuanized in 1H72, 
wliieli organization is a ineinher of the North- 
western Amateur Iiowiiii; Association. .Mr. IJiick 
is the \'iee-l'residcnt of the Executive IJoard. lie 
has lieeii lillini; the oltiee of City 'I'l-easurer for two 
tei-nis, which |io>iiion was forced n|ioii him. as lie 
|>referred to dc\<ite hiin.self entirely to liis]i)rivate 
business. His |iolitical attiliatioiis arc with the 
Democratic party .-iiid in its future he feels .-i 
strouji: eontideuce. 

hi connection with his >ketch may lie found a 
lillii>i;iapliic portrait of .Mr. lluck. 



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11 AUI.KS 1). 1)()1 )(;]•;. I'lieiientleman who.se 
name heads this sketch is a man who has 
attained coiisidei;ilile prominence in the 
ea])ital city liy reason of his intelljoence and pro- 
ijressive tendencies and also his genial, frank and 
winning wa\s. lie is the engineer of the city 
w.atei-works and has lieen so engaged since 1S,S,"). 
lie has a very pleasant home at 117 Larch .SIreel, 
N. lie was horn at Ipswich. .Mass.. No\enilier 10, 
IHi:*. (oming to this cit\- in the meridian of his 
manhood lie was well fitted to take a leading place 
in the conduct of municipal .Mffairs. 

Our subject's fat her. llervey Dodge, was a native 
of IJeveily, .Ma.ss., and his grandfather. Samuel 
Dodge, who was also liorn in .Mas.s,«uhusetts. was of 
Knglisli descent, lie was in the Mar of \H\->. 
though lie had followed the .sea from boyhood. 
Ill' was owner and captain of a vessel that ])liod 
between lloston and the West Indies. On the i-e- 
tiirn from one of liis trips he was taken sick and 
died, while still comparatively .\'oung. Ilis wife, 
whose name before her marriage w;is Klizabetli 
Dane and :i luUiveof .Ma.s.saeliusetts, was a sister of 
Nathan Dane, a prominent attorney in that .State. 



The father of our sufiject u.-is a cabinetmaker ;ind 
a iiianufactiirer of furniture .-it I'tica. N. Y.. .'iiid 
from there he went to .\kroii. Ohio. Ilieiicc lo 
Oberlin :is a pioneer, and he and his wife were 
the (irst couple married in Oberlin, Lorain County, 
Ohio, by President .Malum. L.'iter he bec-ime .-i 
manufacturer of furniture in Oberlin. wjis burned 
out three times and suffered heaxy losso. He 
also ran a sawmill and at last became blind, tak- 
ing cold wliile at work In the sawmill. liillam- 
nialion set in in liis cyesand byt.-iking ox'er-doses 
of calomel, he becMiiie sali\aled and liliiidiiess re- 
sulted. He was, howex'er, so ambitious that he still 
continued to work at his trade and so delicate did 
his sense of t<iuch become that he was cnaliled t<i do 
the tinest work. He joined hi> children in Mich- 
igan in IKMO and here died in \XX:i ;it the age of 
.se vent \'-se veil years. He ii.-id formally years been 
a inemhei' of the Congregational Church. 

Mr. Dodge's mother was. in her maiden days. :\ 
Miss Angeline Stevens. She was born in P.ratllc- 
boro, N. II.. anil wa> a daughter of l'>rad>trecl 
Stevens, who w.as a ii.-iti\cof New llanipshire or 
Connecticiil. He w;i.- t\ fainicr in the northern 
part of X'ermont and one of the earliest settlers at 
Oberlin, Ohio, where he cleared a farm. The gen- 
th'iii.'ui was one of the princiiials in org.anizing tin' 
Oberlin College, being a.ssociated with President 
.M.alian. and was ime of the lirst Directors. He 
was of .Scotch descent and a member of the (dn- 
gregational Cliiirch. His wife was. before lii'r 
marriage, a .Miss lietsey Hartwell. also of Scotch 
descent .and a reiireseiitative of a prominent family. 

The mother <if the original of our sketch went 
to()liiowhen about si.\teeii yi'ars of age and was 
educated at Oberlin College. .She taught .school 
for years and died in l)SM(i while on a visit lo 
Cleveland. ()hio. to her daughter. She was at thai 
time an octogenarian; she was buried :i I Lansing. 
Mr. Dodge is one of six children, there being live 
sons anil one daughter. .\li are still living and 
.all reside in .M icliig;iii excepting the daiigliter, 
whose home is in Cleveland. He of whom we 
write is the second youngest child and tlu only 
one born in ilassachusetts. He was reared in 
Oberlin. 

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in the fnrt tliit diirinff war times he left lioine and 
detpnniiiinij to yet as near llie field of lialtle as 
possible, ran as newsboy when only fourteen years 
of ati'e on the Wabash and Michijian Southern 
Kailroad. lie ran between Toledo to the State 
line of Missouri and from Toledo to Chicago. He 
was so employed for about two years and then lie- 
eanie brai<enian on the Lake Shore iV Mieliiiran 
Sontliern between Cleveland and Toledo. Kigh- 
teen months were sjjent in this way and he was 
then |)Ut on as an extra l)au;gag'ema»ter on the same 
lK)int and rMilroa<l. During this time he witne.ssed 
some terrible casualties, having been in two acci- 
dents, one at Bellevue, Ohio, in which several of 
the passengers were killed, and the other the mem- 
orable accident of the Lake Shore A- Michigan 
Southern at Elkhart, Ind. 

When a little over eighteen our subject was ad- 
vanced to the position of llreinan on the Cleve- 
land At Pittsburg Railroad and remained in this 
position for four years and eight months. He 
then became engineer and was thus employed for 
eleven yeai>. At the end of that time he resigned 
and entered the employ of the Nlekle Plate road 
between Buffalo, New York and Chicago as engin- 
eer on a construction train. After a short time he 
ran as engineer between Bellevue and Ft. Wayne, 
and remained there until he left railroading, re- 
signing in 18H2. He was about twenty-one years 
on the road and although in three different acci- 
dents he had collided with other ti'ains he was 
never hurt. 

In \XH2 the original of our sketch started in tiie 
coal and wood business in this city. For one year 
he conducted the business alone anil then took in- 
to pai'tnership Lawrence Price, and the business 
was done under the lirui name of Price Ar Dodge 
until IJSS,"). At that time he sold out his intert st 
and soon after was appointed by the Board of 
Water Works as engineer and has since had charge 
of this branch of the city government. The 
Worthington pump is I'lnployed in tlu'se water 
works wiiich art' of high and low pressure and are 
supplied with two independent condensers. They 
have a cai)acity of three million gallons and have 
a motive power of two hundred .'ind eighty horse 
power. The stand-pipe is one hundicd aiul liftv- 



two feet in height, while the diameter inside is 
eighteen feet. It has a I'apacity of two thousand 
gallons to the foot. The care of these interests 
take all of his time and attention. Mr. Dodge i)at- 
ented a boiler cleaner in .\ugust, IMIMi. It is called 
the Dodge Automatic Boiler Cleaner. He has also 
altered the condensers used in the city so that they 
make a different style of spray. 

.Mr. Dodge's marriage took place in Salem, Col- 
umbiana County. Ohio, in 18711, at which time he 
was united in nialrimony to Miss Arta Snyder, 
who was a native of Pennsylvania, but reared and 
educated in Salem, Ohio, where she taught school 
nine years previous to her marriage. Our subject 
and his wife are the parents of five children — 
Charles .\., Frederick W., Frank II. and Helen E. 
Don M. died in early childhood at the age of 
eighteen months. 

The original of our sketch behmgs to the Free 
and Accepted Masons and the Royal Arcanum, and 
for many years he has belonged to the Division of 
Brotherliood Locomotive Engineers. Dr. Dodge 
affiliates with the Democratic element and has been 
a frequent delegate to both county and State con- 
ventions. He is a member of the Fifth Ward City 
Committee and whether in politics or the particular 
line of his own business, he is an ardent and en- 
thusiastic worker. 

It may be of interest to ni.'iny to know that the 
water that is supplied by the city of Lansing is 
obtained from artesian wells. There are fourteen 
in all that vary in depth from thirty-five to one 
hundred and fifty feet deep. The water that is 
obtained from these sources is exceptionally pure 
and is quite .as .satisfactory as any system in use in 
the State. The water that is kept in the pijjes is 
only sufficient for force itressiire and (•••m be readilv 
shut off. 



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AMES A. SHERWOOD. It must be a great 

satisfaction to a man in going through so 

licMufiful a town as is Mason, located in 

Ingham County, this State, to feel that he 

been instrumental in uplmildiug the jdace. 



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Iliat its -iilist;iiiti!il )>iiildiiii;s iire in a "real (Icait'c 
till' work i)l' liis hands and that the ideas of cdni- 
lurt in the nianniM- of li^•in^■. ha\f lieen liis own 
sniiiivstions. Our subject is a i-ontraotor and 
liuilder. niakiuir his home in Mason, and lie. in 
connection with the tinn with which lie is asso- 
ciated, has put up the lar;;esl nnnilier of l)uildiny;s 
and of the licst class, that the town lioasls. lie 
himself owns a \'eiv ))leasant home in the town and 
is the head of a family that adds <)reatly to the so- 
cial standiuy of the place. 

Mr. Shei'wood was horn at liyi'on. (ienesce 
( ounty. N. v.. :May 27. IH:!!. lie the son of .lohn 
and Ann ( \;in lirunt) Sherwood, the former a n.'i- 
ti\'e of Connecticut and the latter of New ^'ork. 
The father was a carpenter liy trade, and tlie first 
ideas that our suhject received of the liusiness to 
which lie now devotes himself were acciuired un- 
der the iiiiidiiiii hand of that skilled workman, 
.lohn Sherwood was a sfildier in the AVar of 1H12. 
He resided near Buffalo and offered his services at 
foui' different times to protect tiie State from the 
incursions of the British. He survived until 1H(!(I, 
and was ahoiit seventy-three years of age at the 
time of his decease. He left a widow and eiyht 
children, of wliich our suliject is the thii'd in order 
of birth. Six of the family .•ire still livint;' and 
wherever they are located, have made useful and 
honorable members of society. One of our sub- 
ject's brothers. (Jeoriic W.. who now lives in .l;ick- 
son County, served in the War of the Rebellion 
for four years and a half, and the |)aternal Grand- 
father. Nathan Slierwood. served in the Uevoln- 
tionary War for a period of seven years, and was 
with Washinjiton's Army diirinu' the menioi'able 
winter spent at X'alley Forsje. 

The original of our sketch worked with his 
father at liis trade for a period of a year or more 
after lie was orown. His marriage took place De- 
cember 1. I(S;")8, his bride being Aliss Matilda K. 
.Smith, a native of Kngland. in which country she 
was liorn .laniiary (>. 1H8(;. .She nas a daughter of 
(ieorge K. Smith, and came to Ameiica with her 
parents when about seven years of age. .lames 
Sherwood followed his occuitation until his eiilist- 
nient m the War of the lU-bcllion which occurred 
in Decembei', I8(il. .Vfterabout fourteen months' 



ser\'ice he was disi-harged on .-iccount of disability. 
He was in the battle of Cellar Mountain, also at 
Kappahaiiiiock Bridge, at Thoroughfare (iap. at 
the fight of the second Bull Hun. and at Cliantilly. 
He enlisted again in December 1H7;!. and this time 
he remained with the army until ()ctobcr ."). IS(l."i. 
and diii'ing this |ieriod x\a> in llic battle of (Old 
Harbor, and then in front of rctcrslnirg. ;iiid at 
Reams Station, where one-half of their corps were 
captured. He was a participant in many skir- 
mishes, too numerous to mention, and it was a fa- 
miliar trick to dig holes in the ground to kcc]) out 
of range of linrsting shells. The (iist time he en- 
listed he was a member of the ( )iie Hundred and 
l'"iftli Infantry. Coniiiany K, and the second lime 
he belonged to Company I. of the I'^ighlh Heavy 
New York .Artillery. He who so loyally gave his 
time anil took the chances if war. is the recipient 
of a pension, of which he is more than deserving. 

The month .after returning to his family from 
the war. he iiio\ed his household gods and goods 
to N'evay Township, Ingham County, this State, 
where two children were born, two having pre- 
vionsh been born in New York State. Carrie H.. 
the eldest daughter, liorn October 1. ix.'ili. is a 
teacher in the schools of ^lason. from which she 
giadiiated. She has been very successful in the 
educational work, as is [iroven by her continued 
employment in the schools of ^lason. where she 
has been teaching for several years. Ni'llic who 
was born September ^t. IM()(i. became the wife of 
William Woodbine, and died February 2K. IHM;"); 
Ada. born in Michigan. .Inly li. ISOS. is the wife 
of .lohn N. Smith. She is the mother of two 
bright and interesting children. Her family makes 
their home in Mason; Irene, born .Iiily .'!. iSTd. 
died at the age of nineteen and was greatly 
mourned by her young friends with whom she had 
been associated in school and society as well as her 
own immediate family. She had graduated from 
the Mason High School the same year in which 
she died. 

Our subject entered the partnership of Peek A* 
Sherwood, in 1.S74, the linn having been instiai- 
mental in erecting some of the best Imildings in 
Mason. 'They handle all manner of building ma- 
terial, .-ind are closelv connected with the growth 



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ot' the IdWli. lie <>( \\hnlll \vc wiitc liMS cvi'l' lilkfll 
a lively iiitcivsl in |iiilili(>, I'avoiiiiii' the tactio of 
the DiiiKicrMlic imrtv. Ili- has hfcii TroaMiivr in 
MaMin t'lir Ihice teiHi>. lie i> a iiiciiiluT ot'lhi' 
Masonic trati'iiiilv. and like most iif tliose who 
look part in the leiriMe strn^aie lietween North 
and Sonlh. i.- :i nu'inlier of the (Iraiul Ainiy i>{ the 
l{ei)ul)lie. lie is a Knight of Pythias, a lvnii;ht of 
llonoi'. and also lielonu> to the Koval Areanuni. 




)rp\ Kll'.KN 1!. IIII.I.IAI.'I). Our sul.je.l. al- 
thouuh the pidprietoi' of one hun(|i'e(l and 
forty aeies of yood land on st-ction x. Del- 
y phi Township. Injihani Comity. h.i~ foi- 
many year~ de\oted himself to Ihe nohle c'dlini;' of 
teaehiiiii. His has been the saered prixilejie to take 
yonnu' minds and develop and cultivate them, see- 
iiiii them l;i'ow from fol■mles^ disembodied >hapes 
to thinys of loveliness, and the Iraiiiiim' of the 
moral life he has always considered, not of secon- 
ilar\ im|iort:ince lint the prime olijeel in his work. 
First of all. a child mnsl have principles of honor 
ami hiiih-loned pinity iiiiirained into its whole 
knowleilLi'e and liein<i' lufor( any kind of a lieanli- 
ful slnictnie of intelliyvnce can lie erected. This, 
he of whom we lia\e the pleasure of writiiiji this 
short sketch, has (hnu'. 

.Mr. Ililli.Mrd was horn in ('henanjro Connly. 
N. v.. M;irch 2. IHI'i. and is the son of Dennison 
11. and I Ian iiali ( I lar\ i'\ ) 1 1 illi.'ird. the fat her .a na- 
tive of (dnnectienl. Iioi II April .'i. I 7M'.t. and of 
Kiiiilish ancestry, and llie mother lieini; liorii No- 
veiiihei- '2\. isns. li;i\iiiL; her nali\-e place in New- 
York Stale. lie of whom we wiitt'W.as alioiit four 
years of tio'c when hi> ])ai-ents renioxcd fi-om their 
lirst home to Delphi rownshiii.;iliont theyeai' IX|(i. 
Here he was rearecl on n farm, reeeivinff the liasis 
of his ednc.alion in the common schools, a flci' which 
lie attended a .select school and lini-hed :il llie 
lliiili School at Lansina'. this Siati . 

.Mr. lUlliard heiian his career a~ .-i tetuhei al the 
age of eighteen year>. his tiist effoits in this direc- 
tion lieini;' in Iheconnlrv >cliool> of hi~own(own- 



>hip. His winters were occupied in pedairogic work 
.•ind the sumineis in the work incident to a farm, 
in plantinir. cullivatiiii; and harvestiui;-. foi- which 
he had a ;creat likiliii'. He lin.-dly. however, alian- 
donecl country teaching and for the past twentv 
years has been eniiaged in teaching in the graded 
schools in different cities. The perfecth' outlined 
course of study employed at the ])resenl time, with 
the new theories in vogue in regJiid to mental 
training, have ;i fascination for one who h;is en- 
gaged for some time in the work of a teacher, for 
it has greatly improved, .-it least in the scope t>f 
woi'k if not .'dways in ii'enei'.al lhoidnL;hnes> upon 
the young mind. 

Our subject's marii.aiic took place August 2.'). 
IHT'.t. his bride beinu' Miss .\u?^nsla M. Smllli..M 
ilauu'hter of Frederick F.and .lane F. ( l{os>) Smith. 
She was born in Ionia County. .Mich.. Deceinbei- \(>. 
IH.")S. Her parents were natives of Ni'W York, hy 
this marriage there are two children who have 
come to irla<lden the homes and hearts of their 
parents. The eldest. I'l'cd S.. w;is born .lanu;ir\ 21. 
MH2. and the younuer. IJobert H.. Hr.-t opened his 
eyes November .'id. \HM. They are both bright 
and inlelliai'ul lads. ha\ iny' for their years made 
marked progre>s both in getting strong ph\siipie^ 
and in the developuu'iit of their minds. 

The oriiiinal of oui- sketch was formeily .-i Dem- 
ocr.at liut of late years he has atliliated with the 
members of the Farmer's .Mliance: striving to seek 
ftu' himself. .■!> well as to help his brother farmers 
do the same, a deiper appreciation among the peo- 
ple at lariic of the imi)ortance of the agricilllur'al 
class. Mr. Ililliaid ha> sexcial times served as 
School Inspector. and h;is been the means of bring- 
ing about many refoims and much improvement 
in the distrit-! scliool> in the county 1o which he 
iieloini,-. Althonah interested that the eoiiuty. and 
especially the p.art of it in which he resides, should 
ha\i' llie best local ii'i'vernmcnt anil the men be>t 
lilteil for the places to be al tlu' head, he has never 
in .Mny sense been a politician. He is a member of 
the Diseii)les Cliurcli anil isa generoujiand devoted 
ujiliolder of the belief anil doctrines of that bod.\ . 
Our subject '> father wa.» twice marrieil. (Irst .lunc 
U), 1^17. to I'olly .\nn .Miner who w.as born May 
22. 1 7'.i7. .'ind died .l.niuarv lo, IH37. haviug 



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been tlie mother of eleven children. Mr. Hilliard 
was again married February 5, 1838, to Hannah 
Harvey by whom he had eight children. He de- 
parted this life April 25, 1871, aged eighty-two 
years, and his wife died some years later. In this 
large family of nineteen children Reuben was the 
fourteenth in order of birth. Their names and 
dates are as follows: Diantha, born January 9, 1818, 
Lydia, December 29, 1819; Amos, June 21, 1821; 
Denison M., May 2, 1823; Nelson, November 6, 
1824; Cynthia Eunice, Decemher 8, 1826; Polly 
Angelina, M.ay 14, 1829; Martha S., January 30, 
1831; Jackson M., September 16, 1832; Henry R., 
September 5, 1835; Charles M., January 6, 1837; 
Amanda, July 25, 1839; Lee, February 4, 1841; 
Reuben B., our subject; Emily C, December 22, 
1843; James K. P., May 3, 1845; Lucy M., April 
10, 1847; Arabella A., November 7, 1849; Lienor 
A., J.anuary 30, 1852. 

Mr. Hilliard 's wife is the second in a family of 
four cliildren, all of whom are girls. They are El- 
vira 8., Mrs. Hilliard, Amelia and Elenore. The 
eldest daughter married John McCarthy and 
makes her home at Grand Rapids; Amelia married 
Thomas McCarthy, a brother of her eldest sister's 
husband, also of Grand Rapids; Elenore married 
Herbert Hartsufif and lives in Livingston County. 



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^^ APT. GEORGE FOAVLER. It is with sincere 
l( _ pleasure that the biographer responds to 
^^^'' the call to give the life facts in regard to 
any of our fellow citizens who fought for the honor 
of the old flag, during the dark days of the Civil 
War. The old blue coat, which is now becoming a 
thing of the past upon our puljlic thoroughfares, 
ever awakens a throb of genuine exultation and 
the spirit of reverential admiration, and in our 
hearts if not in the e3'e of man the empty sleeve 
and the faded old coat receive our homage. 

The good captain whose name aj'pears at the 
head of this paragraph, is one of tlie citizens of 
Lansing who has the respect of ,ill who know him. 
He was born in Gcneseo, Livingston County, N. Y. 



upon the 22d of July, 1835, and in the spring of 
the following year he came AVest witli his parents 
to this place now known as Fowlerville, Mich. His 
father Hon. Ralph Fowler, was born in Trenton, On- 
eida County, N. Y., October 26, 1808, and his grand- 
father Walter, who was a native of Massachusetts 
and a Major in the war of 1812, was a son of Capt. 
David, who served in the Revolutionary AVar. Maj. 
Walter was a lumberman in Oneida County, N. Y. 
and he married Lucy Campbell, who was born in 
Southwick, Mass., in 1772 and became Mrs. Fowler 
in 1792. 

This wedded pair journeyed to Oneida County, 
in 1798 and settled in Steulien and in 1808 tliey 
located in Trenton, where the Major died about 
1841. Ralph Fowler grew up on the farm, attend- 
ing school during the winters, .^nd at the age of 
twenty-two began life for himself. After one year 
he rented a farm with his brother-in-law and car- 
ried on a dairy business for two years successfully. 
Upon the 14th of April 1832, he was married to 
Martha Smith. In 1833 they came to (ieneseo, 
Livingston County, N. Y., and for one year rented 
a farm of Gen. Wadsworth, after which Mr. Fowler 
became home agent for the General, having charge 
of a part of his largest estate. He spent two years 
in his service and acquired during that time a fair 
education as the General sent him for three nights 
of each week during half of the one year to night 
school. 

In 1835 Ralph Fowler found himself possessed 
of f 2,000, and coming to Michigan made a home 
for himself by buying one section of (Tovernment 
land at Fowlerville, and the following year he 
brought his family. Two other families then fornj^d 
the population of this township, namely the ILm- 
dys and the Metcalfs. Mr. Fowler took an active 
part in organizing the township of Handy and w.as 
its first Supervisor, holding that office for many 
years and becoming one of its prominent men. He 
improved his land and laid out and named the vil- 
lage of Fowlerville. He was active in the construc- 
tion of the wagon road between Fowlerville and 
Howell and was very liberal to all church and ben- 
evolent olijects. 

The father of our subject represented his district 
in this Legislature in the session of 1843-44 



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and .'lijMin in tliMt <>( \X.'>\-.i'2 mikI nlso in pliiccd u|)i>n |i;ii<>ir was t'XC'liaiia*'fl i" October, 
till' special si's>i( 111 of l.H,")l. .-nid u.-is cliaiiiniiii of \Hit->. l'ii'\ ions to tliis cxcliaiiijc lie was promoted 



vaiious important coiiiiiiitlco 



Ic was a "I'rc 



liiil 1(1 the rank of First Lieutenant in (oiiipaiiv II. 



Democrat" and inllneiitial in his parly, and lie was 
an ;ictive woikci'and Class- Leader in llie .Methodist 
Kpiscopal Cliiirch. In l.ivins;- out l-"owlcrville he 
platted forty .acres in the \illaiie and liave awa\ 
evcr\' othi'r lot to an\' man who w(Mild Imild a 
home upcm it. Ilcliuiil Ihr hrsl store and follow<'d 
it up with nuincr()U.s other edifices, lie continued 
farmiim: and dealing in real estate until his death 
which took place. Sejitemher "ifi. 1HH7. 

The mother of our sulijcct. who liore the maiden 
of >Lartha Smith. w:is a daujihter of .lohn Smith a 
farmer and a burner of limestone in Herkimer 
County. \. V. After her death which took place 
in 1«J1. Mr. Fowler married Mrs. .Mary (Smith) 
Fowler, who was horn in N. V.. .and died Octoher 
;!. 1SS7. 1>\ the first marriau'c there were the fol- 
lowini;- children, (ieorue. Liic\ . who died in \H(ui; 
Ch.arles. who resides in Fowlerville: .loanna. Mrs. 
I'.alineiton: Walter li. who died in in fancy : and 
Walter the seconil. who also died. 

The hovhood of our suliject was pa-^scd in l-'ow- 
leivil le aniiiKl the suridnndiuu> of pioneer life. 
lie reniemliei's when this part of the country was a 
wild waste and iiaiiie was |)lentiful. He was eaily 
M'l to work. Iiut had the privileue of allendiui;- 
school in the winter at the loii sclioolhoiisi's whose 
slab lienches and (piill pens have gone (piite out of 
date. While -till cpiile a little lad he used to haul 
whe.at to Detroit, .and liiiut; goods hack lo p'owlei- 
ville. 

Henrietta S. L. I'less a native of ( oa'm.auy. became 
the wife of oui' subject at (ienoa'. .Midi.. .Inly .'!. 
IM.">.'i. Her fatlu'r Dr. .\iidrew I'less. was ;i surgeon 
in the (oain.an Army, who c.aine lo l,i\iugslon 
County. Mich., and bought a farm in (ieuoa Town- 
ship. The vouiig couple made their lirst home to- 
gether upon a farm in ll.andy Township, .and then 
for two vears had charge of a hotel at ISriuhton. 

The aniiv record of .Mr. l-"owler beii;iii August I. 
IHdI. when he eiilistol in Compauy K. Ninth 
Micliigaii Infantry. His lirst battle was at .Mur- 
freesboro. Teiiii.. .and .luly l.'i. he w.as woundeil 
tliroUL;h the riiiht hip by a iiiinie b.all. He was 
taken prisoner and received good care, and being 



First .Michigan Sharp Shooters, which he had lielpe<l 
to raise. He spent .seven inontlisat Cam]) Dfniglas 
Chicago, guarding the rebel prisoners, and then 
joined the Ninth .\riiiy Corps, at its le-oiganizatioii 
at .Viiimpolis. Ind. 

Suhse(|ueiit lo this he w.as a participant in the 
battles of the Wilderness. Castleview. .and Spolt- 
.sylvania ( ourl-house. doing ten days" lighting in 
these three hattles.and iijion .May l.'5. was |)roinoted 
to the rank of Captain. The previous da\ he 
w.as wounded in the left hip by a iniuie ball which 
p.assed through his hip. .and the s.ame da\' another 
minie h.all p.assed llirouiih the palm of his riirlit h.aiid. 
He wa- carried from the (iehi on a stretcher hv four 
men. and was taken to Washington and thence .sent 
home to stay till his recoxiay. which wasonh par- 
tial as it lett him a laippU'. He I'cported to De- 
troit and wa- placed upon provost guard dnl\ in 
assisting 111 gn.ard dcserter-s. He wa< mustered out 
at the close of the war. .luiic 2!l. IMIi.'i. .and heiin;- 
in a badly laippled condition he came to Lansing. 
where his wife had lix'cd since the war broke out. 

In IS(i7 (apt. Fowler became foreman for Huck- 
l.aud. .\lleu A- Wise, remaining with the tiiiii till 
IKMd. when he lost his right hand by an accident 
in the machinery. He now had to learn to write 
with his left li.and. which was an arduous task. In 
l.S7'.l and 1 .s.Sd. he served in the Seiiati' as second 
.Vssislaiit Seigi-ant .at .\riiis. anil in l««l and 1H«2 
be was First .Assistant in the same capacity. Before 
his term of ser\ice had expired he w.as .appointed 
City .Marshal of Lansing, for two years, and before 
that time had p.assed he was made Deputy Sheriff 
for foui- years, iimler Thomas .McKernon. lie also 
served two and one half years as Const.ahle. after 
he had acted for some time as a policeman. While 
.actiliea- Deputy-Sheriff he took up the bii>ine.s.s 
of collecting. 

Capl. l-"owler li.a> a (iroperly comprisiui; half .an 
;i(ae on the corner of l{i\er and Cherry Streets 
where he has just I'ompleteil three luindsome resi- 
dences. His home has been blessed liy the liirth of 
three dailL'htcis: .Maltie. who died .at the age of 
seveutecii: Flora who is a i;r.adiiale of ihe Hieh 



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School and was the assistant engrossing and enrol- 
ling clerk of the house of Representatives but is now 
holding a lucrative position in the department of 
the Labor Bureau; and (irace. He is identified 
with the Free and Accepted ^lasons, and witli the 
Royal Arch Masons and has been connected witli 
the Independent Order of Good Templars. He has 
held nearl\' all the oftices in the gift of Charles T. 
Foster Post, No. 42, (i. A. K. of which he is a char- 
ter memlier. The Methodist Episcopal Church is 
his religious home and he is active in its service, 
having l)een Steward for twelve years. He is strong 
in his belief of the policy and future of the Demo- 
cratic part^' and is a delegate to many county. 
Congressional and State Conventions, as well as 
being a member of the Democratic ward and city 
ct)mmittees. He is a gentleman whose character 
and abilities give him the respect of the community, 
and his enterprise and progressive ideas place him- 
in the front rank among business men. 



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•il? AWRENCE PRICE, who is Chief of Police 
(?§) and the Mar.shal of Lansing, is one of the 

"— ^'^ . most prominent me)\ in the city, not onlj' on 
account of his natural abilities ajid success in 
business, but also because of his war record, which 
shows him as a true and loyal son of his adopted 
country. He was born in County Tipperary, Ire- 
land, at Tempomore, upon the 27th of May, 
1 843. His father, JNIartin Price, was a farmer in 
Tipperary, and remained tliere until 1849, when 
he brought his family to America. They left 
Waterford, embarking upon a sailing vessel, "Cur- 
rimore," and having been five weeks and three 
days upon the ocean, landed at Quebec. They 
made their first liome at Lewiston, Niagara 
County, N. Y., which was at the head of naviga- 
tion. 

Martin Price, having the command of the trade 
i>f a mason, was able at once to find work in this 
capacity, but flnally drifted into agricultural pur- 
suits. In 1867 he came to Michigan and located 



in Lansing Township, Ingham County, where he 
bought a farm of eighty acres of well-improved 
land, adjoining the Agricultural College. His ex- 
cellent and faithful wife was a native of the same 
county as himself, and bore the name of Ann 
Piagan. She was a daughter of Low Kagan, and 
became the mother of nine children, of whom our 
subject was the third, Ijeing six years old when 
he came to America. 

The boy took an <:>rdinary common-school edu- 
cation at his home in Niagara County, N. Y., and 
afterward attended the academy at Lewiston. He 
remained at home until after the breaking out of 
the Civil War, and enlisted in the service of the 
Union army in August, 1862, entering Battery M, 
of the First New York Light Artillery. He went 
from Buffalo to All)aiiy, and from there was sent 
South, his batter}' being assigned to the Army of 
the Potomac. These raw recruits were at once 
sent into the thickest of the fight, and took part 
in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg and 
Chancellorsville. At this last battle the young sol- 
dier was wounded by a shell which exploded very 
near liim. llis arm wa-^ badly wounded, and he 
considers it a miracle that he did not lose it. For 
a short while he was in the field hospital, and then 
as he was doing well, he returned to cam[) instead 
of going on to the permanent hospital. At Get- 
tysburg, again, he was slightly wounded in the 
arm and after that battle his Ijattery followed 
Lee in his retreat into Virginia, as far as Raccoon 
Ford. 

This battery was now ordered back to Washing- 
ton, and was thence sent West to reinforce Rose- 
crans at Chattanooga. It was in action at 
Wahatchic Valley and at Missionary Kidge, and 
wintered at Bridgeport, Ala., and in the si)ring 
joined Sherman in (xeorgia, being with him at Re- 
saca, Dallas and Ringgold, and also at Fumpkin- 
vine Creek, Culp's Farm, and Kenesaw Mountain. 
It was among the first troops which entered At- 
lanta and then went on with Sherman to the sea, 
entering Savannah upon December 21. After that 
campaign they turned North, passing through 
the Old North State, touching Raleigh, Avervs- 
boro and Beiitonville. At this point our subject 
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lull had the frrent misfortune of being taken i)ris- 
oner by the reln-ls and seul to the loallisonie 
and terrilile [ilaee of eaptixity known as Lihliy 
Piison. 

The war was now neaily at an end. and liy rea- 
son of tills the eity of Ricliinond was soon evaeu- 
ated by thi> Confederate forces, and tlie prisoners 
were released. Mr. Price entered tlie parole eainp 
in Maryland, and was soon s-ranteil thirty days' 
fnrlous^h to go home, l)Ut his intense desire to "be 
in at the end" prevented his takinu^ full advantajje 
of this leave of absence, and after six days lie was 
ajcain with his regiment and took part in the 
(xrand Review, subseiiuent to wliich they went to 
Rochester. N. V., and upon .lune 2'.l. ISC"), they 
were mustered out. 

Following lii.s war experience, Mr. Price decided 
to go to the oil regions to work and speculate, and 
there he continued until the spring of 1866, when 
he came to Lansing, reaching this city iii)on the 
2()tli of April. He commenced work on a farm 
within the city limits and afterward purchased im- 
proved property in Bath Township, Clinton 
County, and also one hundred and sixty acres 
of wild land, which he improved. Here hav- 
ing placed buildings upon his farm, he engaged 
in general farming operations, eight miles from the 
city. 

The grocery and [iroduce business now attracted 
the attention of this young man, and removing 
to Flint in 1879, he went into that business for 
three years, after which he came to Lansing and 
purchased property. He now undertook dealing 
in stock, which he shipped to the F^ast, and also 
took up the lumber business at North ]>ansing, 
l)uying out F. I. Moore. Two years later he helped 
to organize the Capital Lumber C'orapany and be- 
came for two years its Vice-President and Manager. 
Later this company was reorganized, .-ind in the 
spring of 1891, after the death of .1. .S. Ayres, he 
withdrew his stock. He owns a one-half in- 
terest in the hardware stock of Dunham <y 
Price, at North Tjansing. and a half interest 
in the drv-goods house of T. Kork A- Co. of Xortli 
f.ansing. 

In the spring of 18!M Mr. I'licc received the 
appointment of Chief of I'olict' and Marshal f>f 



the city of Lansing, which office he lias now en- 
tered upon with energy and zeal, and it is already 
seen that his iiicniiilieiicy in the ollice will be for 
the good of the law'-abiding part of the citizens 
of this town. He is a stiong Democrat in his 
political views and sy inpat hies, .■iiid is a frequent 
delegate to county and .State conventions of that 
|)arty. lie has served for some time as Treasurer 
of the City Committee, and is a member of 
Charles T. Foster Post. No. 4 2, (i. A. R., in this 
city. 

We are pleased to record the happy though brief 
matrimonial alliance which was effected between 
Lawrence Priss and .Miss Mary A. Ryan, in Lewis- 
ton, X. Y.. on the 28th of November, 1868. This 
lady was born in Tipperarv. Ireland, and died in 
Lansing, leaving no children. The second marriage 
of Mr. Price took place in this city on the 8th of 
November, 1888, and he was then united with 
Jliss .Julia A. Bradford, who w.as born in Pcmtiae, 
^licli., and leceived her education there and at 
Detroit, after which she taught for some time pre- 
vious to her in.arriage Mr. Price is an active and 
earnest nu'iiibcr of the Catholic Church, in which 
he is efficient as a Trustee, and was also active u])on 
the Building Committee during the erection of 
their house of worship. 



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S,(il,(»N 1). NKKLV. The pretty town of 
Mason, which is the county seat of Ingham 
County, and which contrary to the general 
rule, is a live, wide awake, bu.siness place, 
is the residence place of the gentleman whose name 
is at the head of this sketch, lie has here made 
his home for a number of years, although he is a 
native of the Kinpire .State, having been born in 
Naples, Ontiirio County. N. Y.. November 18, 1839. 
He is a son of .lustice II. .-ind Melvina (Nellis) 
Nceh. both nati\ cs of New York. The father was 
a dairviiiaii b\ occu|iation .lud the early home of 
our subject was the farm upon which dairy sup- 
plies wen' the slock in trade. He left home at the 
age of eleven veai's, and came to .Miehigan, and be- 



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ing a stuicly and enersretie little fellow, succeederi 
in getting work on a farm at (rrass Lake where he 
remained for three years. 

Our subject, as a lad, had gaineu experience far 
beyond his years, and at the age of fourteen he 
was taken upon the force of workmen for the 
^Michigan Central Hailroad ('(^nipany and there he 
worked until he was eighteen, first being engaged 
in the freight house, then becoming a brakeman 
and later advanced to the jjosition of a fireman, 
which position he had when he was but seventeen 
years of age. lie continued liring for about one 
year and then left the railroad company and 
started to leaiii lilacksmithing at Grass Lake, lie 
continued there for about one year and then went 
to St. .John's. Midi. Blacksniithing, however, was 
not all that his youthful imagination had painted 
it, and at the age of twenty he gave it up, but as 
he had taken upon himself the obligations of mar- 
ried life, having tieen united in Ingham County. 
December 3, 1859, to Miss I\Iary E. Templer, a 
daughter of Jonathan and Prudence Ann Templei. 
the necessity of following some business perma- 
nently was pressed home upon hiin. He purchased 
eighty acres of land in Alaiedon 'rownshi)). and 
thereafter followed farming until his enlistment in 
the army, on August 2, 1H(>2. lie jt)ined Cunipain' 
A. Twentieth Michigan Infantry and was in 
the Ninth Arni\ Corps under Buiiiside's Aimy of 
the Potomac. He engaged in the most desperate 
l>altles of that terrible period participating in the 
engagements at Fredericksburg, Antietani. South 
Mountain, Vicksburg, Jackson. Miss., Knox^ille, 
Tenn., Cumberland (iap, and Louden. The regi- 
ment to which our subject belonged was intrenched 
behind breastworks at the siege of Knoxville when 
they received the charge of the rebels. He here 
learned the advantage of building breastworks, 
and says it is the only time in his war experience 
that he had occasion to congratulate himself upon 
being thus intrenched. He fought at the battle of 
the Wilderness and was wounded at Spottsylvania, 
May 12. 18(54. He had nevei' missed a day's dntv 
until he met with this misforluiie. .Although 
wounded aliout two o'clock in the afternoon, he 
remained on the field of battle until four, and in the 
jctreat of the armj* leaving the wounded behind, 



he was supposed to be dead and it was so reported 
to his family at home. His wound was in the 
right hip and groin and both cords were severed. 
He was in hospital about eight months, and after 
about three months his family heard of his escape 
and when linally he came home it uas like receiv- 
ing a dear t>ne b.ack from the grave. He was 
honorably discharged April 7, 186.5. He returned 
to his farm but being unable to actively conduct 
the work, sold it and removed to ^lason. JMr. 
Xeely is a Republican in party preference and has 
held a number of local offices under his jjarty. He 
has been Marshal and in 1891 w.as elected Alder- 
man of the First Ward. He has also served .as 
Constalile and Deputy Sheriff for the past eleven 
years. In l!^8-'3. he started the ai)ple-drying busi- 
ness, and in IMH4. took !Mr. Huntington in as part- 
ner and since that time the firm has conducted a 
large and paying business. 

( )ur subject has three children. ( laiM. who was 
born in Mason Township. .laiiio and Coi-a. in 
Alaiedon Townshii). this county. The dangliter 
has received excellent educational advantages and 
is an accomplished and attractive young woman, 
.lames, who wa-- born Ma\' 5. 1870. is a .-iailor on the 
Lake.-. Ill' enjoys the sailor's life, .seeming to 
inliciil th.'it tcmlency from hi> mother's family. 
se\eial <if whom arc captains on the ocean. Mr. 
Xceh is the owner and proj)rietorof a di yer in 
llath. .Mich., which his son runs during the a))plc- 
iliying season. Our suliject is a (iraiiil .\riny man 
.•ind is (,)u;irterinaster of his Post. 



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UMLLK F. MILLKIi. Secretary of the Farni- 
ir % ^'* Mutual Fire In.surance Company, of 
\g/ Ingham County, was born in Napoleon, 
Jackson County, Mich.. September 24. 1840. He 
is a son of Tobias and Lavina ((irittin) Miller, 
natives of Sandy Hill. X. Y. Our subject's father 
nia\ lie iiuiiiliered among the i)ioiu'ers who came 
to Miehiuan at an early day. lie wa> a carpenter 
and wagon -maker by trade and when he made his 
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()\ir suliject was liuiii, liis servicos aiul iiisjeiiuity 
were in c-oiistant ii'(|uisiti(>ii anioiijLf tiio settlors, not 
oiilv Id make and iiieiid wagons and to build 
houses, but to suggest and make shifts as sub- 
stitutes for the necessities of daily life. lie eame 
here a poor man, in fact, with nothinir, whatever, 
exce|)tin<i a coulidence m the strength of hi.s own 
right arm and his ;iliiding faith in the future pros- 
pects of the coiinlry in which he had settled. He 
and his wife were the parents of three children of 
whom our subject is the youngest. The oldest son, 
Oscar E., was born September 23, 1838. He en- 
listed in the Seventh Michigan Infantry in 1861, 
and one of the Army of the Potomac, he engaged" 
in ni.iny battles and was killed at .\ntietani. His 
boily w;ts lirought back to his home and lies inter- 
red in the cemetery at Napoleon. He had been 
advanced to the post of First Sergeant at the time 
of his death. 

Our subject's oldest sister who was born October 
1, 1836, married G. W. Polar. She died in .Inne, 
1878, in ^Nlason. She had uo issue. Our subject's 
parents died near Mason, the mother, June 23, 1873. 
The father survived hei' by five years, passing away 
April 5, 1878. They too, with their daughter, are 
l)uriod at Napolecm, this State. 

Mr. Miller's boyhood days were spent much like 
those of other boys, in acquiring the rudiments of 
an educati(m at the common schools, after which 
he attended for one year, the Wesleyan Methodist 
College at Leoni, ^Vlicli., which w.as aftcrw.ard re- 
moved to Adrian of the same State. He also spent 
two terms at the I'nion School in J.ackson, Mich., 
and then felt himself prepared for the work of 
teaching which he began at the age of seventeen. 
His winters for a period of ten years, were devoted 
to teaching and during the summer he followed 
farming. 

Mr. Miller wa^ married .January 3, 1864 to Miss 
Lydia Newman, of Downsville, Md., where she was 
born Februar\ 24. 1840. She is a daughter of 
J.acob and Catherine (Long) Newman, her ])arents 
being of frerman origin. By this marriage there 
have l>een two chililren, Myrlie, who died at the 
age of five years, and Hoy N., born in \'evay 
Township, I'cbiuaiy ;i, I.S71. He is an anibilious 
and studious young man, he acquired the basis of 



his education in the home schools at ^fason until 
he finished his junior year. He is now attending 
ihc Albion College at Albion. Mich., in which insti- 
tution of learning he has been at work for thi'ee 
years being now in his junior year and expecting 
to graduate the coming year. 

In 1868 and 1869, Mr. Miller sjjent his last 
Mionlhs in the school-room and in the s])ring of 
lS6'.t he moved on a farm in \'e\a\' Township. 
This he had purchased from the pr(X'ccds of his 
l)c(lagogic and farming eflforts. He is still the 
t)wner of this tract which comprises eighty acres 
on section 27. While in .lackson County, the 
original of our sketch served as School Inspector 
for about eight years and in Vevay he was Clerk 
of the township for over two years, and served as 
Justice of the Peace in Vevay for ten years, Dec- 
ember, 1877, he was elected Seci'etarv of the Farm- 
ers' ^lutual Fire Insiuance Company, of Ingham 
County, and thereupon he removed to the town of 
Mason, in 1881. as the business of his office de- 
manded his whole time. He has been re-elected 
each year since his installation in that office. 

Our subject h.as been a menibei- of the Masonic 
fraternity about eight years, and has attained the 
seventh degree in the Chapter to which he belongs, 
having filled several chairs in the body. For two 
years he acted .as Secretary of Blue Lodge. lie is 
also a Chartci' member of the Hoyal Arcanum, and 
enjoy> the >anu' distinction in llic Knights of 
I'ylhias. Since being in .Mason, our subject has 
been a Justice of the Peace foi- f<iui- \c:ir.~. 



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HAHLFS. P. LESIIFH. The pursuits of 
peace and of war are alike acceptable to the 
'J loyal citizen, who would serve his country 
as she may need; and a man who has shown his 
valor on the battle field is the one who will most 
cordially and perhaps most wisely respond to the 
needs of civil life and be able to adjust matters 
(if dispute so as to jirevent disaster and contentit)n 
among his fellnw-citizens. It follows therefore 
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of Justice of the Peace and slioukl do it so well as 
to add to tlie prosperilv and liarniony of the peo- 
ple among whom he acts in liis otHcial capacity. 

Charles P. Lesher, who is the .Justice of the 
Peace at Lansing, was born at Cincinnati, Oliio, 
July .^, 1835, and' was reared in Piiiladelphia, 
where his parents, Charles and Elizabeth (Slieaff) 
Lesher, resided. His grandfather also bore the 
name of Charles and was active in the Revolution- 
ary War. He was a carriage manufacturer in 
Philadelphia, as was also the father of our subject, 
who was at one time iironiiiicut in that line of 
business in Cincinnati, aiul was a Colonel there in 
the War of 1812 and died in 184(1 while the mother 
was away on a visit. The family is of Cerman, 
French and Dutch descent and originated with 
three brothers who came to this country two hun- 
dred years ago from Alsace. 

Mr. Lesher remembers well seeing Prof. Jlorse. 
who came to the school which he attended (the 
New Street school) at Philadelphia, in the year 
1842 or 1843, and gave an exhibition of his new 
invention of telegraph^-, which came into use in 
1844. Philip Sheaff, grandfather of o>u- subject, 
was an old settler in Philndeli)hia and a Revolu- 
tionary soldier. He came of Holland descent and 
was from the colony which settled there in the 
early days. Elizal)eth (Sheaff) Lesher. who has 
now reached the veneralile age of ninety years, 
having been born September 8, 18(11, still resides 
in Philadelphia. She has been a woman of more 
than ordinary ability in a literaiv vvay and wrote 
largely in her best days for magazines and period- 
icals, lieing the author of both prose and poetry. 

Of her five children our subject is the \ onngcst. 
and althiiugh he was tiorn in Ciiiciunati. he went 
with his parents lo I'liiladelpliia at the age of three 
months and theie remained, attending school until 
he reached the age of twelve years. After servini>- 
for a short time in a jeweler's store he was apjiren- 
ticed as a wood carver for eighteen months, and 
then was in a cigar factory nnfil lie reached the 
age of eighteen, after whicli he bi'gan traveling, 
doing jonrnevmau work and making Huft'alo, \. 
v.. \\[> heaihpiarters. 

Ill 18()2 this young man determined t<) enlist 
in the L niou cause and joined the Twenty-seventh 



New York Light Artillery, being mustered in at 
Buffalo in August, and seiving in the following 
conflicts: the Wilderness, Spottsylvania. South 
Anna, Cold Harbor and other engagements. He 
became the Sergeant and was mustered out of the 

I .service on account of physical disability in Octo- 
ber, 1864. He came liack to Buffalo and waited 
around for a year to die, but by careful attention 
to health and being careful in his habits, he recov- 
ered, contrary to the expectations of his friends. 
Sergt. Lesher was married in Buffalo, N. Y., in 
1866 to Miss Flora Rose, who was born near Col- 
chester, Essex, England. He engaged in the man- 
ufacture of cigars and in 1872 came to Lansing. 
Mich., to take charge of a contract at the Keform 
School which then had one hundred bo^ys under 
its instruction. He continued there for three 
years and then went to .lackson, where he took a 
contract to take charge of one hundred convicts 
for two years. 

In 1875 our subject went as a traveling salesman 
through the South and West of our country, 
re[)resenting Suiter Bros., of Chicago, and after 
three or four years in their service took a similar 
position for a Philadelphia house which handled 
leaf tobacco. He did well in this line of work, as 
he is a good judge of "the weed,"' and traveled in 
thirty-one States. In 1882 he started a cigar fac- 
toi'v here, the largest ever operated in Lansing, as 

j it employed twenty hands. It was known as the 
Lesher Ar Co. Cigar Factory. On accc>unt of rheu- 
matism he was obliged to stop this businos and he 
afterward became .lustice of the Peace. 

For four years ,^Ir. Lesher has been a member of 
the City Council and for four years was Supervisor, 
both in the l'"ifth Ward, which i> a Democratic 
ward. For one ye.Mr iu' served as President pro 
teni. of tlie ('oiincil and this spi'ing (1891) he was 
elected .lustice of the Peace. He is a memlier of 
the Knights of Pythias and is Past Post Comman- 
der of the Charles T. Foster Post. No. 42. (L A. R. 
and was a delegate to the X:itioii,-il Fncanipment 
at .Minneapolis. 1 le has also .servo'd as a cU'legale 
in coiuityand State conventions of the Deniorratic 
|iart\. .Mrs. Lesher is a ilc\diit member of the 
Episcojial Church and their six children are. Eliza- 
beth, Mrs. N'etter, of Lansing; Thomas .1., who is a 



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travi-liiiu iii;iii iiiiii ivpreseuts the Elder-Todd 
Chewinjj (iiim Company; Jolin ('.. who i^ a printer 
at Huffah). X. Y.; Louis S.. Williaiii R. anil ('liaiU'.-< 
1'.. .Ir. are at home. 



HS. HARRIET A. TKNNKV. IVu women 
''' " '•' in Miehi«an have imd a hroailei- tiehl of 




/// * influence and more tlioroutjhly proved 
themselves worthy of public esteem and 
appreciation than she wliose name we now give. 
Her early experiences in this State which were in 
in llie educational line in connection with her 
husband at Homer and Marshall, brouffhl forth 
the following' warm enccmiium whidi apjieared in a 
sitetch entitled "Homer and its I'iimeers." After 
speaking of ^Ir. Tenney and his thorough and 
sometimes severe methods of discipline, tlie writer, 
Dr. William A. Lane, proceeded to say. "Rut what 
sliall be said of .Mrs. Tenney? If under severe prov- 
ocation Mr. Tenne\- was sometimes "tiie tempest' she 
was ever 'the sunshine.' If his severity sometimes 
caused fear her rare and ra<li;nit sweetness ever 
inspired love. And for Mi-. Tenney and his lovei^• 
wife there is still cheiislied a very warm jilace in 
the hearts of all their old pu|iils." 

.Mrs. Tenney was liorn April 1. 1«34. at Kssex, 
Vt.. being the daughter of .lohn Leffingwell and 
I)elia(I)oude) Edgerton. She received an academic 
educaticm at Franklin, ^'t., and in March, 1H;')4, 
was married to .lesse Eugene Tenney and came 
iiiniiediatcly with her husband to Honiei'. Mich., 
where both were engaged in teaching until the fall 
of IH."),'). when Mr. Tenney accepted the supeiin- 
tendeiicy of the Marshall City .Schools .uid iiioved 
to that city. In .Vpril. I8.')9, Gov. Moses Wisner, 
recognizing the adaptability of the man for the 
office, appointed .ludge Tenney .State Librarian, 
.and during the ten years that he held this position 
his wife spent much of her time in the library. 

(iov. II. 1'. ISaldwin appointed Mis. Teiiney in 
IKfi'.t to the |)osition which liad been so ably tilled 
liy Mr. Tenney and she was successively ai>poiii1ed 



by Govs, Baglcv, Croswell, .leronie, liegole, Al- 
ger and Luce, filling the position with honor to 
lier.self and credit to the State for twenty-two 
years. She twice had charge of removing the 
library, liist in the tall of IH7I fiom the old Capi- 
tol to the State ( )lliee IJloek. and again in 1H78 to 
its present elegant and commodious rooms in the 
new Capitol. 

The following graceful testimonial we quote 
from .hiines \'. Campliell's Political History of Mich- 
igan. "The choice of a lad}', Mrs. Harriet A, Ten- 
ney, to till the oflice of .State Librarian, was cheer- 
fully ratified by the Legislature and has been 
abundantly justifieil by the result. The neatness 
and care with which the library room and its con- 
tents have been arranged and kept and the quiet 
and decorum prevailing, are in themselves a great 
advantage. The librarian has shown a thorough 
knowledge of books and their selection and an 
enthusiiistic desire to make her charge a literary 
treasure house. A Department of American An- 
tiquities and valuable relics li.as also been planned 
and several collections already made of documents, 
pictures and other articles of historic value, not 
the least of which is the roll of honor of the 
Michigan Soldiers who died during the Civil War." 

In addition to the arduous duties which devolve 
upon one in so important a position, outside inter- 
ests have also received ^Irs. Tenney's attention. 
She has been Recording Secretary of the Jlichigan 
Pioneer and Historical Society since its organiza- 
tion, as well as its .Secretary of the Committee of 
Historians. She is also a member of the National 
Association of Librarians, a corresponding member 
of the Chicago Historical Society; is identified 
with the American Academy of Political and Social 
Science, was President of the Lansing Soldiers' Aid 
S<jciety during the War, and of the Lansing 
Women's Soldier's Monument As.sociation, since 
that time. She has also served .as President. De- 
Ijartment Counselor and Treasurer of the Women's 
Relief Corps at v:nious times and has been promi- 
nently identified with the Order of the Ea.stern Star. 

The Lansing Library and Liti'rary Association 
and the Laiisiiiir Woman's Club liave felt the 
lienetil of her guiding hand and counsel and in the 
Phinouth Congrcirational Church to which she 



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belongs, she is greatly beloved and most useful. 
On March 29, 1879 the Woman's Club tendered tu 
Judge and ^Irs. Tenney a silver wedding reception, 
at the elegant home of "Sir. and Mrs. O. M. Barnes. 
Mild tlnis showed their l()\i' and esteem for their 
co-worlcer. 

The ancestry of Mrs. Tciiuey is full of interest, 
as on her motlier's side she is a direct descendant 
of Ih'iiry Doiuh', wlio settled in Connecticut in 
1(J89 witli Wliittield's Colony. Her great-grand- 
father, Capt. (iiles Doude was at the battle of 
Quebec and took i)art in the scaling of the Heights 
of Aliraliam. Her great-grandfatlier and her grand- 
father on tiie parental side served as Captains in 
the Revolutionary Army. Her father was in the 
War of 1M12 and her eldest lirother served with 
much lionor and credit in the last Civil "War. She 
is a direct descendant of Richard Edgerton. wlio 
settled in Saybrook, Conn., in l(!o3, and was one of 
thirty-five of the original jiroprietors of Norwick, 
Conn., in l(i.')9. Alay 1. 1891, ^Nlrs. Tenney resigned 
her position as State Librarian and was succeeded 
liy Mrs. Margaret (Custer) C'alhouu. Although 
lier husband, .Tudge Tenney, had died the previous 
Xovemlier, she still decided to remain in Lansing, 
and will probably continue to make that her home 
through life as it is the place where her best life 
work has been done. 

Judge Jesse E. Tenney, the husband of this 
lady, was born in Orwell, "\'t., July 23, 181G and 
received his education at the Brandon Academy 
and Middlebury College, where he graduated in 
1838. He studied law with Judge Phelps, father 
of Edward J. Phelps, minister to England, and 
among his college classmates were John G. Saxe, 
the poet; William A. Howard, memlier of Congress 
from Michigan and Governor of Dakota; E. T. 
Wadhams, Catholic Bishop of Ogdensbuig, and the 
Rev. Byron Sunderland, Chajilain for several years 
of the I'nited States Senate. 

Judge Tenney was admitted to tlie bar of the 
Supreme Court of Alaliama in 1839. He traveled 
extensively in Europe and acted as Commercial 
agent at Padua, ^'enice, Marseilles and Lyons, 
returning in 1845, and engaging in the practice of 
law at Franklin, Vt. In 1854 he married Harriet 
A. Edgerton, and came to ^Michigan where, as we 



have seen, he was engaged in educational work, 
until he took a position in -the State Library, .and 
subsequently practiced law in Lansing. He was 
acting Mayor of Lansing for nine months, in place 
of George W. Peck, and was Judge of the Recorder's 
Court at L.ansing for three years and member of 
tile Hoard of Education for six years. He was an 
active Repulilican from the organization of that 
party and jirior to that was a Whig. He was 
a man of extraordinary ability with an almost 
inexhaustible fund of general information and iiad 
unusual literary taste and fine cultivation. He 
was an active friend of the soldiers and did all that 
he could during the war to aid them, by shipping 
supplies to tlie hospitals and battle fields. For 
more than twenty years Judge Tenney held the 
ottice of United States Circuit Court Commissioner 
of his district and was engaged in the real estate 
and insurance business for several years. The life 
work of these two valuable citizens has been of 
great value not only to the city of Lansing, but 
also to the State with which they have lieen iden- 
tified for so many years. 



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EV. HARVEY S. JORDAN, who is the pas- 
tor of the First Presbyterian Church, Lan- 
\\\ sing, Ingham County, is a man, who while a 
) teacher of the people in Scriptural work, is 
still of the i>eople,assumingno superiority l)y nature 
but relying on the support of the Master whom he 
serves for success in his chosen calling and has been 
gifted in such a way as to make him peculiarl\- fit- 
ted for the ministerial work, having a fine presence. 
He is also a fine elocutionist. The orotund quality 
of his voice appeals iileasantly to the ear. While 
he condescends to no dramatic tricks of oratory 
there is an understanding of the effective jjower 
that makes itself felt on his hearers. 

The Rev. II. .S. Jordan was born in Concord 
Morgan County, 111., April 9. 1854, He is a son of 
tlie Hey. W. H. .lordan, I). D., who was born in Bir- 
mingham, England, in 1832. His grandfather, Wil- 
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iiiMkcr Mini Imiiiii;Ii1 lii> tMinily lo Aniurica about 
ISI.s. lie liic:ilc(l ncMi- .l;irks(iiivillf, III., iiiul ;il 
DiK'i- I'liiiayod ill till' i>r:Kticc i>f liis trade. Ih' tliiMi 
took ii|i ;i t'jinii iif.'ir Lyiiiivillc. near what is now 
MaikliMiii. anil llit'ic lie loidcd. ;il the same lime 
(•••irrviiiu' on his Iradc. until his death, lie ur(.;itl\' 
iiiiliroved liis lariii .-iiid ereeted oimkI liiiildiiios 
thereon. His death oeriiired while on a \isil to 
.Missouri to his daiiiiiitei-. Mrs. Ann Taylor, who 
lived near Kansas City. 

( )ur siilijeet's lather was educated in JMiulaiid. 
leiiiainint; there until he was about sixteen years 
of aiie. While still in his native land he leanu'd 
the carpenter '.s trade and followed it until he 
reached his majority. In IM.iiohe began preaehinii' 
in the .Methodist Protestant Cliuich of tin' S]jriu<j;- 
tield ( ireuit. h was a large eireiiit and he wati 
obliued to travel two hundred miles in order to 
visit all his charges. He at first worked on a sal- 
ary that was less than ifoO a year. After that he 
was .sent to the Fir.st Chureli in (^uincy. 111., and 
from there went to Decatur, thence took charge of 
the pastorale at DeWitt. He was not educated 
for the ministry, being a purely self-made man and 
hi.s knowledge was gained by constant and .severe 
study, in which the midnight oil was often con- 
sumed. .Vfter his iiastorate at DeWitt he was for 
two years President in the Conference of Southern 
Illinois. He was obliged to travel around in a 
liuggy and he had many adventures, and escajjades 
during this period of his life. !*"rom that time he 
was sent to Bethel and the title of Doctor of Di- 
vinity was conferred liy the Westminster College 
of Maryland. The degree was con ferred upon him 
by virtue of the trenchancy of his pen in theolog- 
ical writings. He has also written extensively for 
Sunday-school pajjer-s. During the war he was one 
of the most active Abolitionists and never hesitated 
to express his views in any assembly. He was 
iustrnniental in laising troops that fought for the 
Union and did not escape persecution beeau.se of 
his fearlessness, for he was threatened by mob vio- 
lence. He himself enlisted in the Ninety-fifth Ill- 
inois Regiment, but when he arrived at Siiriiiglield. 
Gov. Yates sent him home with the remark, ".lordaii. 
you can do a good deal more down in Southern 
Illinois with your mouth than vou can in (Jeorgia 



with a musket." On returning to his charge he 

colli ill lied ]ireacliing.at the same time raising troops 
to go to the South. Later he went out as Chaplain 
for the One Hundred and Fiftieth Illinois Infantrv 
and was coiiunissioiied in 1H(!.'). After the fall of 
Atlanta while with (ien. Thomas on the (ieoigia 
campaign he was taki'ii sick and .after a stav of six 
ui'cks in the hospital he was honorabh diseh;irged. 
Ill .Septeinber. IHd."). No one was more trusted nor 
respected by the superior ollicers th;iii himself. 

Alter the war our subject's father returned lo 
Bethel where he remained for a few yearsand then 
removed to Maroa. then went to Limerick, a small 
town north of Princeton and there he remained 
for two years. He then went to Princeton and 
here remained for four years, after which he re- 
mo\ed to La Harpe and there remained for tlirei' 
years. He then returned to Limerick where he was 
in charge of a church for two years and. at that 
time w'as President of the Jlethodist Protestant 
Conference, .\fter that he was sent to Castleton, 
.Stark County. Then he ceased to preach in the 
.Methodist Protestant Church and became a mem- 
ber of the Congregational Church, and for the last 
three years has been stationed at Wyoming, 111. He 
is an ardent Republican and cast his first Presiden- 
tial vote for James C. Fremont. 

'The Rev. Mr. Jordan's mother was before her 
marriage Miss ISIary J. Kirkpatrick. She "was born 
in Chapin Township, Morgan County, and was a 
daughter of Rev. John Lane Kirkiiatrick, who was 
born in 1799 in North Carolina. He was the one 
to haul the fir.st cannon across the Mississip])! into 
Illinois. He w-as Lieutenant in (apt, Nathan 
Winter's regiment which is better known as the 
Third Illinois Regiment and .served in the Black 
Hawk War. He was reared in the South, although 
the Ivirki)atrick family came from the North of 
Ireland to this country, making their entrance 
hither i)rior to the Revolutionary War. ^Irs. Jor- 
dan's great-grandfather served in that war, his 
brother being shot by the Tories. Mr.s. Jordan's 
great-grandfather was a slaveholder, Init at heart 
he w.as a believer in the principles of Abolition and 
g.ave his slaves their freedom. He sold his farm 
and removed to Illinois, lieing among the earliest 
settlers of that State. He located in Morgan Coiintv 



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and was one of the flrst to be interested in the open- 
ing of the (ralena k-ad mines. He traveled by ox- 
team and was a pioneer preacher in the Methodist 
l^rotestant Church. For fifty years or more he 
engaged in jireaching, never liaving received any 
renumcration for his services. His home was in 
Morgan County untd 1868. when he removed to a 
a place near Macomb, where he died at about 
seventy years of age. He was a Repulilican in his 
political views and a stanch supporter of the cause 
of freedom and independence. He is known 
throughout the country which he has served so long 
and faithfully b.y the affectionate title of old 
"Uncle .Johnny." His wife's father, the Rev. .lames 
Simms of Kentucky, was the first Methodist minis- 
ter who was ordained in that State and was one of 
the founders of the Methodist Protestant Church. 
For a fuller l)ic>graphy of the Rev. 'Sir. Simms, re- 
fer to Stephen's History of Methodism. There were 
.six brothers in the Kirkpatrick family and some 
were in the war and all were ministers. Three of 
them were ^[etllodist Protestant and three belonged 
to the Methodist Episcopal Chunli. 

The subject of this sketch is one of a family of 
seven children. There were six l)oys and one girl. 
The hoys are all still Hving .and of these our sub- 
ject is tlie eldest. His rearing was accomplished in 
different places and he received tlie best education 
tliat could be afforded at their various homes. 
When about eighteen years of age he began teach- 
ing and continued so employed until lie had reached 
his majority, when he went to Adrian College. 
Mich., and was licensed to preach. May 19. 1875. 
He then supplied Congregational pulpits and gave 
himself to study for three years. The last year of 
his supply work was blest liy a great revival at 
Rome Center and he succeeded in there organizing 
a strong church in the close of his junior year. 
He then went to Beloit, Wis., and jircaehed one 
year and four months in the Methodist Protestant 
Church. From there he was transferred to ]\Iorri- 
son. 111., where he remained for one year and after 
that he left the Methodist Church and joined the 
Presbyterian denomination. After this step he was 
engaged in te.acjiing for one year in the High 
School and supplied the Presbyterian Church of 
Franklin and .Vshtou. After that he went to Shel- 



bj'ville and was there pastor for two years. Then 
an important ste|) was taken by him and all familiar 
ties were broken by his going to the Sandwich 
Islands, where he w.as pastor of the White Ameri- 
can Chuicii, Kaliohi. In 188(i he removed to Ill- 
inois where he was pastor of the Presbyterian 
Ciiurch at Taylorville for three years. 

.lanuary 1. 1K89, Mr. .lordan became pastor of 
the First Presliyterian Church at Lansing and com- 
pleted the building that he had started to erect and 
preached his dedicatory sermon June 8, 1889. Our 
subject was married in the pretty city of Beloit, 
Wis., .June 4, 1879, to Miss ^lary L. Munger, who 
was born and brought up in the place of her mar- 
riage. Three children have already blest this 
union; they are: M. Edith, Hattie A. and Mar- 
guerite I. The last named was born in Lansing. 

Our suliject is in great demand in all social 
gatherings and societies. He is Chancellor Com- 
mander of Gauntlet Lodge, No. I"2, Iv. of P.; also 
belongs to the Sons of Veterans of this city. He 
is Chaplain of the Fourth Regiment of Lniformed 
Rank, Knight of Pythias. He is moreover Pres- 
ident of the Michigan State .Salil)atli-school Asso- 
ciation and spends a great deal of time in Sabl)ath- 
school work throughout the State. In his political 
belief and following !Mr. .Jordan is a Repul)lican. 
He is a strong temperance man. In preparing his 
sermon he writes them out in full, but delivers 
them without manuscript. During a part of his 
ministry in Illinois our subject was special corre- 
spondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean and while in 
the Sandwich Islands wrote a series of letters regu- 
larly to that paper. 




yM 



ILLARD SMITH. The gentleman of whom 
we write claims to be almost a native of 
W¥/ White Oak Township, Ingham County, 
where he resides, as he was brought by his parents 
to this township when he was cmly four years old. 
Therefore all his life from infancy has been passed 
here and he feels as much at home as though it was 



PORTRAIT AND BlOGRAPHrt Al, AI.HIM. 



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his native town. His birth took place in 1832 in 
Virgil, Cortland County, N. Y., and wlien his 
parents first landed at Stockbridae they made a 
stiort stop there until they eould l)uild a log shanty 
in White Oak Township, about twenty-five rods 
from wliere Mr. Smith now lives. 

The father of our subject bore the uanie of 
Robert Smith and he was born in the Empire State. 
He was united in marriage with Amity Smith, a 
native of Connecticut. They became the heads of 
a patriarchal family, of seven sons and six daugh- 
ters and their son Willard was the latest born of 
the tlock. Their eldest bore the name of Chauncey 
and was born in 1806. After him came two sons 
Square J. and I'riahK., born respectively March 11, 
1808 and April 25. 1810. These were followed 
by a little child who died in infancy unnamed 
being born March 1. 1812 and dying May 3, 1812. 
The next daughter, Polly II., came to them July 
3, 1813 and following her was Enoch, August 
10. 181,5, and Pluebe who was born August 28, 
1817. The next two daughters were Ursula C. 
born October 31, 1811) and Deliah Augu.st 22, 1821. 
Then came Robert E., August 27, 1823, and Lj'dia 
L. May 1, 1827, and the list closed with William 
H. born May 19, 1829 and our subject. Willard, 
born August 27, 1832. 

The subject of this sketch was married in 185.5 
to Gertrude, daughter of Wilson (iarner of New 
Jei-sey. To this union has been granted five chil- 
dren. The eldest, liittle .Tay, who came to them 
October 4, 185(1 died .January 24, 1858 and the 
next was a daughter, Katie A., who was born 
March 7, 1860 and married Eugene X. Stowe. She 
h.as beccmie the mother of two children, Leon and 
Lucie O. The third child of our subject is Nettie 
(i. who was Ijorn .lune 29, 1863 and mai'iied (irant 
(r. Carter. .She is the mother of one child. After 
her came Hubble .Spfucci- who was liorn .\|iril 25, 
18(),') and is now in Idaho, where he is carrying on 
mining sju'culations and engaging in various 
branches of corporate business. Marcus AV. the 
youngest son, was born October 7, 1872 and as he 
is still in his minority he is remaining with his par- 
ents at home. 

Mr. .Smith is a father who t.akes more than tlie 
ordinary interest in the education of his children 



and has given them the advantages of good .schools 
which have been held at P^owlerville and Howell, 
Livingston County. He is doing a general farm- 
ing business and has his farm well stocked. His 
place on section 24, has long been known as the 
Smith homestead. The family is connected witii 
the Protestant Methodist Church and the father is 
earnest and liberal in the support of the Gospel and 
in tiie Sunday-school to which he has always taken 
his children. In their home they have an old Bible 
which is a choice possession as it has been in the 
family since the time of Mr. Smith's great-great- 
grandfather, Robert Smith. That progenitor had 
four brothers, John, William, Abram and Isaac. 
This ancient volume is printed in the English 
language and bears the date of 1602. 

The doctrines which were pnmiulgated by the 
author of the Declaration of Independence are the 
political convictions of Mr. Smith and he is a 
stanch supporter of the Democratic party. He has 
held a number of township offices such as School 
Moderator, Pathmaster and Supervisor and in these 
offices he has done efiii'ient .service to his neighbors, 
and under his superintendency the highways of his 
tf)wnshi]i have improved. His fine tract of one 
hundred and twenty acres is well cultivated and 
highly productive. 



7/RANK D. WELLEL'. The young men of 
); L.ansing, Ingham County, are the pride and 

power of the city and have given to its 

bu.siuess entei])rises a vitality and strength wliicli 
make it prominent among tlie industrial towns of 
^Michigan. Tiiey have created a demand not only 
for the plain necessities of life. Imt also for the 
adornings which culture craves and woulil suinjly. 
The decorator and dealer in wall paper whose 
name initiates this sketch, ami whose ])ortrait ap- 
pears on the opposite page, has his jilaee of Inisi- 
iiess at No. 330 Washington Avenue .South, and is 
a native of this i.-\ly. having been born here Sep- 
tember 19. 18.55. He is a son of .\ugustus E. .and 
Ann (Thomas) Weller. His fatiier was born in 



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Oranjje County. X. Y., in 1828, and came to Lan- 

siuii' ill 1M17. llf w:ts ;i son of l\'tt'r F. Weller. 
wlio was one of the very lirst settlers in Lansiutf 
after the k)ealion of the eity. iiavint;- come West 
with the Conunissioners from Adrian in tlie com- 
pany of Austin Blair and others. 

This ijrouenitor of our sulijeet oi)ened a genuine 
frontier store in the line of yroeeries and general 
utilit\. lie lirst opened on what was at that time 
known as Mackerel Point, there being tiien no 
liuildings in the city of I^msing except one log 
house and a sjiwmill. The family had some timi' 
jirevious to this Keen at Adrian and came up t<i 
the new capital to make their iiome. Mr. Weller 
continued in business here until 1871. and tlnring 
the later years transferred his interests to the dry- 
goods line, coming lip from his original situation 
to Washington Avenue. He served for four years 
as Justice of the Peace and soon aftei' removed to 
Detroit, wheie. in IHHJ. he engaged in the Equi- 
table Life Insurance Company, and remained with 
that company until the time of his death, in IHHy. 
He was a menibei' of tlu^ Independent Order of 
Odd Felkiws and also of the Ma.sonic fraternity. 

Ann (Thomas) Weller, the mother of oni- sub- 
ject, was formerly fioni Penns\ hania, and came 
here with her parents. Her father, .lohn Thomas, 
was a member of the llrni of Bush A' Thomas, of 
whom our leaders will be pleased to learn in the 
biograi)hical sketch of Mr. Bush, to be found else- 
where in this Ai.r.r.M. .Vugustus and Ann Weller 
were united in marriage in the fall of IH;"),"}, and 
here they reared a family of three childien: our 
subject; Charles .V., now of Chicago; and Anna 
T., wife of Mr. Spaulding. of Boston. The mother 
died in IMCl. 

Flank 1). Weller received his education in the 
eit^' .schools of Lansing, after which he went to 
Detroit and learned the trade of a decorator and 
frescoer. He remained there for six years, and 
upon returning to this cit>-, opened an establish- 
ment of his own in 1«77, and has now worked up 
a large business. "Ho has a store on the principal 
business street which occupies a Iniilding 22x;)(l 
feet, and includes both the first Hoor and the base- 
ment. Although a young man in reality, Mr. 
Weller is from a l)usine.ss standpoint the oldest 



man in that exclusive line in the eity. He de- 
votes himself persistently to his business and takes 
his recreation in looking after his hor.ses. He is 
lirccding a line line of stan(kird trotters and has a 
large number of good voung horses and marcs. 
His jjolitical views have inclined him to altiliate 
with the Democratic part\, and he votes that 
ticket. 

Miss .Sarah Bates, of this city, became the wife 
of Mr. Weller .Vugust 1 1. 187S. This lady is a 
native of Canada, but came here with her parents, 
her father being well known in tlie city as Thomas 
Bate.-. One child, Ava. has blessed tlieir union. 
Mr. Weller remembers well jhe pioneer times of 
his childhood and the game which was plentiful, 
when the streets of this city were in their |)rimi- 
tive cc)ndition. before the hand of man had low- 
ered the giants of the forest. 



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APT. .lOlI.N K. PRICK. If modest worth 



li ""^- will not •• blow its own tnunpet," the pen of 
the biographer must speak its prai.ses. Tho.se 
who are loudest in their own liehalf are not always 
appreciated most highly by their neighbors, and 
the reverse of this fact is also true, as may be at- 
tested to by every one who knows the "old Mar- 
shal" of Lansing, Ingham County, (apt. Price, 
who was the Marshal of this city in its lirst days 
and held the otHce until within the last few years, 
is not a man who speaks his own prai-ses, but he is 
warmly appreciated by every man. woman and 
child in this city and his resignation from that 
office on account of age was deei)ly regretted. His 
.services to the country are .apijreciated by those 
who know his story and genuine regret is felt that 
technicalities should have deprived one who is so 
worthy from receiving a pension as a token of a 
nation's gratitude. 

Ca|it. Price was liorn.liily 1. IMKi. in .South .Viii- 
bo\- Township, Middlesex County. X. .1. His father. 
Xer.xes Price, was a native of Connecticut, bom 
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jeot, Ebenezer Price, li.ifl his nativity September 
13, 1748,1111(1 wa.s n iiuinufactuvei- v{ briciv iiiul 
stoneware in New .Jersey, and lived to tlie aije of 
eight_v-one years. The father, who was also a niau- 
ufacturer in the same line, dealt extensively in 
these waies and remained throughout life in New 
Jersey, dying October 21. 1H4;3. He was a .■stir- 
ring business man hut during his last years 
lived a retired life. His wife bore the maiden 
name of Nancy Letts and was a native of 
New Jersey. Her father, Francis Letts, was a 
New Jersey farmer of Welsh descent who took part 
in the War of the Revolution. The mother died 
in 1829. 

Of the nine children of Xerxes and Nancy Price 
four are now living. Our subject, wlio w.as next 
to the youngest in age, remained upon the farm 
in Middlesex County until he reached the age of 
fifteen years, wlien he took a position as cook upon 
a boat and thought some of shipping in the gen- 
eral service upon the high seas. He went to Brook- 
lyn and was acccjited to go on a three years' cruise 
on the ship " Hornet," but through the influence 
of his brother-in-law who advised him to learn bis 
trade he withdrew from this engagement, although 
he dearly loved the water and could .<ail a boat 
when he was fourteen years old. He was now a])- 
prentictd to the carpenter's trade and came to 15a- 
tavia, Genesee County,N. Y., in 1831, and there 
remained three years and six months. 

In 1834 Mr. Price came to ^Michigan and located 
in Sandstone, Jackson County, where he continued 
to work at liie caipenter's trade. In 1837 he went 
to All)ion, Calhoun County, where he engaged in 
the maniifactuic of ranning-niills and there con- 
tinued vHitil Ills marriage in 1813. This great 
event took phice in JNIarengo Township, Calhoun 
County, his l)ride being Miss .lane Powell, who was 
liorn in ( Ineida Count \. N. V. He now decided to 
go upon a farm, and renting one in Marengo 
Town.ship, continued tiiere for four and a half 
years, raising wheat which lie sold at fort\ -eight 
cents per bushel. 

It was in April. 1817. that .Mi'. I'lice (•.•iiiic lo 
Lansing and in .hine lie liought a tract of laiiil all 
covered with tiiiilier. upon which he built a house 
and in Februarv of the ne.vl \ ear removed hither. 



This is the same place where he now resides and it 
comprises four acres within tin; limits of Lansing 
and near to the business [lortion of North Lansing. 
He also owns a nice farm in Olive Township, Clin- 
ton County, which is finely improved. Here he 
engaged in the manufacture of fanning-mills and 
for a year and a half operated a Seymour saw- 
mill in North Lansing. He had lumber enough to 
supjily a hundred mills and was rapidly making 
money, when he left home and all, in 18()1, at the 
first tap of the drum, and raising a company, which 
was known as the Williams Rifles, tendered himself 
and his company to Gov. Blair. 

Capt. Price was at that time lifty-one years old 
and therefore beyond the legal age for enlistment, 
but his patriotic devotion to his country and his 
strong sense of the justice of the Union cause, caused 
him to overcome the obstacles in the way of his 
enlistment. His company was made part of the 
Third Regiment, Michigan Infantry, under the title 
of Company (i. They were mustered in at Grand 
Rapids and the company was tendered the electing 
of their own Captain, which he received by an 
unanimous vote. He was also appointed Captain 
of the camp at (Ti-and Rapids and after a short 
time went on to Washington with his company. 
He remained in .service until the marching caused 
him to give (.lut, .as he had taken sick in Detroit 
and could not endure such hardships. They were 
on their w.av to the battle of Bull Run when he 
was prostrated by sickness and remained in camp 
until he resigned, in .\ugust, 18()1. his term of ser- 
vice having lacked just eight days of three luoaths. 
which excludes him from olitaining a pension. He 
was in feeble health foi' some time after his return 
and since that time has folloufd fainiiiig. The 
farm which he now has is as tine land as can be 
found ill Clinton County and since he has come to 
so venerable an age, he rents it out and lives a re- 
tired life. He owns the stock upon his farm and 
has half the increase of it. 

The four cliildrt'ii of our subject are Clara. Mrs. 
Wood, of Lansing; Mary .1., Mrs. Twait, of Lan- 
sing; Klla J., who died at the age of six years, and 
William A., who is in .Mississipjii. (apt. I'lice has 
held various positions of trust and responsibility, 
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was Commissioner of Highways for several years 
in Lansino' Township and Treasurer lor one year, 
lie i-^ an Elder in the Franklin Street I'l-esliyterian 
( liurcli and has been Sunday-school Superintendent 
liaviniT served in tliat capacity in the first Sunday- 
school wliicli was oiiianized in this city, and being 
line of the organizer.- of that Sunday-school and 
the Presljyterian Cliiircli. He is conceded to be 
the oldest settlei- m Xorth Lansing. He is an ar- 
dent Republican of the old-fashioned kind and a 
true patriot in every sense of the word. He has 
served upon both the grand and petit juries and 
was the first Marshal of Lansin'u. He is remembered 
as being the Marshal on the occasicm of the first 
Fourth of July celebration and the first Hepubli- 
cau rally .and proce.><sion in lHiJ4. Tntil within :i 
very few years this venerable and beloved citiz.en 
has been induced to act as Marshal upon all great 
occasions, as Lansing people do not think a grand 
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HUBERT \V. LEWIS is a iiienibcr of the linn 
of Earle (\r Lewis, hardware merchants at 
^lason, Ingh.am County. .V .-iketch will be 
found of the senior member of the firm in another 
part of this volume. The young men are both 
enterprising and ambitious and have already built 
up a good reputation and Imsiness in the place of 
their i hoice. ()ui- subject is a native of the Em- 
pire State having been born in Oakfleld, (ienesee 
County. N. V.. February ;>. !«;')«. He is the son of 
lr\ in and Emeline (lieardsley) Lewis, the former 
a native of Connecticut although of English ances- 
try, and the mother having been born in Alexander. 
\. Y., and being of mixed Scotch and French aii- 
cestrv. The elements that he gets from this mixed 
ancestry are evident in the sturdy independence, 
the speculative insight that he is determined to 
have into every subject in which he is interested, 
and the Yankee ingenuity that he brings to bear 
ill argument and trade. 

I'p to the age of fourteen the original of our 
sketch spent most of his time in the school room 



and then graduated from Carey Scmiuaiy, New 
Vork. His father had died when he was but a lad 
of ten years of age, and his mother, who married 
again. came with herhu.tband to ^llcliigau. locating 
in Hillsdale County in 1M72. Here they located 
on a farm which they continued to operate until 
our .-ubject had attained his eighteenth yeai\ He 
then left lioiiie to gain a living for himself .'iiid 
spent one year in Logan County, 111., where lie 
worked in an elevator. He then returned to llill>- 
dale County, and from there went to his old home 
in Xew York where he re-visited familiar scenes, 
remaining some six months. lie then retuiiied to 
Hillsdale County, this State, and at the age of 
twenty-one united his fate for better or worse with 
that of INIisslda M. Linsday. of Litchfield, Hillsdale 
County. Their marriage was celelirated October 
30. 187«. The lady is a daughter of .1. R and 
F]meline (Mead) Linsday. She was born Ajnil 11, 
1H57, in Hillsdale County, Mich. 

After his marriage Mr. Lewis accepted a jiosition 
as freight agent at Lansing f>n the .Michigan 
Southern railroad. He occupied this post for 
aliont eight months and then engaged as clerk in 
a hardware store belonging to Dart et Howen. in 
Lansing. There he remained for three and a half 
years, when he changed his iiosition and was em- 
ployed with W. D. Sabine, aLso a hardware merchant, 
for one year. He then traveled for six months as 
a salesman, after which time he was engaged in the 
city of Indianapolis as a clerk in a hardware store 
for a space of one year. From there he came to 
Mason and for one and a half years clerked in the 
hardware store of A, O. DuBois, and then tr.-iveled 
on the road for a Cleveland hardware firm for four 
years. This brings him up to .T.anuary, IHill. when 
he puichased the interest of his old employer. Mr. 
A. (). Duliois. and the firm was re-established under 
(he name of Earle A' Lewis. 

Mr. Lewis is a follower of the Uepublican party, 
in spite of the duty on tin. Socially he is a ineiii- 
ber of the Knights of Pythi.as and has found that 
his fraternizing with the men in this society has 
been of great advantage to him. not only in a social 
way, but from a business standpoint. The firm of 
which Mr. Lewis is a junior member enjoys a good 
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(1(1 li\ their UiKiwli'djif (if tlic licst markets in wliicli 
t(i |iureli:fie, niid liy tlieir iipiiijlit liiaiiiiei' iif doilisi 
luisiiies.-. I'liey enjoy the eonfidenee of the eoin- 
iiiuiiil\ .-ind all other luisine.--* iioiises have a ^ood 
word to say for the youni;' lirni. Mr. Lewis has 
Imt one lirotlier whose nanu' is A[prrill L. Lewis, 
lie tr:ivels foi'a Cleveland hardware house and liis 
home is loealed at .Marion. Ind.. wheic he has a 
deliahtful residence that is |iresided over liy a 
<;entle. relined little woman and two ch.armini; 
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JOMAII W. DOWN'S. .\in(mg the well-known 
citizens of Lan.sini;'. luiiiiam Connty, wlio 
1 were early settlers herein the pioneer days, 
we are plea.sed to |)resent the sketch of a 
.se])tnasi:enaiian of snch character and worth as Mr. 
Downs, who has now ivtirc(l from active life .'in<l | 
is spending; hi> l.'ist days in the lovely home in the 
eity. whicli was the scene of his laliors in his early | 
manhood. His home is >nrrounded liy a lieanlifnl 
little fiiiit farm of two and one-half acres, in whicli i 
the old uentlem;in ikdiahls. and which he is alile 
to superintend prolitaMy. lie ha-- lieen a re.-ident 
of tins cit\ >ince New ^' ear's Day. \X.'tl. 

■Manslield. L'ichland Coinity. Ohio, is the native 
home of t his uentlcinan. who was liorn .lnl\ '^'.K 
l^(•2l. His father, .lames Downs, was hoin ne.'irthe 
old Natnral l!ridsic in \'ir<iinia and his f;ither. .lolin 
II.. was the son of a Protestant Irislim.'in from the 
.North of Ireland. The f:imil\ liniauc is traced to 
the Scotch noliility. The arandtather was a shoe- 
maker liy tr.-ide. lirst in N'irifinia and afterward in 
Maryl.-ind. and in IMI2hc removed to Ohio and 
located eiirht miles finm .Manslield. on a farm, which 
he impro\ed and sonu'wh.-il latei' sold tiefore retinii- 
in;j to Manslield. 

The father of our sulijecl w;i> a miller li\ ti;ide 
and operati'd a mill for .Mi. .M.-irshall on ( lear I''ork. 
Kichland County. Ohio, and later liouirhl a farm 
adjoininii' and carrieil it on while ciiritiiiuin<;' his 
milling. In 1830 he soUl this property and removed 



to .Manstield. where he took up the makiny of lirick. 
in which he was suecessfiil. and died there in .Vi)ril. 
IH.ils. at the aire of forty two years. He was a de- 
\ (lilt ;iik1 earnest member of tlie .Methodist Kpi.sco- 
|ial Cliiirch. 

The mother of oiii- >iiliject was Deborah, daiiijli- 
ter of William \anD(iiii. and belonged to one of 
the old Dutch families of Kastern New- York, beinir 
born in Saratoga County. Her father at the age 
of fifteen entered the Revolutionary .\rniy and 
fierved throughout the contiiiiiance of the war. after 
which he resumed farminu. .\bout the vcar IHI2 
he located in Washingt<in Township. Richland 
County, Ohio, two miles fnmi where the grandfather 
of our subject. John Downs, made his home. Theic 
was longevity in the family on both sides iind the 
mother lived to complete eitihty years and then 
])a.ssed away in Ohio, in IM7«. She had nine chil- 
dren in her household .■iiid .losiah was third in 
order of age. He is the only one of the lirothers 
who is now livinii .•ilthouuh none of the >i>ter> 
have pa.ssed awa\. 

In Richland Cotinty. (>liio. this boy liiew to the 
age of nine years upon the farm, after which he 
went to .Manslield three months each winter to at- 
tend school, and bcuan helpiiii; also in the Ivrick- 
yard. his earliest task beiiii"- carrying brick, and 
when sixteen years old in moldinu lirick. Iii^ 
usual task beini; three thousand :i (l;i\. When 
the father died the sons carried on the business 
tliroiiii:h the next season, getting out some sixt\- 
thousand Inicks.aud then deci(le(l to drop thi» luisi- 
ness and learn trades. 

.losiah was apprenticed to .-i tailor- in .Mansliild 
and after three scars .-it the trade he worked as a 
journeyman at .Vshland and .New Il;i\-en, and sub- 
serpienlly returne<l to .Manstield and st.nited a shop. 
Rut this was not of long duration, .-is in .Ma\. is Hi 
he joined the volunteer army, enlerini; ( oinpain- 
A. Third Ohio Infantry, and serving for one year 
in the .Mexican \\'ar. with the rank of Second Ser- 
geant. Ilewassent to Cincinnati under Col. Cur- 
tis, and next went to .New Orleans, and joining 
Taylor'> army sailed in (ien. H. 1". liutler's Divis- 
ion to .Mexico. 

The regiment was kepi at the garrison at .\Iala- 
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month at C'omargo, whence the.y marched to Mont- 
erej' and Buena Vista, where his regiment took a 
train of two luindred wagon loads of provision 
encountering parties of "Urears", Mexican plunder- 
ers, all along the way but they made their way 
through in safety. They remained in Buena Vista 
until after the lialtle of A'era Cruz, when, their 
term of service liaving expired, they were dis- 
charged, being mustered out at New Orleans, 
June 25, 1847 returning by boat to Cincinnati. 

Sergeant Downs now settled down to work at 
his trade and to establish a home of his own and 
was married October 28, 1847, in Ohio, to Miss 
Lvdi-i Spiteler, a native of that State and daughter 
of Daniel Spiteler. who was a potter by trade. Our 
subject continued in tlie tailoring business, until 
1855, when he removed to Auburn, Ind., where he 
carried on l)usiuess in clothing and furnishing 
goods, and eighteen months later removed to Crest- 
line, Ohio, where he entered into partnership with 
Mr. Greenfield, and enlarged his stock. Five 
months later he removed to Goshen, Ind., and the 
following .Tanuary, in 1857, he located in Lansing, 
opening a fine line of clothing and piece goods as 
a merchant tailor. His partnership here with Mr. 
Greenfield lasted for eighteen months, and then 
Mr. Downs sold out his interest and rentinga room, 
started in as a custom tailor and did well at it for 
twelve years, after which he sold his business to 
Messrs. Murray and Dixon. 

When this gentleman first came to Lansing he 
purchased an acre of land where the Lansing Wheel 
Works now stand, and resided on that spot during 
the days of the war, when he sold it and bought 
something over five acres adjoining the corpora- 
tion. Here he built a house and set out an orchard. 
After .selling his shop he still continued as a cutter 
and filter, and his old customers still sent for him 
to do their special work. He finally sold his little 
place and bought two and one-half acres where he 
now resides, building his present home in 1874. 
During tliis time he was superintendent of the 
tailoring department at llie Reform School for 
seven years, while .lohusou iV Howe were superin- 
dents of the .school. At that time he was so 
much troubled with neuralgia in the head that he 
gave up his in-door work and devoted himself to 



his garden and fruit farm, until he entirely over- 
came this trouble. 

Ten children form the household of our subject 
and his faithful companion, whom we will enum- 
erate as follows: Oscar B., a baker in Saginaw; 
James, who resides in Lansing; Carrie, now Mi-s. 
Mark Aldrich, of Grand Fork County, Dak.; Mil- 
ton B., a cal)inet-maker and the finest workman in 
the city; Franklin, who died at the age of six years; 
Julietta married Mr. Durand, who is in the em- 
ploy of the Michigan Central Railroad at Ypsi- 
lanti; Mary married William C. Hinman, the City 
Clerk; John is a member of the Metroplitan Police; 
William M., a carriage trimmer; Minnie is attend- 
ing school at Ypsilanti and Bertha is a member of 
the Class of '83, in the High School at Lansing. 

Daniel .Spiteler. the father of ^Irs. Downs, was 
born near Fredericksburg, Pa.,and his father, Simon, 
a Hollander, came to Pennsylvania, where he car- 
ried on a farm and died in Canton, Ohio. Daniel 
Spiteler had a pottery at Mansfield, and afterward 
came to DeKalb County, Ind. where he bought a 
farm of eighty acres near Spencer and carried on 
the double vocation of farmer and potter. His 
death took place when he was sixty years old. His 
excellent wife bore the maiden name of Carolme 
Neagent and had her birth in Greencastle, Pa., and 
her father, William Neagent, was a native of Eng- 
land, who made his home in Greencastle, where he 
was a prominent man and a leader in the Masonic 
order. He was one of the committee who came to 
Detroit to form the first Masonic lodge in Michigan 
aiid during that trip died on the River Raisin. 
The mother died in F^t. Wayne after reaching her 
seventy-eighth year. They were both earnest and 
devoted members of the Baptist Church, and the 
judicious and faithful parents of nine children. 
Mrs. Downs was their first-born and first saw the 
light July 1, 1828 near Mansfield which was her 
home until 1856, when she removed to Spencer, 
Ind., where she resided until her marriage. 

^Ir. Downs has served his township erne year as 
clerk, and has also been School Director a year. He 
is identified with Lansing Lodge, No. 33. A.FiVr.A.M. 
He joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows 
at Auburn, and is also a member of the Association 
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with tlif DcmociMtic pMilv :iii(l in rcliaioii lie i> a 
I'liivcrsMlist. hfiiii; Deai-on and 'rriistft- in thai 
(•h\ii(li. while his wife inclines to the S|iiiitiialistic 
laitli. It is a flelijiht to visit this xalued and ex- 
peiienced citizen, who make,- evi'i'V ifiicst his friend 
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ILl.lA.M A. DKVKlx". When one inv.'sti- 
srates the heifinniuirs of liistor\. coiisid- 

if" erahle reseafch is necessarv in order to 
make clear the first settlements and the early 
records. It is believed that the lirst settlement in 
Injj'haiii Coniity was maile hy .Mr. l\oiI<;ers n|)on 
section 3f), Stockhridjje 'rownship. in IK.'i."). luit the 
gentleman whose name appeals at the head of this 
.sketch is the olde.st settler now livi ig within llie 
IioiuhIs of the county, lie is well known all oNcr 
the county. Mild espcciiill\ in Lausini; and \icinity. 
wlieic lie has lieen prominent in the township .-is 
Sui)ervisoi- and the other |)ositions of trust, lie is 
a most delightful and entertaining talker, as he 
know> .ill the stories of the early ])i(meer life. At 
the time of his first settlement here he had to pro- 
cine uoik in the more settled portions of the Slate, 
.■iiid he more than once walked a distance of thirty- 
live miles to get w<jrk. At one time he ohtained 
work at Dexter, laboring seven and one-half da\s 
in haying and harvesting to procure one hundred 
l)ounds of flour, and then he walked home again 
the twenty-five miles dist;iiicc ••iiid i-etnrned with 
his ox-teaiii to haul it hack, tnakiiiy in .all ele\eii 
and oiie-li.'ilf days of work for one hundicd 
pounds of Hour. lie is :\ m.-iii of reiiiaikalilc 
mind. keenlyali\'e to all the issues of the d.'iy.aiid 
with a rich fund of experience. 

Mr. Dryer had his liirth in ('azt'iio\ ia. .\l:idi.-oii 
County. N. V.. March '.i. IHi:?. his father. Allen 
Dryer, and his grandfather, who bore the same 
name, both Ixing natives of the old Hay State. 
The name was formerly Dwyer. and the origin.al 
ancestor was a Hollander, but when he was in Kng- 
land he was conscripted and to e.«cape the draft he 
emigrated to America, where he located in M.issa- 



ehiiselts and cliange<l the name to Dryer. Thi' 
gr.'indfallier canu' from .Massachusetts and became 
an early settler of .Madison County. N. V.. wliere 
he carried on a farm. liis fatluT also bore the 
name of .Vllen. 

The p.arents of our subject lenioved from .Mas- 
sachusetts to New York after llieii- marriage, and 
his father became I'ostmaster and .lustit'c of the 
Peace in Ca/enovia, and having reached the :ige 
of seventy ye.Mis. died there in 1K42. lie had a 
biothei who lived to the remarkable age of one 
hinidred years and nine days. He was a Whig 
in his political attachment.-. His wife. Ksther 
Bullock, was a d.aughter of lienjamin ISiillock. .a 
.Massachiisells farmer, .and she die(l at the age of 
sixty-six years, in the same yi'ar which -aw her 
husliand's demise. They were earnest and active 
inenibers of the Presbyterian Church, and had the 
remarkalile and blessed experience of s<'eing all of 
their thirteen children grow to years of inatiirit\. 
There was not a death in the family until after 
the youngest son had reached the age of twenty- 
three years. <lnring which year the lather and 
mother and four of the sons were carried to the 
grave in three months by a fever. 

'The children of this family were of follows: 
H.'irzill.a. who died in IH12; .Vdelia is now ninety- 
four years old. anil has her home iii liath 'Town- 
ship. Clinton County; Kstherdied at Battle Creek: 
Lucy passed away at Fenner. N. Y.; .Vlniira died 
in Clinton County. .Mich.: Hufns died in Ne« 
York: David resides in Bath. Clinton County: 
.Maigaret is with tmr subject; Mary died in Lan- 
sing in l^t»><; William .\., our snbject; .lames died 
in 1><42; Matihia's death occuricd in C:iii:ida: .iiid 
Benjamin died in 1H12. 

William Dryer was educati'd in tlu' district 
schools of Cazenovia. and at the age of sixteen 
was a|)prenticed to the carriage builders' tr.ade. .at 
» hicli he served for four years, and then worked 
.It the business until he reached the age of twenty- 
three. In IM.'iii he came to Michigan, reaching 
this point in .Iiiiie. He traveled by boat to Buf- 
falo, by the ••( )ld .Michigan " to Detroit, and then 
came prospectinii on foot, and tinall\' decided to 
locate in .Michigan, .although he had intended to 
make Illinois his home. When he left '^■|isilanti 



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he was taken very sick, and as his partner had 
' gone to Illinois, he was in quite a desolate condi- 
tion; however, he entered eighty acres of land in 
AVhite Oak Township, on section 21, which was a 
dense forest. He went on foot back to Detroit, 
and in the fall lirought his wife and one child, 
and building a log house, began to climb the lad- 
der of life on the very bottom round. His resi- 
dence was a log shanty with a roof made of split 
red oak shakes, and the floor of split basswood, 
evened by an adz. He proceeded to clear the 
farm, and found his nearest market at Ann 
Arbor, and his most numerous neighbors In- 
dians, with whom he learned to talk in their 
dialect. 

In 184,') Mr. Dryer sold his property in White 
Oak Townshi|), and bought land in Pinckney, Liv- 
ingston County, where he kept a shop and worked 
at his trade for three years. In 1848 he removed 
to Lansing, making his home here on the 2d 
of November, and putting up a shop. He made 
the first wagon that was ever manufactured in 
Lansing, and also the first carriage. The axles of 
this vehicle were made out of iron-wood poles 
which were taken from an old log house. For two 
years he carried on the manufacture of wagons 
and carriages, and then entered the eniploj' of 
Smith, Turner <fe Seymour, in building the plank 
road between Lansing & Howell. In their inter- 
ests he had charge of the store at Leroy and also 
of a sawmill, where the planks for the road were 
manufactured. This work occupied him for two 
years, and subsequently he entered the mercantile 
business, into which he was aided by "Zach" 
Chandler, who helped to establish his credit for 
the purchase of goods. He carried on this store 
for four years upon Center Street, North Lansing, 
and made a success of it, but he then sold out this 
l)usiness and purchased a farm. 

TJie property wliich Mr. Dryer now bought com- 
prised one hundred and eighty-five acres, all in 
the woods, situated upon section 7, Lansing Town- 
ship. He located upon this land and proceeded to 
improve it, and in 18.56 hewed out and built a log 
house. He was nominated by the Republican 
])arty as Representative in the Legislature, but was 
defeated by the Hon, 0. M, Barnes. He continued 



to re.side upon his farm until November 1889, 
when he retired from active life, and selling that 
property came to live in Lansing. He was the 
first citizen of Ingliani County to introduce fine 
sheep here. Merinos being his hobl^y, and he had 
over four hundred head in his flock. He al.so in- 
troduced ftiorough-bred Sh(irt-horn cattle, and was 
one of the originators of the Central Michigan 
Agricultural Association, of which he was the first 
President, an office he held for two yeans. He is 
still one of its firm friends, and was a Director 
continuously until his retirement from active 
duties. At its fairs he has taken man}' pre- 
miums, and was ever active in promoting its in- 
terests. 

This venerable gentleman was, on the 24th 
of October, 1834, united in marriage with the 
wife of his youth, in Hamilton, Madison County, 
N. Y. Tliis lady was Miss Betsey H. Newell, 
a native of Morrisville, and she passed from 
earth in 1861. Her nine children are: Mary, 
Mrs. ,1. E. Warner, of Lansing: Dr. Newell en- 
listed in 1864 in the Seventeenth Michigan Infan- 
try, and served as Assistant Surgeon until the 
close of the war; Elbridge, a farmer in Lansing 
Township; Esther was Mrs. G.W. Christopher, and 
died in 1887; Adelaide and James W. both died 
in infancy; Helen A. died in 1880 at the age of 
twenty-four; William F., a farmer in Bath Town- 
ship; and Betsey K. is Mrs. E. M. .Johnson, of 
Owosso. Newell Dryer enlisted as a private, and 
his father went to Gov. Crapo and obtained for 
him (ahead of forty-seven other applications) a 
commission as Assistant Surgeon. This able 
physician, who is now practicing in Bath, Clin- 
ton County, is a graduate of the Buffalo Medical 
College. 

The second marriage of the gentleman of whom 
we are writing took place in 1861, and he was then 
united with Mrs. Sarah Britton, who was born in 
Steuben County, N. Y..and came to Michigan with 
her parents in 1879, locating in Wayne County, 
where they lived upcm a farm. Her first marriage 
took place in Ann Arbor, and she afterward lived 
in I'inckney, where Mr. Britton died, and sub- 
sequent to that event she located in Lansing in 
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Wlien Mr. Dryer wa.s rosidinsr in White Oak 
Tt)wiisliip. lie served as Supervi.sor mikI Towiisliii) 
Clerk as well as School Inspeetor. lie hel|n'(l to 
orfjaiiize the towiishii) and tiie eounty. and served 
as County Commissioner, heiiig also Chaii'nian of 
the lioard for two years. In Lansing Towii>hi|i 
he was Supervisor for fourteen years, and duriui;- 
most of that time was Chairman of the Couiity 
Hoard. He helped to build all the hIiooIIiouscs, 
and had a liroad acquaintance throughout the 
county. lie is a memlier of the State Pioneer 
Association, as well as of the Ingham County 
Pioneer Association, and was its honoied President 
for many years. 

The Methodist Episcopal Church is the religious 
body with which our subject is in sympathy, and 
he has been an otiicial member of it for many 
years, but he also synijiathizes warmly with all re- 
ligious movements, and has aided in the erection 
of every church in Lansing.' In his early days he 
was a Free-soil Democrat, but when the Fugitive 
Slave Law came into force, it sent him with many 
others into the newly formed Republican party in 
1854. His first Presidential vote was cast for M.-ir- 
tin \ an Buren, and his second for .lohn C. Fre- 
mont. Since that time he has been a pillar in the 
Republican party, and until recently he has at- 
tended nearly ever\- county and congressional 
convention, and was a member and Chairman in 
the Republican Committee of Ingham County for 
years. 



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!#;ILLIAM IIKNRY l;A^^■|•:R. is a t.nnicr 
and stock-raiser, who owns two huiidie<l 



Y'W 'ind eighty acres of land within the cor- 
porate limits of Mason. His farm is located on 
section 9, of Yevay Town.ship. Ingham County, 
but his residence is in the city proper. The dis- 
tance between his residence and the farm which lie 
operates being so short that he can readily go from 
one place to the other. .Mr. Rayner was born in 
the town of Brutus, Cayuga County. N. '\'., April 
24, lU'dG. lie is the son of John and Kniily 



(Meech) Ravnor. the father a native of Oranegc 
County, N. V.. and the niotlier of the town of 
Hrutus, where <nir subject was born. 

( )ur subject 's jiarents came to ^lichigan when 
their son was but three years of age, and they lo- 
cated In the village of M.ason, at a time when there 
was liut a limited chance for the lad to obtain 
many educational advantages, as they were in 
sucli liii:iiicial position that he had to work on the 
farm at the time when he should have been in 
school. He had a great desire to become a sur- 
veyor and althougli he never had any opportunity 
of studying the science of surveying in school, yet 
he gave w hat time he could to the study, while en- 
gaged in farming until he became quite an expert 
at the business, even going so far as to construct 
some of his leveling instruments. He was rec- 
ognized in the neighborliood in which iie lived as 
being an ingenious young man, and his services 
were frequently in requisition as a surveyor. He 
still possesses an instrument for leveling that he 
himself made, that cannot be surpassed by any in- 
strument made at the present time. He served 
faithfully upon his l';itlier's place until the age of 
twenty-one, giving his time to the very day. but 
immediately after began to do for himself. 

William Henry Rayner began to work by the 
mouth or day, or any other way in which he could 
earn money, and in a short time he had made a 
positic)n fur himself and was recognized through- 
out the township ;is a progressive, go-ahead j'oung 
man. In two or three years he was elected Con- 
stable, in which capacity he served for eight years 
and he has served as (onnty Surveyor some twelve 
or sixteen years, although not consecuti\ely. He 
has also frequently perfoniicd (he duties of City 
Fngineer. 

Our subject began to feel himself in a position 
in which he could have a home of his own. and ou 
September li. l.S(!(i, he made Miss I-"rances Robbins 
the presiding genius over his domestic affairs, as 
well as the custodian of his best affections, his 
conqianioii .•iiid liel|)mate. She was born in .Mai- 
edoii Towiisliip, liii;h;iiii ( ouiilv. March I."). ISKJ. 
and is n daughter ol W illiain P. and Lydia M. 
(Wells) Roliliiiis. ( )iir suliject and his wife are the 
parent* of three cliiUhen; Robbins B. Rayner, 



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liorn December 4, 1H7;?. Ric "SL. lioin May 13, 
1875, .iiid William 1'., lioni .lainiary 16. 1881. 
Our subject is a l)eliever in tlie Biltle, of whicli he 
has always been mm nidcnt, studeiil, helievinir it to 
be the Book of huoivs, and from a literary stand- 
point, without parallel. In i)olitics he is a Re])uli- 
lican. givinji' his vote and inlluenee to that i)arty 
in its ])vuitv of principle. JNIr. Hayner owns a 
<;ood home in Mason, Init talvcs jjreat delisilit in 
liis farm and farm hfe. His placi' in tlie country 
liears evidence of intcllij^ent and skillful manage- 
ment. Me has on his pltice a little log cabin to 
commemorate loji' cMhin cainp:!!!;!! times. Mr. Hay- 
ner lias on liis phice a tine park and ground^, wliich 
is the only park in tlie village. 



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^, M. N()TTIN(;iI.\M, M. I). The stand- 
ing of a right-minded and skillful pli3'S- 
ician in .an intelligent coiiimunity is one 
of great honor and repute, hut it is one 
which must be attained through years of hard laljor 
and conscientious pursuit of the work which came 
to hand. Xo one, more than a physician, knows 
how true it is that a man who would obtiiin a good 
standing in his profession must work liaid and de- 
vote himself untlinchingly to duty through all the 
years of his career. Negligence in such a one is 
crimin.al and is justly' considered iui])rofessional, 
while the devotion of his Itest knowledge and high- 
est powers to every case wliicli comes to his h!ind> 
is only his duly. Such devotion lias Inouglit l)i'. 
N'oltingliani to the foreiiio.'~t rank among the llonie- 
opatliic pliysicians of Ingliani ('onnty, and has 
brought to him the largest pi-actice of any phys- 
ician of his school, and Lansing is proud to claim 
him as one of her prominent citizens. 

Dr. Nottingham, who is the ex-1'resideiit of the 
Michigan Stale Medical So<'icty. is the miii of 
.laiiio Nottingham, a \'ii-ginian, and (he grand- 
son of an Kiiglishman who cmiiic from Xottingham- 
shire, England, to America, where lie located in 
Virginia h>v a short time before removing to Dela- 
ware County, Ind., where he died, when the father 



of our subject was liut a little boy. The grand- 
father was a man of means and connected with 
the Knglish nobility, yet in some way the mother 
was h'ft in destitute circumstances at his death, 
and was obliged to struggle hard to rear her fam- 
ily, who lived according to the pioneer w.ays of 
that day in Indiana. 

\\ lien the father of our subject was ten years 
old he was bound to a shoemaker, and after learn- 
ing that trade he drifted into cabinet-making, and 
engaged in the manufacture of furniture under the 
firm name of N<ittingham A Kirby, which firm is 
still carrying on busiiiess at Miineie, Inil. .lames 
Xottingliam was one of the first settlers at Muneie, 
and he helped to clear the ground where the Court 
House now stands, lie was successful in business, 
and owned some farming land there, which he 
linally traded for a farm at .lonesboro, Grant 
County, Ind., where he followed farming until his 
death, in IHSti, at the .age of seventy-six years. 

During thi' late war, when "copperhead" views 
were rampant in Indiana, .lames Nottingham was 
called ujion to act as enrolling officer in (Jrant 
County. .\s there was then a very strong senti- 
ment against the draft amiuig those wlio did not 
sympathize with the Union cause, there were ef- 
forts made at resi.-tance and it made his ollice a 
ver\ <laiii;cidu> one. They tlircatencd to liaiig 
"Old .lim" Nottingham and Inirn U\> propi'rty. 

This gentleman was a prominent man in many 
ways, being a Trustee of the township, and a mem- 
ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for 
fifty-four years, and was at the time of his death 
one of llie ol(lc>t members of that order. l''or 
forty years lie was a member of the Metliodist 
Kplsco)ial Church and did good service, both as a 
CLass-Leader and .-is Superintendent of the Sunday- 
school. He was a man of mark in the .Vgricultural 
Society and as a sheep owner, .as he raised fine 
sheep of all kinds. His good wife, who bore the 
name in maldiiihood of Sarah .1. Heal, was horn 
near Man^licld. (»hio: her father came from 
.Maini' aiul hccaine an earlN setth'i' ot ( )lii<i. She 
now roides on the old homestead. All hut one of 
her fourteen children are now living. 

Three brotliei> of our subject were in the Civil 
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Eiijlitli IiHlijiii;! Infantry, niid was llicn wdiiiiilcd 
iiiid l.'ikcii piisoiu'r. hut after lii'iiii,^ four days in tlic 
hands of tlio ioIk-Is w.is I'xchaniicd just t)efore 
ivaoliini,' l,ilili> Piisini; Owen 1'.. wlio was in llic 
Thirty-foui-tli Indiana Infantry for about tincc 
years, and .Tolin >[.. who was one of the "Ninety- 
day lioys" in the One lluudicd and Thirty-fourth 
Indiana Infantry. 

I). iM. Xdttinjjliam was one of the youiiycr 
members of his father's family anil was horn in 
•loneshoro, (Jrant County, Ind., .lanuary .'). lis.')."). 
He was reared on the farm and atteiuled tin' dis- 
trict seliool. and wlien twelve years old was sent 
to Fairmount Academy. Ind.. to prep.are for col- 
h'ge. When sixteen he entered the Indi;iiia State 
Norin.al School, at Terre Haute, where he studied for 
tiu'ee years, spending- his vacations in learnint; the 
luirness trade witli his l)rother. At the same 
aifc lie heijan teachino;. and after two years in 
this profes.sion in Grant t'ounty. Ind., he then, 
in 1870, engaged in the harness husiness in Fair- 
iiiount, Ind. 

It was in that city that Mr. Nottingham met 
and married, on the 'iHtli of May, 187(1. IMiss Kliza- 
hetli ('. lialdwin. a native of Fairniount, who was 
a graduate of the Weslevan College, at Wlieaton, 
111., and who had heen teaching for two years in 
"Wabash County, Ind. She was the daughter of 
.loiiathan lialdwin, who founded that town and 
laid it out and named it after Fairmount Park, at 
Ptiiladel])liia, that beautiful tract of land where 
our Centennial Exposition wa.s held. .lonatlian 
Baldwin was born in PeniKsylvania and w.is a 
<iuaker, hut "married out of meeting" and was ex- 
|)elled. as the church ier|uire(l its nieinl)crs to marry 
ill llic church. 

Although young Noltinghaiii coritiniied after 
marriage for about a year in the harness business, 
he could not quell his earnest desire, which he 
had cherished from early boyhood, to study anat- 
omy and chemistry and thus fit himself for a med- 
ical c;ireer. He therefore began the sturly of medi- 
<iiie under Dr. .1. C. Nottingham, now of l>a\('ity. 
and in 18711 entered Hahnemann .Medical College, 
at Chicago, taking his diploma in 18H1. He lirst lo- 
catedat Bronson, Mich., and there continued in the 
practice of medicine tmtil 1881, when he removed 



to Lansing. During the seven yeai-sof his sojourn 
in this city he lm,s liuilt up a splendid practice, 
.•ind now owns a tine residence at the corner of 
Washington .\ venue and Lenawee .Streets, which 
he built in 188;). 

The two children of Dr. and Mrs. Nottingham 

liret .1. and Ki a L. Wliile living in Bronson 

the Doctor was Picsident of the School Board and 
resigned that position upon his removal to Lan- 
sing, lie has heen Supervisor for one year and 
for two years was .Mdernian of the Sixth Ward. 
He is prominently idcntilied with the Free and 
.\ccepted .'Masons, the Hoyal .Vrch Masons, the 
Knights of I'vtliias .and the Royal Arcanum. He 
is exaniining physician for different insurance 
conipanies. He is the ICx-l'rcsidcnt of the .State 
Medical .Society .and .active in the Republican lauks. 
The Congregational Church is the religious body 
with whiili Dr. and Mrs. Nottingham tind them- 
selves in .sympathy, and their position in the social 
circles of Lansing is exceptionally good. 



O.SEPII W. HAUKER. Everyone has a 
good word to speak for the veteran grocery- 
man of Lansing, Ingham C<ninty. He is 
not only up to standard in his weights and 
measures hut .also in good fellowshi]). being genial, 
intelligent .and well informed. He is the oldest 
grocery dealer here and his faith in the capital 
cit\- and its desirability as a business location has 
heen rewai'ded. for he is now the po.ssessor of a 
\erv comfortable fortune which he has amassed in 
his legitimate business. He deals exclusively in 
the articles that are used m the household, table 
staples and luxuries. 

Our subject came to Michigan in 1844 and lo- 
catecl ill ( )iieida Township. IJiton County. Four 
\i';il> Later, in .luiic. 18|8. he came to L!in>ilig and 
lia> sinci' made this his home, catering to the appe- 
tites of ejiicnres in all sorts of tempting delicacies. 
He was born in Byron, (Jenesee County, N. Y., 
November 7, 182'.), He i.-- a .son of Augustus 



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Barker who was a native of Oneida County, N. Y. 
Our subject's paternal grandfatlier was Josepli 
Barker, born in Oneida County where he was en- 
gaged as farmer. He, however, located in (ieucsee 
C ounty in an early day, settling in Byron Town- 
ship. The father of our suljject served in the War 
of 1812, in which he was a musician in the Conti- 
nental Army. He was at Buffalo when it was 
burned. Our subject's father came to Michigan 
and settled in Oneida Township, Eaton County, in 
1845. He bought an improved farm there, but 
two years later while on a visit to New York for 
his health he died in his native county. He was a 
strong anti-slavery man and also an ardent temp- 
er.anee advocate. Throughout the greater portion 
of his life he was a member of tlie Free-Will I'y.iy)- 
tist Cliurch. 

Mr. Barker's mother was previous to her mar- 
riage a Miss Poll}' Eastman. She, like hei- hus- 
band, W.1S a native of (ienesee County, N. Y., and 
a daughter of Hiram Eiistman, a farmei- at that 
place. He died near London, Canada. Oui- suli- 
ject's mother brought into the world five cliildreii, 
of whom he of whom we write was theyounge-st in 
order of birth. He was reared in New York State 
until he was sixteen years of age and in the fall of 
1845 they came West, bringing their household 
goods by te.am and wagon. He had shipjjed to 
(Trand Rapids and intended to locate there. ))ut 
stopped at the home of an aunt, who induced them 
to stay in Eaton. The journey hither occupied 
three weeks and when they reached it* end the 
country was indeed wild enough. Tliere were 
unbroken forests that seemed almost impenetrable, 
with their closely-growing trunks of huge trees and 
thick tangled underbiMisli through which only tlie 
wild iinimals of the forests couhl force a p;i.-sage. 
'I'here were (ilenty of wol\(s ntid plenty of Indians 
and our subject became familiar with several of 
tlie noted chiefs. He attended school at the log 
schoolhouse in the district. The seats that they 
occupied were only slabs with pegs in the ends for 
legs. The books nml olhcr m liool .ipiiliiuices weri' 
varied and crude. 

In 1848 the original of our sketch came to Lan- 
sing and began to work at the mason's trade under 
John N. Bush. He remained with him for three 



.years and then continued the same work with Mr. 
Alcott as a partner, then went back to Mr. Bush, 
aftei which he was engaged in work alone and then 
the firm became that of Bush A Alcott. He work- 
ed on the old offices of the capitol and if there is 
a good foundation to the legislative halls that will 
preserve the old building from rocking in times of 
trouble it will no doubt l)e due to the careful and 
conscientious workmanship of our subject. In 
1871, Mr. Barker left the mason's business and 
entered the furniture l3usiue,ss in North Lansing, 
which was run under the firm name of Barker it 
AVilbur. In 1873 he sold out his interest and 
formed a partnership with Daniel Parker in the 
grocery business. They started their business in 
the ojjera house block and the firm continued 
together under the name of Barker & Parker until 
the former was stricken with writer's paralysis. Six 
months later he was so much better that the firm 
bought out the Bunn Ar .John grocery adjoining 
the post-office. There they continued for one 
year, in the meantime erecting a fine double brick 
store of their own. This our subject is now the 
owner of, and they continued in the grocery busi- 
ness here until Mr. Parker died, February 16, 1889. 
He had purchased t'ne stock one month pre^'ious to 
his decease. This grocery hou.se is the one tliat 
has l)een hjngest estalilished in the city. 

Mr. Barker owns a fine residence on Capitol 
Avenue and Saginaw Street; he is also the owner 
of other property that is very valuable. His mar- 
riage took place in this city in 1854, he was united 
to Miss Elsie Maiden, a native of Ftica. N. Y., 
who came to Wayne County, ^licli.. with her 
l)arents when three years of age. tiience all came to 
the city of L;i using in IH-17. This marriage lias 
been blest by the aihenl of three eliildien wlniare 
Arllinr A.. Inn L. nnd Willinni II. The eldest wa.s 
born in Voungslown. Niiignra County, X. Y.; lua L. 
isnowlSIrs. Dr. Cameron, of Lansing; William H. 
enlisted in the regultR- army April 30, 1889, when 
twenty-five years old. He belongs to Company 
1-:.. of the Fifth Fnited Stntes Artillery, ami is 
stationed at the month of the Cohnnliia Hiver. 
The eldest son also served Mac years in the regular 
army. 

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I'ouitli \\ Mril t\ir two years niiil Supci'visoi' one 
Vt'jir. I'or two \oni> he was :i incinlicr of llic 
fSeliool IJoai'l and while thus in ofliee did eilicienl 
work. Socially he belonsfs to Capitol Lodjfe. 
No. (!() F. A' A. >[., and was Master of his 
lo(|ue durinu' tlie wai'. He lieloniis to llie Hoyal 
.Vi'eanuni an<l in his ehureh relations is a nienilier 
of the Fice-\\'ill liaptist denomination .-iiid has 
held vaiious positions in this body, lie was on 
the biulding eoininitlee as Chaii-man and Is and 
has for years been a Deacon in the <hureli. lie has 
fof many years been Superintendent of the Sun- 
day-school and is a stronsj Prohibitionist. 






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KXRY 11. DARIJV, M. D. Of the younuer 
followers of Esculapius practicing in the 
city of Lansing, Ingham County, none are 
more progressive in their ))rofessional ideas 
and tendencies than our subject. The tendene\- 
of the time in professional circles is a dissatisfaction 
with one's aci]uirements and a feverish anxiety 
to rend the veil of future discoveries and niven- 
tions. taking to one's self all the advantages that 
may be utilized. On the whole the writer believes 
this to be a wholesome condition of affairs. Dr. 
Darby is no exception to tlie rule, lieing ainbitious 
to stand at the head of his profession. He unites 
to his medical jjractice.a knowledge of snrgeiy. 
lie is located at North Lansing and there has a 
very remunerative practice. 

The Prairie State was the scene of the nativity 
of the subject of this sketch, he having been boiii 
in the vdl.age of Paris, llunk'r Township. Kdgar 
County, the year i)revions to the firing of the first 
gnn at Sumter. His natal day occuiied .\pril !^. 
IHG((. He is a si)n of Dr. P.enjainin F. Darby, 
who was born in Hampshire County. W. Wa.. where 
onr sid)ject's grandfather was a farmer. The old 
gentleman removed at an early day to Nebr.aska 
and there died. Soon after attaining his majority 
our siil>jeet's f.Mther came to Illinois. He was a 
physician and surgeon and located in llinitei- 
Township, Kdgar County, where he is still one of 



the most proniineul and skilled praelitiouei")? of 
the locality. He is an ardent worker in the church, 
belonging U> the Methodist Episcopal persuasion. 
His wife was prior to their marriage, Miss .Susan 
Kerns. lik<' himself a native of West Virginia. She 
passed away from this life in Hunter Townshi]) 
and was there Laid away with the greatest tender- 
ness and respect, for she was much beloved by 
friends and neighbors, being an estimable woman 
of striking iinalities. She was the mother of eleven 
children. Only four of these, however, are now 
living, and of these our subject is the youngest. 

Dr. Darliy was reared in his native place and from 
1(^77 to l)^7:i he was an attendant at Prof. Ilurty's 
Academy, formerly known as Edgar Collegiate In- 
stitute at Paris and then went to Valparaiso. Ind., 
where he was a student for one year, after which he 
began the study of medicine, reading under his 
father's direction until IMHl. Early influences 
and surroundings had their effect upon our suliject, 
for he was in a manner prepared for his work 
liefoie he began it, and when he entered college 
was enabled to accomplish three years' work in two 
years. In 1K8I he entered the College of Physi- 
cians and Snrgeons at Keokuk, Iowa, and was grad- 
uated in 1883 and thus was entitled to add the 
initials ^I. D. to his name. After graduating he 
at once began the practice of his profession in part- 
nership with his father in Hunter Township and 
continued to be thus a.ssociated and engaged until 

18K(;. 

At the date above mentioned our snbjeet came 
to ^Michigan and located in Moiiice, Shiawassee 
County. There he built nj) a g(X)d practice and 
stood high in the estiniati(m of the pcojile of the 
community, rem.aining with them until 1890. De- 
siring a broader fiehL not only for practice, but 
for self progress, he at that time removed to North . 
J>ansing and has since been engaged in his profes- 
sion at his jnesent l(K-ality. lie is a pronunent 
young physician and already has a good patronage. 
In college he was an indefatigable student and 
every spare moment outside of his regular course 
was given to special studies. He has made the dis- 
eases of women and children a specialty and is 
])aiticularly successful in that branch of treatment. 
In surgery he is conversant with the latest and 



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most approved methods, having a perfect equip-, 
meiit in the way of instruments for any operation. 
Our subject's marriage took place in this city 
December 15, 1886, at whicli time he was united 
to Miss Mai'garet Cameron, a daughter of Capt. A. 
Cameron, a veteran of the late war. She was born 
in Lansing, and was here educated. One child 
has been born of this union, a daughter, whose 
name is S. Beatrice. The Doctor is a member of 
the Knights of the Maccabees. Liberal in religious 
matters himself, his wife is a member of the Pres- 
byterian Church. 



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08EPH W. COLLINS is a general farmer own- 
ing and occupying a fine estate of two huu- 
^^ I dred and ninety acres of land located on sec- 
^^f' tion 3.i, Lansing Township, Ingham County. 
Mr. Collins was born in the township of Rose.Wayne 
County, N. Y., September KJ, 1818. His father, 
Moses F. Collins, was for many years a resident of 
the same county and a farmer by occupation. The 
maiden name of the mother of our subject was Mary 
Wade; she also was a native of Wayne County, 
N. Y. Mr. Collins made his home with his parents at 
Rose until he was eighteen years of age, helping 
witli the farm work and during the winters attend- 
ing the district school. 

When in his eighteenth j^ear our subject's family 
moved to Michigan and settled in Washtenaw 
County at a distance of three miles from Ann Ar- 
bor. Mr. Collins entered the academy at Ann Arbor 
and took the preparatory course for the Uni- 
versity, which he entered with the second class that 
was formed after the organization of the University. 
After taking a limited course of study our subject 
began teaching. His work in this respect was 
marked with success. He continued teaching for 
several terms in different parts of the county. 

Mr. Collins was early converted to Christianity 
and was a diligent student of the Scriptures. So 
devoted had he been to the study of the Word of 
(iod that he was licensed to preach at the age of 
twenty-five, and became a Wesleyan Methodist 



minister. He followed the calling of a preacher 
for eight years consecutively, but he has been en- 
gaged in the work more or less regularly for a 
period of twenty years. 

The original of our sketch was very happily mar- 
ried when in his twenty-seventh year to Miss Lucy 
Ann Raymond, who at that time was twenty-three 
years of age. Their nuptials were solemnized in 1835. 
Of this union two children were born — Florence 
who died when she was three years of age, and 
Evangeline, born in the year of 1850, married Albert 
Felton. She is the mother of four children — Ray 
who is seventeen years of age; Alfred, tiiirteen; 
Floyd, ten; and Winnie three years old (1891). 
I Mr. Felton 's family are residents of Alaiedon Town- 
ship, Ingham County. 

Mr. Collins moved to Lansing in 1850 and owned 
a farm of sixty acres within what is now the city 
limits. The farm was situated where the school for 
the blind now stands, our subject having donated 
the land now occupied by the school for that pur- 
pose. His first wife died October 19, 1855 and he 
was again married to Laura Glines, February 7, 
1857. They moved cm a farm near Alaiedon where 
they remained for five years. He then purchased 
the farm whereon he now resides. Ten children 
have been the result of this marriage; four died in 
infancy. Florence Collins, born in 1861, is the 
wife of A. Black of Delhi; they have one daughter, 
a child two years old. Arthur, who was born in 
1868 isascliool teacher and telegraph operator, now 
living at Plymouth where he is in charge of the 
telegia|)li station at that place. He married Mary 
Foote and is the father of two children — Clifford 
and Zoah — four and two years old respectively. 
Ernest J. born in 1868 married Miss Edna Darrah 
and lives in LansingTownship; their union has been 
blest by the advent of one child still a babe. .Tudson 
D., who was born in 1871; Franklin N., in 1876; 
and Alice, who was born in 1878, are still at home. 

In politics Mr. Collins is a Republican. Dining 
the war he was a strong Abolitionist. As a mini- 
ster of the (iospel he was blest with a great degree 
of success in bringing souls to their Master and was 
never happier than while engaged in ministerial 
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Ihf iHii->tHMi> (iC tin' iIm\ , 111- i~ iiitcit'.-Uil In tin' 
prt)i>iL'ss and adviuieemeiit of llu' tiiiu's. He is 
woll !ind favorably known throughout Iiiu;hain 
County as being a man of unimpeachable integrity 
and lionor. 



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AJIES WATERMAN HOPKINS. Tlio ocn- 
tlcman vf whom we shall attempt to give a 
biographical sketch in outline, was born in 
'5^^ Argyle. Washington County, N. Y.. May 
14, 1840. Me has naturally an executive ability 
that has pushed him to the front so that he is well 
known wherever he happens to be. In the words 
of a breezy account given of the gentleman in one 
of the Lansing papers, not to know ".liin" i- up- 
popular. He is the Grand Keeper of Records and 
Seals of the Knights of Pythias, of Michigan. 

The father of Mr. llo|ikins was Dr. Freeman 
Hopkins, who w;is biiin in Argyle, Washington 
County, N. V. His paternal grandfather, James 
Hopkins, wlio was a native of Rhode Island, w.'is a 
blacksmith by trade. At an earl\ day lie rcnxivi'd 
to Washington County, N. V., an<l there located 
on a farm of live hundred and sixty-five acres that 
is still in possession of the Hopkins family. Later 
he removed to Wayne County, N. Y., where he 
was a pioneer in the township of Sodus. He es- 
tablished the fashion there for gentlemen of wear- 
ing a shawl, by wearing a checked blanket over 
his shoulders on one of his trips from AW'iyne to 
Washington County. Interestingly original, he 
was amiable and companionalile and liked by all 
the early settlers in the [lortion of the county where 
he lived. He graduated at Kairlield, N. \.. in 
1H;H, and later took his degree as |)hysician from 
a New York ^ledical College. Soon after he came 
to Michigan where he remained a short time at 
.Mbion and K.-damazoo, but he returned to Wash- 
ington County, N. Y., and later to Wayne County. 
-Vli this time he was engaged in the practice of his 
|)rofe.ssion. 

In IHl.') ovir subject's father came again to .Mich- 
igan and .'ifter a short stav at Albion he loc.'ited at 



Kalamazoo and there practiced medicine until the 
fall of the year of 1866. At this time he re- 
moved to Otsego, and there his death occurred 
July .'!l, 1873. He was deeply mourned by many 
frii'iids and actjuaintances. Throughout life he 
was a strong adherent of the Republican party. 
( »ui- Mibject's mother was Adeline M. Potter in her 
maiden days. She is a native of Argyle, Washing- 
ton ('ounl\-, N. Y., being there born ^Covember 
:>!), IHdlt. Slu- is a daughter of Abel and Mary 
( \Vatcrman) Potter, natives of Rhode Island. Later 
licr father became a farmer in Washington County, 
N. \. .Mrs. IIo|)kin's paternal grandfather was 
Sand I'otter, who was a native of Hanbury, Conn. 
Her great-grandfather was Thomas Potter. aL^^o 
born at Danbury, Conn., and her great-great-grand- 
father was Daniel Potter, born at New Haven, Conn. 
He was the oldest son of Nathaniel Potter, who was 
born in New Haven. Conn., and Nathaniel's father 
was William Potter, who i-ame from England to 
this I'ountry about the year 1735 in company with 
his brother John. Together they .sailed from Lon- 
don on the sailing vessel "Abigail." On landing 
in this country they settled at New Haven, Conn., 
and there were the Hrst settlers in America of this 
branch of the Potter f.'imil\-. Our subject's motliei- 
still resides in .Vrgylc, X. Y. She is a woman of 
striking personality and is foremost in every good 
and progressive work that is undertaken at her 
home. She is a Baptist in her church preference. 

When Mr. Hopkins was only five years of age 
111' removed with his parents from the county 
of his birth over to Wayne County, same State, 
and there he remained until he was thirteen 
years of .age, at whieli time he with the whole fam- 
ily came to Kalamazoo, Jlich.. and that city he has 
c.'illed his home until moving to Lansing. The 
rudinunts of his e<lucation were acfiuired in the 
district school of his luitixc place, after which he 
giaduated at the Kalamazoo College. He then 
went to Iiiion College of Schenectady, N. Y.. and 
graduated in the Class of '61, taking the degree of 
A. I>. in the classical course. He took his degree 
of ,\. .M. at the same college in iJ^til. 

With his sheepskin under his arm our subject 
came from college to .ludge (Jiddings" law otlice in 
K.'ilam.'izoo and tried to master the abstruseness of 



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BlackstuiR'. De(.'i(liiig that his affection for legal 
lore was not so great that he could spend his life 
over musty law liooks. he drifted into journalism 
and took a reportorial ijosition on the Kalamazijo 
Daily Telegraph where he remained three years. 
During that time he was elected Clerk of the town- 
ship which at that time included the city. He 
held tliat office until IHGf! and so well did he per- 
form the duties of the oHice that his constituents 
decided that he was fitted for a more exalted po- 
sition, and in accordance with this decision the_y 
made him Clerk of the county, which office lie held 
until 1873 and in April of that year he was elected 
Justice of the Peace. This offlce he held for four 
years. In 1877 he was appointed village Clerk 
and Water Commissioner of Kalamazoo and con- 
tinued in this otiice until 1883, at which time many 
of his friends concluded that such ability as his 
would develop l)etter in the service of the State 
at large and so secured his appointment in the 
Secretary of State's office at Lansing, and this pos- 
ition he continued to fill until December 3, 1890, 
when the change in local government occurred 
and he was put upon the retired list. 

jNIarch 21, 1871, ~S\\\ James W. Hopkins was 
married to Miss Cora L. Eaton, daughter of the 
late Col. "Willard (i. Eaton, late of the Thirteenth 
Michigan Infantry. Mrs. Hopkins is a native of 
Otsego, Allegan County. ISIich.. and was educated 
at Kalamazoo College, that State. Col. Eaton, 
w.as killed during the late war at the liattle of 
Bentonville. S. C. Our subject and his wife are 
the proud parents of two interesting children who 
are just now verging upon manhood and woman- 
hood. The daughter, Bessie Lee Hopkins, is a I 
graduate at the Michigan Female Seminary at Kal- 
am.azoo. She is a very lovely and attractive young 
woman and has inheiited from both jiarents the 
best intellectual qualities as well as a pleasing and 
agreeable temperament. Willaifl F., the sou, is a 
student at the Agricultural College at Lansing, 
and his friends will be greatly disappointed if he 
does not fulfill their high expectations for him for 
a brilliant future. 

Our subject's present otlicial position occupies 
all his time. He travels a great deal in the interest 
of the societ}'. He is a member of the Capital Lodge, 



S. 0., No. 66, of Lansing and is Past Master; he 
also belongs to the Kalamazoo Chapter No. 13, R. 
A. ;\I. and Peninsular Commandery, No. 28, at 
Kalamazoo. He became a ilason of the Thirty- 
second Degree October 30, 1866, and is a member 
of the Northern jurisdiction in the valley of Grand 
Rapids. For many years he has been on the stand- 
ing committee of I'eturns of Subordinate Chapter 
and is a memlier of the Modern Woodmen of 
^^meriea at Lansing. Mr. Hopkins has attended 
the Supienie Lodge sessions at Cincinnati. Ohio, 
and ahso at Milwaukee, and has thereby gained an 
extensive acquaintance throughout the Supreme 
jurisdiction. At one of the sessions of tlie Grand 
Lodge at Michigan, held at Grand Rapids, our sub- 
ject's duties were extended and he was made an 
Inspector of Lodges, or rather a (irand Lecturer 
and his friends anticipate that under this new or- 
der of affairs the lodges of Michigan will l)e greatly 
stinudated and spring forward into new activity. 
Aside from being an active Pythian Mr. Hopkins 
ranks high in the Masonic order. In his political 
preference he is strongly Republican, indeed, so 
radical is he that his party consider him one of the 
safest delegates that the^' can send to county and 
State conventions. Our subject has sustained a 
severe blow in his domestic relations by the loss of 
his wife who died August 6. 1880. She was a 
most estim.able woman and a perfect lady. 




'/^4 R^- t'ARRIE LANGENBACHKR. The 
lady of whom we write is intelligently and 
successfully supervising the estate which 
was left to her by her husband, and is 
accumulating year by year more property and mak- 
ing herself more fully felt as a prosperous property 
holder. 

Our suliject is the owner of the Pearl Mills at 
North Lansing which she rents to the North Lan- 
sing ^Milling Company. She is also a large stock- 
holder in the People's Savings Bank and also a 
stcickholder of the City National Bank of Lansing. 




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She was born at Ann Arbor May 21, 1861, her 
lionored parents being Christian and Barbara 
(Gauss) Breiseh. of whom our readers may learn 
more in tlie sketch of Christian Breiseli, wliich is 
to lie found elsewhere in this Albi'.m. 

The earl.v eliildliood of Carrie Breiseh was sjient 
in Ann Arlnir and when she was four years old 
she removed to this eity and here received her edu- 
(•ation. She was married to Mr. Andrew Langen- 
haeher. who was born in Liverpool, Ohio, the date 
of their wedding being January 2(1. IHHJ. The 
father of Jlr. Langenl)acher also bore the name 
of Andrew and he had his nativity across the sea 
in tlu' (lerman's Fatherland. He came to America 
many years ago and locating at Liverpool, Ohio, 
began a mercantile life there. It was about the 
year \H76 when he removed West, and locating in 
North Lansing, engaged in genend "merchandising. 
In this line of businesshe continued until he bought 
the old mills at North Lansing from iMr. Rauser, 
and removing them to a diffcient site rebuilt them 
and engaged in the milling business, |)utting in 
the new process roller machinery. He lost his 
wife and was married a second time to Aliss Anna 
Louisa Graf and his third marriage united him 
witii Mrs. Breiseh, who since his death in .January, 
IHM;"), has resided with Mrs. Langcnbacher. 

The husband of our subject was born .luly 7, 
1860, and had his early education and training in 
Liverpool, Ohio. After coming to Michigan he 
had the advantages for two years of the Agricul- 
tural College, after which he attended Bartlett's 
Business College and then took charge of the Pearl 
Mills at North Lansing. He worked his way up 
;ind in 1884 had become the proprietor of the mill 
Mild ingaged in the business independently. Up 
to tlie time of his death, which occurred Septem- 
ber .'), 1886, he was considered the principal miller 
in Lansing. l'"or a man of his time of life he was 
very jjrominent and remarkably popular and had 
already achieved financial success in his business. 
He belonged to the Royal Arcanum and in his 
political views and vote was in alliance with the 
Democratic pai'ty. 

The widow of this prosperous gentleman took 
charge herself of his business at the time of his 
demise and operated the mills for the first year. 



since which she has put in the hands of others. 
She first rented it to her brother, Christian Breiseh, 
and since then to the North Lansing Milling Com- 
pan3\ In 1888 she erected the pleasant home in 
which she resides on Capital Avenue, and there 
she and the two children, Andrew and Edith, form 
a harmonious and beautiful household. She is a 
lady of unusual refinement in taste and feeling 
and is of more than ordinary intelligence and 
occupies a position of infiuence in the social cir- 
cles of Lansing. 

» AMES WESLEY HINCHEY. On the op- 
posite page is jMesented a portrait of this 
gentleman, who p.assed from earth on Sep- 
tember 9, 1891. Altera broad experience in 
the line which has been made illustrious by Phineas 
T. Barnuni, he decided some years ago to settle in 
Lansing and devote himself to more cpiiet avoca- 
tions. At the time of his death he was engaged in 
the business of real estate, both in the city and in 
lands outside, and was proi)rietor of the Franklin 
House of Xt)rth Lansing. He also owned a farm of 
two hundred and three .acres in AVoodhull Town- 
shij), Shiawassee County, and one hundred and 
fourteen acres in ^Meridian Township, Ingham 
County, as well as property in Pinckney and 
Brighton. He filled the oflice of Alderman of the 
First Ward and was a man of abundant means, 
having properties to the amount of some ifSO.OOO 
or $100,000. 

Mr. Hinchey was born in Rochester, N. Y., Sep- 
tember 10, 1821, upon the d.ay of Perry's victory. 
His father, Samuel Hinchey, was, born at VI. Ed- 
ward on l^ake Champlain, in Washington County, 
and the grandfather took ()art in the Revolution- 
ary War. The father purchased a farm in Monroe 
County in the early days from Esq. Ilawley, who 
laid out the Erie Canal. He became a successful 
farmer and a man of influence and died in Buffalo 
after reaching the age of four-score years. 

Lucy King was the maiden name of the mother 
of our subject. .She was the daughter of William 



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Ivini! ;in(l was l.iorn in l'L'iiii,-;yl\':iiiiii on the Sus- 
(|iifliaiiiia Kivfi. Her fatlici- wat* an Kiiulisliinaii 
li\ liiiUi. and afUn- fainiina in I'finisyhania lie 
liiianu' an early settle)' in Munnx* County, N. V., 
wlieie he had a large laini adjuining lioehester. lie 
also had been a soldier in the Revolutionary Wai'. 
His daughter. .Mrs. Ilinehey. died in Michigan, 
wheie she was then living witli her son in i^iving- 
sloii County. Of hei- five children he is the young- 
e>t. and was reare(l upon a farm and went to.school 
in a log sehoolhouse. 

In 1H37. when .Mr. llinehev came to Michigan, 
the family accompanied hiui. traveling liy the 
packet "Red liird" to Detroit, then to Ypsilanti 
hy rail, whence they teamed it to Scio. Washtenaw 
('(lunty. In IK.'U), the mother liought a farm in 
Pickney Township, Livingston County, and he 
helped to impiove and cultivate it until he reached 
the age of twenty years. He then removed to 
Dexter Township, where he opened a general store 
at Hudson; he alsoopeiated a eooiiei' sliop. employ- 
ing eiglit hands and supplying with barrels the 
Hudson ^lills. .\fter selling this properly he 
started in the show business, which he followed 
until 187."). The exhiliition was classed under 
necromancy and ventrilo(|uism and he exhibited 
in both halls and tents. He followed this business 
in various lines for a number of years, during 
which time he made a fortune, niueli of which he 
has given away. He was alw-ays generous in giv- 
ing benefits to worthy objects and when the citi- 
zens of Pinckney wished to erect a house of wor- 
ship, he gave the land and nearly one-half of the 
suliseription. 

Throughout the years when he was in the show 
busine.ss, Jlr. Hincliey made his headquarters and 
home in Pinckney; there he laid out some sixty 
.acres of land which he disposed of by sale and 
gift. T'his land is known as J. W. HiiH'he\ 's First 
and Second .\dditions to Pinckney. He buiit up 
that town to a considerable extent and donated to 
the village what is known as .\ustin Park. In that 
town he was Justice of the Peace for twelve years 
and built the (ilobe Hotel at an expense of ¥12,- 
(MKI during the days of the wai-. He traveled all 
over the United .States and Canada and had a vei-y 
wide aci|Uaintanc(' with all parts of oiu' country. 



Besides pro|)erty in Piu(knr\. Mi-. Ilinehey 
owned live hundred acres adjoining, which he cai- 
ried i>n as a farm. In IK()(l he began buying [irop- 
ert\ in J^ansing, where, in 1><7.") he located and 
estalilished a real-estate iitlice, making his home at 
the Franklin House, of which he was the manager. 
He built three >tores on AVashington Avenue, and 
a tine store in North Lansing. Besides the Frank- 
lin House he owne<l other proijerty and a number 
of lots in the city. He was a fine drix'er and a 
lover of horses, and \vlieii hi' wa> in the business 
of veiitrdo(|uism he was said to excel any other 
man ui tluil curioLi,- art. lie had ti'iiants upon all 
of his farms, which are finely injproved. 

Mi.ss Cordelia .1. .Vustin. who was boin in .\lun- 
day. N. Y., became the wife of Mr. Hincliey in Y|)- 
silanti, but her wedded life was short, as she died 
in 1M7(), at Lansing. The second marriage of Mr. 
Ilinehey took place in in Spring|)ort. .laekson 
County. May ;!. \XT.K where he was married to 
Miss Mary Kleine. who was Imrn in \Vestphalia. 
Clinton County, this State. Her fatlier. (^uerin 
Kleine. was born in (ieiinany and came to America 
when a boy of twelve, locating with his parents in 
AVest])halia, where he was engaged in farming. He 
is now residing in AVoodhull on one of the farms be- 
longing to the estate of our subject. His wife, whose 
maiden name is X'ictoria .Vckcman. was born in ( um- 
manyand met her husl)and after coining to Clinton 
County. She is a Catholic in hei- religious belief. 
Of her eight children, Mrs. Ilinehey is next to the 
oldest and was born in IHfjK. 

Three children have l>lessed the home of our 
subject — lohh ()., Cordelia and .1. \\'esle\. I'or 
about twelve years Mr. Hincliey was Alderman and 
for two years served as President jim tem of the 
Board. For six years he was Supervisor of the 
First \Vard and was nlw;iys phu'cd upon im|iortant 
committees, being on tin- ^\'atcr Comniittee and 
the committee on I^lectrir Light-. He was always 
in faxor of iiiipri)\ ement-> foi' the city and was a 
prominent iii.'iii in his party, being a freqtient del- 
egate to the Deiiiijcratir (iinnty .•iiid State conven- 
tions. He was identilied with tlic Free and . Ac- 
cepted .Masons and the Royal Aiih .Masons at 
Pinckney, the Knights Templar at Howell, be- 
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connected with the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows. Mrs. Hinchey, wlio is a nienibei- of llie 
Methodist Episcopal Cliuroli here, is a ijreat worker 
in tlie Ladies' Aid Siiciniy and the Missionary .So- 
ciety as well as the Woman's Christian Temper- 
ance Union, and is Mce- President of the first- 
named of these organizations. .She is a lady of 
more than ordinary ability and efticiency and is 
much beloved by tliose who come within the 
bounds of her influence. 



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\TRA EDMONDS RANDALL. A man who in 
J his boyhood worked his wa^' through college 
(ii and his professional course, and by dint of 
hard work and determination has attained to a 
handsome projierty, while at the same time he has 
built up a reputation for character and probity, is 
a citizen worth having, and the story of his life is 
worth recounting. Such a one do we find repre- 
sented by the name at the head of this paragraph. 

Mr. Randall was born in Erie County, N. Y., in 
the township of Concord, on tiie iA «if June, 1850. 
The father, Robert G.Randall, was born in Rut- 
land County, Yt., where his father, Caleb, was a 
t^uaker farmer, of Eugli.sh descent. The family 
originated with three l^-others who came from Eng- 
land and settled in Yermont and vicinity. 

At the age of thirty yeare the father of our sub- 
ject removed from Yermont, where he had been a 
farmer, to Erie County, N. Y., and taking an im- 
proved farm he engaged in the d.'iiryiiig business, 
but in 1865 removed to Ripley Townsiiip, Chau- 
tauqua County, and farmed there until 1885, when 
he sold his property. In 1K«7 he decided to come 
West, and lie now, at the age of eighty years, re- 
sides at Lansing. His early political altiiiations 
were witli the Whig party and he became an ardent 
Abolitionist and finally developed into a iin'iiiber 
of the Hepulilicaii party. 

Ruth Edmonds was the maiden name of her who 
became the mother of our subject, and she was 
born in Rutland Conntv, Yt., being a daughter of 



Ira Edmonds, a Quaker farmer of English descent. 
She died in New York, in Riplej' Township, Chau- 
tauqua County, at the age of forty-nine. Of her 
four children, Ira, who bore her father's full name, 
was next to the eldest. 

This boy was reared in Erie County, where he 
had the advantages of the ordinary district school, 
and later when the family removed to Ripley, he 
attended the Ripley Academy, in which he con- 
tinned until he readied tlie age of twenty years. 
It was in the year 1870 that he turned his face 
Westward and made ^lichigan his home, locating 
at Kalamazoo and working his way through Kala- 
mazoo College, which he attended for two years, 
teaching during the winters. He then engaged in 
the stud}' of law at Kalamazoo with H. F. .Sevar- 
ance, Esq., now Supreme Judge of the L'nited 
States District Court at Grand Rapids, and in 1875 
he was admitted to the bar. 

The 3'Oung attorney now located in Marshall, 
Mich., and formed a partnership with a Mr. Adams, 
until 1877, when he removed to Lansing and estab- 
lished his practice here. His legal business has 
fin.ally given way to a considerable extent to his 
real-estate dealings, as he has accumulated a large 
property' of his own in lands, and it takes most of 
his time to attend to those interests, besides hand- 
ling to some extent pine lands and farm lands. He 
is now interested in farm lands in the North which 
he is improving, having improved three thousand 
acres, all of which belongs in one farm in Saginaw 
County. After putting it in excellent condition 
he sold it to H. P. Smith h Co., brokers of Saginaw, 
and he still owns some five thousand acres in the 
north of ^lichigan, in different counties. He is an 
enterprising man, and was the pioneer of the move- 
ment to drain the marshy prairie and farm above 
mentioned. 

Mr. Randall put considerable money and thought 
at one time into the raising of Holstein cattle, hut 
he is not now interested in that. He has done 
well also in liandliiig liiiiilur interests, and now 
owns several dwelling houses which he has built, 
besides his own lieautiful home at No. 314 Chestnut 
Street N. 

The hajipy marital union of Ira E. Haiidall and 
Alice E. Farnhain was -solemnized in Hrockton, 



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('li!nit;iii(|u:i (<n\iit\. \. V.. in 1877. This lady 
w:i> liiiiM ill tli:it |ilf:is!iii1 villauf :iii(l is a daUjafhter 
(it A. .1. {■"arniiaiii. a |ii<>iiiiiu'iil faiincr there. Two 
cliildien have Messed tliis union, (ias' LaA'eiiine 
ami Mereilitli Snou. Mr. Kaiidall is a member of 
the Kniuiils of I'vtliias of tlie I'nifornied Rank and 
also of the .Vncient Order of I'nited Workmen and 
of the Noyal Areanuni. He is strong in his at- 
laehiiient to the iirineiples of t he Reinililioan jjarty. 



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l.l'.Kin' A. Lr.MHAlil). The village of 
Leslie. Ingham County, ean lioast ainonu' 
lier citizens a "roodly number of men 
whose activity, aliility and broad experi- 
ence make them of value to tlie comnuinity and 
biing to them the ]es|)ecl of theii' fellow-citizens 
ill other parts of tlie county, and perhaps there is 
no one of them more deservedly popular and in- 
tluential than .Mr. Lumbard who is Justice of the 
Peace and Pensicm Claim Attorney at Leslie, and 
whose war record during the days of the Civil War 
is an added factor in bringing to him the good 
will of all wild know him 

This gentleman was born in Stafford, (ieiiesee 
County. \. Y.. December 'itt. 1H4L and is a son of 
Krastiis and Kliza (Armstrong) Lumbard. natives 
of \'ermont and New York respectively. The 
parents were married in 15atavia. (4enesce County. 
N. Y. and later took u)i their residence in Stafford, 
where they lived until IKLi. when they caine to 
.Michigan and settled on a farm in Leslie Town- 
slii]j. this county, where they both died. The 
father was a farmer all his life and a man in mod- 
crate circumstances. lie served his townsliiii faith- 
fully and creditably in several minor offices, and 
was first a ^^'hig and afterward a Republican. 
Seven children made uji their liou.sehold. namely: 
Wiliiam. Albert .\.. Klizabcth. .lulia. :\Ielvina. Or- 
ville and ( Jeorge. 

.Albert Lumbard was only an infant when his 
parents removed to this township, and therefore 
hi' life has lieeii mostly spent within the contines 
of Ingham ('oiiiity. His home training on the 



farm and his district school education occupied 
him till manhood, and he was still helping his 
father U|joii the fanii when the Ci\il \\';\v burst 
upon (.lur country. 

Young Lumbard enlisted as a |irivale in t ompany 
r.. Seventh Michigan Infantry. .\.ugust II. 18(51 
and his regiment was made a part of the Army of 
the Potomac. Secc.nid Army Corps. First Hi'igade 
and Second Division. He particijrated in iiumei- 
ous skirmishes and on the 31st of May. lH(i2,at the 
battle of Fair Oaks. \'a.. he was wounded by a giin- 
-shot and his left hand was so injured as to render 
him unfit for .service and he received his discharge 
in September. 

This disabled soldiei- now returned li<^nie and 
i-eceived from (iov. lilair a leci-uiting coniini.ssioii 
anil during the remainder of the war he served 
his company as Recruiting Ofiicer. .Vfterthe close 
of the coiiUict he was elected Constable when only 
twenty-one years old. and has ctintiniied to serve 
his township in thai capacity for twenty-one years 
lieing re-elected each year and is now serving his 
eighth year as Justice of the Peace. 

This gentleman began life with nothing and has 
made all that he now posses.ses. Me is interested 
in the Leslie Building and Loan Association and 
is a leading man. He is universally popular, and 
yet his popularity is of the kind that does not in- 
fringe 11)1011 his business capabilities as his fre<|iient 
re-elections to positions of jniblic service have 
shown. His record is really remarkable in this 
respect, as he has served his township e\ev since )ie 
reached his majority. He is a Republican in his 
political views and is cimnected with the Masonic 
order and also with that of the Odd Fellows, being 
identified with liotli the Kmcain|iment and Sub- 
ordinate Lodge. Hi is Past Commandci- of the 
Albert Dewey Post No. MK (;. .V. R. at Leslie and 
has been an Adjutant for nine years. 

Mr. Lumbard wa^ m.airied March 20. 1x72. iicinii' 
united with .Mi» Sar.ali Wood worth, of tlii> count \-. 
who was born February 2H. 1H47. This lad_\' is :\ 
daughter of Solomon and IJetsey (Blake) Wood- 
wortli. who are natives of New York and N'ermont 
respectively and who became early settlers in this 
section of ilichigan when all was a vast wilder- 
ness. They remained here throughout their life- 



POHTHArr AM) HKX^RAPMICAI, ALlU'>r. 



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tiiiir ,•111(1 tiK'ir iiu'iiu>i-v i.- resjH'cttMl liy all wlio 
Uiiiiv tin-Ill. liotli Mr. and .Mr.>. I.iiiiihani ;iic 
earnest ami activi' iiuMiilicis of iIk' I>a))tiNl (liiiicli 
and tlii'ii' iiithn'iifi' in i'\t'i\ wav is used for Ilir 
iiljiiuildiiiij' of socii'l y and tlic fniw.ardiii^' of llic 
hilere.^ts of nioralitv and ii'liyion. 



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.\. ri Iv.NKIi. l.an.-inu' i> now so old a 
city as to count anionj; her liciininc business 
men hoys vvlio were Iioiii and liroiisilit nji 
within her conliiies. anil she is iiroiul to 
claim that there are none inoietrul\ enterprising, 
and nioie thoroughly e(|uii)|)ed for the hattle of life, 
than tliosi' which she has thus nurtured froiii the 
hour of their nativity. l'erha|is there is no one 
to w lioiii she may point with more just pride than 
the man of wlioiii we are now wiitinu. who is 
universall \' conceded to he an enterprising and 
puhlic-spirite<l \duiig man. and tin most e\tensi\c 
grocer on Michigan A\eiiiic. 

Our suhject was horn in Lansing. ( )ctolier 22. 
ISIiO. his father heiiiii .\nios 'rurner. a u.-itiveof 
Washtenaw ( ounty. .Mich., and his giandfather, .1. 
A.. Sr.. lia\ing hecn a farmerand an early settler in 
Washtenaw CouiitN'. His father was reared upon 
the farm and came to Lansing when still a young 
man with his uncle, .lames Turner, who made 
North Lansina liis rionie ahoiit the \ear 1MI7. I'lic 
voung man engaged as a clerk in his uncle's em- 
ploy in ;i generai store, and later went into :\ nier- 
ch.andise and produce husiness in North Lansing, 
huilding two hiick hlocks there. In l>^7'.t he sold 
out this husiness and icmoxed to I'crry. Slimwas- 
see C'ountN. 

.\fter three years in I'erry .Vmos I'm ner relurnecl 
to Lansing and engaged in husine.ss here, imtting 
in a stock of dry-goods and groceries at Nos. I 17 
and ll;t .Michigan .Vvenne. In I KHH he sold out 
tli( grocery department ot hi~ husiness to his son, 
.1. .v.. and (Miiitinued himself in the dry-goods 
husiness. transferring it to Seattle. Wash., where 
he feinained until he took the position of travel- 
iug sale-snian for the Michigan ( ondcnsfd Milk 



Company, which he is still .serving, lie wa.s .\ldei- 
inan anil Supcixisor of the First Ward for one 
term and was prominent in the Masonic order. 

The mother of our suhject. who hore the maiden 
name of Fhilena liarker.was horn in Orleans County. 
N'. Y.. and was a daughter of an Knglishnian, .lames 
Harker. who located in that county. She is :i 
devout and earnest mcmher of the Freshyterian 
Churcli. ;ind the faithful and judicious mother of 
foui children, of whom our suhject is the eldest. 

Ihning received the full ailv.aiitages of the puh- 
lic .schools of Lansing, ■•ind also having taken :\ 
cuiir.se ill the High .School. .). .V. Turner entered 
his father's store ;it the age of seventeen, as a clerk. 
He had hcen in the store more or less fj'oni a hoy 
up. and was Ihoroiiglily well |jrepared to take his 
place and to jnove of value in the estalilishinent. 
His lirst iudi'pendeiit endeavor was made at Perry. 
hefoi-e hnying out his father's line of groceries 
here, which, as we lia\e said, he did in 18HH. He 
has continued to handle groceries exclusively ami 
is huildini; up .a line trade, so th.al lie i~ now nsiiiir 
two deli \ ciy wagons. 

The ch;irmiiig yining l.ady who hecinic the 
happy wife of this gentleman, in IISS.S, was called 
.Ma\ ('am|)hell in her lliaidenhood. and she he- 
longs to a Hattle (reek family. To their home 
have come two little daughters — Haltieand Helen, 
who.se care and culture is the joy of their parent.s. 
'I'liis \(>ung ni.'in is a popular luemher of the order 
of Odd Fellows .111 d .also the Kniglit-s of Pythia,s. 
and his political views lead him to atHliate with 
the Democratic party. 



ylLLI.V.M ( . IHN.M.VN. The advantages of 
a coiiiiect ion with and descent from peo- 
ple of character, culture and ahility is not 
perhaps as thoroughly considered m this country 
as it is in l.-inds where the heredity of propert\ 
emphasizes the hereilil\ of personal traits and 
character. The rehound from the tendencies of 
European institutions has led our peo])le tounder- 
valnr the wi'allh of inheritance and association 



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whicli comes in this way until they have been called 
to an appreciation of its value through the re- 
searches and declarations of social philosophers. 

The gentleman whose name appears at the head 
of this sketch is connected on both his father's and 
mother's side with some of the best families who 
Uaire made their mark upon the development of 
the State of Michigan, and he is not unappreciat- 
ivc of that fact and realizes that he is the recipient 
of benefits which have come in this way. He is now 
the City Clerk of Lansing, Ingham County, in 
which office he is serving his third term. He was 
born in this city December 15, 1849, his father, 
William Hinman, being a native of Mt. Morris, 
Livingston County, N. Y., in 1819, and his grand- 
father, Theodore, having come from his native 
State, Connecticut, to Livingston County, N. Y., 
when a young man and remained there through 
life. 

The father of our subject was the youngest of 
nine children, only one of them being now alive. 
After being educated in the common schools of 
Mt. Morris he came to Michigan in 1838 and lo- 
cated in Ypsilanti, where he clerked for Mr. 
Thompson. Later he went to Brighton as a clerk 
and later to Howell. In 1847 he came to Lansing 
and became a clerk for Bush & Thomas, merchants 
and real-estate men. Mr. Hinman sold all the lum- 
ber and material which went into the Everett 
House,which was then known as the Benton House, 
and also for the old capitol, as the firm then car- 
ried the largest stock outside of Detroit. May 18, 
1849. the young man took the management of the 
Benton House, which was the leading hotel of the 
city, and managed it for ten years and finally pur- 
chased it and then sold it to Mr. Packard who 
changed the name to the Everett House. After this 
Mr. Hinman eng.aged in the dry-goods business 
alone on Washington Avenue and built a brick 
block adjoining the Hudson House, which is known 
as the Hinman or Union Block. 

Our subject's father continued in the dry-goods 
business up to 1871 when he sold it and has since 
engaged in farming and real estate. He owns thirty 
acres in the corporate limits of Lansing and one 
hundred and twenty acres in Leroy Township, 
which IS a finely improved farm. He was maiTied 



in the old Benton Hoxise, February 21, 1849. to 
Miss Sarah E. Bush, who was born in Danby, 
Tompkins County, N. Y., August 5, 1830. She is 
a daughter of the Hon. Charles P. Bush, who was 
born in Danby in 1809. The great grandfather of 
our suljject is Richard Bush who was born in 
Stroudsburg, Pa.,and located in Tompkins County, 
N. Y., where he died. His father was John Bush, 
and it is said of him that he fought twice for his 
country and once for his king. 

The Hon. Charles P. Bush was a farmer and 
speculator and he married before coming to Mich- 
igan. His first trip to the West was in 1835, and 
in 1836 he came again and staid through the sum- 
mer, buying Government land where Fowlerville 
now is. Having built a log house he returned to 
the East and in 1837 brought his family to the new 
home, but remained there less than a 3'earwhen he 
sold out to Mr. Fowler and located in Genoa 
Township, Livingston County where he took a 
splendid farm of thirteen hundred acres and car- 
ried it on successfully, while at the same time he 
engaged in speculation and i)olitics. He served in 
the State Legislature during the sessions of 1840 
to 1845, and in 1846 became State Senator, serv- 
ing during 1847 as President of the Senate, and 
by virtue of that office acting as LicutenantrGov- 
ernor. He administered the oath of office to the 
ofHcers elect in the woods of Lansing before the 
old capitoi was built. Some years later he was again 
sent to the State Senate and served for several 
terms. He was greatly interested in the removal 
of the capital from Detroit to Lansing. He was a 
born reader, a good orator and had a good store of 
information, being looked upon universally as one 
of the most promising men in the State. 

In 1847 Senator Bush came to Lansing and en- 
tered into partnership with Messrs. Thomas & Lee, 
buying a portion of land and platting it as an ad- 
dition to Lansing, and built the old Benton House. 
In partnership with Mr. Thomas under the firm 
name of Bush ct Thomas he engaged in general 
merchandising and they became the pioneer mer- 
chants of Lansing. Later he retired from business 
and died July 4, 1858. His political attiliations were 
with the Democratic party, in which he was con- 
sidered one of the strong pillars. His wife was 



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Miiu'iv:i Walkc'i- :\n(l she was lioni in Nfonltroinery >ix. IIi' i> :i tint' and faithful ])iiblic servant and 
County. N. v.. and dii'd in i,ansin<i' in IHMC. licinii' \tr\ iMlicicnl in liis otHce. and roccivcs tlic jii.~l 
llicn sc\i'nt\ vcars old. She was an ai-tivt* and piaisc of liis^ fellow-citizens. 



caiiirst hic'IuIht of llic .Mctli(idi~t Kpiscopal Clnircli 
and was looktMJ upon as a ••niollicr in Israel." 



Tlic Mianiam' of Mr. Ilininan in .lunc. IHM.').toolv 
place in Lansina. 'I'lie lady wlio then united with 



The mother of our suliject was the eldest in a him her fortunes and her lot in life hole the maiden 
laniih of li\i' i liildi'i'u .and was cafefully and ju- name of Mary K. Downs. .She is a native of tlii> 
dieiouslv educated, reeei\ inu; her advance school- city and her lather..!. W. Downs, is an early settler 
inir in the private school of Mrs. K. .1. Kolierts, in here ami is a well-known fruit-aiower. lie is aii 
Deti'oit. She liec.anic the mother of live children. old \-etei-an of the Mexican War ami is hiirhlv ic- 
William ( '. ln'in<i her eldest and followinsi' him spected hoth for his ])alriotic services anil his ex- 
came .lennie. Addie 1... .S.arah K. and Kliza !>., who cellent character. Mi. and .Mrs. William ( '. Ilin- 
are all at home with theii' parents with the excep- m;in have two lovely dauuhters — Ad'lie and Sjirali. 
tion of Sarah who died when very youuy. The who are the joy and deliitht of theii- fond parents, 
edueatiini of our suliject was ijfained in the Inion The family worship at St. Paul's Kpiscopal Church 
School of Laiisiui;' and in IMd'.l he liciian work as with wlii<'h the parents .Mrc connected. The polil- 
;i freiiiht lirakeman on the old Peninsular Hailrond ical views of .Mi-. Ilinimin lead him t<i rank liiiiL-^elf 
now known as the Chicaiio A- (Jiand Trunk. Two ' with the Democratic |)arty. in which he has ixwat. 
ve.'irs latei' he liecame a fieiijht conductor and had f.aitli and foi- whose success he is active, 
his run between Laiisiiiir and South ISeud. Ind.. and , 
later took service in the same cajiacity with the j 
Lake Shoi'c A- Michiu.an Soulliern Ko.ad. Aftertive 
months he wa~ |)romoted to the condui'toishi)) of a 
freight train in which he was haviii'i' aood success 
when upiin Oi-loln'r 11. ISSC. he met with , a serious 
and terrilile disaster. 

While enuaii't'il in cuuplinu cai> ((inductor Ilin- 
inan ciiuiiht hi~ lefl fool ill the fro^, thai death 
liap of so many uood railroad men. hi his des- 
pi'rate effort-^ to free liim.-elf he pulled his fool 




NDWKW (i. .M.VHKII.V.M. The s;eiitleiiian 

whose name is at the head o* this sketch 

'' is a fanner and stock-de.aler. resident on 

sections 27 and ;{4. \'evay Township, Ini;- 



i.'iiii ( oiiiily, and here he carries on a lari;c and 

from tlu' l)[)ot with such force that the riiilit foot liicr;ili\e hiisiness in <>eiieral farniiiiit and in the 

swiina' o\ei the tr.'U'k and in a moment thecriicl lircedini;. luiyiiia' and si'Uiim of fine stock. Mr. 

wheels had crii^heil it. lie wa- taken to the lios- M.arkham is a native of New ^drk St.ate. lia\ iiii: 

pital at .\l ishaw aka. hid., whcri' he remained for lieeii there liorii in ( (ntario (ounty. l-'arniinyton 

ei!i:ht week-^ and where he wa-^ under the necessity Township, .\uiiust 1, 188(;. lie is the son of Klislia 

of having' Ids lea ani|mtated six inches lielow the W . .and ()li\-e ((Jardner) Markliam, both natives of 

hip. This put an end to his career as a conductor New ^'ork. The father was a farmer in his n.ative 

and he returned to Lansiiiii' and eniriisied in the Stateand our subject was reared on a farm, receiv- 

eliiploy of the Lake .Shore A' Michiiraii Southern inir in the intervals of farm work what education 

Railroad for ti\e vears as ai>ent. after which he lie could acipiire by attendance at school durintr 

entered the .service of the l.aiisini;' Lumber Com- the winter months. 

p.anv until Ajiril. ISiss. when he recei\ed the elec- When our >ubject set out in life for himself, he 

tioii to the ollice of ( ity ( lerk. which he has liehl liei;an at first by famiina on shares, which broiiirlit 

from tliat <late lo thi>. IIi> tirsi election w;i> by him in enouijh to live 11)1011. To s))ur him on to 

majority of one hundred and ^ix. his>ccond by ,1 the necessity of harder work, he was m.arried .No\ - 

a majority of seven hundred and ciLihty-one, and ember 2<i. |si.')7. to .\[i>s Priscilla II. Kniirht. a 

his third b\ a majority of >ix liundreil and ~^ixtv- daiiuhtei of .bilin and l,<Mella (Moslier) Kniffht. 



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The young couple felt the necessity of prudence 
auv^l economy and laid by enough out of their earn- 
ings to purchase a tract of land. Those wlio have 
struggled as did he of whom we write, to acquire 
a bit of real estate, know how sweet is the sense of 
possession, and when he removed to Michigan in 
1878. he was stengtliened and encouraged to hard 
labor by the knowledge that there was a nest egg 
of forty acres back in Ontario County, N. Y. 

On seeing a promising tract that he could pro- 
cure in his adopted State, he sold his first forty 
acres and purchased his present home place on sec- 
tion 27. which comprises eighty acres. He has 
since, at different times, added land to his original 
purchase until he now is the owner of one hun- 
dred and sixty acres of as fine and fertile Lindas 
there is in the tow-nship. Our subject, like the 
majority' of property owners to whom the political 
interest at large is also an individual interest, has 
been the greater portion of his life allied to the 
Republican party. He is now, however, a member 
of the Industrial party, feeling that the laboring 
class, being largel}' in the majority, should have all 
possible advantages of legislation. 

While in New York Mr. ^larkham served for 
.several terms .is Township Clerk, and he has several 
times been elected to office in this township, but 
liaving no ambition to hold public office, refused to 
qualif\' until the spring of IS'.U, when he was the 
popular and successful nominee of the Industrial 
party, insuring for it victory in his township. Our 
subject's wife died May 28, 1885. She had no 
issue. 

The original of our sketch is the oldest member 
of his father's familj-. One brother, William P., 
who lives in this township, is a farmer, having a 
good home, presided over pleasantly by an amiable 
wife. The^' are the proud parents of one child, by 
name Leeman, who is a young man having a home 
of his owm in Monroe County, N. Y. He and 
his wife are the parents of two children. Elisha 
Markham, our subject's father, died in his native 
State, April 1, 1882. The mother's decease occurred 
June 14, 187G. 

Andrew Marivham is what ni.iv be te^ J a self- 
made man, having had but few advauta^^ .-, and no 
material pecuniary assistance from his f.iiher. By 



industry, prudence and good management of bis 
agricultural and financial affairs, he has become 
one of tlie prominently successful men of Vevay 
Township. He is highly respected in his township 
and amonaf his fellow-citizens. 







RED J. BROAVN. Our subject, who is com- 
)) paratively a young man, h.is been en- 
gaged for some time in business in which 
he has proved very successful. Energetic and in- 
dustrious, to him in no small degree belongs the 
honor of making the success of the firm of Brown 
Bros., who are dealers in boots and shoes in Jl.ison, 
Mich. The Ijrothers are of (ierman parentage, be- 
ing sons of Charles F. and Mary (Stuth) Brown, 
both natives of Mechlenburg, (iermauy. Tliey came 
to America in 18.5.3 with their four children. Those 
who were born in Germany are Augustus F., 
Charles F., Fannie Louise and Frederick J. Au- 
gustus was born August 13, 1844, and having 
made Catherine Furtah his wife lives in St. Joseph, 
'Mo.; he is a traveling salesman for a firm selling 
boots and shoes, and has been a manufacturer. He 
is the father of eight children. Charles F. and 
Fannie Louise are twins; the latter married F]nos 
Furtah who is a wood worker and lives at New 
Baltimore, Mich. Our subject was born December 6, 
1850; his father was a forester in Germany, which 
was considered there a very honorable position 
and one ranking high among the middle classes. 
After coming to this countiy he was employed as 
a laborer and farmer. 

Determined to give his children every chance 
that this country of freedom and equal rights 
offers to young men and women, he placed them in 
school and our subject had the privilege of gain- 
ing a fair education. They also ,icquired outside 
of school much that has been of practical use to 
them and the sons have through industry and ob- 
servation made themselves substantial business 
men. In 1858 tlie family came to this State and 
located at New Baltimore. He t)f whtim we write 
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until twenty-one- years of a<re. when lie hesjan 
clerkinjj at New Baltimore, in which position he 
continued for some six years, acquirinsi duriuii' 
that time a reputation for attention to Imsiness 
and ease with customers that made him a desirable 
salesman and a valuable acquisition to a business 
house. 

Fred .1. Brown was married ^larch l!S, 187;"), to 
Miss Sallie M. Leonard, of Middleboro, Mass; she 
is a daughter of Fred and Pluebe I). (Sampson) 
Leonard, and was born in 184(). In 187() our sub- 
ject removed to Almont, where for two years he 
was engaged as a clerk. Then he went to Imlay 
City and clerked for one year at that jjlace, after 
which he went into partnership with Herbert G. 
Thurston, and together the firm carried on general 
merchandising successfully for about two years. 
At the end of that time our subject became propri- 
etor of a store at Lapeer, the county-seat of Lapeer 
County, and remained there for about five years .is 
general manager. In 1886 he entered the present 
lirni in equal partnership. 

Our subject's maternal grandfather, .\ugust 
IStuth, was a soldier in the German army during 
the trouble between France and Germanj^, at which 
time Xapoleon led the French forces. The junior 
inemljer of the firm of which our subject is one is 
Henry L. Brown, and he was Iwrn after his pareiit> 
had come to this country, in Sandusky, Ohio, his 
birth taking place .Vpril 30, 1856. The young 
men are progressive and talented in a business way 
and show that they have received a good inheri- 
tance of brains as well as physical strength from 
their parants. 



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(k^A RS. LOUISA KEIHM is the owner of a 
fine farm of forty-eight acres located on 
^ section 31, Alaiedon Township. Slie was 
born April 3, 1838, in the province of 
Wurtemberg in the town of Marl>arch, Germany. 
Her father was Frederick Hines. a native of 
the same place, and there born September 
10, 17'JO. Louisa was a child uf nine years 



of age when her father came to the United 
States, but the voyage over, which occupied three 
months, made a deep impression upon her young 
mind. 

On the landing of the limes family in thiscoun- 
• trv they proceeded immediately to Huron County, 
Ohio, and settled in Norwalk. The father was a 
rope-maker by trade and unfamiliar with the con- 
ditions of American labor, he supposed that he 
could find employment in any place, but disap- 
pointed in his expectations he worked as a day 
laborer in order to support himself and family, 
and from the time our subject was ten j-ears old 
she added her strength and supported herself by 
working at various occupations. She finally 
became a seamstress and continued in this occupa- 
tion until she came to Michigan. 

On November 4. 1862, our subject was married to 
Conrad Keihm, a native of Baden, (Termany, there 
born January 30, 1839. His father w.as John 
Keihm and he was born in Hartershansen, Ger- 
many. 1 le was a linen-weaver by trade and his son 
had partially learned that occupation before com- 
ing to the United States, which he did in his six- 
teenth year. Before thai time he attended school 
in his native land. ( >n c<jining to America he first 
went to Canada, where he lemained for one year 
and wluTc he Icai-ncd tlie blacksmith's trade. He 
tln'ii proceeded to lluion County, ( )hio, and work- 
ed as a blacksmilh. at" tlu' same time doing farm 
work until the IncMking out of tlic war, when he 
enlisted in Company 1>. Tliiril Ohio Cavalry. 

In 1862, Mr. Keihiii was discharged from service 
on account of phj-sical disability, but after recover- 
ing to a great e.xtent, he responded to a call made 
for mechanics, and went to Nashville, Tenn., 
where he staid for about six months. On return- 
ing to 'Michigan he bought the farm now occupied 
bv Mrs. Keiiini. It w.as almost entirely unimpro- 
ved at the time and he at once bent his energies to 
clearing it and adding the best of improvements, 
so that at the time of his decea.se, which occurred 
March 13, 187;'), the place was in excellent order. 
Mr. Keihiii was a member of the (icrman IMetiiod- 
ist Ciu at Delhi.- Politically, he was a Repub- 

lican. 

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of the worthy couple of whom we have written. 
The eldest is Ella L., who was liorn November 2, 
18t!8; she spent one term in the Flint Normal 
School in 1889 and 1890 she spent in Albion 
College. She is now interestec? in musical art and 
makes the home attractive by her pleasing presence 
and marked taste. The younger cliild is a son, 
Willie Keihm, who was born in 1874; he died in 
infancy. Since the death of her liusband Mrs. 
Keihm has managed her place with great ability 
and with marked success. She built a commodio\is 
brick residence in 1879 and her house is fitted up, 
not only with the comforts of life, but also with 
its elegancies. She and her daughter are members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Mason. 
They are hospitable and social and have many 
warm friends in Albion. 



\T) ACOH (i. BAUM(;RAS, the fortunate owner 
of one hundred and eighty-four acres of 
fine land adjoining the limits of the city of 
Lansing, resides on section 3. Lansing Town- 
shi|). Ingham County, and is .•ictively engaged in 
the pursuit of the varied duties which fall to liini 
as an agricultiu-ist. Not only has he been suc- 
cessful financially, liut in the better sense of that 
word, he has been successful in gaining the esteem 
of all his acquaintances, and it is the testimony of 
all who know him that lie enjoys to an unusual de- 
gree the respect of his associates. His o])era1ioiis 
in business are characterized liy good judgment 
and shrewd discernment. wliii<' in ~oci:il ciicic.^ hi< 
genial disposition muiI kindliness of hcaii i^ain I'or 
him an admiring circle of friends. 

Many years ago there resided in Bavaria, ( ier- 
many, near the border of France, a worthy couple 
who bore the names of, .Incob nnd Mary C. 
(Trumm) Bauingras. In tliMl. their native |>lace. 
they abode until 184(i. wlu-n in their niaturit\- they 
emigrated to the New World and located in Syra- 
cuse, N. Y. The father followed the occu[)ation of 
an ornamental painter, and was a man of sterling 
principles and unswerving industry. It was diu'- 



ing the residence of the family in Sj'racuse that the 
subject of this biographical notice was lK)rn No- 
vember 21, 1848. He was reared in his native 
city, receiving the advantages of a very liberal 
education, and was graduated from the High School 
in 1865. He entered upon his studies with earnest- 
ness and enthusiasm, and early in life manifested a 
predilection for a deeper insight into history and 
))hilosophy. To say that he improved all his op- 
l)ortunities to their fullest extent, is but relating 
what actually occurred. 

In the spring of 1865, the father, feeling that bet- 
ter opportunities would be afforded to him and his 
children, of whom he had seven, named Henry, 
Peter Louis, Daniel N., Elizabeth, .Jacob (4.. Cath- 
erine and .Tosephine, in the rapidly growing West, 
decided to locate in this State. Accordingly he 
came hither and at once |)urchased a tract of one 
hundred and fifty acres. After .lai'ob was gradu- 
ated he worked for his father until he was twenty- 
one years of age. and in the meantime gained a 
jiractical knowledge of agriculture in all its de))ait- 
nients. When he attained to his majority, his fa- 
thi'i' gave into his charge the home farm, and lu' 
was its manager until the de.atli of .lacob Bauin- 
gras. Sr.. when the old lioiiiestead passed into the 
posx's'-iuii of tlir soil. It was September 21. IMIHI. 
tli.-it tlic tatlicr closed his eyes to the scenes of 
earth. leMviug to his descendants the precious leg- 
acy of an honorable life. The wife and mother 
still survives, and makes her home in Lansing. 

The pleasant home of our subject is ]iresided 
over liy a lady whose refinement and i-ulturc uive 
to lier an "open ses^imc" to the most cultured s(.)- 
ciety of the nipital city, and whose noble (pialities 
(|nalify her to admiralily discharge her duties as 
"ife and mother. She was known in maidenhood 
as Caroline E. Stadle. and is the daughter of Will- 
iam and Laura (Kraus) Stadle, natives of (Termany 
and Michigan resjiectively. who now reside in ( lin- 
ton County. Mich. l\lrs. Baumgras was \>ovu in 
tlic city of Lansing. .lanuary 9. 1S59. and grew to 
womanhood under her falliei'V roof which she left 
onlv to go to the home of her husband. The con- 
genial union whicli was solemnized Septembei lit, 
1879, has been blest by the birth of five children, 
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.laiiuaiy 11, 1882; Elenora, horn Auiriist 17, 1H8.'), 
(lic(l at the age of three years; William J., horn 
Septeniher 15, 1888. and Peter Louis, the yountr- 
cst. Iiorii August 1, 188!l, died at tlic auc of niiif 
months. 

In polities JMr. l>auniL;ras adheres to the priiici- 
ph's of tlie Democratic party, allhouiih he is not a 
radical partisan. He has filled many positions of 
responsiliility. has heen Superintendent of the com- 
mon seliools two terms. Township Treasurer, and 
al.so held various other minor otticcs. Helisiiously 
he is a memljer of the Methodist Kpiscopal Cliurch, 
and socially belongs to the Koval .Vrcaniim. 



\f?OHN SPANIER, one of the old and well 
estahlislied business men of Lansiiig, Ingliam 
County, has heen in the meat husiness in 
tliis city since 18.')',l and is the oldest dealer 
in that line in the city. lie was horn in Prussia, 
Germany, August 18, li<:i.j. and wlien eighteen 
years old came in 18.53 to Detroit. His father had 
lieen a butcher in (iermany and he learned the 
trade theie in his boyhood. Coming to Detroit 
he first obtained a position in a slioji where he 
learned the American way of working. Me con- 
tinued there for six years before coming to Lan- 
sing and in 18.59 began work at his trade for A. 
Burch remaining with him for nearly twelve years. 
He is probahly the only man in L.ansing whoever 
tlioroughly learned the trade of a butcher, .as most 
men i)ick up theii' ex])enence in this line of work 
irregularly. 

It was in the ^ear of 1881 that Mr. Spanier 
started in husiness for himself, locating on the spot 
where he is still doing business at No. 310 Wash- 
ington .\venue North. He has a fine location and 
a shop sixty-six feet deep. When he first began 
he bought cattle and' .slaughtered for himself. Imt 
he now buys dressed beef and other meats and ha> 
bviilt up an excellent trade, giving his whole atten- 
tion to his business. The lady with whom he 
united his fortunes in 18G1. is a native of his 



F.atherland, and was horn in Wurtemberg. She 
came to this country when three years old, and 
reached Lansing in 18o(), her parents Ix'ing among 
the early settlers here. Her maiden name was 
Wilhelmina Crobby, and she wa-s united in mar- 
riage with oui- subject upon Christmas Day, 1861. 
Five children have blessed this union, Charles, 
who now has a market on Washington Avenue 
.South; Frank, who is with his father; William, who 
has a market on Michigan Avenue; Eva, now the 
wife of Lewis Critchai-d; and John, who is also 
with his father in business. The father is a mem- 
ber of the Uoyal Templars of Temperance which is 
a social and insurance organization. He attends 
church regularly although he was brought up a 
Catholic and he is a man who is highly spoken of 
by his neighbors as ])Ossessing a character worthy 
of admir.ation. His handsome brick hou.se and 
excellent brick barn on Washtenaw Street West, 
adorn a beautiful property which may well be 
called one of the ornaments of Lansing. The 
grounds com])rise three fine lots and are beauti- 
fully situated and the house is one which he built 
himself and is well adapted to the comfort and 
enjoyment of his family. 



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^^UY H. STOWKLL. There is (mly one thing 
better than iiaving a reputation for integ- 




rity and honor.'ible dealing, and that is to 
have such a chai-acter: and when a ni.an ha- licitli 
the character and the reputation he has something 
of which the world cannot rob him. and which 
men of wealth who are del'uh'iit in these respects 
may well desire. The gentleman of whom we write 
is known all over the State, as he has been for .*t>me 
time Curator of the Michigan Slate Fan- (^rounds 
at Lansing. He received that appointnu'nt. April 
1. ISHl. liy a eoinmittee who liad tin- matter in 
cli;iri;e. who were Messrs. .1. X. Smith. 1!. H. Ilaker 
and 1). Woodcock. He lia^ filled his office to tin- 
>atisfaction of all eoncei'neil, and has also earned 
for himself an enviable reputation in the city and 
among the ofticevs and members of the State Agri- 



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cultural Sot'iety. It is unfoi'tuiiate that liis health 
is not rohust, and in consequt'iu'e of tlii;* it is prob- 
able tliat lie will resio'n his position in October. 

During the busy season Mr. Stowell lias from 
tliiit\-tive to forty men constantly working under 
his directions, and tlie resi>onsibility of keeping 
everything in good condition and -in first-class 
order, is more than lie feels that he can longer un- 
dertake. There are sixty-three acres in the grounds 
and fully forty Iniildings besides the race track and 
other appurtenances, and the responsibilities are 
more than he cares to retain. 

Mv. Stowell was born in ^larcellus, N. Y., .July 
10, 1^.')5. His beloved and lionored parents. Dr. 
Hiram and Olivia (Bowen) Stowell. brought him 
with iliem to ,Vnn Arlior wlien he was about six 
months i->ld, and in a short time they removed to 
Clinton County, wliere the f;ithcr jiracticed his 
medical profession and also carried on a farm. In 
those days there were no roads except Indian 
trails, and a country doctor had long and tedious 
rides, traveling tlirough the woods to reacli the 
scattering settlers. Kverybody liad the ague in 
tho.se days, and it kept tlie doctois liu.-y. At the 
same time the farm was to be cleared up and cul- 
tivated. It is within the easy iccollection of our 
subject when not a tree was eiil wheie the city of 
I-ansing now stands. He also rememliers many of 
the frights which tlic\ experienced when the In- 
dians were all aliout them, and they feared an at- 
tack from hostile bands. The lathi-i- lived foin- 
miles east of DeWitt, and after a number of \ ears 
had passed he erected tlie first frame building which 
was ever put up in that village. Jle continued 
in practice up to the time of his death, and was 
for years botli the Township and County Treasurer. 

Our subject li\ e<l to the age of seventeen years 
in Clinton Counl.\ , and made good use of the edu- 
cational advantages afforded him in the district 
schools. He then went North to Minnesota, loca- 
ting for three years near the citj' of St. Paul, after 
which he returned to DeWitt and engaged in farm- 
ing for a number of years. He w;is united in mai'- 
riage with Miss Mar\ .1. Holmes, of DeWitt. her 
father, David Holmes, being a fannei- of Unadilla 
Township. The young couple renio\-ed to Sagi- 
naw, where they lived upon a farm for fifteen years, 



and then purchased a farm in Delta. Eatcm County. 
Five years later ^Ir. Stowell received the apiioint- 
ment to the office which he now holds, and which 
he has filled with much satisfaction to all con- 
cerned. The five children who have come to his 
home ai'e KImer I)., William (J., Minnie (.).. Ettie .1. 
and Cora, Minnie is the wife of Mr, R, Oarber, 
now living in Middleville, Barry County, and all 
of the children are giving great satisfaction to 
their worthy parents who feel that in the.se young 
lives they are renewing their youth. 



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Jr^|01$EKT 11. SHA.NK is a good tyi)e of the 
men that the city <if hansing, Ingham 
Count\. is proud of producing. He was 
born here .lanuarv i, 1856, and has received 
his education both in .school and out of school in 
this city. He grailuated ;it the High ScIkioI and 
soon after went into the store of .1. .1. Sidwaw 
grocer. He remained with him for five years, 
after which he engaged in busine.ss for himself, 
starting out in his career as an indepentient 
merchant when only twenty years of age. He has 
continued in that line ever since. He has occupied 
the corner store of the Government building for 
the past twelve years and is certain, Provitlence 
perinittiiig. to occupy it at least two years longei- 
as he holds the lease for that length of time. 

Mr. Shank is the proprietor of the largest staple 
and fancy grocery house in Lansing. He also 
carries on a fine jobbing trade in connection with 
his business, having in his employ ten men and a 
book-keejier. His beginning in this line was very 
modest, as he had but small cajjital and was so 
young he could not presume to ask for heavy 
backing. However, he has never been discouraged 
and his trade has grown until it is now doubtless 
the largest in the t'ity. 

It is gratif.ying to be a.'-sured by traveling men 
who are constantly visiting the largest stores 
throughout the State that Mr. .Shank is doing as 
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iofaii. wild iwc (loino; n "trietly grocery business 
Ilial iliio iiol iiicluili' lii|ii(irs or moats. His siio- 
I'os li:is Ix-eii a.ssnrcil liv llic fact that he ilcal> on 
a strictly cash lia>is. Nut (inly docs he require 
cash ijaynicnl tidni lii> cii-stomers. but by liis ewn 
l)r()ni|)t cash payments he is enabled to uct the 
licst articles in lioth staple and fancy sjoods at the 
l(i\ve>t prices. He carries a \ery large lyic of the 
line>t >lock .•md his store, which has a tweiilx- 
>e\en foot fioMlauc and is one hundred and thiity- 
livc feel deep, is lillecl to overflowilli;' with the 
choicest supplies, lie also uses the cellar. Our 
subject doe.s not find a great deal of time for secret 
societies or work outside of his legitimate business. 
He is, liowe\'cr. a Knight of Pythias and a very 
p(jpular man in his lodge, lie has been Aldernian 
for the .Second Ward for two years, having for hi- 
opponcnt hi> lirother, Dr. IJu>h .1. Shank. 

.Mr. Sh:ink has a very ijlea.>ant home which is 
located on .\llegan Street. His wife was. prior to 
her marriage, a Miss Ella Hdw.ards, a daughter of 
B. F. Edwards of this city, who is now a resident 
of Reed City, 'riieir nuptials were solemnized 
.Tanuary 21. lissl. Two children are the fi'uit of 
this inairiage. The\' arc liy name Eva and Jessie, 
briglit.vivacious young people who promise to equal, 
if not excel, their parents' business capacity. Mrs. 
Shank is a woman with jirogre.ssivc ideas and ten- 
dencies. She has not allowed herself to be isolated 
in her home because of the advent of her little ones, 
althongli she cares for them most tenderly. She 
is a member of the Ladies' Library Cluli. which 
has been instrumental in accomplishing mucli 
good in the city. Hotli Mr. and ^Ls. Shank 
arc members of the Episcopal Church. 



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-^ C. HEIXiES, a prominent ph:u'macist of 
'[ j|i North Lansing, and an enterprising and 
^)y^ l)ublic-spirited citizen, was born in Owosso, 
'S^) Shiawassee County. July 31, 1849, and 
therefore calls the Wolverine State his native 
home. His father, Jo-^eijli L. Hedges, was liorn in 
V^ Trnxton, N. Y., was a son of Lewis Hedges, a \'er- 



monter by birth, who removed to the F^rapire 
State many years ago and in 1824 came to Oak- 
land County, where he located and engsiged in the 
business of a t.Miiuer and ciiri'ier. Me there remained 
until his dc.-ilh. uliirli oci-uricil in lS2i;. 

The father of uur sulijcct was :i clothier and 
mannfactuier of woolens in Ponliac, whence he 
Went to l-'enton. then to ( )\vosso. becomin<r one of 
llu- cai-ly settlers there in 1S4S. He enteied into 
p.'iituership with Daniel (iould. by whom he suf- 
fere<l losses, and he lali'r I'cmovcd his woolen mill 
to Cornnna. where he continued his Imsiness. 
After residing there for some time he removed 
first to Lansing, then to Pontiac, and then back 
again to Lansing. He was an active member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church and while living 
ill ()\vos^ii lilled the ollice of .lustiee of the 
Peace. 

Emily C iilister is the maiden name of her who 
became the mother of our subject. She was born 
in Honeyoc, X. V.. and was the daughter of Robert 
Colister, who came from Scotland to this country 
when nineteen years of age. He became an early 
settler lu-ir Laiugsbnrg, taking a rough farm in 
N'ictoi- Ttiwiishij), Clinton County, and devoting 
himself to its imiirovement and culture. She was a 
woman of earnest religious character and a mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the 
doctrines and inacticcs of which she faithfully 
brought iiji her four cliildreii. of wliom our subject 
is the youngest. 

A\'lien young Hedges was ten years obi he went 
to Corunna. where he at once entered the woolen 
factory, and although he was so young he learned 
the business, because help was then so scarce on 
.■iccount of the war. .\fter this he came to Lan- 
sing for a short time and thence went to Pontiac 
where his father had charge of the Paddock fac- 
tory, with whicli lie remained until it was Organ- 
ized into a slock c-oin])any. Judge Paddock, whose 
name the factory bore, was a brother-in-law of 
Joseph Hedges. In 18(J8, the young man took 
charge of a department in the factory, superin- 
tending the weaving and spinning for five years, 
except during one year when he was at Flint, 
where he served the Stone i Willard Mill. 

M". Hedges came to Lansing in 187:?. and bought 



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a half intticst in ;i drug stove, forming a partner- 
ship witli Samuel C. Smith, under the firm naine 
of Smith cV' Hedges. With this partner as an ex- 
pert, he set to work to learn the business, and 
they remained together for eighteen months when 
F. I. Moore came into the business as apartnerand 
remained with hini until .June, 1879, at which time 
he changed partners, taking Mr. J. A. Keck. The 
firm name was now Hedges & Reck, and at the 
time of the formation of that partnership the busi- 
ness was moved into the stand where it now ex- 
ists, with a fine line of general drugs. 

At the time Mr. Hedges started in business, in 
1873, he had been intending to open a book store 
in Ludington, and had purcha.sed a stock, but 
could not find a suitalile place there and in order 
to open, decided to buy a drug store which was 
then standing, and to its stock add books and sta- 
tionery. Besides the stock of a pharmacist, our 
subject and his partner, Mr. Reck, handled paints 
and oils and other incidental goods which are usu- 
all,v found in a first-class store of this kind. He 
has prospered so as to place his family in a pleas- 
ant home at No. 915 Washington Avenue, and lie- 
sides this property owns two other residences. 

The marriage of Mr. Hedges to Miss Louisa J. 
Gibson took place in Lansing in 1875. This lady 
is a native of the Empire State, but having been 
brought hither in early childhood, received her 
girlhood training and education here. She was 
early fitted for the position of a teacher and offi- 
ciated in the Lansing schools previous to her mar- 
riage. Two interesting children l)less this home — 
Florence and J. Harold. 

The interest which Mr. and Mrs. Hedges have 
evinced in educational matters has ever been a 
benefit to the schools of Lansing, and for five years 
Mr. Hedges was on the Board of Education, during 
which time he filled the Chairmanship of the com- 
mittee on finance. He is identified vvith the Inde- 
pendent Order of Odd Fellows and with the Royal 
Arcanum, in which organization he has been Sec- 
retary since 1879. He belongs to the Grand Coun- 
cil of Michigan, and has seen steady promotion in 
the order, as he has worked his way from Grand 
Sentry through the line to Grand Orator. He also 
belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America, in 



which he holds the see<md highest office in the 
Liiited States, being Head Advisory in that body. 
He was a delegate to the meetings at Des Moines, 
Iowa, and Springfield, 111. Besides the orders just 
naipcd he lielongs to the Knights of the Macca- 
bees. 

In jiulitics Mr. Hedges is a Republican of the 

true-blue \'ariet\- and adheres to that party ''first, 
• • • 

last and always." He has been identified with the 
fire dei)artmcnt of Lansing since 1873, and is Cap- 
lain of Department No. 2. His excellent wife is 
an earnest and etlicient member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. The hunter's and fisher's 
sports are very attractive to this gentleman and in 
them he finds a needed relief from the perplexities 
and cares of business life. 



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SDWIN H. WHITNEY is Grand Scril)e of 
the Grand Encampment of the Independent 

Order of Odd Fellows and is also the Grand 

Secretary of the (4rand Lodge of tiie same society. 
This position he has held continucjusly since 1874, 
at which time the membership numbered eleven 
thousand two hundred and eighty, there being 
sixty-one encampments and one hundred and 
eighty-seven lodges. There are now four hundred 
and six lodges and a membership of twenty-two 
i^housand. 

Mr. Whitney was born in Ontario County, N. Y., 
August 5, 18'27. His father was Dennis Whitney, 
wiio was a farmer and until twelve years of age 
our subject lived on the home place. Then the 
family moved to Niagara County, N.Y., and there 
the original of our sketch received his education, 
first attending the Allen's Hill (Ontario County) 
Academy, and later the Royalton Center xVcademy 
of Niagara County. After that he remained until 
1845 at Royalton Center when he came alone to 
Pontiac, Mich. 

Soon after his advent into this State Mr. \\'hit- 
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till' oflicc of tlie County Trcasiiier. He reniained 
tlicri' t'of 1 wo \ i'Mi> Mild 1 lull u en 1 inld llu' ( imimI v 
|{eui>ti:irV ollii'i'. wlu-iv lie iciimiiUMl for four years, 
jifti'i- wliicli lie cnniu to LiiiisiiiL; in IK')!, and this 
citv \k\> ever sinci- hct'ii lii.- lionic. < )n coining 
lii'it' lu' st'cuivd a position in the State Trea>ni-er's 
iilliee aiKi later in tlie State {.and ( tlliee until 
1H.')7. 

In l^t.JT the gentleman of whom we are writing 
went to Detroit ami foi' three years was engaged 
in the I'nited Staler ( nstoiii llou>e and for one 
\ear was I'liiled States .Marsiial. sharing the olliee 
with U. W. Davis, who was at that time .Marshal. 
In 1H(!1 .Mr. Whitney ietuine(i to Lansing and 
ti-ansferi'etl his interests from State work to mer- 
ehandise. de.-iliiig in the hardware Inisines,- until 
IH77 when he sold out. Three years |)reviou> 
to the sale of his hardware intere.sts he had 
lieeii elected to his present ottices and siiiee that 
time he has been giving his attention e.Kflusively 
to this. The eity hears a veiy different aspect now 
from what it did when the sulijeet of this sketch 
made his entrance here. .\t that time it was hut 
partially cleared and iiresentetl for the most part a 
dreary waste of stunip.s, there being logs in every 
street, lie purchased land, however, which he was 
wise enough to hold and now li.\> a valii.alile tr.act 
and a very |)leasant home. 

For four years Mr. \Vliilu(\ was a mem her of 
the Common Council, representing the Fourth 
Ward, lie has also lieen on the Board of F^duca- 
tion for the same length of time and representing 
the same ward, Altliongli such an enthusiastic 
member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows 
our subject is also a Knight Templar. In churcli 
relations he is an Kpi.scopaliaii, having been a 
Vestry m:iii for some time. He was so elected on 
the first Board in IHo.') and with the exception of 
the time of his absence in Detioit he has lieen in 
service for twenty years. 

F'eeling that it was not goo<l for man to live 
alone Mr. Whitney was united in m.'irriage to 
Miss Jennie Dodge, of Vpsilanti, their marriage 
being solemnized .May 17. 18r>!(, Since that time 
three chililren li;i\e come to them. They have 
how reached the estate of manhood and woman- 
hood and are resiiected and honored citizens. The 



eldest is Edwin D.. now a resident of IVjrtland, 
Ore.: .leiinie F. i> the wife of W. K. I'rudeii and 
has a deligiittul liomi- in this city; Lewi^ 1). i> also 
a resident of this cilv. 



0.\. MAIM IS .\1. ATWOOl). \\ the time 
jV when the |);ireiils of our subject eaiue to 
Michigan there were only live log cabins in 
what is now Ingham Township, two of 
which were u[ion the .Vtwood Homestead, and seven 
families constituted tlu- population of the town- 
ship. It was all an unliroken and dense forest and 
not a tree had been felled nor a S(jd luined. Indians 
were .scattered all about and wild game aliounded 
and here they endured many hardships and did 
thorough and genuine pioneer work. 

Mr. -Vtwood, who is a lawyer at Dansville, Ing- 
ham County, wa.s born in Homer. Cortland County 
X. v.. .lanuaiN 3, 1826, His parents were Zenas 
and Hulda (I'urintoii) Atwood, natives of F'rank- 
lin CouiitN', Ma.ss., where they passed their youth 
and were married. Their first wedded home was 
in (Jraton, Tompkins County. N, Y,, where they 
settled in 181;) and later removed to Homer, In 
1836 they made their removal to .Micliigan, he 
coming early in the spring by way of the lakes to 
Detroit, and tlieii taking ox-team from that city to 
the new homestead. He located upon eighty acres 
of (iovernm'jiit land in Ingham County, and liuilt 
n log house, to which he brought his family in the 
fall. Both .Mr. and Mr.s, Zenas .Vtwood spent the 
remainder of their lives in this township, remain- 
ing on the farm most of the time. The father died 
at the age of fifty-nine years, in October, 1850, and 
his wife survived until 1875. when she pa.s.sed 
away at the age of eighty-four years. 

The father of our subject was a plain hard- 
working man, who was faithful in all his duties 
but was not one who accumulated much property, 
neither did he give his time to (niblic service, ex- 
trpt on one occasion when he acted as Assessor of 
his township. He was a strong Abolitionist, even 
at the early date previous to his death, and was 



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man of firm convictions. Both he and his wife 
were active and efficient members of the Baptist 
Church, in which lie was a Deacon from the date 
of the organization of tlie JXansville Church, until 
his death. His parents were New England people 
of Enalish oriiiin. and his wife's parents came from 
the same section and were descended from English 
and French stock. .loseph Purinton, his wife's 
father, was a Revoluti(marv soldier and he himself 
served in the AVar of 1«12. Eight childien were 
granted him and his wurtliy helpmate, namely: 
Pearly, Almira, Lucy, Horace, Henry P., Mercy C. 
Martin S., and ]Mareus M., the two latter being 
twins. 

The first ten years of our subject's life were 
spent upon the farm in New York and he came 
with his parents to Michigan in 1836, remaining 
with them until he reached the age of seventeen. 
After leaving home he supplemented the studies 
which he had taken in the district schools by at- 
tending the Leoni Institute and the Grass Lake 
Academy in .Lackson Count\-. Later he went to 
Ann Arbor and read law with Norton R. Ramsdel, 
remaining with him for two or three years. He 
then began teaching and remained for twenty-two 
terms at the teacher's desk. In 1852 he settled 
down upon a farm in Ingham Township, and for 
several years gave his attention to farming and the 
rest of the time to the practice of law, being ad- 
mitted to the bar at Mason, Mich. In 1858 he gave 
up farming and has since devoted his attention en- 
tirely to the practice of the law at Dansville. Hav- 
ing won the confidence of the people he now 
enjoys a large and lucrative practice, and is ad- 
mitted to all the courts in the State. Mr. Atwood's 
first Presidential vote was cast on the Democratic 
ticket for Zachary Taylor. His earliest official po- 
sition was that of township Clerk of Ingham 
Township, to which he was elected in 1849, and in 
1850 he held the same office in Stockbridge Town- 
ship. 

In 1856 Mr. At wood was elected Justice of the 
Peace of Ingham Township, and held that office 
for twenty consecutive years, although he did not 
devote himself exclusively to it. It was in 1860 
that the Democratic party elected him to the Michi- 
gan State Legislature and he was re-elected to the 



same office in 1870. He served in both sessions 
with honor to himself and profit and satisfaction 
to his constituents. During the first session he was 
:i member of the Committee on Supplies and the 
.ludiciaiy Coniinittee and in the last session he 
licldiiged til the Committee on State Affairs and 
Electioiis. He has been for thirty-three years 
President of the village of Dansville, and since his 
service in tiie Legislature has been giving his en- 
tire attention to his professional duties. He is a 
member of tiie Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council and 
Commandery of the F. ife A. M. and is also a mem- 
ber of the Odd Fellows order. 

The ladv who became Mrs. Atwood in the month 
of April 1863 bore the maiden name of Louisa ,J. 
Skadan. Her home was in the township of Ing- 
ham, this county and she was born in Sennett, 
Cayuga County, December 25, 1836. Her parents. 
Samuel and Irene (Shedon) Skadan, were both na- 
tives of the Empire State who settled in this town- 
ship in 1840. The social position of the Hon. M. 
M. Atwood and wife is exceptionally good and 
their home is the center of a true and genuine 
hospitality. He has been a member of the village 
council twelve j"ears and was President of the vil- 
lage eleven years. 






^if] AMES H. SHAFER. It is sometimes thought 
by superficial people, who know nothing of 
agriculture, that no special intelligence is 
^1// required to till the soil, and indeed, if the 
mechanical work were all that is necessary, this 
would be so, but, as in every branch of industry, 
the thoughtful and logical carrying out of theories 
that have been proved by experiment and science 
is found to be advantageous and to the profit of 
the farmer. He of whom we write is of the class 
who believes in progression and ad\'anceinent. He 
is the owner of a fine farm on section 3, of Vevay 
Township, Ingham County, and although a general 
farmer, devotes himself especially to the work of 
stock-raising. 

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375 



ham County-, tliis State, July 11, 1849. He is the 
son of George W. and Deborah (Horten) Shafer, 
natives of New Yorii. The fatlier, whose iiome 
was in Mason. owned some two liundred and twenty 
acres of land near the city, so wliile our subject 
lived in the city until he was about twenty-one 
years of aue he was at the same time engaged in 
fanning. He received a good common-school edu- 
cation, and a])preelating the value that a knowl- 
edge of books and sciences has for men, he made 
the best of his opportunities, and is to-day a man 
of crlture and education. 

i\L'. Shafer's marriage took ))lace November 8, 
1870, at which time he was united to Miss Lucy 
K. Saxton, a daughter of N. S. and Eliza (Fuller) 
Saxton. .She was bom in Knox County, Ohio, 
September 4, 18.51. Her parents were natives of 
New York. About two years after his marriage 
Mr. Shafer went to the State of Kansas, where he 
made his residence for some two years. On his re- 
turn he removed to tlie farm, and has here since 
lived. Although our subject is independent in 
politics, voting for the man that he thinks best 
fitted for the position in question, his sympathies 
have been, as a rule, with the Republican party, 
and that political body has received the weight of 
his vote and influence. He has his preference by 
inlieritance as well as choice, as his fatlier was also 
a Rei)ublican. In 1882 our subject received the 
honor of an election to the post of Supervisor of 
A'evay Township, and has been re-elected to the 
otlice seven times since. 



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^f/LFRED WISE. One of tiie ijroniinent 
men in the city of Lansing, Ingham 
-•-< County, who has been active in encour- 
aging industries of intrinsic worth to the 
city, as well as the upbuilding and perfecting of 
older institutions, is the gentleman whose jiortrait 
appears on the ojiposite page. By parentage, birtii 
and education he is an Englishman. Tiie jilace of 
liis nativity was the county of Kent. England, and 
his natal day December 20, 1827. He received his 



education in England and came to the United 
States in 1849, first locating in New York City. 
Thence he went to Ohio and in 1856 came to this 
city and made a permanent location, engaging as 
a contractor and builder. 

Mr. Wise is the Presidcntof the Union Building 
(te Loan Association and also President of the city 
water works during their construction and for 
three years after their completion. Considering 
the age of the place he is an old settler here and 
taking into account his energy has accomplished a 
veiy great deal for the city. At an earlj^ day he 
was connected with the building of many of the 
prominent edifices in the city, turning his atten- 
tion to that line until 1889. In the meantime the 
greater portion of his time was given to the erect- 
ing of mills for the making of sash, doors and 
blinds and also planing mills. 

When our subject came to Lansing it was a mere 
village, not being organized as a city until 1858. 
After its incorijoratioii as a citj^ Mr. Wise held a 
number of minor offices. He was for three terms 
elected as Alderman for the Fifth AVard, each term 
being for two years. When the water works were 
erected in 1885 our subject was elected President 
and maintained this i)o.sition, being also General 
Superintendent of Construction for three years. A 
standpipe one hundred and twenty feet in height 
was built. He also superintended the putting in 
of the mains on the principal streets, which en- 
tailed an expenditure of a large amount of money. 
Socially Mr. Wise is a member of the Masonic 
order, in Lodge No. 33, of Lansing. He married 
Miss Elizabeth Whitefleld of Kent, England, their 
wedding lieiiig celeliratcd May 13, 1849. Two 
children, who are still living, are the fruit of this 
marriage. They are Samuel Lord, who is an artist 
in this city, and Williain W., who is engaged in the 
manufacture of sash, doors and blinds in Chicago, 
111. Mr. Wise is an ardent Prohil)itipnist, its prin- 
ciples having been iiis for many years. He was 
one of the organizers of that party in this State and 
never fails to use his influence in this direction. 
The honor has been paid our subject of a nomina- 
tion to tlic Mayoralty of the city. He has, how- 
ever, declined to serve in this cajiacitw his private 
affairs consuming all his time. He has, however, 



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PORTKAIT AXD lilOGKAPHK AJ. ALIU >[. 



:K-te(l upon the Board of Health and in this ca- 
|i!icil\ lia> doni' ctticicnt work. Mr. Wix' i> ;i mini 
of line literal V lai^leis and i.'* llie owner of a large 
and well-;?eleeled lihrarv that eoniprise.-; the works 
of the .^tandard Knuli.sh and Anieiiean writers. 
His lieautifnl home is loeated on Townsend Street, 
opposite Central Park, one t)f the finest k)Oations 
in the eity and llie house in itself is perfeet in all 
its Hp])ointinents and furnishin". 

The Inion liuildini; A l>oan .Vssoeiation of 
wliioh oni- sulijeet is Presichnil was or<>anized June 
I. 18«(;. with a eapital stock of *l.(MII).(iO(l. Our 
suhjeet as vnv of its most active organizers w'as 
elected its first President, the other officers being- 
Nelson Uradley wiicp is Tieasurer and Mr. R. .V. 
Clark, who held the position of Secretary for two 
years. He was followed liy ^Mr. E. I. Foster who 
held tlie position I'or one year. The present in- 
cumlientof tlie position is H. 1). Bartholomew, who 
has l>een Secretary for two years. Their jjlace of 
liusiness is located on .Michiuan Avenue and they 
have a most satisfactory and prosperous local 
business. 




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KHT .M. (lOl LJJ. The -moulders of i)ub- 
lic opinion" in Michigan are a class of men 
if^jjlj "f whom the State may well feel proud, as 
they have shown themselves citizens of value 
and helpers in every plan for promoting' tlie prog- 
ress and welfare of the State. Even the younger 
members of the newspaper fraternity in the Wol- 
verine State while they have not had the experience 
and perhaps do not possess the sagacity of their 
older brothers, do evince a spirit of enter|)rise and 
a hearty good will which is a positive factor in the 
development of our resources and a stinnilus to 
progress. 

Tlie eflitor of the Leslie Xoca/ was born in Tomp- 
kins Township, Jackson County, Mich.. October 
2(t. 183;"). His worthy parents. Oeorge and Boann 
(Bannister) (iould, were natives of New York who 
caine to ^lichigan in earlv days. (George (rouid 



was only ten years olil when he ;iiii ved here in 18:5;j, 
and the young girl wlio was dotined to lieeonie 
his wife was brought there by her parents in 18.'i7. 
In roinpkiiis Township they grew to maturity, met. 
loved and wetlded and tliere they still live, lieiiig 
in comfort.'ible circumstances, they have farmed all 
their lives. bfgiuiiing with nothing and gaining their 
excellent faini by their own efforts. ( )ur subject 's 
father was attached to the I{ei)ulilieaii party until 
I'eter Coo|)er originated the (Jreenback party, sinee 
whieh time he has brcn a ( ireenliaeker and a labor 
man. For several terms he has served his fellow 
citizens as .lustice of the Peace and he is a piomi- 
nent iiieinber of the Masonie order, the Odd Fel- 
low> and the (Grangers. Three children constitu- 
ted his household: ICdgai-. Bert and Cora M. 

(poll lii^ father's farm, young (iould gic" to 
manhood taking his schooling in the district school 
of Tompkins Township. Jackson County, coming 
to Leslie. Inghani County to take his High School 
course. In 1883. he entered the ottice of the Leslie 
Local und there he learned the |)riiiter's trade, pre- 
paring himself practically and th(jroughly for the 
work which he now has in hand. For about two 
years he read la«' in the ollice of F. ( . \\'(iodworth 
but before being admitted to tin' bai' an opening 
presented itself tV>r iiim to become the proprie- 
tor of the Local and he at once .seized this ojipoi'- 
tunity whieh was directly in the line of his inclin- 
ations aiKJ became the proprietor and editor of this 
|)aper. His first eoiinection nith the Local in this 
way was in the fall of 188(1 as he entered into part- 
neishi]) with Mr. Woodworth but he sub,>eipienl Iv 
purchased the entire paiier. 

.Mr. (bnild is independent in politics .-iiid his 
pajier is of the same stripe. He has woiked up a 
good circulation and lias brought himself unaided 
to the excellent position which he now holds. Be- 
sides this newspaper business he finds time to attend 
to the duties of hisotlice as Village Clerk. He has 
reached the third degree in the Free and Accepted 

I .Masons and belongs to the Independent ( )rder of 
Odd Fellows. 

.\ happy home life ojiened iiefore our subjccl. 
when he was united in mairiage Decemiier il. I88(). 
with Mi.ss Nellie .\ustin, of Leslie, a native of Les- 

I lie Township, and a daughter of Thomas Austin. 



PORTRAIT ANJ) BKXiRAPHK AL AI.Hr>[. 



and his liappincN-? liii> hci'ii clouded only by the 
death of their one cliild, little Jay, who was born 
October 15, 1887, and died .July 12. 1890. Mr. 
Gould gives promise of becoming one of the most 
useful citizens not only of Leslie but also of Ing- 
ham C'ouiitv. 



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so- 




l ICHAEL J. MLRRAY. lie nf whom we 
i\ write is Jlayor of the beautiful .city of 



III 'A Mason, the county seat of Ingham County, 
tills State. lie is also station agent on the 
^lichigan Central road. He has lieen elected to his 
present high position in the municipality, not be- 
cause of nionied iulluencc. hut because of fitness for 
the place tliat he occupies. It is fitting that the 
towii should |)lace in its highest otlices those who 
by birth have tlie interests of the locality most at 
heart, and as our subject is a native of this .State, 
he naturally takes a i)ride in its welfare that an 
alien would not readily feel. He was born at Bat- 
tle Creek. Mich.. April IH. 1847. and is the son of 
John and Anna (.Mc(iraw) Murray, natives of Ire- 
land, who came to tiiis .State and settled in Ann 
Arbor where they were married. Tiie mother came 
hither to Ann Arlior on the first railroad train 
that ever ran into the city. 

Mi: ilurray's boyhood days were sjient on a farm 
in Livingston County which his parents had pur- 
chased upon coining into this State. He received 
a good ccmimon-school education, educational ad- 
vantages being a feature to which the young 
.State early devoted herself to i)erfecting as full}' 
as possible. He remained at Inmie until twenty- 
three years of age and then began to do for himself. 
Having in his young manhood suffered intensely 
from rheumatism, he was induced to abandon farm- 
ing and went toToronto, Canada, at which place he 
attended a school of telegraphy, after which, being 
an expert operator, he went into an olHce in How- 
ell. Livingston County, Mich., where he finished 
his practical course, and became a night o[)erator. 
holding this position for alK)ut one year. 

On removing to Metamora, Lapeer County. Mich. 



our subject became .-tation agent, in which place 
he remained for three j-ears in the emplo}' of the 
Michigan Central railroad. He then removed to 
Colwell, where he remained for one year, then 
again moved to North Lansing, being at that place 
chief clerk for the Jlichigan Central for a period 
of three years. While there he was married to 
Miss Anna L. Merriam.a daughter of .John and Sara 
Merriam. She was born in Green Bay, Green Bay 
County, Wis., .September 16, 1849. Their marriage 
took place October 23, 1875. Three years later, 
Mr. Murray moved to JIason, where he has ever 
since had the position of station agent. 

Our sul)ject has a fine residence property at the ' 
corner of Oak and B. .Street, worth 82500. The 
home is comfoital)le and attractive and is charm- 
ingly located and surrounded In' a beautiful lawn 
and fine shade trees. Mr. ]\luriay is a Democrat in 
his political faith and following, but has never in- 
terested himself in politics. The post that he now 
holds was unsought and unsolicited, his party mak- 
ing him a candidate for the ^layorality.and he has 
filled the position to the best of his aliility since that 
time, having been re-elected for the tiiird time, and 
receiving the compliment and hc)nor the List lime 
of a greater m.ajority than at either prceeeding 
elections. Mr. Muriay lias ever been ready out of 
his means and substance to lielj) those in trouble 
or need, making the gift a gracious one liy the kind 
and syniiiathetic words that accom|i:iined it. lie 
has never been able to lay by any amount of this 
world's goods because of the fad that he has always 
found some one who needed what w.as not neces- 
sary to him.self. 



,EV. CllAKLES II. HE.VLE. pastor of the 

Plymouth Congregational Church of Lan- 

iS \V sing, Ingham County, is a man of high 

*^ attainments. Of a finely and delicately 

balanced nature, spiritually and morally, he has 

always taken the highest stand. A man of fine 

education and good address, he is fitted as an ora- 



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toi- to |)('it('ct the youil woik that liis example a;* a 
(liiistiMU sets before his |)(o|)le. He>ides ent;a<iiiiii 
ill |):i>toi;il \voil< lie is Secretary of tlie Beaeon Fub- 
lisliiiiu ('oiii|)aii\ . is editor of the paper entitled 
Thf Bciwdii. wliieli is a jouiiial devoted to tlie 
iiiteiestsaiid i^rowth of the ( 'oimreaatioiial ciuiiclies 
ill the State of Mieliiiiaii. 

Our subjeet was born in I'atcliosiue. I,. I., N. V.. 
August 2(1. lf<r)4. His father was Prof. David B. 
Ik-ale, also a native of tlie same place with our sub- 
ject, as was his wife. The Beales came from Knu- 
land about l7<io. Our subject's paternal s;rand- 
tatlicr. A\'illiani lleale. was a farmei' in Long Island 
and there died in IH,');'). Pi'of. Beale. our subject's 
father, was ;i teacher and wa~ the "reater portion 
of his life eiiiplo\ed in educational work. He was 
Superinti'iidenl of m number of schools, but liis 
distinction as jiii educator was attained at the ini- 
vate academv of which he was President at North- 
])ort. L. I. It was called Hillside Seminary. ^^ hen 
a younii man in the earl\ part of 1«(I2 he enlisted 
as a Sergeant in (_'oni|iany 1, of the One Hundred 
and Thirty-ninth New York Infantry and was in 
the eani|)aign of the .lames River, when his health 
failed. He received his discharge while yet in 
iHispital after two years' service and on returning 
to his home continued conducting Ins jirivate 
school. The last four years of his life lie had to 
retire from active duty and made his home with 
our subject. He died .Inly 1. 1H7(). at a |iicnic. 
immediately after his son had delivered an address, 
having strained himself in getting into a wagon 
to return home. For many \eai> he was an active 
niembei' of the CongregatioiiMl Church and otlic- 
iated as a lay |)reaiher. 

( )nr subject's mother was. previous to her mar- 
riage, .Miss Ksther Hallock and born in Smith- 
town, L. I. She was a daughter of Thomas Hal- 
lock, a native of (he same locality and was des- 
cended from I'eter Hallock, said to be the tiist 
white settler from Connecticut on Long Island. 
They trace their ancestry to the founders of the 
New Haven Colony and back to Kngland. Thomas 
Hallock was a farmer and a well-informed and able 
man. Mrs. lieale resides with her sons. ( )ur sub- 
ject's fathei- had been married jjrevious to his 
union witli the present Mrs. Beale and by that 



marriage he was the father of six children. The 
second marriage resulted in the birth of four cliil- 
<lren, our subject being the second one of these. 
Two of the liiotliers of the family served through 
the Civil Wai', one having been made a Lieutenant, 
anothei' enlisting at sixteen and serviiiu tlii(Migli- 
out the war. 

The original of this sketch received the greater 
part of his education under his father, graduating 
at the Hillside Academv when eighteen years fif 
age. He then assisted his fathei' in the charge of 
the school by becoming one of the teacher.^i and 
afterward was called to the jiosition of Princi|)al 
of the Hayi)ort school, where he remained for two 
\-ears. While there he was licensed to preach in 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, having joined 
that body in 187(1 as a probationer and in IHKO 
uniting with that body in full membersliip. In 
lH7r) he became pastor at (iood (iround. L. L.aiid 
remained there for two years. He was the iiiciini- 
beiit <if his next charge for t'.iree years and then 
went lo U'ockville (enter where he remained for 
one \('ar. 'I'lie next year he was pastor of the 
Carroll Park Cliur( li in lirooklyn and in I 8X2 he 
withdrew from the .Methodist Kpiscopal Church 
and came to .Michigan where he joined the Con- 
gregational .Association. He oi'ganized the church 
at Cadillac. Mich., and erected an edifice there. In 
the spring of I MHt!, he became pastor of the Pl\- 
iiioiilh Church. Lansing. In 18HH|ie was one of 
the iiumlier to organize the Beacon Publishing Com- 
pain which had originally been published in l)e- 
ti'oit. Pemoving the business to Lan.sing it has 
since been carried on in this city. He is the .Secre- 
tar\' of the comi)any and editor of the organ which 
has changed its form from a folio to ;i (pi.arto 
journal. It is a weekly jiajier which enjoysagood 
circulation, having increased from two thousand 
to thirty-live hundird .^ince he lia.-~ had charge. 
.Mr. Ueale is a member of the Kxeciitive Com- 
mittee on home mission-^ of the State of Michig.an, 
beinu' Sei'retary <>f 'hi> committee. In fact every 
good work that iiromi-^e- to help humanity ap|ie.'ils 
to his large and generous heart. The Rev. Mr. 
Beale's first marriage took place at i< )W!iylon. 
Conn.. .Line 11. 1880, at which time he was united 
to Miss Marv E. Smith. She died in Rockville 



PORTH.Vri' AM) l!I()(;l^Vl•ll]CAL ALIU .M. 



Mil 



Cciilcr. Ii'in iii^ ti> Ikt lifi'ciivcd liu>linnil iinc cliilil. 
M Mill. Ai'thur S. His si-foiid iii!iiri;iuc \v;is iiiikIc 
with .Mi» l.urv M. licrvc. wild i- :i ii:ili\i'cil' Limu' 
I^ImihI :iii(I m li.'iiiulitcr ol' lln' lii-v. 11. I'. Ilcrxc. ;i 
iiiiiii>lcr ill llic .Mclliodist Kpi.scoiiai Clmicli. 'I'lic 
iii;illi;ii;i' (if iiiir >iiliji'ct mikI lii> witr w;i^ Sdlcnili 
izcd ;it Smi; I lailuir. I.. 1.. in 1MM7. .Mr. Iloalc i.- 
iii(li'|)fii(U'iit ill |)<ilitic>. lielieviiiii' it iiotoiily riuiit 
liiit |i(ililic In Niilf I'lir llic iiinii lu'st littcil \i< Mil 
liu' ullicc ill (iiic.siidii ralluT than a man wIki i> 
till' tool of iiiiscnipuhnif- |)nliticiaii>. 

Since cuiiiin^ tn l,aiisiii;i' (iiir siilijcct lia.'^ hail a 
call froiii llif ( '(iniii-fi)-ati(iiial Chnich at .Madisnn. 
\Vi>.. liiit |nvfi'i> to remain here, feelina' tluit he 
iia.-* work lit' llic> hi^liest im|iurtaiice at >ricliii;;in '> 
c!l|iital eltv. 



AMKS TOIU.V.S. IIaii|)y is the man who has 
lived a lone- life tliat has lieen chaiacteiized 
liy ii|iiii;lil ness of |ini|iose. iiitei;rit\ of 
liriiicijile and whose hiii'li mental and moral 
.-iMiidiiiii' is ii|iitefnll\ ieeoi;nized liy his fellow- 
men. Such .-I man is .lames Toliias and the imli- 
lisliei- of thi> .Vila M would tail of their iinipose 
of lecordiliL! li\'es Iluit lia\c lieeii iisefnl and 
wortli\ of note were the\ to omit mention of his 
snccessfnl eaicer. Inyham Connly prondly claims 
him :is one of her liest .'ind most eiiteilirisint; citi- 
zens, and he is the fort i mate owikt of t wd liniidred 
acres on .section 2(i. LansinoTownship. U\- a pioper 
rolalion of crops the land lias been lirouuht to a 
liifjll (letfree of cnltivation. while \aiioiis liuildinsis 
have lieen erected such a> liest >Ml>ser\-e the piir- 
po.Ms of ayricnltnie. 

The paieiit> of .Mr. Toliias were .iiiliu> ••iiid Laura 
Toliias. natives of the .State of ()hio. Their son 
.lames was liorn in .Medina Connty. that State, ( )c- 
tolier 2.'i. Ix;i2. ;iiid .'it the early ape of lh|-ee ve.'irs 
he WM> oipliaiied liy the death of lii.- mother. 
lie wa> then yi\'eii to the cue of .Mis. .Simon 
\'an ( isdall. who was always (|e\ died and kind to 
him. He attended school, .-iciiuirinii' a conimon- 
si'hooj education and durinu the inleivnN of -tnd\- 



a.ssisled Ills fo,ster father on tiie farm. .\t the a.i>-e 
of sixteen years he was apiirenticed to learn tiie 
trade of .a lilacksmith and :ifter the term of his ap- 
prenticohip li.nl expired he followed his trade 
until ISCll. 

On Decemlier (I, IM.'i.'i. .Mr. Toliias .iiid .Miss .lane 
liuchaiian were united in marriaiie: the liride was 
a daughter of .Nilin liiielian;in. of .Vshland County. 
(tliio. She died in liS72 lea\iiiu- three chihlren. 
who art' still Iniiii;: .lolin .1. married .M.at lie T'oster 
and resides in \\ illiamston. .Mich.: K'.ichel .\delia 
lieeame the wifi' of .Vdelliert .Moore .'ind also iii;ikes 
her home in Williainstdii; I(ia .M. is sinjile and is 
a teacher by profession, althouji'li at present she is 
an art student. .Vfter ri'm.-iiiiiiia; a widower until 
IXMtl .Mr. 'I'oliias was happil\- wedded on .lune 2H 
to his present wife, whose m.aiden name w.as INtliei' 
.1. Mead. She was the widow of .Austin Harker. Her 
fatiu'r was a nati\e of the St.ate of New York. 'This 
estiin.'dile lady presides with dij^nity over the ele- 
Ijant home of her husliand and li\ her iiracioiis 
wa.\s wins friends of all who meet her. 

'The career of .Mr. 'Tobias is certain ly woith\ of 
eiiiiil.'ition. ;is 111' started in life without a doll.-ir ami 
by persistent indnslr\ has attained to a conifoila- 
ble competeue\ . His farm being' <inly one and one- 
half miles from the city limits of Lansiiii; is vei\ 
valuable pi-opert\ . furnisliint;- at the .same time all 
the advanlaifes of city life and the comforts of » 
rural .•diode. In political matti'is he adheres to the 
principles of the Democratic party and ranks liiirli 
ill the councils of his |iarly. Socialh' he belonjis 
to the l{<i\al ,\rcanniii. and Lodue No. ;!;i. ]•". A- 
,\. M.. of l.aiisiiia. 



'^S\ < >I<TL.VN1) 15. STKJU51NS. Prominent amonir 
(II _ the manutacturinji' men of Lansiiiir is the 

^^f' uentleman whose n:ime we have just jriven. 
He is \'ice-l'resideiil of the Lausina Wheelbarrow 
Works, and an old and honored resident of this c■it^■. 
to \vlii<'h lie i-ame in \X.'>'. lie was born in \Vill- 
iainstown. ()iani!-e ( nunlv. \ t.. Februar\ 17. I812, 



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and is the son f)f Bliss Steb})ins, a native of Massa- 
chiisettji who went to Vermont when young, and 
married Miss Betsey Cole, of Clcrnmnt. N. Y. He 
wiis by occupation during the latter years of his 
life, what was then known as a clothier — th.at is, he 
made a liusiness of dressing clotli tliat had Iteen 
woven liy farmers. His death took place in 1826, 
and he left a family of live children. The only one 
now living Ijesides our subject is Francis R.. who 
is a leading dealer in carpets and general house 
furnishing goods at Adrian, Mich. A good educa- 
tion was given to his children by this faithful 
father and every oiiportunity that lay in his power 
given them to tiecome proficient in the best branches 
of learning. 

When fourteen years of age our subject was as 
competent to teach, except for government, as any 
teacher in that part of the country, but after this 
he took a few terms at an academy. Before he was 
twenty -one he Ijcgan writing for papers, bringing 
out l)Oth prose and poetry, but not being able to 
complete his education, he apprenticed himself to 
a cabinet-maker and became an accomplished 
workman in four years. 

The year after reaching his majority 'Sir. Steb- 
bins received an oflice under the S|)eaker of the 
House of Legislature which he held for four years 
under succeeding administrations. It was a pecu- 
liar way in which he came into this ottice, as he had 
not i)lanned to make an effort in that direction, 
but a report got alnoad the d.ny before Legislature 
met that he was a candidate for the ottice of mes- 
senger to the Governor and Council, upon the anti- 
Masonic ticket. lie was much siuprised, but upon 
due consideration concluded he might as well run 
fo the oflice, for if he did not he would get the 
credit of being defeated, and so he made a short 
but gallant run for the place and received it. Mr. 
L. B. Vilas, father of Secretary Vilas of Wisconsin, 
was at that time Secretai'.v to the Governor and he 
and the Governor both gave their intluence for 
the young man. After holding this position for 
four years he decided to go West, and as West in 
those days was not as near the Pacific as it is now 
he settled at Buffalo, N. Y. in the fall of 1836, and 
for several months stvulied law there. 

In 1837 Mr. Stebbcns was united in marriage 



with Susan E. Burlev of Salem, Mass., and soon 
after mairiage they came to Michigan and made 
their home in Adrian, where Mr. Stebbins went into 
the furniture business, in wiiich for several years 
he was associated with his brother. In 1844 he 
liegan editing the Michigan Expositor, a Whig 
paper which he carried on foi- foiu' years and part 
of that time conducted a weekly temperance i)apei-. 
Previous to the election of Taylor and Fillmore he 
was the first man in the United States to place the 
name of Fillmore at the head of his columns as can- 
didate for the Presidency. During that adminis- 
tration, and after Fillmore came into power through 
the death of ^Ir. Taylor, Mr. Stebbins became 
Special Agent of the Postofflce Department by 
appt)intment under Fillmore and in order to attend 
to the duties of that position he sold out the fur- 
niture business to his brother and served in the 
Postofflce Department until the close of Fillmore's 
administration. 

After he had closed his official duties, his wife, 
who had been his companion for many years, died 
j in 1854, and by his next marriage he was united 
I with Miss Eliza Smith of Adrian. In the year of 
1857 he removed to Lansing to edit the Lansing 
liepublican, and July 1, 1858, he entered the office 
of Public Instruction, being the Deputy Sujjerin- 
tendent of Pul)lic Instruction, which position he 
held for twenty- years under five different superin- 
tendents. After leaving that office he retired from 
active life and contented himself with the general 
oversight of business. 

He of whom we write was one of the original 
members of the company which organized the 
Wheelbarrow Works, being an original stock- 
holder and Director and the Vice-President from 
its inception, his son being also Superintendent for 
several years. This business has been excellently 
managed and has been subject to steady growth 
until it now ranks among the largest institutions 
of the kind in the country. He is also a stock- 
holder in the Lansing National Bank, as well as in 
the gas works. In 1865 he purchased the projjerty 
at Xo. 219, Capitol Avenue, N., and has remodeled 
and rebuilt this residence until he now has a beau- 
tiful and commodious home which is an ornament 
to that part of thecit' . His wife died in the win- 



I'ORTHArr AM) IJKHiHArilK Al, ALUl.M. 



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tcr of IHHH. leaviiiii' tlirei- children. I'luy were 
naiiu'd. Artliin ('.. wlio i> SupcriiilfiKU'iit >>( tlii> 
Wlioolliai-niw Wdrks: Susan !•",. and I'.liss. wlm i> 
now travi'linii for tlic t'onipany and isaliont t went\ - 
five yoai's of agi-. Dnrini;- the artivity of llif 
.Mcclianic'.s ^Iiitual I'l-otcttion Society lie was a 
ihcuiIki- of llial liody and I'veisinco his early youth 
he lias Keen identified with the ('on<>rc'i>;atif>nal 
Church, lie has always lieen a stronjj advocate of 
leni|ieiance measures and is willing at any lime to 
aid in promolinomeasures which look to the nu)ral 
and linsiness uphuildins;' of lyansing. 



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-^„ LHKIM' I!1!I)\VN. Auionu the faruuMs of 
(©/lJI i White ( )ak Towiishi|i. we aic pleased to 
4) mention the ufentleman whose name we 
ha\e just given, who is a n.atix'e of Ing- 
h.'Oi] 'I'liw nship. Iniihani ( 'ounty. where he was hoiii 
in IKfl. lie is of J-lnglisli |iareutage. his father. 
.1. \V. JJrown. ha\ ingliein liorn Septembei- I'.l. 1«| I. 
in (Jrcal Uritain. wheuci' he icmo\ed ti> New ^'oik 
and afti'rward to Michigan, making his home in 
Oakland ( 'ounty. In llie family there wei'c six 
chihlreu. e(|Uall\ divided lietween sons and daugh- 
ters. His wife, .lane Uurge.ss. was .\Tnerican liy 
hirth. New ^'ork lieiiig her native .st.ite .and she 
was there horn Fehrnary 27. 1S1><. Her marri.age 
with Mr. Hrown look place .lanuary 12, \X'M. 

To these parents were horn two dauglileis and 
three sons, namely: Klizaln'th. who was horn .l.anu- 
arv 22. \Mx. and marrie(l ('. 1*. Oshoi'n and is the 
mother of foui- children. S.amuel K. was horn 
Octoher'.l. is:!'.l. aii<l marrie(l Adilie llilihs. who 
has one child and resides in the State of \\'ashing- 
ton: Kmily .1.. was horn Marcli 2'). 1H)2. and also 
lives in Washington, and onr ^ul)ject. who was the 
fouitli in order of .age and was iiorn .March 22. IHIl. 
while the yoimyest lirother. .losepli K.. whose liirtli 
occurred Au'jusi 21. IH,')(l. i> cst.aMishcd in ;i home 
of his own with a wife whose maiden iiami' w.as 
Minnie I'utnam. 

Mr. Hrown w;is hi>rn Maich 22. isll. ||c m:n - 
rieil Miss S. .1. I.iiwc. and In them was hnin upon 



the nth of May. IHCH. a son. Kdward .1. Hrown. 
Our suhject is a man wlio is univer.sally re- 
spected as an honorahle farmei' and liusiliess man. 
He an<l his fainil\ lieloug to the .Methodist Kpisco- 
p,al Church and ai'c active in .seivice in its liehalf. 
heiuii' e\'er read\ to lend a hand to liuildin<f \ip its 
interests. 

.1. lirown. the gr.andfathcr of our -~uhject. was 
lioiu in l'',nglaud. Novendier 2. 17n7. and was nni- 
teil in m.-irriage Octoliej- 1(». IKOil. with .Vnn Ward, 
who w.as horn ( )ctol)er ."5. I77!t. This progenitor 
came to .Vnierica in lH27.and made his home in 
the West, dying in Ingham 'l'ownshi|). in 1K4I. 
His wife died in Walled Lake. ( )akland County, ex- 
pjiing N'ovtniher 2(1. 1H.')((. h.aving outli\('d her 
husband some nine years, and being then past her 
three-score years and ten. ( )ur subject is doing .a 
general faiining business, .and h.a^ line st<ick. He 
built his new home in IHKO and his excellent barn 
eight years Later. He devotes himself entirely to 
the piu-suit of his business and has steadfastly de- 
clined til liohl any of the county oi- township 
ollico. He lichings to the onler of the I'ations of 
lndn.-tr\ and in his political views is strongl\ Re- 
publican, .as he claims th.at the party which su])- 
poited the adininistr.ation throngh the awfid days 
of the Ci\ il War should now receive tiie support 
of loval men. 



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ES. IS.VrKS. ex-( hief of i'olice and .Mar.-hal 
of Lansing and ex-Deputy Sheriff of Ing- 
_ ham County, was born in .ALanlius. Onon- 
daga (ounty. N. Y.. .March II. 1H4.H. His father. 
l'",li r.. was .also a native of New York, .and his 
grandfather. D.aniel I)., of .Spriiiglield. Mass.. at 
ouctiuu- in his life lived in (Jeorgia. where he 
owiud slaves, but as this was contrary to his love 
of freedom, he liberated them. He went to ()non- 
d.aga County in ixos. where he worki'il at his tradi' 
as a wagonmaker. in .lanuaiy. l^<(;.'>. he came to 
Michigan and lo<-ated in Stockliridge. Ingham 
( (iunt\. whei'c he worked at his trade until about 
the time of hi- de.ath in isx.'i. Diuint: the Civil 



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War he enlisted in 1861 in the Sixty-first New 
York Regiment as a nurse, and served for two 
years in the hospital, after which he was discharged 
on account of physical disability. 

The father of our sul>ject was reared in New 
York and became a painter by trade, and being 
musical in his tastes and education, also taught 
music, both vocal and instrumental. In 1861 he 
enlisted with his father in the Sixty-flrst Regiment 
New York Infantry, and served for three years, 
after which he re-enlisted in the Twenty-second 
New York Veteran C'orps as Sergeant. At the 
battle of the Wilderness he was captured and sent 
to Andersonville Prison, where he spent eight 
months and three days. He was then paroled, but 
his health had been so broken down by the hard- 
ships and agonies of that period of imprisonment 
that he died nine days after reaching home, pass- 
ing away January 1, 1865. The biographer pauses 
in his narrative to lay a tribute of grateful ajjpre- 
ciation upon the graves of such as he, who in 
those terrible Southern prisons sacrificed so much 
in loyalty to the old flag. 

The mother of our subject was Laura Helmer 
in her maidenhood, and was born near Kendall- 
ville. Noble County, Ind. She was a daughter of 
Peter Helmer, a farmer, who died in Indiana. She 
still resides in Stockbridge, Ingham County, where 
she is an active and c.nrnest member of the Episco- 
pal Church, to which her husband was also at- 
tached. Of their fo\ir children three were 
daughters and one a son, and of them three are 
now living, our subject being the oldest of the 
family. When only thirteen years old, this boy 
had to take care of the family because his father 
and grandfather had gone to the war. and he en- 
gaged as clerk in a grocery store at Jlanlius until 
he enlisted in November, 1864, although not yet 
sixteen years old, in Company F, Second New 
York Cavalry, going from Rochester under the 
command of Gen. Custer. 

The regiment to which young Bates belonged 
spent the first season in the Shenandoah Valley. 
They went up and down that valley until the 
lioor boy froze his feet, and was afterward taken 
down with typhoid fever and sent to Park Hospi- 
tal at Baltimore. In the meanwhile he had taken 



I part in numerous skirmishes and saw the smoke of 
battle at New Market, Rudd's Hill, Fisher's Hill 
and Manchester. He was mustered out of the 
service in July, 1865, and came home. It was not 
long before he decided to come West and brought 
with him the family, locating at Stockbridge, 
where he engaged with his grandfather in wagon- 
making. He continued there until 1872. 

Upon coming to Lansing, the young man en- 
tered the employ of W. S. Holmes, and for quite 
a while traveled for him, pushing the sale of 
pianos and organs. He then became a policeman 
in the city about the year 1883, and served for 
one year in North Lansing. He then acted as en- 

; gineer for four years at the School for the Blind, 
after which he became Deputy County Sheriff, 
under II. O. Call, of Mason. After this he was 
appointed City Marshal and Chief of Police in 
1889, and after serving one year he started in the 
grocery business here in June, 1890. He is the 
only private detective in North Lansing and has 
worked up some remarkable cases, notably that of 
Carl Keroski. He is the man who was successful 
in bringing the murderers of the Diamondale 
tragedy to justice. He had the case in hand only 
from Sunday night until Monday morning, and 
had gained possession of the man and had his 
identity proven. The man had come here from 
Green Bay, and thought that he was safe, but he 
"reckoned without his host," as he did not know 
Mr. Bates' wonderful detective abilities. He has 
arrested a great many men, and has probably done 
more in the detective line than any man in Lan- 
sing, but he has never used firearms but once. He 
unearthed a gang at MuUikan for whom the of- 
ficers hrtd long lieen seeking. He now devotes 
himself to a considerable extent to his gro- 
cery business in which Mr. F. I. Moore is a part- 
ner. 

The gentleman of whom we write has a pleas- 
ant home in Lansing, and in it may be found his 
talented and intelligent wife, and one child, Don 
aid. He was married July 1, 1876, in Unadilla 
Livingston County, and Mrs. Bates, who bore the 
name in maidenhood of Floia Mclntyre, was a na- 
tive of that county, and after completing her edu- 
cation taugiit for some nine _years, She is an ear- 



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383 



nest worker in the Metliodist Ei)iM'()|>:il riiiirch. 
!in<l lidtli slie and her Imsliaiid are niot^t hij^hlv re- 
•jarded in the -ocial circh's uf l,ansin£>'. Mr. liate.s 
is identilied with the Independent OnU'r of Odd 
FeUow.s, the Royal Areainini, the Aneient Order of 
Foresters and tlie (irand Army of tlie lie|iulilic. 
He stands liiirli as a Repiil)liean and is often 
sent .IS a dek»gate to city and count\' conven- 
tions. 



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"¥/OIIX X. BUSH, who lias been one of the 
largest contractors in tlie city of Lansing, 
Ingham County, but who has now retired 
from active business, is a representative of 
an old Jersey family who are well known for their 
jiatriotic sentiments. Their family history is re- 
plete with incidents that redound to the honor of 
the various members of the family because of their 
loyalty to tliei]- country. Mr. Bush was one of the 
very earliest settlers in Lansing and a pioneer. He 
was born in Orleans County, X. Y., .lanuarv 21. 
1821. and although he has reached the three-score 
years and ten allotted by Scripture, he is still hale 
with unfailing faculties, and has never been sick ,m 
day in his life. 

The father of our snliject was Oliver Bush, lioni 
in Monmouth County. X. J. His paternal giaiid- 
fathei' was .John Bush, also of Xew .Jersey. He was 
a farmer in that State, and there died. 01i\er 
Bush, our subject's father, was a mason by ti;ide. 
and employed himself in the pursuit of his calling 
until his decease, ^'ery young in life, in 1810. he 
located in Seneca County, X. V. I>ater. in 1H20, 
he locate<l in Mason. ^lurray Towusliii). Orleans 
t ounty, but live years later made a tri|) to Michi- 
gan and worked for a time at his trade in Detroit. 
While thus eng.aged he had an opportunity of 
learning something of the resources of the coun- 
try, and he wa.s .so pleased with what he saw ;ind 
heard, that lie retiu-ned to Xew York the s.anie fall, 
and the following spring brought lii> family to De- 
troit. l-"oj' a time he remained in llie city, but in 
the fall of 1H2() he located in Y|)>ilanti. (li\'idiiig 
his time lietween working at his trade and hunting 



and tiapiiing which must indeed at that time have 
been a fascinating occii|)ation. 

Whether the father felt that there were here so 
few advantages for his children or whether he was 
tired of combating with the hardshiijs of pioneer 
life the writi-r c!iniiot s;i\, but in 1H.'52 he returned 
to New Yoi'k and located in .Murray Township. 
There he remained until 1817. when in the month 
of .luiie, he came to the city of Lansing and began 
the work of contracting. One of his first contracts 
was on the building known as the old Seymour 
House, now the Franklin House. While thus em- 
ployed he was taken sick with erysipelas, being 
obliged to leave his work October 9, and a few 
days later. October 20, he jiassed away from this 
life the age of sixty years. He was of F'rench de- 
scent, his family having emigrated from France at 
the time of the Huguenot exodus. Mr. Bush, Sr., 
was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a 
ctmsisteiit Christian and a con.scientious man. 

The mother ol him of whom we write was, jire- 
vious to her marriage, ^liss Laura Dusctt. She was 
a native of Connecticut, and a daughter of .lohn 
Dusett. who w;is .'iIm) born in Connecticut, and there 
engaged in farming. Our snliject 's maternal grand- 
father when but fifteen years of age enlisted in the 
Revolutionary Wai' as a titer, and was a partici|iant 
in .all the principal battles. His chosen calling in 
life w'.as that of a farmer, aiirl after the war he lo- 
cated in Orleans ( ounty, N. Y.. being there a pio- 
neer, opening up a new farm, which he improved 
and occupied until hi> decease. He l<io was of 
French ancestry. Mr. r>u>irsown famil\- name is 
Be Son. His jiareiits on emigrating to this coun- 
try landed on .Staten Isl.and. and there died of yel- 
low fever. The two children that were thus 
orphaned were adopted by atierman family liy the 
name of Bush. an<l liesides rearing the little ones 
they gave them their name. 

'I'lie original of this sketch is the eldest of eight 
children. He w,as reare<i until five years of age in 
Mnrra\ Ton n>liip. ( )rleans County. N. ^".. and was 
bi-ouglit b\ his )):ircNts to Di'lroit in |.H2(i. There 
were at that time more liiiliaii> to be >eeii than 
white people, and w lien Ihc followiiii; fall llie\ 
went to Yiisilanti it seemed very wild to the new 
comers, I'ikui their advent into the country there 



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was no soJiool. One who has been in the "Nortli- 
ern tinilier regions at tlie jiresent time, where tliere 
are still unbroken forests of pine .-ind oak with an 
impenetrable tangle of undeilii nsli and vines 
throiii;h wliieh steal only shy, tender-eyed deer and 
hare, with an occasional wildcat, and as night aj)- 
proaches the screech owl, vvhose dreary call fills 
one with a homesick feeling, can appreciate in 
some slight degree how desolate must have been the 
country in an early day. when there were no roads 
and liut few neighbors witliin reaching disttince. 
and liow brave the hearts must have been to have 
dared to go out into such wilds and brave the dan- 
gers of ti'cachei'ous Indians, wolves and the en- 
ci'oachments of other wild animals. However, our 
subject "s father was fearless, and his son relates 
that for some cause he destro^'ed a temporary In- 
dian village. 

On the return of the family to New York in 
1832, our subject's school days began. They were 
meagre to lie sure, for school was held only tliree 
months during the winter when theie were no 
sin-ing planting, summer liar\-esting or fall plowing. 
Ilis woi'k began :it an early age. for at ten years he 
carried the hod filled with biiek. and thus em- 
ployed, soon learned the mason's trade, so that be- 
fore he was fifteen years of age he could la\- a wall 
as well as his father. Mr. Bush is a self-made man. 
What knowledge he has, has been g.'iined largelv 
by observation and self-.selected cour.ses of study 
which he pursued with an indefatigable determina- 
tion to coiKjiier mysteries and dillicultu's. He set 
out in life f'oi' himself wliile in New York. 

In Septembei-. 1847, Mr. Mush returned to Lan- 
sing. His Hist contract resulted in the completion 
of tlie Seymour House, .■il'ti-r wliicii lie ei'ccted the 
Packaiil House, and tlie following March liiiilt the 
Lansing H(uise. and in the fall of 1874 put up the 
|)rinciiial liUick in the city of Lansing. He has 
erected more liusiness blocks tlian anyone who is in 
same business and has had the principal contracts. 
The schoolliouses in the city weie built chietlv un- 
der his supervision and aUo the old engine house. 
In 1874 he took the contract for building the High 
School, but it emliarrassed him to a great extent, 
and since that time he has followed his Inisiness 
less extensively. 



For the last Iavo falls, he of whom we write has 
been in the employ of the Republican State Cen- 
tral Committee. During the falls ot 1888 and 
1890, he stumped the State and canvas.sed difl'ei-eiit 
points for votes. In 1888 lie was ])rincipally in 
Detroit and the I'pper Peninsula. During one 
month of that year he sjtoke every night, and in 
18i)0 he spoke as many times, if not more than on 
the (irevious trip. He was an agent in six differ- 
ent counties and did good work for the Republi- 
can party. He w-as a delegate to the State l\ei)ub- 
lican Convention held September 1, 189(1. His 
l)olitical work began in 1878, when he began 
stum]3ing the State, and in 1880 he confined him- 
self to work in the county, but .so llueut a speaKcr 
was he found to lie, and .so widely and well known 
that his influence was felt to be of great value to 
the party. 

It does not lack a great deal of being a half cen- 
tury since our subject united his fate for better or 
worse with that of Mi.ss .\nu E. Powell anatiye of 
(Oneida County. X. Y.. .and a daughter of .bihn 
Powell, an early settU'r in Michigan, who prior to 
tliiit li.'id been a seliool teacher and liookkeeper. 
Their wedding was celebrated in ()neida Couut\. 
.N. Y.. in 1849. in the niontli of September. >lrs. 
liusli is a l.ady of exci'ptional culture and educa- 
tion. She was educated in Olivet College, having 
received the rudiments of her schooling in New 
York. She was living near Olivet when there was 
but one log house in the village. .Vftei- finishing 
school she was engaged in teaching, and has the 
distinction of lia\ing taught the first school in the 
city of Lansing. ()ui- suliject and his estim.-ilile 
wife are the jiarents of two children: The eldest. 
Willis ( ).. is a telegraph operator in Kldor:id<i. Kan.; 
Carrie 1'.. now Mr.s. Shoemaker, resides in Lansing. 
One othei- child, who was named for his father, and 
called John >>'., .Ir.. died at the age of seventeen, 
just after he was graduated from the Commercial 
College ill this city. His death was a g)-eat blow 
to his parents and friends. 

The gentleman who is the subject of this sketch, 
has been instrumental in effecting many of the 
changes that have taken place for the better in this 
city. M an early day he was Alderman for one 
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Wnrd. lie lias hoeii a resident licrc since 18(7. 
Altli<mi;li lu' liiiiisi'lf is liln'i'al in liis i-eiiiiioiis views 
he is a iieiierous supiMiiter of tlie cliuicli of liis 
wife's preferenee, she lieiny- a I'lesliyti'iian. To 
say that .Mr. liiisii is a Re[)iililiean. liardly does jiis- 
tiee to liis ]K)litical sentiments, so zealous is he. 
havinjj inlicrited his Repiihliean tendencies from 
generations of patriotic ancestors. A i>reat-uiicle 
of Mr. Bush's, Paul Galtry, when n hoy. diiiiniithe 
Revolutionary period. s;iw :i British olHi'cr enter 
the yard of his home. There were no tfentlenien 
about the place, and he considered himself the pro- 
tector of the ladies. He wot a shot-cfun and lay in 
wait l>eliiiid a fence for the oHicer to make his ap- 
pearance, determined that there should be one less 
red coat for the Continental soldiers to tisiht. His 
loj'altj' was not quelled, when his sister took the 
gun away from him. Our subject has frequently- 
acted on county and State committees. He lias 
frequently been solicited to become a nominee for 
tlie JIayoralty and for Representative and other 
oiticial positions, but he has ever refused, because 
he realizes how difficult it is for one to maintain 
such a position with dignity and still be honorable 
and unbiased, unless one has great wealth at his 
command so that pecuniary tem]itations are not a 
consideration. 



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Ml l^n.LIAM K. PRl'DDEX. There is some- 
\/\l// *hing in the impulsive Southern nature that 
^y%' has an understanding of liorseHesh aside 
from the appreciation of its value in dollars and 
cents, and our subject, who is a Georgian by birth 
and bringing up, comes naturally by his taste in this 
direction. He is deeply interested in breeding and 
raising standard-bred horses, and has some of the 
finest horses in the State. He is also largely en- 
gaged in dealing in pine lands, from which such 
large fortunes are at present realized both in the 
f.ar North and in the South. 

Mr. I'rudden was born in Macon, (ra.. .lanuary 
29, 1859. He is, however, of New England parent- 
age, his father having been Nathan S. Prudden, of 



^lilford. Conn., while his grandfather was an old 
Kastein settler, of Scotch and Knglish descent. His 
ancestors located in Connecticut in 1(5.54, and the 
family are still well and honorably known there. 
Our subject's father was engageil in business as a 
dry-goods meirliMiit. ;ind about 18.50 removed to 
Eatc)nton, Ga., and theiici' to Macon, remaining 
there until about \Hit.'>. During the war he lost 
the greater ])art of his iiroperty and in 1865 re- 
turned to his native State, sick both in heart and 
body. He died at ^\'est Haven, at the .age of forty 
years. Our subject's mother was, prior to her mar- 
riage, .Miss Amelia Keith. She was born at Clifton 
Springs. N. Y. She was a daughter of (ieorge 
Keith, who was also a native of New York, but 
went South and hecMiiie a merchant in Columbus. 
Ga. 

When a youth .Mr. I'ludden removed to I'tica, 
N. Y.. with his mother and there he had the 
advantages offered by the public schools of the 
city, which were remarkably good, until he was 
twelve years of age. lie then went to Indian- 
apolis with her and there was graduated from the 
High School. In 187.5 he entered the Agricultural 
College at Lansing and graduated in 1873, taking 
the degree of Bachelor of Science. The honor was 
conferred upon him of delivering the class oration 
and he [)roduceda masterly effort, both from a lit- 
erary standpoint and oratorically. .\fter leaving 
college he entered the otHce of J. M. Turner, who 
i.s engaged in the land business, and remained with 
him until 1882. when he went into business for 
himself, dealing in timber laiuls, especially pine 
lands, since which time lie has continued in the 
business giving to it his whole attention until 1888. 
At that time he purchased a one-half interest in 
the Lansing Wheel Company and became its Sec- 
retary and Treasurer, in which position he remained 
for three years. In 1890 he sold out his interest 
and now devotes himself to dealing in real estate 
and pine lands. The l.-iiids which he handles are 
mostly located in the Northern I'eninsula. He 
has fort\ acres adjoining the city of Lansing which 
is admirably located and bound to he in time, one 
of its most valuable and attractive additions. 

lie of whom we write is I'lesidi'iit of the Mich- 
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in re-organizing this compan_v and in giving tliis 
industry a broader opening than it lias ever before 
enjoyed. He is also a stockholder and Director 
in the Ingham County Savings Bank. His taste 
for horses is to him a luxury, and he breeds blooded 
animals, especially the lIaml)letouiaus. He is the 
owner of "Nellie B.", whose record is 2:24. Mr. 
Pruddeu is a member of the Lansing Driving Club, 
and no one handles the ribbons witli more skill 
and dexterit}' than does he when on the road 
with one of his favorite horse?. 

jNIr. Prudden w^as married in the city of Lansing, 
January 2, 1883, to Miss Jennie E. Whitney, who 
is a native of this city. She is a graduate of the 
High School here and a lady of striking accomplish- 
ments and talents besides great personal attractions. 
Siie is the mother of two children, whose names 
are respective!}' Amy and Kdwina. Mr. and Mrs. 
Prudden are both communicants of St. Paul's 
Episcopal Church, Mr. Prudden lieiuga Vestryman 
in that body. Politically he is a Republican, cast- 
ing his vote and inrtuence with tliat pnrty. 



'OllN H. N'OISHLLK, the senior member of 
the firm of A'oiselle it Larose, decorat()r> 
and frescoers of Lansing. Ingluim County, 
also carries a fine stock of wall i)aper. win- 
dow shades and room moldings, ;iud i> .-i con- 
tractoi- in house and sign paintint;. Tlii^ gentleman 
who was boi-n in (Quebec. .\i:iy 27, 1844, remained 
there till he reached the age of seventeen, and 
being lirouuht up ainon>; the Fiench-Canailians, 
reads and sj)eaks Frcncli like :i natixc. 

.John \'oiselle the honoi<Ml t.'ilheidf our sub- 
ject was liorn in (j»ni'ier and licc'iinc engaged 
as a stevedore, ino>l of hi> work liein<i in tlie line 
<.)f handling s(piare tiiLilii'r>. In thcyeaiof jsi.", 
lie nuide a trip to Detroit, Iml remained onh ;i 
few year>, :i> lie returne<l to (^)ueliee and resumed 
his former wmk. I'lie grandfathei' also Imu'C the 
name of .lohn ami was born in Normandy, France, 
and w.as driven from the country during the Re\ - 
dilution of 1793, because of his noble birth and 



blood. The name was originally Vaiselle. The 
grandfather came to Quebec by way of England 
and brought with him property. During the early 
conflicts he was an otlicer of the English army in 
the old fort at Detroit, but finally died at (Quebec. 
I'he father in his early days was engaged in the 
grocery business, but finally became as we have 
said a stevedore and died in Quebec in 1886. The 
mother of our subject bore the maiden name of 
Sophia Bedaur, and was a native of Quebec and a 
daughter of Joseph Bedaur. She also spent her 
days in that old French-American city and died in 
the faith of the Rom.an Catholic Church, July .">, 
1866, Of her seven children, our sidiject is the 
eldest, 

.lohn was educated in the ( hristiau Br<ithers 
School at (Juebec and when he i-eached the age of 
thirteen years he was :i))prenticed to learn the 
painter's trade and remained with his master until 
seventeen years old. In 1863 he went to Onto- 
naiion and took chariie of the painting of the 
Bigelow Hotel iind somewhat later worked in the 
copper mines. In 1 8(i.") he went on a trip lo the 
far West by llie way of Lawrence. Kan., and 
Denvei' to the coa>t. aftei which he returned to 
(^tu'bec. 

In I8(j.') the yoini<i in.-in enli>ted as a voluntei'r 
in the Xintli Battalion of (^)uebec \'olunteers to 
|int down the Fenian Raid. I'hese troo])s were 
di>l landed in .Inly of the succeeding year an<l Mr. 
N'oiselle then went to work at Jlontmorency Falls, 
until the great fire, at which time he first met his 
paitner. He worked at his trade in I'roy, X, V,, 
foi' eighteen months and then traveled in \-ario\is 
cities in the Ivist and Sf)uth, touching Savannah, 
( ia,, l.omlon. Conn., l'>o^ton. Mass., and Portland, 
.Me., and in isii.s he went into business with-. Mr, 
l.arose, at Wdonxx kel Falls, K*. 1., and latei- tried 
bu>iiie>,> \eutures at Cliicaiio and Detroit, 

Lansing finally liec.ame the home of Mr. X'oiselle 
a> lie eanie here September 17, I.S77 to take the 
position of foreman for Dean, llrown iV- (Godfrey 
in |iaintina the State Capitol, He had entile charge 
of the work and he and .Mr. Larose. with whom he 
again engaged in Imsinos in 1879. executed the 
liner parts of the work themselves. 

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capital and in a qnipt way has •jrarlually infVPaM'<l 
lis business until nnw tlicy miv aMc to Imndii- 
anytliintf in their liiif. Tlicy liivi> a pleasant \i\mv 
of business and keej) in sloek a full and well 
selected line of wall paper, paints and oils, nioldini;' 
and window shades. They never have less than 
six a.ssistants in their work .and sometimes em|)loy 
as nnuiy as twenty men. and are tlie oldest lirni in 
tlii> business in I,ansin<>'. 

.Mr. X'oi.selle owns five residences on .\lleuan 
and I'ine Streets and devote.s considerable ;itt( n- 
tion out.-ide his business to real estate, ownint;' 
pi'operty liotli in IVtoskey and Detroit. In his 
political \iew> he is a Democrat, but isnol :uti\i' in 
public matters. In IHMl) he look a trip to lluiopc. 
sailiny; from New York. .Inly i'.. Iiy the steamer 
•■La( ioskine"' :ind had a \er\ plea>an1 voyage, 
landina at Havre and visitina not only I'aiis Imi 
al.xi the FrenchProvinces, as well as (ierniany. 
Swilzeilanil. Italy. IJelo'iuni. Kniiiand and Scotland. 
;ind on his way li.-ick to l-ansiiiu'. stopping for 
some linn- at his old liom<' in (Quebec. ( )n this 
journey .Mr. X'oiselle hail abundant oppoitnnity 
to stud\' his craft anfl see what others were doiuii' 
in his line of woik amonu' the nn)st .•irtistic nati(!'is 
of the world. 







K\. .llLirs S. \ ALKXriXK. Ulnu wv 
see a good man prematurely old throuuh 
.service to his (lod and his country, we arc 
vy;^ filled with true and tender emotions which 
are honorable to our hunianit\- and a just tribute 
to the worth of the man before us. .Such are the 
experiences of those who know the yentleman 
whose name appears at the head of this sketch who 
now calls himself a suiieranuated minister but who. 
had it not been for the br.-ive service which In h:i> 
done both in the ministry and the army, would 
still be active in his callinu. 

Our subject was born in Lima. .VUcn County. 
Ohio, Auaiist 1 1. IXA'.^. Ills father. Crane \alcn- 
tine, was born in Kssex County, X. .1., Octobei' 2H, 
l"!t7. and his' srrandfatlier. William, .also .a native 



of Xew.K-rsey and a farnn-r in K:<.sex County, took 
part in the W.ar of 1H12 and afterward removed 
to Champaiiiii County. ( )hio, wheie he spent the 
remainder of his da\s. This fumily in .Vmeriea is 
descended IVoui three brother-, who were soIl^> of 
Lord N'alcMtinc a nu'mber of Parliament in Knu- 
land. These >ons settled in Xew .Jersey and the 
Ui'andson of one of them was the grandfather of our 
sulijeet. The name i> a \ery old one in Kngland 
dating buck to the year 110. 

The father of .lulius X'alentine was a farmer in 
Ohio and had come to that State with his parents. 
settling in Champaign County when it was called 
Allen ( <.unly. In IMl.'i he came to Michigan and 
loc.iteil in Wati'ivliel. !>( rricn County, where he 
liought .-iihI improved a farm. This successful man 
who w;iN proiiiinenl in pnblie affairs, being first a 
Whig :ind afterward :\ IvcpublicMii in lii> political 
vuw>. died in IScSC. He wjis a I'resbyterian in his 
eliurch connection and had been an Eider in the 
cliuich. 

The mother of cnir subject bore the maiden name 
of Nancy Zinsser and was liorn in Lancaster, Pa., 
February 2s. l.soii. Her father, Daniel, was born 
ill the Keystone Stale and became an early settler 
in Ohio. His good wife was Helsey Crane, lieing 
a daughter of Nathaniel Crane, of .X'ew York, who 
was seven years in the Revolutionary Army, much 
of the time as a sjiy, and being a Lieutenant and 
an .Vid-de-Camp to ( ien. Washington. lie died 
in New York. The mother of our sulijeet passed 
away .luiie 1 1, l.HHT. leaving live children, of whom 
our subject was next to the eldest. 

.lulius \alentiiie came to Michigan when six 
\ cars of age. tr.aveling with a family with team. 
He was rearc(l upon thi' farm and remained there 
until he reached the age of twenty-eight years, 
having received the best advantages which were to 
be obtained in the district schools. 

The call of .Vbraham Lincoln in the year IMtil 
awakened a spirit of brave devotion in many a 
loxal young heart, and among these young men 
was our subject, who enlisted in .September of that 
\ear in Company li. Twelfth J'ichigan Infantry. 
He was at once sent South and took part in the 
battle of Shiloh and other contlicts. After tme 
year's service he was taken ill and s[)ent sometime 



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in the hospital and liiially received his honorable 
discharge at the hospital at Detroit and came home. 
His eyes have ahvays suffered from the exposure 
to which he was subjected during liis term of ser- 
vice, and he is now almost blind. 

Mr. Valentine at once engaged in teaching and 
when a year later he was drafted he responded cheei'- 
fuUy to the call hut was rejected on account of his 
physical disability, and resumed teaching. Kiglit 
months later he re-enlisted in the Eleventh Mich- 
igan Cavalry and was rejected again, but quite un- 
daunted he applied for enlistment in the Twenty- 
sixth Michigan Infantry and was a third time re- 
jected. 

Teaching now engrossed the attention of the 
young man and while pursuing his profession he 
continued his own higher education, and is in this 
respect a thoroughly self-made man. He was the 
Principal at the Colomo Schools at the time when 
he determined to enter the ministry. He became 
a local preacher at Three Rivers and a member of 
the Conference, and had his tirst pastorate of one 
year at Waverly, Van Buren County, after which 
he was two years at Stevensville, and was ordained 
as minister at St. Joseph in 1871. He then preached 
at New Buffalo for one year and in 1873 went to 
Byron for two years and while thei'e built the 
church at Byron Center; he then took charge of 
the church at Cooper, Kalamazoo County, for one 
year, after which he was (me year at Bedford, two 
years at I'lainville, Allegan County; one year at 
Berrien Springs and one year at Grand Rapids, 
where he built the Ames Church. 

In 1882 Mr. Valentine came to Lansing, and 
was over the First Methodist Episcopal Church for 
three years, sulisequent to which he took charge of 
the church at Shelby, Oceana County, for two years 
and then retired from active ministry on account 
of his eyesight. He built the pleasant home in 
which he lives on Capital Avenue, No. 717. This 
good man has earned and receives the respect and 
affection of thou.sands of friends in the various 
parishes to which he has ministered in this State, 
and his noble character, his unflinching devotion 
to duty and his true siiiritnalitv have made him a 
power for good in every place to which in the 
providence of God he has been called. 



In 1870 Mr. Valentine chose a companion for 

life in the person of Miss Lottie E. Elms, of Van 
Buren County. She was born in Fayettcville, N. Y., 
in 1845 and is a daughter of J. C. Elms, who was 
an early settler and successful farmer in Van Buren 
County. One child, Arthur, has been granted to 
him and his good wife. He is a member of the 
Ancient Order of United Workmen, of the Inde- 
pendent Order of (iood Templars, of the Modern 
Woodmen of America and of the Grand Army of the 
Republic. In Foster Post he has served as Chap- 
lain. He still occasionally preaches and is often 
called upon to attend funerals as those who have 
known and loved him for years feel that they need 
his gentle ministrations in their hour of sorrow. 
He is a Republican in his political convictions but 
feels that ordinary issues pale into insignificance 
at the ])resent time, in comparison with the problem 
of how to dethrone the liquor power, and he is 
therefore in hearty sympathy with Prohibition 
movements. 



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^SCAR A. CLARK. A man who has for a 
series of years tilled wisely, judiciously and 
conscientiously the office of Justice of the 
Peace, has seen opened and broadened before him 
a grand field of work for the good of his fellow- 
citizens. Our subject has thus served the First and 
Fourth \Vards of the city of Lansing, Ingham 
County, since April, 1879, when he was first elected 
to fill a vacancy of one month. In liis incumbency 
of that office he has by means of his thorough study 
of the cases which have fallen within his jurisdic- 
tion and of the statutes of JMichigan, and the rul- 
ings of the common law, adjusted satisfactorily 
thousands of cases which might else have resulted 
in tedious, expensive and harrassing suits at law, 
and he has thus exerted a beneflcient iuBuence in 
the community. His last election, which has only 
recently transjnred. brings him to the opening of 
another four years' term, which will make a total 
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:ill |i:ii ties united ill iii:ikiiiii liiin tlirir cMiiilidrilc. 
tliii> ai\ ini! Iiini :in ciiclurx'iiiciil ul uliicliMiiv man 
mi<;lit fi'i-l |)i<>iiil. 

Mr. C'liuU was Imhii in \\ Clisti-r. Mdiirnc ( Omit \ . 
N. v.. May l.i. lH2!t. and is tlii' son ol .loliii (1. 
(lark, wlio went to that iocalily in IHil.'i. Iiaviiiii' 
hciMi Imrn near Aiiluirii. N. V.. in 1 T'.i'.t. With his 
faithful anil iK-iuVfil wife, ilarricl ( I'l'i't ) (iaii^. of 
Dutchess ( iiunty. X. V.. they lived in harmonious 
wedded lite for o\t-r sixly-three years, and s!ie was 
Ihen liereaved of his eoiniianionsliiii liy ilealh in 
1«H4. and she pa.ssed awa\- in 1HH7. Ue and .\lr. 
IVet. a hrotlier of his wife, were the first settlers of 
Woehester. Lorain (duiity. Ohio, to which pl.ace 
they removed in the early days of that reyion. 

Our suhjeet left Rochester in IH(i 1 . ha vinu had 
I'harjiV of his father's farm from the time he was 
eiuliteen years old. His wife hore the name in her 
m.'iideidiood of Carrie .Sears, and was liurn in ( ireeii- 
wicli. Hampshire County, Mass., and was the 
dauiihler of Turner and Mary K. (Maivy) .Sears. 
.Mrs. Sears lived until (juite recently in this city, 
and died in 1K.S,'), al the age of eijihty-live years. 
The weddiui;- day of oursuliject was .May 2(1. ll^.')(). 

In \H{'i\ oursuliject removed to I'.enzonia. Ben- 
zie ( ounty. this State, which was then a perfect 
wilderness; here he remained for one year, erectini; 
for himself the first odod house that was luiilt in 
lien/.ie. The foUowino- year h<' came to Dupl.ain 
Township. Clinton County, and located near the 
villajie of Kl>ie. taking a faiin and enteiiiig into 
tiie lumlier liusiness. After three years thi're hi' 
I'enioved to l^ansing in October. 1X().").. and engaged 
in the lundier trade. In this he rem.ained until he 
was elected to the oflic e of .lusticeof the I'eaee. his 
yard heing on Franklin Street and having' a mill 
at the west end of the mill dam. Since 1879 he 
has given his whole altention to otticial duties. 

Mr. Clark still resides at No. I20'.l Walnut 
Street. N.. the same house which he bought in March. 
IHG;'). and it is situated in an attnictive and well- 
settled part of tiie city. To this happ\ home one 
daughter w.as granted. Cora, who i-- now the wife 
of .John I. Carpeiitei-. an attorney who I'esides on 
Franklin Street. They are the [larents of one liv- 
ing child. Dwiglit Clark. The Franklin Street 
Presbyterian Church is the religious body with 



which Mr. and .Mrs. Clark have long been identi- 

lied. and in which they h.ave found a)i .abundant 
lieUl for usefulness and labor. Their inlluenee f<ir 
ydod is felt in the conununity. and they .are loved 
and ii'spccteil for thi'ir -lerling character and true 
neiii'hliorh' kindness. 






L.MKR I). NORTH. M. 1). Annmg the men 
of Lansing, prominent in social and eduea- 
f, tion.'il .•mil professional circles we find the 
gentleman of whom we speak in this writing. He 
h;is filled a number of resjjonsible |)ositions here. 
havinu' been ('ounI\ Snpi'rintcndent of Schools 
from 1H71 to lH7i"). He was l)urn in Delhi T(jwn- 
ship. Ingham County, February IH, lH41,and is a 
son of II. II. Noilh. who wa^ .a native of the town- 
ship of Lansing, Tomjikins County, X. Y. The 
grandfather. .lo.seph K., was a native of I'ennsyl- 
vani.M. and was a farmer on the Schuylkill River. 
He served in the War of 1M12 .and came to Michi- 
gan in ix;is. locating in the township of Lansing 
which he named from the township from whit-h he 
came. In the fall he walked back home and in 
IM'.) brought his family to the new home. He en- 
tered land on .section 33, which was covered with 
a splendid grove of beech and maple trees, and 
having built a log house, he proceeded to imia-ove 
the fiirm. He was Supervisor for fourteen years 
and for much of that time acted as Chairman of 
the Hoard. He died November 5. lH(i2. having 
reached his .seven ty-lirst year. The fiimily traces 
its lineage back to Fngland but the descendants 
have been for generalitnis in this country. 

H. II. North came to Michigan with his father, 
and being a mason by trade found abundant op- 
ix>rtunities for employment, engaging largely in 
building as well as entering and imi)roving land in 
Delhi Township, which was then a part of Lansing 
Township. When that portion w:is set off as a 
separate corporation he gave toil the name of 
Delhi. He died on his farm in IHM.j. aged sixty- 
nine ye.ars. He had been Sujiervisor of the Town- 
ship and was a in.-m of prominence and inlluenee 



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in the eoiuiii unity. His wife, wliose maideu name 
was Almira B\iel<. ^va^* al>ni a native of Tomplvins 
County. X. Y.. ami a (laughter of Daniel Buck, of 
Lansina' Township. Slu' was a sister of Mr. Daniel 
W. liiuk. wliiise liioorapliioal skett-h will l)e found 
elsewhere in this volume. She died in Delhi 
Township in May. IHilO. havint;' reached the age 
of seventy-three years. Both she and her husband 
were earnest ami aetivc memhers of the Presby- 
teri.an C'hureh. 

Nine children were granted to the excellent 
couple of whom we have just been speaking, and 
eight of them grew to man's and woman's estate, 
of whom seven are now living, namely: Marian L., 
Mrs. Holmes, who died at Delhi; Dr. North, our 
subject; Albert E., who belonged to the Seventh 
Michigan Veteran Cavalry, having enlisted in 1864 
and served until the close of the war; he now re- 
sides in Dakota; Heniy E., who was a member of 
the Eighteenth Michigan Regiment Init being dis- 
abled was discharged after one year's service and 
now lives in Delhi Towusliip; Dr. James S., of 
Delhi Township; Myra L., Mrs. Field, of Dansville; 
Hattie B., Mrs. Wilcox, of Lansing Town.ship; 
Howard, who died at the age of four years; and 
Therou C, of Delhi Township. 

The childhood of our subject was spent on the 
farm and in the district schools of the neighbor- 
hood, which were then held in private houses. He 
was able to attend only the winter schools but 
when a little older attended T.aylor's Academy at 
Lansing. At the age of eighteen he engaged in 
teaching in Delhi Township and the next year in 
Delta, Eaton County-, lie entered ^lichigan Agri- 
cultural College in the spring of 1861 but did not 
remain there long, as in the fall his ))atriotic im- 
pulses got the better of his love for learning, and 
he laid his opportunities for education upon the 
altar of his country. 

It was in Company E, Eiglith Michigan Infantry 
that this young man began service as a private, 
being mustered in at Ft. Wayne. Detroit, but he 
was afterward transferi-ed to the Fourteenth Michi- 
gan Infantry, in Company D. in which he served 
as Sergeant. This regiment was placed in the 
Fourteenth Army Cor]is in the Army of the Cum- 
berland and was active during the siege of Corinth. 



He served three years and seven months and re- 
ceived his discharge March 14. 1865. 

Returning home, the young veteran again at- 
tended school for a short time at the old academy 
ill Lansing. In April of 1867 he entered Alhion 
College, where he took the degree of Bachelor of 
Sciences in 1870. After teaching seven months in 
Leslie, this county, lie was elected Cdunty Supcr- 
iiitendent of Schools, in which ottice he .-served 
four years. After this he taught for a number of 
years at the Dansville High School after which he 
took up the study of medicine. In 1879 he en- 
tered the Detroit Medical College where he took 
the degree of Doctor of iledicine in 1881, and 
then located in Lansing and took up his practice 
here. He devotes his whole attention and time to 
his profession and is a member not only of the 
Lansing Medical .Society but of the State Medical 
Society. He is Secretary of the Board of Examin- 
ing Surgeons for Pensions and has been on that 
l)oard for six years. He is a lover of fine horses 
and still retains a part of the old homestead, a 
handsome tract of one hundred and sixty acres, 
lie is identified with the Charles T. Foster Post, 
(i. A. R. He is often appointed delegate to county 
and State Democratic Conventions and is stanch in 
his allegiance to that party. 



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( )N. ]:)ANIEL W. BUCK. He of whom we 
I write is one of the men who give dignity and 
^. tone to the community by the honorable ad- 
^m vantage of their age. He is one of the earliest 
pioneers and his career has been elosel>' associated 
with tliat of the capital city since its location, he 
having settled here in October, 1848. He is the 
proprietor of Buck's furniture and undertaking 
rooms at the corner of Washington and Ionia 
Street.s. a building that is conspicuous, not only in 
in the city, but it is known throughout Central 
Michigan as one of the finest in this portion of the 
State. 

Mr. Buck was liorn in the town of Lansing, N. Y., 
April •21.18-28. He is the son of Daniel Buck, 




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Sr., who was diic (if tlif I'lirly M'ttlcrsof tliat (■(Hiiity 
and tliciv our siilijci't iittaiiicd toiiiiiiiliood. iciiiniii- 
iiiir ill liis iialivo couiily until lHi;i, and llu'U ic- 
iii(>\f(l 111 hhicM. 'I'oiiiliUins ( (lUiit y. and llitTc he 
loariH'd llu' tradi' of a c-aliinot-niaki'r. Al'ti-r lie- 
coniiniT proliciciit in ins olioscn piofi'ssion lie came 
to Micliiyan niid sclllcd in i>an>inii', localinLf in 
luisincss for jiinisi'lf in IHIM. His placi> of liusincss 
was wluMV tlic City National Hank now stands and 
at that tinii' it was in tin' midst of the woods. 
Tlu'ic wcri' only a few faniilii's here, the population 
all told not eountint;' prolndily two hundred and 
fifty. The subjeet th.al llu' pcuple wcie al that 
time most interested in was the euttiiii;- out of 
roads, whieh was no small task as the eoiintiy w.as 
deiiscl\' wooded .-ind dyn.Miiiite h.-id not liei'ii dis- 
eovered hy which the slumps and roots eould he 
torn from the uroniid. The process of clearing' 
was tlie slow one of choppiiiu' and liuiniii<>'. and 
.so endle.ss did tin' supply of wood .seem to the 
early settlers that they lunnt the timlier that Ihex 
cut down most ruthlessly. 

Mr. I'lUcU lirst located at the cornel- of Washing- 
ton and Michigan Avenues, at the jircsent time tiie 
l)usiiies.s center of the city. There he remained 
eiglit years and in 1H.5(J came to his present loca- 
tion in order to get more room, and since chang- 
ing he has carried on his business here ever since, 
being the oldest Mini in this liranch of business in 
the city by many years. I'lililic spirited and in- 
terested in the growth of the town the m'litleiiian 
of whom we write allowed no op|ioitunity to ])ass 
in which he could by word or deed help in the np- 
bnilding of tlu' pl.ace. He was one of the most 
prominent agitatiirs in the subject of erecting an 
operu-honse. contributing largely to the amount 
required from hi> own resources. ()ul>ideof this 
h<- has given his exclusive attention to his business. 

Mr. Buck was elected Mayor of the city in the 
spring of 1X74 and re-elected in I m7.') and again 
in IMHU. lU'forc that he li.id been a member of 
the Council and one of the aggixssive .sort, never 
backward in suggesting or taking advantage of 
what appeared to be of benclit to the city, lie is 
a member of the M.-isonic order. l,aM>iiit: ( om- 
niandery No. 2."). .■ind Lodge No. .'i.'i. .Uthough 
one of the most promiiieiit men of the cit\ and 



dc.-ervedly popular, he is natiirally modest and 
retiiing, loth to accept otiice when it can be avoided, 
that is to say, when there is some one else who is 
loyal lo iIh' Miterestsof the niunicipalily who is eli- 
gible to the position. 

May 11, lH(;:i, .Mr. I'.iicU married Miss Nancy M. 
Kiissell, of Crown I'oiiit. I'',sse.\ County. .N. Y. 
This union has been blessed by the birth of live 
chihircn, all of whom are living and have I'isen to 
call their pariiits bles.sed. They are by name. 
Maytoii .1.. Florence A.. Mary K.. lijiiley .M. and 
.Marth.'i K. .Mr. Buck leaves the manageinent of 
his business aliiio.'-I entirely with his sons,M..I. and 
1>. .M. Buck. The daughters are still at home and 
draw about them a delightful social circle. In 
lH'.Hl Mr. Buck modenii/.ed his bu>incs> pl,M<-e b\ 
putting a line new .-tore front. He al.-o introduced 
an elevator with other modern conveniences. I'o- 
litically he is a stanch >uppoitcr of the piiiiciple> 
of the Democratic party and inliueiitial in its 
councils in this (lart of the State. 



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rDliM W ll.l.l.\,\l II. I'lNl KNKV. The 
gentlenian whose n.ame is (jiioled above .Miid 
whose portrait is shown in the ojiposite 
)iage is nnmbeied among the < Idest attor- 
neys in the cits of L.aiising. Ingham County, he 
having bleated heri' in 1H;')(). He was born in the 
township of White I'lains. Westchester Counly. N. 
v.. .March IS. 1K22. .\ believer in astrology 
would tell lis thai our subject's career has been 
presided o\ er by the same pl.anetaiy inlluence> Ih.-it 
were in the asri'iid:iiit at the time of hi> bii'tli and 
Ih.at ha\e led the history of our cciuntrv from a 
tiiiii' of [leace. though commercial struggles 
through the temjiesls of war. to unparalleled pros- 
perity. \\'<' can only hope th.at the parallel will 
be (■ontinued and lh.it .liidge Pinckney's lionoi'- 
alile position iii.iy bi' characterized in the .^ame 
wa\' .'ind piopoi'lion in which our (loveinmeiit 
has grown. 

.Judge Pinckney is the son of .lames and l->ther 
(Grilliii) I'inckney. who were farmers by occiipa- 



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tion and calliiiii-. Tlii\\ moved to Cavuga County 
ill l!S2;i. till' year lollowiiiu iiur siihject's liiilli 
;iiid there lie passed hi.- Imyliood. His father's 
larin was only three and a half miles from the 
lieautifu! town of Aulmrn. Cayuua County. N. V.. 
whieli e\ en then had a liijili I'epntation for its 
educational advanta<Jes. There lie reeeived his 
aeadeiiii<- training. The fatlierof our suhjeel hail 
nine >ons and two dansihtei's and these he allowed 
to go to the eity and to enjo\' sueh advantages as 
were offered, provided they thought enough of 
the advantages to nnike an effort to get through 
the work incident to the faiin and to walk the 
distance to the aiadeiny. which was four miles. 
The fact that our sulijeet never missed a day and 
was never tard_\' at .school shows that lie was indeed 
anxious to acquire an education. He had for a 
classmate in his school life here the afterward cele- 
liiated statesman. Roscoe Conkling. who like him- 
self was a student at the .Vuhurn .Vcadeniy. 

After finishing school ^Ir. Pinckney read law 
with Stephen A. (ioodwin for a period of four 
years. \t the exjiiratioii of that time he pa.ssed a 
most creditable examination and was admitted to 
practice before the full bench of the Supreme 
Ct)urt. He is still proud of the record that he 
made in his examination. Di'. Shank, an old 
friend and former schoolmate, had located in Lan- 
sing and sent back glowing accounts of the future 
that he felt was in store for the infant city. 
Therefore our subject decided to cast his lines in 
Lansing and h:is since Hrsl coming here pursued 
the practice of his piofession. being at the present 
time the oldest attorne\ in practice who was here 
at that time. In ln.'id he was elected .ludge of 
the Probate Court, and was re-eleeted in 18(50. 
.serving for eight year.s. .Since that time he was 
City .Attorney for one year and first Private Secre- 
tary to the .Attorney-* ieneral of the State, who 
was .Jacob M. Howard. He also served as Secre- 
tary of the Hoard of State .Vuditors for three 
years. He has al.so once been Snijervisor and 
twice ,\lderman of the city. 

At one time our subject tilled the otHce of 
Recorder and was at another Deputy I'nited States 
.Assessor for this county, continuing in that |)ost 
for two years. For the past ten years he has been 



.liistice of the Peace and is now employed in the 
practice of his profession. During the war he was 
employed liy the (Government as enumerator, 
.ludiie I'iiickney is a meml>er of the Mast)iiie order 
of the Laiisiiii;- Li)dge of Strict ( )bser\':ince. No. (i(i. 
( )ui' suliject's domestic life began with his mar- 
riage with .Mis> .Maria IS. Comstock. a native of his 
boyhood home. Their nuptials were celebrated 
.lannaiy 17, llSlK. Mrs. l'inckiie\ has presented 
her husband with three sons who have grown up 
to lie prominent young men. and one daughter, a 
highly estimable lady who now ha- a home of liei- 
own. 'I'he eldest son is Charles S., of Charlotte. 
Mich. Following him comes Fred ( ., then .lesse 
M. The daughter Xora .\.., is now Mrs. Fiary, of 
.Medina. N. V. She has two son.-. William A. and 
Fa\. 



/y<^ C. C.VSTKRUN. The divine spark in man 
is at no time so apparent as in one who, in 
early life, lacking the prestige that fortune 
gives and the advantages and tastes that fortune 
can foster, rises above the liariiers that stop the 
way and with a will to become as great as is in the 
power of the man to be, he .-ets his mark high, 
and in the roundness of his being is rcHected the 
power of the Omnipotent; as Durzhaven ex])re.sses 
it: •'Hut Thy ))re.sence shines in me as shines the 
sunbeam in a drop of dew." ( )ui- subject from 
earliesl childhood was thrown upon his own !•<■- 
sources and the fiber that he, as well as his brothers, 
was made of is shown by tin' fact that they 
earned their own way. and not only supplied them- 
selves with the nece.-sities of life, but sanclitied 
then' intelliiienee b\- al-o :ii-i|iiirin<; ext'elleiit edu- 
cations. 

( )ui' subject wa- liiirn in .^eneea Couiit\. N. V.. 
October 21. IX.")(l. He is a .-on of Charles ,S. and 
Harriet E. (Lyon) Casterlin. natix'es of Xew .ler- 
sey. Of a family of nine children, he of whom 
we write was the seventh in order of birth. .Vll 
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(iwii exertions, four of them <i;radu!iting at (Jvid, 
N. v., :it the East (ienesee Conference Seniinary, 
and the afterward becoming teachers. lie of 
wliom we write was but sixteen years of age when 
he began the business of teaching, wliich calling 
he followed six years, after which he caun^ to 
Midiigan, locating in Clare County. His worth 
soon made itself fell in the community, and Ins 
ability as a man and scholar was apparent, lie 
was elected Registrar of Deeds, in which capacity 
he served the county for two terms. The succeed- 
ing two terms he filled the otlice of County Clerk, 
and in I87.'j ^^as admitted to the bar, and was 
Prosecuting Attorney for one term. 

Ml-. Casterlin lias tilled most of the local otHccs, 
having served as Siii)ervisor, .Justice of the Peace. 
Alderman. .\sscs-i)r. and in oilier minor fifliees. In 
l.s><(l he was candidate for the Slate l^egislature on 
the Democratic ticket, and willi a Kcpublican ma- 
jorit\' of over eiglil hundred in the district, he 
came within one hundred .-iiid thirty of being 
eli'ch'd, a fad that in ilM'lf iini>t be gratif\ing to 
any man with an ambilion for pulilii' life, for the 
conditions of tliis failure foretell future success 
liail it been Irl't to ids own county lie woujil liavc 
liavc lieen elected to the Legislature, but in an ad- 
joining county lie was less well known, and lieiice 
the defeat. Aithougli his towiislii|i and \ illagc 
were both largely Kepiiblican, lie was never de- 
feated in them wlieii a candid.-ile for otlice. 

Feeling that it is not good foi' man to be alone, 
our sutiject took unto himself a wife and coinpan- 
ioii. Their marriauc was solemnized December "iW, 
1H7.'). the bride lieing .Mis^ ll:ittie \V. Kittredge, 
the only daugliter of Rev. llosea and Mary 15. 
(Daggett) Kittredge. She was born at Palmyra, 
N. Y., December 12. 1860. Iler lather was a na- 
tive of Muir. and her mother of Palmyra. N. V. 
The original of our sketch h.as not only made 
the struggle of life succe.ssfully for himself, biil 
has been iiistiuinental in helping the younger 
members of bis f;imily to good and protitalile posi- 
tions. 

In 1H81 the gentleman of whom we write re- 
moved to Ma^on, and since that time he has not 
engaged in the practice of his pi iifes>i<iii. lie 
owns propeilv in various |)art> of Uii;- and other 



States, and his care of this occupies the greater 
portion of his time and attention. Three children 
have come to bless the union of .Mr. Casterlin and 
his amiable and attractive wife. They are C. Gay, 
Karl II. and Don M. D. The eldest child was 
born February in. 1877, at Farwell. Clare County, 
this State. ICail II. wa.s born May 31, 1884, in 
Mason, and Don made his advent into the world 
March 1, IHMS. lie of whom we write is a Demo- 
crat in his political preference, and has ever taken 
an active interest in local politics as well as hav- 
ing watched attentively and thoughtfully the trend 
of national political life. Me has been appointed 
Chairman of the Democratic County Committee, 
which jilace he has filled for the last six years, and 
has dignified the chair by the niauliness and intel- 
ligence brought to be.'ir upon the (luestion of State 
government. lie has lieen a delegate to nearly all 
of the iiiipoit.'Mit Democratic coinciitioiis. lie is 
also a meinlier of various secret societies, esjiecially 
those that purport to be for the fcllowr-liip and aid 
of men. ^Mr. Ca^tel•lill is a man who is well ;ind 
favorably known throughout the Stale, a man of 
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KNMAMIX F. SIMONS, is an old .-iiid pioni- 
iiu'iit drv-goods man of Lansing. liiuliMiii 
Counly. where he has been engaged in 
business for him.sclf since 18(i(l. He was 
born in Canada, December .'50. I8;5H, and is a son 
of Anson and l.avina (McMillan) Simons, who 
came to Michigan wlien our subject was still an in- 
fant. They first settled at Lexington, on Lake 
Huriui, moving to Lansing when the capital was 
first located here, about 1><18. Tlius it may be 
seen that the inlerest-S of him of whom we write 
naturally cluster about the place with which from 
early youth his pleasaiitest ;i>sociations have been 
connected. 

Anson Simons was by trade a carder .and cloth- 
di'e.sser and on coming to Lansing built a factory 
here. He piircha.sed and added to the land pre- 
viously owned by .losepli Killioui'ne. He c(ui- 



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tinned in tiiiit liu>incss fur two year? and tlien 
7nn\-i'd upciii a faini in Sliia\vas>ei' t'i>unty. Imt 
aftrruai'd ivni()\c<l tci ]vansa> at a tinu- wln-n tliat 
State |)r(>ini.*ed so niiirii in an aiiricLiltiiral and 
>tin'k-raisini; diivt-lion. IK-. luiwi'vcr. returned t<i 
Lansiny and made liis lionie witli nnr sulijeet until 
liis deeease. wliirli occui'ivd ()ct(ilier 7. IMtiT. The 
niulher lived until Keliiuary 1. 1 .s,S(i. Tliey were 
(iriuinally nienilieis of tlie IJaptist C'liureli, but dur- 
iut; their latter year- united with the Methodist 
Ki)isc'Opal Chureli. 

Mrs. Laxina Siinon>. tin- niotlier of our ,-ulijeet. 
\\a> liorn in Westminister. Canada West, in l<'^iHi. 
ancl eanie of sturdy, ruuiied .Seotch stock, ller 
fatlier. Arehiliald McMillan, was the tuio'inal settler 
in the place wlieic his daui^hter was horn. Tlu> 
dangers of the frontiei- at that time were almost 
overwhelming and Mrs. .Simons has left in hei- own 
handwritino; to her .sou a narrative in quaint .style 
of the family fleeing to the woods to avoid tlie 
Indians during the War of \Xl'2. in 1X27 she was 
united in marriage with Ansou Simons, of iS'ew 
York, and in l!S4() moved with him and her littk 
family to lyexington. Mich. .She was the mother 
of nine children, seven sons and two daughters, 
and altliough iier position in life compelled her to 
hrave many hard experiences and to familiarize 
herself with the hai'd work that was nece.ssarv in 
pioneer days, there was a native dignity about her 
that elevated every act of lu'r daily life. She was 
highly esteemed by all who knew her. 

()ui- subject commenced his mercantile life in 
l!^.')(l. at which lime he left his home and engaged 
in the employ of a man who was the owner of a 
store and vvas also interested in various other busi- 
ness. For sevtji \ ears lie was connected witli him 
as clerk. In IMlKl ln' engaged in the grocery 
trade. He continued to be thus employed for two 
years and then .sold out his interest and went into 
the dry-goods busines.s and has thus continued 
ever since, now being the oldest dry-goods mer- 
chant in till' city. — that is, oiu' who has lieen con- 
tinnijusly in business. He has acquired a rejiutation 
for the greatest integi'ity in business matters and 
is one of the most prondnent men. His store is 
one of the tinest in the city and evinces the en- 
t'rg\' that its owner lias brouifht to bear in his liusi- 



ness lelations. It has a frontage of tw<>nty-two 
feel and is om hundred feet deep. ha\ing thiee 
floors. This editicc was erected in IHfii; and he has 
been continuously in business here since that time. 
His store is tilled with a tinely-selected stock of 
dry-goods and so Lireat is the taste of ^Ir. Simons 
that his W'indows are exer notable fortlie lieantiful 
display of rich fabrics there found. 

.Mthough .Ml-. Simons casts his v<.ite willi the 
IJepublican part\ . he has never been actively inter- 
ested in politics, leaving wire-pulling to men who 
can afford to neslcct their own individual affairs in 
the lioi)es of seciu'ing emt)luments from tlietiox- 
ernmcnt. November 7. 1^07. our subject was mar- 
ried to .\lis> .\deiina Jentii.son, a danghtei' of 
\\'illiani .lenni.son, of Eagle. Clinton County, this 
•State. The father was a pioneer of the .State. 
Mr. and .Mrs. .sinu>ns arc the jjarents of six ehil- 
dien who ;ire as follows: Uenjaniin K. Jr.. who is 
cng.'iged with his father in the store; Ida, Lena. 
Bei'th.'i. .les-.e .■Hid llow.-ird. 



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OIIN I). liKKNKS. Tlie ranks of the jiio- 
ueers of Ingham County are becoininu 
smaller with each pa.ssing year, for although 
tlie\ h;i\e subdued forests and converted 
\ast tract- of uncultivated land into fields of wa\- 
ing grain and l)lusliing fruits, yet Death is a foe 
again.st whom they Inne no weai)on of defen.se. 
.Vmong the few who still surxive to enjoy tlic I'c- 
sult of former yeai's of toil is the gentleman wiiose 
n;inie introduces this biograpliical notice. He was 
born .Vngust 25. IKlt. in .Minisink, Orange County. 
N. \.. .•ind is the son of Howell and Klizabeth 
(\\'ood) lieevcs. aUo n;iti\('> of the i-oniit\' in 
which their son w.ms born. 

Until he wa- sexenteen yeais old o\ij- .-ubject re- 
mained under the parental I'oof. becoming thoi- 
oiighly acquainted with the vaiious details of farm 
life. In 1H32 he went to the home of a brother- 
in-law, Benjamin Horton, with whom he .sojourned 
about six months, aiding in the xvork of tilling the 
soil and harvestine; the grain. Xext he clerked 



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for !i lirotliiT, diaries \V.. in Wi'sl Town. N. V.. t\>i- 
nt'.'irly two years ami in tliis way Ix'cainf familiar 
with liusilicss traii^adiiiii^. riii|ilc were at that 
tiliK' liciiiuiiiim in hiiiii iiiiiiilicr> to ciui^rati' to 
the West. .-I'ckiiii; in a luwly sclth-d country an 
oppoi'tunity to heionic iM(l(|i(niKnt. It wa> there 
fore natural tiiat the attention of our Miliject was 
(lireeted toward the new States and that he deter- 
liiilied to eoine \\ est. 

Ineoin|iany with ll.irxey Hill, .\Ir. Ueeves jn-o 
eeeded we>twar<l in New VorU State and for a time 
eiiiraiied in iiiakiiiii foici |iinn|is f(n' mills; when he 
had eoinpleted this, he returned to his home vi;i the 
i-'rie Canal to Troy. N. V.. thence down the ilud- 
>on to Ncwhurtih. lie rem.'iined on tli<' old home- 
stead until Sc|itcnil)cr. \x:M'k <-nlti\alinii the farm. 
Diirini; the |ire\ions l-cliruary his brother .lames 
had started West with lior-e.^ and sk'iaii .and had 
yone to Lima. .Mich. Soon afterwaiil another 
brother, ( ieor^e. followeil with his family . u'oiiiii' by 
way of i'-rie Canal .ind the l.aUes to Lima. In .Sep- 
Icmbi-r the fatliei- of oui- subject sjave him .-diout "■HOD 
.•uid jiclviseil him to i^o lo Michia'an ;iiid in\c>t hi> 
money in hinds. This hi' dci-ided to do. 

(ioiiiii to .Vlbany. N. V.. Mr. Uec\es bo.-irdcd ;i 
caii.al boat, i)ayiiu; one and one-half cents per mile 
fare to lluffalo. and from there ?H to Detroit by i 
lioat. At Detroit he took passaii'e in a staiz'e coach 
for Ann .\ilior. The roads bcin" very muddy and 
almost imiiassable. he w:is compelled to walk the 
most of the lirst ten miles of the journey, and also 
.aideil in ^flliliu the wheels init of rut> which I ic- 
i|\ieiitly hindered prouress. ( )n thcthirdd:i\ out 
from Detioit the co;icli rc;iclK'(l Lim.-i. ;ind Mi'. 
Reeves, havinu secured ^old in Detroit with which 
to ))ay for hand, immediately .set out in search of a 
f;i\drable Incatiou. (ioin;^ north .•ib<uil four miles 
he came to where Henry Warner now reside*; 
from there he proceeded iiorlhwot o\er .■! sparsely 
M'ttled district with ouly .'in occasion.'il wai;iiii track 
to direi-t the traveler. A man named llcnian 
Low. who had settled on the north end of the lake, 
directed our subject to a Mr. (in^ijory on the e.ast 
side. 

In compan\ with .\lr. (>ret;ory .\lr. IJee\es pro- 
ceeded on his in vestiiratin^ tcuuand lin:ill\ selected 
a tnK't of land in wh.at i* now Invhani Tiiwii^hip. 



lie then hastened back to Lima, .and t.-ikiiisir his 
brother's horse went to Detroit to enter his land, 
this licinu' aliout Novcniber 17. IH.'Sli. The ne!i:o- 
tiolions i)eiiii; now closed .Mr. Reeves betraii to feel 
homesick and soon persuaded his brother ( ieorir*' 
to return Last with him. Thev st.arted on horse- 
liaek dnrinji: the latter part of Ndvemlier .Miui after 
a tire.--ome journey of twenty-one <lays. much of 
distance beinji tia\ei>iil throuiih Canada, they 
reached Oranjie County. 

The brothers had been at their old home only a 
few days wju'ii their foiniir neiiilibois uro'ed tliem 
lo return to .Micliiiian and take up lan<ls for tlieni. 
()iir subject auree(l to i^o it the people would make 
up !s;{.IMMl anri would jiay him -"'Hi fore\civ eighty 
acres t;iken, expenses included. .Saljsfaetory ar- 
ransi'eineut> lun'ini;' been made, he proceeded West 
with his brother MiKl.alunit ••<(>. ."itm. Nineteen d.ays 
after the\ started out they rc;iclicd Lima, it bemi;' 
then .•ibout the 2-Jd ot l-'cbru.ary. On the Ithof 
.March followini; Mr. IJecxcs >t.-iited out <m hor.se- 
back to l(jok up lanil. A* before he wi'iit to the 
home of llenian Low and >ucccedc(| in iiettilii; his 
company on ;i tour of impiiry. 

The t wo aent Icnieu h:id i^one only a .^liort dis- 
taiK-e when they stepped on .a l.ari;e loii. from the 
opposite side of which a "ood-si/eil bear jumped 
out. llruiii. howi'ver. did not seem anxionsto cul- 
tivate the aeipi;iiut:ince of hi> visitor* ;ind was soon 
ont of sijiht. ( >n the afteiaioon of the second da\' 
the\ found another man looking lip land. ;in<l Mr. 
Low iirmal .Mr. Ree\ i> to hasten to Di'troit or the 
land would be t.aken. Mr. Reeves jumped on his 
hoi>e and hurried tn rinckney. Livingston ('< unity, 
then followed tin' ba.-i' line to Nortlnille. It was 
not loiiji before he arrived in Detroit and with the 
li'ohl purchase money, he hastened to the land of- 
lice and took up the laml. .Vs he Iniiied to leave 
the olliee he met the man whom he had seen in the 
wooil>. and the straiiiier at once impiired how Mr. 
l;ee\e> reached Detroit sosoon. Mr. L'ecN <* i ciilicd 
that he "took across lots." 

Oil April X. of till' same \i'ar. .Mr. Reeves starteil 
for the louia district to lake up other lands, beiii;; 
accompanied by Dr. Ilallock. Reachinii Mason he 
reniained for three d.-iys with .Mr. Blaine, spendintr 
one d;i\ with Vii-on .I.acksou. the «nr\e\or. in 



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lookiiiii uj) land. Tlie nights were passed upon 
the flour ul' the eabin with some ten or fifteen men 
all of whom were evidently would-be-buyers. On 
the morning of the fourth day Mr. Reeves started 
liy trail for Ionia and when they were near Okemos 
they found the Indians making sugar. Upon 
reacliing the river they had to tear down a wigwam 
which was made of poles and bark, and convert it 
into a raft on which they crossed in safety. 

Next Mr. Reeves took the trail to Pine Lake, 
where they remained all night with two men in a 
slinnty. Theni'e they proceeded to DeWitt and 
I'ldm there followed a wagon-track to Portland. 
\\ luMi lliey canu' to the moutli of ^Laple River, 
there was no way to cross, so going back a half 
mile they noticed a hovise on the opposite side and 
a man with a canoe, whom they called over and 
who took them past the mouth of the river. From 
tiiere tjiey went to Ionia where as yet few people 
had located. On the return trip they pursued the 
same course, and staying one night with the men 
in tlic cabin were advised by them not to go 
to tlie river for fear of the Indians. Acting upon 
their advice they took a trail east toward Howell. 
After tiaveling all day they built a fire at night to 
keep off the wolves who kept up a frightful howl- 
ing dui'ing the entire night. Early the next morning 
after a night of sleeplessness, they commenced their 
journey anew and about noon came to a tamarack 
swani]). which tliey had to penetrate. After reach- 
ing Portland they proceeded toward Lima, being 
then ((uite hungry. Soon they met two men with 
guii'~ out hunting. Mr. Reeves remarked to them, 
"Ilo you know this is Sunday.'" Ihit they answered, 
"There is no Sunday here." 

Upon inquiring for something to eat they weie 
told to follow the trail, which they did, finding a 
short distance away a cabin and there procuring 
what Mr. Reeves declares was the best meal he ever 
ate. In Lima, Mr. Reeves staid about two months 
and then started for Orange County, N. Y., by the 
lakes, canal and the Hudson River. He staid in 
his fa tiler's home until October, when he returned 
to ]\[icliigan and sojourned with liis brother James 
all winter, the victim of ague, then very prevalent 
in that newly settled country. 

(reorge, the Im'ther of Mr. Reeves, had removed 



to Pinckney, and in the spring of the following 
year our subject went to that town and engaged 
as clerk for his lirother. In the meantime he 
hired settlers to break his land and Jonathan 
Thomas, Mr. Bennett and old Mr. Jacob Dakan 
sowed it in grain. After some time he went to 
work upcm his land on section 36, Ingham Town- 
ship, and put in crops upon the ten .acres which 
had been ploughed. He further improved the es- 
tate by building a log house, drawing the lumber 
for flooring from Unadilla. 

Mr. Reeves now felt ju'epared to established a 
Inmie of his own and in 1H4(I. he was haiipily mar- 
ried to .lulia Livermore. and for more than a half 
century this worthy couple have worked in tlif 
utmost harmony for their united interests. Seven 
children caine to them, all of whom are now living. 
Louisa A., Iiorn September 16, 18-11, married Ralph 
Muscott; Oscar 15., born April !(!, 1844, h.as never 
married and resides on section I'J, Lansing Town- 
ship, wheie his father owns one hundred acres of 
fine land, well iinpi'oved with good buildings, etc. 
Oscar V. is tlie Clerk of Lansing Township, had 
been Drain Coiiimissioner and School Inspector 
two years; Emma L., born April 17, 184o, is mar- 
ried to Ilor.ace Whiting and resides in Eaton 
County, Mich.; Franc A. married Henry StiLson 
and lives in Stockbridge, this county. The other 
daughters are Sarah J., Ella E. and Elva E., all of 
whom are single and reside with their iiarents 
ujion their beautiful farm. 

'Sir. Reeves bought his present place in 1869 and 
has embellished it with its fine improvements. In 
politics he is a Republican but will not allow the 
use of his name for office, preferring domestic quiet 
to the confusion of public life. He, however, was ap- 
pointed Postm.aster under Oen.W.H. Harrison which 
position he held nine years. The office, now known 
as Dansville, was then known as Ingham Postofflce. 
Mrs. Reeves and two daughters are the members of 
the family belonging to the First Presbyterian 
Church of Lansing, and are hoiioied members of 
the best social circles of the community. Mr. 
Reeves, who is now in the twilight of a well-spent 
life, can look back upon a past of hard labor, which 
has been cheered by the loving companionship of 
his wife and the devotion of his children. He 



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well (li'seives tlio conifoits wliicli sun<imi<l Iii> 
l.-ilcr vt'Mis. Miiil tiu'ic is no (inc «li<i speaks of liiiij 
Mild uli.-it In- li:i~ ;iccolii|ilislicil tor llii> scclioii of 
(■(imilr\. without ffcliiiii' lliat niiionj;' all tlic \cii- 
iratcil |iioii('eis of the i-oiiiitv. iioiu' arc more 
wortliN' of reverence and oteciii than he. It is 
tlic wish of his iiiMiiy friends that lie and his yood 
wife may I'c spared for many ycnrs to enjoy a 
|)f!iccfiil closing to their wcli-speni lives. 




AIJON T. INCiALL.s. Some of the most 
Ihoroiiuh and ctticienl aui'icultiirists of 
'// '* iMiehiuan are aiiioni; those who ha\f <le- 
\-otcd theniselvcs ipiite cxcliisivel\ to the 
hrccdinu of u'(>o<l and superior i>'radcs of horses 
and cattle, .-mil they are rapidly making' .Michigan 
hea<lipi;ii-tcrs for Imsiness of thi.> kind and uainiiiy 
a I'cpntation for her in the marls of the world. 'I'hc 
i;xntleiii:iii of whom we write makes a specialty of 
lii'cedin.ii' trottiiii" horses aii<l ioa<ls1crs and resides 
on section !t. i,e-lie Township. 

( )iir snliject w;islio|ii in I'lerucn. ( ieiii'sce ( ount \ . 
N. v.. .Vpril .'i. lM;i(l. heinii- ilirectly de>cend<Ml 
Iroiii |{;'njamin and .\Ialina (iliimphrev) liiualK. 
'I'lie father wa^ liorii in the (irceii .Mountain State, 
and the mother first saw thcli;.;ht in I,im;i. I.ixin;^- 
stoii {dimly. X. ^'.. :i ml there m.adc her home until 
her iii.'irriaiie lo the father of our ,~iihject. They 
li\e<l for some time at Ueiiicn. liiil afterwaid rc- 
tiii neil to Lima, whence they removed lo I'cmliroke. 
(ienesee County, there they ni.-ide their home until 
their removal in IHlii to Micliiii.-in. I poii reaeh- 
iny the Wolverine Stale, they made Iheir home 
lirst on a farm in (olumliia ■rown>liip. .lackson 
('oniil\. .'iiid .'ifterward removed to ( )noiiil:ii;o 
Township. In'iham County They came to this 
county in the year Isf.Mi. and the mother p;i>>ed 
away here, .•iliout theye.-ir 1M.'>,"). ha\ilii> completed 
a half century of iiolile and \irluous life. 'I'he 
father now make- \\\> lioiiii' with hi- >on A;ir<ui. 
with whom he ha- resided for ni.-iu\ ycar>. lie h:i> 
followeil farmint; all lii> life and i> no" cinhtx- 



-escn ye.-iis of aue. His early political views 
h'd liini into the Whio- |)arty lint he is now 
a iicpulilicaii. lie is a memlier of the li.-iptisi 
Cliureh of which his wife was .aUo an earnest ami 
active nu'liilier. Their nine cliildren were named 
Filch. Sophi'oiiia. Aaron T.. r.eiiiamiii. l-'raiici>. 
I.ucinda. Su.san. .lames and W illiam. 

'I'he siiliject of this sketch had his early trriininL;' 
upon the farm ;ind in the cli^-tiiel m-IiooN i>f (Jene- 
see County. N. V. \\hen (dcveii years of aire he 
started out in lite for himself workinLr out I'oi' waues 
duriim the summer and in the winter workiiisr for 
his hoard and jioinii lo school, lie was sonic 1 went \- 
two ye.ars old when he came in l.S.')2. to .Michiii.an. 
.and after spi'iidiiiii two yi'ais upon llie f.arni in 
('oliiml)ia Township, .lack-on County, lu' sold it 
and liiniirht properly in ()nondai:a Town-hip 
Iiiuhain ('ounly. L.'iler he dis|)o.-ed of thai prop- 
erty ••ind for several years specul.atcd in land and 
also eni;;iiie(l in the meri'antile business .at Leslie, 
liesides manaiiinu the Lolic Hotel for some three 
years. 

Desirinii ti> li\'e a more retired lite he c\eh:inyi'd 
his hotel for a portion of hi- pre-ent f.aiiii and set- 
tled down to a life of a farmer. He has added to 
his ,'icre.ii;e from lime to time ami now has two 
hundred :iiid forty-li\e acri's <mi sections H .and '.t. 
most of wliicli is in a liiuli state of cultivation. It 
is now several years since lie has devoted him.self 
laru'cly to the hreedin^-.and developinu'of tine road- 
sler.-. ;iiid tiotlini;' horses, and ln' keeps aliout 
forty head of holies upon his place all the time. He 
is also r.aisinii Ihorouuhhred .lerse\' cattle, and has 
one of the most desiralile farms in Le.-lie Township 
upon which he has placed excellent Imildings and 
all the acconnnodations for- the comfort of lioth his 
lainily and his stock. 

.Mr. 1 niialls started out in life with no capital ex- 
cept a willing heart, slroni;' hands, and ;i llior<inuli 
delermination to achieve success, and he has will- 
iiiiily endured hardships and hard work, and has 
never -liruuk from any ditlicnltics which h:i\-e lieen 
presented to him. Kesides his faruiin!> posses.-ions 
he is .-i stoc^kliolder in the l'eople"s Bank at Leslie. 
,ind also lia.s .stock in the People's .Saving li.ank al 
MaMUi. Hi- political \ iew> are Mich a- will he 
fi>iind in the pl.-ilform and dei-l;iraticm- o1 the 



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Repuhliean party, upon whose ticket he has been 
raiserl to several of the minor township oftices. 
He is a Free and Accepted Mason of the Royal 
Arch Degree. 

In 1 852 this gentleman was united in marriage 
with Miss Mary A. Bolton, of Alabama, (ienesee 
County, N. Y. She was a native of that place and 
a daughter of Abram and Marin da ((rriswold) Bol- 
ton. Her married life was brief, as she was called 
from earth, in 1855, passing aw.ay in Onondaga 
Township, Ingham County. The present Mrs. 
Ingalls is a daughter of Elon and Angeline Annis 
and she became the wife of Mr. Ingalls in May, 
186L Our subject had no children by his first 
marriage, but by his second union has three chil- 
dren, Emma, ^Minnie, and .\aron_ T., Jr. Leslie 
postoflice is the address of this stock-breeder who 
stands well in lioth agrieult\iral arid commercial 
circles as all will attest who have had any dcal- 
ina's with liim. 



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' SRAEL GILLETT. When the early settlers uf 
any city have been men of character and abil- 
3 ity — men who I'espected themselves and the 
laws of God and man — and who were inspired 
with a noble amliition to provide for their cliild- 
ren and their children's children, we may lie sure 
flint a ginnd foundaticm has lieen laid for the up- 
bnilding of tiiat city. Such a foundation was given 
to Lansing, Ingham County, by the coming liither 
of such men as Israel Gillett, who has made his 
lioiiie in this city since November 10, 1852, thus 
ranking as among the oldest settlers here. 

This successful aichitect and mechanic, whose 
oHice may be found at No. 10 t W. Michigan Ave., 
was born at Crown Point, Essex County, N. Y., 
March 4, 1827. His honored parents, Israel Gil- 
lett, Sr., and Susan (Bailey) (iillett, were New 
Yorkers by liirth. The father was a farmer by 
occnj)ation. The first twenty-four years of our 
•subject's life were spent on liis fatlier's farm and 
there he received his education and worked in a 
factorv as iiia.cliinist and later on was set to learn- 



ing the jeweler's trade. Upon starting out for 
himself he came to Lansing and opened a jewelry 
establishment here on AYashington Avenue, in which 
he continued for sixteen years, being the second 
man here to open a shop of that kiud. After one 
year lie bought out his only rival in the trade and 
for seven years was the only jeweler in Lansing. 

In 1868-69 Mr. (Sillett .sold out his business and 
entered upon architectural work and the handling 
of real estate, mostly for himself. He also built 
and sold houses and carried on contracting and 
building for others and has continued in the archi- 
tectural line up to the present time, and still super- 
intends the completion of certain special contracts, 
although he is gradually closing out his business 
and retiring from active work. 

Although interested in public matters as an in- 
telligent man must always l)c. IVIr. (iillett has never 
cared to mingle actively in political movements. 
His keen and intelligent interest in the sul)ject of 
education and his well-known ability and excellent 
judgment have for seven years made him a member 
of the Board of Education. As a member of the 
Masonic Lodge No. 66, of Lansing he has taken 
the thirty -second degrei'. 

Our subject and his wife are now the oldest 
members of the Central ^Methodist Ejii.'-co|)al Church 
of this city, and when that body was organized he 
was one of the Tiustecs and one of the building 
committee apjioiiited by the (Quarterly Conference 
to sinK'iintend the building of the edifice and he 
is the only surviving member of that committee. 
For a number of years he has been the Trustee 
and Steward of that church and when they sold 
the old building and put up the new one he was 
again one of the building committee and practicallv 
was the superintendent of this beautiful structure 
which cost $50,000 and was only completed in 
1890 with a seating capacity for one thousand 
people. It stands at the corner of Cajiitol Avenue, 
and Ionia streets. and is an admirable building of 
Ionia sandstone and an ornament to the city. 

The marriage of our subject in 1851 united him 
with Sarah K. Seaman, daughter of Ransom and 
Susan (Day) Seaman. This lady was born in .luly 
HI. 18;il and her girlhood's home was Schrocm 
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Xovemher 10. 18.57. Their two oliildren .ire Charles 
15. and .leunie .S., tlie latter beinji the wife of Wilhs 
B. Kirby of this city and to her liai< been granted 
one child — Halph 0. 



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lr--l)WIN II. I'OirrKH is tlie son of Seth .1. 
Porter, wliose history may be found under 
the combined biographical sketch of .1. 15. iV 
E. II. Porter, dealers in real-estate, who iiave a 
large business in the sale and exchange of property, 
also doing a large business in insurance, both life 
and accident. ( )ur suliject bought out the inter- 
est of Mr. N. 15. .loiies. lliat is, liis local interests 
in the office. Siiire he has been so interested he 
has been very successful, doing a large and pay- 
ing business, for so great is the confidence reposed 
in his judgment and word by dealers in real-estate 
and so reliable is he known to lie that his patron- 
age is very large. 

Edwin II. I'orter wa~ born at .Marcelhi-. Onon- 
daga County. X. v.. I)eceml)er HI, 1822, and in 
1833 went witli his parents to Kalamazoo. He re- 
mained a short time with his father and grandfatiier. 
wlu) liad a faini on the prairie. He procured it when 
tiie soil in that vicinity wa^ \ii'gin, being one of 
the earliest .settlers in that part of the county. 
After spending the winter with our subject, Seth .1. 
Porter moved to Kalamazoo where in the .spring of 
1831 ho Iniilt the first frame house, which was then 
an object of pride in the village. There he re 
niained until the foUowing August when his de^ 
cease occm-red. lie was a professional man, being 
a skillful physician and among the pioneer settlci's 
he was regarded with the greatest affection and 
confidence. He was the second jihysician to come 
into the county, indeed the first of undoubted re- 
pute, it l>eing questionable whether the one who 
preceded him cmild rightfully claim the title. 

.\ftcr her husband's deatli niii- >ubject's mother 
remained . in Kalamazoo until 1837. She had 
meantime married Horace Stinipson of Rochester. 
N. Y. They then moved upon a farm in Van 
Huren (.'ount\ near Paw Paw anil there remained 



for several years. Finally they removed to 
Allegan where Mr. Stimpson died, .\fter his 
father's death our subject had returned to his 
childhood's home in the East and remained with 
friends, attending school until 1K3!I when he came 
to his home with his niothei'. He continued his 
studies that year and in the spring of 1840 went 
back to Kalamazoo to go into business for himself. 
His mother, whose maiden name was Cynthia M. 
Haines, died in this city in IHHK, at the age of 
eigiity-five years. 

Binding himself out in l«l(l to a manufacturer 
of carriages, our subject spent the ne.\t five years 
as an apprentice in learning the carriage-maker's 
trade. At the expiration of his term of service he 
carried on the business ft)r himself for a con])Ic of 
years, when he sold out and engaged in tliegroceiy 
busuiess, continuing to be thus employed until 
1857. M that time he .sold out his interest.'' in 
the grocery line and became Assistant Postmaster. 
His brother-in-law. .Mi-. .lames \. Walter, was ap- 
])ointed to the position of Postmaster in Kalamazoo 
and there our subject remained until 18G2. He 
tlicn enlisted in the War of the Rebellion and was' 
a|)i>ointed First Lieutenant and Commissary of 
the regiment, which was the l-'ourth ^Michigan 
Cavali-y. lie was musteri'd in .Inly. 1K(;2 and was 
sent to the DepaitmenI oC tlic Cumberland, lie 
remained in active service until December. l.S'il. 
and then resigned his commission on account of 
ill-health. During his .service he was a jiarticipant 
in the battles at Stone River, Chattanooga, Look- 
out Mountain, Chickamauga and was one of the 
beleaguers at the siege of .Vtlanta. 

After his return Mr. Poitei' again went into public 
service, being appointed (^nartmaster on the staff o( 
the Provost Marshal and i-emained in the position 
until all matters pertaining to the war were closed 
iLii. In 18()6 he was appointed to a clerkship in 
the State Land Oftice and .served in that capacity 
until .Inly when ho wa> appointed as Deputy Com- 
missioner of the Land Ollice under (ien. Pritchard. 
wliich oflice he retained until 1.'S71. At the d.'ile 
above mentioned he went into thi' .Vuditor-tieii- 
eral's oHice and there remained for twenty years. 
but this spring the change in the (iovernment in 
whieh the Democrats took the lead, was disastrous 



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to him, as he is a most ardent Repulilieaii and on tlie Imsiness. Their trade is mostly wholesale 
losing his position he went int(.) partnership with , l^einy- engaged in foreing early vegetables and in 
his brother in tlie real-estate and insurance busi- selling in a wholesale way U^t tl4« grocers of the 
ness as before mentioned. town. Mr. Mann was horn in liiswieli. ^lass.. ,Ian- 
()n DeeeHilxjr 22. IHt."). Mi-. Porter was married nary 23. 1«31. He is a son of .labez and .Mary 
lo Mis^ .Vdeline E. Walter to whom four children I (Peatlieid) Mann, the family being of English ori- 
were born, their names being as follows: Harvey i gin. having emigrated from Kugiand to thi> 
A\".. Charles E., Alice A. and Nellie K. .Mice is ; country and settled in Ipswich in 1827. Our sub- 
now Mrs. (ieorge H. Sejanour and Nellie is Mrs. C. jecfs father, directly after his marri.age. devoted 
I\. White. Mrs. Adeline Porter died .lune 2.'!. liimself to the occupation of shoemakiiig. liut dui- 
1 «().'). He was a second time married, his bride iug the last years of his life was a manufacturer of 
being Miss pjnily E. Nash, of Lansing. She is a knit goods. He and his wife are members of the 
daughter of Charles E. Nasli. one of tiie early Congreg.'itional Chnrcli. he being a Trustee and one 
jiioueers in this vicinity, ^li-s. Porter is devoted of the stanch old men of his time, 
to lier husband and his interests, making for him a 'I'he eilucation enjoyed by mii' Mibject wa.- ac- 
deiightfnl lioine life. They are iiienibers of the (piireil in his natixc Jihii-e. where lie liiiislie<l in tlie 
Congregational Cliiireli and are represenlati\c > graiinnar school, and then became engaged in the 
jieople ill the city. tin business in the city of Pioston. Mass. He re- 
moved Ironi that I'ity. howe\er. to Hillsdale. Mich.. 
j in .\ugiist. 18t;). and wliile still a boy he hiuiicheil 
out alone engaging in his trade as tinner, and for 
a 11 iiiiilier of years worked as jouriK'yman at that 
place. In 187(i, he came to tlie city of Lansing, 
having, jirior to coming here, married Miss .Vim 
Ni>\./jjji,i\ i ..i.\.->.>. 1 uv-i.- 1.- ji-.iiiiuj; 111.11 .-]iow> .Mice Cl.'irk. a daughter of Cai|iha> Clark. She 

the innate retineinent and gentleness of a was born .Inly 7, 18 10. and is a native of England. 

man's nature more than a care for the ex- haviiii;- come witii her i)arents to the I'liited States 

(piisite blossoms that crown tlie most patient when onl\ one ye;ir old. 
and diligent efforts at cnltivatioii. .\ cruel or iiii- On coming to Lansing in 1876. our subject en- 
kind man. or a careless or ina|)prociative man would gaged ill gardening and in the business of a Hor- 
never succeed ;is ji florist, for the tender green ist. lirst reutinu the l;iiid which he iiseil and 
tilings under the charge of such a person are I'li- ' gH-adually increasing his business, until in 1882, lie 
tirely at his mercy, to lie starved and choked, or to i purcha-^ed the jilace which they now occupy, ;ind 
lie fed, watered, and warmed at hi.- will. .Xeitiier ' wliicli alone a-^ a real-estate deal has been :\ most 
can an ignorant man succeed in this callinu. for | fortunate and profitable investment. It i> oiie- 
ignorance is stupidity and iiitipprecintiveness. and ' half mile inside the city limits and in fine coiidi- 
one who is so wjiii'liful ;ind intelligent tlijil he can tioii for sub-division. This tliey put into sliaiie. 
understand the unspoken language that tells of the , added large gl■eenhou^es and now do a tine busi- 
needs, or thankfulness for care, of the green things ! ness in forcing vi'getables and flowers. In 188(). 
that gladden our hoiiie> and crown .'ill festive ocea- they al>o built upon tile phi( e a tine tw<i->tory 
sions, is neither stupid imr ignor.-int. but humane j frame residence, wliic.h is a home that is striking in 
and tender. I its beauty of suriiumding, its location and the way 
Our subject who is the head of the (inn of Robert , in which it is kept up. ^Ir. IManii i> now one of 
Mann t^' Son who h.ave charge of the most exten- the in-oiniuent and succe.'^sful Imsiness men of the 
sive greenhouses in the city, is located on South li>wii. Our suliject and his wife are the |iarents of 
Washington Aveiiut. where he has extensive ; three eliildreii. Robert II., who i> associated with 
grniinds. haviiiu t wu .■mil .-1 half ;ieres devoted to 1 his f;itliei in Inisiuess. having lieeii so occupied 



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since 1878; riorencc L. and Mary A.; all aie still at 
home, and form a delightful society within tlieiii- 
selves. The yoiini>' ladies as well as the young 
gentleman, are bright, iulellii;ent iin<l accoiii|ili>lie(l. 
and tho ;iir alK)Ut the home is lilled with the sun- 
shine that young life and eii1hnsia.<m lirings. 'I'he 
family are members of tlu' I'lrst Presbyterian 
Chnreh and are entliusiastie workers in that liody, 
doing all in their power for the upbuilding and 
s\istaining of the Gospel wfirk. Our subjeet is a 
member of the Knights of Pythias and from his 
soeial relations, has derived many snl)stanti;d ben- 
elits as well as soeial pleasures. 




^ YRUS ALSDORF. The name at the head ot 
this sketch is that of one of the pioneei- 
settlers in Ingham County, he having come 
hei-e in IH'jfi, which, late as it may seem to a resi- 
dent in an older State and county, showed \ ( i\ 
few of the ]iresent improvements. I'rior to coming 
here Mr. .Msdorf had located in I'ontiac. Oakland 
t'ounty. settling there in 1H,t;5. He was born in 
lister County, X. v., ()ctol)er 14, 182;), and is .i 
son of Levi .\lsdorf, who is descended from the 
Alsdorf.s that were the original patentees of what 
was known as the Holland l>and Purchase. 

When our subject was a lad of eight \ear> of 
age his parents removed from Ulster County to 
(xene-see County, N. Y. ^Most of his education, 
however, was acquired in Wyoming County and 
there he attained manhood .'nul was united in 
marriage with Loretta Melchei-, who was a daughter 
of Samuel Melcher, a pioneer in this State from 
\ermunt. Mrs. Alsdorf w.as born in the year 1829. 
Their marriage was celebrated .lune (i, 18(6. In 
1H.J3 he came with his wife to Michigan and set- 
tled in I'ontiac. He was there employed in the 
freight ollice of the Detroit it Pontine Railroad. 
Two years later he came to Ingham Cf)unty, where 
his father-in-law had located, settling in Meridian 
Township. Koi' a time our -nbjeet there eniraiied 
in farming. 

Not a.s familiar with aL!i'i<'ultui';il as with I'om- 



nu-reial life he preferred the latter and soon ac- 
I'cpled a i)osition as foreman in the Reform School 
shop, being installed in his position while the 
institution was yet in its infancj-. He w.as there 
until tlie lireaking out of the Rebellion, when he 
enlisted as j)rijicij)al musician iu the Foujl-eeutii 
Michigan Infantiy. In the fall of 1862 he was 
|)romoted while at Tuseumbia, .Via., to be leader 
of the l)and. First Brigade of Second Division of 
the Fourteenth Army Cor|>s which was comm.anded 
by (ien. .lames I). Morg.-in. He served all thrr>ngh 
the battles of Corinth and the summer campaign 
of l«(i2-().i. lie was a iiarticipant in tlie battles of 
Stony K'iver .-nid Chickamanga .'ind was finallv 
dischargeil on .aecount of ilisability. While Ivini;' 
at Frank Anderson's cross ro.ads at Sequatchie 
River, he was sent to the hospital and remained 
there until his discharge, which took place in 
December, 186;i. 

He rem.ained .'it home until the s])ring of 1861. 
when lie re-enlisted in the jmst band under (ien. 
Scolield and reniaiiied until the close of the war. 
( )n retiMiiing to the North our suliject went back 
to tlie Reform School anil remained there, tilling 
the position which lie hail |ireviously occupied 
until 1868, when he received a call to go to the 
Wisconsin Refoim School .as .\ssistant Superin- 
tendent. He respimded to tlii> call, but at the 
expiration of the year he w;is urged to return to 
his old position and canu' back as acting assistant 
Superintendent, wliir.lL4)osition he iii.aintained un- 
til December. 1«71. when he purchased a half 
interest in the old lloliiies drug store and has 
devoted himself to the diiig business ever since, 
changing neither his location nor his mode of pro- 
cedure in business. The liriii is now run nndcr 
the name of C. .\lsdorf A- Son, lie h.'iving taken 
his son into partnership on the retirement of his 
former partner. Since engaging in the drug busi- 
ness, fortune has smiled upon Mr. .Msdorf and he 
is now one of the most pioininent businos men in 
the city. 

.Mr. .\lsdorf is the possessor of a lieaiitifiil lioiiie 
at the corner of Capitol Avenue and Sliiawa.ssee 
Street. It is most graciou-ly presided over liy his 
wife, who is an estimalile and relined lady. The 
lioii~e in wliicli (lie\ dwell i^ eoiiinioiiioii^ and at- 



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tractive and is delightfully located in tlie midst of a 
velvety green lawn and surrounded with the choic- 
est shade trees. Il is indeed a home where a man 
might spend most hapijil.v the declining years uf 
his life. Mr. and Mrs. Alsdurf have the following 
children: Frank, who is a wholesale manufacturer 
of harness and is located at AUiion; he has a wife 
and three Ijright children, whose names are Maude, 
Monroe and Don; Stella is the wife of Charles J.. 
Seeley, a prominent stock-raiser near the city; she 
is the mother of four children — Dewey, Fay. Ma- 
lian and Leonard; l'"red is in business witli his 
fatlier; he al.so has a wife and family, his children 's 
names being Grace, Louise and Richard. The 
family is not so scattered but that it admits of 
freijuent reunions and the cliildreii with llicir 
broods of children make the old liome merry and 
fill with delight tlie fond hearts df tlieir parents 
who are so foi-tunate in that their children are 
such noble men and wiuiien. I'olitically ^Ir. .Vls- 
dorf is a stanch Hepulilicaii. 



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,.StAi; F. ('AMI'. A record of the expci'- 
ieuces of the early settlers of any country 
is ever of interest to readers, and the pen of 
the writer never speeds over the paper more cheei- 
fully than in recounting the brave endurance <if 
h.ardship and the heroic encounter with the savage 
elements of nature which are experienced b\ pio- 
neers. For this reas(jn the biographer enj()y> 
sprinkling in among his uuire commonplace tales 
an occasional sketcii of (lie pioneers of Michigan. 
The gentlenian of wlioiii we wiite. who was one 
of the earliest settler,-' of Lansing. Ingham County, 
lirst located about sixteen rod> north of his pre- 
sent beautiful home which is situated at No. 7 1 il 
High Street, making his residence in a log shanty 
in the dejitli of the ft)rest. This was in 1><48. jis 
he had jiurchased land in 1)^47. liefore Washington 
.Vvenne was hewed out of the forest, and at that 
time that roadway had simply been cleared of 
underbrush, so that teams could creep through, 
lint the main iiart of the tiinlier was sitil] standintl. 



In addition to his home lot Mr. Cam]) has a beauti- 
ful farm of one hundred and twenty-six acres 
wliieii is within the cit\' limits. 

Our suliject was liorn in .Uexander, (ienesee 
County, N. Y., December 7, I81M. and is a son of 
James and Betsey (Tudor) Camp, formerly from 
Hartford, Conn. The father was a faiiner and a 
pioneei' in (ienesee County, settling there after the 
War of 1S12. (»ur subject grew there to his mat- 
in'ity, learning the trade of a mason at Bataxia. 
The father lived ufion the old home farm until the 
day of his death. When about twenty-tive years 
old O.scai' Cam)) purcha.sed the father's old home- 
stead and established iiiinself as a family man. 
Ilis bride was Miss Ulioda .ludd of Ilethany. X. Y.. 
to whom were born four children, namely; Alice 
\'.. now tlie wife of Charles Hoc.aboiit of this cit\ : 
( li.'irlutte; (lertrude. wife of Tracy .Meriills of 
Lansing, and .leanette. Mrs. .losiuia .McNornian. 

Wlieii .Mr. Camp brouglit his family to Lansing, 
in IM4X. tliey came with three teams from Detroit 
and having settled them in the old log shantv he 
went to work to clear off his fai'in. .Vs soon as he 
was a little settled and had things in trim for 
legidar work, he hired a man to <to the heavy part 
of the farming and he worked at his trade. Ilis 
work may lie seen upon many of the pioininent 
buildings of a decade ago. and he imt up both the 
City Bank and the Central Bank and was foreman 
for the city in the construction of the bridge abut- 
ment. He has kept his farm under excellent 
cultivation and now- has a portion <if land which 
is considered among the most valuable in the city. 
I'p to ISlll he has paid over *9, ()()() taxes upon his 
farm. When he iiurchased it he ])aid ^20 for six 
acres of land, s;|,1 for eiglity acres and sti for 
.•mother forty. 

Mr. Camp lia> tilled several otiices of responsi- 
liilit V and tiiist in the comniiniity. having been Ald- 
erman foi' the First Ward and being on the School 
Board and in both of these position> he has been 
of great use to the city on account of his excellent 
judgment and aggressive yet prudent methods of 
work. He attends and supports the I'niversalist 
Churcli and at the time that this religious body 
erected a hon,se of worship he was on the building 
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liiiililiiii; Miiil the \ mIuc of iii.'ilerial wa.- vi-ry |)i(i(il ■ 
;ililc to tin- I'lmrcli. Alxiiit llirec yi'ai> aftci 
iiiiiiiii^ to lliisi'ity lit' was liercavetl liy the (loath <it' 
his wife anil he married Mrs. Martha ( Harkei ) 
.luilsini. who was a widow jjrevious to lier union 
with liiiii. ilf is a Democrat in his iwilitical views 
lull still rathei' m(U'|)cii(leiit in I'cuard to his vote. 
;is he iiiaUe.-- it :\ |)iiint In study the needs nl' the 
ciiinniunity and the cliaraeteristies of the men "ho 
seek olllee liefore usinu' ids liallot to place Ihem 
there. lie is one of the oldest living settleis who 
have made their home in Lansini;'. and his v.-diu' 
to the commiuuty has not been me.-isnred simply 
liy his activities, allhonoh they have been i;i-eat. 
for tliey have lieeii supplemented hy his inlhu'nce 
for sidod in nioial. social and industrial spheres. 



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kOllS K. R()\VLl-n', .loui-nalism ofters ji 
liroad lield to the man who aspires to liter- 
ar\ honors .and ;dtliou<)h of modern oriyin 

comparatively, the literary element in oiu' m vvs- 
pa])crs has discovered to the world nian\' a star 
who niiiiht otherwise have shone unseen, lie ol 
whom we write is the editor and pro])rietor of the 
LaiisinLT Joiirnul. a lireezy sheet that hesides niir- 
rorinu tlu' aeneral trend of ))iililic sentiinent. con- 
tains much of real merit in joniii.alisni. Mr. 
Ivowley is also Deputy .Se< retary of State, ap- 
pointed to the jiosition li\- Secretary of State Soper 
in .hinnary. ISKl. 

i'he oriy^inal of oiu- sketch was horn in Ionia 
County. May 17. 1!S5H. lie is the .son of Oeoi'ge 
and ('.■ilherine ((Ireeii) Rowley, the father lieing 
one of the early settlers and horn in Monroe 
County. N. Y.. as was the mother likewise. .After 
niarriaiije they lame to Ionia County. Mich., .ahout 
1 «.■).■>-.■)(;. and there lived, the father liein<>; em- 
ployed as a machiiust. lie continued to reside in 
loiua until his denii.se. which occurred in 1862. 

I'ntil thirteen years of aue our sniijcct was o( - 
.npied with his school duties. .\ hrii^ht lad iml- 
urally. In' wa- neitlier better \\(n- worse than the 
Mi.ajority of boys, nor could he resist the tempt.a- 



tioii to "liaNe >onu- fun" more than other bovs-. 
.\fter he had attained the inaidy age of thirteen he 
worked in the Sentinel ollice of Ionia, and has been 
[ connected with this ollice in one capacity and an- 
I other ever since, working up from the beginning. 
He soon engaged as a reporter and continued do- 
ing that line of work until 1879, when he purchased 
an interest in the Ionia Standard, which was the 
political organ of the Demociatic partj- in that 
pl.'ice. In \hh:', .Mr. Rowley removed to Lansing 
and purchased the Lansing Juiirnul. which is the 
Democratic organ in this city. In January, 1887, 
our >uliiect e>tablished the Daily Journal, which 
has held its own in the face of all f)pposition since 
its inception. I b' now gives the ma jor portion of 
his time to a general i>\-ersii;ht of tin- journalistic 
work that is done in iiis oMice. 

ilr. Rowley was married .I;inuary IS. lf<)S2. to 
Miss Mary C. Clark, of Ionia. One child, a son. 
is the restilt of this union, named Kdward C. Mr. 
Rowley IS a genial, whole-hearted man. who has a 
liosl of friend-. lie is a member of the Knights of 
Pythias and also belongs to the Royal Arcanum. 
He and his wife, who is a charming lady, with gra- 
cious, dignilied ni.-uiners. ;ire attendants and sup- 
porters of the Congreuational ('hurch. 




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LKX.VXDKR .M. .MILL. V.N. .\L D. L'n- 
swerving integrity, rugged independence, 
'-i sturdy industry and an honorable regard 
<^ for the laws of God and men are among 
the most notable characteristics of the Scottish 
Highlanders. To have descended from them is a 
guarantee of the pos.session of these traits, and it 
is an heritage of great value to any citizen. Our 
subject, who is one of the prominent phy.sicians of 
this city, is proud to boast of such an ancestry. ' 

Dr. McMillan was born in the Count}' of Cilen- 
garry, Canada, March .">. 181;'), and is the son of 
Duncan and Mary (McDonell) McMillan, the 
father being a farmer by occupation, and both 
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landers -who came to Canada in 1798. The 
County of (ilengarry was settled bv this class of 
the Scotch, and in the early daj^s of our subject 
not a word of English was heard in social conver- 
sation. The father of the Doctor remained in that 
county throughout his lifetime, but after the early 
boyhood and school days of oiw subject, the latter 
spent some years in a store, first in Canada and 
afterward in Chicago. 

In the metropolis of the Prairie State 3'oung 
McMillan began business for himself, and in this 
he was fairly successful until the great fire, in 
which he was burned out. He accepted this dis- 
appointment in a philosophic manner, and gave 
up the mercantile business, and now began his 
medical studies, entering the Belleview Hospital 
.Medical ColleiiV in New York City. After study- 
ing there one year he went into the Long Island 
Hospital Medical College, from which institution 
he was graduatc(l in 1K74. He afterward attended 
a course of lectures in Trinity ( ollege, Toronto. 
Canada. 

In lH7(i, the young Doctor was ready to begin 
|)ractice. and lieing attracted to Michigan, he de- 
cided to ojieii his oltlce in the capital city of our 
State, and here he has continued with true Scot- 
tish steadfastness from that d.ay to this, devoting 
himself to general [iractice. His thorough medi- 
cal education pre|iared him for the successful prac- 
tice which has been his, and his sound judgment 
and skill have given him a standing in the ])rofes- 
sion. He is a memlier of the Lansing Medical So- 
ciety, and was its President for one year. He has 
been City Physician and Chairman of the Board of 
Health for five years, and is now and has been for 
four years past the County Superintendent of the 
Poor of Ingham County, and also fills the office of 
President of the State Association of County 
Superintendents of the Poor. He is by appoint- 
ment of the Governor, Chairman and member of 
the Central Board of Control of State Institutii>ns, 
having received his appointment in October. 1891. 
for a term of six years. The hap|)y wedded life 
of Dr. McMillan began in 1873, when he w.as 
united with Miss Josephine Marie Curtin,of Petcr- 
boro, Canada, to whom has been Ijorn one child, I. 
Donald, who is still a younsj bov and is receiving 



a thorough education from his careful and judi- 
cious parents. Mrs. Mcilillan"s brother, J. C. Cur- 
tin, is a distinguished author and journalist, and 
lives in Brooklyn, N. Y. Our subject's eldest 
brother, Donald McMillan, also a physician, living 
at Alexandria, Ontario, is a life membci' of the 
Dominion Senate. 



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ACOB EICHELE. Although our subject is 
not yet an old man, having only reached 
that point of vantage where he can live in 
the bright experience of the past and in 
the enjoyment of the memories that have made 
his youth interesting and piipiant. he has retii'cd 
from active business, having formerly been ])ro- 
jirietor of the Eichele House, which he lijid man- 
aged for I'ighteen years, lie now. however, leases 
if to his .son-ill law. having given up the place into 
his care. May 1. IH'll. Our su))ject has ever been 
a genial, whole-souled iiuiii. and in his capacit\' as 
host he lias become familiar with many of the 
men iironiinent in political life, as well as others 
who have taken their stand high up in the ranks 
of literature, the arts and sciences. 

Our subject was born in Germany, in the city of 
Wurteniberg, December 3, 1826. There he re- 
ceived the advantages of that country, which is 
more noted ft)r having better educational theories 
and methods than any other nation, combining 
technical training with the mental development. He 
c-ame to the United States in 1854, locating first in 
Ohio. He lemaiiied in Wyandot County, of that 
State for eleven years. During this time he mar- 
ried Miss !Marv Funck. Their marriage was cele- 
liratcd in .lune, 1855. The lady, like her husband, 
is a native of (lermany, being there born .January 
;il, 18,34. She came to the I'nited States, where 
she had a brother, at the same time and on the 
same boat on which our subject came over. While 
in Ohio, he of whom we write was employed on a 
farm and amassed with his work there a comtort- 
able competency. Thence he came to Jackson, 
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lie removed to I,:iii>iiii; in IMiT.Miul engaged ill 
the liiini(iiiiu-li<iiise liu>inf». h:i\iiJi; cinniecti'd willi 
the house a saloon, lie is the oMot ( u'riiiaii luisi- 
iii'ss man in this citv. 

Nol contciil with thi' liusiui'ss that he liad lnult 
u|). Ml'. Kiehele sought handsomer and more com- 
modious (|uartei's, and erected at a hirgc expense 
the Kiclieh' House, a three-slory liiick hotel, hi- 
ealcd at No. 2IM> Nortli Wnsliington A\i'nue. .•uid 
eontinned as the |iro|)iietor and owner of tliis 
place until 1.'<',I1. :i> alio\e mentioned, when he 
le.-ised his pi;\ee to his ~on-in-law. ( )ui- sulijcct has 
never had an\ ambition to hold local ollice. hav- 
ing given his attention to Iniilding up his husiness 
;ind ill iiro\iding his guests with tliose conil'orts 
and luMiries to whicli Ihcy arc entitled. 

.Mr. and Mrs. Kiehele arc the parents ol li\e 
children. .Most of them have attained llie yeais 
of manhood and wdinanhooil. and are in Imsiness 
for them.sch't's or preside over a lioiiie of their 
own. The eldest son. .U)lin. is a grocer, having his 
stoic in the Iniilding adjoining our subject's hotel. 
Frank li\cs upon ;ind operates the f.arm owned by 
our subject in Clinton County, this State. Anna, 
the wife of \\'illiaiii K. ( ii'iiessle. the proprietor of 
the Kiehele House, is ji capable and competent 
business woman. Mary, tlic wife of Walter I'>liss. 
lives at Cleveland. (Itto still remains with his 
parent- and retlcit- to tlicin in hi- ycuing life 
the pleasures and ImoyMiiey tli,-it tliey in their 
young life cxpericnceil. .Socially our subject is 
connected with the .Ma.sonic fraternity, but is not 
now a inenibci' of that soi-iety. lie. lioweNcr. has 
be<'ii allie(l with them since IMd.'S.at which time he 
joineil the societv in Ohio. 



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OSKS K. lAVLOli. This worthy and hon- 
•' '" orable gentleinan. who is now the Crier of 
the Supreme Court, has been a resident of 
Lansing. Ingham County, since April. 
\f<C>:'>. lie was in various lines of business in this 
city up to the time he received his a|ipointinent, 
and is well known among business men of the place. 




Our subject was liorn in Kvenehtown. Hunterdon 

County. .N.. I.. Kebiuary 1(1, 1H17. His father, Abel 
Taylor, was also a native of Frenchtown and his 
grandfather, Kdwin. was born in New Jersey and 
was of Knglish descent. The grandfather had a 
large and line farm on the Delaware River, and 
although lie was an in valid for many years he lived 
lo an .-idvaneed age. Both he and liis wife had 
brothers who served in the Revolutionary conflict. 

The father of our subject was a fanner in New 
.Icisey. who. by an accident became a cripple, and 
lie therefore devoted him.self to teaching and sur- 
veying, being an excellent penman and a fine 
scholar. In lK;ii) he decided to ctuiie West, and 
removing to ( )hio. located in Erie County, near 
the boundaries of .S;in<lusky County, where he lived 
upon a farm through the rcinaindcr of his days. 
His wife. Itachcl l'',\-eiitt. was born in l'",\i'iittstow n. 
.\. . I., her father. Saiiiucl. licing a iiicrcliant there 
for whom the town was christened, ilcsidcs his 
merchandise hcc.-irried on the business of <listillinu' 
and milling. 

.Moses Taylor is the youngest ill the ]iarental 
fainiU' of seven children, and until he w;is nine 
_\cars of age he rcmaincil upon the farm and then 
went to llackcttstown. \\'arrcn Couiily. N. .1., and 
aftcrw.'ird to .Morristown an<l Xew:irk. in all of 
these places attending the select .school, and begin- 
ning business at the age of fifteen years by clerk- 
ing in a grocery store in Ncw.ark. .\fler two \ears 
he went to .Morristown and spent three \ears there 
as a clerk in a hotel before the railroad was intro- 
duced, lie then engaged in various lines of bnsi- 
iH'ss until imi when he came West and undertook 
farming for .several years in Krie Count\', (Jhio. 
after which he \\as in a hotel at .Sandusky, and 
afterward at .St. Lawrence and Town.send. and 
linally became ])roprictor of the Towiiscnd House. 
From there he went to Toledo and took charge of 
the Oliver House, but being afllicle«l with the Man- 
niee fever he spent two years in recuperating. In 
IKfi.'J he came to Lansing as clerk for .Martin Ilud- 
siui at the old .Vmeritan House, and .•ifterward the 
old Hudson House. 

Mr. Taylor was the pioneer in the ice business 
ill Lansing, as in IHtli he opened the first public 
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After two years he sold this business and was in 
Pennsylvania for some time and after coming back 
pursued various lines of business such as express- 
age and hotel work. In 1880, during the January 
term of court he received the appointment as Crier 
in the Superior Court of Michigan and since that 
time he has lieen at this post of duty, in which lie 
is faithful and efficient. He is a member of the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in his polit- 
ical views is attached to the Republican party 
although he is independent in his vote. Before 
the formation of that party he had been a Whig. 
He is one of the men who ai-e known best by their 
Avork, as his modesty and devotion to duty are 
more pi-ominent than his ability to speak his own 
praises. 



^P' LBERTUS W. EDSON, a clairvoyant phy- 
^i-Q.\ sician, having his home and office at No. 
!i .519 Cedar Street, N., in the city of Lan- 
sing, Ingham County, was born in Roy- 
alton Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, October 
28, 1846. He is a son of John Brooks and Marilla 
(Eastman) Edson. His father in his earl}' days was 
a blacksmith and later became a salesman for a 
large marble house at Cleveland. He came to Lan- 
sing in 1868 and kept an hotel in North Lansing, 
but afterward removed to Williamston, where he 
retired from active work for the rest of liis days. 
He had two children, our subject and a daughter 
by his third wife, who was born six weeks after his 
death, which sad event took place on Christmas 
Day, 1880. 

The subject of this sketch received his education 
in Cleveland, and learned the trade of a machinist, 
at which he worked for nearly four years until he 
received an injury. His employer was very kind 
and helpful to him in gaining his education, as the 
boy was dependent upon himself from the time he 
was twelve years old. He was employed upon the 
the lake from 1864 to 1867, and about that time he 



had developed his clairvoyant powers and began 
practicing for the relief of the sick. The power 
first came to him on a sick bed on New Year's Day, 
1866, and he claims that he then began to see the 
cause and nature of the disease. He has been in 
practice from that day to this, with the exception 
of two years when he was farming. He came to 
L.'insing in 1868 and has built up a large practice 
here, spending one day of the week in Fowlerville, 
and one day in Owosso. He has never advertised 
as he depends entirely on the reputation which he 
gains among his patients, yet he is driven hard all 
of tlie time, and has the best class of people among 
his patients. Roots and herbs and tinctures made 
from them are his main dependence as remedies. 

Dr. Edson is one of the original stock holders of 
tlie Ingham County .Savings Bank, and is Secretary 
of the Haslett Park Camp Association, being one 
of its Directors, and acting as managei-. He is 
President of the Mediums' Protective I'nion, and 
Treasurer of the same as well as Director and Treas- 
urer of the Mediums' Medical Association. At the 
time of the existence of the Spiritualists' Local As- 
sociation he was its Vice-President, and one of the 
Directors, and has been Vice-President of the State 
Association of Spiritualists and Liberalists. He is 
a member of Protection Lodge, No. 321.1. O. O. F., 
and also of the Encampment and Uniformed 
Militant. He is also identified with the Masonic 
order, belonging to Lodge No. 66. He represented 
the lodge of Odd Fellows at the (Jrand Lodge for 
3'ears. He has been through all the chairs, being 
now Past Grand. 

Our subject was married June 23, 1870, to Cath- 
erine Gaus, of this city, daughter of George Gaus, 
who had lived here since 18.53. ]Mr. Edson was 
born February 16, 1850, in Wurtenil)erg, Germany, 
and came to this country in early childhood. She 
lost her mother, April 5, 1859, leaving this daugh- 
ter, the eldest of seven children. After that she 
was away from home most of the time. She lived 
with Justin Watson until she was fifteen years old, 
after which she came to Lansing. 

Our .subject owns the handsome home in which 
he resides, whicii he tiuilt in 1882, as well as a 
tenant house on Centre Street, N., and he is in- 
tending to build another soon. His property has 




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all been accumulated during the last nineteen period of time wlien he was detailed on special 
vcais. Last year he Iniilt tlie Mediums' Home at ; service. 



Haslett's Pari* at Pine Lake, lie is a friend to till 
mediums, and often advances money for theii- 
necessities. 



At (iettysl)uri>: our subject, wlio had l)een pro- 
moted to tlie rank of a Lieutenant, was in command 
of liis company and received first a wound in his 
arm and afterward a bullet throuii:h tlie lower lolie 
of his rij^ht lung. His arm was amputated on the 
field and he was then removed to the West Build- 
ing Hospital in Baltimore and from there was sent 
home, reaching Lansing the 11th of July, 1863. 
At the time of tlie l)attle he was reported dead and 
as it was impossible in the midst of that coijfnsiun 
and disaster to get letters written home, Mr. Cam- 
through the Xorth of Ireland to America eron prevailed upon his com|)anions to bolster him 
and lias in innumerable cases displayed its up in bed the third day after his arm w,as arapu- 
gallant colors upon the battlefield. We are proud tated and to furnish him with a shingle, a bit of 
to give a resume of the life of one of our British- paper and a pencil. With his left hand he then 
American citizens who has done valiant service for wrote by slow degrees a letter to his wife, telling 
the cause of his adopted country and lias also the her that he was alive and that he had lost his arm. 
additional distinction of being one of the oldest His gallant conduct in the battle of (Jettysburg 
settlers of Lansing, having come here in 1858. earned for him a recommendation for promotion 

Mr. Cameron was born in tlie North of Ireland, bv the unanimous voice of all the officers of the 




LKXANDKK CA.MEHOX. The brave spirit 
of the Scottish Highlanders has descended 



of Scotch parentage, August 26, 18."3ll, and there 
he received his education and was engaged as 
agent for a manufacturing estalilishment until after 
his marriage. His liride was Miss Sophia Wheeler 
who was born in (drnwiill. Kngland. 'I'licnce she 
came to Ireland with lier parents and there met 
and married vuv sulijcct. In the fall of 18;')6 the 
young couple came to I'liilnclelpliin and two years 
later emigrated to Lansing. Ingham County, when 
the population was only three thousand. Mr. Cam- 
eron devoted his time |inrtl\ to teacliing nnd partly 
to business until the breaking out of the Civil War 
when he left lionu' and took up arms to maintain 
the honor of the old tlag. 

Our young hero enlisted in Company G, Six- 
teenth Michigan Infantry, which body was made .a 
part of the Army of the Potomac .-Hid pasM'd 
through all the regular eng.agements of that di\i- 
sion until the battle of (iaines' Mills. In that en- 
gagement .Mr. Ca Micron w:is wounded in the leg 
and .sent to the hospital at Annapolis, .lune 27. 
1862. He received treatment there until the latter 
p;ut of .\ugust when he returned to his regiment 
and was with his lommand up to the lime of the 
battle of Gettyslnirg. with the exception of a slmrt 



regiment. 

In the latter part of August Lieut. Cameron re- 
turned to his regiment .and tof)k i)art in the battle 
of Brandy .Station, after which he w.as w-ith the 
nriuy on its retreat to Culpeper. He was was then 
transferred to the veteran Reserve Corjis, and in 
September, 1863, was .sent down to South' Carolina 
and there was in (•oiiiiiiniid with Ins company, of 
St. Helena and Lady's Island during part of 1864. 
He now received the promotion fr<ini .Second to 
First Lieiiteiinnt according to the rcconuiiciiihilion 
of his commanding otticer, and was ])laced in cliarii^e 
of the .\iubulance Corps of the I)e|)artnient of the 
South as acting Captain, drawing pay as captain 
although he failed to muster in as such. While 
in Sinitli Carolina he participated in the following 
battles in 18()1: .loliii and .hinies Islands. Honey 
Hill and Deveaus' Neck. He was transferred to the 
North at the clo.se of the war and forsome months 
was stationed in Detroit and was finally mustered 
out June 30, 1866, having served five years. 

rpon returning home Mr. Cameron devoted 
himself again to business and teaching, and man- 
aged a i^rocerv store. In 18()i) he was ajipointed 
to a position in the Auditor (.Jeneral's otlice under 



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PUKTKArr AND BKX.RAPHK AI, AlJ!l-:\f. 



(reii. lluiMpliri\ ;iiiil hold ii |)(>.-iitioii ill the varioii> 
<l('|j;irtini'nts up In l''eliriiiiry 1st. 1H91. Al (Hic 
time 1r> was .SecTetaiy uf tlic S\vaiii|i Laii<l (Oiu- 
lui^siniK'r ill the Land Otiii'i' and oiilv Ml his )jlaw 
in the Land Otlice upon the ehaiiue (tf admin istra- 
tion Iroin !U'piil)licau to Denioeiatic. His deposi- 
tion li-oni oftiee was sincerely deplored liy all 
who knew his honorable recoi-d, as they felt that 
polities should liave had no weiuht in the case of 
a man wlio served under the llaji for <iver five 3'ears 
and thus lost his risjht arm. and who had done 
faitliful >erviee in the State otliees. 

.Ml'. Cameron enyaiied in the g'roeery liusiiiess. 
estahlishinu himself at the eoriier of J.enawee and 
('hestn\it .Streets, wliere he receives a fair shaiv of 
triide in his line, lieisa member of tlieCharles I". 
Foster Post, No. -t'i. (;. .\. IJ.; he and his excellent 
wife are members of the Conurejiational Chui-eh. 
The children who ha\e lilessed their home are ail 
iiviiiji' bnt one. Maiiou (i. is the wife of the Rev. 
.1. A'. N. Ilartness of Marine City; the eldest son i.- 
IJr. 11. 11. Cameron, of Nortli Lansin"; IJichard 
passed away at the am' of twcnty-.-eveii ; Margaret 
\. is the wife of Dr. II. 11. Darby, of Lansin?^: 
Sophia is Mrs. W T. Parker, of Detroit, and lielle 
married Bert Prouty. of North Lansino. 

In connection with this bioi;iai)hical sketch the 
I'eader will notice .-i portrait of Air. Camei-on. 






yILLI.\.M M. ( LAHK. One who has had 
wide experience in journalistic work. Mr. 
J ^ Clark now has the editorial manauemeut 
of the pa|>er known as the Stat-f liepublicait. A 
man who has passed the meridian of life, he besjan 
an early a])|)reuticeship to the ti-ade which he lia> 
ever since pursued and has .served in all the capa- 
cities from "devir' to his present po.sition. .Mr. 
Clark has traveled extensively and is a delightful 
conversationalist, besides liavino; the rare ability 
of Using' his i)eii with ^race as well as strength. 

The subjeet of this sketch was born in Westei-n 
New York. May 17. l.s;57. His father was a native 
of .Ualiama and his mother was born in Ontario 



( ouiily. N. V. It W(udd be an interesting item 
foi' .'I student of sociology to diseo\'er how the re- 
spective elements are blended in the son. whether 
the Southern fire tones the Northern conservatism, 
or whethei the Noithern characteristic i)red<)min- 
ates over the .Southern. Our subject sjieiit a Iaro;e 
portion of his childhood in the pursuit tif his studies 
in the .schools of New York and served an a])p]'en- 
tieeship as a jjiinter. His eaily impie.ssions of 
journalism were received to a lai'ge extent fi'om 
the veteran journalist, Thurlow Weed and .1. T. 
Noiton. \\ the age of eighteen he went West 
and U\m\ that time until the close of the War of 
the IJeliellion traveled extensively in the West and 
Southwest, constantly engaged in journalistic w<.)i'k. 
During' this period he had much exi>ei'ienee in the 
wild scenes of war west of the Mis.si.ssippi where 
the lawless element carried 011 a border warfai'e of 
their own. 

.\lr. Clark came to .Michig.an in IS(;(;, settling 
lirst ill \ an P.iireii County, and was subsequently 
engaged on the .lackson Citizi^n. Xovember, IHdl), 
he came to Lansing and for about tiiirteen years 
was in the employ of \\'. S. (Jeorg'e eV- Co. as jn-inter. 
proof reader and city edit<irof the \,a\\A\\ii Reptih- 
iwdii. W'liile thus engaged he also found time to 
practice >tenogi'apliy and became very expert, lie 
was one of the lirst to lake up this stud\' in Cen- 
tral Aliehigan. 

The subject of tlii.'- sketch after locating in L:in- 
sing made two extended visits South and wrote •,\ 
series of exhaustive articles on the political and 
social conditions of the Culf States. 'I'liese aji- 
jieared in the Rppablh'un in IHTti. In IHSl .Mr. 
Claik removed to Detroit v.here he was eng.Mged 
on the Fri'i' Pie>is. He remained there .-iliout three 
years and subseijuently wasengaged on the Trilmin- 
.and Eneninij NfKs. He is a charter member of K. 
P. Lodge, this city, and P.ast Chancelloi. alxi charier 
member of the I)i\ i-ioii 1\. P.; member of Lansing 
Lodge No. ;5:3. F. >V- .\. .M.. Capital Chapter No. 11. 
I!. \. M. .'iiid Tliirty-SccDud degree .Sc()ttish Kite 
Mason. 

Ml'. Cl.'irk returned to the capital cit\ in .\pi'il 
of \Wd and wasengaged with I). 1). Thorp, who 
is jiieseut proprietor of the Stale Ufpuhlkmi. .Vf- 
ter being engaged in the office for a few months 



PORTRAIT AXn rjOORAPIIK Al. Al.lir.M. 



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he was made editoiijil iiiMiiajiL-r and at the lucMiit 
time till> that inii)()itaiit jiost. He is an ambitious 
and progressive gentleman who .-ilihors mediofrity 
and whose slandavd in joiiriiMliMii is of the hiiihcst 
type. 



-Mr 



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^OIIN M< KIXI.KY. A good citizen is re:icly 
to serve his conntry lioth in peace and war 
and he does serve it alike whether npon the 
liattle field or in pnrsuing his nsnal avoca- 
tions, and by a life of integrity and industry help- 
ing to build up the social and industrial interests 
of the vicinity in which he lives. The reflection 
of a life thus spent makes the path straighter 
before the feet of the young, and helps to create a 
public .sentiment in favor of straightforward living 
and mutual helpfulness which is an advantage to 
the nation. 

Among the citizens of Lansing, none are more 
truly respected for tlie record they have both 
in peace and war than Jlr. McKinley. He is an old 
resident of the city and a carpenter whose pleasant 
home niav l)e found at No. 734 Ottawa Street, 
W. He was boiii in Ft. >Vayne, Ind., December 
4, 1836, and is a son of Alexander and Nancy 
(Archer) McKinley, who were fiom Ohio. His 
father was a caipenter and contractor of Ft. 
Wayne. 

Our subject grew to m.Mtuiity. seeming his edu- 
cation at Ft. Wayni', and learning of his father tiie 
trade which th:il pai-ent |)r;icticed. He workei] 
with him unlil he K'tt home to enter the I'nion 
Army, and enlisted December 17. I.SCI in the 
Eleventh hxlijuia Battery, going out as a Sergeant. 
He was .sent to ihi' .Vrmy of the Cumberland and 
took part in the conlliels of ( hiekamauga. I^iok- 
out Mountain. Kene.s:iw and Mission Ridge, and 
through the long campaign lo Athin1;i. His liisl 
{■ontlict WMs 111 I'ilt-buii:- Laiidiuii and his l;ist at 
.Vtlanta. and he w;i> disrharged .I:nniai\' 7. {XC't. 
having seivcd a little over Ihiee years. He was 
promoted during this time from (Quartermaster- 
Sergeant to Orderlv-.Seiiieant and Lieutenant, 



whicli last named rank he held at the end of his 
term of .service. 

Reluiniii;; lo the peaceful pursuits of farm life, 
Mr. .McKinley settled near Ft. Wayne for three 
years and upon the 8th of March. 1858, he was 
united in marriage with ^li.ss M.ary Pratt of F"t. 
W.ayne. Ten years later he removed to F^ansing 
to eng.age in contracting and grading, and many 
large jobs came into his hands. He also went into 
the manufacture of wagons for a few years, his 
taelorv being located on Shiawa.s.see .Street and 
\Va.-hington Avenne. Since he sold out that lir.-ineh 
of business he has devoted him.self (piite exclu- 
sively to his trade. In 188(1 he erected for his 
lamily a plea.sant home in which they now reside. 
Three of his children have grown to maturity. 
The daughter, who became Mrs. C P. LeFevcr 
died in October, 1889 and the sons, Frank and 
Oscar L. reside in this city. Mr. McKinley is a 
man who is nmst highly spoken of by all who 
know him ;ind he is an enthusiastic member of the 
(irand ^Vrmy of the Ke|)ul)lic and rejoices to cuni- 
menorate with his comrades the stirring days of 
the Civil War. In politics he is a Republican. 



'JDASPER W. OARLICK combines the busi- 
ness of Notary I'ublic and insurance with 
his real-estate interest.s. He is recognized 
as oiii' of llie reliable and active real-estate 
men of the city of Lansing. His otli.-e is located 
a I Xo. ll;"i Washington Avenue N. He has been 
in the ital-estate business for about three years, 
having succeeded his father-in-law. Jacob Cornell, 
who establishe(l the business fullv twent\' vears 
ago. 

.Mr. (iarlick is more particularly interested in 
the s.ale of Ills own and his father-in-law's |)rop- 
erty. of which they have some \-eiy njUumIiIc 
jiieces. He has. however, charge of a great deal 
of ])roperty belonging to non-residents, and acts 
as agent both for renting and selling. l!orn in Lucas 
('ount\-. Ohio. April 3(1, 1842. he of whom we 
write is a son of David and Family (Fuller) (^ar- 



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PUftTHAIT AND BIOGKAPHICAL ALBUM. 



lick. lUs paieiits iein:iiiifd in the Buckeye State. 
Iiowever. only a short tiine aftei' liis liirth. and 
moved thence to lluntiniiton County. Ind. There 
their decease took place and tliey were tmried in 
the litth» cenieterv of tlie town, hoth dyino; in 
January. l.sr)(;. After his parents' deatli our suli- 
jeet returned for a time to Lucas County. Ohin. 
and remained until the Ineakin" out of tlie war. 
when lie enlisted in the Fourteenth Ohio Regimeut. 
in Company F. He joined the army in 1861. and 
was sent to the frojit to meet the Army of the 
Cumlieihmd in Tennessee, lie was with thai army 
throughout all its eampaisj^ns and enuauements 
until after the capture of Atlanta and .loneslioro. 
He was a p:irticipant in the engagements at Chicka- 
mauga. l^ookout .Mountain. .Mi.ssion Hidge and 
many others, and the impression that that terrilile 
experience made upon his inind isiuily neutralized 
under the .shadow of the national Hag. At the ex- 
piration of his term of service Mr. (Jarliek was 
discharged in ISC-t. soon after tlie battles of .huie.s- 
lioro and Atlanta. 

On leaving the army, our sulijeet returned to 
Toledo. Ohio, and afterward entered the .Vdrian 
^Michigan College for a time. He soon, however, 
went to Big Hapids. .Mich., in the year lH(i(>. and 
was engaged in mechanical work for a few 
years. In lH(i8 he came to Lansing and was 
engaged liy the State as Clerk in the .Vuditor- 
Oeneral's otHce under (Jen. William II. Humphr\'. 
In 1H7II he was united in marriage with >Iiss .Mice 
Cornell, their wedding lieiug solemnized Octolier .">. 
\\ ith his hride he went hack to Big U.apids. and 
there remained for one year until he could clo.se 
out his i)ro|)erty. At the expirati<m of that time 
he returned to Lansing and here located himself 
permanently. lie had been variously engaged 
until the deatli of his father-in-law occurred, which 
took place in ^larch. 1H««. and he immediately 
became the successor in the real-estate business, 
which Mr. Cornell had conducted .so long and suc- 
ce.s.«fully. 

Like most of the lirave men who have served 
their country iu time of trial. Mr. (iarlick takes 
great pleasure in the fraternity of the firand .\riny 
of the Uepublic. and the experiences through 
which the veterans passed are always new. He is 



at present Adjutant and has been both .lunior and 
Senior \'ice-Conunander of the post of which he 
is a member. .Vthoiigh he is connected with the 
^lasonic fraternity, he is not an active member. 
Our subject and his wife are the |iarents of four 
children, whose names are as follows: Leia. (irace. 
Ualph and Mark. 

It will not be out of place to here give a slight 
sketch of .Mrs. (iarlick's father. .Jacob Cornell, as 
Mr. (rarlickV career is .so closely connected with 
that of his fatliei-in-law. The gentleman was born 
in l\iughkeep.sie. X. Y. On I'eaching manhood he 
came to Michigan. In IH.'Vl he settled in Living- 
ston County, and subsequently removed to Faton 
C(iuut\. where he married Miss .lulia Rogers. 
Here he devoted hiiiLself to clearing u|j ;i farm, 
which he had acquired, and remained there with 
the exce|ition of a slmrt time spent in M.isoii, until 
coming to Lansing in IHIifi. Mrs. (iarlick was 
born March 2(5. 1!^.')2, on the old farm in l'",aton 
County. Mich. 

.Vfter coming here Mr. Cornell soon began to 
engage in the real-estate business, and continued 
to be thus employed untilhisdeath. which occurred 
in 1888. at the age of sixty-six years. His widow 
still survives and lives in this city with our subject 
and her daughter. The gentleman of whom we 
write with all the members of his family worship 
at tiie Methodist Eiii.scopal Church. They are en- 
thusiastic workers in everything that pertains to 
the siuead of (Jospel teaching, and give liberally of 
their sub.stance as well as their time. .Mr. (Jarliek 
is a man who is highly spoken of by friends and 
business associates. Politically he is a Proliiliition- 
ist. 



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^OJIN lU.MLlll.'FV. S<mie men can pursue 
only one line of business successfully while 
others can successively take up tiade. agri- 
culture and manufacturing and can conduct 
all with equal success and satisfaction. .Such a man 
must of course have a considerable degree of adapt- 
ability as well as more than a modicum of enter- 
prise, and the one of whom we write may justly 



I'ORTHArr AM) 1!I()(;RA1'III( AI. ALI'.IM. 



11.^ 



liMVC sufli traits nscrilnMl to liiiii. lie is imw ;i licr of the liiriiv cities. Mr. llinnplircy ictiirni'd to 
|)i-omiiiiiit fariiuT niid stock-iaisfr. owniiiii one Dflioit ami for two years i-arrii'(l on a wiiolt'salc 
liiiiiilrcd anil twciily acres of clioice laiiil on ~cc- liusincss in fiuil. Iml in 1 HH.') lie |Jlireliase(i liis 
tions l.'iand if!, of ISriulilon Tounsjiii). l,i\inii>lon lucscnl |iro|)crty ami renioxcd to liriLiliton 'i'own- 
Coinity. an<l lu' is ;i nalivc of Detroit, lioi'n l-'eli- slii|i. 

ruai'N I'.l. 1^*12. In I isT.'i lie \v;is niairied to .Miss l.axina lllacl<niar. 

.Iiilm lluni|ilii'e\ . Sr.. the father of our sulijecl. who was liuiji in l'l\nioutli. Mich., and Ihisnnion 
was a natix'e of l'",nuland wlio came to .\merica has lieen blessed with li\e children, nann'ly; .John 
earh in life ;uid hecaine one of the e.arly settlers !>.. Zachariali ('.. .leiinie. .Myra :ind Mildred. .Mr. 
of Detroit. Dnrinii' his pioneer days in Michia.an lluni|ihrey is a man nnusnally well infornu'il in 
he followed lnmlierin<«- lait sulise<|nentl\- liecame a retiard to inatter> of |iulilic interest, and he is :i 
drover and was one of the Ik st known nu'n in Mich- thorouiili l{e|inlilican in his |iolilical \iews. Kor 
ijl.'iii.as he traveled over lU'arly all of the Soutliein many years he has lieen connected with the Ma.sonic 
I'eninsnia. Iiiivinsi' stock .a ml diiviiiu it to the mar- older and takes .a ureal interest in its |)roirress. lie 
ket at Detroit. He was one of the first men in \alnes his farm and the stock upon it ;iiid delii;h1> 
Michiii'an to lake up this lini' of work and he fol- in r;iisiiiu the liest liijides of ;iMimals of .all kinds. 
lowed it until aliout the time of the Civil War. 
when he.n'tircd from Imsiuess. lie had then ac- 
(piired a well-roundeil fortune, although he li.id 
come to thiscouutr\' with limited means, lie died 
ill Detroit in l.s.s l. having tilled out ei<>lity-se\en 
years of worthy and industrious life. 

|{o.--anna lllake. a native of F.noi.and. liecame the 
wife of .loliii I luniphrew Sr.. .and the mother of 
our sulijecl. .She had only two children .-iiid the 
other son is now hviii^ in .San l'"r:iiicisco. It is 
many years now sinn' she passed from earth. \\v 



ON. ( ll.VKLKS M. WOOD. The |irominent 

Y resident of I'ulnam '!"ownshi|i. I,ivin<>ston 
■V/T Counts, of whom we now write was horn 
~ Septenilier 2;t. iJ^iC. in We.-^t lirooklield. 
.Mass.. ;ind is a son of .John Wood, wlni was .a card- 
maker foi' laitton and wool and also a shoemaker 
of whom we wrile was reareil to manhood in the and merchant of lli.at pl.ace. Tlu' palern.al ^rand- 
lieautiful (ily of the Straits and there recei\e<l his father. Samuel Wood, was liorn on New ^' ear's 
education. .\t the aiic of eiuhteeu he liecame an day. which was also the Saliliath. in 1717. .and his 
expres's ines,senuer for se\er;d companies and when wife. Aliiuail Wood, was horn .March 20. \7lx. 
llu' war lirokc out hi' entered the eniplov of the They were the parents of nine children and tlic 
( iiiN'criimciit. his (Int \ luiiii; in the line of c<illect- f.ather of our suliject w.as next to the youni;est. 
inii and shippini;- hoi-,-es and other stock .and ac- lieiiii; liorn I'elirii.aiy 2.'i. 17sit. The ureal-irrand- 
companyinu; his shipments to the front o|- wherever father of our >uliject .and se\ en of his .sons lielonged 
they were ordered, lie often spent days at a time to W:ishiiiSiton"s army and served throusrii the 



uiion these excursitnis ami man\ times sutfered 
from exjiosures and pi i vations. ;iiid continued in 
this work Ihrou^li most of the years of the war. 

When the ••jiipini; time> of |ie;ice" came loiind 
ajiain the \ouni; man resumed husinesS .as .an ex- 
pres- messenger for aiiout two years, after which 
he liecame a niemlier of lln' lirm of (Impe A- Fale. 
painters and decoratois. of I'ontiac. He sulise- 
iiuently removed to Detroit where he liecame .i 
member of tin' tirni of (iodfrey <V < o. .Vfter ;iu 
extended lour throutrhnnl the Wot xisitinu.a niiiii- 



Kevolntion.ary W.ar. 

The mother <if our suliject liore the maidin name 
of Annie 'I'rask ;in<l was lioiii Novemlier 7. 17ltii 
at Leicester. .Mass. Ilea- father was D.avicl Tra-k. 
who was Captain of ;i ca\,alry company in the 
Massachusetts .Stale .Militia. He was lifnii .lum' I. 
17111 .and the liiainlnHither of our suliject was horn 
.May fi. 17()H. Aftta- lieiii^' married in Li-ict'sler. 
^la.Ns.. I'"eliiiiaiy \X. l!^lt». the jKireiits of our suli- 
jecl resided therefor a shoit time and then re- 
moved to West Hrooktield the same State till 1H.I:1. 



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when tlie^' removed to Geneva, Ontario County. 
X. Y.. and in Oetoher. 183.'). t-anie West. Mere 
they located at Ann Arlior. luit in .Tune, 1837, 
came to this country and settled upon a new farm 
in Iosco Townsliip, Livingston County. Their 
eldest son, George C'., was the first settler in that 
townshii). as he came there December 25, 183.5. 

.lohn and Annie Wood with their son Charles, 
came to PutuMiii Townsliip in the spring of 1845 
and purchased one hundred and sixty acres which 
was partially improved. The mother died Febru- 
ary (5. I860, and the father passed away ^lareli 28, 
1864. Of their seven children two only are now 
living — our subject and .lohn M., who at the age 
of seventy-eight years makes his home in Spring- 
field, Mass., and who is connected with the pub- 
lishing house of G. ct C. Merriam, the publishers of 
Webster's Dictionary and has been with them for 
over forty years. He read proof on the Interna- 
tional edition of the dictionary. 

(Jur subject was nine years of age when he came 
to ^Michigan and attended school at Ann Arbor 
and later returned for a year and a half to Spring- 
field, Mass., where he pursued his education. When 
seventeen years old he began teaching school in 
this county and also worked on, his father's farm. 
His happy married life began November 25, 1847, 
his bride being Sarah A. lUillis, daughter of Charles 
and Sarali (Ilalsey) Bullis, early settlers in this 
county, who came here aliout the year 1839. They 
were the parents of nine children, five of whom 
still survive. Their daughter, jMrs. Wood was 
born Ajtril 211, 1824 in (Jhent Townsliip, Columbia 
County, M. Y. 

To jMr. and Mrs. Wond have been granted four 
children, three of whom aie now living, namely: 
.Tulia A., wife of Isaac I'angliorn; George Dwight, 
who married Elvira. I. Riddle and h.<\s two childi'en, 
and .lenny L., wife of A. V. Wegener, who is the 
mother of two children. To these children the 
parents gave the liest common-school education 
wliich they could command, and lirought them up 
in the faitli and practice of the Ciiristian religion, 
being members of the Congregational Church at 
Pinckne.y, of which liody Mr. Wood is Clerk. 

This gentleman has been a member of the local 
School Board where his Inoad views of education 



have made him a power for good. He has been 
Master in the (Grange and also Deputy Organizer 
and has organized some forty c>r fifty granges 
throughout the State. He began his ])olitic.al life 
as a Whig and when fourteen \ears old was a 
warm advocate of old Tippecanoe. Later he became 
a I\e|)ublican and has frequently sat as delegate in 
county, Ccmgressional and State conventions. 

The public career of the Hon. ]\Ir. AVood was 
marked by his election in the fall of 1874, to re))- 
resent the Kighteenth District in the State Senate 
of Michigan. That district then comprised Liv- 
ingston and Shiawassee Counties. He was active 
in the session of 1875 and opposed the repeal of 
tlie old i)ri>iiiliit()ry law. He was a personal friend 
of the Hon. Zach Chandler and was deeply disap- 
pointed when that gentleman was during that year 
defeated in his race for the United States Senate. 
Mr. AVc)od was enumerator of the I'nited States 
census in both 1880 and 1890. He h.as fully one- 
half of his fine tract of three hundred acres under 
cultivation and thoroughly enjoys superintending 
his farm. ' He has remodeled and enlarged the 
residence which was built in 1847 and has added 
to the farm from time to time by purchase. 



'/AIMES JIARKEY is the proprietor of :\rar- 
key's Tjivery, located on Washtenaw Street, 
East. He is also Chief of the Fire Depart- 
ment in the city, .and in this capacity is one 
of the most eliicient ofticials in public service. He 
was born in lUinker Hill. Ingham County, August 
31. 1819, and is a son of Patrick and Ann (Caven- 
dei) Markey. The former was one of the first set- 
tlers in the township above mentioned, here mar- 
rying his wife in Loudon, in 1834, coming to this 
county four years previous to that auspicious 
event, during which time he lived alone fni his 
farm. 

On first coming to the State, and locating on his 
land, I'ati'ick Markey found It wild and unculti- 
vated, he however, devoted himself to the imjuove- 



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iiu'iit of till' fnnii liomesti'nd. aiul iiiaili' llic \'\:\rr I'irc l)i|i:iiiiiiiiil lui- a iiiiiiilu'j' of yl■a|•^. Itoloii'jinji' 

his iT.'-ifk'iico until l^OJ.'). wiicii lie sold il ami |iur- lo tlic Hook and Ladder Tiiick C'onipanv for ten 

cliasi'd another place three miles east of llie iild years liefore his appoinlnient as Chief of Fire l)e- 

hoiiie. 'I'here he lived until 1H7 1, at which timi' |iarlnient. He has never heen iietivel.v intereste<l 

he removed to lUaekman Townshiii. .laeksoii in polities, and is not an otlice seeker. Ilecastsjiis 

County. whe|-e he and his wife still live. Mr. vote with the Denioci'Mlic party, ami is ;i irood 

Markey was a puhlie-spiriti'd man. whose inlei'csls ('epit'sentative and upholder of that political hody. 

were always with those who desired the further- .Mr. .Markey has a very pleasant honu- on the corner 

;\ncc of improverneuts in the lowusliip. llescr\i'<l of \\';ishleuau and ( irand .\ \'cnue. whii'h is one of 

several times as .Supervisor of his loun^hip. .and tlu' most deliij'jitful locations in the city. I'erson- 

was also .Vssessor and Tax Collector. ally he is a i>t'ni;d and whole-so\derl man. hail fel- 

Mi-. Markey was one of the |)ioueeis in Ihe State low well met. with his e(pi:ils. lie is much liked 

who knew the lack of conveniences that are now hy all who have any dealinus with him. Socially 

at h.and. 'I'he lirst sack of meal that he procured lieis a memlierof the Ililiei-niau Society, and is also 

after cominu' to this St.-ite. he canied on hi< li.-ick .'i Kniirht of the M.-iccaliee-. 

from Detroit to his home, a distance of seventy- .Mr. Markey's livery slahle is one of the U'st in 

live miie.s. The next year, however, .a mill w.as !o- Ihe city: he k<'e|)s ;i numher of liood horses and 

e:ited at Dexter, twenty-six miles distant, where he conifortalile carriages. liaxiiiL; constantly on hand 

could have corn ground. His mail, also was procuicil at least .--ixteeu horses. His liusiness location is one 

.at Dexter, and w;is iroiie foi' only once ;i month, lei- of the best, most central and convenient in the 

lers lieiny luxuries in that day. that h.ad to he p.aid city. He has also in connection with his staMe. a 

for at .-I lii^ih jirice. the posta<>i' heiuu' at that time lartie feed trade, evei-y fai'mer from :i distance of 

1wenly-li\-e cents pel- lettei'. >[i-. Mai'key. Sr.. was twenty miles .around kuowini; ".linimy " .-is he i> 

horn in Ireland, .aucl came to the Cnited Slato when called .amom; his f;imiliai>. 
Ik had reached the aue of twenty-one years. ()ur 
suhjeet's maternal £>randf.ather was oneof the earl- 
iest settlers of Washtenaw. He was James Ca\'en- 
der'. 

( )nr >uliject. .Iame> .Marke_\'. urew to manhood on 
the old farm. !ic(iuiriuo' !*tren!itli and xiijoi' with 
the routine of outdoor life that was neces.-aiy for 
the niaintename of the line (ualer in which his fa- 
ther kei>t his place: he there also acipiiicd .a i;<iod has pio\-ed himself ;i patriotic son of the c<>lilitr\' 
ediieation. ComiirL; to Larrsiiru in ISthi.the yoirrii;' of his .adoption, as he w.as .ainoiru' tiri' most ear'iiest 
m.an entraired at om-e in the livery lirrsirress ami .aird zealoirs to >piiiii; to lici' defiur.se iir the dili'k 
Ir.as de\'oted himself to this line rrrost of thi' tiirre hours ol the Ci\il War-, eirlisliir"' under one of the 
siirce 1H77. All his interests ami connect iorrs ar-c liist call>>eirl oirt liy I'i'csideut Lincoln. Irr his 
clo.sely .allied with this city. Ileic he nrara-ied his <'h;rract<'r' .arrd irrteni he ilhrstrates lineh' the <ii;iiid 
wife, who was hefoiv mara'iaue. .Miss Li/./.ie ()tlo- m.aterial of which oirr corrntiy has been made u|). 
\irre. of Ci'and Hapids. Their- mar-riaa-e w.-rs cele- ;rs he left his irative cotintiy to find in this land of 
hrale<l Novemliei- 7. IH77. The lady is a davriihter- lilualy a liro.-idei- field for his enersiies .and a liettia- 
of Julius Ottovine. oire of the early settler's of oppoi-t irir ity to ser-\-c his u-enerntioir. 
(inilid Kapiils. .Mr-. I'eters. who is rrow cni-ryinsi on the liounie 
The oriirinal of our sketch was ap|)oirrted chief avocation of tariner arrd hlacksmith. ivsides on sec- 
of the Lausino- Fire Department irr >[ay. IS'.m.and tion 1 (>. ll.amliirr u Towirship. Livinsjston County, 
ill May. IHOl he received the compliment of a r-e-ap- and i- the son of Niahtinsrale Petei-s who was sec- 
poinln-reirt. He has heerr closely idenlifii'<l with the ond L;:rrnckeeper- for- l.or'd Cowpei' of I!er-tfo|-dshiie. 



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'A li-ILLlA.M l'l-;rLl;s. ihe plea>airt arrd he 
\/ifjll "i'^'"'*'"t jrentlernan who ftiriiis the sulijee 
WW' of our sketch, .rllhorriih of foreijiii hirti 



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Eiig-land, being horn there about the year 1800 
and entering- the service of Lord Cowper at the age 
of twenty-one. Tliis member of the British nobil- 
ity wa.s a relative in direct line of the poet Cow- 
per, and ^Ir. Peters speaks of l)oth him and Lady 
Cowper with great respect and veneration. E.spec- 
ially is this the case in regard to this lady, who was 
devoted to the jteople of her estate and looked out 
for their interests with great kindness and faith- 
fulness. 

After spending twenty-one years in the service 
of Lord Cowper, Niglitingale Peters entered the 
service of Sir Aliel Smith as first gamekeeper, and 
remained witli him vmtll called hence by death in 
186-2. About the year 1.S21 he married Martha 
Graves, who was born in England in 1801 and died 
about the year ]8(;8. They had nine children, 
our subject, who was born in May, 1835, being the 
fifth in age and the only one who ever came to 
America. One of his Ijrothers went to Australia and 
has not been heard from since 1873, but the rest of 
the family have remained in their native home. 

Our subject attended a school which was sup- 
))orted liy Lady Cowper until he reached the age 
of twelve years and then worked for four years on 
the Cowper estate, after which he spent two years 
in a factory in Wales. In 18.53 he came to New 
York and sjient several years there, learning his 
trade and spending .some three years as a sailor. In 
1861 he left the eity and bought a place in Canas- 
tota, N. Y. In 1 863 he married Uosilla, daughter of 
Nathan Baker, who was born in 1843 and is the 
only daughter in a family of four children, all of 
whom are living. 

In 1866 tliis young (>ouple migrated to Michigan, 
settling in Pettysville, I^ivingston Cfiunty, wheri^ 
Mr. Peters bought a shop and somewhat later pur- 
chased eighty .'icies on section 16,Hain!nirg Town- 
ship and tlieie built liiin a beautiful home. Three 
daughters and (me sou have lilest this rmion — -Lil- 
ly, who received a good education and is now the 
wife of Charles Burrows; William A. who resides 
in Owosso; AVinnifred, who is a teacher by profes- 
sion and Rola who is at home. The mother of 
these children is a conscientious and active mem- 
ber of the Congregational Church. Besides their 
own children this excellent couple had under their 



care in their home for abont three years two or- 
phan nephews, who are the only relatives our sub- 
ject has in this country. 

The experience through which Mr. Peters passed 
during the War of the Rebellion has attached him 
deeply to the party which supported the adminis- 
tration during that trying. season and he is a worker 
in its ranks. He has been .Justice of the Peace 
besides serving three terms as Township Clerk, yet 
he is no politician or wirepuller in the accepted 
sense of those words, and has refused other oflices 
when they have been proffered him. He is identi- 
fied with the Howell Post, No. 120.G. A. R. 

In 1861 he enlisted in Company- G, Twelfth 
New York Infantry and was attached to the Army 
of the Potomac, passing through the Peninsular 
campaign and being active in the first Itattle of 
Bull Run. He received a sunstroke previous to the 
second battle of Bull Run and was in the hospital 
wagon at the time of that engagement. Through 
his two years of service he was never captured nor 
severely wounded, lie is a fine specimen of the 
sturdy, honest Englishman, who has developed 
along the lines of our free and broad national 
influence into a true-hearted American citizen. 



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W. RIKERD. Of all the good fellows 
r )T in Lansing, Ingham County, none are more 

liked or popular than he of whom we write. 
;; As .Secretary and Treasurer of the C'apital 
Lumber Company, our subject finds his time and 
attention occupied to the fullest extent with his 
Inisincss cares. He was born in Birmingham, Oak- 
land County, Mich., Feliruary 15, 1861. His father 
was I). W. Rikerd, a native of New York, having 
becnliorn in Rheinbeck, Dntche.>s County, where he 
was raised and educated. Thence he came to Oak- 
land County, this State, about 1832-33, and loc- 
ated in Troy where he first engaged in fanning, 
then removed to near Birmingham, where he w.as 
most actively engaged in business. Here he was a 
pioneer settler and like other settlers began at the 
bottom of the ladder. He secured a tract of land 



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in tlio iiii(l>t (if wlik'h he Imilt a Ui'j; liuiisi' and 

clcnroft lii.-i land a« lie eonld, plantini; and reapin"' 

I 
until he had the wlioli' tract undiT the lincsl state 

uf cull ivalion. 

Tlu'ie Mr. Hikerd. Sr.. secvired an<i jiaitiallv 
iniiMdved several farms and in l(^(!l lie came to 
Laiisiuii' Township where he puichased between 
four hundred and live hundred acics of land. He ' 
resided on this farm for two years an<l then came 
to the city of Lansing where he has ever since 
lived. He now resides on tlie corner of Franklin 
Street and Capitol Avenue. ()ur suliject's inolhci- 
was liefore her mariiajje a ]\Iiss Harriet K. Case, 
liorn ill IJii iniiiijliam, thisState. .She was a dauirh- 
ter of Ionian Case, a native of New York, who 
settled in ISirniingham at ;in early day .and there 
died. 

()Mr suliject was reared andcducatc(l in this city. 
He remained at home and while there was enuaijed 
ill the pursuit of his studies at school until seven- 
teen years of age. In IMT^* he liegjin life for him- 
self as a clerk in IJroas" clothing store and there 
he remained for tive years, at the end of which 
time 111' laid olf for one year. In 1 M.S.") he w.-is 
appointed Deputy Revenue CoUectoi' for the Sixth 
Division of the First District by .lohn 1!. ^Maluiiy, 
of Detroit. Our subject took his position July 1, | 
of that year, and was the first Democrat Deputy 
Revenue Collector ever appointed in Jlicliigan. 
He served until .June 30, 1889. The division that 
he was given charge of embraced .lackson, Cal- 
houn, Ingham, (xenesee, Clinton, Shiaw.assee and 
Gratiot Counties. 

In 1«8!) Mr. Rikerd became connected with the 
lumber c(jmpaiiy with which he is now. He was 
one of the organizers of this comjiany wliidi look 
form and liecame an accepted fact in February. 
1889. At tliat time he was elected Secretary .•nid 
Treasurer and h.is since held that position. The 
company have two yards, one of which is 
at North Lansing, called the Mi<-liigan .Vvemic 
Yards. They also have a ])laning mill at 
North Lansing and manufacture sash, doors, blinds 
and contractors' supplies. 

The original of this sketch is .Master of ( ap- 
it,oI Lodge, No. (>6, F. & A. M.. in the city of 
Lansing. In his politicical views he is, of eour.*e, 



a Democrat, as would be understood from the 
fact th.Mt he was ajipointed to his otlicial posi- 
tion under that party. He has been a member of 
the CVninty Democratic Committee and is also a 
member of the City ( ommittee, having l)een .sent 
to sever.'il State and county convention.*. The 
lumber com] );iiiy with which he is now connected 
and which owes its being in no small respect to 
him. is one of the most important in Central .Mich- 
\iX:\^\ and does a great amount of business. 









AC()I'> ST. MIL. One never realizes the 
truth of the saying that all is not gold that 
glitters as much ;is when standing before 
the enticing window of a hardware store 
iilittering with its bright pans and i)ails aii<l 
n umerous cooking utensils and for all one knows 
perfectly well that the resemblance to the inrcious 
nu't.-il is speciiuis. there is seldom a h<niscwife that 
Is not fascinated. ( )ne of the most noticeabk' 
hardware establishments in the city of Lansing, 
attractive in its arrangement and having the largest 
.stock in this portion of the county, is owned and 
coiKluctcd by the genlleman whose name is at the 
head of this sketch. 

The bnilcling in which Mr. .Stahl's store is located 
li.as a thirty-four-foot frontage and is one hundred 
and forty-si.x feet deep. He occupies the first floor 
of the building and the basement and carries a 
very heavy stock of the goods of which he makes 
a specialty. Mr. Stahl has lieen in the business 
here since isxi und is now generally recognized 
as among the most prominent men of the city. 
The building which he occui)ies he erected in 1887, 
It is a line structure, having a front of pressed 
brick and is attractive in style of architecture ,and 
while not overladen with superlluous ornamenta- 
tion, it is graceful and modern. The trimmings 
are of Lake Superior stone, which gives an air of 
solidity and permanency to the building. The 
windows are great .squares of plate glass through 
which the stock is displ.ayed to the greatest advant- 
age. The interior is elegantly finished in hard 



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wood, with an admirable polish that is made by 
four-coat work. Tlie establishment is said by 
traveling hardware men to be the finest in its 
finish .and the way in which it is kept up of any 
estalilishment that they h.ave ever seen, and so 
scrupulously nice is it kept in every detail that one 
seeing it for the fii'St time would suppose that it 
was just finished. Everything i> thoroughly dusted 
every day. 

The second floor of Mr. iStahl's building is de- 
voted to ofHee room wliich in point of care cor- 
responds to the rest vf llie luiildiug. The thii'd 
floor comprises a very good hall which is rented to 
the Indeiiendent Order of Odd Fellows and the 
Elks as a place of rendezvous. The original of 
our sketch, besides this business of which we have 
spoken, is also interested in the City National 
Bank and is a Director in the People's Savings 
Bank of West Bay City. Mr. .Stahl is also the 
owner of another handsome building which was 
erected in ]>S90 and is now occupied by jMarble^ 
French & Co. It is 06x90 feet in dimensic>ns and 
three stories high. He owns besides considerable 
real-estate .nnd seven dwelling.-- in liie city, also a 
store at .Vmherst. Oliio. where he was intei'ested for 
some time before locating in l^iinsing. Mr. Stalil 
gives his entire attention to his legitimate business, 
which is that of hardware. He was, previous to 
coming to this city and while yet in Ohio, Alder- 
man for six years in Amherst and was an active 
memlier upon numerous county conuuittees. 

Socially ]Mr. Stahl i.- connected with the bcf-t 
lodges of the place. Hi' is a member of tlic F,lk> 
and also of the Independent Order of Odd Fcllow>. 
He lielongs both to the Lodge and Kncampment 
of the Knights of l'yHiiM>. alMi the Liiiforniccl Rank 
of the Knights of the .Maccabees, lie is besides a 
member of the Royal .Vrcanuni. ^Ir. Stahl is a 
believer in Christianity in it> purest and sini))lesi 
form. He worships with the Congregational de- 
nomination and is a menibei' of that church. 

Our subject was burn in (ierniany. August 2H. 
1)^45. He came to tln' Lnited States in l^li;') and 
located at Clevelan<l. Ohio. While still in the 
Fatherland he had learned the trade of a machinist 
and on locating in Cleveland he was employed in 
p, machine sliop and foundry. After I'emaining 



there one and a half yeais he was made foreman 
and had the supervision over one hundred and 
fifty men. He remained with that company until 
1871, when on account of ill health he left the 
Ijusiness and started in the hardware business at 
Amherst, Ohio. Six years later he sold out his in- 
terest there and made a visit to the Fatherland. 
The pleasure with which he once again drew 
near his boyhood's home can be imagined. The 
following year. 1878, he went to Pai'is and had 
the [jle.asure of attending tlie exposition. His 
trip to Paris was made with his family and they 
e.xtended it so that it emliraced a most interesting 
tour thr(,>ngh other parts of Euifipe. 

On coming to Lansing, .laiinary 2(1. IJSKI. .Mr. 
.Stahl immediately began to hiok about to .see what 
opening there was for him in this city. He i)ur- 
chased two stocks of hardware and soon after es- 
tablished himself in trade as above related. .Since 
that time he h.as been most successful. His affairs 
are carried on under the most business-like ])iinei- 
ples. On February 13. 1868, Mr. Stahl was nniled 
in marriage to .Miss Kate Hessert. at thai time of 
ClevelaiKl. ( )liio. iiul like himself of ( Jerman birth 
and parentage. She was born in (ierman\' in 184r). 
c<miing to this country in 18.52. and locating in 
theeit\ in which liei- marriage took ])l.ace. This 
union has been blest by the birth of two children 
— Louis and Frank. One of the sons i^ in the 
store and proves to be an elticient assistant in the 
conduct of hi- fathei''s liusine.ss. 



ON. .l.\MKS 11. I'OUTKK. who is ex-Secre- 
lar\ iif State, and a ]irominent man resid- 
ing in L.'insiiig. was born in Alai'cellus, N. 
Y.. .September 7. 1821. He is a son of the 
Kev. .Seth .1. Poller, who was ;i nati^•e of ^^'illiam- 
stoii. Mass.. and edneated at .\uburn. X. '\.. devot- 
ing himself to the dei)artment of theology. He 
prepaied himself for the Presbyterian ministry and 
' soon after being admitted to the Presbytery w;is 
nnited in marriage to ^[iss Cynthia M. Haines <if 
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421 



0\ir sulijeet's father's first chara'e was at Xew 
|j>lMin. N. Y., and his last ohargc before coniiiiij to 
Mirhiuaii was at .lane.-ville. N. Y. His aihiiit in 
this State was made in the fall of 1«.'5:!. at whicli 
time he located at Kalamazoo. In IH.'SI lie died, 
lea\'inir a widow and tliice children, our snliject 
lieinii: the second in order of liirth, K. U. I'oiter of 
this city heiiiii his brother aiid Mrs. Julia A. Ilay- 
dcnluirU. of Olix'ct. Mich., bciiii; his sister. Ilis 
mother lived until May II, IX«lt, her decea.se tal<- 
ing |)lace in Lansing, she being at the time eighty- 
live years of age. 

After the death of his father, .lames 15. went to 
Otsego, suljsequenlly finishing his education at 
Allegan Seminary, after which he was engaged in 
the dry-goods trade at Otsego, being one of the 
tirm of House iV Porter, the firm name afterward 
being I'orler A' Katon. In l.s.')0 he was elected 
Register of Deeds and County Clerk of ,\llegan 
(V)unty, which |)osition he held continuously for 
ten years. In 18()0 our subject was eli'ctcd Secre- 
tary of State <»n the Reiniblican ticket ;nid held 
the oflice though the entire war period, going out 
of olHce in .January. IMG?. lie renio\'ed his family 
to Olivet in IHGl. l)eing Secretary and Treasurer 
for two years of Olivet College. In l)Sf!(i hi' 
moved to Lansing, and after going out of ollice 
he engaged in the real-estate and insurance bvisi- 
ness in which he has been ever .since, the firm be- 
ing originally that of .lone.s it I'orter. The 
former, ^Ir. .Tones, is one of the oldest men in the 
city, and has witnessed a great change in the city 
of Lansing and in the value of il.s real estate. Our 
subject lias not interested himself to any extent in 
politics since he filled the office of .Secretary of 
State. 

Mr. I'orler was united in marriage August 17, 
1845, to Eunice .1. House, of Otsego, Mich. Hy 
this union he has become the father of two chil- 
dren, both sons. Ivlgar S. is residing in Lansing 
and the younger, William M., is a resident of this 
city. Mrs. Porter was born in Clyde, >>'. V.. .ind 
is a daughter of E. II. House, who came to Michi- 
gan in 1887. and located in Otsego. He there died 
in 18,")3, having been one of the earliest pioneei-s 
in that part of the county. IJeing Secretary of 
State during the war ])eriod. a great deal <>( extra 



work was entailed upon Mr. Port«r. The issuing 
of commissions was his work, and as there were 
several thousands and large correspondence with 
the general ( Jovcrnnicnt. his time and attention 
well' fullv occupied. 



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L1!1:KT CL.VHK. The United States of 
jj AiiK'iica, as a nation, has done more than 

/// 'W any other people during the present cen- 
y/ tury to foster and encourage that spirit of 

inventive genius with which her .sons seem to be 
imbued; more es|)ecially in connection with man- 
ufacturers and inventions that tend to reduce both 
inanual and .'inimal labor. This tendency has 
brought our ii.Mtion to the front ;is one of the 
greatest maimfacturing |M'oi)le in the world and 
we could hardly have hit upon, a happier illustra- 
tion of this fact tliaii in the improvements which 
have been brought about by the tirm of Clark iV 
Co.. of Lansing. Ingham County, whose senior 
inenilier is represented by the name at the head of 
this iiaragrajih. 

The carriage works of the linn just mentioned 
are under the direction of the following gentlc- 
iiKii: Albert Clark. E. II. Davis and A. A. Nichols, 
while Frank (J. Cl;irk is assistant and mechanical 
superintendent and .1. .1. E|-o.st is manager of sale.s. 
.Mr. Clark caiiie to Lansing in 186;5, Avalking thither 
because he had no iiioiiey to ride, and he at once 
secured work with Sprang .V ( ),~t rander. As he had 
previously leariicil Ihc trade of carriage-making 
he remained with tin in !i> a journeyman for three 
years, when he bought out .Mr. Ostrander's inter- 
est and the firm continued under the name of 
Sjirang A- Clark, doing business where the large 
factory of Clark A' Co. now stands, at the corner of 
(Jrand and Wn-htenaw Street^. Mr. Sjirang finally 
sold out to L. Frank Clark and Warren (iunnison, 
a l)rother-in-law of our subject, and the tirm then 
took the name of A. Clark A' Co. Those gentle- 
1111-11 .-ifterward sold their interest to Dart A- Davis, 
the old hardware firm, and in 1881 Mr. Nichols 
came into the business, since which time the mem- 
bers of the linn are as we have given them above, 



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This flourishing business has grown from a little 
repair shop, which it was in 1866, to a business of 
$200,000 per annum, witli an investment of $125,- 
000. Tlie main shoi), which was built after the 
tiro of l»f<(5, contains the workshops and machine 
room and is a building 80x80 feet with five floors, 
wherein are made the various portions of wood 
and iron work necessary in the manufacture of the 
many kinds of vehicles which are made by this 
firm. Here about thirty-five men are empk)yed. 
We next come to the siiiithV room. 14(ixl7(t feet, 
entirely equipped with the latest imiMDved m;i- 
chinery, steam hammers, etc.. and wheie thirt\- 
five men are also em],iloyed. In the gear room 
wiiich is 3.50x70 feet are jminted and stacked all 
the gearings for every kind of buggy and carriage 
maile liy the linn, employing thirty men in this 
depaitmeiit. In the body and varnishing room are 
twenty-five men har<l at woi-k on l)Uggy l)<)dies 
rcadv for finishinu and from thence we turn to the 
liimming room. 1 10x70 feet with astock room ad- 
joinint;'. Fifteen men arc employed in thi> cb'- 
pai'lMient and fine work is turned out. in the 
shii)ping room. l.')(tx.")b feet, from litteen to twenty 
men are Inisily engaged in crating and packing 
the finished orders and distnir.-ing them by lail 
and road to all parts of the I'nited States. I'lic 
show room and repositories embrace five floors 
of 8(1x8(1 feet each, where are constantly on exhi- 
bition from three hundred to four liundred \chi- 
cles of every description, liotli of natural and 
painted wood, which at once stamp the work of 
Clark & Co. as second to none, and a credit to the 
lieautiful city of Lansing. 

The senior menilier of tlie lirni lir.-t >aw the light 
.lulv 2(i. 1S4(I. hi^ native home lieing in Ingliam 
Township, this county. llei> the son of Klias 
S. Clark, now of Dansvilh'. who is elsewhere 
sketched in this volume. Our >nbject grew up 
on the farm and learnefl his trade at Diinsviile, 
working at different pl.aces bef<n'e coming to Lans- 
ing. He was married October 14, 1865, to Miss 
Nellie Gunnison, of DeWitf. Clinton County. This 
lady is a daughter of Klihu (iunnison. who was an 
old settler and a wealthy farmer in that county. 
To this couple were born two children — Frank (>.. 
who has been graduated fiom the Agricultural 



College, taking the degree of B. S. in 1890. and 
who now is with his father as assistant superin- 
tendent of the works and. Kva Mae. who was a i)rom- 
ising young lady of twenty years of age when he!' 
l)arents were called upon to part with her, she 
dying Marcli ^O, l^i'Jd. She was just completing 
her education. l)eing a graduate of tlie High hool 
here and having almo.-it comijleted a course at Mt. 
Ilolyoke Seminary at Kalamazoo, Mich., she being 
(jnite accomplished in both painting and music. 
The Clark family is prominently identified with 
the Inivcr.'-alist Church and Mr. Clark is a member 
of the .Masonic ordei'. although not active in its 
work. He takes an intelligent interest in pulilic 
movements but is not in politic^, as he prefeis to 
devote his time and thouiiht to hi^ duties. 



,f;()ilN 4'll().Ml'SON. To he descended fron, 
lionoiable and aljle |)rogenitors has long 
been considered a source of honest inidc. 
Yet this feeling has not been cnlti\ated in 
this country as it is among the peo))h> of older na- 
tions, where the heritage of rank re-inforces the 
heritage of charactei- in the poi)ular estimation. 
Still .-imong our best families uc find a disposition 
to renu'inberthe acts of our forefathers and t<_i en- 
cour.ige the recital of their deeds; and in remem- 
bering their worth we are incited to emulate their 
lives. 

lie of whom we write was liorn in I'l'eble. Corl- 
hind ( ounty. N. Y.. June 22. l.sill. Ik- t-anie of a 
long line of w<irthy New .lersey ancestors, as the 
I'hompson f.'imily has been a noted one in many 
respects. 'J'he great-grandfal her. Archiliald Thomp- 
son was liorn in Scotland, and when coming to this 
country landed at Amboy. N. J. This emigration 
was in 17111 and li<' w.-is .-iccompanifd liy two 
Iirotlifi-s. Ills wife, to wIk.imi he was united in 
17 11. was (if Holland stock, .-ind among their 
numerous family was a son who distinguished him- 
.self as Capt..lohn Thompson in the Hevolutionary 
War. He was also a seafaring num. ajid owned 



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and operated the fii-st jjaeket wliieh ran ti(>tween 
New Hninswiek and New Yurk. Tlie father oi tliis 
ison wa.s a prciminent and inlluential man and I'u- 
joyed a wide acquaintance in his day. ('apt. Join 
■l'iioni])son liad some experience.-* wiiich were quite 
noteworthy, as hi' was taken pri.soner hy the IJrit- 
ish and hchl hy Iheni until the close of the war. 

llun. l'liili|i K. Tliomi)soii. the father of our 
snlijecl. was ;i native of New Jersey and was limn 
in ITT)-* in N'cw Hrunswick. In his youth the faiii- 
il\' removed td Scoharie County. N. ^ .. n\ licrc they 
lived in tlie town of l-'onda. and there the yonnsi' 
man remained until he reached his majority, i h' 
was then married to Miss Kunice (iayloid. and 
soon after this hapjiy event he reniove<l to I'relile. 
Cortland County, where he eiisrayed in farmiuL;-. 

From 1H2« to IH4() the father of our Milijeet 
farmed in l.i\ inuston County. N. ^'...•\nd ;\fterward 
removed to .Medina County. Ohio, where he wa> 
elected to represent his district in the State I.eais- 
latuie. One fact which is worthy of note in re- 
spect to this recogintion of his .•ibilities is that he 
wa> the tirsl .Miolitionist who was ever eleete(l 
from that eounl\'. lie served in this capacity In 
1H4^«-41I. lie held various local otlices .-nid was 
universally esteemeil a> a m:in of intelligence 
whose inrtuence was hroad and stronuaiid w;i>ever 
exercised for the sjood of the coniininiity. lie was 
a Deacon in the Presbyterian Church f<ir more than 
half a centuiy and his relia'ious convictions were 
deep and ahidiui;. .Vfter his retirement from active 
life he removed to ()lierlin. Ohio, where he found 
a eonni'iiial atmospliere, religious, intellectual .'ind 
Ijolilical and there he spent the remainder of his 
days, dyiiifi .\pril 1. 18.51). at the ajje of seventy- 
two years, lie was twice married and had seven 
children by his first marriaije and three bv his sec- 
ond. 

On anixiny at majority the subject of this sketch 
earned his tirst money laborinir im the farm for 
«I2 pel' month. .Vfter that he took an academical 
courM' at Nnnda Academy. Ninida. N. Y.. and 
earned lii> way by workinii- on the farm .'ukI 
teachinu. 

When thi> youni; m in beiian life for himself lii> 
capital consisted of a New York two shillin" coin 
with .'1 hole in it. This coin which was worth 



about twenty-live ceni^ may well be considered a 
liuky shilling, for aeeompanyino; it was the good 
luck that is sure to go with earnest industry and 
clear "grit." Young Thompson had ever had a 
desire to become a physician and at one time began 
reading medicine but for lack of means was unalile 
to secure a professional education. 

Coming to Michigan in IHIJ Mr. Thompson un- 
deilook teaching in the district school of Lima 
Township, Washtemiw County, receiving for his 
professional scr\ices »\ I a month, lie jn'ospected 
for some time before iletermining iii)oii his perma- 
nent home, going \\est ami Xorth as far as Min- 
iiont.'i. and South as far a.- .Mississippi, where for 
four year- lie i-iig.'iged in ti^aehinu'. 

In tlu' fall of \x:>\ the young man returned to 
Michigan and in February, 1H.').'5 he purchased the 
propertN' where he now resides on seeljoii I. (ireen 
()ak Township, a tract of two hundred and thirtv 
acres. Here lu' devoted himself soul and body to 
fariuiiig. deleriiiiiied to make a succe.ss of his life 
and to produce a p.-ir.'idisi" out of this wilderness. 

.Ml. 'Tlioiiipsoii was married October !), IJS.'il.to 
Miss .Viiiiic ]■'.. (ilover. of ()iilai'io Coiintx. N. ^'.. 
and lo their lioiiie came six little ones, all of whom 
have grown lo iiiaturily, and all but one have 
taken their places in the w<u'ld and are d(.>ing such 
work as fairly entitles their parents to indulge a 
pardonable feeling of inide in the careers of their 
offspring. Philip (;. is a graduate in the Michigan 
Slate Normal School and is now a successful farmer 
in Dakota. Sarah C,, who graduated at Oberlin 
College h.'is now pas.sed from earth, leaving an ir- 
re|)arable void in the family circle. Mary (i. 
studied at Oberlin and subsequently graduated at 
the State Normal School, after which she took a 
medical cour.se at the Iniversity at Ann .4rborand 
is now in-acticing her jn'ofession at Itoulder, Col. 
( Jay lord (;., graduated at the State Agricultural 
College and is now a jn'osperous attorney at AVest 
.Superior, ^Vis. John i)ursueil his scientilic studies 
at Oberlin and latertook a course in pharraacj- at 
Ann .\rbor and is now filling a responsilJe position 
111 a drug store at .Adrian. Kunice graduated at the 
.\iiii .\iboi' High Scliool and is still at home with 
her parents. 

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. Iieeii dl' :i stiiflidus (li-spo^ition and liis influenei' 
supplemented l)v the scholastic atmosphere in 
which thej' grew up at Oberlin gave to each of 
them an amliition to gain a thorough and coni))re- 
hensive education, and it may indeed be said that 
they were scholars in the licst sense of the word 
licfore leaving home. Nothing seemed a sacrifice 
to these wcjrthy parents if it could conduce to se- 
curing a thorough education for their children. 

Having been reared a Whig, Mr. Thompson sooii 
went into the Republican party, hut he never 
aspired to otHce. He was also earnest in his ad- 
vocacy of the cause of tem])erance, and by churcli 
connection was a C'ongregationalist, until that 
society was abandoned in his neighborhood, lie 
has three lumdred and twelve acres of good land, 
upon which he has a fine flock of sheep, and is 
•successful in its culture. He is an upright man and 
a good citizen, wholicgan life on the liottom round 
of the ladder, and by his industrit>us and persever- 
ing energy has attained to the possession of a hand- 
some proijerty. 






OHN A. RECK. Scholarly men and tiu)se 
who follow a retired life often look witli as- 
^_^l : tonishment at the Inisy, ru.'<hing and enter- 
ing//' prising life of those business men who are 
known among their mates as "hustlers." Their 
activities are so vigorous and unabated and their 
push and perseverance so undaunted that the won- 
der is that they do not wear out during their early 
years and that so many of them retain their vigor 
till they have had time to .achieve the success for 
which they are working. But it is becoming a 
conviction among many thinkers that while activ- 
ity breaks down, it also builds up even more rap- 
idly, and that to live most fully one in.ay need to 
Hve most energetically. 

The gentleman of wliom we write is a promi- 
nent druggist of Xorth Lansing, and the junior 
partner in tiie tiim of Hedges iV Reck, besides lia\- 
ing charge of tlie North Lansing branch of tiic 
Lansing Postollice. Hewasliorn in St. Tliomas. On- 



tario, February 24, 18.5;j. His fatlier. Stephen IJeck, 
was a native of Andelfingeii, Wurtemberg, Ger- 
many, where his grandfather was also a native and 
the town's Treasurer for twenty-five years or more, 
besides being an extensive land-owner. The father 
of our subject was in his father's employ until 
lie came to America, in 18;VL when he located 
in St. Thomas and learned the trade of a marble 
and stone-cutter. There he remained in this busi- 
ness until June, 1860, when he came to Michigan 
with his family and established him.self as a marble 
cutter in Ann Arbor. Thirteen years later he re- 
moved to Adrian and in 1878 came to Lansing 
where he now resides, having reached the age of 
sixt\'-two years. He and his son are both devout 
members of the Roman Catholic Church. 

The mother of our subject was Josephine Mah- 
lenbrei. She is a native of the same town as her 
husband and son, and is now about fifty-seven 
years of age. Her children, six in number, are 
equally divided between sons and daughters, and 
John is the eldest of the number. This boy was 
five years of age when he came to Michig.an and 
well remembers the triji. He took his education 
in the public schools of this State, and when he 
had reached the age of sixteen entered the employ 
of C. A. Leiter it Co., pharmacists. After serving 
with tliem for three years and learning the practi- 
cal details of the business, he determined to per- 
fect liiinself in tliis line of work, and tlierefore, in 
1871, entered tlie Pharmaceutical Department of 
the University of Michigan, and worked his way 
through, sjiending his days in work and his nights 
in study. He remained there till Just before the 
date of his graduation, in 1875, when he took a 
l)osition in Toledo, Ohio. He did not remain there 
long, neither did he at Adrian and St. Louis, Midi., 
whither he went afterward, and it was not until he 
came to Lansing, October 27. 187a. that he nia<le 
a jiermauent settlement. 

F(:>r four and a lialf years tlie young man served 
F. I. Mcioi'e A' Co.. as clerk in the ^tore in North 
Lansing, where he i> now pro|)rietor. lie then 
bought them oul and in .lune. lH7'.t. took a half 
interest in the store u'ith a line stock <if general 
drugs and medicine, stationery and fancy goods. 
In Sei)tember, IKHo, (ieorge P. Sanford, who was 



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tlii'ii l'(»IiiiM.-tvc (if l,;iii>iii';, ;i|i|Miiiilf(l him 1<> tiikc 
cliMriii' i>( the Niirtli l.iiusinu otiiic. wliicli i- n 
liiniicli of llic m'licial cily ullicc. and in llii> c-iiiai-- 
ily 111- Ijms rciiisiiiUMl fidiii thai day to tlii>. 

Tlie most cvt'iittul st(.'|> taken ii\ fllis iifiilUinan 
hns been hi> iiianiaiif whirh ocriirrcd in l>ansin<>- 
ill April. I.ss-i. when he took to wife Mit^s Kiniiia 
A. (iati>. w lio "as horn, rcaicd and ediicntiMl in 
llianlford. Canada, lie thus estalili.sht'd a ha|i|iy 
home wliich is thi- Imsy iiiuirs haven of rest when he 
wouKl retire from file toils and iierplexities of the 
onti'i' world. To this honii' lia\'e eoliie two ehil- 
dren — Walter S. and l-loieiue M. lie is an aelive 
ineiiiher of St. MaryV Catholic Cluireh, where lie 
also serves as Trustee and i~ lelied upon for coun- 
sel and help in all church work, lie is .Secretary 
of the Lansiny Branch. No. is. of llie Catholic 
.Mutual litnclit .Vssociation. In If^Ts he was upon 
the Demoeratic ticket as candidate for City Clerk 
of Lansinu. hut as the city was then thorouiiiily 
Kepuhlican he did not recei\e the eU'ction. ll»' is 
acti\e upon city and waid coininittees .and is 
C'liairnian of the Fourth Ward Coniniittee of the 
Democratic party, and h.a^ repeatedly lieeii made 
deley.ali' to comitN ;inil State conxcnl i<in>. 



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^I/OIIX \. (ilLHKHT. .Many of the hiisiness 
men of Howell. Livini;ston County, are 
natives of th.e Wolverine .Stale, who have 
taken their traiiiiiiL;' and education here 
and are tliorouuhly in sympath\' with the institu- 
tions, past history and future "reatness of .Michi- 
j>:an. They take a pride in their .State which it is 
.scarcely ])ossil>le for one who is an alien liy liirth to 
feel, and they are williuu' to woi'k for its uplmild- 
inji' and prosperity. .\nion<> such we lind the 
lienllenian whose name appears at the head of this 
sketch, who was horn .Inly M. ISCi .-it liiiiui <it\. 
lirnncli County. Mich. 

The parents of our suhject were .loseph .M. .ind 
I'l-sulla ( \aleiitine) (iilhcil. nalix'es of New \ u\U 
and Mieliiii;in respectively. I'lic father was. as the 
son is. a harness-maker lp\' trade, who c;ime to 



Mieliii>an in I s;!ll. and -ell h d in j.iiiawpe County. 
icin.ainin;.; there for some lime, .-ifler which he 
lived for .a short time in Indiaua, but returned to 
-Miehigan in IH^.j and made his home in Pinckiiev 
this county. lie moved to Howell in March, 18;)2_ 
and eiii;!ii»'ed in the liarnes.s-makinii business in 
which he continued until death called him hence, 
November il. I«(i7. ha vino- been bereaved of his 
wife .M.'U'(-h 7. 1H.")«. He w.-is probably the fust 
I'rcsidciit of Ilowcll and was a prominent man in 
Ihc ranks of the |{ci)ubliean party. He was also 
identified with both the Masonic order and that 
of the Odd Fellows. 

In 18,")(t Joseph M. (iilbert went In' the overland 
route to Calitornia. He remained away for twenty 
months and made a successful trip, engaijing while 
absent in iniiiiiiir and hariiess-makino' and coming 
back mui-li improved in health. He bought prop- 
erty on (iraud l{ivcr .Streel and there carried on 
his business, making his home on Clinton Street 
where he puit-hased a pleasant residence. He had 
a family of eight children, three only of whom are 
now living. They are named Julia M., now Mr.s, 
(iriffith, of Marshall, Mich.. .lolin \. and Ida L'.. 
Mrs. Davis, of Stilhvater, Minn. 

John V. (Tilbert who is now carrying on a pros- 
perous business ill the manufacture of saddles and 
harness, and is also liiited States Agent for pen- 
sions, received Ins early education in this city and 
learned his trade with his father, commencing in 
June, 185!). His pursuit of a trade was. early 
broken up by tin- excitement and movements in- 
cident to Ihc liicaking out of the Civil War. This 
boy of seventeen was the sec(md man to volunteer 
at Howell after the sound of that "tirst gun" at 
Ft. Sumter that i-ouscd the North. His father pro- 
tesle<l against his going to the war on account of 
his youth, bill linaliy gave his (-onsent and the 
bov was mustered into service July 1, IHfil, 

Company I, of tin* Fifth .Michigan Regiment 
was the (-oinpany with wlii(-li young ( iilbert went 
into i-amp at Ft. Wayiii-. .Mich., and in ( )c- 
tober he went to Washington as a Cor|)oi-al and 
was engage<l in the battle of Williamsburg. \';i.. 
tin- following spiiii-j. He was wounded in the 
riiilil instep, a ball passing through the delicate 
nerves of Ihe foot and in le.ss tliaii two hours l<K*k 



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jaw had set in. He was the first man that was 
wounded in his company, and he was obliged to 
return liome in .Tuly, 1862, as he could not walk 
without crutches for two years. 

The young veteran resumed his business as 
a harness-maker, being employed al .Jackson and 
other places, and on t'hristmas Day, 1863 he 
started in business f(»r himself at Brighton, and 
carried on his work there until his love for his 
country again overcame his devotion to business 
!ind lie I'c-cuHstod on the ISlh of Fehru.nry. 1K6;"), 
taking Ihc position of s.-iddlcr in the Sixth Alichi- 
gan Cnvahy. Al Ihc close of hostilities this I'cgi- 
ment was ordered to Ft. Kridger. I'tali. win re they 
were discharged, IMarch 2.'), 1866. 

As Mr. (lillicrt was already so far on his route 
to the coast, he decided to continue on the direc- 
tion pointed out b\ the Stai- of Empire, and he 
went to C'alif<irnia. lie worked at his trade for 
some four months and then for nine months 
clerked in a wholesale and retail cigar and tobacco 
store. He then resumed his trade at San Jose and 
remained there until February 3, 1868, when *he 
returned home, .as lie had received word of the 
death of his fatlier. He purchased the interest of 
the other Jieirs in his father's business and estab- 
lishment and has since carried it on himself, having 
four men in his emplo.y and making his factory 
the largest of its kind in the county. 

The attractive home of our subject at the corner 
of Bernard and Lake Streets, which he erected in 
1880 is presided over by a lady whose name was 
Louisa Edwards. Their marriage tocik place in 
Detroit in .June, 1876, and has been blessed by the 
birth of two children, (Irace V. and Rex E. The 
first marriage of our sul)ject took jjlace Decemlior 
3, 1868, and he was then united with Miss Augusta 
vS. Allen of West Bloomfleld, Oakland County, 
Mich. She became the mo'her of three children 
(only one of whom is living, Mary A.) and died in 
1874. 

The political views of Mr. (iilbert lead him into 
alliance with the liepublican party and he is also 
connected with the Masonic order, with the Royal 
Arcanum, and with the Knights of Honor. He 
is prominently identified with the Grand Army 
of the Republic. He is still suffering from the 



effects of the wound which he received in the 
battle of Williamsburg, as in 1883 he had in con- 
sequence of it an attack of locomotor ataxy and 
for eighteen months was laid aside from active 
work; alt tough he is now much relieved he is still 
a sufferer and finds this troulile a hindrance in the 
lierformance of his work. 



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v!S5^^ .v.MiKL (;. lion; 

S;^^ ticman whose 

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1TAL1N(;. riic gen- 
namc wc now |)i'cscnt was 
nil 111 .Michigan in the old Territorial 
(lav>. His first home was in Livonia, 
\\';iyiic County, and the date of liis birth Septem- 
lier 3, 1827. Ills parents were fianeft and Lydia 
(Ciates) Iloughtaliiig, and the grandfather, Richard, 
who was born October 12, 1759. married a lady 
whose birth was May 11, 1766. 

The large household of the grandparents of our 
subject consisted of five sons and five daughters, 
namely, jMahala, Hannali, .lohn, Peter, Margaret, 
(4arrett, David, Ilany, Henry, and Elizabeth. 
Their father jiassed from earth in Oakland County, 
.June 13, 1834, and his wife followed him in April, 
1853. They were both Presbyterians in their 
religious faith and active in church work. Ciarrett 
Hougiitaling was born December 18, 1798, in Xew 
York, and left home when only lifteen years of 
age to learn the trade of a lilacksmith. He married 
in New York and moved to Jlichigan, where he 
settled in Wayne County about the year 182.5. 

The Hist land which was entered by the f.ather 
of our subject consisted of forty acres, which he 
sold after a while and again entered eighty acres. 
About the year 1830 he moved to the township of 
Lyons, Oakland ('(ninty, where he entered two 
hundred .acres which he cleared and improved, and 
it was while living lieie that he was called to part 
with his faithful wife. He afterward exchanged 
that property for a farm in Green Oak, Livingston 
County, and upon that estate of three hundred and 
twenty .acres he died, August 21, 1845. The first 
wife of Garrett Hougiitaling and the mother of 
our subject and of his brother William, died in 




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1835, and tlie second wile, whose maiden name 
was Rachel Thompson, had only one son. (ieoiije 
K. She survived iier iiusliand and was afterward 
married to .\lva Preston. 

Until he reached the age of eighteen years yonng 
lloiiii'htaling made his home npon the farm and 
tooii his training in the district school. He tlicn 
hegan to worl< for himself upon one lumdrod and 
twenty acres of his father's homestead, which he 
sold about the year 18,jl, liefore removing to 
(irand Rapids wliere he teamed f(n' nine years. In 
18;")8 lie traded liis liouse and two lots for one 
hundred and sixt3- acres on section 4, Chohoctah 
Townsliip. Livingston County, and this land he 
l)nt into condition tVir cnitiiic lie exciianged 
ninety acres of swani)! hind fni- thirty acres of dry 
land and owns a rniind liun<lred acres. Besides 
(•arr\ing on iiis farm wnrU he has o|)erated a 
thresiu".- for twenty years. In politics he is a Hepid)- 
lican, liut no ollicc seeker. 

The first marriage of our snlijcct was witii Kulh 
E. ■|":iyli>r. a Canailiaii liy liirth and a danglilt'r of 
.Vhraham Taylor, a wagon-maivcr. Two children 
crowned this nni(ni. La Fayette .].. and Frankie K. 
(deceased). The mother of these cliildren died in 
Fel)rnary, 1<Ho8. The second wife was .Melis^a 
I'alincr. and the marriage took jilace Fehniary 
10. l.Sdl. Sill' was Ixirii m the township of liriuli- 
ton, Xovemler 1. 18;?;"). and is a dangliter of \\ill- 
i.amand Sally ( F^ane) I'almer, who were lioiii in 
Onondaga (duiity. X. Y.. and came to Micliigan 
in the spring of l.S.i."). making their home in 
Brighton and entering :\ claim to eighty acres of 
land. 

In 18.")6 Mr. I'almer removed to Cohoctah and 
t<iok u]) one hun<lied and twenty acres on section 
l(i. which he at once proceeded to put in condition 
for cultivation, lie was a prominent man in the 
township and an earni'st l\e|iulilic;ui, (although at 
firet he had been a Whig) and his neighbors i)I.aced 
him in .several township otiices. He died in 
Iloweli. in Ajiril. lH^s«. and his widow still sur- 
vives. They were the parents of five sons and 
two daughters, namely: (W'orge. David. Chris- 
topher H., Andrew A.. Boroughs, Jleli.ssa and 
Phiebe A. David an<l Christopher served their 
eountrv in the Tenth Michifjan hifantrv. and the 



latter fell at Chattiinooga in the summer of 1H64; 
while the youngest son. Boroughs, died at the age 
of thirteen. 

In early life ^fr. Palmer and his wife were mem- 
bers of the ^Methodist Episcopal Church and later 
joined thecliurch of the United Brethren. He was 
the only son of his ])areuts. Abel and Hannah 
(Smith) Palmer, who came to Michigan in 1831). 
One child onlj-, a daughter, l'>llen, is the result of 
the second marriage of our subject. He has ever 
been prominent in social circles and is prominently 
identified with the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows. 



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^¥/01IN C. HAWKS, the proprietor of the Lans- 
ing Decoratum. is one of those men who 
have helped to lay the foundations for 
jirogre.ss in the arlistici)art <if home making 
in this city. His well-known taste, discernment 
and judgment have made him an authority in re- 
gard to ipu'stions of home adornmeTit. and he has 
proved an educative power in Lansing, Ingham 
( pnnty. He is esteemed as one of the finest work- 
men in .Michig.-in and his business, which is high 
grade decorating and fivsco work, is to him an art. 
and to it he has devoted a lifetime of study and 
practice. 

^Ir. Hawes was born .I.anuarv 1. 18i)2 in Conesus. 
Livingston County. X. Y. At the age of nine 
years he removed to Rochester, that State, where he 
continued his schooling, graduating in 1878 from 
Rochester Collegiate Institute. While still a school 
boy of foui'teen years he was ajiprenticed as a 
decorator and frescoei'. He carried on his studies 
and jiracticed his .art at the same time, and in that 
way made his way through the institute and at the 
same time became a successful designer and archi- 
tect. He acquired a refined and intelligent taste 
for decorating and became an artist in different 
lines, making a thorough study of every depart- 
ment of his work. 

Possessing unusual capabilities and <leteriniiia- 
tion Mr. Hawes easily kept aliead of Ins class, 



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altlioiioli 111' pincticfd workiiia liiilf of each day and 
devoted the other half to Ids seliool duties, wliile 
at the same time he I'oiuid it neeessarv to liel|i to 
sustain his parents. His excellent health aided him 
in earryini"- out this plan, althouoh he <«ave liimselC 
little r<'st. and his mind was so thorouuhh aroused 
that he sumetimes soU'ed dillirult prolili uis in his 
sleep. 

After graduation, yount; llawes continued in 
the deeoratinu- line and became well-known as a 
prominent and artistic designer, both in Rochester 
and at I)ans\'ille. At the latter place he rem;iine<l 
until he removed to i^ansinji' and had the control 
of fully half of the liitjh urade deeoratinii' which 
wa-- done, jii' is not conscious of havint;- inherited 
his taste and skill but believes that he owes his suc- 
cess mainly to hard work and tliorouoh eonseieiiti- 
ons study. 

In l«iMl .Mr. I la wes decided to come West and 
prosjiected tliroiiyh various States, makiii"' a tour 
of the proniineiit .Michiuan towns and lin;illy de- 
cided that Lansinu' offei-ed the best openina for 
his work. His object in removing- to the \A'est was 
to lind a better business openinji as he had learned 
liy e.xperience that the Kast was overcrowded, lie 
therefore made his peinianent settlement here on 
Xovember 22. llSiKI. and established here the 
Decora turn, liesides doing artistic work in the lines 
of sign, fre.sco and general decoration he ciu-ries a 
well-seleeleil line of paints and oils, wall Jiaper, 
curtain and window goods, as well as artist.s' ma- 
terials, and has the only sjjccial and i«>mi)lete line 
of high grade decorations in the city. 

.Ml'. Hawes employs some scores of assistiinls. 
sii]KM'intending everything liim.self, but eni|iloying 
artists both Kast and \\est to do his work, lie 
lias finishe<l some of the finest work that has ever 
been .seen in the \Vest, and the decor;itions of the 
Hotel Downey, just completed by him. are highly 
.■irtistic.tnd of great value not only to the itroprietors 
of the hotel, hut as a means of education to the 
masses. .Some of the colors which he produces are 
nnri\aled and are almost Pompeiian in their bril- 
li;incy and durability. \t his place of business 
which is located at No. :U)(i Washington .\\eiiue 
North, are submitted all |ilans tor truly high grade 
decorations which are desired in this citv. A selioJar 



and a polished gentleman .Mr. Hawe~ stands high 
in the soci.'d circles of Lansing. 

The lady who became the wife of .Mr. H.'iwes 
.lune !S. I,s7it. at La wieiice\ille. I'a., bore the 
m.'iidcn n.'imc of Loui'-ji II. Hatha way. Her parents. 
Oi'emus and Dorethea ( Loncks) llathawa\-. were 
born ill Herkimer rounty. N. V. The mother died 
in lUifl'alo. The father who was ,'i stonemason 
went to Californi.'i cluriiig the prevalence of the 
gold fever and died there. He helped to lay the 
brick and stone work on the Everett Hou.'-e one of 
tlu' oldest buildings in Lansing. .Mr. Loucks, the 
gr.'indfathei' of .Mis. H.-ithaway. was a soldier in the 
War of I.S12. .Mr.s. Hawes ha<l her nativity in 
t'ambija, N. \'.. which is in Niagara Counly. and 
received her education at \\'heatlield. Previous to 
her marriage she engaged in the millinery business 
with her aunt at Middle|iort. Mr. Hawes is a Re- 
publican ill his political views but is too busy a 
man to pay much attention to public affairs. 

Seth llawes. the father of our subjecl. was a 
farmer near Rochester, where he still resides, and his 
wife Ruby Ik'vins. was born in Livingston County, 
N. V. ( irandfather Cornelius Pell Hawes was born 
in Peekskill and was a coopi'ianda {'aptuin in the 
War of 1H12. The great-giandfatlier of our sub- 
ject came from Kngl;uid, whence the family trace 
their lineage back to France. A lithographic por- 
trait of Mr. Hawes aeeompanies this sketch. 



the Lansing .Vrtitical Stone Company. This 
_ branch of business w.as established here bv 
the gentleman whost' n.'inie is above, in I.S77. It 
was the lirst stone that w.-is I'vcr made heri'. our 
subject having becoinc ac(piainted with the Inisi- 
ness in .I.'ickson in IMTl which was not long after 
the imention of artillcial stone. Uelieving Lan- 
sing to be a good point in which to introduce his 
business, he came here and has already been xerv 
successful. He succeeded beyond his most .sangu- 
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estalJli^'ll a stock c'()iii|)!iii\. This, however. ])roved 
to be an miCoituiKite slep, for tlie inanaij:ement 
|)as>eil iiilii inexperienced hands and tiie Imsiness 
which liiul promised so well did not i)rove to l)e a 
success. However, on their failure our suiiject was 
cei'tain lliat a most prosperous liusiness could lie 
built up. 

.\fler the clo>iaji()Ul of Ihe esl;ilili>linienl nien- 
Iione<l in the oi)eninjj paragraph, our subject ayain 
opened liusiness for himself, he letaininii tlu' man- 
agement. .Since passing back into the hands of Mr. 
Stevens it lias continuously grown in importance. 
He now has .associated with him Messrs. L. C Hlood 
and W. S. (4riswold. This industry comprises the 
making of artitieial stones whicli arc used in the erec- 
tion of buildings, laying sidewalks, etc., and also 
sewer pipc«; and added to these are all kinds of or- 
namental work, which is so extensively used in 
cemeteries, vases and statuary. 

This thriving company of stone-makers now have 
contracts for getting out fancy stone for fifty build- 
ings in this city and employ a force of twelve men. 
Outside of this business our subject has made a 
number of inventions. This new process of making 
stone affords an opportunity for making man\' 
things in ornamental and imitation rustic work for 
which stone has never before been employed. It 
can be made of any color and any shape. The stone 
is ground up and repressed by such great force that 
it is harder than the original Itlocks. This process 
Mr. Stevens has procured a patent upon. He has 
also invented a conduit machine for making a com- 
bination of holes for electric wires in a continuous 
block of artificial stone. By this method it is pos- 
sible to solve the problem of placing the wires un- 
derground for electrical motive power. The stones 
are pierced witli any nunilier of holes and the wires 
arc (lassed from one to another ;is desii'cd, in one 
continuous jiiece without joints. Our subject has 
just received a patent for this valuable invention. 
He has also overcome the dittlculty of making pipe 
and tiieie is no doul)t that there are great |)ossibil- 
ities for lhi> new industry. 

Mr. Stevens was born in Blacknian Township, 
Jackson County, this State. Octolier 1 I, 1851. Me is 
ason of .hilm Stevens, whoenjoys the distinction of 
being tlie oldest settler in Jackson Couutv. having 



now reached tiie age of four-score and foui- years, 
lie settled in that locality in 1821) and still lives 
on the .same farm which he took up from tlie Oov- 
ernment and cleared. It has never changed hands 
and is one of the best farms in the counl\'. lie 
was born in New Ilam|)shire anil when only twenty- 
one years of age came alone to the woods of Mich- 
igan. .Soon after coming here he was unite<l in 
inari'iage to Miss Nancy Stevens, like liinisi'lf .-i na- 
tive of New Ilanipshiie. To them came live chil- 
dren, foui' of whom are still living. They were all 
brought up on a farm. Both paienls still survive 
and are surrounded by a portion of their children. 
Our subject attained his majority while still at 
home. His education was acquired in the district 
school. At the age of twenty-two years he went 
into the stone business and has ever since followed 
it giving it his whole attention. .Mr. Stevens has 
a pleasant home of his own in Lansing, a charm- 
ing little woman presiding thereover. His wife 
was. j)rior to hei- marriage, a Miss I<>dwinna .McCon- 
nell of Blacknian Townshiii. That happy event in 
which the two were made one. was celelirated April 
4, 1882. They have two children who are at once 
the joy and care of their fond parents. They are 
bv name. Maurice :iiid Howard. 



J OBKRT M. LAMORE.VrX. The prosjierity 
and progressiveness of Ingham County, and 
'' ' indeed of ^lichigan itself, is largely due to 
the unflagging efforts of the newspaper men 
of this section, who from the time the first jiiinting 
press was .set up in the Wolverine State lia\e per- 
sistently and intelligently called the attention of 
investors to the riches to be found in the soil, the 
waters, the mines and the climate of Michigan. 
The r&sources of the State were here just as much 
in that early day as they are now, but of what avail 
would they have been to the people of the over- 
crowded East had they not been advertised in the 
columns of these new-spapers. It is therefore with 
peculiar pleasure that the biographer resjionds to 
the call to give a sketch of the life of any one of 
the newsiiapcr fraternity. 



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Ml-. Lniiioi-ertiix. tlio editor (if the liii>lmin t'ouiity 
RcpiihUi'iui, wliicli is imlilisiied i\X Leslie, was linni 
in Sleiiheii Count V. Inil.. I'dii-unrv cS. |,S(;;'i. liis liun- 
ored pnients lieiiiy llenrv and Martlia (.Ktnes) \a\- 
iiioreaiix. whose native States are New York and 
()hiii respeeti vely. Tliey were inari-ied in Anuiihi. 
hid.. .Mnd now nialce tlieir liome at ISattle Creek, 
,Mieh. lh'nr\ I>anioi'eauK is in moderate eireuni- 
stiinees and rarrie> on a fai'in uf eiality acres near 
Uattle C'reelv. Mieii. lie lias lieen a Republican all 
his life l)ut has never been in olliee as he jireferred 
to devote himself to his chosen \-ocation as a 
farmer. Hotli lie .-uid his ^ood wife are earnest and 
eonscieiiti<ins inemhers of the Methodist Episcopal 
(hnrcli .-ind the |iareiits of fuur childi-cn; (liailes. 
Robert .M.. Lee and Anna. 

The subject of this sketch is the second <'hild in 
aye in his father's family .•ind urew up upon the 
farm in .Scott Township, Steuben County, until he 
reached the aye of eiyht years, at which time his 
parents moved to Kenmille. .Vllegan County. .Mich., 
and four years later removed to Calhoun County. 
The disti'ict school o-ave this boy his elementary 
education, which was supplemented by attendance 
u|ion the lliiili School at Battle Creek. He re- 
mained with his father, assistint;- him upon his farm, 
and learniiiii' practical les.sons of industry, perse- 
verance and thrift until he reached his inajority, 
when he determined to learn the printer's tiade 
and entered the olliee of the Daily Moon, at Battle 
Creek, as an aiiiirentice. He remained in that ottice 
for three years and sulise(|uently worked at his 
trade in K:ilania/.oo. |)ec:itur. and South Bend. 
In.l. 

S<.)niewhat later the youny printer conceived the 
idea of making an imlcpendent start in the iiews- 
pajier line and yoiiiy to .\ujjusta. .Mich., he pur- 
chased the ^\u£>'usta ('hrnnklc. which he pulilished 
for a year ;iiid a half, after which he sold out and 
|)ureliased the (ialesburi"' Eiitvrprisc, at (Jalesbury. 
Mich. After oiieratiny this paper for a few months 
^Ir. M. Lainoreaux went toDcti'oit and worked on 
the Eocning Neics for a short time, after which he 
caine, on New Year's Day, IHIU, to Leslie, and 
bought out the liiiihani County licpublicuii. the 
or Jan of the Re|niblican party in tlii.s .section, hav- 
iiiy at the time a circulatitm of live hundred. V>y 



his purchase he took entire chaiiieof the paper and 
is now sole editor and proprietor. 

Mr. Lamoreaux. as is natural to one in his posi- 
tion, takes a keen interest in public affairs and is 
es|)ecially interested in the movements of the Re- 
jiublicaii paity. which he i'epre.sents. lie is a warm 
advocate of temperance and a member of the order 
of (iood Teni])lars. His marriaoe which took ])lace 
.Seiiteinbci- «. ISttl. brought to his home Cliir:i. a 
daughter of William and M:u-ia (Connor) W'ickham. 
of Callujuu County. IMicli. Two years prior to her 
marriane ^Irs. Lamoreaux was jjradu.'ited in sten- 
oi>ra]jhy and type-writiny and has become a faith- 
ful ])artnei' in business with her husband. On 
Noxcmber I. It^iM. .Mr. Lamoreaux X'enturecl still 
further in the journalistic tide and took possession 
of the Battle Creek Wi-i-My Oill. In Battle Creek 
he has t.-dvcn up his permanent abode with olliee 
and household, and alrea<ly ranks anionu the tore- 
most citizens of the place. 



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(Ayl 1( HALL DOWI). The story of the poor 
/ A boys who have landed on the shores of 
// 'A' Ameiica without a dollar in their |)ockets 
* lint who have throiiah the wealth of our 

soil, tlu' wonderful resources of nature, and their 
own inherent qualities of enter|)rise, industry and 
perseverance conipiered a handsome fortune or a 
comfortable competency is a loii"' and \-arie(l tale. 
.Vmoiiii' these we m.ay mention the one whose 
name we have just written, who was born in 
.Vuyust. IH2(). in County Loiiiiford. livland.in the 
town of Barry, and whose parents. I'ctcr .and .Vnn 
(Mullen) Dowd. were also born in tin' sanu' 
county. 

Lliese jiarent^ biouuht up to mature years eiyht 
children, namely : Mary. I'atrick. Bridiiet. Ann. 
Michael, .lame-. Catherine and .Maryaret. and all 
of this laiyc family, with the exception of the 
daughter .Mary, have come to make their homes in 
the land of freedom. It was in ISIM when .Mi- 
chael Dowd came to the United States, and his 
journey occujiied five weeks. He settled in Brook- 







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Ivii. N. "W. mikI tlicrc IcMiiuil niiil piactieed the 
tnidc of M iiiMson. wurkiiiL;- in this line t'nr s('\-('ii- 
ti'cu yea IS. 

'I'llf \\'CS|( Til I'l'Vcr IKPW todlv |HlSSCSsi(J|l (if Ml'. 

l)()\v(l. and in llic fail of IMi;.") lie canu' to Aiiclii- 
iran and pviicliascd ciiililv acri's of fine land on 
section 2(1. Tyrone 'l"o\vnslii|i. l,i\inuston ('oiintv. 
'I'llis was llien eovei'ed witli focest, wliicli lie had 
removed, ani] he has lirouuiit il into a line state of 
|irodneti\'eness. and still lesides njion it. His 
iiiairiaije with .Miss Catherine I'"eiiel took place 
.lime 1!^. IS.')2. This nnion took place in iirook- 
lyn. N. \. The father of Mrs. Dowd was Kd- 
wiu Ferrel. who einiaiated to this counfry from 
Harrv. which w.ms the native town of o\n' snhject. 
Three children Messed this nnion — Anna, who 
married Tinioth\ Mnrphy. and has now died; 
Peter .•iiul Ivlward. Their mother ))asseil from 
earth in IS.")7. anil will lie loni;' renieniliered as n 
faithful wife anil mother and a devoted member 
of the Ivomaii Catholic (liiirch. The second wife 
of onr -iiliject w;i> i-;ii/.:i Kinney, daiiuhter of 
Chri.-lophi'r and -hine (.Mnlvi-y) Kinney. She also 
is a nati\e of ISarry. Ireliind. and had come to this 
eonnti'N' some time liefore her nnion with Mr. 
Dowil. Her .six children ar»' .lames, Christi)|ihei'. 
.M:ii\ . Mari>!iret. Ko.se and Catherine. 'I'hese are 
all lieini; hron^iht np in the I'.-iitli of the IJoman 
(atholic (hiircli. to uhicli their p.'ii'eiits lielonu'. 



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OHN 1'. I.()( K\\< )( )1) \\.i> liorn in (hitario 
Coniit \-. N. ^'.. in I s;.")."p. .-111(1 from his earliest 
\ear- has Keen conspicnoii-- f( ir his eiieri;y 
and activity, llis lather, .lolin ( '.. \\;is liorn 
ill Ontario Coniit\ . .\pril II. l.^^ln. He died the 
day the liist shot was tireil upon Ft. .Sniiiter. He 
was a farmer and snr\'eyor and was coiisiilered one 
of the liest mathematieiails in ()ntario ( ouiit\ niid 
was freqiieiillx coiisiilted liy person- who leid didi- 
elllt prolileiiis to solve. He had .in cm ialdi repu- 
tation in his specially, which w:i- tli.-it of -nrNcyiiii;. 
The mother of onr siilijcct in her m.-iidcn days 



was .Mis> .liili.M I'helps. .V ii.ative of Coiinectieiit. 
she was liorn at Hartford in IHKi. and still sur- 
\ i\cs. making her home :it (ieiieva. N. V. Movinif 
into (iene\a with his |iarents in IH(il..lohii I'. 
I.ookwood spent the next lifteen years of his life 
ill ,itteiidance .at the district scliools and in work- 
inc- in iiiachine shops. While living at (Jeiiev.-i he 
lost a portion of his arm while enuaiied in tliresh- 
inc. This necessitated some chaiiue in his plans 
for the future .■iiid h.'i\inc only s^l.'io in money he 
determined to learn the art of tt'U'uraphy. In a 
short time he was .sent to Sandusky. Ohio, on the 
H.'iltiiuore iV ()hio Kailniad and reniaiiieil there 
until the (lay after (iartield was shot, when lie went 
to ( )kemos to work for the (irand Trunk IJailro.'id. 
While thus eilii.-iiied he was coiidnctiiig a i;cneral 
grain and produce luisiness at Kllia.this .Stale, .-iiid 
after rem.-iining in this place three years and li\c 
months he went to I'ine Lake .aiid took charge of 
the station at that pl;ice.it lieiiig known as ll:is|etl 
Park. 

Since coiiiini; to llaslelt Park .Mr. l.oc-k W( lod has 
lieeii one of the linsicst men in the county. Iiesides 
perforiiiing the duties of an o)ierator. Iniilding up 
a Imaative trade in tliegenei:il nierch.-indise line, 
it lieiiic run under the linn ii:iiiie of .John P. Lock- 
wood .V ( 11. He also deals in ••igricultiiral iniple- 
nieiits and Imy.- farm products of .-ill kinds. .Vside 
from this he runs a liiu' farm which he owns (m 
section 111. of .Meridian 'I'ownship. He is Treasurer 
of the township ;ind, altlunigli a stanch Democrat. 
has lieeii aw.-irded the jxisitiou of Postmaster. 

Mr. Lockwood is a thoroiioli-going. wide-awake 
liusiness man who fully deserve,-; the success which 
he enjoys .-md the comforts which his line fortune 
e:i;ililes him to procure. .\n idea of the \ (ilnme of 
the luisiness done liy him in the little vill.-ige may 
lie had liy stating that during the year l«!lll he 
jiaid the farmers of this vicinity ¥7I.IMKI for farm 
products. ( )ur sulijecl was very li:ip|>ily mariie(l 
.March I, IS.sl.li) Miss Clara iridatid. of (ieneva. 
N. ^ . She i- a (laughter ol .lohii Ireland. Two 
children have heen liorn of this union — Kdwin .M. 
who died when I went \ -one months old and Charles 

P;iik l.ockw 1. ii;inic(l in honor of Dr. Park, of 

Okenios: the l.-ist child .are lioni IKHI. just liefore 
( levclamrs election. Mis. Locknood h:is lieeii a 



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member of the Sandusk}' Presbyterian Church. 
Socially, our subject is connected with the Inde- 
pendent Order of Odd Fellows and is familiar with 
all its branches. He has always taken an active 
interest in pcilitics and is well informed on all the 
i.ssuse.s of the day. 

In connection with this bio,<>'raphical review may 
be found the lithographic portrait of Mr. Lock- 
wood. 



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EMJY 1!. I'ATTEKGILL. A man who 
has the interests of the place of his resid- 
ence at heart, whether it be in an humble or 
(sS)) prominent way, always commands the res- 
pect of every right-minded person. In an edu- 
cational direction there is an additional degree of 
deference paid the promoters of advancement, for 
in the Republic of America in which we blend the 
French idea of equality with the English theory 
of l)rotherhood, we realize how greatly we are 
indebted to our public school system for many of 
the men that have come to the fore in public as in 
private affairs. The gentleman whose name is at 
tlic lu;i(l of this sketch is a noted educator in this 
State and is now the editor and publisher of the 
Michigan School Moderator, a semi-monthly maga- 
zine, that is published for the use of teachers and 
school Boaids, giving much valuable information 
in regard to school paraphernalia, as well as the 
latest theories and methods as used by the most 
advanced educators of the day in foreign lands as 
well as our own country. 

Mr. Pattengill was born in ^It. A'ision, Otsego 
County, iS. Y., .Tanuary 4, 18.'')2. His father was 
the Rev. Lemiiel C. Pattengill, who was a native 
of New Lislion, Otsego County. His paternal 
grandfather, also Lemuel Pattengill, was a native 
of Connecticut, where he engaged in farming, 
removing, however, to New York where he was 
an early settler in Otsego County. Lemuel Pat- 
tengill, Sr. was a Captain in the War of 1812 and 
was wounded at Queenstown Heights, and taken 
prisoner by the British soldiers and held for 
(wo or three months in Canada. His decease 



occurred in New York at the age of eighty-five 
years. The familj- are Eastern in their antece- 
dents. 

Our subject's father began his career for himself 
by engaging in farming in Tvew Lisbon, thence 
removing to Lawrence, where he became the owner 
of a fine farm. Always of a deeply religious turn 
of mind, he determined to devote himself to 
Gospel work, and became a preacher in the Baptist 
Church, in which body he became a prominent 
member. Later he went to "Wilson, N'iagara 
County. In about 1863 he became Chaplain in 
the army under the Christian commission and he 
was present at the victory of Harpei's Ferry and 
was able to give comfort to many a po(n- fellow 
who breathed his last in the cause of freedom and 
Union. 

In the fall of 18(i;") tlie elder Mr. Pattengill came 
to Litchfield, this State as pastor of the Baptist 
Church. He remained there for six or seven years 
and tlun removed to Ann Arbor, where he su])- 
l)lied churches. Thence he moved to Ithica and 
there he died in 187.5 at the age of sixty-tive 
years. He w<as a Kei)uliiican in politics, voting, 
however, for the man that he believed to be best 
fitted for the position and one that he felt that 
had integrity .and principle rather than a man who 
could be made tlie tool of unscrupulous ]iolit- 
icians. 

Our subject's mother was before her marriage 
jNIiss Blary (iregory. She also was born in Otsego 
County. She was a daughter of the Rev. Seth 
Gregory, a native of Rhode Island, who located 
near Lislion. He, like our subject's father, was a 
Baptist minister and for forty years had a charge in 
one place. Mrs. Pattengill is still living, making her 
home with her son. She h.as reached the good old 
age of seventy-eight years and has been the mother 
of three children, only one of whom, the young- 
est, is now living. 

The original of our sketch was born in Otsego 
County, N. Y*"., after which, at the age of one year, 
he was baken by his parents to Akron, Erie County, 
whence after a residence of five or six ye.ars he 
removed to Wilson and as soon as old enough 
attended the Wilson Academy. Removing to 
Litchfield, Mich., in 1866, he attended the Litch- 



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field lliiih Sclioul. After tli;il lie went In IIii(I.n(iii ()ullinc loi' S|n'ci:i| Day Kxercii<es for Sclio4)l." 

MMil wMs a i>rii<iu;it(' fioiii llic llii>li Sclinnl al llic All tin- aliiixe naiiicd hooks lie has written, and also 

aii'e of s('\ cnlccn \fai>. In I HTiMic entered the |Mililislie> the " Micliisfan Historical and (ieosjfrai)!!- 

I'niversit \ of .Miehii;an in which he (jursued Ihe ieal Cards foi- Sehool." upon which he has a copv- 

liteiary eoiiise for four vears. i>railuatinii in I.S7I liuht. \unierou> olher woiU> that hear upon 

and takinu' the dej^ree of liaehelor of Science. At educational inattei> come from his presses, 

the connneucement al which he was uraduate(l he In 1 HHfJ our >iiliject tilled the vneanc\' of Assist- 

was one of fourteen speakers and was clas> pi-o- ant Professor in ICni;lishat the Auricultural ( ol- 

phel. After linishini;' his collciie course he iletei- let;c. I nder his alile iii>tiiict ion it i;ivw into one 

mined to devote himself to educational work and of the most i)op\dar cour>e> in tlu' collei;c. In 

went to St. Louis, where he became Superintendent 188!) he showed his fearlessiu'>> in rciiard to pulilic 

of the I'niiui Schools, holdiiiii' the position for two opinion when he espoii.sed the pait of I'lof. M.-ic- 

\car>. Thence he went to Ithaca and wa> Supci-- Kwaii in the coiiti-oversy or ruption in tlie >clioo|. 

inlcndent of Schools foi' eiylit \cars. During his and at thi> time he .-ittackcil the lioard of Control 

>t;iy iif ciuht years in that city he estaiilishe(l a upon their action regardint; I'rof. .\i;icKw!Ui. .Mr. 

High School and interested the .School lioard in Pattenuill is an enthusiastic institute worker and 

hiiiher c<luc;ition!il work until .-i «2r),(l(MI .school has lieen ap|M)inted Ity the Stat<' Sujierintendent of 

house was I in i It. in which the I ligli School was con- I'uhlic I list ]■ net ion as ( on duct or of Instit utes and 

ducted. Duriiii"' the contemplation and Imildini; in this capacity ha^ done >ci\icc in oni'-h:df the 

he was on the Imildini;' c<Mnmittee .•iiid .at the sum countic> in the St.-iti'. 

time was I'residenI of the X'illaue foi- two terms ' The ori<>inal of our sketch w;i> married in .St. 

He was .also President of (iratiot ('ouiity Teachers' Louis in ls*77. his liiidc lieiiii; .\li» Liz/.ie Shai'p- 

. Association for eiyht yeai>. sleen. who wa> horn in Pen'\ . .\. ^'.. .and is a dan-i'li- 

In 1H^(1 Mr. Pattengill went to (irand U'.apids ter of .Mortimer Shaipstecn. also :i n.ative of New 

.and tlu're hecame assistant edit(jr of tlu* Sc/ioa/ 't ork. She came West when a \ouiii;' lad\- with 

Modi'rat'ir. a magazine pnhlished for the \r>e of hei- paicnt>. locating in Iowa .and latei- settling in 

teacluas and in the interest of educational affairs. (ir.atiot County. wIkm-c lua- f.atlua- w,m,- .an e.arh 

He continued m thi> po>ition for one year and pioncia' .and faiiner. .Mrs. I'.attengill was a grad- 

then liought out the pap(a-. iiano\ing lii> ollice to n.ate from the High School of St. Louis, .and is a 

Lansini;. from whii'li it has since lieiai puhlislied. most accom|ilished. amialile and :ittracti\( l.ad\-. 

'I'he maga/.iin' wa> lir>t printed in ( Jrand Papid- in She i« t he mother ( pf foiu' children who.se names 

188(1 .and the purchase w.as made li\ oui- .--ulijcct in an- ,a> follows: l,illi<>. \ictor P.. .Margaret I. and 

188;"). .Since that lime it h,a>gi-own fiom a sixteen- Pal .\1. .\h. I'.attiaigill has .a li<'.autifnl home which 

page (piart<i to a thii ty-two-page ipiarto magaziiu' he erected at .a cost of of s;7.ii(iil on Ihe corner of 

and it ha^ also increased in circadation from foiu-- Townsi ml .and I.en.awee Sticets. .\rchitectinall\ 

t(aMi liinidrcd to li\c Ihons.-nnl. As lieforc said, it it is lincl\ pidiioi'tioncd and .artisti<-. .and interior- 
is <levol(ai to the educational intia'ests and estah- ' ally is supplied with ev(a\v comfort and coiiven- 

li.slied for the lienelit of schools. The liest teachers ience that makes modern living coniparati\el\' so 

.and educators of the chiy are cont riliut(H-s. Pcsides delightful. It is .alioxc all .and licfoi-i' all honieh" 

this magazine .Mr. P.attingill pulilishes a iinndua- anil is a tit place- for the developnu-nl of true (ad- 

of otIuM- hooks. ()ne of (he most |)opular is the 1 ure ;ind relinement. The editor has here .a line 

"Civil ( iovernmiiit of .Michigan." of which In- lihr.ary of c.arcfully-selccted woi ks of the Nest 

him.self is the author. .Vnother \-ery attr.actively authors, .and his children are niadr to realize that 

written and pojuilar hook is •• Thoughts for those they .are the heirs of all the ages hy hcini; sur- 

who 'i'liiid\." also written liy our suiijcct. ••Tip- idunded .and m.aile famili.ar with the hest llioughls 

Top Pieces tor Little l-'niks." a •• .Manna! of ( )rthog- of the hesi Knglish wnteis ,,f c.ailv .-is well as 

raphy. " a ".School Song Knaps.ack." .and -.Vu model ii times. 



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Our subject is connected with several societies, 
being lecturer of the Lansing Grange. He is a 
ineinber of tlie State Teachers' Association, of 
whicli he was at one time Secretary. In liis politi- 
cal following he is stanchly Republican and being 
one of the most enlightened and intelligent men 
of the vicinity he has been many times a delegate 
to county and State conventions. AVhen a boy 
jNIr. Pattengill was severel.y Inirt by a reaper. For 
five months lie was confined to bis room and kept 
(111 his linck. 'riii> accident caused a sliglit lame- 
ness which undoubtedly changed the course of his 
life, as his early home being on the lake, he pro- 
bably otherwise would have been a farmer or 
sailor. 




^i RS. EMELINE (HOUGHTON) LANNING. 
It is an unusual thing to find a woman 
who has been brought up under the old 
regime in which it was thought unwomanly 
and immodest for one of the gentler sex to interest 
herself in anything outside of domestic affairs or 
such gentle occupation as writing poetry, to step 
out into the world and assume duties which have 
always been considered as belonging to the sterner 
sex. She of whom we write, although having 
passed the meridian of youth and vigor, has as- 
sumed the control of extensive business affairs re- 
lating to her husliand's estate, and has managed 
them successfully. Far from giving her a mannish 
or unwomanly air, she has dignified the work that 
she has taken up and given it a grace and gentle- 
ness of her own. 

Mrs. Lanning is llie owner of the farm located 
on section '22. llartland Township, Livingston 
Counfy, and although slic is nearly seventy years 
of age slie operates it so as to bring her in a good 
income. The la(t\- was born in the State of New 
York, lier iMrllnilace bein"; tlie town of Hambursf, 
Hiic County, about tliree miles from the city of 
Buffalo. Her natal day was July 29, 1822. Her 
father was Ezra Houghton, a native of New York, 



where he was reared and educated. He came to 
Michigan, however, among its earliest pioneer set- 
tlers, directing his way in 1833 direct to Washte- 
naw County, where he took up eighty acres of land 
from the Government. On this he built a log 
house and bent his efforts toward improving his 
tract. He had succeeded in clearing ten acres and 
placing thereon some improvements when he sold 
out his claim and purchased school land on section 
Ifi, Webster Township, Washtenaw County. There 
he lived for the remainder of his days, placing 
valuable im|)roveraents on the tr.actand making of 
it a comfortable home place. There he died after 
reaching a good old age. 

Our subject's mother, in her maiden days, was 
Margaret (Jueal, a native of Ireland, who came to 
America when a young girl. She was educated in 
New York State. Her husband and herself were 
buried side by side in AVebster cemetery. They 
were the parents of nine children. Mrs. Lanning 
is the third child in order of birth and also the 
third daughter. She came to this State with her 
parents when but eleven years of age. That was 
a day when it was not considered menial to help a 
neighbor with the domestic or farm work and to 
receive in return pay, and our subject worked out 
in order to help support herself and family. She 
was a capalile and competent young woman and 
early made a reputation for being one of the best 
housewives of the country. It was not long be- 
fore one of the young men of the neighborhood 
became aware of her virtues and attractions, and 
December 22. 1839, she was united in marriage to 
W. C. Lanning, a native of New Jersey, there born 
February 7, 1810. With his parents he removed 
from his native place to the town of Enfield, Tomp- 
kins County, N. Y., when but five years old. There 
he was reared and educated, coming to this State 
when a young man. 

The young couple set up housekeeping in Hart- 
land Township. Livingston County, in 1840, the 
same week in wjiich their marriage took place. 
They began by taking up one hundred and sixty 
acres of land from the Government, which is the 
same tract upon which our subject now resides. 
Tlie huslwnd cleared a space in the tangle of under- 
brush and forest trees, and built a log house and 



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441 



set alxnit improvina: (lie i)lacc. From time to time jOiosis t)f the lieaiitifiil city with important coiii- 



atlilinii' a few acres until tliev hecame the owners 
of Iwo iHiiidrcd and ten acres. Mr. I>aniiini; ni:i(U' 
all the iiniiroxements that were at that time on tlie 
place. lie (lied ill .Tanuai y, ll^H't, after .'i lifetime 
spent in an effort to secure sucli a <-i]inpetciicy as 
sliould relieve him from the necessity of liard ialior. 
Ill his youth he adhered to the Wliiu' policy liut 
on tile formation of tiie Repulilican party, trans- 
ferred iiis alieiiiance to it. lie was a well-l<iiowii 
and well-like<l man and was one of the earliest set- 
tlers ill this portion of tiie country. lie w:is a 
liheral contriliiitor to all good and ju-^t causes, 
lending an encouragiug voice to every progressive 
movement that promised to lie for tiie licnefit of 
the |iiililic. 

^)m■ subject has one daughter. Terressa. now the 
wife of Squire Vescelius. They reside in llaitland 
Township on part of the old homestead. .Mrs. 
Lanning owns a farm of one hundred and sixty 
acre.s which is the original plat purchiused from the 



niercial interests from the crudest pioneer settle- 
ment. 

Ueceiviug the rudiments of his education in this 
city. Dr. Siiank when a youth was sent hack to 
New Yolk State to enjoy the advantages oflfered 
at Oak wood Seminary — a heatitifii! educational 
institution located on t'ayuga Lake. After read- 
ing with his father who was a professional man of 
high standing, he entered the Medical Department 
of the rniversity uf .Michigan in order to pursue 
his studies in thai line under the hest conditions 
po.ssilile. lie took an advanced three years' course 
and was yr:iduated in the Class of '71. His in- 
di'peiideiu'c of nature is shown li\ the fact that 
when a junior student at Oakwood .Scniiiiarv he 
enlisted in the War oPflie U'cliellion at Auhurii. X. 
V. Ill ( ompany (', One Hundred and Forty-eighth 
New York Infantry. lie w.is mustered into .service 
.Vugust 2, \Ml, and sent to the .Vriny of the 
.lames River Division. He served as a [irivate un- 



Government. On her husband's death she was til the close of the war. He was present at the 



appointed administratrix of the estate and has 
since continued to carry on the business incident 
to the farm. .She now rents the ])lace devoting 
herself to a general oversight and the placing of 
investments. She has done exceedinglv well in 



battle of Appomattox Court House and was 
through the Weldon Railroad raid and witnessed 
the fall of retcrsburg and Appomattox. 

After being mustered out of service he returned 
home and began the study of his profession, as be- 



the management of the farm thus far. It is grati- fore stated, reading with his father. After gradu- 



fying to find so much business capacity and capa- 
l)ility in one of the gentler sex, and Mr. Lanning's 
conlideiice in the life-hmg partner of his joys and 
sorrows has proved to be not in any wise misplaced. 



j4"!"J"!',^^,**'J"!-r- 



-:*i*"5**5**^^^^§ •}••{*■{••£•— 



ating he came to Lansing and began practicing 
which he has ever since continued. First as his 
father's partner, he remained with him until his 
death, April 23, 1888. .\fter that sad event he as- 
sociated himself with Dr. A. S. Hyatt. Our subject 
is a member of both the State and Lansing Medical 
Societies. For the past ten years he has been 
President of the lioard of Examining Surgeons 
^iUSH J. SHANK, M. D. is one of the pro- and previous to the formation of local Boards he 
minent physicians and surgeons of Lansing. entered upon his duties on the Board of Examin- 
Jngham County, where he was born Decern- ing Surgeons in 187(), serving until 188(5. In 1884 
ber 15, 1848, one year after the capital wiis Dr. Shank was appointed .as Department Ctini- 
here located. His father was Hulbert B. Shank, a mandcr, .Michigan Department of the Orand Army 
pioneer who felled the trees where now the most of the IJepulilic- and now is President of the lioard 
important city streets are laid out and charred the of Managers of the Michigan Soldier's Home. He 
ground by burning out the stumjis and underbrush. unites a regular practice with his specialty, which 
His home was where his son. Dr. Shank, now lives. is that of surgery, he having the reputation of be- 
on .Vllegan Street between Washington and Capitol ing one of the liiiest surgeons in this |)ortioii of the 
Avenues. Dr. Shank has witnessed the mctamor- State. 



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Sociality Dr. Shank i:s in constant demand. He 
is Eminent Commander of the Lansinji Knights 
Templar, a Knight of Pythias, an Elk, and beh)ugs 
to the Grand Army of the Republic, and in fact is 
a member of numerous other orders. He was 
united in mai'riage with Jliss Ella E. Williams, of 
this city December 2!l. 1H7.'5. Tliis marriage has 
been blest by the advent of one daughter. Ruth. 
Dr. Shank is an extremely popular man, greatly 
liked by all who know him. A skillful physician and 
surgeon, his services are in constant demand by 
the best class of patrons in the city. 

The attention of the reader is invited to a litho- 
graphic portrait of l)i'. Shank, presented in connec 
tion with this l)iogra])hieal notice. 









^^EORGE A'ORCJ 



The iiwnc]' of jind resi- 



l|( ,-—. dent upon the tine farm ideated on >ection 
Vi^i 15, Leiov Township. Inglmui County, is a 
prominent man in this section, lie is a native of 
New York, being born in Cayuga County !May 2. 
1842. He is the .son of William and Celia (Weber) 
Vorce. His father was a native of New York 
State and his mother of Connecticut. His paternal 
grandfather is .said to have beeii a Revolutionary 
soldier. 

When about two or thiec years old the original 
of our sketch was brought by his ])arent.s t(j Ing- 
ham County, this State, the family settling on .•^cc- 
lion 21. Leroy Townsliij). where they were among 
the early settlers. Oui- subject's father here fle- 
voted himself to the calling of agriculture which 
was not at that time the cdnip.-natively easy one 
of the ])resent day, foi- they were i)ioneers. and 
had literally to hew their way through the fore.sts 
to get even a place uti wliicli they coulil locate 
their log house, which was the tir.st home they had 
(m coming to the State. The principles c>f De- 
mcicracy are those that were dearest and nearest to 
Mr. N'orce. Sr. The theories of that gentleman, 
however, were not nari'ow in anv respect. an<l he 
sought (inly the interests of the public at large, re- 
gardless of ])arty ))i'ejn(lice, <)ur suliject is one of 



eight children born to his parents, of which the 
names following are those that still survive: Helen, 
-lohn. (4eorge, Edward. Siisan. William and An- 
drew. Helen is the wife of A. C. Wiuant; Susan 
married William House. 

The gentleman of whom it is our pleasure to 
give this short >ketcli in outline was reared to 
manhood in this county, and his experience here 
is that of many pioneers in this |iortion of the 
country. His devoticm to his farming interests 
has brought him large returns. The greater por- 
tion of his early life was spent in rural occupa- 
tion, for there was much to be done in those days 
in felling timlier, making the I'oads and in gener- 
ally iin])roviiig the contour of the land. There 
was not so much selishne>> then as now. or per- 
haps one may better sa^'. that the general good Mt 
that time was also the individual good. 

Although well endowed by natuie with lii-ight 
mental fjualities, the educational advantages en- 
joyed by our subject were not brilliant. He has. 
Iniwever. become self-educated to such a degree 
that he passes for a man of liberal education. A 
good conver.'^ationalist, he is also genial and sunii\ - 
tempered, having the hajijiy faculty of making 
one feel at ea.se. In Eebruary, IHGiJ. Mr. Vorce 
enlisted in Coiniiany C. Eleventh ^lichigan In- 
fantry, ••md with his legimentwas assigned todut\ 
in the .Vriny of the Cumberland. He continue<l 
in service until his duscharge, in .September. lH(i.'). 
During his ex|)erience as a soldier he was detailed 
to duty as guard over railroads and trains and to 
do general jiicket duty in Tennessee. 

On returning from the war our suliject was 
married, in August. 1871, to Mi.'<s Marietta Haiii. 
who was born in this .State and is a daughter of 
Thomas Bain. By this union three children were 
born, two of whom are living at the present time. 
They are Elmer and Lina. JNIr. Vorce is the owner 
of one hundred acres of well-imiiroved land. He 
has erected thereon good Iniildings, having a pleas- 
ant home and clianning surroundings. He devotes 
himself to general fanning, sujiplemeuting the 
products of the soil with the rich returns from his 
live stock. A Democrat in his jiolitical belief, onr 
subject has always endeavored to be true to what 
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tive of party. Tlie oiiainnl (if our skt'toli lias been 
an incumbent of several township ollices. For 
three years he was Ilijihway Connnissiouer. and he 
has also served as School Moderator of Ills district 
for a number of years. He has identilied himself 
with the Farmer.s' Alliance, in which he is an ac- 
tive member. Truly one of the thrifty tillers of 
the soil in J-eroy Township .Mr. \ <irce also com- 
mands the respect of his fellow-townsmen. 



jj^ LKK COOK. The Deputy Sheriff of Ing- 
^^^ ham County is at the ]iresent time a resi- 
ll\^\«; dent of the city of Lansinij. havini; been 
here since 1867. He is a native of Canada, 
.•\u(l was born at (ircenville, Argentile County, 
(Quebec, February 10, 1842. He is a sou ofllir.am 
L. and Lucinda (Haynes) Cook. .Vs a lioy he 
received the advantages of a good education, at- 
tending school at Greenville. There seems to be a 
certain element in the atmosphere of Cai\ada that 
vitalizes and in vigorates*, giving to the inhabitants 
of that jiart of America a freshness and clearness 
of perception and a bieadth of mental caliber, as 
well as strong, sturdy, [ihysical constitutions. 

After finishing his education, our subject went 
to rpi)er Canada, locating in AVestmeatli, Kenfrew 
County, where he followed the trade which he had 
learned in his native town. It was that of a car- 
penter and joiner. He followed this calling some 
little time while in Canada, becoming skilled in 
his workmanshi]). In 18();3 he came to the United 
States and loiated in .Saginaw, there lieing engaged 
at once in building a sawmill for JMe.ssr.s. Sage and 
^IcCraw. In the latter part of 18(;i he lemoved 
to Ann Arbor, and while there was engaged in 
work on the I'uiversitv building, .assisting in tlu' 
erection of an addition to the Medical ])e|)artmeiit. 
In 18(>,") he went to .lackson in order to help build 
the Fnicm Block, being a part of the time employed 
as contractor on that building. 

In 18()7 Mr. Cook came to Lansing, first atlr.acted 
here by the fact that several large buildings were { 
being erected and his reputation as a line wurkman 



at once secured him a good place among the Car- 
l)enters'and Builders' fraternity. The first build- 
ing that he was engaged upfin was the Lansing 
House, now called the Downey House, and since 
that time he has done a large contracting business. 
Some of the houses he h.as erected arc the Lamed 
crockery store, the series of stores opposite the 
Lansing House, and a number of buildings on Hon. 
.1. F. Warner's farm. He also took the contract 
for tearing down the old State Land Office, where 
the Capitol now stands. This, however, was an 
unfortunate undertaking for him, for while en- 
g.aged on this building he had a terrible fall by 
which he broke ;ind |)ermanently crip|)led his right 
wrist and hand, also his right leg and, injured 
one lung. The fall was froma height of sixty feet, 
and it is a mystery how he sui'vived at all. He 
suffei'ed other injuries and was obliged to give up 
his liusiness in conseipience. 

Turning to new fields in which he could find an 
occupation that his strength was equal to, he be- 
came an agent for sewing machines and was in this 
very successful. .Vbout that time, however, the 
municipality was organizing the first jiolice force 
(1872), and our subject was appointed upon this 
force, being the first uniformed policeman seen in 
the city. He continued in this position for six or 
seven years, holding it uiidei- both Republican and 
Democratic adminisf rati<ins, which fact speaks well 
for his popularity as a man and the fitness that his 
constituents felt he had for the position. After 
withdrawing fi-oni the poliee force he was elected 
C< in stable, which otilce he also held for se\-eral years, 
anil w;is then .■ippninteil Deputy Sheriff. While still 
Constable he w;is appointed by llic Council as 
('hief of Police and also City AIar>lial, both titlices 
being combined by a Democratic Council. He 
served in tliat ca|)acity for two years, at the end 
of which time he was appointed keeper of the lug- 
ham County poor house. whi<'li position he helil 
for three years. 

For reasons not known to the writer .Mr. ( ook 
resigned his position as .Superintendent and mana- 
ger of the poor house and returned tt) Lansing, 
where he purcha.sed a store known as the East Side 
(Irocerv. the former owiii'i- lieing Dr. Hitchcock. 
( )wiinr. however, to the sickness of his wife he was 



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(itiliged to sell out, and after a time went into the 
conerete sidewalk liu.-iness operating tliis foi- a per- 
iod <if two years, lie then sold out his Imsiness 
to a tirmwho yet carry on tlie work under tlie firm 
name of IIa.t>ernmn A- Hopkins. After dis])osing of 
this business our sniijeet for a time did not engage 
in other active work, devoting himself to the recu- 
peration of his liealth. In .lanuai-y, 188;), he re- 
ceiveil liis tliird apiiointment as Deputy Sheriff, 
and still serves in that capacity. 

Politically, our suliject is a follower of tlie Dem- 
ocratic i)arty. Socially he is a memhei- of the Inde- 
pendent Order of Odd Fellows. ha\ing held all the 
oltices in the lodge to which he belongs. < )\u' sidi- 
ject's domestic life has been \ery happy, made so 
l>V a wife who has ever been to him an ins])iia t ion 
and a help. She was in hci- mai<U'n days. Miss 
Electa .Morehouse, of the city of Lansing. They 
were married December i'.u \X~t''i. The lady is a 
daughter of Harvey Morehouse, who was one of 
the oldest settlers in this city, having at the tinu' 
of his decease lived here nearly foity years. His 
widow still s\irvives and makes her home at Lan- 
sing. Our suliject and his wife have one daughter. 
Ilalla Kdith. a charming miss of lifteen years of 
age. 



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'\T(EREMIAH J. BROWN was born in Lexing- 
ton, Richland County, Ohio. August it. 
1839. His father. Aimer Ih-own. was born. 
in November. 181S. in Martinsburg, Knox 
County. Ohio. He w.as a general mechanic and 
was a very skillful artis-iu. being a buildci' of en- 
gines and he iiad the distinction of being one of 
the first engineers to lun over the Baltimore k Ohio 
Road. This was in the primitive days of railroad 
construction when "strap r;iils'" were used. 

The grandfather of the subjrct of oiii' sketch was 
also named Jeremiah, lb' was boin in IT'.M. in 
the Slate of New .lersey not fai from Xewai-k and 
was a general farmer. His decease occurred, .lunc 
24, 1867, at his old homestead in the Buckeye State. 
He w.as in jirosperous circumstances, being the 
owner of a beautiftd farm and was well-known 



throughout the State. He was the father of eight 
children. One of the sons, Abner Brown, and the 
father of our subject, married Rebecca Sinkey. who 
was a native of AVashington County, I'a., where 
she was born in IHl.'i. Her decease took place, 
.June 11. ISM.'i. in the city of Lansing. l'"roin this 
marriage there was an i.ssue of live sons. as follows: 
.leremiah .L. Abraham N.. .lames Fostei-, Alexander 
B. and Aimer II. Abraham is now at the head of 
one of the departnu'uts in the (Jovernnu'nt print- 
ing odice in Washington. I). C.; -lames resides in 
Lansing, this State; Alexander lives in Decatur-, 
.Via. One son. Abner. died in his eighth year. 

The origiinil of oui- sketch lived at home luitil 
he was twenty-oiu' years of age. attending the dis- 
trict school until 18.");"), when his father moved to 
Lansing, and there he enjo\ ed the advantages 
offered in the district selmol. He was engaged as 
a student until the bi-eaking out of the war, jjaying 
for his tuition and incidental expenses, by doing 
work as a tutor in niathejiiatics. ( )ii tlic tiring of 
the first gini Mr. Brown was one of the first to go 
to the front, enlisting in the fall of lcS(;i. He was 
in the second battle of Bull l!un and at White Sul|.- 
hur Springs, also at Slaughter Mountain, at Rajiija- 
hanock Station. (Jainesville Station and in the 
terrible battle at .Manass.as. Oui' sutiject lioi'C away 
with him nine battle .scars, having been shot 
through l)oth knees, as well as other wounds. For 
six months he was in hosjiilal in Baltimoie .■ind 
Frederick City, Md, His most serious wound was 
recei\ed in the battle of .South Mountain, ^Id. in 
l.S()2. lb' was finally discharged on account of 
i disal)ilities resulting from wounds, IMaich 1 l. l.'^C.'!. 
On returning fi'om the war, Mr. Bidwn entered 
the .Michig;ui Agricultural College, where he em- 
l)lo\ ed himself industriously for one year. He 
then clerked in a mercantile store in Lansing and 
in vai'ious places until lS(i7. when he oiiencd a 
general sttire .'it ^^'acousta, remaining in business 
tliere for one \eai' ;iud thence going to Lansing 
wheie he lemaineil for one year. Fr(_>m that place 
lu' reUHived to Okenuis and has lemained here 
ever since. He is doing a successful business and 
has a line stock of drugs, groceries and bazaar 
goods. 

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to Miss SMTmIi a. .Mc( H'Ol-uc. M (ImUuIiIcI- <>\' \\ illi.Mlll 

Mc( ii'oi'iTc. 'riiis :iiiii:ilil(' (•(pU|i1c .-ire (liilillos. 
(ml IkkI ;m :ii|ii|iIim1 ilMiluhlcr wlm Ikut the 
MMiiic III' l,ill\ A. I'liown. Slic was :i must I'xt'in- 
pliiiv \ oiiiiii l;uly Mild died :it tin- aifO of seven tccii. 
Mrs. Brown is a inenilicr of the Methodist ICpisen- 
pal Chiireli at Okeiiios. Soeiallv our siilijeet is a 
Mason. Iieioiiiiinu In l.aiisiiiy l.odo'e. Xo. .'i.'i. whieli 
he joiiK'd in 1 SfiT. 

Mr. 'IJiown 's anccstor> <in iiis fatiiei's side eanie 
from Seotland. On Ihc mother's side, theye.ame 
from Cork. Iri'land. l'(_ilitic;iily he of whom we 
write is a stanch Deinoerat, aithouiili lnoiinlit up 
hv Wepnlilieaii parents. I h' li;i> lieeii quite |iromin- 
eiilU' ich'ii tilled with the polities of Meridi.'in 'Town- 
ship. Iiiuli.-im County and was the Clerk for three 
\ears. In 1S74 he was elected .Instiee of the l'e;ice. 
Iioldintf the office until \XX2. Ih' wasauain elected 
in IHKl and served for four ye:iis. Mr. Ilrown i> 
.•111 intellifient. wi(U'-awake man. who is mo>l iieiii:il 
in his manner and popular and prcoperoiis in his 
husiness relations. ITi' owii> one of the prettii>I 
homes in the |)resent \illam' of ( Ikenio,... 



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D.V.M FOKKSTKi;. proprietor of F.ierster's 
Brewery, which is situ.-ited at the foot of 
^ladisoii .'street. Lansing', Inifliam County, 
im the hanks of the (^rand River, was 
horn in Canada, at Ileidleliersi', Waterloo ('oiinty. 
Kehruary 22, 1^*4 H. His father. Louis Foerster, was 
.'I native of Baden. (Jermany. his natal year heinji' 
lf<tl.'i. lie hail two Iprothei's in the Napoleonic wars 
who were killed and left on the Held at Mom-ow. 
He was a lock and guiisniith in (iermany. and 
came to the New World in ls>;i.'>. after his iiiar- 
riajje, and located at Heidleheri". Canada, lie 
took a farm in the woods ami settled niion it live 
miles from any iieiuhlmr. and heuinniiiL;' life here 
in a hark shanty, wiu'ked his way up to a comfort- 
ahle eompeteney. He still resides ii|kiii this old 
iiomestead. He is conservative in his view>.indis 
a meinhcr of ihc Luthernii Church. The mother 




of oiir >ul)jeet hore the maiden name of Mary Zie<i'- 
ler. :ind she was horn in Baden. ( Jermaiu . and 
died in 1 M.").'i, leaving ten children. 

riitil he reached the age of eisjhteen years our 
suhject lived upon the farm with liis parents and 
attended the common district .school. He wa.s 
then apprenticed for two years tfi the hrewer's hus- 
iness at I'roton. and in IHIK!. went to Cincinnati, 
(lliio. and was for four ye;ii> in tlii' ciiqiioyofa 
lirewer\- there, as s;ilesnian. in IH70, he came to 
■^'psilaiiti. Mich., jiiid in p.'irtnership with his 
lirotlicr. l,oui> it., he purchased a lirewery and op- 
er.'ited it until 1>^H>. when he went to Ligonier. 
Iiid.. and there rented a hrewery which he carried 
on until 11S77. when he came to Lansing. 

Mr. i'lH'i-tcr now purchased the lircwer\ which 
he is >till iipeiatini;. .-iiid proceeded to enlarue and 
iiiipro\e it. till it now lia» a cajiacity of thirty-tive 
liarrel> a day. He has also erected a new hrewery, 
one portion of which measnied 2")x7') feet, and 
the other part 2l.\lili feel, and aside from this he 
has also put up an ice house and storage house. 
It i^ the only lirewery in Lansing. This geirtleman 
owns a farm of one htindri'd and twenty acres in 
DeWitt Townslii|), Clinton (niiiity. which i> a 
tiiiely improved condition and is uiidi'r .Mr. Foers- 
ter's direct superintenilence. He rai.se> upon this 
f;iiiii an excellent grade of stock and lioi"ses of 
good lireeds. Our suhject was married in Cincin- 
nati. Ohio, in lH(i>^. lieiiig then united with .Miss 
Catherine Spaeth. ,i native of Hamilton, Butler 
County. Ohio, and .a d.aiighterof .Mr. .loliii .Spaeth, 
who w;is liorn in Bavaria, (lermany. and liecame 
an earlv settler in ()hio. where he carries Oil his 
trade as .a tailor in Hamilton. This man was so 
loyal to his adopted country that lie enlisted at 
the lirst tap of the dnini .it the breaking out of the 
Civil War. and was one of the very first volun- 
teers to join the ranks. He served for three 
months and then re-enlisted and w-i-s in service 
until the close of the war. He died some years 
ago. 

'VUv li\c children of our sulijecl are Charles L., 
(Jeorge F.. Ida C. K.. Alhert ^■. \.. Lucia II. .M. 
In the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Mr, 
l-'oerster lielongs to the Capital Lodge No. 45, and 
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with the' Kniiihts uf Honor, Ancient Order of 
Tnited WurivUK-n. and tlie Red Cross, and has been 
tlie President for several years of the Arbeiter So- 
eiety. He also I)ehwys to the German Leiderkranz. 
In his church relations he is a Lutheran, and in 
politics is a Denfocrat, lieint; fre(iuently a delegate 
to the county conventions. He is also connected 
with the Michit>an State Brewer's Association. 



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ILLL\M .S. HOLMES i SON. The high 
grade of the educational institutions of 
V/'^j Michigan has forwarded certain industries, 
notably those of the manufacture and introduction 
of musical in.struments, which may now be found 
in every hamlet in the State. The best class of 
such instruments are demanded by the people of 
wealth and culture who now- form so large a por- 
tion of the population of this State and among the 
most enterprising lirms which meet this demand is 
the one which we have named at the head of this 
paragraph. These gentlemen liave the manage- 
ment of the finest wholesale and retail music house 
in Lansing, and the father who has long been one 
of the men of wealth in this city commands the 
respect of all for his patriotic services to his coun- 
try as well as for the well-known integrity and 
ability of the firm. Besides handling musical in- 
struments of all kinds this firm supplies sheet 
music, song books and sewing machines. 

W. S. Holmes the senior member of this firm, 
was born in Unadilla, Livingston County, Mich., 
in February, 1840. His fathei, David Holmes, was 
born in the North of Ireland and there grew up a 
farmer. At the age c>f twenty-one he came to 
America and located ui)on Long Island, whence he 
removed to Hartford, Conn., finding work in a 
carpet factory and in that city he found his wife. 
It was in 1837 when he came to Michigan, where 
he bought one hundred and sixt^y acres of fine land 
on section 28, in Unadilla Township, Livingston 
County. He improved this property and remained 
upon it until 1866, when he removed to DeWitt 
and after one year there went to Greeubush Town- 



ship, Clinton County. There he bought a farm of 
sixty acres and made it his home until his death in 
1884, when he had attained to the venerable age 
t)f eighty-four years. In his political views he was 
a Democial until 18.j4, when he became a Rei)ubli- 
can. I icing one of the fii'st in his neighborlifxid to 
join that new party. For fifty years he was hon- 
ored and lielovfd as a Deacon in the Baptist Church. 
His wife, Lucretia McC'onnell. wasa native of Con- 
necticut and died in Livingston County in IH4;1 

Of the five children of this family four grew to 
niaturit\', the senior member of this firm being the 
youngest child. He was reared on the farm and 
began his education in a log schoolhouse. remain- 
ing at home and working on the farm until August 
1862. when he enlisted in Company B. Twenty- 
sixth Michigan Infantry, being mustered in at 
Jackson. He was present at the conflict* of the 
Wilderness, Nye Run and Spottsylvania Court 
House, and on Maj' 12, 1864, he was wounded 
while making a bayonet charge, a niinie ball 
passing through his body from left to right. He 
was kept prisoner on the battle-field by the rebels 
three days and was then retaken by the Second 
Division. Second Array Corps. The .ludicial Square 
Hospital at Washington was the [ilace where he was 
sent on the 18th of May and six months later he 
was sent to Little York, Pa., and then to St. Mary's 
Hospital, Detroit. He continued there until May 
18, 186;3, w'hcn he was mustered out .as Sergeant. 
While at Detroit convalescing he was permitted to 
attend Bryant Ar Stratton's Business College, from 
which he graduated in the spring of 1865. The 
wound continued to trouble him for a long while 
after leaving the hospital. He engaged for one 
year with the State Insurance Corapiny and after- 
ward w.as for three years with the New York Life 
Insurance Company', traveling through Central 
Michigan. 

The music business fir-st engaged the attention 
of Mr. Holmes in 1870 and in September of that 
year he put in a stock of goods in a 7x9 room, back 
of Longyear's Bank and later he moved intti the 
Opera House Block at its completion. During the 
time that he w-.as in the insurance business he had 
bought the old home, a property which comprises 
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ti'iiant mioii. In l-Vbrimrv. 1S7H. tlii:« gciitUMiian 
was takc-ii ill with typhoid fevtr ami was sd pio.-- 
Iiated a> to hf iinal)lo t<^ attend lo Inisliii'ss for >ix 
months. His Ijrother took liini to his farm and 
took Viui- of him. lie sold his n\iisie store and. 
removed hack onto tlie farm for awiiile. In Isinii 
he represented the Ft. Wayne t'onipan.\- and woiUed 
in their employ for ;i year at .a salary of >!l..'>(Ml. 
After thi^ he located in Lansinu' once more estali- 
lishintf himself in llu- Opera ll(^use Hloek whence 
he remipved to liis present location in the Snyder 
i'.lock. 

The tirm carries fiom twenly-tive to lift\' pianos 
of tile licst makes, such as the Steiiiway. Ilenr\' V. 
.Miller, ilallett iV Davis. Iv^r-; \' Pond. KiiU'r-oii. 
.shoninucr. aUo the l-^stey and Packard oiifans and 
all kiniF of musical pul)licatioii>. The scwinu' 
ni:ichiiu'> which he handles ino.-l pi-omincntly :ii-c 
the Standai'd and the Helpmate. 'I'hcy keep from 
ten ti> lifteeii men on the roail in their employ, 
rpon tlie l>t of .laiuiary. IHlSii the linn w.-rs clianLicd 
to the style which appears above, .\fter one y<ar 
Mr. ('. II. Howe came into the tirm and since .Ian- 
nary I. IX'.MI he has lieen a |)aitnei-. 

.Mr. Holmes owns fonr hundred and twenty acre.s 
of iiniiroved land in I'litidilla Township, which he 
rents out on shares and has eiiihty acres in Delta 
Township. Eaton County, upon which he also has 
a tenant, and in Clinton County he has eii;htv 
acres in 'Watertown Township and one hundred and 
twenty in Keily Township. He has lieeii singu- 
larly favored throughout life in .mII his traiisac- 
tion>. 

The marriage in I'nadilla Township of W. S. 
Holmes and .Miss Adelia F,. Howe took place in 
186M. This lady was liorn in Illinois hut had her 
education in Cokhvater, .Mich. Two children have 
hiessed their home, the eldest Robert S. was born in 
rn.'idilla Township. Livingston County, Mich., 
February «. 187(i. and has spent most of his life at 
Lansing. .\t the age of fifteen he entered the 
High .School, from which he graduated at the age 
of eighteen with the honors of his cla.ss whicii 
numbered twenty-one. and to him \va> awarded the 
.salutatory. 

The young man then entered the Detroit lousi- 
ness CoUcsre and tiuished the course .Innuarv 1, 



1889 and upon ihe .■-ame day formed a partnership 
with his father iin<ler the tirm name of W. S. 
Holmes Si Son. He has traveled some on the road 
in .Southern. Central and Kasti'in Michigan, niakiiiii 
his lirst trip when he was nineteen years old. when 
he made the best record of any man in their em- 
ploy. He has charge of the musical and sewing 
machine departnunl of the business. In the real- 
estate business the father and son are in partner- 
shi|). nude)' the style of \\'. S. Holmes cV .Son. but 
the music business is now cai'ried on under the 
n;imc of W.S.Holmes iV Co. The young man is 
chorister in l\iv Baptist Cliuich and a member. He 
is a member of the .Maiianl .Male (Quartette of Lan- 
sing, singing bas>o. .md is esteemed a tine vocalist. 
The daughter, .lennie I... is still at home with her 
parents. The father is a Trustee in the Hajitist 
( hurcli and was proluiiieiit in oi gani/.iuL; the South 
.Street .Mission Sunday-school, of wliicli he is the 
.Superiuteiidciit. Siiii'c IS.xi; Ills |)(ilitical efforts 
ha\-c been in t he direction of thi' Prohibit ion parts', 
as he feel,'- that other iiuestions of public policy 
should be subordinated to the tremendous task of 
overthrowing the liipior power. 



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ACOB CONUAD. This fine old gentleman, 
who has been a successful farmer, is one of 
the poiiular men in Genoa Township, Liv- 
ingston County. lie w.as l)orn in the Pro- 
vince of liyron, Germany, July 16, 1822. His fa- 
ther, Charles, and his grandfather, Jacob, Sr., were 
both natives of Germany, and the latter was a 
shoemaker who spent all his days in the old coun- 
try. The father came to this country about Chris- 
mas time, 1832, and spent some three years in New- 
York at Albany, and Montgomery. He was him- 
self a poor man but brought with him from the old 
country *40() which belonged to his sister. He 
placed It in a bank at Albany. N. Y.. and came near 
being defrauded out of it through forgery. 

The journey Westward was made b}' boat from 
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came on foot from Detroit to Livingston County, 
where lie took up eiglity acres of Government land 
on section 23, when there were only two or three 
families within many miles. The Indian trail 
passed his house and the red man was his frequent 
caller. The family w.as often alarmed by the ap- 
proach of Indians, but no molestation occurred. 

The father built a lo"' house and cleared up his 

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farm, dying at the age of seventy-six 3-ears. He i 

was a member of the German Lutheran Church 

and a Whig in i)olitics, and his good wife, whose 

name was Catherine Norrice, was among the first 

members of the ciuircii here. She died when about 

sixty years old, having reared four Sf)us and two 

daughters. 

Our subject crossed the ocean when he was ten 
years old and well remembers the journey. Ilis 
education was cariied on Ijotli in Germany and in 
this country, but it was cut short by the necessities 
of till' family as the boys had to leave school to 
earn the money necessary for their comfort. For 
ten years he was in the employ of Benjamin Woofl- 
ruff and liegan with tlie monthly stipend of ^i. 
He began for himself at tiie age of thirty years. In 
1852 Jacob Conrad went to California by water 
and was there for three years, and in the San Jose 
Valley received *3 per day for sowing wheat and 
also worked at one time in the Red Woods. He 
was economical and frugal and accumulated some 
money which gave him his first financial start. 

After his return In ^liehigan in 1856 Jacob Con- 
rad was united in marriage with Elizabeth Dorr, 
who was born at Albany, N. Y., and is now the 
mother of two sons and three daughters — Louis, 
Henry, Caroline, Maria and Gustie. The farm upon 
which our subject now resides he obtained by pur- 
chasing the tax title; he now has four hundred 
acres upon which he is carrying on mixed farming, 
making wheat his principal crop and paying con- | 
siderable attention to stock. 

The German Lutheran Church is the religious , 
body with which ]Mr. and Mrs. Conrad are con- I 
nected, and they were generous helpers in the 
project of erecting a house of worship, donating i 
%110 to this sacred purpose. Having been a Whig 
Mr. Conrad naturally became a Republican and is 
now considered one of the most radical of that 



jjarty. He has been very successful in all his un- 
dertakings and ascribes his prosperity to the fact 
that he has ever determined to stick to what he 
undertakes until he makes it a success. 



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; NDREW MOYER, a jirominent pioneer of 
section 30, Locke Township. Ingham 
County, w!is born, July 18, 1815, in Ont- 
ario, Canada. His father, Anthony Moyer, 
was a native of Germany and the mother, Flliza- 
beth (Price) Mover, was born in the beautiful ^lo- 
hawk Valley in New York. Our subject came with 
his i)arents to Ingham County. Mich., when he was 
a l;id of thirteen years and here the family located 
\ipon the farm now owned by Mr. Clover. In this 
home in the unbroken forest his parents trained 
for f\iture usefulness four children, two only of 
whom are now siu'viving. his sister being Lucy 
now .Mrs. Mavlierrv, living in Canada. There is 
also a half sister now ^Irs. 'Mary \. Stotitu. 

In the woods of Ingham County, our subject 
grew to manhood taking such education as he 
could obtain in the district schools. After he was 
eleven years old he found it necessary to devote 
him.self to the laliors of the farm and consequently 
had no further schooling. His first marriage 
which occurred in 1878 brought to his home a 
bride in the person of Stella Barber, who bore liim 
two children, one of whom has pa.*sed to the other 
world and the daughter Lizzie is still li\ing. 
After the death of ]Mrs. Stella Moyer, ISIr. Moyer 
was married, in September, 1886, to his present 
wife whose maiden name was Dora Klunzinger. 
Jlrs. Moyer is a native of Washtenaw County, 
Mich., and a daughter of Lewis and Lena Klunz- 
inger of Ingham tduiity. Two daughters have 
blessed this happy union. Bertha L. and Jessie A. 
One hundred and fifty-five acres of g(H)d land 
form the home farm whicli this successful farmer 
has in an excellent state of cultivation. His jiolit- 
ical views ally him with the Republican party, but 
his father was a Democrat in his convictions, and 
was an earnest and devoted member of the Baptist 
Church. 




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The liomestead of Mr. Moyor is universally eon- 
coded to be one of the finest in the eoniniunity 
and we are pleased to invite the reader's attention 
to a view of the place presented on anoth(>r page 
of this volume. 



AMES II. WILSON. This representative 
citizen of Locke Townsliip, Ingham County, 
is a Wolverine by birth, his nativity hav- 
ing been in Kalamazoo County on the ninth 
day of March, 1841. He is a son of George L. and 
Rhoda ( Hazleton) "Wilson, his father being a native 
of ^■ermont and his mother having been born in 
the Empire .State. On the paternal side he is of 
Scotch stock and on the maternal side of English 
lineage. His great-grandfather, Wilson, was one 
of the heroes of the Revolutionary AVar. 

The parents of our subject were pioneers of 
Kalamazoo County, and with them came this son 
then nineteen years old. They settled m the 
woods in LeRoy Township and upon the farm and 
in the district schools James H. Wilson completed 
liis training for life. He enlisted January I, 1862 
in Company D, Fourteenth Michigan lufanti-y, 
whicli regiment was attached to the Fourteenth 
Army Corps in the Army of the Cumberland. 
Young Wilson served under Geti. Pope and par- 
ticipated ill the campaigns of Farmington and 
Corinth and the siege of Nashville. His brigade 
was then transferred to Sherman's command and 
lie became one of the brave marchers to the sea. 
I [e also took part in the siege of Atlanta, the siege 
of Savannah and tlie battle of Bentonville. The 
battles of Lookout Mountain, Kenesaw Mountain 
and Stone River and some thirty odd engagements 
were embraced in his experiences, besides various 
skirmishes. He witnessed the surrender of Joe 
.lohnston and finally particijiated in the Grand Re- 
view at Washington and received his honorable 
discharge July 18, 186;'). He received four gun- 
shot wounds and has a one ounce ball still located 
in his left shoulder, wliich he received at the siege 
of Atlanta. As a partial compensation for services 



rendered the Government he is granted a pension 
of *14 per month. 

Mr. Wilson is a devoted adherent of the Grand 
Array of the Republic, is now olliciating as the 
officer of the day, and has served as Assistant In- 
spector General for the Michigan Posts. His mar- 
riage with Delina Brown took place in July, 1865. 
This lady is a native of Alicliigan and a daughter 
of William and Julia Hn^wn. Her father has 
passed from earth and her mother now resides in 
the State of Washington. Mr. and ."Mi's. Wilson 
have been blessed by the birth of two daughters, 
Estella, now the wife of Albert Stone, and Nellie, 
who is at home. 

It was in 1868 that Mr. Wils(jn established him- 
self upon the farm where he now lives. He has 
served as .School Assessor for nine successive years 
and is still the incumbent of that office. His 
politicial views bring him into affiliation with the 
Democratic party, but his breadth of view makes 
him an earnest helper in every effort to improve 
the statutes of the county, no matter by what party 
the movement is pushed. He is a member of the 
order of Odd Fellows at Williamstown and is also 
identified with the Patrons of Industry. In his 
military service he enlisted as a private and was 
regularly promoted through the grades of Cor- 
poral and Sergeant, and in the course of two j-ears 
to that of Lieutenant. His record both military 
and civil is an honorable one and we arc gratified 
to present his biography in this Ai.ium, and also a 
view of his fine estate, which is one of the liest im- 
proved in the community. 



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]i^ANIEL C. HCRl). Education may do 
much for a man, but it is an old saying 
that wit and gumption are the most im- 
portant factors in making a man. He of 
whom we write is not lacking in these qualities, 
and by virtue of these he has made his way in the 
world and attained to his present prominent and 
enviable position. He is truly the architect <.>f his 



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own foilune.*. and is a self-made man both in edu- 
1,-iitiun and in Hnanci:il standinjj. beginning at tlif 
l(i(it ol tin- ladder lie i,- now the most prominent. 
|)o|)ulai- and ('ntei-|)ii.sint; man in North Laii-sinji. 
He i> the projirietor of three mereantile houses and 
>ells dry-goods, boots, shoes and olothing. lie is 
:dso the Vice-lVesident and Director of tlie North 
Lansing Milling Company. 

The original of this sketeh was born in C linton 
County, DeWitt Townshi|j. .huuiary 22, 1847. His 
X father was DanielJIurd and is a native of Rut- 
land. \'l. Ili.s i^aternal grandfather was also a A'ej- 
mont man and of some prominence in his natixc 
place. Our subject's fathei- was by calling a farmer. 
He located at an early <lay in New York State, in 
Castile. Wyoming Connt\. and about 1845-4(). he 
came to Michigan and settled in DeWitl. purchas- 
ing a new farm. He at once bent his energies 
towaid improving this tract and became a success- 
ful farmer. He was a man of native ability, in- 
telligence and excellent judgment and held various 
[lositions in the township where he lived. He was 
Justice of the Peace and .Supervisor and was greatly 
respected by his Republican constituents, being one 
of the most ardent sujjporters of that party in his 
locality. His decease occurred in 1876. Our sub- 
ject's mother w^as before her mairiage Miss Eliza 
Cone. .She was a native of Rutland County, ^'t. 
Her decease took place in DeW'itt, September ;i(i. 
1890. She was the mother of eleven children, six 
of whom lived to be grown. 

Our suliject was the seventh child in order of 
liirth. He was reared in DeWitt County, this State, 
and received what education he enjoys at the dis- 
trict school in the vicinity of his home. The first 
.school that he attended was built of logs and was 
a> crude as an institution of learning could well 
be. He received his education in three different 
schoolhouses. with not a great degree of difference 
l)etween them as far as external features and edu- 
cational ad%antages were concerned. But as a boy 
he had as much fun as anyone of the present day 
could desire. Deer were jjlentiful and it was his 
especial delight to run the Heet-l imbed creatures 
down. The Chiijpewa tribe of Indians were still in 
that locality and he had an acquaintance with 
inanv of the young braves of the tribe and from 



them he learned not a few of the secrets of wood- 
craft. 

In 18(Ju Mr. Hurd came to Lansing and began 
allending the city school and two years later l)egan 
clerking in the dry-goods store of Robson in North 
Lansing. For .seven and a half years he remained 
with this house as clerk. He then attended High 
School at North Lansing for two years, gaining 
much that was of \aluc to him. In lis 7:') he began 
business for hiin-self. He had no resources, what- 
evei-, but his credit was good and he was .sanguine 
of success. He lK)Ughl a stock of notions au<l from 
this small beginning his present large and paying 
business has developed. He is by far the largest 
merchant in the city and also one of the oldest. 
He occupies three stores which are well tilled on 
their live floors with the choicest and best-selected 
stock of gcKjds. 

Mr. Hurd is one of the organizers of the North 
Lansing .Milling Company, which now has two 
nulls 111 oi)erati^m. They are constantly running 
and find it difficult to supply the demand ft>r their 
IJioducts. Our subject owns two farms in DeWitt 
and some valuable real estate in this city. His 
success in business has ):>eeii attained liy the closest 
application to his affairs. 

The original of our sketch was married in the 
city of Lansing in 1873. his bride being .Miss 
.Vugusta L. Ingersoll. She was born in Watertown. 
Clinton County, this State, and died .September 2n. 
[xx\. This marriage was blest by the advent of 
one child, a daughter, who is named Bessie B. 
Our subject was a second time united in marriage, 
his wedding being solemnized April 9. 188;"). This 
choice was Miss Clara Boosinger. .She was a native 
of Ohio and died in this city March 24. 1891. She 
also left one child, a daughter, whose name is 
Clara. He of whom we write has been accorded 
several inunic'ipal office-. He has bei'ii .VIderman 
of the Fourth Ward one term. Iicgiiuiiiig in |HH(I 
and also Su|>ci\is(ir for one year. 

Sociallx our subject is a member of the Indc- 
liendent ( )rder of Odd l-'ellows and has also allied 
himself to several societies. He is a Free and Ac- 
cepted Mason, having attained to the Royal .Vrch 
degree, also a Knight of Pythias and had held official 
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tlu- Ki-pulilican ptu-ty and has been a frequent dele- 
jrate to liotli cDunlv and State conventions. As a 
business man his constant and unwaverinsj energy 
is without parallel in this city. His motto has ever 
been -the best is alwa^'S the cheapest." and liis 
stock of goods, which is so carefully selected, is 
suited to the wants of his jwtrons and at the same 
time encourages them to invest in the best class and 
quality. ] 



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ylLLlAM MERCER. Some of the most in- 
telligent and honored families of Living- 
ston County, had their parentage or im- 
mediate ancestry among tiic sturdy mi<ldle classes 
of the British peo])le. and inherit traits of char- 
acter which have been of great value, not only to 
themselves and families, but also to the commu- 
nity among whom they have made their homes. 
There has never come to this land of ours from 
foreign climes a more reliable and solid class 
of emigrants than was sent to us by our mother 
country — England — for they have brougiit those 
noble Anglo Saxon traits which have helped to 
build up and develop the country of which we are 
so justly proud. 

Our subject, who has a beautiful farm on sec- 
tion 16, Hamliurg Township, Livingston County, 
has also an elevator and handles grain and beans, 
being one of the "solid men" of Hamburg Town- 
ship. His father, Maj. George .Mercer, was also a 
farmer and merchant, and had his birth in Devon- 
shire. England, in 179.5. He was a son of AV^illiam 
Mercer, Sr., a cloth merchant, wiio had wealth and 
gave to each of his four sons and one daughter a 
liberal educaticm. George was a college-bred man 
and after completing his .schooling remained with 
his father until 1H20, when he came to .Vmerica 
and made his home in New York City, embarking 
in the business of an importer and jobber in cloth, 
but, unfortunately, he was not successful in this 
endeavor and in 1833 he decided to go upcm a 
farm in Jlonroe County. N. Y. He came to Ham- 
burg Township. Livingston (V>unty. in 1836 .'ind 



]jurcliasing one hundred and .sixty acres on section 
9, lived there al)out live yeai-s. He then sold out 
and purchased one hundred and sixty acres on 
section 16, where he remained until his death, Sep- 
temi)er 28, 1873. 

I'ioneer life did not set ea.sily upon this city- 
bred man. but he struggled bravely against his dif- 
ficult ies and encountered hardships with a noble 
spiiit. Not Ijeing successful in farming he took a 
position as book-keeper in the drug and dry-goods 
house of W. S. .Maynard, of Ann Arl)Or. where he 
remained for fifteen years, although he retained 
Ids property in Ilamliurg Township and increased 
it to four hundred acres. He was married October 
26, 1831. to ;\Iary, daughter of \Villiam and jMarj' 
Williaiiison. of Brooklyn. N. Y. 'Sir. Williamson 
was a merchant who came to Brooklyn iirl82r), 
and remained there only two years, his death oc- 
curring in ilay, 1827. 

Maj. Mercer was a man of more than ordinary 
ability, and a man whose true Christian char.acter 
and integrity were universally esteemed. Both 
he and his excellent wife were members of the 
Episcopal Church. His political views led him to 
embr.ace the doctrines of the Democratic party and 
he filled the responsible otticesof Justice, Clerk and 
Supervisor, and many other positions of trust were 
occupied by him with credit, lie died in 1863, 
and his widow followed him to the other world in 
1888, and all that remains of them in this world 
lies side by side in the cemetery at Hamburg. 
They had four sons and one daughter, all of whom 
are living. The eldest son is in Oregon and the 
others in this county. 

He of whom we write was born in New York in 
1834, and therefore was a little child of two years 
when became with his parents to Michigan. He 
attended a common school and remained with his 
parents until 1862, at which time the farm was di- 
vided among the ciiildren and his share was one 
hundred and twenty .acres on section 16. He went 
there to live and in 1867, purchased an additional 
tract of eighty acres on the same section. His 
happy marriage which took place in 1862, brought 
him as a wife Mary Ann. daughter of David and 
Sarah Van Home, who were from New .Tersey, and 
were the parents of two sons and two dauglitei-s, 



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nil of whom tiru liviiiii in llambur£rli Townsihip. 
Mis. tiercel-. \v;is l)oru in lH;^f(. and is now llii- 
MiotliiT of si'vt'n children. 

(Teorg:e E. Mercei-, the eldest son of our suhject. 
was oiaduated at the Xornial School at N'alparaiso. 
hid., in 1««4, and now makes his home in Howell. 
Livingston C'ounlv. Kdwin. the next son. re- 
ceived his early education in Howell, and was for 
two years a student of the rniversity at Ann Ar- 
Ijor and is now in business at South Bend, Tnd.; 
t'liarles, who attended the rniversity of Michigan 
and was graduated from the Soutii Bend Comnioi- 
cial College, is i-ailioad agent at Pettysville. for 
the Toledo, Ann Arbor iV Xorthern Michigan 
Railroad. William W.. wlm is still at home and 
lias been thoroughly grounding himself in his ele- 
mentary education, is soon to take a course at Ann 
.\rbor. and the three remaining children are Ella. 
Eugene and Frank. The i)olitical views of our 
subject have led him to atliliate witli the Demo- 
cratic party, but he is a man who prefers the quiet 
avocations of home and business life to the excite- 
ment and uncertainties of the ])olitieal arena. 



EUH(iE E. WALKER. This geutlemaii and 
his good wife, who are highly respected 
members of society, have many warm friends 
in Locke Township. Ingham County, and Mr. 
Walker's rei)Utation for probity and honor is un- 
<lonbted by all who know him. It is therefore with 
sincere pleasure that the bi^)gra|)her presents to the 
reader-s of the .\i,1'.im a sketch of this resident of 
section 20, who was lioni ^lay 14. 1>S"24. in Berk- 
shire County. Ma.ss. 

The jjaternal grandfather of our subject fought 
for his country in the War of 1H12; he had a son 
(George who married Rel)ecca Bliss, of ^Ias.sachu- 
setts, and they liecame the parents of our subject 
In 1835 rieorge E. Walker emigrated with his fa- 
ther and mother to the Territ<ny of Michigan and 
they made their first home in the woods of Wash- 
tenaw County, where the father bought land from 
the (Tovernment. In lK7(i the father passed from 



earth and the mother died three years later. They 
were liorn. the father in 179H and the mother in 
18(12. The brother and sister of our subject are 
Francis D. and Ethel JL Their paternal ancestry 
is English, and on the mother's side they are also 
descended from British stock. The coming of the 
Walker family to this country was by the emigra- 
tion of a widowed mother with two sons who came 
with llie PUnioutli Colony and settled in Massa- 
chusetts, and he of whom we write is of the eighth 
generation from these sons. 

^^'ashtenaw County was the scene of the early 
pioneer life of this young man and the early 
schools of that section jirovided his educaticin. but 
the limited curriculum vi those schools has been 
larsiely supplemented liy a thorough and jjcrsistent 
cour.se of reading which he has carried on through 
life. On the Htli of February. 185.0, he took to wife 
Eliza Carpenter, who was born October 23, 1827, 
in Steulien County, X. Y. Her parents were dar- 
ner and Elizabeth (Galloway) Cariieiiter, of New 
.Jersey and Connecticut respectively. In 1834 Mrs. 
Walker had emigrated with her parents to Living- 
ston County, and in those days wolves were all aboul 
the lK)ine and would even look in at the windows, 
while Indians came often to the door. Mrs.Walker 
has two bix)tliers and a sister living — .Uexander. 
Eastman and Susan (Mrs. David Roberts). Her 
father was one of the original pioneers of that 
county and served as Justice of the Peace in (unoa 
Township. The father died in 1847 and the mother 
survived him for thirty years, and in their death 
Livingston County lost a highly respected ])ioneer 
family. They were both of English descent. 

To Mr. and Mrs. Walker have been born seven 
chihlren, six of whom are still li\-iiig — Dwight. 
Sarah (Mr.s. Charles Wightinan). Frank, (ie Hge L.. 
AVealthy, Alma (Mrs. William \oorliies). Mr. 
Walker was drafted iiiti) tlie army September 21. 
18(14. and joined Comijany C. Fifteenth Michigan 
Infantry, which became a ])art of the Fifteenth 
.\rmy Corps under Sherman's ctunmaiul. Our suli- 
ject participated in numerous skirmishes, ])rinci- 
pally in North Carolina, and receixed his honoralile 
discharge May 29, 1865, after which he returned to 
Ingham County and has since made it his jjerma- 
nent home. 



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He of whom \vi' uritc liiul sctllcil u|i(iii tin- fiiriii 
wliR-li lie now o(rii|iif> in the >|)rinii of |S(i(l nnd 
licii- in tiu' unlirokcn foie.-it lie I'XiH'iicnccd tlu' 
usual linrilsliips incident to a pioneer life, lie 
now f)wns eisjlily aeies of Ijind. :ind in llu' Mcenni- 
ulalion of this |)i-o|iert\ lie li;is lieen ablv assisted 
hy his wife and helpmate who. with him. is most 
highly I't'.speeted in the sinial and reliiiious cireles 
of Loeke To\vnslii|i, heintr members of the Baptist 
Chuieh wlieic Mr. Walker .-ierves as Deacon and 
Trustee. lie is a man who is :in intelliii( nl ob- 
server of public affairs, and his political convic- 
tions bring him into active fellowship with the 
members of the Repulilicaii party. 



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;Tp\,(>15ERT Ml'SSON. Tlic (|uiel .•iniials of the 
ilij^if^ lives of onr farming jieople do not read 
/4i '\\ like an exciting st:or\- of ad\-ciitiire. l)ut 
^(©^ they forma more substantial foundation 
for a belief in the present well-being and the future 
prosperity of t)ur nation. We are always pleased 
to sjive the details of an industrious, honorable 
life which has made the (piiet virtues of industry 
and perseverance shine forth more brightly than 
before. Such a life is that of the one whose name 
appears at the head of this paragraph. 

Roliert Mu.sson, who.se line farm of one hundred 
an(1 forty a<;res is situated on section 2.'i. Howell 
Township. Livingston C'ount\ . is a native of Lin- 
colnshire, England, where he was born in 1H;U. 
His mother bore in hei' maidenhood the ii:ime of 
F>lizabetli Winter, and his father, .lohn .Miissoii, 
was a boot and shoe maker and followed that trade 
throngli life. Of their eleven children the follow- 
ing are now living, namely : Thomas. < Jeoige, Eliza. 
Robert. Willi.'im Henry. Sarah (Mrs. .Sleaford).and 
.lo,sepli. 

Previous to his coming to America in 1H.')7 our 
subject had received his education in his native 
land and lieing now a man of mature years he 
came to Howell Township and purchased his farm 
in IHfiS. He has \ipon it a commodious and attrac- 
tive farmhouse and other tine farm biiiltling>, he- 



sides the improvements which one always delights 
to see upon a well-cultivated farm, lis has an P2ng- 
lishman's true love for a line animal and takes 
pleasure in raising .ler.sey stock besides other grades 
of cattle .-ind a line grade of horses. 

The happy marriage of ^Ir. AFus.son. which took 
pl.'icc ill |.H.")2. broiiiiht to his home and hearthstone 
a true and aft'eclioiiate helpiiiatc in llie iterson of 
.M.ary A. Thoiiipsoii. a fellow-countrywoman of his 
and a daughter of .Mo.ses and Elizabeth (Kolley) 
Thomp.son. .Mr. Thompson was, like the elder Mr. 
Musson, a boot and shoe maker .and pa.ssed his 
whole life in his native land. He and his good wife 
had a family of eight children, iianiely: Mrs. .Mus- 
son. .Mrs. Rowelt. Moses. ISoiie. Sarah (Mrs. Scott). 
Susan (Mrs. Watt.ni). 

The chililreii who li.'itliered about the fireside of 
our subject were six in number, namely: .Mrs. \V. 
Whii)pl(> who has two sons — Robert and Elien: 
Mrs. ( ;eori;e Crocki'r who has four children — Willie. 
Minnie. Hurt, and an infant unnamed: I'laiik is 
Mrs. .I;iiiies Hrewer; (ieorgc 1{. ;ind .Maud. 

This ;icli\c. intelligeni lariiier takes a lively in- 
terest in every matter which coni'criis the welfare 
of the county and is ever willing to aid with lii> 
inthience and services to promote any movement 
which is for the u|jbuilding of the c(miinunity. 
His political views bring him into alliance with the 
Democratic party, and his religious views have 
made him a .Methodist, and not only he but his 
wife and chihlren are members of the .Methodist 
E|)iscopal Church and earnest workers in all church 
work. He has been a hard worker all his life and 
has done heroic pioneer xnirk in clearing up an<l 
ciiltivatiiiir his tine farm. 



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^^J'M.VSA I). K.VEELAND. It is a pleasure 
'@/-J to see a hard working, industrious and en- 
/( iR terprising man reach the i)oint where he 
^1 can lay aside the anxieties of life, and the 

arduous details of a fanner's career, and spend his 
later years in quiet and comfort. The city of How- 
ell contain* a number of these wurthv gentlemen. 



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and amons: them there is none more highly valued 
in agiicultural and social circles than the one whose 
name appears at the head of this sketch. 

Mr. Kneeland was born in Livingston County, 
N. Y., in 1830, and is directly descended from War- 
ren and Fannie (Hyde) Kneeland, both of whom 
were natives of the Empire State. In earlj^ life, 
the father of our subject was a clothier, but after 
he came to Michigan in 1835, he settled upon a 
farm in O'ikland County and engaged in agricul- 
ture. It was in 1840 that he removed to this county 
and settled in Howell Township, where he contin- 
ued to carry on farming until his death which oc- 
curred in 1848. His bereaved widow survived him 
for many years, and it was not until 1876 that she 
pa;sed from earth. In polities he was a Democrat, 
and in religion a Presbyterian. 

Tlio paternal grandparents of our subject were 
.lohii and Sarali (Benson) Kneeland, both of whom 
were liDrn in the Emi)ire State. .John Knee- 
land pursued agriculture throughout life and 
brought up his large family of twelve children in 
Livingston County, N. Y., where he also ended his 
days. His wife, who survived him for some years, 
came to Michigan and was living in Howell, when 
her life ended in 1841. Her husband, like his son, 
was attached to the Democratic party, and he 
traced his lineage to Irish stock. The maternal 
grandparents of Mr. Kneeland were Moses and 
Sarah (Dana) Hyde, natives of Connecticut, who 
came to New York, where they engaged in farm- 
ing, and there spent the remainder of their days 
and reared a family of four children. Mr. Hyde 
had bean one of the soldiers in Washington's army 
in which he held the office of Adjutant. His wife's 
father was of French descent, and was one of those 
unfortunates who were killed at the massacre of 
Wyoming. 

He of whom we write was one of seven children 
in the parental home, namely: Sarah, DeWitt C. 
(deceased), A. Dana, Minerva, Harriet, Lewis B. 
and Clara. AVith his brother DeWilt, our subject 
bought out the rights of the others to the estate of 
his father, and proceeded to carry on the farm, 
living on it together until about tlie year 1875, 
when they retired from active life, coming to the 
city of Howell and buying four lots on State Street 



where they built one of the most attractive homes 
in the town. The old homestead contains four hun- 
dred and fifty acres of land, part of it in Howell 
Township, and part in Oceola Township, and is one 
of the best improved estates in this part of the 
State, being well stocked with cattle and sheep. 

DeWitt C. Kneeland was united in marriage with 
Augusta Walker, and they had one daughter Maude, 
who is an artist of considerable merit. While upon- 
the farm, one day, this gentleman went into the 
loft of his barn, where a board broke and let him 
fall through to the floor below, and he lived only 
twelve hours. This was in 1876, and his wife died 
in 1889. Since her parents' death Miss Maude 
looks after the liousehold affairs of her uncle, who 
is a single man. The two brothers were owners to- 
gether of all their possessions. Our subject helped 
to organize the First State and Savings Bank of 
Howell, and he is a stockholder therein. He is a 
Democrat in his political affiliations, and a public- 
spirited man, and at the time that the railroad 
came through Howell, he was liberal in giving to- 
ward securing its advantages for his town. 



riNCY A. SMITH, LL. B., was Judge of the 
■'' ' Probate Court for Ingham County, from 
.Tanuary 1, 1885, to June 30, 1891, at which 
time he resigned. He was elected to the office in 
1884 and re-elected in 1888. His law office in 
Lansing was established in 1887. Judge Smith was 
born at Dover, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, October 5, 
1844. He is a son of Elijah T. and Caroline (Fisher) 
Smith. Socially, as well as legally, our subject is a 
potent factor in whatever circle be may be with. 
A man of fine intellect, keen perceptions and a 
facile power in expressing himself he seems partic- 
ularly adapted to legal work. 

Our subject was reared in a small town a short 
distance from Cleveland, Ohio. There he remained 
until eight years of age when with his parents he 
removed to the southern part of Shiawassee Coiintv, 
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woods, where the f;i1liei- |)Urcli;iseil m t';inii. 'l'lie\ 
niMile the etTiirl t<i dr.-iw mIhhiI them n> uooil :i el;i>> 
of noiuliliDi.- M^ |)()s«ilile. ;iii(l m- the woik of ch'Mi- 
it)<> the ftii'in |H()i>;iv<>e(l ;ii)\';uit;i<ie< liccaiiu' iiioie 
:ittiiii;ilih' ill the dislriet. A srhool w;i^ Imilt .-niil 
e(|iii|i|)e<l. cniilely eiioiiiih it is true, with tlie |)!ir;i- 
|ihreiinli!i ie(|iiire(l \>\ tlie student. However, few 
<pf llie |iii|iils Mtteiided the district sclioiil loii<ier 
thnii diiriiiii' the winter liiontlis. wlieii tiiey wereiiot 
re(|uired hy tlie iieeessiiry f;iriii work to lie !il home. 
•Itidu'e Smith reiii:iitied ;it home with hi> |i:irent^ 
until lie was twenty-two yearsold and then remi>\('d 
lo ()wos-io wliere he had the henelit of tlie pnlilie 
>ehiiol>. He had |ire\linisly atteiidecl the Ilioh 
Selnxd at (iiniiina. After comiiii^ to ()wo»S(i he 
tanglit in the winter, at teiidint; the school as lime al- 
lowed until he w;is 1 went \ -six yearsold. He then 
entered the law oltice of the Hon. \\'. M. Kil|iatrick 
of Owo.sso anri aftei- readiiiu in Ids otiice for two 
years entered the l;iw {lepartinent in the rni\-er- 
sity of Michiii'aii at .\nn .Vrbor. He was ijrnduated 
ill March. 1H7I. .'nid hx'ated foi' the practice of his 
profession in Sauinaw City, where he opened an | 
ollice with AVilli.am II. Sweet ;ind there was ad- 
mitted to jiractice hefoie the liench and liar. In 
the >priini of 1M72 he went lo \Vicliil;i. Kan., .-ind 
remained until the fall of 1«74. While there lie 
liecaine llie owner of a whole block east of the 
.Santa Ke station, Init sold hi> property before the 
boom and thus did not make ;is handsomely as did 
many others. 

( )ii iclnriiini: 1<' Michiiitm from hi> W e.>tei-n 
experience he settled in Williamston, tlii> count v. 
and soon after. Septenilier IT). 1H74, was united in 
inarriaije lo ^liss Carrie K. l{o<i;er>. She is a dauoli- 
ter of Harris I), and Charlotte K. Roi^ers. He re- 
mained in Williainston. euiraijed in the practice of 
his profession until ]X^4. In the meaiitiine he was 
.several times elected to offices in the yift of the 
townshi]). He was Township Clerk and President 
of the villafie. In 1«78 lie was nominated as Cii- 
enit Court Commi.ssioner on the I)enioci;itic ticket 
and came within twenty-three xote-. of beinir 
elected. 

In IMM.') our subject removed to the town of 
Mason and wn> there .-i xwy successful .aiul leaflini;' 
|)ractitioner. He carried mi the |iractiee of his pro- 



fe.ssion in connection with his duties as Probate 
.Indue and in December. 1H«7, he removed to the 
city of Lansinu', makiiiii' his family a home in the 
house which In had previously built. .\t that time 
he li;id no intention of acceptiiijr the renoininatioii 
of Probate .Iiid<;e. but beini>' the po|)ular inmiinee 
of the Diinocratic party it did not >eeiii wise to 
decline the honor wliirli wa^ llnu-l upon him .•iiid 
he was airain re-electi'd. 

.Indiic Smith isanicmbei of the .\|a-(ini<- fiatein- 
ity. He also belonus to the Independent ( )rder of 
Odd i-ellows and holds ;i prominent position in 
the confidence and esteem of the Kniirhlsof Pvlh- 
ias. The domestic life of oiir subject i> a- plea.sant 
as possible, nor could it well be otherwise, for hi.- 
amiable and cultured wife |n-esides with cliarn'.injjf 
diijnily over his elciiant home. She is interested 
in .all that interests him. They have two daiii>h- 
leis just buddin<f into womanhood, named Lottie 
I., ami Lena 1{. 

.Vs a Lawyer .Mr. .Smith is eiiirajfed in a sieneral 
practice .and has paiticijiated in in.aiiy iinportani 
cases in the .Supreine Court which have shed luster 
on the jiiris|)rudence of llic .Stale. He is a careful, 
painstakint; lawyer and is recoijnized as an able 
plend<r and elo(|uent advocate. 



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^KKI) .1. (OOK. Our subject is the repre- 
sentative .111(1 le.'idiiit; member of the firm 
of Fred .1. Cook it Co.. dealers in hardware, 
stoves, implements, lumber, lath and sliinyles, and 
althoiiLfh he is \ery yonna-. lias already firmly es- 
tablished himself in a i>()od and lucrative business 
in the city of Fowlerville. The eneriry and enter- 
prisi' that has pushed Mr. Cook to the fore at so 
early an aire is sure \a accoin])lish for hint aood 
thiiifi.- in the fiilure. So fertile a iiiiiid. sec- 
onded bv so irood a judgment, cannot fail to be 
made of use in the service of St;ite anrj countrv.as 
well as in the aceumulation of riches. 

( )nr subject is a n.ative of the Wolverine State, 
liavini; lirst opene<l his eyes at Byron. Shia- 
wassee County, -Inne II. IHHS. He is a son of 



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Jared and Sarah M. (Drake) Cook, natives of New 
York and Michigan respectively. Our subject's 
father was formerly in the hardware business at 
Byron, later in the same business at Fowlervillc, 
and at present is at Byron, where he takes charge 
of his son's interest in a lumber yard. Our sub- 
ject's paternal grandparents were Jared and Aurilla 
(Straight) Cook, natives of New York, where the 
former was an extensive farmer, later in life, how- 
ever, coming to Michigan and settling in Livings- 
ton County, in Cohoctah Township, where he 
purchased one section of land, spending the re- 
mainder of his life upon that plac« and there pass- 
ing away to tlie better world January 29, 1849. 
The old gentleman always went to the name of 
Capt. Cook, as he held that office in the State 
militia in New York. He had twelve children, who 
as the years went by, scattered and formed domes, 
tic relations of their own. Politically, he of whom 
we write was a Democrat. 

The original of our sketch is one of three claldren 
born to his parents, Jared and Sarah Cook. The 
eldest, Mrs. F. ('. Starkey, is a lady of literary 
talents and an elocutionist of extended reputation. 
Following our subject comes J. Frank, who is em- 
ployed as clerk in his brother's establishment^ 
After finishing the high-school course at Fowler- 
villc, lie of whom we write took a business course 
in the Detroit Commercial College. He started 
out in life as a clerk in Kuhn 's hardware store in 
Fowlcrville,and later was employed by E. Bement 
tfe Sons, of Lansing, there learning the various 
1)raiiclies of the business, paying particular atten- 
lioM to the sale of agricultural implements and 
stoves. While with them, he traveled on the road 
for some time and was one of their most popular 
and successful salesmen. 

Since engaging in his jiresent business Mr. Cook 
has been favored with e.xtraordinary success. He 
has a very large stock of goods, being the heaviest 
dealer in Fowlervillc. He has four men in his em- 
ploy, who have all they can do to keep up with 
the demands of the business. Our subject entered 
the benedict's ranks in 1890, being united with 
Mi-s Jennie M. Miller, February 19, of that year. 
She is a daughter of William I{. and Annie (Nel- 
son) Miller, of Howell, and is a charming woman 




of great capacity and capability, made to be an in- 
spiration and help to the man to whom she has 
given her hand and heart. Republicanism has in 
! our subject one of its strongest and most ardent 
I advocates in Fowlervillc. Every plank in its plat- 
form has to him a good cause for being. Socially 
he belongs to the Knights of Pythias and also to 
the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Mr. 
Cook occupies with his stock a fine brick store in 
Fowlervillc. He is one of the i)rominent young 
business men of Livingston County, and is bound 
to make a better record in different channels ere 
the world hears the last of him. 



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RTHUR CARPENTER. The intelligent 
young farmers of Livingston County are 
the bone and sinew of the community, as 
their strength and vitality, their enterprise 
and energy are carrying forward not only the ag- 
ricultural interests but the foundations for com- 
mercial success throughout this section of the 
State. None of lliem is more highly i)rized and 
more justly appreciated tiian he whose name stands 
at the head of this narrative, and his beautiful 
farm, lying on the slope of Pleasant Valley is well 
adorned and improved by the good buildings which 
he has placed upon it. 

William Carpenter, the father of our subject, 
was born in Niagara County, N. Y., in 1818, and 
the grandfather, who also bore the name of Will- 
iam, came to this State in 1836, when the father 
was a lad of eighteen years, and they located in 
Lyon Township, Oakland County. Here they 
cleared away the forest and turned the wilderness 
into a highly cultivated and richly productive 
estate, and here the grandfather lived until his 
deatli. The family is of English descent and 
traces its lineage through generations of honorable 
ancestors. The father of our subject followed 
farming in the township of Lyon, Oakland County, 
until the year 1887, when he died, being then sixty- 
nine years old. His bereaved widow, who had 
borne to him eight children, had the maiden name 



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of Catherine Dolpli. She is still living, and is 
being tenderly cared for l>y lior faithful and affec- 
tionate ehildren. 

The original of this .sketch grew up on liis 
father's farm, and took his education in the lionn> 
and in the district si'hool. His birth took plac-c in 
Lyon Township, Oakhmd County, Septenilicr 8(), 
1848, and he began farming for himself in I8H;5, 
in Green Oak Township, Livingston County, 
and in 1886 he exchanged it for the farm 
whicii lie now occupies, upon section 22, Brighton 
Townshii). 

The most notable event in the life of tiic young 
man before us is his marriage in 1883 to Miss Ad- 
die Ryder, a talented and intelligent lady of 
Wayne County, Mich., and in their home they enjoy 
the companionship of congenial minds and sym- 
patlietic hearts. The political views of this 
intelligent gentleman are in accordance with the 
declarations of the Republican party, and he keeps 
himself well informed as to the movements of 
national affairs. His handsome farm of one hun- 
dred and twenty acres gives abundant evidence 
that he understands the business of a farmer, and 
that he has the enterprise and energy essential to 
keeping his estate in good condition, and making 
it abundantly i)roductive. 




!>3DWARD O. KELLEY. Business men of 
Lansing, as of other enterprising towns, 
are its bone and sinew, and draw to its cen- 
tralizing influence such citizens as are of jirofit and 
will forward its prosperity. The genuine i)usli and 
perseverance of a Westerner is shown in the work 
of the gentleman whose portrait appears on the 
opi)osite page and whose real-estate and insurance 
business has been prosecuted in Lansing for some 
seven years. His place of business is to l)e found at 
No. 113 Washington Avenue, where. as representing 
his own property and as agent for a numlier of tiie 
best old line companies of fire, lif(> ami accident 
insurance, he is meeting with success. 



Mr. Kelley was born in Milton, Pa., June 26, 
1828, and is a son of Obadiah and Ann (Orr) Kel- 
ley. In liis native home the boy i-eniained, receiv- 
ing a good, common-school education until after 
the death of both parents. He was earl}' orphaned, 
as his mother died when he was but six years old 
and he had scarcely completed his first decade 
when he was deprived of a father's care and affec- 
tion. He remained in that vicinity and for a few 
years was with Mr. Shields, in Lewisburg, Pa., 
where he learned the foundation of business enter- 
prise. There lie sojourned until he reached the 
age of twenty years, after which he spent one year 
in I);iii\ille. i'a.. and in 18-49 determined to cc>nie 
West. Ani\iiig in .Miciiigan lie settled in Flower- 
field. St. .losepli County, this State. He remained 
in tliat ))lacc for two years, engaging in the furni- 
ture business on his own account, Jiiid also buying 
in that vicinity forty .acres of prairie land which, 
however, he never cultivated. 

Jjeoni,.Iackson County, Mich., was the next home 
of Mr. Kelley and he there entered into business 
in a general \i!lMge store. In 18,")2. in I^oni he 
was united in marriage with Caroline ^I. Bennett, 
daughter of Rev. Aruiia Bennett, of Wasiitenaw 
County. Mr. Bennctl was one of the pioneers who 
came to Michigan in 1832 as a local preacher of 
the Methodist Ei)iscopal Church. He bought three 
hundred and twenty acres of land and upon it he 
afterward made his home until his death. Our 
subject remained in Leoni until 18/Jl when he rc- 
j moved to Grass Lake and engaged in the furniture 
j business. From there he came to Lansing in 18.58 
I to take a position as clerk in the o (lice of the 
Au(lit<ii-( .eneiiii, under 1). L. Case. He remained 
ill tlial olliee until 1878, serving in the capacity of 
clerk for twenty years, and in the meantime inter- 
ested himself in Lansing realty. During the first 
1 three years after he resigned tiie office of clerk for 
' the Auditor-General he was engaged in the mer- 
cantile business and carried on a ninety-nine cent 
I storeon Washington Avenue, but at the end of tliat 
I time devoted himself entirely to tiie line of Imsi- 
ness in whicli we now find him. 

The political views of Mr. Kellc.y in his early 

days were with the anli-slavery branch of the Wjiig 

I party and his first Presidential ballot was cast for 



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John P. Hale. After tliat he entered the Republi- 
can party to which he was attaclied until quite 
recentl.y, but now casts his iiiHuenee and vote for 
Prohibition. He is prominently identified with 
the Methodist Episcopal Church and is a menilter 
of the Lansinsj Lodge, No. 66, F. iV A. M. He has 
two children still living and his daughter. JIary E.. 
died when fifteen years old. Lillian B. is now 
Mrs. (;. W. AVood, of Lake City. Mich., and Anna 
1.. is at liome. The Indoved and lionored compan- 
ion of liis youth was calU'd from liis side by death 
.lanuary 24. 1H!)(I. liaving readied the age of fifty- 
nine yeai's. Her irreparalile los^ is keenly felt by 
lier husband and children, but her beautiful in- 
fluence remains not only with them but with all 
with whom she associated during her lifetime. 




IIL^ ON. WILLIAM 1!.\LL. .Michigan is known 
among the sisterhood of States as having 
among her sons Tuan.y citizens of noble 
character and high repute, whose public- 
spirited services and aggressive and far seeing en- 
terprise have raised her to her proud position as 
one of the most highly cultured and prosperous 
commonwealths in the Nortliwest. To such sons 
the State owes a del)t of gratitude and all who 
love her delight in reading the record of their 
lives. The man of whom we write in this sketch 
has made his mark as a nfible son of Michigan and 
has helped largely in the devclo|inient of this part 
of the State. 

Samuel H. Ball, the father of the lion. William 
Ball, whose home is in Hamburg Township, Liv- 
ingston County, was a farmer and had an excellent 
education. He was horn in Vermont in 1803, and 
came to New York when but a lioy and there in 
due time undertook the pidfessitm of a teacher. ' 
After living there for some years he came to AVeb- I 
ster, Washtenaw County. ^lich.. and bought some 
land to which he afterward added until he secured 
three hundred acres. Here he built a house and 
barns and proceeded to improve and cultivate his I 



land. He married Olive Seeley about the year 1829. 
She was one of nine children in her parental home 
and was born in New York about the year 1806. 

.lames Ball, the i)aternal grandfather of fiur sub- 
ject, had .'1 family of ^ix children, all of whom h.-ive 
now passed to the other world. The son. Samuel, 
had five childien. William being the eldest of the 
(lock, his natal year being 1830. Samuel Ball died 
in 1878 in Webster, and had been a pi'ominent 
man throughout his life, having been Supervisor 
and .Justice of the Peace and a prominent worker 
in his earl\ life in the ranks of tlie Whig party 
and later attiliating with the Republicans. His 
widow still resides in Webster. Washtenaw County, 
and makes her home with Charles Rogers. 

William Hall has a collegiate education ac(piired 
at .MhioM ( ollege and at the University of Michi- 
gan, lie taught for ten years in the district schools 
and in the rnicm School in Oti.^co. Ionia ('(lunty. 
where he occupied the position of Principal. .\t 
the age of twenty -one he had started o\it for him- 
self, buying eighty acres of land in Welister Town- 
ship about the year 1850. He came to Hamburg 
Township in 1858 and bf)ughl three hundred acres 
on sections 26 and 27. Since that time he has 
added by ])urchas(' until lie now has five hundred 
acres, much of which he has cleared, and upon it 
he has built barns and a pleasant house and has 
set out fine orchards. 

The most momentous event in the life of the 
young man was his marriage in 1858 with Catherine, 
daughter of David B. I'owers. a New Yorker, who 
had two children of whom Catherine was the 
youngest, being born in 1838. To her have been 
born one son and four daughters. Erwin was 
married in 1K81 to Carrie E. Fisk, daughter of 
Theodore and Edna ((iardner) Fisk. This lady is 
an only child, lioni in 1865, and a gradilate of the 
State Normal School at Ypsilanti, where she com- 
pleted her course in 1883. They have three chil- 
dren, Edna ('.. Fh)rence H. and Leland II. Erwin 
Ball is Secretary of the Washtenaw County Far- 
mers' Association and C'orresponding Secretary of 
the Fanners' Club at Webster. His college society 
is the Delt^i Tau Delta and he has served as both 
President and .Secretary of that fraternity. He is 
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party and a hearty promoter of every movement 
which looks to the advancement of tlic farming 
community, fully one-half of his time hoinij taken 
up by his duties as Secretary of the ^lichiifau 
Merino Siieep Breeder's Association, which otiice 
he has held for five years. The second cliild of 
our subject is Sarah, who is the wife of Louis 
Saunders, of Omaha, Neb., and has two children. 
Following her are .Julia, Kate, (the wife of Henry 
Queal, living in Hamburg) and .Mice II. Kate 
has one son. Erwin is a graduate of the Agricul- 
tural College. The three older daughters have all 
taken their diplomas at tlie State Normal of Ypsil- 
anti. -Mice IL, the youngest, is now a student in 
tlie same institutiun. 

The Hon. Mr. Ball is iiromiuently itlentified with 
tlie Free and Accepted Masons of Howell and is a 
member of No. 26. Howell Comm.andery. He was 
one of the charter members at .Vnn Arbor of the 
Delta Kappa Epsilon, and in the State Orange lie 
IS a prominent member. For ten years the State 
.Xgricnltural Society has been favored with his ser- 
vices as one of its Directors, and is one of the 
Directors of the Central Michigan .Vgricultural 
Association. The Michigan Live Stock Association 
has made him its President and in thai otiice lie 
has shown great efDciency and breadth of view 
which has brought this .association to the front. 
He has also been President of the Michigan Merino 
Sheep Breeders' and Wool Grower's Association as 
well as occupying the same oftice in the Short-horn 
Society of this State. Upon the Board of Directors 
of the State Reform School, of Lansing, he has 
shown himself most judicious and aggressive. 

The record of ]Mr. Ball as a leader in tiie Repub- 
lican jiarty is worthy of note. His early training 
made liim a Whig but after the formation of the 
Republican party he joined its ranks and has ever 
since then been identified witli it. His services as 
Supervisor from 1863 to 1864 evinced iiis more 
than ordinary capacity as a man of public affairs 
and his fine superintency of the county schools, to 
whicii office he was elected in 1872. made him 
known to the best men of the county. He was 
elected to tlie State legislature in 18f)l and re- 
elected to tlic same ofilce in IHIiC. In 18.S(I lie 
was again re-elected to the Michigjin State Legis- 



lature, was elected Speaker pro tem and was Act- 
ing Speaker most of the session (the Speaker being 

sick). In IH!HI lie wassent to the State Senate and 
became President pro tem of that body, and by 
the death of Lieut. Gov. McDonald he became act- 
ing Lieuteiiant-(iovernf)r. In 1 8i)0 his party placed 
him in tlie field as candidate in the Sixth Congres- 
sional District for Member of Congress. He made 
a fine run personally and came within five hundred 
of winning Iiis election, but as that was the year 
of the great land slide, when Michig.an went 
strongly Democratic, lie did not meet with success. 
His popularity, however, is undiminished as it is 
based upon a thorough knowledge of his really fine 
character, which is notable for his broad and dis- 
criminating judgment, his u|)rightness and com- 
))rehensive reason. 



-^;jP^II()MA.S \V. BUKWKK. proprietor of the 
Livingston Herald of Howell, Livingston 
County, is a native of the township in which 
he resides, being born here April 9, 1847. His 
grandparents were among the first settlers of the 
township, his grandsire Peter having been a native 
of New York .and a soldier of the War of 1812. 
His grandmother bore the maiden name of Dorcas 
West and will long be remembered by the inhabi- 
tants of this county as one of the brave pioneer 
women of the earl)' days. 

Ebenezer Brewer was the father of our subject 
and had his birth in AVilson, Ni.agara County, 
N. Y. He came to Michigan in early boyhood and 
at the .age of twenty-one married Charlotte Thomas 
who became the mother of tiie subject of this 
sketch. She passed away from earth in Howell in 
November, 1857. leaving three children, two sons 
and one daughter, the eldest, Thomas, then being 
but ten years of age. 

From the time he lost his mother the lad was 
thrown upon his own resources but he attended 
the ilisliicl school iiearl\- every winter until 1863 
when he left home, although only a little f)ver six- 
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of our country's defenders. He joined Company 
C, Fourth Michigan Cavalry and served untilJune 
26, 1865. when he was discharged at Louisville, 
Ky., on account of the cessation of hostilities and 
returned home to Michigan. The young man felt 
that he had not gained the I'ducation which he i 
ought to have, and he continued working on the 
farm in summer and attending the district school 
during the winter nuniths. until he gained hi.s ma- 
jority. 

Mr. Brewer now found liis liealth insufficient to 
bear tlie heavy toil of tlie farm, as agriculture still 
partook very largely of a pioneer character, and he 
tried an experiment of investing in a patent right, 
which made liini ridi in exi)erience but was a failure 
financially, .•nid he again took up his former occu- 
pation, llis marriage upon Maiih 27. 1872. 
brought to his side a faithful companion in the 
person of Mary J. Craig, a lady of Howell. He 
continued to follow agriculture until tlie beginning 
of 1874. when he entered the employ of the Howe 
Sewing Machine Company and followed that line 
of business until 1878 when he became an employe 
of .S. Andrews, remaining with him until .Vugust, 
1881, when he left this business and took a trip to 
the Western frontier. A few months' sta\- at the 
Cheyenne agency in Dakota c0(^led the "go west, 
young man" fever in the veins of Mr. Brewer and 
he returned home and took up the sale of sewing 
machiiies, in which he continued until 1888. 

Mr. Brewer purchased in June, 1889 a weekly 
local newspaper, the Inter-Lake, which had been 
published by the Rev. D. W. Haminond of Vernon, 
Shiawassee County, Mich. He published the same 
until April, 1891, when he sold the subscription list 
of that paper to .1. A. Keyes of the Durand Ex- 
press and bought the suljscription books of the 
Livingston Herald. It was on May 15, 1891, that 
Mr. Biewer issued ins first nuinhcr of the Herald. 
which he had enlarged from a live-column folio to 
a six-column quarto. His \Ki\tvy received a hearty 
welcome from its first issue and with his thorough 
knowledge of the county and large acquaintance 
among its people his success is an assured one. .Al- 
though he is not acquiring great wealth he is filling 
a useful place in the communit\', and commands the 
le.^peetof all who know him. Of the four children 



who have blessed his home three sons and a daugh- 
ter, two have passed away, Oeorge W. and Robert 
E., while Alice A., a girl of sixteen, and Thomas 
W. .Jr., a sprightly lad of thiiteen \ears, still re- 
main to receive theaffection and training of their 
fond niid judicious parents. 



OHN W. HARRIS, a prosperous and well- 
known fanner residing on section 34, Putnam 
Townslii|), Livingston County, is a son of 
IIenr\' Harris. a native of Kings County. Ire- 
laud, who emigrated to .\merica in 1S2.'). where lie 
worked for two yeai> in Xew .lersey on the Dela- 
ware and Uaritan Canal. In 1827 he n'tunied to 
Ireland and married the mother of our subject, 
Mary Ryan, who was born in lially Ihitton, Iving> 
County. After their marriage they returned to 
Americe, where Mr. Harris worked on a railroad in 
I'eniisylvania for a season, and then worked on a 
farm as overseei' for .lo>epli Boneaparte foi' one 
year. 

lleiiiy Harris came to Michigan in the spring of 
182',l, and bought two hundred acres of wild land 
from the (Jovernment. The land was located on 
the section where his son now resides, and th« 
patent was signed by President Andrew .lackson. 
Having built a log house, he removed his family 
into it in December, 1829. At that time there was 
a small tamarack log house belonging to a Mr. Cam- 
field where Piiukney now stands. There was also 
a sawmill, which was built by Andrew Knowland, 
of Ann .\rbor. a few houses and two stores in that 
vicinity on Portage River, which little hamlet died 
out after Pinckiiev was established, and there is 
not a sotil now living who was here at that time. 
The father of our subject was poor exceiit in a 
brave determination to provide a home for his 
family, and a wealth of physical strength which 
enabled him to clear his land, subdue the wild for- 
ests, and meet the exigencies of pioneer life. There 
were then plenty of Indians; and wild animals and 
deer, bears and wolves were about the door. Xo 
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l)e f<illf)wecl liy lilazed trees) wcri' iivailahk- for ii.se 
iiiiil the nirti'ket Wfis at Ypsilaiiti. lliiiiy-eitflit miles 
away. 

This early piuiieer was wide-awake ti> his duties 
as an Anierieaii citizen, and walked t(5 Ann Arbor 
to vote at the ru'.--t eleetion whieh he attended here, 
and his next oppoitunity was in a house west of 
Hudson Colliers. .Vftei- liviii" here twenty-nine 
years, he hnd tlirce Imndreil .Miid sixty acres of ex- 
cellent land, one hundred and thirty of which he 
had cleared. lie had also huilt ;i fiMine house which 
was then the liest liouse for miles around, and it i^ 
still standiiiir. as is al.so his frame barn, ;i,5x4li feet 
in dimensions, wliich was one of the first in the 
neighborhood, lie died .lanuary it. IHM. Imt his 
widow survived until April 20. l«x;i. 

Of the nine children of this pioneer four are now 
liviiia, viz: our subject; ^Irs. .Michael ( )'{'oiiii( 11. 
of .)ackson: Mrs. .lames Morijan. of Inadilla Town- 
shiii; and Thomas, of Lake ^■iew. Miss. The par- 
ents were devout Catholics, and in the early days 
services were held in their house for twenty years 
by Father Kelley. who at that time was located at 
Wayne, Washtenaw (ouiiIn . and who used to make 
numlierless tri])s on horseback tlirough the \vood> 
between Wa_vne and Milwaukee. Henry Harris 
took an interest in ijolitics. and was an intimate 
friend of (ien. Ia'wIs (ass. He filled the responsi- 
l)le otliees of Over.seer of the l'oor.'r<)wiisliip Trea.s- 
nrer, School Otlieer and was one of the lirst jurors. 
He gave to his children as fair an education as cii- 
eumstances would allow. 

.hily 2;j, 1839 was the natal day of our sub- 
ject. His first home was on this farm where he now 
lives. Here he received his early education and 
grew to manliooiL and upon the death of his father 
took charge of the farm, bein>i- then but nineteen 
years old. In the course of time he bought out 
th'» other heirs and the land now belongs to him 
by virtue of the old patents, some of which are 
signed by .lack.son. some by \'an Hiiren. and some 
by John liuincy Adams. 

The wedding day of .John W. Harris, was No- 
vember 27, 1H()7, and he was then united with 
Agnes Morgan, a daughter of I'eter and Catherine 
Morgan, of Inadilla Township. Mrs. Harris was 
born >Larch 2.'). 1H47. in I'liadilla Townshi]), and 



she has become tlie mother of two children, Harrv 
Casper and .James .Morgan. The oldest sou was 
born October 27, 1868, and is astenograi)her in the 
otHco of A. C. Walker, at Aspen, Col. He was a 
student at Pinckney until he reached the age of 
seventeen, after which lie taught one term and was 
then a student .at Dexteraiid .'lithe Ypsilanli Busi- 
ness College. For two years he was with the .\n- 
chor .Manufactiirinu Coinpaii\ of Detroit, and then 
after one season on his father's farm he went to 
.\s|)eii. Col., where he now resides. He was inar- 
licd .luly 211. isc.l 1. to Carrie Kelly, of .Vsiieii; .lames 
was lioin .luly 2.'i. 1870, and after beinga student at 
I'inckncv. at the age of I'igliteen beoaii teaching, 
and then received the appointment from Gov. 
\\ inans to be his paue duriiit;' the term of the I^eg- 
i^lature of IH'.M. The parents feel justh' proud of 
their sous, and are ha|>py in beiiii; able to say that 
neither of them knows the taste of liipioi'. 

In \Xlx Mr. Harris Iniilt the pleasant home on 
wliicli lie now resides at a cost of ^L.^io be.sides the 
labor which he himself ex]iended upon it. ami in 
connection with this house Mrs. Harris boasts the 
best cellar in the township. They now have three 
hundred and twenty acres of land, one hundred 
and ninety acres of which is improved, and he car- 
ries on the farm himself, having.ilways been a hard 
worker. He began raising thoroughbred .\inerican- 
.Merino sheep in 1874, and now has one hundred 
and thirty head. He has also fine registered .Jer- 
seys and Holsteins. and in horses has some splendid 
animals, which tr.ace their lineiige to "Amb.'i.s^a- 
dor, ' '"Treniont.' ' '• Louis Napoleon " an d " Pasacas. ' ' 
.^mong his twenty-three horses he has some very 
valu<d>le ones, and the dam with which he started. 
was one of the finest "Clay" mares in the State at 
that time, she taking second i)remium,and her colt 
lirst premium at Detroit in 1879. 

Mr. and Mrs. Harris are devout members of the 
Catholic Church, and both of their sons follow 
their parents in religious belief and life. They all 
belong to the Father Matthew Temperance Society 
of .St. .Joseph Church, at Pinckney, and in po.itical 
matters the father h.as ever been a strong supporter 
of temperance candidates. He has also been use- 
ful as a member of the .School Hoard, and sets a 
grand examjile to many an Anieriean-born citizen 



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in this regard, that lie never for the sake of gain, 
or to get work out of his boys, kept them out of 
school a day in their lives. His aim has been to 
make them good citizens, and to train them in 
thorough business habits. 

The Catholic Church at Pinckney had for its 
pioneer priest Father ivelley, and since that time it 
has been favored with tlie ministrations of Fathers 
CuUen, Pulcers and Mutarh. and the congregation 
now has one hundred and eighteen families con- 
nected with it. The church building which was 
Completed ill 1K()8 by the Rev. J. ^'an Genip, was 
begun in IKUO. The priests who have officiated 
since its dedication, were the Rev. Fathers J. Raf- 
ter. T. Mattery. Herbert, Diiehig and Considiue. 

Mr. Harris enjoys telling stories of his father's 
early experiences in the pioneer days. One of his 
most tlnilling ad\enlures was when he and a hired 
man were cutting hay upon a marsh three-quarters 
of .-i nnle from home. They were so busy at their 
wt)rk that they did not remember to listen pru- 
dently for the approach of wild beasts, and before 
they knew it a large pack of wolves had attacked 
them. They kept off the animals by hard fighting 
until they reached a point within thirty rods of 
home, when the wolves were driven off, and they 
arrived safelv at the liouse. 



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^T^?] DWIN B. CARRIER. Among the pron,i- 



is] nent and most induential members of busi- 
i) ness and social circles in Lansing, Ingham 



County, is our subject whose Inisiness as stock- 
dealer and also as proprietor of the egg preserving 
establishment are among the active enterprises of 
this cit\-. He is not one of the pioneers of the 
town as he came here in 1880, but he has shown 
himself deeply interested in developing the natural 
resources and stimulating the enterprises of this 
city, and has made himself a leader in various 
movements of importance. 

This gentleman was born in Cayuga County. 
N. Y., May 13, 1832, his parents being Bert H. and 
Emeline (Hanchett) Carrier. The father was a na- 



tive of New York who removed to Rice Creek, 
Calhoun County, Mich., in 1837 and there engaged 
in farming. He bought new land from the Gov- 
ernment and settled where there were but two fam- 
ilies within a radius of many miles. He cleared up 
a farm and made a prosperous home out of this 
land which he found in the wilderness. Under 
his roof the earliest religious meetings were held, 
and he became one of the founders of the jNIetho- 
dist Protestant Church. When a house of worship 
was to be erected, he with David H. Miller. Amos 
Hadden, Caleb Hanchett and David Hanchett. 
were the heaviest contributors toward building the 
first frame church at Rice's Creek. Previous to this 
they had been privileged to hold meetings in the 
schoolhouse, as Mr. Carrier was most of the time an 
officer of the school district and also of the town- 
ship. He lived on the old farm until the time of 
his death, February 11, 1881, and was then nearly 
four-score years of age, having been born May 4, 
1807. His amiable and excellent wife, who wasso 
true and helpful a companion to him in their pio- 
neer experiences, was born September 12, 1812 and 
died May 26, 1877. 

Besides our subject his parents had three chil- 
dren born to them, Oscar M., who is now deceased; 
Alice the wife of Sidney Thomas; and Orange A. 
Edwin Carrier received most of his education in 
Calhoun County, finishing his schooling at Olivet 
College, after which he taught for several terms 
and then engaged in farming. He bought a farm 
in Calhoun County and took as his wife Miss Cor- 
nelia Root, a native of Cayuga County. N. Y., 
who was born there November 26, 1831. Their 
mariiage took place September 27, 1853. She is a 
daughter of Ralph and Phcebe Ann Root. 

Mr. Carrier continued farming in Marengo 
Township, Calhoun County, where he owned one 
hundred and eighty acres of fine land, eighty of 
wliicli he still keeps in his possession. In that 
township he has held many of the offices and has 
served with especial efficiency as Road Commis- 
sioner and School Inspector. He served also most 
(heerfuUy and satisfactorily as chorister of the 
Methodist Protestant Ch\u-ch at Rice's Creek for 
twenty-five years and has been a member of that 
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work of fi Smuhiy-sfliool Suijeiiuteiident has also 
lift'li Ills t'oi- more tliMii !i i|U;irlci- of ;i iclitury. lie 
i> (Iffply iiiti'iolfd i)i iiiiiltfrs i>t' pulilic iiniiortiiiice 
.-111(1 had ii sUuiiji faith in the vitality and >()iiiid- 
iii'ss of till' Republican party t(j which he had been 
hiiiu: attJK'lu'd. I'litil .--i.K years a;fo ho Ijeeaiiie a 
iiiemlier (if the l'ri]|iiliit ion party wiiieh he now en- 
thusiast ieally supp()rt>. 

Our siibjeet has .-iold a part of his farm to his 
dauuhter and her husband. Myron Holies, who live 
in a liandsoiiie house on the old hcjinestead. .Mr. C'ar- 
lier has built for hini.sell a line luiek residence al 
the coriu'i- of Seymour and W'ilhuv .Streets and his 
lirotliei-in-Ia\v. William K. linbinsim. who liDUifht 
tpiite a tract of land at the uirtli end of town has 
built for himself a beautiful liuiiie. Near the limne 
iif .Mr. Carrier they have their eusi' es1alili>hinent 
which has a capacity of .seventy-tive tlunisaiid 
dozen ejias. which they iiold in vats in the iiei- 
.serviug liquor until they desire to sell them. They 
are buildiiiii' up a line trade in this iieccs>^ary arli- 
ele of commerce. 

.Mr. Carrier has also made a .--peci.'dly of bu\ inu 
!\nd .selliiiii' stock and lia~ eiiijaiied particularly in 
lettinu; sheep, havinsj had as many a* twenty-tive 
hundred .sheep let out on time. The tirsi wife of 
.Mr. Carrier died January .SI. I.smm leaviiiif a fam- 
ily of five children, namely: Klla .May, who was 
liorn .Inly :S, 1808 and i> now Mrs. Holies; Wilbur 
()., born Kel)ruary 28, 186(1, and is now a Presby- 
terian minister at Wausau. Wis.; Sai-ali A., born 
.September 12, 18()1. now .Mrs. William .1. .Mc- 
Rolierts, of Iroiiwood. Mich.: ^lerton H.. born 
Kebrnary 21), 18()tj, who is eiitcaued in the wholesale 
business of the Lansin<r Si)ice and Extract Coni- 
l)any: and Iv-lherM., was born May i;5, 18()8 and is 
still al home. Mr. Carrier and the memln'rs of liis 
family are identitied with the members of the 
Presbyterian Church of this city. 

The present Mrs. Carrier bore the maiden name 
of .Sarah .McCollam. and was born .September 12, 
184;:!, in Cayuija County. N. V.. lieiiiif a daughter 
of .John -McCollam. .She there grew to maturity 
and taught .school for several years after which she 
married Mr. Elmer Slay ton of that place in 18(ir) 
and came to .Michigan two years later. Mr. and 
.Mrs. Slayton resided at Rice's Creek, where he car- 



ried on a farm and he died there in 1885. Her 
oldest daughter Arlone, is now the wife of William 
Williams, and the younger daughter Emma, is at 
home with her mother. 




E.NNIS ( OHEV. .Vniong the old settlers 
now become the retired farmers of llain- 
[!S>/r burg Township. Livingston County, we 
liud a nuinl)er i>f men whose abilities and 
cliaiarter have given them an except ional standing 
in the communily. Their migration to Michiuaii 
in the early day> dc\elo|ied lliiough hardship :iiid 
strugiile all that is be<t in man. and by their per.se- 
verance and sturdy ailherunce lo the principle 
which are essential to sueeess iindci such cireuni- 
staiico. they atlaiiie<l a lepulatitni .■mil a standing 
which i.-> permanent. .Such a man is Dennis (Orey, 
who resides on that beautiful section of llaniburg 
Towusliii), whieli lie- on .section .'i(i. 

.lolin D. Corey, the honored father of our sub- 
ject, was bctrn in Pliode Island, in 179!<. He re- 
ceived an excellent education and taught for many 
years, although he was by avocation a farmer, 
rpon leaving his native home he went to Sara- 
toga, N. Y., and remained in that .State until 1831, 
when he came to Michigan, traveling by way of 
Erie Canal to Buffalo, thence to Detroit on the 
boat "WilliaH Penn."' From that city he came 
tlir<nigli the forest to Nankin, Wayne County, 
where he bought eighty acres of land, and in 1836 
he bought forty additional acres. 

.Settling on the eighty acres which he first pur- 
chased, he proceeded to cut logs and build a house. 
It was not really a palatial residence, being only 
18x22 feet in dimensions with log walls, stick 
chimney with cl.iy-b.ick walls. He continued to 
improve his property, building b.arns and houses 
and setting out orchards, and in course of time, 
having made this property (piite desirable, sold it 
and bought one hundred and twenty acres in Ma- 
son, Ingham County. This was a new farm and 
upon it he placed a liou.se and barn and other im- 
provemenis, and having thus raised its value sold 



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it and removed to Gratiot County, where he pur- 
chased anotlier farm and remained until the end 
of his da.ys, which came when he was eighty-four 
years and two months old. 

About the year 1821, .John Corey had married 
Miss Parnej' Armstrong, daughter of Jacob Arm- 
strong, a resident of New York, who had come 
from Connecticut, and who had two sons and 
three daughters, of whom Parney was the third in 
age and was bom aI)outthe beginning of the pres- 
ent century. To .lolin and Parney Corey were 
given six children, who were equally divided be- 
tween sons and daughter.*, and of whom Dennis 
was second in order of age, being born January 
18, 1824. She died about the year 1833. After 
the death of his first wife the father of our subject 
was a second time united in marriage, being joined 
to Roxa Ferguson, daughter of James Ferguson, 
of Wayne County, Mich. Mr. Ferguson was from 
X'ermont, and Roxa, who was born about the year 
1807. was the second in a family of nine children. 
To her were born seven children, three of whom 
are still living. 

The subject of this sketch had but few advan- 
tages for an education, but improved those few 
with vigor and interest. When twenty years old 
he began for himself by working outbj' the month 
in Ann Arbor. He had a taste for mechanics and 
soon attained skill in that department of work 
and at twent3'-four he began to run a stationary 
engine, and in 1860 had accumulated enough 
means to pin-chase land, buying ei*hty acres in 
Hamburg Township, to which he has since added 
twenty more. The farm was not in a very good 
condition, although it was cleared, but had upon 
it poor fences and neither buildings nor orchards. 
Four years after his purchase of this property he 
was united in marriage with Luzetta, daughter of 
Heman Lake. Mr. Lake had a large family and 
Luzetta, who was the eighth child, was born in 
1835. To our subject was born by this union one 
daughter, to whom he gave the name of his mother, 
Parney. She is now the wife of George Banghard 
and is the mother of two sons. Mrs. Luzetta 
Corey was called from her earthly home in 1858. 
Mr. Corey made his second matrimonial alliance 
in I86O1 taking as his wife, Catherine, daughter of 



Peter Corej-, a native of Rhode Island, who re- 
moved to New York in his early manhood where 
Catherine was born in 1824, the youngest of his 
five children, two of whom are now living. The 
well-known integrity and reliability of Mr. Corey 
has given him the universal confidence of his 
neighbors and to him has been intrusted for twenty 
years the responsible oHice of Treasure)- of his 
school district. He is enterested in political move- 
ments and votes the Democratic ticket. To his 
son-in-law he has consigned the management of 
his farm, and he has built for himself a beautiful 
liimie where he and his good wife dwell at peace 
with all the world. 






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, AA'ID STODARD is a prominent farmer 
7 in Leroy Township, the tract which he 
operates being located on section 34. Like 
so many other settlers in Ingham County, 
he is a native of Genesee County, X. Y., his nat.al 
day having been January 13, 1830. He is a son 
of Rensselaer and Hannah Stodard, who were both 
natives of the Empire State. He was the third 
child in order of birth, and grew to m.anhood in 
his native State and county. From earliest boy- 
hood he was engaged in farming, so that in later 
j'ears, when he was thrown on his own resources, 
he had but to strike out for himself, the experience 
being already his. He received the educational 
advantages common to boys at that time, who 
lived in a rural district. He attended the district 
schools, and was there prepared for the practical 
work of a business career. 

Naturally of a bright and assimilative nature, 
the original of our sketch acquired more in actu.al 
and practical experience than over his text books 
in school. He has been a deep reader from young 
manhood and has to a great extent made up the 
deficiencies in his early education, being an intel- 
ligent and well-informed man. February 22, 1851, 
Mr. Stodard was married, in New York State, to 
Miss Amanda Sackett, a native also of that State, 
and a daughter of Isaac Sackett, of Genesee County, 
N. Y. To them were born three children, who now 



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liold responsilile and respected positions in life. 
Tliey :irt' liy n;inu' lUirdett, Curtis an<l Inioitcnc 
The eldest child is now the wife of !■ icdi'iick 
Mead. Our subject enlisted February l-'i, IHf!;'), 
in Coinpany C, Eleventh Micliiu;an Infantry. He 
was appointed to do guard duty at ('hattnuoo<ra 
and also at Cleveland, Tenn., and at Knoxville. 
September 13, I860, he received an honorable di.s- 
charfje and returned to his home. 

In .hinuary, 186.5, our subject emiij;rated witii 
his laiiiily to Ingham County, Mich., and located 
in I.eroy Township. In 187.5 tliey removed to 
the present farm which comprises one hundred 
acres of good land, upon which he has erected a 
good class of buildings. His residence is neat and 
attractive and kept up in excellent order, as are 
also tlie barns and outhouses on the place. They 
speak more for the management of the owner than 
pages of personal eulogy could do. His fields are 
well tilled and he owns some of the latest and 
most aiiju-oved labor-saving macliinos in the wa}' 
of agricultural implements. 

Mr. Stodard is worthy of great ))raise for the 
success that he has made of life, for he has had 
many disadvantages to contend with and no aid 
whatever, excejjt that within his own family, con- 
sisting of kind and encouraging words from his 
partner and helpmate in life. He has lieen very 
active in local affairs concerning the district. He 
is now serving on the School Board as Moderator. 
Our subject has cleared two farms, and the place 
in which he now resides he enten'd upon when it 
was entirel\ uniniproved. 



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#««fi OLOMOX T. LVOX. .Mthough dcalli li.as 
^%;^ laid his chill liands upon the lieart of Mr. 
t/ J Lyon and stilled tiie pulse of the machine, 
there is still living the spirit which charac- 
terized each act of his daily life with noliility and 
t>ca>ity. Although not a native of this State, all 
of his liiinking years were connected most closely 
with its growth and development. He came witii 
his parent* to .Michigan when only one year old 



and licrc atlaiiiccl liis manhood and took upon 
himself the lioly bond of matrimony, establishing 
a hfnne over which slie who is now his widow 
reigns. 

Mr. Lyon was born at I'ultney, Steuben County, 
X. Y., May 1, 18.'?;"). His boyliood days weie, 
however, spent in the State of Michigan, growing 
up as a pioneer. After finishing a course of study 
at tiie common schools of the district in which he 
lived, he enjoyed the advantages offered by the 
college of Michigan, wiiich was located at Kalama- 
zoo. After finishing his college course he taught 
school until 1864. At this time he enlisted as 
Second Lieutenant in the Fifth Michigan Regiment 
of infantr\ . Later he was promoted to the post 
of Captain and served in this capacity until the 
close of the war. He was mustered out at Detroit 
and received an hcmorable discharge. During his 
war experience he was thrice taken prisoner. He 
participated in every battle in which his regiment 
took part after entering the army until the .-urren- 
der of Gen. Lee. 

After Mr. Lyon returned from tiie war for two 
! years he was engaged in teaching in Livingston 
; County and after that was elected the County 
Clerk, in which position he continued for a space 
of two yeai-s. The organization of the life and 
fire insurance company in the city of Howell, 
was laigely due to his inlluence and interest. F'or 
some time he was engaged in journalistic work, 
having i)urchased in 1871, in partnership with J. 
D. Smith, the Livingston County /^'7(i/6//«(», wliicli 
he conducted for two years. The next ten years 
he was engaged l)y the .loiinson Pul)lishing Co., of 
New York in work on .Tohnson's Xatiual Ilistory, 
and in this way \v:is thoroughly diiUcd in lilcrjiry 
work of that class. 

September;?!), 1H(!(I. our suliject was united in 
marriage to Mi.ss Sarah E. Rumsay, a daughter of 
William C. and Permilla (Henry) Rumsay. Prior 
to her marriage. Mrs. Lyon was engaged in teach- 
iiiLT for a period of >ixteen years and .after her 
marriage she taught with her husl)and one year at 
the I'nion School at (Irass l/ike. .Mich. !Mrs. I^yon 
is a woman with unusual educ alimial ;iii<l literary 
attainments. Kvery act is chai'acterized liy delicacy 
and relinemenl. Capt. Lyon was a veiy promi- 



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iifiit iii;iii 111 the coiuilv ill "iiicli lie lived and oiu- 
(if llic lii-avi'st soldicir. IIimI c'\cr went out truni 
llii> di>triet. His death oeeiined Ueeeniliei- 'MK 
l.s'.dl. He left a wife and five eliildien to mourn 
liis los>. A local paper sa\s the funeral of C'apt. 
Lyon was laij>elv attended. The services were 
conducted in .accordance with the ritual of llie 
1 II ion NCterMiis' In ion. while nieinhers of the Fifth 
Michigan acted as pall hearers. The command 
passed earnest resolutions of tribute to his merit 
as a soldier ami a citizen and of condolence with 
his bereaved family. In the decease of t'apt. Lvuu 
a brave comrade, a true citizen. ,a lovin"' and loved 
husband anil f.-ilhcr has answered the roll call of 
the(;rc.il Commander. In his political likint;' he 
was a follower of the liepublican party and he 
with his wife was a meiiilier or the ISaiitisl C'hurcli. 
The little bniod of live children were welcomed 
to the hearts and heaithstoue of their )3arents" 
home. They arc by lunne, William ]).. .Vbioail. 
• lames A., Jennie and Mavy l>. Mrs. Lyon's |)a- 
ronts were early .settlers of Micliit;an. coming to 
(ii-een Oak. l,i\-iiiiistoii Comity, in I83(). At that 
time the fathei- of the family took up laud and 
clearinji' ofl a p(.>rtion of his tract, built a loji 
house. He remained on the |ilace a short time 
and then removed to Oceola Township where he 
built a sawmill and ac(piired about . four hinidrcd 
acres of laud. He came to Howell about l«4(i and 
was soon after elected IJeyister of JJeeds for four 
years, and at the end of that time was elected 
Couiilv Treasurer and held this position for four 
years also. He occupied the various positions of 
.lustice of the Peace and Supervisor for a number 
of years, at the same time enijaiiino in the mer- 
cantile husine.ss. With his other business he con- 
nected that of insurance, nud was also actively 
engaged in niunicipal affair^ until old age came 
upon him and he ri'tired from active business. 
His wife de|)arted this life February ;"). 1884. They 
reared a family of eight children, the widow of our 
subject being the eldest. Following her came .An- 
drew . I., Koyal H.. ^\ illiam ]).. Lewis C... C'hauncy 
(;., Bert C. and Franklin ^V. The parents have 
been connected with the Baptist Churcii for many 
years and have been geneious supporters of the 
(iospel work in this distiict. NLs. Lyon 's paternal 



grandfather w.-is Klislia Kumsay of ( '<iniiecticiil. 
He came at an early date to .Michigan, and with a 
man named Allen laid out the city of .\un .Vrbor. 
I'^lislia Ixum.say died in 1!^27. 

A lithographic poitiait of the late C'apt. l.,yon 
is presented on another jjage and perpetuates the 
lineaments of a valiant soldier, whose memory will 
ever be reverecl b\- his countr\inen. 




\li\M F. RFKl). Students of econ(mucs 
)|) tell us that the tinancial pros|)erity aiul 



indeed safety of the coiintiy is based upon 
the simple integrity aiul liusiness pioinpt- 
itude of individuals. If all men realized, as they 
should. tln> obligations which rest iipiui them to 
meet every tinancial call and every just demand 
with an immediate response, no amount of disas- 
ters or large catastrophes cciuld demoralize the 
tinancial standing of oui- great centers. \\'hen we 
lind a man who does realize this truth and makes 
it his aim to meet every |)ecuuiary demand with 
promptitude, we lioiuir him and see in, him one of 
the safeguards of the prosiierily of us all. Such 
a man is >L'. Hiram IJeed. who.'^e home is on sec- 
tion 10, Maiion 'I'ownship, Livingston County. 

I'hilo I,. Reed, the father of our subject, was 
born in Cortlaml Comity. X. V.. in 1S12. .and 
after receiving a comnum-school education started 
out at an early age to work for others, choosing 
farming as his life work. .Vliout tlu' \ear IH.'i.'i 
he married Martha Messenger, daughter of .laliial 
and Mai-y (Chaplain) Messenger, both \'ermoiiters 
b\- birth, who had two sons and two daughters, of 
whom Martha was tlie eldest, being born in 1811. 
In 18:ili the jiarents of our subject came to Mich- 
igan li\ w;iy of Canada, and when they passed 
through Detroit on their way to .lackson they 
left all their goods there, which were unfortun- 
atelv destroyed by tire. Keaching .lackson, they 
bought eighty acres of wild land which they after- 
ward sold and removed to Ingham County, where 
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exchanged for eighty acres on section 1, Marion 
Township, where tlie father still lives and now 
has an estate of two hundred and twenty acres. 
Our subject is the eldest son in their family of 
tliree daughters and five sons. 

Pliilo L. Reed and wife are jjroniinent in social 
and church circles, being members of the I'rcsTiy- 
terian Church, wlicic Mr. Rccd is an Kldcr. and 
was for many years the efficient and much be- 
loved Superintendent of the Sunday-school in liis 
scliool district. lie is a man of affairs, being an 
earnest worker in the ranks of the Democratic 
party, and has been .Justice of the Peace and High- 
way CuuHnissioiier. To his son he gave an excel- 
lent coninion-school education, supplementing it 
with a High School course and one year in the 
rniversity of Michigan. At twenty-one the young 
man began as a teacher in the common schools, 
after which he was called to a position in the vil- 
lage schools. (Xrupying the teacher's desk f<ir 
eighteen ve.ars. most of the time in Marion an<l 
adjoining townshijis. 

The ha()py wedded life of Ilir.'im Heed began 
when he was twenty-four years okl as he w.as then 
united with Rebecca E., daughter of ( ieorge and 
Rebecca (Walter) Tubbs. These parents were New 
Yorkers by birth and had nine children. Their 
daughter, Rebecca, who was liorn in 1S47, was the 
youngest. To our sul)ject and iiis wife have been i 
born five children, namely: Harry E.. Charles P.. 
Clarence A., Julia N. and .James E. 

Big Rapids was for tme year tlic home of our 
subject, and he afterward came to Marion and 
bought the farm of one hundred acres upon which 
he now resides. Both he and his intelligent com- 
jjanioH are active workers m llie Presbyterian 
Churcii. at Howell. ^Mr. Reed is a teacher in the 
Bible Class of the North JLarion Sunday-school 
and a thorough-going Sunday-school man, being 
the Secretary of the Livingston County Sunday- 
school Association. He is a member (jf the Free 
and Accepted Masons, and is also connected with 
the Patrons of Industry and the Farmers' Alliance. 
He is a Democrat in principle, but on local mat- 
ters votes independently. 

No work of Mr. Reed's is more worthy of con- 
sideration than what he has done in connection 



witli the schools of this and adjoining townships. 
His years of teaching gave him ;ni insight into 
the needs of both teachers and pn])ils, and pre- 
pared him to understand better the duties of the 
people to the school. For many years he filled 
satisfactorily the office of Township School In- 
spector and afterward Town.ship Superintendent 
of Schools. His inlluence has ever been foi- [iro- 
gressive methods and for co-operati(m between 
school officers and teachers, and as a memlier of 
the County Board <if School Examiners lie has 
lieen of great service to Eivingston County. He 
been upon this board foi- eight years and for 
three years was their Secretary (an office which 
coiresponds lo Count\' Superintendent of Schools 
in other States), ;nid is still acting as Township 
Sch(^ol Inspector. 

As a farmer, Mr. Reed has devoted himself 
largely to fine stock and fruit. In 18H9 he l)0ught 
thirteen registered Shropshire slu-ep and has taken 
much interest in the development of this lirancli 
of stock-raising. He now h.as over twenty of this 
lireed and lias sold sonu' among his neighbors. In 
1888 he began the raising of fruit and planted 
one thousand |)each trees, two hundred jiear trees 
and (jnite an amount of small fruits — iu all tlii,- 
work sluiwing himself efficient and successful. 



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^NOCII SMITH. Although having passed 
the three-(piaiter mile jiost on the centen- 
^ arian road, oui- subject is still a very active 
business man iu Fowlerville, Eivingston County, 
being a cajiitalist of large caliber, who loans money 
on farm or city securities, being himself a retired 
farmer. He is a native of New York, having been 
born in Cortland County, August 10, 181.i, and 
being a son of Roljert and Amaty (Smith) Smith, 
natives of Schoharie County, >.'. Y., and Rhode 
Island respectively. They were married in the 
first named State in which Robert Smith had been 
reared as a farmer, there receiving his education. 

Our subject's father engaged in the agricultural 
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took ill l,s:i(;. scttliuii' iiunu'iiiatcly at While Oak, 
ln<iii;iiii Comity ;ui<l I'lijiatfina' in farming. lit' 
liiiilt a lug house on the traet that he t<j()k up from 
the Goveniineiit. This was later substituted liy a 
more substantial building and there the parents 
lived until their decease. The Democratic party 
received the political fa\di of Robert Smith, that 
liai-monizuig with his idea of personal right and 
liberty. ( )ur subject V paternal grandparents were 
Uolieit and (Jrace Smith. They were of English 
birth and anccsti'y and c.-une to America just 
before llic Hevolutionary \\'ar. which the former 
joined and was appointed Orderly Sergeant. He 
secured from the (lovernment six hundred and 
forl\' acres of land and located the same in the 
township of Cincinnattus. Cortland County. X. Y. 
His children were .lohn. liobert. ^\'illianl. Anion. 
(Jrace. Polly and lietsy. 

He of whom we write was one of a family of 
twelve children. Those now li\ ing are Etiocli. 
Arsula, who is now ^frs. I'ost. Delilah, who i.s now 
^Irs. Jewell. AVilliam H. and Willaid. Sjjending his 
younger days on the lioiiie farm <nir suliject re- 
ceived the advantages to be enjoyed at the district 
schools ill the \icinity. lie remained at home gi^•- 
ing his father his time as was then customary until 
he reached liis majority, after wliich he came to 
Michigan. arii\iiig in the tht'ii teriitory dui-ingthe 
month of ^lay, wheu everything was in its pristine 
beauty, lie located a tract of land in White Oak 
Townshi)), Ingham County ;ind then returned East 
and in Septemlier of tlie same year came back to 
.Michigan with his p.arenls and their children. He 
located eighty acres for himself in the heavy tim- 
ber openings. Mrst building a log house l()x2ii feet 
ill diiiieusions. This was his home for abcnit eigh- 
l<'cii years, although he later erected a line resi- 
(h'lH'c with accessoi-y buildings, and increased his 
farm to three hundred and fifty acres, upon which 
lie ke]>t graded shecji. blooded hor.ses and cows. 

.Mr. Smith continued to i-eside on his beautiful 
farm until \HM. when he I'enioved to Kowlerville. 
where he owns some property. He bought a resi- 
dence on ( Wand River Street and now makes his 
home there. He owns a tine store building and is 
now erecting a double brick block for stores. He 
.also owns other land in Livingston Coiint\'. While 



still engaged in farming he was elected to se\iral 
otlicial jjositions. He was Justice of the Peace for 
se\en years and Asses-sor and Constable, holding all 
the school offices given in this county. 

The original of our sketch was married in IXAo 
to Miss Caroline Wright. She did not, however, 
live long to enjoy the hapijiness of their domestic 
life. r>v a second marriage he was united to Miss 
Sarah J. Wright of I'liadilla. Livingston County. 
She was a daughter of Waller and Hannah (Hub- 
bard) Wriglil. natives of Onondaga County. \. Y.. 
who came to Michigan in IHrid.at which tiinethe\' 
settled in I'liadilla. The father was a farmer and 
he and his wife continued their rcsider ■ at the 
place that they at first located upon until their de- 
cease. They had a family of ten children. They 
are in order of hirth as follows: Betsey A.. Lydia. 
Lavina, William, Lyman. James. Dennis. Daniel. 
she. who is now Mr.s. Smith, and Walter. The father 
was a Democrat and both he and his wife with 
some of their children weie meinliers of the Meth- 
odist Epi.scopal Church. 

Of a f.amily of ten children, of which our sub- 
ject has lieen fathei-. nine are now living, having 
attainid manhood aii<l womanhood -and holding 
hii;h and honorable positions wherevei' tln>ir lots 
are cast. They are Frank. Mary. .Mice. Hurt, 
r.cllc. Homer. Ilorton. Floyd and Ford. Fr;ink 
married Aliss Agnes Hakewell and is the father of 
three children — Vai)le, Temple and a little one 
who is not yet named. ^larv married Mr. (;. II. 
Mclntyre and is tin' mother of four i-hildren — 
(Uenn, Ethel, lien jamin L. and Florence. .Mice is 
now Mrs. Stowe and li;is two children — ll.azel and 
Claude, liiiit mairied Millie Carpenter. Ii<'lle is 
now .Mr.s. l>aiighliu. Homer was uniteil in mar- 
riage to Mi.ss Hattie Bliss and is the father of twi 
children — Blissaiid.a baby not yet named. Iloiloii 
is the husband of Mi>s .May Wood; lliey ;iie the 
li.areiits of one child — lUanche. 

The uentleinanof whom we take pleasure in here 
oi\iim- a ski'tch belongs to the I'rohibitionist 
|iaity. feeling that the ininciples tli.ai that party 
holdsarethe ones that tend most to the purit\- and 
long standing of our Government. For many years 
he has been intimately' connected with the .NLisonic 
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lii'luiiii' 1(1 llif Ah'llindi.-I Kpiscopal (leiioiiiiiiulioii M-rt'iiity <>f in'avi' ;ui<l ficcddin troin lui.-iiii-ss i-ares. 
of wliirli body luMsoiu'of tlie Tnislet's at Parkers" His wife still survives aiMJ is lii> lov iiia eoiiipaiiion 
Corners in loseo Townshi|>. Mr. Smith lias iiccu- in the nfternooii of life. I'laiik 15. .lolinson re- 
nuilated a handsome fortune li\ lii> iirudenec anil rri\i'(l his ediieation in the pulilie seliools of Lan- 
foresisj'lit. lie has a vivid recollection of the di-- sinu. iniishinu- at the Aiirieultui'al Colleice. after 
advantaijes of pioneer life, of the days when he was i which he tooU a course in the Imsiness eollet>e at 
ohliyed to y:o to Dexter, a distance of twenty-five ; (Jrand Kapids. Soon atter\var<l he conunen<-ed 
miles from his home toinarket. lie also rememhers opei-atinu' in small frnil> and a viney:iid. and 
when it was nothinu' to hoasl of to kill sexcial continued thus eusi'.'iiicd for ten years. lie then 
deer. .Vlthonuli sutTeriuii many of the inconxcni- launched into his present luisincss al hi^ pi'e.-ent 
enees incident to that time in a new counlr\ ln' location, and has continue<l sneeessfidly e\er since. 
Siiys he has never sei'u the time when he went to I'rior to his election to the .Mayoralty, oui- suli- 

lied Iiuni>ry and lias always had siilticieni <lothinir jeet was elected .\lderni.in from the Sixth Waid. 
to keep himself <M)mfortal)le. as any man mijiht an<l seived for foni- years, lieuinniui; hi> leini in 
who wa> willinu to work. I IKSI. In IJ^'.lithis popularity as a in.-in ;iiid the 

eunlideiiee that is reposed in him as a jnihlic ser- 
vant, was evinced li\ his election as Mayor. In 
IH'.il he was re-eleeted and holds the olHce al the 
])re.sent time. diseliarii;in<i the executi\'e function in 
a manner that is highly creditahle to himself and 
to the city. 
'' ON. FH.VNK I'.. .lOlINSON. .Mayor of the Mr. .lohnson was married December 2il. l?<M.i. to 

capital city, is oiu' of the most prominent Miss Minnie Overholt. of \'eva\ Township. Inu- 
^j^' retail iifocers in ('enti;d .Mii-hiuan. Iiavinu ham t'ounty. Mrs. .lohuson is a picpossessiuii. 
Iso a wholesale dej)artnient of fruits and ayieeahle and cidtined lady, who is devoted to her 
oysters. .Vlthoiiiih he is one of the liu.siest of men family, lint who is thorouuhlx conversant with the 
in his own lin^' of luisine.s>. he is loyal to his oflicial topics of the times, and fond of the iu'sl clas> of 
duties, .and ui\es ueiierously of histime and atten- literature, and .-ippreciative of line art. .She is the 



tion in th;it direction. 

Mayor .lolinson. wlio>e portrait appears on the 
opposite pasic is a iiati\(' of ilii> city, ln'ini;' lioin 
•April 21. IH.")2. He is :i >oii of Daniel \\. .lohiisoii. 
who was one of the early pioneers in this \icinitv. 
eomiiiy here in IXl!^ from Toniiikiiis County. N. 
v.. which was his liirthpl.ace and early home. There 
he m.-niicd in lii.-younu iii.-iiihood days Miss l-",lniin!i 
Toppiii;.'. \Vith her :is .'i companion and helpmate 
he came West and entered ji farm just north of the 
town, it lieiiiii- partially cleared. lie continued to 
live there until IM(l(i. and tlu' old farm place was 
also the place of natixity of oui' suhject. 



mother of two dausihters. I''r:uic and T'lorenee. 
Politically Mr. .lohiison is a stanch and intlneiitial 
Democrat. 



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OHX Bl RNKTT. It is with ij:eiiuine plea- 
ure that the hiourajiher takes up the theme 
of a life which has li|o.'~>onied into succes> 
and liroad aehievenientsalthoiiiih the clouds 



of .idversily ami li.ardshiip u;itliered over its iin'cp- 

Soon after the liirth of our suiijcct. his father tion. \\'hcii one see.- ;i man of char.-icter .•mil .-iliil- 

purelctsed one hundred and twenty aero of l.ind ily in possession of ;iii eleiiant honu' and farm, eii- 

within the city limits of l.aiisiiii;. and rcnio\ cd joyinir a just meed of inMuence and standinu' in the 

with his faintly upon the place. He coiiiiniied comniunity. .■iiid know> that he has reached this 

fannina until IHiM.wheii he reliied from active point from a hoxhood which promised nothini: 

life. determiniiiL; to enjoy lii^ l.-ilter d:iys in the except throuffli hi- <>" n rijrht hand and -tiiid\ 



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heart, it is a pleasure also to record that that boy- 
h(i(i(l was niarkud li.v acts of untliiichiiig industry 
and luave self denial for the sake of a mother and 
sisters, and that his success is not due to having 
wronged others or disiegarded the claims of a 
ctminion humanit\ . 

Our sul)jcct was luirn September 14, 1830, in 
Monroe County, N. Y. Ilis fatlicr, Nelson Burnett, 
a blaeksmith by trade, who made his home in 
Dutchess County, N. Y., died in 1844, leaving the 
mother, whose maiden name was .lane Foreman, in 
destitute circumstances so that the lioy of fourteen 
naturally became the main stay of the family. She 
is niiw in her eighty-fourth year, and having been 
a profes.^ing Cliristian since she was a girl of nine- 
teen, can look l)ack with gratitude over a long ex- 
perience of the goodness of God who has carried 
her triumphantly through her days of trial. Her 
early church connection was with the Free Presby- 
terians, but she is now a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. Kiglit of lier nine children are 
still living to cheer her later and declining years. 
The ancestry of this family is of Holland stock and 
can be traced back for many generations. 

Our subject liad his l)irlli in tlic village of E.ast 
Rush. N. Y., and at the age of ten j'ears went to 
live with an uncle who died about tlie same time 
that the father of the boy i)assed aw.ay, so that the 
little fellow was now really thniwn upon his own 
resoiuces and liegan to work for neighlioring far- 
mers, receiving *7 per month for his work. He 
continued thus for four years and then spent two 
ye.ars on the railrt>ad, where he was foreman and 
received good pay. He witnessed some pretty 
lively times during this peri<id, as railroading 
always brings with it a rush and Inislle of excite- 
ment which to a fanner boy opens a new vista. 
During all this time he faithfully sent home his 
earnings for the supjjort of his mother and sisters, 
except what he absohitely neediMl for clothes and 
sclKK'ling, which he cousideicd c(iually the necessi- 
ties of life. 

Tl'.e young man came to iMichigaii in 1854, and 
worked for five years at a good salary for Gov, 
King-ley S. Bingham, who w.as a United States 
Sen,T;.)r at the time of his death, but w.is the Gov- 
ernor of Michig.in during that period. In 1861 he 



purchased his present farm on section 6, Green Oak 
Township. This was then all wild land, he had to 
cut down trees and grub out roots to make a spot 
for his garden, and it was necessary to l)uild a fence 
around the entire farm before he could raise a cro]). 
as the land all around him was vacant and wild 
game w.as too itleutiful for crops to be left in safety 
to their tender mercies. He split every lail that 
was used ujion his farm and Iniilt a log house, and 
his only team for three years was a yoke of oxen, 
but at the cud of that time he was the proud \)0S- 
sessor of a horse. He paid *10 an acre for his 
land, for which he has since refused 80(1. 

Tiie happy marriage into which he entered on 
the 7th of .lanuary, 1861. united him with Miss 
Margaret Hawthorne, a native of County Down, 
Ireland, who came to America with her father, 
Edward Hawthorne, in 18.57. They made their 
home in Briyhton. The mother having previously 
died, ill 1S4(>. and the father, who was a linen 
weaver by trade lived until the year of IHHl. 

Our subject was reared a Whig but was one of 
the first to join the Kejiulilican ranks soon after 
the organization of the party, and trained under 
the lianner of (iov. Bingham. Both he and his 
excellent wife are active members of the Piesby- 
terian Church at Brighton. He raises excellent 
stock and makes a specialty of Shropsliire lambs. 
He has ninety-.seven acres of land wliich he h.as 
himself cleared and improved. 



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0I5ERT C. MARSHALL. The owner of 
the lincly-cultivated tr.act of land on sec- 
'''- W tions ;?.'? and 34, Uuadilla Township, Liv- 
i ingston County, is he wlnise name is at 
the head of this sketch. He is a son of Archiliald 
and Margaret M. (Craig) Marshall, both natives of 
Scotland, the former a weaver by trade. They were 
married in their native land, and there resided 
until lH;i,i.whcn they came to America and settled 
at Tarry ville, Conn., remaining there until IH.'lH. 
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llic fMiiii which our sulijcct imw owns. At lii>t il tiniii :i]u\ uml Ihroiiuh tii I'hiccrxillc. ( mI.. it liik- 

(•iiiiii)ii-ii(l lull lift_v->ix iK'it's of wild ImihI. Aichi- iiii; li\c iiiuiilh> lu in;ikc the tiip. Our sulijfcl 

Imlil .M;irsh;ill hcic liuilt ;i sniiill t'lMUii' hou.-f Mini slMitcd mil Inr \V(irU (ui llic middle fork of tlii' 

lifUMii the work of lilliiii;- llir >oil. it hciiii; lii> lii>t AiuciicMii Kixrr. .•iml tliciv worked for :i coiiipMiix 

iniiicuitunil I'xpi'iii'iicc. .it >!.')(l per iiioiitli mid his lioard. roiiiaiiiiiitj with 

Kitlicr our siilijcct '.- fiilhcr was tiidoufd wilji lliciii for two nioiitlis. at wlii<-li tiiiu- ho set out to 

extiaurdiiiMiy aliility MS a fMiiiu r or nature >iiiiled work for liiiii.-.elf and diij very well. In the spriiiijf 

u|)oii his elforls. for liet;iii iiiiii;' with >o little, he he went to \'irL.''iiiia ( ity. Ne\'.. and w:i~ there en- 

wa> the owiii'iof three hundred aere> of i;ood land t;:i^cd in ininiiiji for four year.-. Il w:i~ .1 ^ueee.s-- 

Uefoie his death, and had one hundred anil lift\ fill trip linaneially. and our -iilijeet i-aiiie back to 

acres under cultivation, lie died in IK(><>. at the home with. 'in eiilar;;ed experience and richer in 

.•lire of sixty-six ycMr^. His wife, our >iiliiect's pocket. 

mother, passed Mway in IHM.'i.al the aiic of seventy- In iMIiO .Mr. Maisliall united lii> late for lietter 
nine ye.irs. Thex wire the )):irents of six eliildren. 01 wiu'se with that of .Mis- lielle liarrett. a daiii^li- 
1 Wo only livina' Mt the present time. 'I'he reliirious ter of William liarrett. an Kimlisliinan. who later 
trainiiiii' reeei\'ed hy our sulijecl in hi> youth was liecanie a resident of this State. .Mrs. .Marshall 
that of the I'resliyterian (liurch, his parents lieiiiu "'is horn in IHlli. and died in Aiiifiist. IMHd. she 
inemhers of that hody. the father heliii; a lilieiMl w;is the mother of two children — W'illiain H. ami 
su|)porter of ijospel work. Politically he was an Frederick. The oldest son w;i- iiiMiried to Sarah I,, 
active Ixepiililiean. .•iiul his jiidirnient was recosi:- I lopkiiis. and resido on the farm with hi> father: 
nized as .-uperior in the count\ in uo\-eriiiiiental he is the liarent of one child. In Octolier. lHK;i, 
affairs. In IM.'i!! he was Supervi>or of the town- .Mr. .Marshall auain marrieil. his luide lieiiiL; .Miss 
ship of liiadillM. Hetsey Denton, a daiiiiliter of I )m\ id >. and l.auiM 
.Mthoiiuh pinsieally a small man. of delicate (Hunt) I)ent<ui. the former a natixcof .New York, 
mold. .Vrchiliald Marsh.all wa- .1 micci's- as a and the latter of Mas.saeliusetts. David Denton 
farmer; not that he employetl so much physical came to Mielii<i'an in I H.'JtJ. and settled at Ann Ar- 
streiiiih in his work, rather lirinirinu tine maiiaae- hor. His inarriai>e occurred here when he anci his 
iiieiit to his aid in tarrvinu' on his farm. He a:ive wife located in Inaililla Township, on section :i.!, 
his childri'ii thcliest po.ssihle educational advaiit- after it had lieeii sliahtly improved. He died in 
ai^es that could he olitained.es|ieeially the younger IHS(2. at the age of sixty-.seven y^'ins. .Mrs. Den- 
ones. Our siiliject was lioni .luly 211. 1H:J,). The t<m still survives at the aii^e of seventy-six years, 
place of hi> nativity wa> in ( cinnecliciit. and hi' .•iiid iiKike- her home with her daughter. M r>. .Mar- 
was horn shortly after tin fainil\ arrived in .Vmer- shall, who is oik' of six children, four of whom 
iea. He was five years old when his parents came are liviii;:. .Mrs. Marsh.all was born l-"eliruai\' I:!, 
to Michiiran. He distinctly remember- the In- l^lst. on the old home-teail. She recei\ed a yood 
diaiis and the plenitude of i-aiiie. both lai;i:e and education and spent one yi'ar at the YpsilMiiti Nor- 
sriiall. His parents were very poor on comina' mal School. The union of our subject and his 
here, and had to borrow money to liii\ llour. present wife has not been ble»ed with i-siie. Mr. 
pork. etc. .Marshall owns three hundred and one acre.- of 
The ori<^iiial of our -ketch received a meaiiie land, one hiinrired and Mfty acres of which is 
district-s'-hool I'diication. bi'iiinniiii;' to help on tin under ciilti\ .'itioii. lie devotes himself to yeneral 
farm as soon as he could do aiiythiim. Here- I'mi iiiiiia. and keep- a high uiade of stock. Their 
inained at home until tw<Mity-six years of au'e, in church relations are of the .Methodist K])iscopal 
the winter- wiukini; out iiy the day. In |h.')'.i .Mr. denomination. Sociallx our siibject has been a 
Marshall started for Tike's I'eak. a pMity of eighl iiieinliel of the liide|ieiident Oifler of Orkl Kellow- 
setlinii iiiit \^itli one tcMin. .^bout <uie hundred and the Masonic fiMteinity: healso beloiiiis to the 
miles west of Kt. Kearney Ilii'V joined a larae (lood Tcinpl.-ir-. I'.ver ki'cnly iutere-ted in po|i- 



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tics, he is an ardent Repuliliean. For many years 
he has lieen an advocate of teni|K'rance principles. 
Mr. ^Marshall's many friends regret that for the 
past foiir years he lias lieen a great sufferer from 
ill health. The owner of a finely improved farm, 
he lias added to its value l)y thorough underdrain- 
ing and adding extra buildings. 



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FREDERICK :\IATnER, All the nearest 
l^'i and dearest associations of a lifetime are, 
for our subject, connected with the State 
in wlii<-h lie resides and tlie greater portion of his 
life has lieen spent upon the farm of which he is 
now pr<i|iiietor. It is located on sections 19 and 
2(1, Handy Township, Livingston County, and 
comprises one hundred and twenty-five acres of 
very fine arable land. Mr. blather was born in 
Washtenaw County, this State, in 1835. He is the 
son of Calvin and iMarilla (Xewcomb) Mather, 
natives of Xew York and Pennsylvania respec- 
tively and who came to Michigan in 1833 as pio- 
neers, settling in the township of Scio, Washtenaw 
County, where they were among the first to find 
their way through the forests to a habitable place 
ill that county. 

When our subject "s (tarents came to this State 
the jire-ieiit beautiful city of Ann Arbor, which 
justly takes such pride in its hotels and fine build- 
ings as well as its magnilicent colleges, at that time 
boasted only a log house which served as an hotel, 
so that their first impression of the country was at 
least not misleading. Tlie.\- knew what thev must 
exjiect and were brave enough to face the inevit- 
able with the determination only to conquer all 
difficulties. In 18.54 they removed to this town- 
ship and county and settled on the farm which 
their son now operates. There thev lived until 
their decease, the father passing away in 1885; the 
mother, in 1872. 

Kealizing the importance of good thoroughfares 
Ww .Mather, Sr. as a man of advanced ideas upon 
the subject, was appointed to the responsible posi- 
tion of Road Commissioner and maintained that 



place for many years. He was also Township 
Treasurer. The JDemocratic ])rincii)les of "Uncle 
Cal", .as he was generally called by his friends 
were of the most pronounced type. He was a 
stanch believer in the sovereign rights of State 
and the red tape employed in monopolies and 
trades unions of the present day is enough to 
make the loyal old gentleman turn over in his 
grave. He was known and respected by all in the 
count}- as a man of strong personal charm as well 
as sterling worth. Our subject's paternal grandsire 
was Josiah Mather, a tiller of the soil in the East- 
ern States and his father was a gentleman of the 
cloth — the Rev. Moses Mather, a native of England 
and a reiJiesentative of the Presbyterian Church in 
which his son .Tosiah was a Deacon and to whom 
belongs the credit and honor of having founded 
the Ogden Church in Mdiuoe County, X. Y. Our 
subject's maternal grandparents were David and 
Polly (Pi'ice) Newconili, natives <if Pennsylvania. 
The father was a drover by calling and served in 
the War of 1812. 

The gentleman of whom we are writing received 
his education in his native county. Piactically he 
was educated as a farmer. He came to this jilace 
with his parents and has ever since lived on the 
old homestead. Of six children liorn to his par- 
ents five only are now living. They are in order 
of birth Frances, who is now JLs. .Tudd; our suli- 
ject; Wesley N., who died during the war; Jane, 
whose present name is j\lrs. Church; Ellen now Mrs. 
Culver and Harriet, who married a Mr. Kichter. 
He of whom we write is a useful and important 
member of society in Handy Townshiii. There is, 
however, one direction in which he has failed to 
observe Scriptural advice, and that is that it is not 
good for man to be alone. 

Devoting himself to general agriculture Mr. 
Mather pays special attention to the raising of 
cattle, sheep and hogs. His farm is a very beauti- 
ful examiile of what agricultural life may be in 
the fertile lands of the Wolverine State. Having 
no family of his own the interests of our subject 
are n:iturally much bound up in those of his 
brothers and sisters. His youngest sister Harriet 
previous to her marriage tiiught school for some 
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the work. She now has a very h;i|i|i\ hoiiu' in 
which :uf tiirec cliilflreu — Floyd, (Jladys and 
Frederitii. The i;i;-t named is eii<>:af>ed as a tcaeher. 
and Fli>yd. who i?^ a fine musician willi an unusual 
amount of natural talent, is cnga,i>;ed in tcachinsj^ 
that beautiful art. Mr. Mather's family are amona' 
the best of the county, ranking higii Itoth socially 
and fiom a monetary standpoint. Tlicy li:i\c 
good, sulistantial l)mldings upon their [ilace and 
a beautiful orchard tiial \'ields an abundant cro|) 
(if fruit. 



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\Ji^()'S. AUai'STUS F. FFIidlSON was born 
^'l May 3. 1817, in the townshij) of Delhi, 

twenty-four years of his life. I'p to Ins 
eighteenth year he was engaged in working on his 
f.'itlier's fjirm and in attending tiie district school, 
lint when he had reached that .age lie attended 
I'ldf. ( )lds' Academy at Lansing, after which he was 
engaged in tlie study of medicine for two yeais in 
the cnpital city with Dr. I!. F. I'.ailey. lie at- 
tended a course of lectures in the winter of l.SCiM- 
()9 at the University f>f Michigan and became 
thiiroughly prepared for the active practice of his 
jM'ofession. 

Our suliject first located at Okenios, wheie he 
]iracticed for a while before entering the Michigan 
Ibimeopathic College at Lansing from which he 
graduated with the degree of M. I), in 1872. Re- 
turn ing to Okemos he engaged in the jiractice of 
his profession and six years after finisiiing his ' 
nieilical studies he formed a ))artnership witii his 1 
lirdthcr. .1. W . Ferguson, i\I. ]).. whii hiid just giad- 
uated from the Homeopathic Hospital Collegi' of 
Cleveland. Ohio. This proved to be a veiy happy 
union and tiie brothers continued togetlii'r until 
I8H'.). Dr. Ferguson has always had a IkmiI for 
political life, being an enthusiastic Democrat. In 
1881) he was a candidate on the Democratic ticket 
for Representative to the Legislature and wa> elec- 
tee) by a large majority, luiining «ine iiundre(l and 
eighteen votes ahead of lii> ticket in liixiwn I<.>wn- 



ship. During the firet session of his legislative 
career he introduced thirteen bills, the majority of 
which became laws. .Vmoiig the number wa.s the 
anti-trust bill, wiiich had for its object the preven- 
tion of combination by any two or more individ- 
uals for the i)urpose of raising the price of any 
commodity, excepting therefrom farm products. 

Dr. Ferguson's efticient work in the interest of 
the agricidtiu'al class made him appreci.ated by his 
con.stituency and lie was re-noininated for a second 
term and was elected by au increased majority. 
During the .session of 18!)1, Mr. Ferguson intro- 
duced seventeen bills and two joint resolutions, 
among which was a bill providing for a uniformity 
of text books in the public schools, and a medical 
bill to raise the standard of medical education, also 
a bill to consolidate tiie boards of penal institutions 
of the State, reducing tiie number from thirfy-two 
foeight, a bill making piovisidii for the Hertilhoii 
system f(ir tlie idi'nlilicatidii of criminals, (ine to 
jirovide a signal in all [ilaces where the railroad 
track is olisciired and one changing the test of 
kerosene oil fnim <inc hniidrcd and twenty degrees 
"fl.ash test" tooiie hundred ;iii(l twenty degrees "lire 
test." It is esfiiiiMled tli;it this last-named bill will 
save the peopU' <if .Michigan about ^3(10.000 a year 
and at the same liiiic si-cure them a lietter grade of 
oil. 

While Dr. l'"eigus(in was a legislator, he was ac- 
tively engaged on several important committees 
and was tendered the chairmanship of the Commit- 
tee on Ways and .Means, the iinist im|HMtaiit |)osi- 
tion of the House, but declined. He was. however. 
Chairman of the Coininittee on Public Health and 
als<i oil the ( diiiiiiiltiT of Municipal Corporations, 
Upper Peninsula .Mining Schools, Mines and 
Minerals and Northern .Vsyliims. He has always 
enjoyed the confidence of the leaders of his party 
in Ingham County. 

Dr. Ferguson was liappil\ m:irried in lfs71 to 
Miss Kate ll.'iniiiiond. a ilauiihli'r of Dr. S. W. 
Hammond.;! proiiiinent physician of 3Iason. this 
State. Two cliildren lia\c blest this union — 
Charles, who is a promising youth of fifteen veal's 
of age, and Robert. :i merry lad of five years. Dr. 
Ferguson is a ineinlier of tin' Farmers' .\Iliance 
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ternity. He is the owner of two farms, one com- 
prismg one liundied and twenty acres on section 
15, and one of forty acres on section 33, in Meridian 
Township. Tiiese farms aic well improved and 
used principally for st.ock-iaisino'. In partnerslii|i 
with his lirotlier. he is interested in raisina: stand- 
aid-bred trotting horses. 'I'lun' have a private 
(me-half mile tiack mi whicli llieir horses arc 
trained. Dr. Ferguson owns twenty-sevfn well-lired 
animals and is also interested with his brother in 
several more. He al.so has a half interest in the gen- 
eral mercantile itnsiness of .lohn Ferguson tt Sons 
of Okemos and sti-ange to say finds tiine in which to 
engage in the j>ractice of his profession in which 
he has gained an enviable re])ntation. 

Our suliject conu's from a family of Scotch de- 
scent. His fatlier. .John Ferguson, who is a retired 
farmer and merchant, was born in Ontario. Canada, 
in 1816. and came to the United States when about 
twenty-two years old. He located in Delhi Town- 
ship in 1841 since which time he has resided in the 
county. He has passed through all the hardships 
incident to pioneer life, but has lieen prospered in 
business. He has been honored -by election to 
various township offices and is well known in Ing- 
ham County. His father, also named .lohn. was a 
native of Vermont and was born in 1740. He 
removed to Canada in an early day. Robert, the 
great-grandfather of our subject, was also a native 
of A'ermont, luit went to Canada. 

A lithographic portrait of the Hon. Mr. Ferguson 
appears in connection with this notice. 



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/^ HARLES A. HOLLISTEH. To be the son 
[li _. of a pioneer is considered an iionorable dis- 
^^^' tinction in Livingston County, and when 
that pioneer was one who built up the community 
along educational and religious lines, and thus did 
effective work for all who came within the sphere 
of his intluence. it is an added cau.se for congrat- 
ulation. The Rev Algernon S. HoUi.ster, who was a 
native of Vermont, born .lanuary 28. 179(5. was an 
El)lscopal minister and a scholarly man. who at an 



early day established a select school in Troy. Oak- 
land County. 

Aichibald lloUister. the grandfathei' of our suli- 
ject. a Revolutionary soldier, was a native of Con- 
nect lent and was descended from .lohn Hollister of 
England, who settled in Connecticut in 1742. 
His son .\lgernon entered the ministry abimt the 
year 1823. and was one of the early missionary 
clergymen of Michigan, coming hither in 1835 and 
locating in the town of Troy. In 1845 he removed 
to (Jrcen Oak Townslii)!. where he lived until his 
death. .lanuary 4, 185(). Ilis'lieloved and faithful 
wife, wiio liorc the maiden name of Annie Teall. 
survived iiim for many years and died in 188,") at 
the age of eighty-four. 

( )iu' subject, who was Ixirn Febi-uary 7. 182.'). at 
Paris Hill. Oneida County. X. Y.. is the third ciiild 
in a family of five sons and two daughters, six of 
wliom are still living. He was ten years old when 
his parents removed to ^Michigan and has therefoi-e 
spent most of his life in the Wolverine State and 
received his education first in the village .school 
of Tioy and afterward in his father's select school, 
where were educated a number of men who have 
since become leaders in Michigan. He remaineri 
in .school until he reached the age of twenty, after 
which lie taught six terms and it was in 1847 
when lie purchased the farm where he now resides 
on section 19. (ireen Oak Township, this county, 
which had then only ahoiit seven acres cleared 
of the primeval forest. 

Tiie bride whom Mr. Hollister took to his home 
in .lune. 1850, was Eliza .1. Miller, of Troy Town- 
ship. Oakland County, and after marriage the 
young couple settled upon the farm which is .still 
the family home. .Since that time there has been 
steady progress in the condition of this property 
and hard work has been done upon it. It is now 
entirely free from timber with the exception of 
fifty acres, and is in a highly improved condition. 

Mr. and JNIrs. Hollister consider the children who 
have blessed their home as the richest blessings 
which have been vouch.safed to them, and the on l.x' 
clouds that have rested upon this family have 
been through the death of two of its members. 
The oldest daughter. Maru'tta. is now the wife of 
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Millard went West In 1875 and died at Boise 
City, Idaho; Joseph M. also wont West in IHHI 
and located in the same city, where he is now 
e>tal)lislied in luisiness; Annie has passed from 
earth; Ilattie married Walter .7. Scott, and lives in 
Salem. Mich.; and Bessie and (Wace are still under 
the parental roof. 

The i)olitical record of .Mr. lloUister has liecn 
aloiiu: natural lines, as he was first a Wliio; and 
easily drifted into tlit; Kejiulilican party. ;ind as he 
has always lieen nmst earnest in ills advocacy of 
temperance mo\emcnts. he has now liecoine a Pro- 
hiliilionist. lie has held various minor oflices 
witliin the irift of the people of his township, and 
both he and his wife are .active and ctlicient mem- 
heis of the Ki)iscopal Church at Ilamhurij. L'pou 
liis two hundred and seven acres of land lie raises 
almost .all kinds of slock and is successful in all 
his undertakinsi-s. His ability and character are 
such as to earn for him the esteem and reyaid of 
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rrrSv i.-v_ ALFRED ALLE>'. In nothins< dois 
the thoughtful biographer take more pleas- 
ure than in recounting the life story of a 
venerable minister of the cross who has done 
pioneer service in the interest of humanity and 
Christianity and is now patiently waiting for the 
great change which will take him to his reward. 
Among the citizens of Williainstown Township, 
lughain Cfmiity, we are gratified to recount the, 
history of this aged minister of the Methodist 
Church and !i member of the Detroit conference, 
whose name we have just given. 

Dr. Samuel C. Allen, the father of our subject, 
was a native of New Jersey and when (piite young 
went to Pennsylvania and was there united in 
marriage with Julia .Vnn Bicking. I'nto them were 
born eleven chddren namely: Alfred, .\manda. 
(latheiine, Pennington, James P., Sarah, Klizaheth. 
(Jeorge A., Samuel. Franklin and John W. ^ 

In 1831 the parents of our subject came to Mich- 



igan and settled in Macomb County, where wolves, 
deer and bears alioiinde<l. Dr. Allen settled on a 
farm but as he desired to continue practicing his 
professicm for which he had been educated in Phil- 
adel])hia, he removed to Parkston, ( )akland County, 
where for a number of years he enjoyed an excel- 
lent pr.actice. lie made his final home at Byron, 
Shiawassee County, where both he and his wife died 
and were deeply mourned especially by their co- 
laborers in the Methodist Episcoi)al Church, to 
which they had long belonged. He was a .Master 
Miison and highly honored in his order. 

Alfred .\llen was born February H, 1819. in 
Brandywine Township. Chester County, Pa., and 
in his childhood wandered upon the banks of the 
beautiful stream for which this township was 
named. M the age of twelve years he came to 
^lichigan where he received a c(nnmon-school ed- 
ucation and after reaching his majority he began 
work as a luc.-il minister, lie also tauijhl in the 
district .schools and in IHl.'iwas received on trial 
in Conference, becoming a member of that body 
two years latei-. His lirst cii-cuit was in Flint Cir- 
cuit, (ienesee County, and fidin there he went to 
AVhite Lake. 

In 1852 oursubject located at Ann Arbor.where he 
attended a course of medical lectures, as his own fra- 
ilty of health had led him to an interest in this sub- 
ject. Having regained his health he resumed the 
ministry in lS.')G.and followed it until 1877 when he 
made his home in Williamstown and engaged in 
the hardware business. In lMf(lt he sold out his 
business to ^Ir. Charles Williams haxing previously 
parted with his farm of Unty .-icres. He now owns 
a fine residence on High Street in Williamstown. 

The marriage of Hev. ]\Ir. .\llen in 184!) united 
him with the lady of his choi^'e. who has been 
through life his true lompanion ami heljimate. 
Her maiden name was Louisa .1. llaitwell an<l her 
father was .1. .M. Hartwell for whom Hartwellville. 
Shiawassee County, was nanieil. One child has 
bles-sed this union — Dell M. — who is now Jlrs. 
George Penock of Williamstov.n. Mr. Allen has 
been an influential member of the Masonic order 
and in his early days he was attached to the Whig 
party and afterward transferred his allegiance to 
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the liquor question the great point in political 
debate and has enrolled himself among tlie Prolii- 
hitionists. 



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ROF. ^\'. A. JOHNSON. One of the peeu- 
liar products of our modern civihzation and 
an outgrowth of om- modern methods of do- 
in<j- business is the l)usiness college. Theie 
is so much greater demand for the help which may 
be rendered li.y young men and women in thes^ 
days than formerly, that it is necessary to give them 
an acquaintance with the methods of doing busi- 
ness, so that when they are i)ut in positions of re- 
sponsibility they may more readily fall int^i the 
routine of work. It is not claimed that the busi- 
ness college makes a business man. but it opens his 
eyes to see what is to be done and tits his hand to 
tlie work. Practical expei'ience must do the rest 
of the work and will do it if sujiplemented liy a 
(piick brain and willing liand. 

The ])roi>rietor of the Interhike Business t'ol- 
lege of Lansing, was born March 5, 1851, at darks- 
field, Huron County, Ohio. His father, the Rev. 
L. S. .Johnson, was born in Xortliamptonsliire. Kng- 
L'lnd, in 1K19, and came to America when a boy of 
twelve. The grandfather. William, was a native 
of North Buckley, Englaud. and was a tine work- 
man in his line, being a successful cabinet-maker, 
contractor and builder, and he during his lifetime 
accumulated a large property. In 1831 lie removed 
to this country and located in Kssex Count\-. Tv. Y.. 
where he had the misfortune to contract the ague. 
whicli decided him to remove from tliat locality. 
He brought his family to Oliio. wliere he died about 
the time they arrived at Cleveland, leaving his wife 
with five children in an ahnost destitute condition, 
as he had lost his ])roperty. Tliis bia\e woman 
struggled through the task of rearing her children 
in the midst of i)overty. and lived tol)e over ninety 
years old before lier deiitli wliidi took |il;u-e in 
Avon, Lorain County. Ohio. 

The father of the subject of this >ketc'h was the 
eldest of this family .-iiid llii'iefurc upon him fell 



the brunt of the l)urden of helping his mother in 
her efforts to support the family, and his opportu- 
nities for education were consequently exceedingly 
limited, but he persevered in his efforts to gain 
learning, and at the age of twenty began teaching. 
He was intensely religious in his character and 
early became a preacher of the Gospel, receiving a 
license from the North Ohio Conference to which 
he was admitted at the age of twenty, and there 
remained a member for forty years. 

The Bev. ^Ir. .Johnson preached at many points 
all through Northern Ohio and held an important 
position in the Conference. He was a strong Abo- 
litionist and was one of a notalile four who with- 
stood pro-slavery resolutions when introduced into 
the Conference and voted steadfastly against them. 
His last years were spent upon his farm, and lie 
died there in Fairfield Township, Huron County, 
Ohio, ill the month of October, 1887, and was laid 
to rest in the l)e!iulifiil cemetery of Mt. llojie. at 
Lansing. 

Sarepta K. Stickiiey was the maiden name of the 
wife of the Rev. Mr. .Johnson. Her birthplace was 
ill Lorain County, Ohio, and lier father. Albin 
Stickney, was lunii in Cornwall. \'t., in the year 
1786. and was a soldier in the American .Uiii\ 
during the War of 1812. The Western fever had 
its effect upon him at an early date and in 181;") he 
locateil in .MMilisou ( oiiiity. Ohio, and tlieiu-e re- 
moved to Avon. Lorain County, where he settled 
upon a farm and resided until his death. He was 
a man of more than ordinary ability and character, 
being possessed of unfailing industry and jierse- 
verance. true moral integrity and honesty of pur- 
pose. He accumulated a lai'ge iiropert\ and was a 
money loaiier. lint such were his convictions of 
right and Avrong that when money evervwheie was 
(•ommanduig ten or twehe iiereenl. he never asked 
nor would receive a cent more than six per cent. 
This good man passeil to his heavenly reward. 
February 7. 1887. Ili> wifi'. who was born in 
Tyringham. Mass.. bore the m.-iidcii iiaiiie of Clar- 
issa .Moon. 

The Stickney family is iiotalile in the early aii- 
ii;il> of our couiitiy. as its first member caiiit' to 
AnieiirM ill Kil.i. His nanie was William and he 
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ill l,:uu;i>liiii-. He lucnttd .-il IJuwIfV. Mass.. mihI 
tlii'iv spoilt llu' rfiiiaiiKli'i' of liis days. Ills s<iii. 
.Vinos, will) was also horn in ICntrland aliout tlic 
vi'ar Ki^i.'t. set up the tirst fullin^-iiiill in Aiiifrica. 
Ill' lived in Newlmi y. INIass., and his son lii'iijaiiiiii 
was the father of .losepli. whose son .Moses was 
lioni ill ISoxford and served through the lievolii- 
tionary Wnv. dyiiii;' in Spiinulield. \I. Ills son 
Leiiuiel. who was liorn in Uoxford and died in 
l''r!iiikliii. N. v.. was tlie urandfatlier of onr siili- 
jeet. -Mrs. Sarepta .lohnson now resides witli lier 
son in ]>ansini) and is tiie mother of five ehildi'en. 

The lirother and sisters of our sulijeet are: 
.\. \\'.. the head <jf the Saimiel Lillinrn Coiii- 
paiiy, dealei's in Imtter and es;u:s at ()tluniw!i. 
Iowa; Cory I-"... who died in ll^.sT: Clara, now 
Mrs. Carroll, a graduate of the National Nor- 
mal School at Lelianon. Oliio, and Ada S.. who is a 
stenour;i])her and t\pewriter for K. Ueineiit A- Sons, 
of ]>aiisini;-. havino- oraduated at the Interlake 
Husiness College. Mrs. CairoU has had an e.xten- 
sive exjierience as a teacher in the Sontli and East 
and now has charg-e of the Normal Department of 
the Interlake liusiness CoUeae. heiiia a proticieiit 
in stenouraphy and typewritint;' and one of the 
finest Normal teachers in the State. 

The subject of this sketch s|ient his hoyhood in 
Nortliern Ohio, wherever his father was located at 
the time as a jjreaclier and at the age of twelve he 
attended the Western Reserve College f<n- a year, 
and lieeame a fluent reader of (ireek and Latin, 
having hegun the study of Latin at the age of ten 
years. When at the age of thirteen he removed 
with tlie l.'imily to Milan, lu' engaged to work 
through the summer in Stowe's Nursery, hut after 
his father settled upon the fai-iii in Kair(i(-lil he had 
a more ci'rtaiu ahiding phice llirongh the rest of 
his hoyhooil. and studied at lioiiie. using all his 
leisure in the pursuit of the sciences and tlie lan- 
guages, and at the age of seventeen lie was pre- 
jiared to teach. lie took :iu additional term at the 
Western Reserve Normal School and then having 
passed an examination. hegan leaching at Hepiihlic. 
Seneca County. Ohio. 

The first endeavor of the young teacher was 
made in a district school, where he tauglit .six days 
in the week anil "hoarded around." Heiiii;' the 



eldest .s(^n of the family he had heavy responsibil- 
ity in the carrying on of the tarm. and while he 
was away teaching he employed a man in his place. 
\t that t ime he received *40 a month, and although 
paying a man he managed to save SlOO, the first 
considerahle sum of money he ever posse.ssed. The 
next summer he workeil on his father's farm and in 
the fall undertook the "toughest" school in Huron 
County. In this Hart land Center School a "free 
Huh t" was precipitated hy a rehellious i)U|)il within 
the lirst live 'lays, lint the teacher most effectually 
suhdiied the mutiny and after that peace reigned 
supreme and it was a most .successful session. 

In 187(1 Ml', .lohnson went West, stopping in 
^'el•million County. III., at State Line City; there 
he took eiiiploynieiit upon a farm until ( )ctober. at 
><22..')0 per iiHuith. after which he passed examina- 
tion and taught for six months at .Marysville in 
tli.Mt county. Tlu' next summer he engaged in 
training staiidard-hred horses in wliieh avocation 
he was successful tiiiaiicially. He thus alternated 
teaching in the winter with business in the summer, 
and ill the spring of 1H72 engaged in buying and 
shipping corn, and did well in it. During that 
spring he joined the Free and Aeceitted Masons at 
Blue Orass City. In the tail of 1H72 he went as 
far north as St. Paul. .Minn., and worked in the 
harvest field at Farniington. Dakota County. .Minn., 
operating a ^Nlarsh harvester and thresher, and 
somewhat later he returned to Oliio. 

Ill 1M73 Mr. .lohnson came to Michigan and lo- 
cated in Lansing Township, where his father had 
over one hundred acres of wild land, and where 
the young man engaged to cut otT the timber from 
forty or fifty .acres and sell il to the Lake Shore 
iV .Michigan Southern Railroad. While doing 
this lumberiiig he kept bachelor's liall and remained 
here until 1H7I. when he returned to Ohio .-ind 
taught tlir<uigh the winter in the home school. In 
March of the following year he went to Texas. 
journeying by the Ohio River to Memphis and then 
crossing Arkan.sas on hor.seback. He went there 
expecting to go into the sheep business, and he ex- 
plored the grand prairie at Duval's Bluflf. ,Ark.. and 
then went on to Dallas. Texas, and from there to 
Ft. Wfn'th. There he fitted out with others for an 
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Grande some four hundred and tilty miles distant 
in Western Texas. At tliat time the Mexicans and 
Indians were raiding the frontier. They remained 
there three or four months and at one time he rode 
nine hundred miles in eitjiiteen days, and having 
lost the paek pony whieli carried their provisions 
the party was obliged to go thirty-six hours with- 
out food. 

Having thoioughiy explored Ihc Slate he carae 
Xortli in .Inne. 1875. passing thiougli the Indian 
Territory, and after reacliiug lown [nirehased a 
steam thresher, which was the tirst one ever intro- 
iliiced into Clayton (ounty. Iowa. He operated it 
near McCJregor, that county, and threshed that 
fall over fifty thousand liushels of grain, ^^gain 
he taught through the winter and in the spring of 
187(i returned to Ohio, and in Ashland County 
became accpiainted with the lady who is now Mrs. 
.lohnson. During the next year he handled agri- 
cultural implements in Iowa, and again engaged in 
f)perating a thi-esher and in the winter he under- 
took another school with a bad record and subdued 
it thoroughly. 

Returning to Oliin in the spring of 1878 he 
was married April 21. at .Teromeville, to Emily 
L.. a daughter of .lustis Wetherhee, of Ashland 
County. By a former marriage Mrs. Johnson 
had one child. Stella .M.. who was reared and edu- 
cated by her stepfather, and after graduating at 
.leromeville, became Mrs. J. C. Stewart, of Colum- 
bus, Ohio. She is also a graduate of the Inter- 
lake Business College and has had a successful 
career as a teacher in said institution. For two 
years Mr. Johnson held the j)rincipalship of the 
school at Jeromeville, after which he successivelj' 
presided in the same capacity over the schools of 
Mohican and Sterling, and in 1886 tie came to 
Lansing with his brother to begin the business 
which has since constituted his life-work, and 
which has grown to be the oldest and largest Com- 
mercial College in Central ^lichigan. This school 
was founded in 1867 by Henry V. Bartlett, and 
later it became the property of W. A. and C. E. 
Johnson, who materially liroadened its curriculum 
of studies, increased its facilities and multiplied 
its patrons. During the following year he had the 
great grief of losing his lirotlier and in the spring 



of 1888 he was joined in the management of the 
school by Mr. M. L. Miner who had had experience 
in business colleges in Philadelphia, Ypsilniiti and 
Albion. This partnership, however, lasted but a 
year, since which time our subject has been the sole 
]3roprietor. Besides the branches which are neces- 
sary in business life, the graces are not overlooked 
and the health and vigor of the students is regarded 
as truly as their fitting for work. 

Both thcor\' and practice are considered in this 
model school and the college has a l)ank of its own 
witli a ca[)ital stock of *15(l,(l(IO of college cur- 
rency. It is conducted on the plan of a regular 
National ISank and each student does an actual 
banking business. Genuine Imsiness transactions 
are carried on and rajud and legilile business pen- 
manshi]) is insisted upon. A'oice and physical 
culture are not overlooked, and the s.ystem of 
shorthand used is one of the most complete as well 
as simjjle that is known. 

AVheii our subject was in Iowa he joined a com- 
pany of one hundred that started from Sioux City 
to the Black Hills, in 1876. He had *80 in the 
outfit but was detained, and being two days late 
failed of meeting the party. As he heard rumors 
of Indian outbreaks he did not push on alone to 
join them, and it was well for him that he did not, 
as the whole party was massacred and the teamster, 
escaped alone to tell the tale. But as ^Ir. John- 
son's friends had seen his name published in the 
list of those who had started they for a short time 
mourned him as dead. While teaching in Sterling, 
Ohio, he and all his family were sick at one time 
with typhoid fever and the Knights of Pythias, to 
which he belonged, came to their rescue and carried 
them with most brotherly kindness through this 
period of trial. This experience has bound him 
more closely than ever to this order, in which he is 
Past Chancellor. He has also been chairman of 
the Finance Committee of their Grand Lodge and 
is at jji-esent District Deputy Cxrand Chancellor, and 
is Past Captain of Lansing Division No. 15, U. R. 
K. P. In the Masonic order the Professor is a 
Royal Arch Mason and a member of the Lansing 
Lodge, No. 33. F. <t A. M. He is also Past Re- 
gent of the Royal Arcanum, and Chairman of the 
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( 'ouiicil. lie <i\vii~ one liuudicil ;iiul Iwciity acrt.'^ 
upon si'C'tion 8(1, L:iiisiiii> Towusliiii. which is an 
iiii])i-<)\'i'(l farm witli Iniililintis u))(iii il. I'poii Uiis 
projiorty iif lias piarcii a U'liaiil and lie resirU's at 
tiif iMUiii'i- of Ottawa and West Strci-ls. Ilis chil- 
<h'('n art I,. K. W.. Major S.. and Carroll K. IJotli he 
and lii> wile liclonii' to the Central Methodist Ejjis- 
copal ( hurch. 

I'idt. .lohnson i> one ol' the >ti-oni;e>t and most 
prominent Deinoeiats in Lan>inu' and east his tirst 
I'lesiik'nlial \ote in I .S72 for Horace ( iieeley, fol- 
lowinu il in the next two canipaiiiii- hy volina the 
straiiiht Democratic ticket. In IKMd he was ( haii- 
man of the Democratic Kxeculive Committee in 
Ashlan<l Connty.Ohio. ;ind \.iteil for Hancock and 
.atjain in IHH4 wa.- a memlici- of the Committee at 
('le\tlan(l. lie was .Mayor of .leroniesville for two 
years and for the same space of time wasTownsliip 
Clerk at .Mohican. In IHU'.I he was candidate foi- 
.VIderman in a strong Repuhlican ward and al- 
thouiili lie was defeated he hroiiuht his opponent's 
majority down low. In the Leifislatnre of 181)1 
lie was appointed Correspondinu Clerk of the House 
of Repre.sentatives of the State of .\Helii.aan. This 
po))ular <>:entleman is a pi:ietical luisiness man and 
makes a succes.'< of every enterprise in which he 
ensfaoes. 



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KNKV S. .STONKi;. An .Vjucrican hy liiith 
oiii' suliject ha> a splendid inhei'itaiice from 
his parents, who are of Teutonic ancestry, 
in Ihe mental and physical (pi.alities of 
wliicli he is possessed and the ilistinctive traits 
that have insured his success. He was hoin .Inly 
27. IM.'i;?. in .Sparta. Livinuston Connty. N. Y..and 
is a .son of Samuel and Maiy (Dean) .Stoner. Sam- 
uel Stoiier was of (Jerman parents who came from 
the Fatherland and settled in New York State. 
The whole family were enaai;"ed in the calliim of 
auriculture. 

He of whom we write \va~ tlie only child horn 
of Ills p.'irents' union. In \x:Ui he was lironght to 



.Micliioan by his mother, who settled in the town 
of Ihifihlon. Livingston Coiiiit\', wlieie she auaiii 
married, her second hiisliand heiny (feorye Camron 
and li\ this marriaii'e one child, a daiiifhter, Eliza- 
lietli, was born. Mr. Camron died in Cohoetah 
Township, .and our subject's mother passed away 
from this life in December, 1882. She was a daugh- 
ter of Daniel Dean and one of a family of six 
cliildren". there beiiiii' three .sons and the daughter. 
Our Mibject was denied the advantages of ediiea- 
lioii but has made an eff(jrt to Mipjily the deli- 
cienc\ by wide reading and study. When liul seven 
yeai'> of aue he began to be >elf-snpporling. work- 
ing by the day and month from that time on until 
he was twenty-live years old. being engaged chiell\' 
on farms in Lixinustou and Oakland Counties, 
this Stale. In |.Sf!l he determined to experience 
the sweetiu^s of po.ssession and purchased his tir>l 
eighty acic- of land; this he still i-esides upon. Il 
is located on .section fi, Colioctou Township, and lie 
li.is im|>rovcd it until it is one of the most attractive 
spots in the township. He has added another 
eighty acres in the same >eclion. Il has not been 
.Mr. Stoner's policy, however, to make himself land 
poor, believing that he is as fully entitled to the 
enjoymenl of his possessions as are tlio.se who may 
come after him. He has erected n fine residence 
upon his place, which is a model of comfort and 
neatness, both in style ot architecture and in inter- 
ior airangeinent : he has also good barns and out- 
houses. 

.\t the lime of Mr. Stoner's settlement uiion his 
farm he had only ^\(H) in money to ))iirchase the 
many things that are indispensable to agricultural 
life. Ill his political liking om- subject is a Repub- 
lican, although in starting out in life he allied 
himself with the Deiuociatic party. Since IHljO he 
has cast his vote and inlluence with the first-named 
partw He of whom we write was married March 
21. 18.")8. to .Mi.ss Rebecca R. Warner, who was 
born in .Monroe County. .Mich, she is a daughter 
of Ira and Laura (Foster) Warner. The former wa.s 
a Christian minister and came from New York to 
settle in the Woherine .State at an eaii\ day. He 
was born in Nan Buren. Onondaga County, N. Y., 
November 10. 1H(IS». and w.-i.s left fatherless at the 
age of nine years. Feeling a ealling to pastoral 



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work when a young man he came to "Washtenaw 
County, this State, in 1839, settling in Brighton in 
1849. On his death, in 1887, he left a widow and 
five children; they are as follows: Henry. Judson, 
Rebecca, George and Obediah. Eliza died at the 
age of thirty-nine years; all were married and have 
families of their own. Tlie widow still survives. 
The original of our sketch is the father of seven 
children whose names are Warner I., Clark H., 
Charles E., JNIartin I., Frank A., Andrew D. and 
Lilly M. Charles and Martin died in infancy. Our 
subject and his wife are associated in membership 
with the United Bretliren Church of which tliey 
are active and consistent members. They are good 
citizens and desirable aequsitions to society. 









RLANDO B. STILLMANis probably one of 

Lll the best known men in Alaiedon Township, 
^/ Ingham County. He is a general farmer 
and the owner of a fertile and productive farm of 
one liundred and forty-five acres, located on sec- 
tion 3. He was born in the town of (iroton, Tomp- 
kins County. X. Y.. March (i, 1825. His father is 
also a native of the Empire State, his natal day 
having been September 20. 1800. He was a l)rick- 
maker by trade, niul in 1H32 he went to Ohio and 
settled in tlie college town of Oberlin. While there 
he made the first lirick ever used in that part of 
tlie country, and it was he who made the brick for 
the first building of Olterlin College. At the time 
of liis advent into the little place, it contained only 
four dwelling houses. ( )n the crest of the wave of 
Westward emigration, lie started with his family for 
Michigan with an ox-team and "[n-airie schooner" 
in 1841. When Tecumseli was reached, a heavy 
fall of snow compelled him to leave his wagon be- 
hind and proceed with a sled. When he reached 
Alaiedon Township, he had left only 15 in money, 
two cows, and a canister of jiowder. The %b was 
spent for a ^oke of three-year-old steers that were 
so weak they could hardly walk, but by careful 
nursing on the part of the family, our subject's 
father was enabled to exchange them the follow- 
ing spring for a fine yoke. 



On first coming to the^ State, tlie father of the 
original of our sketch suffered many discourage- 
ments. The members of his family alternately 
shook and burned with fever and ague. At one 
time, and during the harvest season, eight out of 
the family of ten, were on the invalid list. In 
1852 ]\Ir. Stillman caught the gold fever and went 
to California liy the overland route, the journey 
taking nearly six months, and he was obliged to 
walk over the Sierra Nevada Mountains. He 

^ worked in the gold fields for a time until taken 
sick, and when well he secured a position in a brick- 
yard in San Francisco. His skill soon manifested 
itself and the company offered him a very tempting 

I salary to remain, but he was longing to rejoin his 

: dear ones at home, and soon came back to his old 

I home, where he died in 1862. 

Before coming to Michigan, the suliject of our 
sketch spent one year in the preparatory school at 
Oberlin, where he acquired a good knowledge of 
the English branches. On coming into the town- 
ship with his father, Alaiedon. Meridian, Delhi and 

: Lansing were combined, and possessed luit forty 
voters, Mr. Stillman being personally acquainted 
with them all. The woods were alive with wolves, 
deer and bears. Orlando B. Stillman became en- 
gaged as a teacher after he had lieen in IMicliigan 
for four years, a younger brother having tauglit 
the firstschool in the district in a frame barii.lniiit 
soon after the family came to this State. 

Our subject was married January 1, 1852, to 
Minerva J. Freeman, a native of Niagara County, 
N. y. Five children were liorn of this marriage. 
They are Henry A.. Orlando J., Rosalind. Daniel 
C. and Roy V. The first-born dates his years from 
December 9, 1852. He was married to Esther Post, 
and is now a farmer in this township. Orlando J., 
w.as born Septemlicr 9. 1854. and died when in his 
seventh year; Rosalind was Ixirn Septeinl)er 9, 
1856, and married H. C. (iuile. a farmer of Alaie- 
don Township; Daniel C. was born January 28. 
1865. and married Emeline Wilkins; Roy V., who 
was born October 12, 1870. ii< still at homeand un- 
married. 

^Irs. Minerva Stillman died in 1873, and our 
subject was again married, his bride being Miss 

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member of the Bapti.-<t Church of this place, and a 
most etHcient worker. Our subject is a charter 
member of tlie Masonic fraternity of Okemos, hav- 
ing been thus connected since he was twenty -seven 
years old. Politically his sympathies are strongly 
with the Democratic party, and he has been promi- 
nently identified with the local political history of 
the township. He has been Supervisor for six 
years, Township Clerk for four years, and is still 
Justice of the Peace, which position he Ims iicld for 
seven years. 

Mr. Stilluian's mother bore the maiden name of 
Eunice Call. She was boi-n in Massachusetts, June 
•23, 18U2. Her grandfather, Levi Call, was of 
Scotch descent, and her mother's name in her 
maiden days was Purrington. Her great-grand- 
nmtlier was a French Huguenot, and settled in 
South Carolina. Our subject's mother died April 
6, 1862, and the father April 1. 1862. Elisha Still- 
man, the grandfather of Orlando Stillman, was born 
in 1778. and died in Aurora, N. Y. It is said that 
two lirothers by the name of Stillman came to this 
country from England during the old Fiencli War 
and from them all those in the United States are 
descended. Our subject is in prosperous circum- 
stances, and knows how to enjoy life. He has a fine 
library which contains standard works in all classes 
of literature. He is also well posted as to current 
events. 



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/^ HARLES A. PHILLIPS, a retired farmer. 
[i| residing in the town of Howell, Livingston 

^^^' County, was liorn in Ontario County, N. 
Y., February 5, 1831. He is the son of Zebedee 
and Clarinda (^Vrigllt) Pliiilii)^, natives of Massa- 
chusetts, lie early learned tiie duties incident to 
farming life, that being his father's calling, and 
being natiu'ally of a progressive tendency our sul)- 
jcct supplemented the principles of agriculture 
that he had learned from his father by bringing 
science to bear on every possilile occasion, and 
llie result is that he has been successful to a very 
great degree. 

As a boy our subject received the rudiments of 



a g<jod education and was Itound out while yet a 
lad to a farmer, agreeing to stay with him until he 
was twenty-one years of age, at the end of which 
time he w.as to receive *100 in money and two 
suits of clothes. Our subject fulfilled his part of 
the contract, but the gentleman to whom he was 
bound, at the expiration of four years, sold out, 
and the lad received $75 instead of the %100^ with 
two suits of clothes. Shortly after leaving this 
place he was taken , sick with the typhoid fever 
and was obliged to spend all he had — a little for- 
tune to him — for medicine and in doctor bills. 

In 1851, Mr. Phillips went to Pennsylvania and 
for eighteen months engaged in the lumber business. 
He then returned to Wyoming Count3', N. Y., 
where he teamed for one winter, the next spring 
renting a farm which he continued to cultivate 
until he came West in October, 1854. Upon 
his advent into this State, Mr. Phillips purchased 
land in the western part of Howell Township. It 
was thickly timbered and the work of clearing 
seemed an almost herculean task. Before long, 
however, a clearing was made and he erected a log 
cabin that boasted the magnificent dimensions of 
12x18 feet. A home thus secured, he cut the tim- 
ber from forty acres, which he cultivated, planting 
and reaping to good purpose, so that later he was 
enabled to erect a very good house and afterward 
sold the .same. 

In 1865 Mr. Philliiis i)iuchased land at what is 
called the Six Corners on tlie Grand River Road. 
It is a pretty village, containing a post-office, store 
and blacksmith shop, schoolhouse and a number of 
nice residences. There he lived unlil 1887, when 
he came to Howell and purchased three lots, which 
are delightfully located in the prettiest residence 
portion of the town. Here lie erected a fine large 
iiouse where lie now lives, and he and his wife 
thoroughly enjoy their home comfort. j\Ir. 
Phillips has lield various ollices in the township 
gift. He has been Sciiool Inspector, Hoad Com- 
missioner and lias filled various other offices. 

In 1853 our subject entered tlie ranks of the 
lienedicts, and w;is united in marriage to ^liss El- 
vira Buttim, a native of Hamilton. Madison County. 
N. Y. She is a daughter of Cieorge and Saphina 
(Foote) Button, natives of Connecticut. Mrs. 



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I'liillii..- is (lue of Unci' rhildicn, the eldest being 
!i .son. Orlaudu. wlio now resides in Califoniiii. and 
llie vouniiest, a dauuhter. Maria, wlio is now Mrs. 
Potter, and lives in Whiteside t'oiuit\ . 111. 

Mr. I'hillips is a Proliil>itionist and (rianoer. 
lielongint; to Howell Lodae Xo. i"'- He is A.ssist- 
ant .Steward of his loduc at the jnesent time and 
has held all the olHees in that body. He and his 
wife are attendants upon and members of the 
.Methodist I-;])iscopal C'hiavh. lie started out in 
life without any re.sourees whatever, but with a 
strong determination to do his best in everything 
he undertook and that best being siqiplemented liy 
an excellent judgment he has not only madea suc- 
cess of life him.self. iiut has been the means of help- 
ful man\' others to a better state of being. He was 
originally a Hepublican in his political belief, but 
later in life joined the Prohibition jjarty on gen- 
eral (trinciples. .\ man to whom right jirinciple is 
|)aramount. it is .said of him by all who know 
him that his word is as good as his note. He has 
hosts of friends, being genial and companionable, 
warm-hearted and loyal. He is of a lilteral nature 
.•ind tliose in need nevei' turn away from him un- 
aided. 

In connection with this biographical notice the 
reader will find the lithographic portraits of Mr. 
Pliillips and his estim.MbIc wife. 



KClllH.Vl.l) C .V.MPBKLI,. The owiierand 
CjA-l resident upon the line farm located on sec- 
'l\ tion .'33. Hartland 'rownship. Livingston 
County, is one who has reached patriarchal 
years, his natal day having been January l.i. 1819. 
He is of .Scotch birth and ancestry, inheriting from 
his parents a vigorous body and a clear, keen, logi- 
cal mind. He was born in Argyle.shire. Island of 
. I lira. .Scotland. Mr. Campbell lia.s had moie varied 
experiences than the majority of men, even at liLs 
age, having been a .seaman for a number of years, 
visiting many parts of the world and coming in 
contact with a great many classes of ))eople. He 



is now retired from active work of all kinds, and 
is living in the enjoyment of the lest and peace of 
the afternoon of life. 

Our .-ubjecfs father was Neil Campbell, a na- 
tive of the .same island as was his son. By trade 
he was a tailor, and came to Nova Scotia, where 
he coiitiijued to follow hi.'- calling, and remained 
for the rest of his life. Our subject's mother 
was before herjnarriage a Mi.ss Nancy McClean. a 
native of the same place as was the father. She, 
like her husband, died in Nova .Scotia. Our sub- 
ject was reared by his grandparents, his grandfa- 
ther being Hector McClean. He was adopted into 
this family at six months of age. and remained un- 
til tifteen years old, at which time he went to 
Xova Scotia, and again was re-united to his par- 
ents, to whom he was a stranger, not having seen 
them from infancy. He made his home with them 
for some time devoting himself to the learning of 
shijj building, and was engaged in ship carpenter's 
work there for .■«ix years. 

Fi'om Xo\'a Scotia our subject went to Liver- 
pool, England, as ship carpenter on boaid of a sail- 
ing-vessel, and in this capacity he made three trips. 
During one of the voyages he was cast away on 
Sable Island, and during the nine days that he was 
cast away, they ran out of provisions, and were 
obliged to eat molasses, cranberries and horsetlesh. 
At still another time he was cast away in Devil's 
Bay. and was there thrown upon his own rescunces 
for two weeks, but on being picked up went back 
to Nova Scotia, and from there jjroceeded to Buf- 
falo. N. Y. During his career as a seaman he made 
several trips to .Scotland and Ireland, and is thor- 
oughly familiar with the geogrn|iliy of the .\tlaii- 
tic ( )cean. 

The original of our sketch hatl just tifty cents in 
his pockets when he landed in Buffalo, and he be- 
gan at once to look for work at his trade in a ship- 
X'ard. but not being able to sccui-e cni|)lo\ inent, he 
shi|)pe(l a- .-I sailor on Lake Kiie. He .sailed for 
three inoiiths. during which time he was promoted 
to tlie ottice of First Mate.- His run was from Chi- 
cago to Buffalo, and he held the position for nine 
years, at various times being mate and pilot. 
Wearjing of the sea, he gave up hi» berth and came 
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ill wliMl is now East Saginaw ami llicro»m lie 
L'rec'li.'(l tlie first frame house ever Imilt intlio place. 
Here liis son, .lames C. was I)orn, and lias the dis- 
tinction of being the lirst while eliild born in East 
Sajiinaw. 

In IHiJ'i our subject sold out liis real estate inter- 
ests in Saginaw and lioughtthe place where he now 
resides in Livingston County. There were at the 
time of his purchase, very few improvements on 
the place, only about twent\ acres being cleared 
and improved, and liearing only a log house. Mr. 
CaiiiplieH's marriage took place Septemlier 12, 1846, 
the lady whom he made his wife being in her 
maiden days, a Miss Elizabeth Coburn, a native of 
.Scotland, l)orn in Berwickshire. August 29, 1825. 
She was the youngest of six children, and a daugh- 
ter of .Tames Coburn. She was reared in Scotland 
until eighteen years of age, when with her parents 
she emigrated to the United States, landing in 
Cleveland, at which place she met our subject and 
consented to be his wife. They are the parents of 
five children, one daughter and four scms. The^- 
are by name: Donald N., .lames C, .John D., David 
C. and JLargaret A. The eldest son was born in 
Saginaw County, in 1847. He died in tlie late war, 
being at the time at the hospital in Detroit. James 
('.. who as before stated, was the first white child 
burn in East Saginaw, first saw the light of day 
Dcccmlu'r ."), 185i>. He is now in California, and 
is Superintendent of a gold mine in Brownsville, 
Yuba County. .John D. was born in HartlandTown- 
shi]). Livingston County, this State, .luly 9, 18.');!, 
and is now practicing his profession as a ph3'sician 
in Taylor, White Tine County, Nev. David C. 
was born where his parents now reside, in IJS.'ifi. 
He is now a practicing lawyer in Bozeman, Mont. 
Margaret A., who was born in 1859, m the place 
where our subject now resides, is the wife of Arthur 
W. Newman, and she and her husband make Iheir 
home with the subject of this sketch. 

He of wnom we write has one hundred and forty 
acres of good land, most of which is under cultiva- 
tion. He has retired from the active pursuit of 
his agricultural calling. He is and has been for a 
nunilier of years, an ardent Republican in politics. 
Mr. Campbell's life on the water has been a very 
varied experience, not being confined to the high 



seas. For four wintei-s he served as watchman on 
the Mississippi on a boat that ran from Cincinnati 
to New Orleans. For his services he received *64 
a month besides his board and washing. Our sub- 
ject was the lirst one to respond to the temperance 
teachings of Father Mathew when the latter was 
holding meetings in Queenstown, Ireland. He af- 
terward acted as an agent for emigrants in Ireland, 
finding locations for them in this country. 

Arthur W. Newman, the son-in-law of our sub- 
ject, was born in Brighton Townshii), Livingston 
County, this State, .June 21, 18GG. He was reared 
in his native place, and November 23, 1887, mar- 
ried the only daughter of our subject. This union 
has been blessed thus far with the advent of one 
child, Auslie N., who was born January 29, 1891. 
Mr. Newuian is running the farm for his falher-in- 
law. 



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RA W. C.\SE. is a leading diw-goods merchant 
in the city of Brighton. Livingston County, 

. this State, where he has been in liusiness for 
forty-four years and consequently is one of the 
pioneers of this locality, having been an eye-witness 
of the transformation that has taken i)lace in the 
contour of the county, and in the phases of society 
that ha\'e succeeded each other in the history of 
the town. Although he was reared in AVayne 
County, N. Y., he was born in Oswego County, of 
the same State, March 21,1819, and has attained 
more than the usually allotted three-score and ten 
years of age. His is no uninteresting lustor_v, as he 
is familiar with, and has been an eye-witness of the 
growth of two states, besides having had the prog- 
ress of the nation under his intellectual eye. 

Our subject is a son of Samuel Case, a native of 
Rhode Island, who was there born March 14, 1782. 
The Case family is of English ancestry, having come 
from the mother country before the Revolutionary 
War. Samuel Case was by calling a farmer and re- 
moved to New York State from his native State, 
and there lived for some years. He came to Mich- 
igan in 1838, settling in Hamburg Township, Liv- 



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PORTRAIT AND BIO&RAPHICAL ALBUM. 



iiiu-stou Coiiiity. lieiiig uiie of the original i<ettlei'S. 
:iu(l liecoining possessed of c'onsiilerable (iovern- 
iiR'iit Ituui. Prior to liis eoniiiig to this State, he 
Imd :iii actkleut which rendered him a cripple for 
life, \\liile hiiiitiiig in Oswego County. N. V.. 
l)Oth of his feet were frozen. lie did not give 
much attenlioii lo fanning hut followed the oeeu- 
palion of shoemaking. He was twice married, his 
fiist wife Ijcing Catlierinc Crandal. wlio was born 
in Connecticut. Xovember 18, 1782. and liy her he 
became the father of .seven children. Her death 
took place .lnl\ 25. 1810. and not a great while 
aller he married Chiriss.'i Ci-audal. a sister of his fii'st 
wife, wlio was liorn in Connecticut. Feliruary 27. 
17;*.'). Tliere wei'e twelve cliildreli by this union, 
onlv six of these liowe\er. lived. He died Ajjril 
It). 1854. in Hamburg. His wife survived him 
a number of years, pa.ssing away Xovember 9. 1871. 
Ira Case is the fifth iu order of birth of the fam- 
ily, and was born and reared, on a farm in the 
township of Palei-mo. Oswego County, N. Y. The 
county was quite new and his first school days were 
spent in a log selioolhouse which was about one 
mile distant from his home. The first school that 
he attended had no doois or windows. It boasted, 
however, a great fireplace, and slab seats were so 
arranged that the mistress could command without 
trouble, each pair of eyes. He "did not enjoy many 
educational advantages until after fifteen years of 
age at which time his experience w-as wholly prac- 
tical. He then went ou the Krie Canal, driving 
the hor.ses in the tow j)ath and was thus employed 
for four or five years until iinally he was advanced 
to the position of steersman, lie was engaged on 
the canal boat during the summer and went to 
school winters. 

Mr. Case finally purchased a canal lioat wilh the 
money he had earned, being at the time about 
twenty-one years of age. He, however, ran his 
boat but a few years, when he met with an acci- 
dent and his boat was sunk. In 1840 he came 
West to ^lichigan. and made his home with his 
father who had |)receded him hither by two vears. 
Here he remained for two years when he again ran 
a boat for two years, at the end fif which time he 
returned to this State and worked for his brother J 
for four years in a store in Hamburg Township. | 



about four miles west of where he lesides. Hi> abil- 
ity as a young man soon made itself felt and he 
was given oftice in the local government, being 
made uiidei- Sheriff and constable in Hamburg 
Townshi)). The country was then very new. and 
wild game was ]ilentiful. Indians came through 
.■ind caini)ed in the vicinity. 

Our subject's brother, selling out his interest in 
Hamberg, they came to Brighton, where the former 
engaged in business. Ira Caseclerked for his brother 
and about tw(.) years later purchased a half interest 
in the liusiness. which they conducted until the 
bi\)lher's death in 18(i7. Pre\-ious to this time our 
subject had purchased an interest in a dry goods 
stock in partnership with Patrick Donley, the linn 
conducted a thriving business for some time. The 
firm continued lo transact business until 1881. 
when Mr. Case purchased the entire stock and now 
enjoys the distinction of being the pioneer mer- 
chant of Iirighton and the oldest merchant in Liv- 
ingston County. He occupies a two-story-brick 
block which is filled with a general line of goods 
that have been selected with great can" and discrim- 
ination. He carries a line of goods that is suited 
entirely to the demands of his cu.stomers. 

The origin.'il of our sketch was married Febru- 
arv Hi. 185;>. His wife in her maiden days was 
Fidelia S. Fddy. boin .July 26, 1831, in Ontario 
Countv. X. Y. ( )ur subject and his wife are the 
l)arents of seven (•hildren, wlio.se names are as fol- 
lows: Jasper W., Xellie E., Alta E., .Mabel E.. Myi- 
tie W., IJartaw I. and Clio S. The eldest .-ion, who 
was born .luly 31. 1854. is now deceased, as is the 
next child wlu) was born September ID, 18,"i(;. Alta 
K.. was born December 21. 1858, and is the wife of 
Charles E. Placeway. editor t)f the Argus in the 
cit\' of Itrighton. this State. Mabel whose nat.'ii 
day was ^larch I. 18(11, is the wife of .losepli Pat- 
terson, who is the editor of the Norlhi'ni Di^morral 
of (iravling. Crawfoid County, this .State. Myrtie. 
was lioin .laniKiiy \'.K 18(5."), and remains at home 
with her pari'Ut>. Bartaw. w^liose natal day was 
Seiitembcr 2."). I8()!i. clerks in hi< father's store. 
Clio S., who was born ^laicli 27. 1874. is still at 
home; he graduated from the Brighton High School 
at the age of sixteen. Besides their own family. 
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ArncliM V. Caiiiplu'll. Slii- wa,- Ikhii May I'.t. \x\l\. 
and was alioiit four years of Hiiv wlii-n sin- oiituii'd 
our suhji'd's faiiifly. Slu' married and died in the 
city of (liiea^o. 111. 

Our suliject is an old line Deniocral. hut takes 
kindly to llic new doctrine. lie was.Iustice of tlie 
Peace in liriLChlon for eiiilileeii ye;n> .-ind in early 
(iays wliili' lioldinji' that ollice transacted a i;i'ei>l 
deal of Ijusiness. He has at various times been a 
delegati" to State and county con\entions. and to 
other eoiiventions. Mr. Case is now the ownei' of 
a sni.all farm near Uriuhton. and has for sonic 
\ears owned v:irious farms. His residence in the 
eitv is !i model of neatne.ssand elejianee. His iioine 
is a tine btiildinsi'. well located in the mid.st of a 
beautiful lawn and surrouniled liy line shade trees. 
\\\ credit should lie jiiveu to the man whohejjinniini' 
life without any advantaiies raises himself to so en- 
\-ialile a |Misiiion as has our sulijcct. He began on 
on the tow-path at >>l(i a month .dkI has never rec- 
eiveil the sii;;htest assistance in a pecuni.ary way 
durinu his careei'. but has fons>ht liis own way 
Ihrouirh lifi'. 



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RS. DKHOR.VH (;|„\IST1;R. widow of 
Richard (ilaister. who came to this city in 
l><7'2. resides in ;i handsome .■in<l attractixc 

h e .Ml No. 10-2 Walnut Street. Thi« 

larjje brick edi lice was elected by .Mr. ( ilaister in 
1871). and is an ornament to the city. That gen- 
tleman was liorn in Kni;iand. September l.'5. I.S'ili. 
and beiuii; naturally of a roviiiy dis|)osition he 
eanie to the I'nited States and Canada several 
times. He made his first trip when he was twenty- 
seven years old and durini>- that visit he super- 
intended the stone work of the Parliament house 
at Ottawa. While still residinu in JCn^laud hi' 
was married. Feliruary 8. 1HI7. to Mi» Debornli 
Hrougli. She was the daughter of (apt. Carter 
BfOtigh. 

In IHKt .Mr. and :\Irs. (ilaister. with their six 
younger children, came to this<ountry and .settled 
in ( )tta wa. ( .Mnada. The elilest ^ini h.-id previonsh 



come to ( aii.-ida. After living in ()tt!iwa foui- 
years they came, in 1H(!H, to ttie Stales, .settling in 
Detroit, where Mr. (ilaister took charge of put- 
ting in the stone work of the cilv hall. Leav- 
ing Detroit he went to Pitt.sburg. Pa., to build the 
Trinity Chnrch and Chapel, as he had taken the 
contiact for that building. U'eturning to Detroit 
he became one of the contr.Mctois for the present 
Slate Capitol at Lansing. In (•on.se<juence of this 
new engagement he removed to this cit\. wliieh 
he finiiid so |)leasaiit .a home that lie decided to 
perm.aiiently locate here. .Vfter a few years lie de- 
termined til retire from jictive bu.siness and did 
not till his time with contr.icts. altliough he built 
the stone work ot tlii' postollicc n<iw in use in 
Lansing. 

Mr. (ilaister owned two store buildiinis on .Mich- 
igan .V venue and two iiou.-es on Wahint Street, 
wiiieli are still in the possession of the family, atid 
al.so a good house in ()ttawa. Canada, which is still 
ill the family. This useful and intelligent gentle- 
man made hi> mark anioni.' men of Lansing and 
his loss was greatly felt when lie was called away 
by death. March 22. liss>7. He was ijromiiicntly 
identified witli the liideiiendent Order of Odd 
Fellows, and while li\ing in Liveri)o<il was con- 
nected with the Druids. Hefore coming to this 
eountr\ this excellent I'ouple were connected with 
the chnrch of their fathers — the establisiied chureli 
of ICngland — and after coming here c(iiitinue(l 
their relations with the Lpiscopal Chureii. 

Six children siir\i\-c(l the f.ather. the elilesl son. 
William 1).. having diccl in l.'^77. at the aye of 
twenty-nine years. The next son in age. bearing 
the naini' of Richard, passed aw.ay in .laiiiiarw 
1^<H!^, at the age of thirty-nine. TIki.m' who . are 
now living are Isabella .!.. widow of Henry Hart- 
ley, of .Minneapolis; .Vnnie. Mrs. Kdwin Ashley ol 
Ithaca, this State: .lo.se|ili (.. residing in Lansing: 
Kli/.abetli I)., wife of Dr. Reddings. of .Manchester. 
Mich., anil Orah 1... wife of Mr. A. l-".iiiery. of tlii> 
city. 

The miither of these children was liurii in \\ hitc 
ll.aven. Cuiiiberlaiid Coniity. I'jigland. in 1.'<2.'L on 
the .Sd of . I line, and was the datighter of (apt. 
Brongh. who for over forty years was a sea ea)!- 
lain. W liiii ipiite a girl Miss Hroiiuh went to 



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Liverpool, where she resided until her marriage to 
Mr. Glaister. This nolile and efficient woman has 
the respect and admiration of all who know lier 
and she is carryino- on successfully the estate which 
has come into her hands hy tlie death of her hus- 
band. 



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HARLES D. COWLES. The pioneers of 
1, Ingham Count}' are a class of men who, for 
'J sturdy integrity, thorough-going industry 
and undaunted enterprise, will compare favorably 
with any class of men whom we may name. They 
did not come to the West with tiie expectation of 
finding a royal road to fortune, and tiiey had 
enough good sense to know that that road does 
not exist for tlie honorable and upright man. 
Thev did hope, however, and their hopes were 
realized, to make a home in tlie wilderness, wliich 
in time should " blossom as the rose," and wliere 
thev might place the feet of their children on the 
high road to independence and a comfortable 
com|)etency. 

Among the older residents of this county we are 
pleased to name ^Mr. Cowles, of Lansing, who came 
here April 6, 1868, having been born m Johnstown, 
Barry County, Mich.. October 11,1843. His par- 
y^ ents, Jason and Alary (Johnson) Cowles, were from 
the East, his father having been born in Panton, 
Vt., April 1, 17fl(). whence he emigrated to Michi- 
gan in 18;53, having taken to wife Miss J^ydia 
Shepherd, a native of "N'ermont. Tliey came to 
the new West, lioi)ing tliat tlie change might ben- 
efit the heaUh of tliis lady, but she did not survive 
many years as she died in Jonesville, Mich., in 
1837. His second wife was Jliss Mary Johnson 
and to her he was united in tlie bonds of matri- 
mony in 1841. She was born in Oswego, N. Y., 
Kovember 1, 1813, and came to Michigan in the 
• early days. 

The father of our subject was by occu]>ation for 
manv years a merchant and also for a long period 
of ye-irs was in the employ of Eastern capitalists, 
who desired to have him locate lands for them, as 



well as to attend to other business. Throughout 
his life in Michigan he had in his possession a fine 
farm in Barry C'ounty. He went to Battle Creek in 
1 (S54 in order to give his son a better opportunity for 
education and there he remained until his death, 
]March 4, 1862. He had four children hv his first 
marriage, all of whom have passed from earth, and 
our subject is the only child of his mother, who 
died in Bedford, Calhoun County, July 14, 1876, 
although her home had Ijeen for some years with 
her son in Lansing, Mich. 

Having completed his education at Battle Creek, 
young Cowles spent one year on the farm and 
then responded, as did so many other brave boys, 
to the call for help sent out liy Abraham Lincoln 
when the country needed her sons. He enlisted 
July 22, 1862, in Company D, Seventeenth Michi- 
gan Infantry, and was sent to the Army of the 
Potomac and placed in Burnside's Ninth Army 
Corps, and his first battle was at South Mountain, 
]\Id.. which tfiok place September 14, 1862. Three 
days later they engaged in the battle of Autietam, 
and were also in the siege of Fredericksburg. 
Being transferred to tlie dejiartment of the Cum- 
berland he went with his regiment to Mississippi 
and was stationed in the rear of Yicksburg until 
its surrender, July 4, 1863. He particiiiated in 
the campaign and battle of Jackson, Miss.,July 16 to 
20. Returning in August, 1 863 to Ken tuck}', he was 
left at Crab Orchard on detached duty, rejoining his 
regimentat Annapolis, Md., April 2, 1864, and was 
with it until he was wounded in the Battle of the 
Wilderness, jM.ay 6, 1864. He was reported dead 
at that time as he was lost sight c>f, having been 
sent from the field to a temporary hospital. He 
was afterward removed to Ilarwood Hospital in 
W.ashington and thence to S*^. Mary's in Detroit. 
He received his discharge at Harper's Hospital at 
Detroit on tlie last day of January. 1865, and then 
returned to Battle Creek, as he wished to devote 
himself to a more fhorough course of study. 

After two years of study Mr. Cowles engaged in 
various avocations till he came to Lansing in 1868 
as Clerk in the Auditor General's office, where he 
remained most of the time until 18711. He was 
elected City Clerk and held that office for tliree 
terms, being the first man who ever held over in 



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lli.il olliti iliiiiiiii tlii'ee termsi in I,;iii>iiii>'. Aflcr 
iH'iiii; ii'lii'vcd Iroiii ollicinl diilio lif wen) Wcsl 
.•111(1 .since his ivtiirn \\:\> liccii in Ihc ni'\v> lin^inos 
most of tln' time. 

Amuii")' the luiliUih' evenl.s whieh \\e:iiH' riiMed 
ii|)on to ehioniele in the life of .Mr. Cowle.s, is liis 
iiiarriiiire. .\i)iii 27. 1H71, nt UeiJford. .Mich., to 
Kiiima K., (lausjhter of \\illi;mi T. Il.-iiiiiiton. I'his 
union has lieeii 1>ie.sseii hy the liiilh of tliree l)e!iu- 
tiful fl:nii;hteis. Tlie eldest. .Inli:i V... has lieen 
ealled to ;i lietter .-iikI a liviuhlei- world, lint M:iiy 
K. and I.ois M. are still the joy !ind coinfoit of 
Iheir |)aients. The ( u-and .Vrniy of the l{e])nlilie 
is .ill oiiianization in whieh Mr. Cowles feels a 
keen interest .and he lias lieen .Vdjiitaiit of the 
I'osl for three leriiis. He is a prominent memliei 
of the Baptist ('lmi< h and in eoiineetion with its 
work he is a iiiemher of tlie eomniittee whieii car- 
ries on a mi.ssioii in the sontlieni )iart of the city. 
Ill every sphere of life this ut'iitlcni.in is useful 
.iiid etlicient and his example and inlhieiice nvr 
well adapter] to lienetit the lisiiiy vreiUTation while 
his example of paliioli'- devotion lo his conntry 
is well worth recitinu' for the editication of the 
!>eneration who have urown ii)) since those days 
when our hearts heat in .inxiet\ lor the honor of 
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.jr,^VA)W.K I). IJKN.IA.MI.N. I'he owner of a 
fine farm comprisinii one hundred and 
twent\ JKi'es hicated on section .'i.'i. Iiand\ 
Townsliip. Liviniistoii County, onr sulijecl li\ his 
pro{>res.siveness. natural aliility .as a m.iii and hiuli 
standing as a liusine.ss man is one of the represent- 
ative people of the lownshi[i. AVhen hi' purchased 
his land in 1H«(i it wa> partially iniproxed. Since 
then lu' has cleared, planted and Imill until it is a 
model anionsr 'he line atrrieulturai place> of the 
region. Ilis lionie is all that money siipplciiicntc(l 
hy taste and good sen.se can make it. 

Mr. lienjamin is a native of ^'ates ( ounty. N. 
^'.. and was horn \o^■enll)er 21'. IHS7. ir<' i> .i son 
of 'William and .\liigail (Shelhy) Hen jiuiiin. iint- 



i\cs of .\ew ^oik. The father wa.s a farmer aiul 
ciine to this .Slate in lK;i«. lieing one of the earl- 
icsl settlers in this townshiji. lie located on seet- 
Iioii I I. theic liought one hundred .acres whereon 
he rem.ained for eighteen years and at the expira- 
tion of that time moved to Conway Township 
where he is still fanning at the age of ninetv. The 
mother passed away from this life, in IM.jM. 

Onr subject's paternal graiidf.ither. David lienj- 
amin. was a native of New ^ork. .i physici.iii li\ 
profession liiil n I'arniti- hy calling, lie wa> the 
hea<l of a laiue family and was a J)emo(i-;U. 
\\'illiaiii lienjainin is the father of fourteen 
childicn. h.ilf of whom are still livini;. TIkm 
are .I.iiic. now .Mis. U'ay: .Vlfre<la. who is .Mrs. 
W'oodard: onr subject; .Sally, now .Mrs. |5issell: 
.lohn. Albert .and Amelia, whose married name is 
Olds. The father is a DeiiKicrat in his political 
likings. 'I'he origin.al of this sketch w.-vs reared on 
the home farm and e<hieated in the eoniinoii 
.schools of the district. He started out in life for 
himself at twenty years of .age. working li\- the 
minilh and following this coiirst- ol procedure for 
one year, when he purchased jjart of his father's 
place, or sixty acres in Hands' Townshi|). He 
li\ed there four year.s and then married, .after 
which he moved to Hands Township and tin-re 
engaged in farming on shares for one season. 

( )ii coming lo this townslii|i he bought eiglitv 
acres on section 2 I. and lived on that section for 
two years, but later traded this |)urchase for a .saw- 
mill which he ran for one yeai' and tlii> in turn he 
traded foi- a farm in Kay Township. Inyhain 
County, and was lliere engaged in agricultural 
business for live yeai>. after which he went to 
Danby Township. Ionia Counts', and there ran .i 
.saw mill for three years. He then returned to 
ll.iiidy 'L"osvii>hip and purchased a mill in Iosco 
Tosvnshii). running the .same for three years, at the 
expiration of svhicli time he traded that mill for 
his present farm, which is a line tract bearing the 
best of building>. He here devt>tes him.self to ue;i- 
cr.il farming, suiiplementing the products of the 
earth by his stock interests, of which he has some 
of the finest grades. There is a fine oivliard upon 
his place, that is al the |iiesenl time in its best and 
most haleyo.i |)eriod of prodiictiveiie.«s. 



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February 12, 1859, tbe original of our sketch 
was united in marriage to Miss Elinor Knowles, a 
native of W.avne County. N. Y. Her parents were 
Matthew and Polly (Tupper) Knowles, n.itives of 
Ireland and New York respectively; the mother 
died in 1851. The father came to this countr}' 
when a boy, in company' with a brother John, his 
father being a wealthy man who was a ship owner 
in Ireland. Mrs. Benjamin is one of four child- 
ren, only two living at the present time. Thej' 
are the lady who is the life partner of our subject, 
and Elizabeth, now Mrs. Weller. 

iMr. Benjamin is the proud parent of two sons — 
Burnett B. and Edwin H. The former is a grad- 
uate of the Fowlerville Union School and has been 
a teacher. The sons are both Masons, the elder 
having taken the seventh degree. He of whom we 
write, belongs to tlie Democratic party. He is a 
Farmers' Alliance man, also belonging to the 
Grange. He has been a generous contributor to 
all measures that promise to he for the advantage 
of and improvement of the portion of the country 
in which he lives. Mrs. Benjamin belongs to the 
Methodist C'hurch. The home they are the posses- 
sors of bears every evidence of the culture and 
refinement that characterizes its occupants. Books 
and magazines are here found and arc the daily 
companions of our subject and his family. 



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(^^HEODORE DIETZ. A native of the great 
f(f^\\ metropolis of America, our subject is of 
\^ Crcrman ancestry. His father was Peter 
Dietz and his mother Charlotte Dietz, both natives 
of the Fatherl.ind. They had emigrated to this 
land which promised freedom and speedy wealth, 
when young people. Our s\ibject was reared in liis 
native city until he reached the age of five years, at 
which time his parents removed to AYashtenaw 
C'ounty, Mich. There the family remained for five 
years or \intil our suljject was ten years of age. 
At the expiration of that time he removed to Ing- 
ham County, and settled in Leroy Township, so 
that as will be readily seen the greater portion of 



our subject's experience, covering more than forty 
years, has been associated with the progress and 
history of the district in which he now lives. 

Mr. Dietz' family being energetic and ambitious 
people were soon in the van of travelers and finan- 
cial succBSs. They were regarded as among the 
most prominent people of their district. They 
l)0th passed away in this township, having been 
the parents of nine cliildren of whom the follow- 
ing survive: Henry, Cornelius, and Theodoie. 
The confidence and respect that our subject's 
father enjoyed is shown by the fact that he was 
appointed to several township offices, having at 
one time been the Supervisor. 

He of whom we write is familiar with all the 
phases of pioneer life, having passed through the 
various experiences with his parents. He grew to 
manhood in this township. Here he received liis 
education in the district school and although he 
had not the advantages of a liberal education, has 
made up for deficiencies to a great extent by his 
individual efforts. In February, 1860, our subject 
was married to Blary C. Taylor, who bore him two 
children. These little ones did not long survive. 
The mother too, passed away and in 1866 he was a 
second time married, his bride being Mary Rix, a 
sister of Hiram Rix, Jr., of Leroy Township, for 
whose further history- see sketch in another part of 
this Album. The marital relation in this case has 
been very harmonious. 

There are nine living children that have been the 
fruit of this second union of our subject. They 
arc by name Leroy, Arthur. Helen, Rockwell, 
Henry, Robert, Theodora, Catherine and Cornelius, 
all young people whose gifts of splendid physiques 
have been blest liy the additional advantage of 
large mental capacity. He of whom we write is the 
owner of two hundred acres of land which has been 
well improved and is in a first-class state of culti- 
vation. He has served in various offices in the 
town.ship, having been Highway Commissioner. 
Socially he is a member of the JMasonic frateniity. 
Our subject affiliates with the Democratic party in 
politics, easting his vote and the weight of his in- 
fluence with that party. The fine farm of which 
he is the owner and proprietor speaks more elo- 
quently than any wordy praise can do of the 




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<jood qualities of the man — his industry, the taste 
that finislies liis work and the careful management 
tluit ciinliN's liim to accomplish so much. 



i^ICIlARl) K. WRKiGELSUOUTlI. Among 
the noteworthy British-American citizens of 
cli l"^ Cohoctah Township, Livingston County, we 
are gratified t(j he able to present the por- 
trait and give a sketch of Mr. Wriggclsworth, whose 
de|)arturo from the scenes of earth was deeply re- 
gretted by all who had come within the scope of 
his acquaintance. He was born March 2(), 1834, 
in Nottinghamshire, England. His father, John 
Wriggclsworth, who was a butcher in England, was 
twice married. His first wife, a widow, had one 
daughter by her previous mai-riage, and presented 
to >rr. Wriggclsworth a son, who is our sul)ject. 
The motlier did not leave her native land, but died 
in England, and the father's second wife was Sarah 
Shaw, who bore him four sons and one dnughtei'. 

In the spring of 18.')2 the family niigratcd to the 
I'nited States, and settled first in the Genesee ^ al- 
ley, N. Y. In 18.');5 Mr. Wriggclsworth came to 
jNIichigan and settled in Colioctali Township, T>iv- 
ingston County, and later went to Argentine, (Jeii- 
esee County, this State, purcliasing eighty acrc> of 
land upon which he lived until his death. May 
9, 1873. His wife still survives and is making her 
home with her children. 

I'pon the farm of liis fatlier in lOiiglaiid, young 
Wriggclsworth grew to maturity, aiid upon coin- 
ing to this country he engaged with his father in 
farming. In 185.5 he came to Cohoctali Townsjiip, 
and lor three 3-ears worked li\ tlie inonlh. and af- 
terward rented the eighty acres on section .'{. where 
his widow now makes her home. At the end of five 
years he had so prospered as to l)e .able to buy this 
)>rfi])erty, to which lie added from time to time un- 
til at the time of his death he owned some three liuii- 
dred and forty acres. His decease occurred Octo- 
ber 18, IHOO, and he was truly missed not only in 
his private capacity as a farmer, but also as a eiti^ 



zen, and espeei-illy in his office of Justice of the 
Peace, in which lie had served for twenty years. 
He was drafted iiit(j the army during the Civil 
War, and pronqitly furnished a substitute. 

Mrs. Wriggclsworth, who bore the name of 
Nancy.'. Iladsall, was born July 3, 1844, in Lu- 
zerne County, Fa., and she is the daughter of Ed- 
ward and .lane (l)ymand) Hadsall. She came to 
Michigan with iicr parents in 1855,and settled in Co- 
hoctah Township, where the father still resides. He 
served the cause of the Union during the Civil War. 
Mr. and Mrs. Iladsall had nine children and eight of 
them they had the pleasure of rearing to manhood 
and womanhood. The second son, Gordon, has passed 
from earth, and those who are living are Milton, 
Mary E., I'erry, James, Nancy J., Evert E., Decker 
L. and Ellen. The marriage day of Mr. and Mrs. 
Wriggclsworth, was March 3, 1861, and through 
the past thirty years they have experienced a long 
period of domestic happiness. Ten of their twelve 
children are now living, namely: Sarah A., yhwy 
!■>.. Schuyler (i.. .John E., Orlando, Carrie J^., Ken- 
yon 1{., Dora I'>. and liirtie and .Myrtle (twins). 
One s<ni, Erank L.,died at the .age of twenty-three; 
Sarah A. is the wife of .Vdeltiert Fay, and Mary E. 
i.s the wife of Hiram Gilland. Besides his farming 
property, our subject left to his family the elevator 
which is doing a nourishing business at the railroad 
station of Cohoctah. lie was highly honored and 
respected, and liis widow shares in the s:inic degree 
of esteem. 



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rSs HARLLS l-'OSTElJ. For the past four years 
a resident of Okemos, our suliject is a re- 
tired laniier and is still tiie owner of two 
hundred and eighty :icres of excellent land in 
Meridian Townsliip, Ingham County. He was 
born on the Ith of October, 1824, in Kiugs- 
dere, Hampshire, l-",iigland. His father, .iesse Fos- 
ter, was lioni in the place above named in 17811. 
and was a farmer bv oceu|iat ion. owning a small 
fMim anil renting two iargi' ones near by. Four 
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farms. Jesse Foster died in 18,52. He was the 
fatlier of thirteen children, whose names are as 
follows: Mary. Ann, Louisa. Sarah, Reliecca. .John. 
Martha, Charles, William, Hester, Eliza, Charlotte, 
and one who died in infancy. 

The eldest of the children iiamed above married 
.John Saltmarsh in England; she died and lie mar- 
ried her sister Sarah; they emigrated to the United 
States and settled in Meridian Townsliip. Ann 
lived until twenty-four years of ,"ige; Louisa mar- 
ried John Jennings and is now deceased; Rebecca 
became the wife of Charles Poverv and is now n 
widow living in Meridian Township; Martha mar 
ricd (ieorge Appleton. of England; William died 
when twelve years of age; Hester was united in 
n\arriage to William Barrett, of England; Elizabeth 
came to the United States in 1852 and married 
Christopher Nichols; she also is deceased. Our sub- 
ject's mothei' was prior to her marriage Miss Char- 
lotte Harlot and born in Stratfield Saye. England, 
when the Duke of Wellington owned this as his 
country place, in 17)^1; >lie died in 18:^4. 

The original of our sketch worked on tlie farm 
of his father until he was twenty-five years of age, 
spending most of his time caring for and herding 
sheep. The steward of the estate endeavored to 
|)ievail upon the voung man 1(i remain and con- 
tinue the management of the farm which his father 
had so long and favorably cared for, Init the i)rom- 
isesof the New World held out to a young man and 
aspiring emigrant were not to be resisted. Before 
he sailed he was married to Miss Christian Nichols, 
March 14, 185(1. Their wedding trip was the 
journey acro.ss the ocean to their new home. ^Irs. 
Foster was born in Berksliiic, England. ]March 24. 
1829. Her father, Samuel, was a wood-turner and 
brush-maker and died in Berkshire in 187fi at tiie 
.age of eighty-one year>. Ilcr mother's maiden 
name was Sarah Taylor, .\fter landing in New 
Yrirk Mr. and Mrs. Foster came directly to Pontiac. 
Mich. At this place he bought a few indispens- 
able tools and household goods and loading them 
into a wagon drawn by ox-teams tiiey started on 
the tedious trip for tlic farm now owned by them. 
The first year our subject was ilia great portion of 
the time with fever and ague and life in the new 
country was particularly hai'd for him, as he knew 



so little of pioneer farming. It was especially dif- 
ficult for him to become a good clK)pper. but by 
industry and economy, as the \ears have gone by. 
he has amassed a fair fortune and has given sub- 
stantial aid to his children and is .•-till in i)ro>|>er- 
ous circumstances, ranking among the soli<l fMrmers 
of Ingham County. 

Ten children have lieen l)orn to tliis couple. 
They are William C. Henry N., Thomas B., Agues 
S., Charles S., John C. Walter J., Ella C.. Clifford 
C. and Bertram (J. William, who was [torn Jan- 
nary 12, 1852, died in his fourteen tii year; Ileuiy. 
who was born March 15, 1854, mairied Emma 
Herre. of Meridan Township; they have tiiree chil- 
dren — .Sidney. Xellie and Lena. r]iom:i> li.. Imrn 
August 11), 1855. died in his twenty-sixth year: 
Agnes S., who was boni December 15. 1)^5(!. mar- 
ried Edward Blair, now of M.Tnistec, this .State; 
they have three children — Charles, Ethel aii(( Hen. 
Charles S.. born 3, 1858, married Mary Khun; their 
children are — Burr.William. Roy. Aid. Edward, Ros- 
etha and Norman. John, who was born February 2, 
18fi0, married ,Ieuny Cook, of Meridian Township; 
two children -aw now living — Kittle and Rutli. 
Mr,s. .Tolni Foster died February 2. 1H!)0; AValter. 
who was born in ist;2. married Emin;i Armstrong, 
of .Afuir: slie <lie(l .luly 2(i. IH'.HI. This son was 
educated ;it tlie Michigan .Vgrieultural College for 
a time and filially entered the Medical Department 
of the University at M'ooster. of Cleveland. Ohio, 
from which he was graduated in 1885. He is now a 
physician at Ljiingsburg, this State. He was married 
again in IHflOto Miss May Olney. of I'iue Lake; 
Elhi.wlio w.as born October 3, 18();5, married Aaron 
Roliy. of B;ttli; they are the parents of two cliil- 
(lien— Editli iind Murle, who died July 22, 1?<!)I. 
Clifford, born Octolier 2. l«f)5. married Olive Shif- 
ter, of Bath. Bertram, lioin -luly 3. ISUM, died 
when two years of age. 

Both our subject and his wife have lieen iilenti- 
fied with the ]\Iethodist Episcopal Church of Oke- 
mos for about forty yenrs. Politically, Mr. Foster 
is a Republican, having the most abiding faith in 
the platform of that party. Always having been 
interested in the raising of sheep. Mr. Foster has 
found liu'iii to be very profitable. He was a sheii- 
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tensively in them for manj' years. He is undoubt- 
edly tlic best posted man on tliissiilijcct in Mciidian 
Township. The family of which oiif siiliject is head 
is a most estinialih' one, and tlie jjosition tliey oc- 
cupy in this townsiiip is envialile. 



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JfiqrDA'Sl SHALLEK. In tiie career of this 
(®0] gentleman who has for many years been a 

I -i successful farmer in Livingston County 
^' and is now located on section 29, Cohoetah 

Townsiiip. may be found an illustraticm of the 
worth of good principles and haliits of industry 
and jjrudence. He had not inherited wealth that 
falls to some men, but has fouLrht his way througii 
life, provided only with the advantages that a 
l)enefieent nature has granted liim. He was born 
in Havaria. (iermany, near Seiblitz, Xovemlier 9. 
1h;52, and is a son of Adam and Margaret (Hank) 
Shaller. Reared to agricultural work, before leav- 
ing the Fatherland he was overseer for a nolilenian 
who possessed a fine estate. After his marriage he 
engaged in farming for himself, but life in the 
New World opening up an alluring vista before 
him, he witii liis family left (Germany about Sept- 
ember 1, ])S4H. They took vessel at Bremen and 
after a journey of seven weeks and three days, 
landed at New York and jiroceeded In a few weeks 
to Micliigan. Their first stop was made at Tetls- 
boro, Washtenaw County. 

In the last week in December, 1.S4H, the family 
to which our subject belonged located on eighty 
acres of section '29, Cohoetah Township, where 
the father of the family died in August. IH.jd, at 
the age of forty-five years. At his decease he left 
to his widow one son, our suliject, tlie parents 
having lost one daughter previous to C(miing to 
this country. Our subject's mother was tlirice 
married, her first luiion being witli a Mr. Kreil. 
By him she became the mother of four children, 
two, Adam and Margaret, reaching years of ma- 
turity but remaining in their native land. Her 
second husband was .(ohn SluxUl and by this m:n- 
riage three children were born who reached mn- 



turity. Eli died at the age of twenty-one; Eliza- 
beth Z!iliaii .'iIm) (lied, leaving a son and daughter 
— .\dam and Margaret. By the third marriage she 
became Mrs. Shaller. She passed aw.ay from this 
life in August, 1H72, at t he age of eighty-one j'ears. 
She was a woman of large nature and of keen 
mental and moral perceptions. She has been a life- 
long menilici' of the Lutheran (huich. 

As is the custom in (Tcrmany our subject 
received a good practical education in his native 
tongue. Reared on a farm, at the age of twenty- 
one he began life for himself on eighty acres of 
land belonging to the homestead taken up by his 
father in Cohoetah Township. He assumed the care 
and support of his mother and I)ought out his 
sister's interest in the estate. The place upon which 
the f.amily originally settled on coming here, has 
ever since been his home. lie has added two 
hundred and eighty acres since being care-taker of 
the estate, and has cleared over one hundred and 
sixty .acres. At two different times he sold land 
aggregating one hundred and eighty acres, .so that 
his farm now comprises two hundred and eighty 
acres. 

For the past yeai- .Mr. Shaller h.as resided on the 
farm .across the road from the old homestead. This 
is finely imjiroved with handsome buildings, his 
residence lieing pleasantly located on a command- 
ing eminence and containing all the comforts and 
many of the luxuries of life. He also has excellent 
liarns .and shelters for his stock of which he is very 
proud, lie has raised some of the finest cattle 
ever seen in his community, sjjaring no trouble or 
expense in jirocuring the (inesf grades. 

February 11. l.S,")i;. thr subject of this bio- 
graphical notice was married to iliss Elizabeth 
Lahring. who was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Octo- 
ber 23, 1H.'57. She is a daughter of Henry and 
Agatha (Fingbiner) Lahring, natives of Gerniany, 
the father liorn near Hanover and the mother, near 
>\iltenberg. Their marriage took place after they 
came to this country and their first home was made 
in the <'ity where Mr. Lahring was employed in a 
sugar factory. In I h;?!) they came to Michigan 
and settleil in Holly. Oakland County, where they 
resided until the <Ieali) of the father, which occur- 
red about 1869. at the age of sixty-three years. 



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The family bom to this worthy couple comprised 
five children, whose names are as follows: John F.. 
Elizabeth, Henrietta, Charlotte and Sophia. Mrs. 
JShaller's fatlier is one of six children born to his 
parents. They are Margaret. Henry, H;unii>n. 
John Frederick, Lewis and Catiierine. 

The domestic life of the o;entleman of whom it 
is our pleasure to here give a sketch in outline, has 
been of the happiest nature. His wife is an excel 
lent and amiable housewife and a good manager. 
so that the interior economy is carried on as per- 
fectly as the policy which has made the oiitei' 
agricultural work a success. Three children have 
been born to this worthy c'oupli'. They are Fred 
W., John II. and Clara .1., the latter of whom died 
at the age of twenty -three years. Mr. Shaller i> a 
good citizen, loyal to his adopted country and 
anxious that the best measures should be adopted 
for the advancement of every department in the 
locality in whicli )ie lives. Altliougli his inclina- 
tions in cliurch matters are for his own denomina- 
tion and that to which lie was brought up — the 
i.utlicran — lie is a generous cdiitrilnitoi' to all 
cluirches. lie is a Republican in politics and in 
his personal life is an example of uprightness and 
straightforward, simiile lionor. 



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<;4\ felLLIAM .1. MINER. Most generally known 
\rJ/i as the jn'oprietor of the livery stable in 
"^^^ Fowlerville. Livingston County. Mr. Miner 
is also engaged in Imsiness as operator of tlie steam 
sawmill, located near the track of the Detroit. 
i>ansing it Northern Raihoad. wliich is an industry 
that adds greatly to the ciitciiniM' of the commun- 
ity giving eni|iloyment to a nuiiilier of men and 
making current a laigc ;iinount of money. Mr. 
Miner is a native of this State, liaving Vieen 1 10111 
in Conway Township, Livingston County, Nov- 
ember 7, 1846. He is the son of Ezra and Annie 
M. (Skidmore) Miner, natives of New York. Our 
subject's parent.* emigrated to tlie West, casting 
their hit witli the pioneers whose unceasing efforts 
have made Michigan one of the most ))eautiful and 



fertile of States. About 1842, he settled in Hart- 
land Township where he engaged in farming. 

I^zra Miner moved from his first location in 
llartland Township to Conway, where, securing 
eighty acres of woodland he at once engaged in 
farming. First clearing a space in the midst of 
tlie timlier he laid the monarchs of tlie forest low 
in order to erect a log house foi' his family. He 
partially improved the farm and in 1887 he sold it 
and removed to Handy Township from Corunna 
and here he has since engaged in farming. He is 
a strong adherent of tlie Democratic party He 
and his wife are the parents of six children who 
are living. They are Emily, Mehitable, William 
.1.. Frank M.. Selden S. and Henry B. The eldest 
daugiiter is now ^Irs. Converse; ^lehitable is Mrs. 
Dawson; Frank is a farmer in Livingston Ct)unty: 
Seidell S. is an attorney at Corunna. Shiawassee 
County, holding llie ortice of Prosecuting Attoniev 
for tlie county; Henry 1>. is a farmer in Osceola 
( ounty. this State. Another son. Floyd, wa* a 
druggist and a wholesale and retail grocer at St. 
Ignace on the Mackinaw Strait. There he was 
drowiie<l .July 5, 1885, by the capsizing of a sail 
boat in which three others besides himself met an 
unliinely end. .Vlthough only about a mile from 
shore they were never any of them found. 

Our suliject remained at home until twenty-one 
years of age. As a boy he received the advant- 
ages common in the public .-.chools. He wasjaised 
a farmer .Mnd assisted his father with that work as 
long as lie was under the (larental roof. On start- 
ing out for himself after reaching his majority, lie 
began farming in Cohoctah Township, this county, 
securing eighty acres of land. For four years he 
devoted hi.s attejition and energies to this tract 
and then sold out, going to Corunna where lie 
remained for three months, lie then returned to 
Cohoctah and bought one hundred and twenty 
acres of land where he remained for twelve years, 
diiiina which time lie was engaged in general 
I'arniing. After spending so long a time upon tlu^ 
place it can well be imagined that he parted with 
it reluctantly. He, however, felt that commercial 
life was more suited to his years and temperament 
and on selling his place came tfi Fowlerville where 
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Asidi' t'roiii liis teams and tine tuiiiiiiit> lie lia> two 
viTV ^ood Imsscs thai aic used in coiivoyint; trav- 
elers to and from station and liotels. He ia-eps 
constantly on hand ten <i:ood horses and a larue 
Muml>er of tine turnouts. 

.Mr. Jliner Imill his steam sawniiil Ihis List 
sprini; (IHid). He already employs eiiilit men 
and does a thriving husine.ss. He has ten acres of 
land lying inside the corpoi'ate limits of the town 
and a fine residence (m (irand Hivei' Street. This 
is presided over very gracefully ly his wife, who 
was before her marriage iliss Emmie Dal v. a daugh- 
ter of Stei)lien Daly of C'ohoctah Township, this 
<-ounty. Mr. and ^Irs. Miner were united in the 
lionds of matrimony .Mai-cli \K IKliVl. They have 
one child, a son. Fred L. I'Ik' social relations uf 
<iiu- suliject are lirnily laid in the niemhership with 
the Masons and as one of the .Vncient Ordei- of 
United AVorkmen. Politically, he inherit- a faith 
in the Democratic creed, ^[r. Miner is one <if the 
prominent men of the village. 



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/ AMES M. MONliOE. .V prominent citizen 
of Leroy Township. Ingham Cunnty, he 
whose name is at the head of this sketch has 
the interest of the community at heart, not 
only because he is an integral part of that commu- 
nity, but from a humanitarian and a sectional 
standpoint, taking i>ri(ie m everything th.at shall 
reddund to the honor of the jjeople with whom his 
lot is cast. He is the owner and resident upon sec- 
tion 11. Leroy Townshi]). and a native of l>iving- 
ston County, this State. l)eing there born Decem- 
lier 1. iS;i«. 

The original of our sketch is a son of Fr.-incis and 
Lnan.'i (Hicks) .Monroe. His paternal granilsire is 
said to liave licen a IJevoiutionary soldier. His 
parents emigrated to the Wolverine State and here 
settled in the early '3(ts. Their first home w;i- 
made in the de[)th of the woods where the\ were 
the first settlers in that region. Francis .Monroe, 
our subject's father still survives, making his home 
in the city of Howell. He is in his seventx -eiLrllth 



year, and has been the father of ten children, of 
whom .seven still survive. They are Henry ().. 
Francis. .Fames ^f.. Norton M.. (ieorge. William 
anit Lucinda. The last named is tlie wife of Ben- 
jamin Morgan. 

In early days ]'"rancis .Monroe ser\ed as Pre.si- 
dent of Livingston County Agricultural Society, 
and was one of the Hoard who first organized the 
Central Fair in Lansing. In his political liking a 
Hepublican, he was ever loyal to his party. The 
gentleman of whom we write was reared to man- 
hooil in his native State and county. He received 
the education common to the lads of his lime, 
which means that he alisorl)ed a practical amount 
of knowledge regarding the three r's. Since that 
time his l)roader ex))erienee has added to his self 
culture to a great degree, and for a short time he 
attended school at Howell. It was a .select institu- 
tion of learning. 

Our subject enlisted in the war of the Rebellion 
three times. The third time he joined Company 
(1, Fifth Michigan Infantry, and with his regiment 
was assigned to duty ill the Arm\- of the Potomac. 
Ho fought in the siege of Yorktown and in the bat- 
tle of AVilliamsburg, where he received a bayonet 
wound above the knee cap on the left leg. He was 
:dso in the battle of Five Oaks, where he had three 
liullcts shot through his clothing. He was also in 
the battle of Peach Orchard and in that of Chan- 
tilly, liesides jiarticipating in the battle of ^lalvern 
Hill; he was also at Harrison's Landing, and was 
engaged in several minor skirmishes. In addition 
to his previous wounds he received a sunstroke at 
Harrison Landing, and confined to the hospital for 
a time, lieing finally discharged November 17, 1862, 
after which he returned to his native State. 

Mr. -Monroe was married on the 2d of July, 
1863. his bi'idc being Miss Elizabeth, a daughter 
of Edmund AUchm. of whom a sketch appears 
in anolhei' part of this Ai.nr.M. Three children 
aic the fruit of this union. They are: Elmer, 
who is niaiiieil and resides in Welicrville: Lottie; 
and Lulu, who is the wife of (Jeorge Leonard. Lot- 
tie is the wife of A Iplieus Townseud. Besides these 
children of thcii- own. they have also an ado])ted 
son. .Vrthur A., who is a child of t)ur suliject's 
liroilicr. (ieorac Monroe. The children are vounsj 



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men aud woincn of marked ability, and doubtless 
in a time of emergenc-y in which the country was 
threatened would be as ready as was their father to 
give the best they had for its safety. 

The original of our sketch is the owner of a good 
farm comprising one hundred and twenty acres of 
land. Tliis is well tilled and improved, bearing a 
[ileasant home and well-stocked barns and granaries 
with places for stock. Socially Mr. Monroe is popu- 
lar and well liked, being genial and having at his 
command a fund of bright and interesting inci- 
dents to point a moral and adorn a tale. He of 
whom we write is a self-made man, and is emi- 
nently the architect of his own fortune. A Repub- 
lican in his political belief, our subject believes 
fully in the future success as in the pi-osperity of 
the Government reigning under his party. For a 
number of years past he has been School Director, 
and has also served as School Assessor. His war 
experiences are kept bright, and his interest in his 
comrades undiminished by his membership with the 
Grand Army of the Republic. In his religious 
relations our subject and his estimable wife are 
members of the Baptist Church at Weberville. 
To him belongs the credit of having estab- 
lished the lirst Sunday-school in that church 
and he has for a long time served as its Su- 
perintendent. He has also been one of the chief 
promoters of the interest in the church. Our sub- 
ject's record is that of a good, loyal aud honor- 
able man, and one who cannot fail to be well pleas- 
ing in the sight of (iod and man. 



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ARTIN VAN BUREN is a worthy descend- 
ant of one of oiu- illustrious earl3- presi- 
dents. When death arrested the pulse of 
him whose name is at the head of this 
sketch, society lost one of its most genial and 
whole-souled members, the agricultural calling one 
of its most enlightened and advanced workers and 
his home the spirit that uplifted, encouraged and 
advanced the interest of his family. That ho was 
highh' regarded is attested by the honors paid at 



the last sad rites, when fnmi far and near his 
friends and acquaintances gathered to p.ay the last 
tribute of respect and to recount in tender woi-ds 
the many kind and gracious acts that made his lift' 
a tale not read in vain. 

Mr. Van Buren was born Aiuil 7. I.s2ti. in (■eii- 
esee County, N. Y. He came to Michigan in IMyo 
and settled in Handy Township, where he was the 
proprietor of one hundred and fifty .acres of fine 
land on section 22. He made many improvements 
upon the place, feeling that the perfection of each 
little personal domain led to the improvement and 
beautification of the whole. He took an active 
interest in all that pertained to the growth and 
prosperity of the county, not selfishly l)ut 
lo\-ally and humanely. He was an active worker 
in the Baptist Church, of which he had been a 
Trustee for some years. 

Mr. Van Buren 's parents were Rudolphus and 
Hannah (Brott) Van Buren. natives of New Jersey, 
who after their marriage settled in New York. 
Their son Martin, after reaching manhood was 
joined in the matrimonial relation to Jliss Sarah 
O. Dunn, the daugiiter of Daniel and Christina 
(Gardner) Dunn, natives of Maine. The former 
was engaged in the lumbering business in his 
younger days and came to Michigan in 18.55, set- 
tling in Handy Township. Here he engaged in 
farming, following this calling until his death, 
which occurred in November, 1877. Tlie mother 
still survives and makes her home with her son, 
.Joshua Dunn. She has reached patriarchal years 
and is venerated by all who know her. Eighty- 
seven years of age, she represents both generations 
now living. She is the mother of four children — 
.Toshua, Mrs. Van Buren, !Mellen, of Fowlerville; 
and Elijah. Our subject has had two cliildren — 
Ida, now Mrs. D. A. French, resides in Chicago, 
111.; George M. still makes his home under his 
father's roof. 

The widow of our subject is deeply interested in 
church work, being associated with the Baptist 
denomination. She was formerly a member of the 
Christian Temperance Cnion .and is now a teacher 
of the ]5ible class, her pupils being the older mem- 
bers of the church. For the last four years 
she has been a Deaconess in the Baptist Church. 



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A Indy i>t' large intelloi-tuality and ilif liisflicst 
iiiuial and spiritual aspirations, she is lnvcd and 
rc'specti'd liy all. llcr lioiiic is the aliddi' nf icn- 
(lenicss, !^entleiie.ss anti nu-icy to tlic iinfnitiinati' 
and tried little ones of the Master. Martin Van 
\an Biiren was in polities a Democrat. His de- 
rease oeenrred Septenilier 21. IMM'i. 



U.VNK PAKKEH. Death chose a shininu 
mark in takinsr tor its target he whose 
name is above, antl one which is a syn- 
on\Mi in the neighborhood in which lie lor so 
nianv years lived for all that is iienial. enterprismu 
and inooressive. The regards that were shown hiin 
.•It intei'nient prove how greatly his loss was felt in 
the i-oiiimunity. llost.s of friends followed him to 
his last resting place, and many were the kindly 
words spoken of his p.asl life and incidents retold 
that redound to his credit and honor, lie left a 
wiclow who still lives on the farm on section il. of 
Howell Township. Livingston County. There .she 
conducts most successfully the agricultur:d work 
that her husband liegan. 

yiv. Frank Parker was boiii in llaniburg. .Mich., t 
in inr)2. and was reared a farmei- lio\. He attended 
school in the city of Howell, i-emaining at home ; 
with his parents until he was lifleen years of 
age. His parent-s were Eilward and .Martha (Holt) 1 
Parker, natives of the Eastern States. I'liev were 
early settlers in Oceol.a Township, where they I 
are now living, owning one of the finest farms I 
in the township. They Inne a f.aniily of live chil- j 
dren. our subject being second in order of birlli. 

On leaving home the original of this sketch I 
worked out on farms, continuing to be thus eni- 
pk)yed until his marriage to Miss Maria Uiddle of 
Oceola Township. Then he rented a place which 
he worked on shares for one year, after which he 
purchased the farm now owned by his widow. It 
comprises forty-two acres and is. considering its 
size, one of the most productive tracts in the vicin- 
ity. They moved upon the place in 1875, and 
contiinu'd to farm until ISSt. when he went to 



work for his father-in-law in Oceola Township. 
Tliey had been there only three months and three 
days when the tcirililc talamity that caused his 
death occin-red. lb' vvas out in the field plowing 
on the •itth of .lunc \xx\. when .a terrific shower 
and thunder stoini r.imc up. He took his team 
from the plow .and went to the edge of the woods 
and while standing under a tree was struck by 
lightning and abnost instantly killed. 

In liis ideas of (iovernmental i-ight and justice. 
Mr. Parker was a follower of the Republican party- 
He was :i most worthy man and is greatly mi;*sed 
h\ his bereaved family. .Mr. Parker's widow lived 
prior to her marriage in Osceola Township, where 
she was born .Vpril 11. l«.j;?. Sin- was a daughter 
of Andiew and Margaret (Stuart) Riddle, both 
natives of Scotland, where they were also married. 
Her father was by trade a l)lacksmith and was en- 
gaged in work at his tr:idc in his native land be- 
fore coming to .Vnierica. Mr. Riddle's father had 
preceded him to this country having settled some 
time before his coming hither in Oceola Township 
and being among the very early settlers there. He 
afterward sent for his wife and two children, they 
making the journey acro.ss the Atlantic alone. 
That was in the d.ay of .sailing vessels .and the voy- 
age was a very long and tedious one, but they 
linally reached this county .safe and well. An- 
drew Riddle Sr. remained in this county until his 
death and was regarded as one of the prominent 
men of his day. He had a large family who at- 
tained honorable positions in life, .\ndrew Riddle, 
.Ir. is still living in Oceola Townshi]) and is the 
proprietor of a large farm, lie has there a black- 
smith shop and cairied on bl.acksniithing and farm- 
ing together until too old to have so great care 
and responsibility. He is now retired from .'ictive 
labor and at the age of seventy-six is comfortably 
situated. 

Mrs. Parker and her brother William are the 
only children of her father's family who are now 
living. The hitter is a fanner in Oceola Township. 
After lierhusb.ind's death Mrs. Parker returned to 
hei- home in Howell Township where she conducts 
her farm of forty-two acres and is engaged in 
raising horses, cattle, sheep and hogs. She has a 
familv of four chililren whose names are as follows: 



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Andrew. Jessie M., Charles 8. and Claude B. The 
oldest son is a stationary engineer by profession, 
havins;' run the same engine for the last three 
years; Jessie M., is now clerking for William Mc 
Plierson iV Sons of Howell; Charles S. and Claude 
B. are tlieir mother's assistants in caring for the 
farm. Mrs. Parker grows fruits, in which she is 
very successful — peaches, pears, plums and small 
fruits. She is an active, enterprising womai: and 
highly respected liy all who know her. 




ANLY H. SHERMAN was born January 
6, 1843, at Mt. Morris, Livingston County, 
l-i; N. Y. His father, Josiah Sherman, was a 
native of the same State, born in the year 
of 1800, and was a weaver bj' trade. The mother, 
who is of German descent, was born in New Jer- 
sey during the same year and bore the maiden 
name of Ruth Carr. The ancestors came from 
England originally, and were three brothers — 
John, James .and Morgan, and from these, who 
came over during the Revolutionary War, all the 
Shermans in the I'nited States Iiave sprung. 

Manly H. Sherman was but six years old when 
he came with his parents to Ingham County, 
Mich., where the father carried on weaving for the 
first two years and then sold his little home and 
bought thirty acres of land in Wheatfield Town- 
ship, where they resided for seventeen years. 
Manly H., who was the youngest in the family of 
eleven, remained at iiome until he reached the age 
of twenty-three, and until he was seventeen j'ears 
old he attended the district school. 

Being converted to Christianity at an early age, 
and aspiring to the ministry, our suliject became 
dissatisfied with his education and attended the 
High School at Owosso for five terms, and then 
took one term at Ypsilanti High School, prejjaring 
himself for college. Owing to overwoik and ex- 
posxue and consequent ill-health, the young man 
finally gave up the prosjiect of a collegiate course. 
Durinu the wai' his brotlier Josiah entered tlie 



army as a member of the Third Michigan Infantry. 
He died at Chattanooga, March 23, 1865, and 
willed to our subject his small estate, with which 
he purchiiscd eighty acres of land from his father. 

In the fall of 1866 our subject was united in 
marriage with Elthea Russell, of Ypsilanti. daugh- 
ter of Jonathan Russell, a farmer. He was still 
determined to have a more thorough education, 
and entering Mayhew's College, at Albion, took a 
business course. He sold the farm in order to edu- 
cate him.self and carry his family expenses, and he 
then went to work upon a farm. 

The second marriage of Mr. Sherman took place 
June 22, 1870, the bride being Helen Burdick. 
of Meridian Township, daughter of Roliert Bur- 
dick. One daughter is the result of this marriage, 
Helen B., who was born in 1876, and is at home 
with her parents, where she is still pursuing iier 
literary and musical education. 

Notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Sherman was 
disappointed in Ins educational plans, he finally 
joined the Michigan Conference and for some 
time devoted himself to the ministry of the (Gos- 
pel. Twenty-two years ago he removed to Oke- 
mus and for one year carried on a drug store. 
Selling that out, he went to Jack.son, where he en- 
gaged ill the undertaking business, contracting a 
debt of about $4,000. He gradually gained in 
popularity until he had a large share of the under- 
taking business in tliat city, and in two .and one- 
half j^ears he cleared over $2,000. He then bought 
out the drug Inisiness of G. A. Hurd. of Okemus. 
and carried it on for one year. 

The next enterprise of Mr. Sherman was in the 
line of farming, in which he was unfortunate, and 
he then returned to Jackson and was there engaged 
in service for others, and finally went into the 
drug and grocery business at Okemus. After a 
fire, which destroyed his store and stock, he relniilt 
and is now prosperous in his business and is 
running a drug store and grocery. He was a 
resident of Wheatfield before the plank road was 
established and has been a member of the Metho- 
dist Ejiiscopal Church since he w.as seventeen years 
old. aixl in this religious home his wife is also an 
active memlier. He lielongs to Lodge No. 17. 
F. <V A. M.. at .lackson. Lodge No. 229. 1. O. 



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O. F., at Okemos, to the Ancient Order of United 

Worknicii. at I^aiisinjj:, to the Good Templai^ and 
to the Ivniiihts of I-alior and is a firaiiiicr. Ik' is 
aljio con iiCfted with the Farniei's' Alliance and is a 
patiiotie man. lieiug deeply interested in Auieri- 
cJin prosiieritv. 

All thr(>Hs>:h his early years Mr. Sherman was a 
Republican, and for a time was attached to the 
Prohihition party, but has now returned to his 
former connection. His mother died in 11S«(I, at 
Wheatfield, and his father passed away in 1882. 
They had eleven children, of whom two died in 
infancy' and tliree were called hence after reach- 
ing maturity. 



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'l^-^ & A. HUDSON. It is not now an unusual 
thing to find ladies launching into business 
for themselves and making a striking suc- 
cess in their chosen calling. The two ladies 
wlio are the proprietors of the Hudson IIc)use in 
the city of Lansing could not well fail, however, 
to elicit the smile of Fortunatus. for so clever are 
they and so ple.asing in manner as to make their 
])lace an attractive and homelike resort for gentle- 
men and ladies. The firm is eonipo.sed of two 
sisters. Mrs. Ilattie (IIud.«on) Bowie and .Miss Allie 
Hudson. 

The Ladies are of English ijarentage, their falliei-. 
.Martin Hudson, lieing a native of Berkshire, Eng- 
land, and there born May 4. 1819. He was reared 
in his native land until a child of ten or twelve 
yeais and then with his parents came to America. 
They located in Rogersville. Ohio, on a farm. 
where the young man was reared, but as soon as 
he had a voice in his own affairs he began service 
as a bell boy in the old American House in Cleve- 
land, gradually working up in the business and 
finally .set out for himself as the proprictt)r of a 
hotel in Huron, Ohio. Later he removed to Milan. 
Ohio, where he remained in the hotel business until 
lie came to Lansing in 18.i9. He brought his 
family hither by stage from .Jackson. He had 
been here . previously and had leased the old Lan- 



sing House, which he ran until it was burned. He 
then became the proprietor of the old Benton 
House, now kiKiwn as the Everett House. This 
he continued for about two years and then took 
charge of the old Eagle House, which he later pur- 
chased, changing its name to the American House. 
When the new Lansing House, now called Hotel 
Downey, was completed Mr. Hudson furnished the 
place and opened it, giving a grand house-warming 
as the inaugural affair. He conducted it foi- about 
eleven j'ears, from 1864 to 1875, and then sold his 
interest in it to N. G. Isabelle. Later he built the 
Hudson House on the site of the old American 
House. This building is a fine, large, substantial 
edifice, well furnished and conducted by him until 
his death, which occurred March 1,5, 1889. He 
; was at the time sixty-nine years of age. He was 
of a genial, whole-souled nature and greatly liked 
by all who came in contjiet with him. In his 
))0litical liking he was a strong Republican and of 
coui'se in his position the weight of his influence 
w.<is not small. He was the ^'ice-President of the 
^lichigan Ilotelmen's Association and for many 
years w.as one of its most prominent meinl)er.s. He 
took an active stand in the workings of the Inde- 
pendent Order of Odd Fellow's and was a represent- 
ative to the (J rand Lodge almost every year. 
For one term he filled the position of Alderman 
frc>m the Third Ward, but resigned the place at 
the end of the .••eeond year. The last two months 
of his life he spent at Harper's Hospital at Detroit 
and there died. Although he was not connected 
with any rcligiovis body his inclination was strongly 
toward the Ki)isco]):dians. 

The mother of our subjects was. previous to her 
marri.age, ^liss Klizal)eth Crask, an English lady, 
who was born in the town of J^ynn. She came to 
.Vinerica with her motlier when but eleven years 
of age and was married at Florence. Ohio. Decem- 
ber (1. 184:i. She died September "iS. 1887, at the 
age of sixt\-lliree years. .She was a member of 
the Episcopal Church and a devoted Christian 
woman with high ideals of right and honor. .She 
was the mother of five children, whose names are 
as follows: E. Herbert, Winthrop, Lester, Hattie H. 
and Allie L. The eldest son enlisted in Comijany 
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three years in the Civil War. He is now a resident 

(it Cliicaud. Wiiithnip died in IMT;') in Lansino. 
Lestei- is m hiisines.s in l^ansint;. 

llattie and Allie were l)olli born in Lansing imd 
were lien- reared and educated. After tlieir father's 
death they lieeanie tlic po.ssessors of the Hudson 
House and have sinee heen its proprietors, and 
nuests wlio come liere suffer no diniimitioii of care 
and attention from times past. It is run in tlrst- 
elass style and is a pojnilar resort for the best peo- 
ple of the place and of those who are sojourninu 
here for a sliort time. .Mi.ss Hattie was married 
.Vuicust M. l)i«',». to Harry A. Bowie, n native of 
Portland. Me. iU- came to Lansino- a young man 
and now has chartie of the Hudson in company 
with his wife and sister-in-law. The subjects of 
this sketch are l)oth regular attendants of the Epis- 
copal Church and if ladies could have politics 
theirs would be I{e|)ublican. 

The attention of tlic leader is invited to the 
lithographic portrait of the late .Mr. Hudson, 
found in connection with this .sketcli. 




,>/IJ>LIAM 15. I:A(;ER. Prominent in agri- 
cultural and church circles is lie wliose 
name we have Just given, whose splendid 
farm is to be found on section 7. in Oceola. his na- 
tive townshi|). Here he was born Xovember (i. 
imS). and his father, .lacob .NL Eager, was a native 
of Orange County. X. V.. where he had liis earl\' 
training and education. Tlience he came to Oce- 
ola Township. i>i\'ingston Count\. in 1847. locat- 
ing where his son William now lives. Here lie 
took up from the Coverument one hundred and 
twenty acres of wild land and proceeded to chop 
logs with which to build a home. After impro\- 
ing this place he iemo\'ed to Millington and there 
engaged in the milling business, but after six years 
renuived iu Howell, where he now resides. He is 
an earnest Republican in his ijtilitical views and 
most wisely and judiciously has tilled the ottice of 
.lustice of the Peace foi' man\ vears. He is an 



active and eflieient member of the Presbyterian 
Chuich and helijed to build the tirst clniich that 
was evci- erected in Howell. 

The grandfather of our suliject also bore the 
name of W. B. Eager, and came to Michigan from 
( )range County. X. Y.. during the .same year in 
which his son, .Jacob, icmoved hither. He also 
took up land here although he retiu-ned to New 
York fi)r a while, but came back to this State and 
heres]>ent the remainder of his years, dying at a 
good old age. The maiden name of the grand- 
mother of our subject was Moore, and his moth- 
er's maiden name was Emily Comfort, was also 
born in Orange County. X. Y.. and is still re- 
maining in life to be the comfort and insi)iration 
of her children. Of her four sons and one 
ilaughter all aie living, except one that died in in- 
fancy. 

The original of this >kctcli was reared in his na- 
ti\c home and remained under the parental ro(»f 
until he leached the age of twenty-five years, 
when lie was united in marriage, October 14, 1874, 
to Laura ^Valker. the wedding taking place at the 
home of the bride's father, Mr. Robert AValker. of 
whom our readers will be pleased to know more, 
and they will tiiid a tirief sketch of him on another 
l)age of this bocik. This ladv is a native of Oceohi 
Township, and had her birth in 18;').0. The young 
i-oupic nMiiaincd with Mr. Eager's parents for ime 
year after marriage, and then built for themselves 
a luvme on .section H, Oeeola Townshi)). and there 
carrietl on general farming for eight years, after 
which they removed to the old homestead where 
they now reside. 

Four manly sons have been granted to this cou- 
ple and to them they have given the following' 
names: Lyman, lioliert, James L. and Arthur P. 
One hviiidrcil and twenty acres of Mr. Eager's 
farm is situated on section 7, and one hundred and 
thirty-three acres on section 8. and all is under 
culti\ati(>ii with the exi-elition of sixty-tive acres 
whic'h remain in timlier. Foi- eleven years he has 
been operating a threshing machine, and he bought 
a new steam thresher this fall. He keeps >ome ver\' 
fine cattle and now has three head of thorough- 
bred Holsteins and keeps from one hundred and 
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year round. He also has five roadsters and draft 
horses, and everything about his farm is in excel- 
lent condition. 

Tlic Kepuljliean party is tlie ixjitical t)riraniza- 
tioTi witli which Mr. Eager finds himself in har- 
mony. He was Township Clerk in 1889 and 1890 
for seven years was a scliool direcfoi'. lie is a 
member of the Knights of tiie Maccabees and has 
hold offices in that body. Both he and Mrs. Eager 
are nienibers of the Presbyterian Church and take 
an active part in its work. 



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IN.IAMIN slloW I:HM.\N. XcwYurkhas 
>ciit many of her sons as pionciTs to Mich- 
igan anil almost invariably lliev have 
proveil ij'oud citizens, to wIkhii the ilcvclop- 
ment of the country owes unspeakalily much. He 
wliose name is at the head of tiiis skctcii is one of 
the manv who came hitlier at an early day and 
liave Ijcen instrumental in the general ui)building 
and perfecting of the State, lie now resides on 
section 15, Wheatland Townshii), Ingham Couuty. 
where he has a plea.sant home that promises to be 
a haven of rest and i)eace to his declining years. 

He of whom we write is a son of AVilliam Shower- 
man, a native of Columbia County, N. Y. He was 
there married to Gertrude ilorrison, a daughter of 
Conrad Morrison, a native of the same county. 
To the elder Mr. Showerman and his wife were born 
five sons and two daughters that enjoyed ordinary 
educational advantages. They remained in New 
York until the death of the father, who throughout 
life was engaged as a farmer. He was a member 
of the militia in the Empire State and was ready 
to be called upon in time of need. 

Our subject, Benjamin Showerman, was born 
April ,'). 1824, in Columbia County, N. Y'. He was 
butfive jears of age when liis parent* removed to 
Wayne County, and there he grew to manhood. 
His experience was much the same as that of other 
j-oung men of his day and age. On reaching 
manhood he was married to Mi.ss .lane E. Sliuk, 
a native of Greene Countv. N. \'.. their mar- 



riage ceremonj- being performed April 28, 1848, in 
Wayne County*, N. Y. Nine children have come 
to these fond parents, their names being Mary E.. 
Melvin B., Catiierine (t., John W., Louisa, Ed- 
ward .\. and .lennie. The two latter are deceased. 

In 1861, when the future of Michigan was estab- 
lished and sure to be a success, our subject came to 
the State and located in Wheaton Township, Ing- 
ham County, .securing eighty acres of land upon 
which he began here as a farmer. He is now the 
owner of one hundred and twenty acres. All of 
this he has cleared iind broken, now having one 
hundred and ten acres under a high state of culti- 
vation. A good orchard has been set out that now 
yields an .abundant crop of the most luscious and 
tempting fruit. A comfortable and tasteful dwell- 
ing has been erected, also good barns and out- 
houses, most of this work having been done liy his 
own individual efforts. 

Politically, Mr. Showerman is a belie\'er in the 
principles of Deniociacy, and all the tenets of that 
platform have to him a leason and a right for 
being. In the s])ring of 18'.)1 he was elected .lus- 
tice of the Peace and has officiated in that capacit\ 
thus far most satisfactoril\-. .\ genial and pleas- 
ant tempered man, our subject is popular with all 
who know him. 










•!? ILBERT ,1. DANIELS. There is probably 
no man more truly and justl^^ respected 
and beloved by the community in general 
in Unadilla Townshii), Livingston County, than he 
whose name we have just given. He has ever 
stood for the right in every line of thought and 
has maintained a sturdy Christian character 
throughout his whole career. His kindly interest 
in his neighborhood has deservedly gained the good 
will of all, and his upright dealings have com- 
manded their respect. 

Gilbert Daniels. Sr., the father of our subject. 
was born March 22, 1797, in Montgomery County, 
N. Y'., and was a sou of James Daniels, a soldier in 



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iIr- Re\()lutiuii;ii'\ Wiir. His g'ood wife, Margaret 
(l)iitelior) Daniels, wn.* mIso n iintivf of Monttjuin- 
I'l'v County, and was lioni A|)rii 2. iH^H). Afti'r 
niaiiiajje they removed to Orleans ( Ounty. where 
they I'esided until lH;i4.\vhen they eanie to Mielii- 
i;an. and settled U|>on fort\' aeres of wild land in 
I'nadilla Townshi]). Ilei'ethf fathei- <jt' our suli- 
ject (.-reeted a loji' shanty, wliieh he eovered with 
hark, and until they discovi-red the splendid livinsi' 
spring which i> now well-known they drank from 
the creek. They (•.•une here liefore the organiza- 
tion of the eounty. and there were then only six 
families of white> within what i> now the limits 
of the township, hut lndiau> ali(_)undeil all ahout 
llieni. 

S(_)nie\vhat later a hettei' hou.--e was liuilt upon 
the farm, and there these |)arents lived for a nuin- 
liei' of years, after whieli our subject Iniilt a coz\' 
home for them on his farm, where the mother died 
March 30, 18(i!», and the father passed from earth 
February 17, 187.'). 'I'he mother was a member of 
the Protestant Methodist t'hiirch at Plainfield. and 
tiiey had but one child, oui- subject. He was born 
October 12, 1823. in Montgomery County. X. V.. 
and was eleven years of age, when he came to 
Michigan. Here he attended a school taught liv 
Cornelia Williams, now deceased. His father had 
twenty shillings in money, a cow and a hog. as his 
personal wealth when he came to this new home. 
The son remained beneath the parental roof 
until he leached the age of twenty-seven years. 

The happy wedding day of (iilbert .1. Daniels 
was December 1;"). l.s,')li. and he then took to wife 
Chloe M. Beale. a daughlei- of lunery and Sophro- 
lua (I{ice) Beale, lioth New Yorkers who came to 
Michigan among the lirst settlers and made tlieir 
home in lima Townshij). Washtenaw Connt\-. In 
1835 tliey came to tins township and made theii- 
home in Plainfield for the remainder of their 
days. The father and mother of Mrs. Daniels 
had eleven children, three only of whom are 
now living, and after her mother's death her 
father was united in mairiage with Mrs. Topping', 
who brought him no children. Eugene Beale. the 
brother of Mi's. Daniels, is now the Postmaster at 
Ann Arbor. 

The wife of our subject was born September 12. 



1832, in New York, and was so well iirepared by 
her attendance ujjon publie school as to lie able to 
teach after coming to Michigan. After marriage 
they settled u|)ou theii- farm on section 21. I'nadilla 
Township, and in time added to the first eighty 
acres until llu^y had one hundred and fifty-one 
acres, and eighty acres more came to their- share 
after the death of the father. I'pon tliis fai'm 
they lived from l«.')(l until 1888. and they then 
retired from active work and made their home in 
(Tregory, where .Mr. Daniels now resides, as he lost 
his faithful wife in .lanuary. 189(i. 

Of the eight children granted to him and his 
companion, six .still survive: Fred \.. who inar- 
lied Ella Wood: ^lary Ella, who is the wife of 
Fitch Montague: Fiiinia .1... who resides upon the 
homestead; Xettie ( .. who lives in California; 
(reorge B. deceased; (Gilbert E.. who lives upon 
the liomestead; Josephine, living on the farm; (i. 
.Vdol|)hus. deceased. To all of these children Mr. 
Daniels has afforded excellent opportunities for 
education. Oeorge was a graduate of Ann Arhoi- 
High School, and also took a course in pharmacy 
at the State Iniversity. Xettie is a graduate 
<if the High School and of the .State Uni- 
versity, and is now filling a responsible jiosition 
as teacher at a salary of 41,2i')0 per annum. 

The father of these young peojjle was in his 
early years a member of the Protestant .Methodist 
Church, and was instrumental in erecting the 
house of worslii)) at Plainfield. giving ¥4(i(i toward 
the building fund. He had it removed to its 
present position, and sustained it there for several 
years, and while in connection with that denomi- 
nation he was Class-Leader and delegate many 
times to the aiiiiual conference. He was a delegate 
at .Springfield. ()liio. when the conference was 
sjilit upon the shnciy (piestion. IK' is now 
connccteil \vitli the I'resliylerian Church at 
Plainfield. ami has been -a leader of a Bible cla.ss 
for years. 

This gentleman is thoroughly interested in edu- 
cati(nial eft'tirts. and has been a member of t.lie 
School Board. He has been identified with both 
the .Sons of Temperance and the (Jood Tein])lars. 
and in the latter society he filled responsible posi- 
tions. In his earlv maubood he was a Democrat, 



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lull (111 MccDuiit of thesliu iTN i|iiestion left tiic p.-iity 
for tlic l{i'|)lllilic;ili iMiilo. Miiil nun r('i'l> lli;il llii- 
givat iiiUTCst cciiU'ls ill :i iiiovi'iiieiil .Miiuiiisl tin- 
saloons, and is n proiioiini-ed l'roliil)itioiii>t. 



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OlIN W . \\i;i<iirr li:i~ lici'U M pioneer in lii> 
lirancli of l>iisiiH's> in Howell, Liviiiiiston 
Coiinty. lie is a inanufacliiiei' of sash, dours 
and lilinds. besides doiiiii planinii. His 
place of liusiness is located east of tlie Detroit, 
l/ansiiiir iV- Xoitheiii Railroad. He estalilislied 
this business in IHOI) and it wa.- the first of the 
kind in the place. He has not been withoiil <lis- 
courageinents. for in liS71 he was bnrnt out aii<l 
the cineralion cost him some «2(i.(ii)ii. I'ndaunted 
by this loss he set about erecting a new place of 
business, and stocked it with the finest niacliineiv. 
The present shop owned liy Mr. Wriirlil lia> n 
frontage of sixty feet and is ninety feel in depth. 
The ste.'ini engine which is tlie motive power run- 
ning his machinery, has a t wenty-tive-lKir.se power. 
If a workman is known by hi^ <-liips. one iiiust con- 
clude that our subject does a \erv extensi\-e bu.-i- 
ne.ss, and iiidee<l he keeps a large number of hands 
employed and turii> out the best quality of work. 
He of whom we write wa> born in ()iiondaga 
Cotinty. N. Y.. November i:i. I.s^d. His p.-irents 
wen' .lamo and ( vnthia (Clnik) Wright, natives 
of Connecticut. 'I"he former w,'i> .1 builder :iiid 
added to his work ;is a fanner lliat of a contractor. 
In the early d.-iys lie eaiiie to Michigan settling 
here ill IHHli. at which time llie WdUfiiiie .State 
|)laiiily showed tlie source from which il> iiseiido- 
nyin was derived, for wol\e> prowled tlirongh the 
forest.s. making the environs of the settlements hid- 
eous in tho night-time with Iheir barks and crii'>. 
He .settled* in lo.sco rown>liip. l-iving>ton (oiintv. 
anil there engaged in farming. He lived lo reach 
tlie good fild age of fourscore anrl four years. His 
wife ()assed away in 18,5li. I'rioi to lii.~ death he 
had acquired a fine farm. conii)iising four liundred 
and forty acresof land ;ind was con.-iidered one of 
the well-to-do farnier- of ihi- countv. His father 



.'iml oiir -iibject's grandfather was W'illi.Miii \\'righl. 
He located at an early day in Dutches'^ Countj', N. 
^'.. and was there engaged in farming. His grand- 
fatlier was one of three brothers who came from 
Kngland in llie sexcnteenth century and settled in 
M.assachiisetts. Our subject's grandfather. William, 
was a Major in the Revolutionary War and dur- 
ing his service he was taken prisoner b\- the IJiif- 
ish troops and held torn long time on board the 
.lersey prison ship, -htmes Wright, oiir subject's 
father, was honored liy llie confidence and respect 
of the people where\'er he went. He was for some 
time in [osco Township .lu.-tice of tlie I'eacc and 
( 'oiiiiiiissioner. I le moved lo Howell in IS"-'!. ( )f 
the family of nine sons and three daughters, eight 
children are now^ living — William. Is.aac. Waller, 
.loliii W.. Klislia ('., Thomas." Leonard and Philip. 
The original of our sketch was reared asa fanner 
bo\ and although the secrets of scientific and prac- 
tical ai>riculliir;il life were earh' inculcated in his 
young mind, lie received a good education and 
lieing n:iliir;iiiy a bright young man. assimilated 
.•ill that came wilhiii the scope of his .acquirements. 
.Vfler (inishiiig .•school he tauglit for three terms in 
Livingston ('ount\' and then turned his attention 
to farming on .-in extensive .scale, the tract whicli 
he cultivated being located in Iosco Township. 
There he farmed eight liundred and forty acres 
and was thus engaged for eighteen years. 

( )iie of the most fertile tracts in the loiiiity — 
.Mr. Wright's farm — was well suited foj' most ex- 
tensive and prolilic cultivation. He had erected a 
line lionic thei'eon, which was comfortable and 
coin eiiiently arr.'ingefl. He made a specialil\ of 
line >tock. K\'en .-it that time he was engaged in 
; the lumber business, owning a .steam sawmill at a 
dist.'ince of ^ix miles from Howell. This mill he 
.•ilso lost Ivy lire, ent-jiilinga lo.s.s of *l,(lt>(i. He was 
in the lumber business for seven years ami was 
\ cry .-uceessful. 

While living in lo.-co Township he wa.- honored 
Ivy the election to every ottice in the gift of the 
township excepting that of Collector and Constable 
.nid :U the time he removed to Howell seven oflicos 
were made vacant by ]\\- departure. In IH.iU Jlr. 
^^'right was married to .Mis.- Caroline Disbroe. a 
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this union. They are by name, Helen, Lewis A., 
Hester, Seth, Frank, Fred and Erny B. 

rolitieallyhe of wliora we write affiliates with 
llie Democratic party, its free trade principles ap- 
pealing to his commercial interests. vSocially he is 
a member of the Masons and is alsp a Knight 
Templar. Mr. Wright lias a fine home, located on 
East Street. It is beautifully located and sur- 
rounded with shade trees. Interiorally it is fur- 
nished and decorated most beautifully and yet not 
too line for daily use. He is one of the prominent 
business men of the county and is conspicuous for 
his euerav and go-ahead-itiveness. 



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AMUEL A. TELLER. Prominent ainong 
^^' intelligent and prosperous stock-raisers 
[\\/j} and fai'mers, and well known throughout 
C'ohoetah Township, this county, is the 
gentleman whose name appears at tlie head of this 
sketch. His fine farm with its excellent improve- 
ments forms one of the most attractive features of 
Cohoctah Township. Mr. Teller was horn October 
22, 18.34, in Girard, Erie County, Pa. He is a son 
of Henry and Rosalinda (Porter) Teller and a grand- 
son of Henry Teller, who was born in Albany, N. 
y., prior to the Revolution. His ancestors came to 
this country from Scotland and the old gentleman 
himself was a merchant and a large landowner. 

]Mr. Teller's great-grandfather emigrated from 
Scfitland and here reared three sons, whose names 
were, Ucmsen, Henry and .lames, some of whom 
particip.ated in the Hevohitiiinary War under Wash- 
ington. Our suliject's grandfather served in the 
War (if 1812 as Captain of artillery and carried on 
a large mercantile business in New York City. He 
was very fond of horses and raised some of the 
finest breeds known at that day. He died in 
Schenectady, N. Y. He was a Universalist in re- 
ligion, which at that time was a new creed. Politic- 
ally lie was a Democrat, believing in the party in 
the original meaning of its name. He was the 
father of three sons — Henry, .lames and Remsen, 
and also of three daughters — Caroline, Rebecca and 



Maria, all of whom lived to have families of their 
own. Our subject's father was born in Albany, 
•January 1. 1802. He was a self-educated man and 
was reared a farmer. 

Henry Teller, at the age of eighteen, left home 
and engaged in teaching school in Allegany 
County, N. Y. About 1822 he removed to Girard, 
Erie County, Pa., where he purchased a farm of 
two hundred and forty-four acres, to which he 
added until, at the time of his death, which tic- 
curred May 4, 1888, he aggregated a property of 
five hundred acres. His son, Henr^y, is now the 
owner of the homestead. The father was active 
in politics. Originally a Democrat, the issues con- 
cerning Kansas caused him to change and he be- 
came an active and stanch Republican. He was 
an ardent Abolitionist and one of the original 
members of the Repulilican party. During the 
years of 1860-61 he served in the Legislature of 
Pennsylvania. He was an uncle of Senator Teller. 
In his jirivate life the senior Mr. Teller suffered 
much sadness. He was thrice married. His first 
wife bore seven children, of whom six grew to years 
of maturity. They are Isaac M., Jasper N., Samuel 
A., Henry R., John, Louisa and Mary, Isaac ser- 
ved in the War of the Rebellion and was engaged 
in the engineer corps. Henry fought under Sher- 
man and John was killed at Savage Station, Va., in 
1862. He was brevetted a First Lieutenant. The first 
Mrs. Teller died May 23, 1843. She was a devoted 
Christian and a firm believer in the Presbj'terian 
doctrines. The second wife was Jane Cross, who 
bore him one child, Margaret. Mrs. Jane Teller 
died in May, 1865. The third wife who still sur- 
vives, was before her marriage, a Miss Delia Pat- 
terson. 

Our subject's mother w.as born in Girard, Pa., 
and was a daughter of Joseph and Mary (Clark) 
Porter, who were natives of Eastern New York. 
The former was a miller by occupation. He and 
his wife both p.assed away in Girard,' Pa. They 
were adherents of the Presbyterian creed. The 
father was a Republican in his political belief. 
He is well-known as an uncle of Fitzjolin Porter. 

jVIr. Samuel A. Teller was lirought up on the 
home farm and received his education in the com- 
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lliuli ScImhiI ;it MMdisoii. Wi>. At the :i<ic i>( 
eiirlitoi'ii lie U-fl lionif .Miiil I'liiiaut'd ii> :i IcmcIum-. 
first at I'rsiiif dii ('liciii. In ]S.'iH he (•••uiic tn 

( '(lll()Ct;ih TdWllsllill Mllll 1( jc.-iIimI nil MH-tioll 1.'). 

lie boiniiit, the fdlliiwiiii; year, one liuiHii'cd and 
sixty acres on scctidii 22. :md tlicrc resided lor 
four ye.Mis. l'"r<iin Ili;il place lie iiiuvcd tosectiini 
•il.wln'rc he liDiiiiiil live hundred and sixty acres 
which he Iieut his effnrts toward cleariiiii and iiu- 
l>r<iviii<;. Ill \HXO lie came to the ))lace whereou 
he now resides, which is located on section 22. 
lie iiere owns oiu' hundred and forty-four acres of 
well-culti\aled and aralile land. 

For some years the oris>inal of our sketch has 
served as .Justice of the Peace and still li<ilds tli.at 
otllee. l'"oriiierly a l>e|iiililic!iii. he is now .'in ad- 
herent of the Democratic parly. The ifenlleniaii 
knows what it is to suffer lierea veiiient in the fam- 
ily. Ills Mist wife, to whom he was inarried .laii- 
uarv .'i. 1H.")7. and who was a dauuliter of .lames 
and Mary Wilkins. died May II.IXCH. She left 
one child, a son. W'illard I-',.: she was a memlier of 
the I'nited Hrethren Church. Decemher 21. 1h7(I. 
our suliject a^rain assiiincd the matrimonial relation, 
his liride lieinij' .Miss Kliza Bowers, who w;is liorn 
in Oneida County. N. Y.. in \H,',i). .She was a 
dauaht<r of .lohn and Mary (Cole) Rowers. l>v 
this marriaire live children li.ave come to liless the 
estate of their parents. Tiiey .are. , lohn A., Klla. 
Kdward I).. M«rv It. and Mabel K. 



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'IMOTUV W .U{M:K, who has lived in Hriyli- 
ton Township. Livingston County, since 
s^ 1837, is a native of Livinjxston County. 
N. Y.. and was horn in the township of l,:ivonia. 
September li). ISlll. Altlioni;li he has reached 
more than three-score years and ten usually allotted 
to man, he has lost none of his interest in life, llis 
father was I)ut^_ Warner, a native of Rhode Island, 
who emigrated to \ crniont and thence to New 
York. At an early da\ he inove<l his fainih to 
.Michisan. but returned to New York in a >liort 
time, where lu' >|ient the riniainiler of his life. 



Our Mibjccl w;is in hi,- nineteenth year when 
he c-.iine l<i this .State with his jiarents in 1837. 
His ni.-iuliuess liaviiii;' been early developed by 
the exiii'encies of the time, althouiih it was so 
wild here, his pjirenls left him behind on then- 
ret urn to New ^'ork and since that time he has 
here made liis residence. 

()ur subject beean his career by farmiiii;' land mi 
shares. There were but three settlers in this vicin- 
ity in I.s.'i7 and youiiii as he was. and inexperi- 
enced in organization. Mr. Warnei was called ujioii 
to as.sist in firganizing the township, and in givine 
its name. In tho.se earl\- days, things were a-s priin- 
iti\'e :is |)ossible and bad it not lieen for the hard 
labor rcquiicd in reducing the fields to a i>rodnc- 
tive >tate. one with artistic instincts could have 
re\-eled in the wildeine.ss of .sylvan beaiitw 

Although our subject was nevei- inueli (;f a hun- 
ter, he has frequently seen as many as tliirtv-.six 
deer in a dro\e that seemed to recognize in him a 
friend, so mildly did they turn upon liim their 
beautiful eyes. lie of whom we write has fre- 
ipiently exchanged beads foi- ^•enison with the 
Indians. He purchased his first land about l.sj."). 
It was located on section 27.. and wa.s entirely unim- 
proved, lie bent his energies and efforts toward 
bringing it to a cultivated stale, and has ever been 
a hard worker. 

1 11 1H47. Mr. Warner was united in marriage to 
.Miss Lucretia .Jones, who was a native of New Y<irk. 
Ii.avini; t-oiiie hither with her parents in an earl\ 
day. They are the parents of six children, whose 
names are as follows: Oeorge; Henry; .John, who 
is deceased; Loui.sa; Lottie, also dccea.sed. and .M- 
fred. The \()ung i)eoi)le wlio are still living, are 
intelligent and indu.strioiis, beingworthv lejircseii- 
tatives of that cla.ss of people who accomplish nuist 
in the world. They make a comfortable and plea- 
s.ant home, each memlier of the family doinghis oi- 
lier utmost to be ail inspiration to the best work 
and tliouiiht for those with whom tlie\ are a.ssoci- 
atcd. 

The original of our sketch was. previous to JH><). 
a Republican, and since that time has transferred 
his allegiance to the Democratic part\ feelinsr that 
ill its principles anil jilatform, there are more and 
better .idvantages for the .•igricultuial cla.ss than in 



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any other. The confidence and respect that the 
people of tlie coinmunity repose in him of whom 
we write is evidenced by the fact that lie has been 
appointed to several offices of importance in the 
gift of the township. For two years he was Town- 
ship Treasurer, and was elected Justice of the Peace, 
lie was a Road Commissioner for three years and 
during- the term of his otHce did efficient service in 
putting in a good condition tlie arteries that cai rv 
the wealth of the nation. Our subject is the owner 
of four hundred acres of land. He has been the 
proprietor of six hundred acres, but has disposed 
of all but his present holdings. At one time he 
owned a half interest in the old Woodruff grist- 
mill, which w.as built at an early day and which 
stands near where he now lives. Mr. Warner has 
been a successful farmer and indeed, were his labor 
and industry not thus rewarded, one would ques- 
tion justice and equity. It is said that we shall 
eat bread l>y the sweat of our brow, and there is 
nothing sadder than to see early labor and indus- 
try go for naught in the afternoon of life. He of 
whom we write is in a position to thoroughly en- 
joy the going down of the sun, and his niany 
friends wish for him that the sunset may be as 
broad, bright and enduring .as possible. He has 
been dividing his property among his children pre- 
paring for the end. 



•^ IVILLIAM S. TURNER. The part owner 
\jjj\l find proprietor of the excellent farm lo- 
Wm cated on section 29, AVilliamston Town- 
ship, Ingham County, is he whose name is at the 
head of this sketch. He is the son of Richard 
Tunier, wiiose father was Stiles Turner, a native 
of ^Massachusetts, who at an earl_y day removed to 
\e\v York and ill 1831 came to .lackson County, 
and settled on a lann where he passed the remain- 
der of his life. His wife, before her iiiarria<>e, was 
Deborah Morton and unto them were l)orn ten 
sons and three daughters. In early da,ys Stiles 
Tunier was a sailor but devoted the latter part 



of his life to farming. He died at the early age of 
forty years and his wife passed away aliout 1853. 
All that was mortal of him was laid to rest at 
Mt. Hope Cemetery as was also his wife who 
died in the city of Lansing. Mr. Turner was in 
Cuba at tlie time of the insurrection, when the ne- 
groes tried to overturn the Government. 

Oui- subject's father, Richard Turner, was born 
in New York, .January 11, 1814. He came to 
Jackson County, settling in Lima Center, wlieii a 
lad of seventeen years of age, being independent 
and supporting himself by working on a farm. 
He was married in that count3' in 1849 to Miss 
Euphemia Smith, a daughter of Jacob Smith, a na- 
tive of (iennany, who, after emigrating to Amer- 
ica, removed from New Jersey to New Y'ork and 
finally settled in Jackson County. Mich., later com- 
ing to Ingham County, where his decease took 
place. His wife was Elizabeth (Smith) Smith. 
They reared a large family. 

Our subject is one of eight children born to his 
parents; they are Florence E., Augustus, Libby, 
Frank N., William S., Ilattie, Kate E. and John 
il. Our subject's father came to Lansing when it 
was all woods, and at one time was lost in the for- 
est where the State Capitol now stands. In 1837 
he came to Ingham County, but soon returned to 
New York and there remained until 1842, when 
he returned to Ingham County and worked at his 
trade as a carpenter, assisting in efecting the first 
frame house ever built in Lansing. He was var- 
iously employed until his death, which took place 
April 8, 1888. His wife and family still reside at 
the homestead in Williamston where the father 
settled in 1806. He and his wife were ardent be- 
lievers in Prohibition principles. 

Our subject, William S. Turner, was liorn ^March 
7, 18.'')8, in L.ansing, and was engaged in school 
work and in assisting his father until twenty-one 
yeais of age when he took a trip to California and 
was gone two j'ears, after which he returned to 
Ingham County and has since been employed in 
cultivating the old homestead. He was married 
December 29, 1886, in Emniett County, Mich., to 
Arvilla Long, daughter of .Isbur}- T. Long, a na- 
tive of Ohio, who had removed from the Buckeye 
State when a vouni;: man. He was there married 






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to .Iniic Moore. ;i iliiUiiliU'i' of \\'illi;iiii Moore. ;uiil 
:i native of (>liio. To tliem were lioin four >oii> 
and fonr dauylilers. In 1870 he came to Mielii- 
gan, locating first at Lansing wliere lie resided for 
six years, wlien lie went to Kniniott ('ount\- where 
lie now resides at ITailior Sprintis. lie served 
through tiie late rebellion. 

Our subject and his wife are the parents of one 
child, a daughter, whose name is Hazel. Their 
home life is very pleasant, Mrs. Turner liaving a 
genius for making all aliout her comfortable and 
happ3-. Socially ^Mr. Turner is a Master Mason, 
belonging to Williamston Lodge, No. L'jS. He has 
held most of the offices in the Masonic lodge and 
is at present .Senior Deacon. Politically he is a 
Hepulilican, having the greatest faith in the future 
of that i)arty. 



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^p^ EOHGE L. CARTER. This prominent agri- 
ii ^= culturist residing on sections 28 and 21), 
\^5j AVliite Oak Township, Ingham County, has 
a handsome estate of four hundred and twenty 
acres of land in ."in excellent state of improvement. 
He has lived in this county for many years and 
has done much to build up its institution.s and to 
aid in its development. We are pleased to pre- 
sent to our readers his portrait and the following 
brief account of his life. 

Our subject was born in Genesee County, N. Y., 
in 1818, and in that vicinity received his education 
and was reared to manhood. Me came to this place 
before his marriage and when about thirty-three 
years of age. The bride whom he brought to his 
home was Abigail Harris and to her were born two 
children, namely: Ella A., who married Thomastlil- 
liam and <irant (!.. who took to wife Nettie Smilli. 
After the death of the mother of these children, 
which ocrurre(l May :). 1882, Mr. Carter was, in 
1887. united in marriage with .Mrs. ICmeline llicock. 
whose maiden name was Smith. 

The father of our subject, Harzilla Carter, was 
a native of the Wooden XiUineg State, as was also 
the mother whose maiden n.-imr \v:is Mmi\ Carre\. 



To tlirm were born eight chiblren. two daughters 
and six sons, ( ieorge being the youngest of tlu' 
family. Only two of this household are now sur- 
viving, .loseph T. married Olive Fuller, a native 
of Connecticut; ( indeiella married Ezra Clark, a 
native of Connecficut. .and is the mother of eight 
ehihlren; .Xorman !'... w]io was bf)rn in Connecticut 
marrie<l Mentha ISiaddish, who is the mother of two 
children; William H. was born in Connecticut and 
mari'ied Harriet Ilaiian, by whom he had five chil- 
dren; Lorenzo I), was born in Connecticut and 
married Lunia Beardsley; Ru.ssel A., who was born 
ill Xew York in 1811. married Rebecca l^uacken- 
bush for his (iist wife; Mary R.. who was born in 
.New York, married Henian Harris; our subject 
completes the family circle. 

George Lewis Carter has made a success of agri- 
culture. His broad acres yield him a handsome 
income and ujion his farm he raises many fine 
sjiecimens of stock, as ho makes stock-raising his 
main business and devotes himself especially to 
thorough-bred cattle, hogs and horses. He now 
lives near the old homestead where he first located; 
there was a log house and barn on the place when 
he settled there. At that time wild animals were 
abundant throughout this [lart of Michigan and he 
h.as seen m.any p.acks of wolves and herds of deer. 
Mr. Carter cast his first vote for William Henry 
Harrison and he has been from that day to this a 
consistent Republican. His wife is .an earnest and 
devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
in which she finds a broad (ield for .•ictivilx and 
usefulness. 



[^ OX. ALOXZO T. I'UISBEE. Among the 
native sons of tlie Woherine State, we can 
point to few whose I'croiil is more honor- 
able and more bright tlntn that of him 
whose name we here present. His private life is 
unexceptional and hi> public life is marked witii 
more than ordinary success, for of the nineteen 
times when his name has been before the jieople for 
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although on many ocrasions liis party was in the 
miiioiity. His lionie is in dihoftah Township, 
]>ivingston County, and his liirtli was in Howell, 
October 12. \HiO. His parents Ezra and Lneinda 
(Tliompstm ) Frisl)ee. were natives of Montu:omer\' 
and Herkimer Counties. X. Y.. respectively. 

Roswell Frisl)ee, the grandfather of our subject, 
was of Welsh origin, and a farmer in Canaan. Col- 
umbia County, N. Y.. wlu> served in the AYar of 
\x\2. His good wife I'lm-he Dorr, who bore to 
liim six children, was of English descent. Their 
cliildren were .Su.saii, Edward. Ezra. .Indith. Alex- 
ander and PlKL'be. He entered the regular army 
of the I'nited States, and died in Florida during 
the Seminole AYai\ 

The father of our subjeit was boiii August 1). 
1H12. in Canaan. Columbia County, X. Y'.. and 
passed his boyhood upon a farm; after be reached 
the age of seven years he went to live with an 
uncle, with whom he cc)ntinued until he attained 
his majority. He settleil on three hundred and 
twenty acres of land near w iiere Howell now stands. 
and nineteen years later removed to Cohoctah 
Township, which has .since been liis home. In his 
earlier years his political atliliations were with the 
^Vhig party, and later he became a Republican and 
a (ireenbacker. while his I'eligions convictions have 
brought him into sympathy with tiie Universalist 
Church. His three children are. Alonzo T.. ^lar- 
garet E.. now Mrs. Yandeicook, and Edward A. 

Alonzo T. Frisbee received an excellent educa- 
tion through the facilities afforded by Michigan ',- 
admirable school .sy.'item, and eomi)leting' hiscounse 
at the Howell High School, tliere took the highest 
honors <.>f his class. He entered HryantiV Stratton's 
Commercial College, and was graduated from this 
institution in Fel]i-uary. IcStJ). At the asje of 
twenty-one yeai's he entered into an arranoement 
to work for his father, and thus continued until lie 
was twenty-eight years f)ld, when upon settling up 
their accounts it was found that the neat sum of 
82,000 was his as the result of his .<even years laboi'. 

Tlie young man tofik a loui' through tiie States 
of Iowa and ^linnesota prospecting for a new 
home, but finally decided that Afichigan was good 
enough for him. and here he lia>^ since remained. 
In 1S7] he went to Isabella Counts', expecting to 



liuy land from the Indians, as the Government had 
i.-isued titles, but not succeeding in this plan, he 
l)urchased instead four hundred acres on the .school 
section, and four years later returned there and ob- 
tained of the Indians some five hvuidred acres more. 
There lie lived for three years in true pioneer style 
and liesides improving his own land and buying 
and selling farms in Isaljella County, he built a 
store and established a flourishing trade with the 
Indians and a few white settlers. His first home 
there was a mere log shanty, roofed with basswood 
troughs and corked with moss. His first wheat 
cro)) yielded him twenty-three l)usiiels to the acre. 
It had been cleared by the lielii of the Indians, and 
it was put in without plowing. a> the grain was 
.^imply sowed on the ground, and dragged over 
lliiee times. 

In 1H78 a re(juest came to Mr. Fi'isliee from hi,- 
})arents that he should leturn to the old home- 
stead and take care f>f them in their declining 
year>. Realizing that he owed 'them a debt of 
gratitude which he could never repay, he rented 
his farm in Isabella County and returned to his old 
home where he still resides and faithfully cares for 
lii.- parents in their <»ld age. To him they have 
deeded the homestead, and lie now carries on farm- 
ing operations there. He was recently married to 
.\nna I!, i.isterman. and they enjoy the .society of 
Ins parents. He^is an agreeable gentleman of i)ol- 
ished manners, and makes friends with all whom 
he meets. 

The official life of our subject lieg.-ui at the age of 
twenty-one, wlien he served as Clerk and afterward 
was for five tei'ms Supervisor of Cohocton Town- 
ship, and foi- three terms Supervisor of X'otawa,\ 
Towiisliiii, Isabella County. He Avas elected to the 
.State Senate in 1882, and in l^SHand 1890 he was 
elected Registrar of Deeds of Livingston County, 
which office he now Mils. Mis early voting was 
with the RepuVilican party until 1K7.'), when he 
allied himself with the (Greenback party, and is 
now a Democrat. He is one of thejiioneer Green- 
backers of the Slate, believing that law makes 
money, and not the material of which it is made; 
that gold and silver are too expensive and cum- 
hersonie for money, and that the greenliack is .i 
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struggle wlieii it caiiu" into existence, lie believes 
tiiat tlie grceiil<:K'k is a token to the people that 
tliev had clone sonietliing for their (lovernniont, 
and is redeemable by all as a token of its worth in 
labor and mnterinl. 

Tiic mother of our subjet-l was horn Novenil)er 
."), 1«1.5, in Herkimer County, X. Y., and is a daugli- 
ter of Moses and ^largaret (Morris) Thompson. 
who came to Mioiiigan in 1h;?.'). Mi-. Tlionipson 
was an extensive farnur and niiUcr. and <jwned 
sonic tiiri'O thousand acres where Howell now 
stands, and ])assed from earth's activities about tiie 
year 181(1. Willi all of Mr. Frisliee's successes in 
life, he has also had liis misfortunes, principal 
among which was that caused by a tornado tiiat 
swept over his farm in Isabella County on the lytli 
of Se])tember. 1878, which laid his farm waste, de- 
stroyed his store and left nothing behind but ruin 
and desolation. He is a man of fine judgment, 
and is often asked to settle estates for his neigh- 
bors, and is of a generous and liber.al nature, ever 
having an open band for the necessities of others. 



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IMLLIAM II. McENALLY, Justice of the 
I P I' Peace and Pension Attorney, at Williams- 

y^ town, Ingham County, is a son of John, 
whose father, Terranee, was a native of Ireland, 
and came to America wh(>n a young man and 
settled in Lycoming Ccniuty, Pa. Here the emi- 
grant m.irrii'd and reared a family of three sons 
and three daughters. His son, John, was born 
there in 180.") and made it his home until the year 
of bis death, when he removed to ^It. "\'ernon. 
Ohio, a few months lief ore his demise. 

The father of oiu' subject was mni'ried in his 
native c(junty to Lydia Dimm, a daughter of Will- 
iam Dinini, a Pennsylvanian of German descent. 
The childien of Uev. .lohn McEnally were Charles 
P., William H., John C, Mary C. Martha, and one 
who dieil in infancy. The father was a Methodist 
minister having had his education at Baltimore, 
Md. and being a member of the Baltimore Confer- 



ence. He died in 18 15 and the mother was after- 
waril married to John Chamberlain liy whom she 
had six children. .She later removed to Clyde, 
Ohio, where she died in 1883. 

Our subject was liorn .Inly ai, 18;}1), in Lycom- 
ing County, Pa., and when fifteen years old went 
to Toledo where he worked in a hotel. Two years 
later he went to Chicago and secured a position as 
newsboy on the Illinois Central Railroad in which 
he continued for two years and then took a situa- 
tion on the Mississipi)i IJiver as cabin boy and 
porter (m a steamboat plying between .St. Louis 
and LaSalle. and for one season between St. Louis 
and New Orleans. 

The young man returned home in 18(>0 and in 
October, 18()1 enlisted in C'omi)any G, Seventy- 
second Ohio Infantry and .served until Novembei- 
11, 186i3. He entered -IS First ('oi"|)oral and was 
promoted to a Sergeaney and after two years' ser- 
vice was detailed as Orderly under Gen. iMcMillan. 
whom he served until the close of his term. He 
w.as wounded in the battle of Shiloh and was sent 
to the hospital at Louisville for two weeks, after 
which he was at home during a ninety days' fur- 
lough. 

After returning to bis regiment the 3^oung 
soldier took part in the following battles: Ft. Gib- 
son, Jlissi.ssippi Spring, Raymond, Jackson. Vicks- 
burg, the siege of Jackson, and the battle of Bran- 
don. His regiment belonged to the Sixteenth 
Army Corps under .V. J. Smith, and they were 
known as Sniith's (iiierrillas or the Wandering 
Tribe of Israel, T'ley made a twelve hundred- 
mile march after Gen. Price and at the battle of 
Gun town our suliject was taken jirisoner, but after 
five days made his escape and traveled one hun- 
dred and ninety miles <o join his regiment. He 
was recaptured at Pontotoc, Miss, by the guerrillas 
but was paroled and continued (Ui his w.ay to 
]\Iein()liis. He was then eng;iged in battle at Tu- 
pelo, Spanish F<jrt and Montgomery, Ala., and at 
IMeriden, ]Miss. heliK'd in receiving the surrender 
of Dick Taylor's men, soon after which they were 
niust-ered out at Vicksbnrg. Our subject had two 
brothers in the service, one in the Eighth Ohio 
Infantry one in the Tenth Illinois Infanliv. 

For one year after the close of the war Mr. Mc- 



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Enally was engaged in farming near liis home in 
(Jliio, and in 1867 he came to Leslie. Mich., and on 
Christmas Day of the followin;)- year he was mar- 
ried to Mary Delamater, a daiiiihter of Benjamin 
and Elizabeth Delamater. natives of Canada. The 
only child of this marriage is Cora K.. who is now 
Mr.?. Bru.<selhack and resides in Williamstown. Her 
mother died in 1874 and her father was again mar- 
lied in 1882 to Flora E. Hills, a daughter of Mr. 
.lohn E. Hills who is a farmer near Holly, X. Y. 
This marriage has resulted in the l)irth of one son, 
Arthur W. Mr. McEnally is senior Vice Com- 
mandei- in tlie (Jrand Army of tlic Republic and 
has been .Tustice i)f the Peace for fourteen years. 
besides filling the olHce of \'illage Clerk fur five 
years. He is an earnest Repul)lic:in in his [lolitical 
views and active in the snpjiort of the party. 



T?OHN B. PARK, M. 1). The cliaracteristics 
which distinguished our suT)jeet"s ancestors 
mark the representative of the present 
^^ generation. As Scotchmen ever have and 
always mnst, he must go to the bottom of things. 
— know the reason why and philosophize on every 
subject that he takes up. As intimated above, the 
ancestors of the gentleman whose sketch we here 
give, on his father's side came originally fruni 
Scotland. His grandfather, .Vlexander Park, was 
a n.ative of New Jersey and combined tlie trade of 
carpentry with his calling as a farmer. Our suli- 
ject's grandmother, Maiia A'an Bergen, was a de- 
scendant of one of the old Dutch families. 

The father of our subject wns David Park, who 
was born near Whitdiouse. N. .1., in .June, 1822. 
He was engaged in farming and stock-breeding 
and died in the old home in 1^7.'!. Di. .1. H. I'ai'k 
was born in Hlairstown, N. .1., .Alay fi. 18.jl. He is 
one of six children liorn to David and Mary A. 
(Crane) I'ark. natives of New .Jersey. Mrs. Park 
was born in .lune. 1821 and died at Whitehouse, X. 
J., October 18. 181)1. (Jur subject remained at home 
until he w.'is sixteen vears of aov. dividiusr his time 



between work on the farm and attendance at dis- 
tiict and select .school. In 18fi7 he came to Michi- 
gan and spent one year in attendence at Prof. M. 
y. Park's school in Lansing, after which he spent 
two summers in the Ivansing High School, teaching 
during the wintei- terms of 1868-69 and '69-70 in 
Clinton C<uinly. \vlicn he was very successful in 
his work. 

Returning to the old home m New .Jersey in 
1870 the subject of our sketch commenced study- 
ing medicine with Dr. Pennington, under whose 
tutelage he prepared himself for admission to the 
riuv<n'sity of Penns^ivania, which he entered in 
the fall of 1871. This institution has a high rep- 
utation in its medical department throughout the 
Inited .States and from it Mr. Park graduated 
with the degree of M. 1). in 187;i. He first located 
for the j)ractice of his profession in Kvartstown. 
N. .1., and after a few months moved to Lansiny. 
Mich., where he remained about a year. In Octo- 
ber, 1874, oni' subject moved to Okemos where he 
has ever since lived, having acquired ,'i wide re- 
])utation as a skillful and snccessfnl piactitionei' in 
medicine and surgery. 

Dr. Park abandoned the liachelor ranks in 1(S76. 
His union with Miss Emma Everett took place the 
22nd of March of that year. The lady was a native 
of Lansing Township. Together they enjoyed 
but one year of domestic happiness. Mrs. Emma 
Park's decease occurring .\ugust 5, 1877. Two 
years later the Doctor again entered into the 
matrimonial relation. His nuptials with Miss Mary 
F. IMielps. were solemnized March 2, 1879. Mrs. 
.Mary Park is a native of Okemos and a daughtei' 
of Noah Pheli)s, an old resident of ^leridiaii 
Township. Ingham County and one of its most 
prominent and piogressive farmers. Dr. Park is 
the owner of a fine tract of land comprising one 
hundred and ten acres on sections 2, 3, 9, and 10 
in Alaiedon Townshii). A large portion of this 
tiact was imi)racticable for cultivation at the time 
of his i)urcliase, but Ity putting in Uvo miles of tile 
he has reclaimed seventy acres which was before 
considered unprofitable swamp land. 

Dr. Park is a member of the Farmer's Alliance 
of Okemos .-uid afflliates with the Free and Ac- 
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2;')"i. and iil picM-iii liulcl> the (pllice of Worshipful 
Master. Politically iii' casts the weijilit of lii?^ \<itf 
nnd iiirtueiioe witii tiii' Democratic party and is 
one of tlie most activi' |-epreseiitativcs of thai 
|)olitical body in tliis \icinily. lie is now C'lciU 
of Meridian Town.-iiiii. and lias lieen ur<ied to ac- 
rf|it otiier positions, Imt havinji' only a general 
intere.-t in politics has declined. Mrs. Park is a 
memlier of Conurciiatioiial ('linr<-h of Lansiiii;. 
She is an estiuialile lady who ii)mmcud> herself 
most graeiouisly to wlioevei' she meets. Dr. Park 
is visitiniJ- Physician of the Poor House of Ingham 
County. P)oth jirofcssionally and financially he 
has l)een very successful, llis lionie is in an atlr.'ic- 
live and comfijrtahh^ brick house which he ha> 
built since cominy to Okemos. 



I/AMES HK.VN. Mo>t iin'u lind tin- >ucces>- 
ful |iursuit of agriculture sutticient to eui- 
ploy their time to the exclusion of othei- 
intere>t>. but he of whom we write unito 
sueec.ssfiilly with tlii> occupation that i>f a livery- 
man and merchant, being located in Fowlerville. 
Livingston t'ounty. where he has a large patron- 
age in both branches of hi> employnu'Uts. lie is 
a native of Ontario Township. Wayne County. 
N. Y.. being there born December 2."). 1M49. and a 
son of .Io.seph and Kliza (Waters) Bean. uati\'es of 
Kngland. their marriage haxiny taken jihu'c in that 
c(uintry, after which the\ came to .Vmerica in 
1836. and settle(l in Wayne ( 'ouiity. where the 
father was engaged in farming. 

In l^tTiCi. when there was a >pirit of unrot per- 
\ading every branch of social and commercial life. 
not only in thi> country, but in foieign lands, the 
elder .Mr. Bean remiived his family to .Michigan 
and settled in losrn 'rowM>hip. where he engaged 
in farming. Thence he removed to Ohio, and 
there remaine(l foi- ten years, returning, however. 
to .Michigan, wheic hi> decea.se look place in I88H. 
>urviving hi> wife by eight years, she having 
pas.sed away in IKHii. Our >ubicct's fathei' had 
great faith in l{e|iublican principles, lie and his 



wife were the parents of .seviMi children, four of 
whom are now living. They are: Mary, who i.s 
now .Mrs. Press: .lohn. .lames; Sopiironia. ^Irs. 
l\oney. 

( )ur subject received his education in this State 
whii-h in his boyhood was stimulated to secure the 
best advantages in this direction, and therefore at 
com])ara lively an early period in it.- history it 
com|)ared favorably with older States in an educa- 
tional point ol view. Mr. Bean was reared on the 
lioiiH faiiu. 1 lis stiirt out in life for him.self was 
at the time of his marriage, when he realized that 
tin' welfare of another person depended upon his 
energy :iud iiingres- in a business way. In 1862 
he pledged hi> faith and protection to Miss Chloe 
]A)ckw()od. Their nuptials were solemnized in 
Iosco. She is a daughter of Zacheus and EiHza- 
beth (Tracy) Lockwood. natives of New York, 
whocamc to Michigan in 184.'), and .settled in loseo 
Township. Livingston County. Here they engaged 
in farming, being reasonably successful in that line 
of wt)rk. Mr. Lockwood aliiliated with the Demo- 
ciatie p.arty and gave them the weight of his vote 
.•iiid iutlueiice. Both |)arents spent the remainder 
of their lives here, and here passed away. Four 
childieii that were Itorn of this union are now li\- 
ing. They are: Mrs. Bean. .John; Sarah, who mar- 
ried A. Smock; :ind Jenny, who is now Mrs. 
(iorton. 

.Vftermarriagc the gentleman of whom we wiite 
was engaged in farming eighty acres of lan<l iu 
.Marion Township. He li\fd on the >ame foi- eight 
years, and then >ol(l out and came to Kowlerville. 
where he engaged in the livery business, also being 
the profiiietor of tii<' (duuuei<Mal Hotel. Later he 
engaged also in the mercantile business. As is 
eyident. he is a man of varied ea|)abilities and 
of bioad plan.-. He ha> built a double brick .-tore 
on (irand .Vvenue that adds gicatly to the value 
of the property in that vicinity. He is now liuild- 
ing another handsome block adjoining tlie lirst. 
which is to contain two stores. 

The owner of two fine residences in Lowlei- 
villc. Mr. l'>ean"s own home i^ indeed a charming 
place; attr.'ictiyc. commodious and elegant in all 
its ap])ointinents. it ccunjiares favorably with the 
most modern residences in our metropolitan cities. 



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The owner of a farm of one hundred and forty 
acres of land near Fowlerville, as will readih' be 
conjectured. ^Ir. Bean finds but little time to give 
it his personal attention. It is. however, success- 
fully carried on and yields him a handsome in- 
come. Besides liis property in Fowlerville our 
subject owns two stores at Byron, which bring him 
a generous rental. 

He of whom we write has been the incumbent 
of many t)Ositions and offices within the township's 
gifts and has been one of the most active members 
in the village Council. Our subject's family com- 
prises only one son, Ira, who married Miss Ida 
Ripley. He is a druggist, engaged in business in 
l")etroit. ^Ir. Bean is a Democrat in political fol- 
lowing. Socially he is an Odd Fellow, and is one 
of the jiromineiit men and active iiromoters of the 
interests of this place. 






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*1)WAR1) \VIi.lJA]\iS. Among the British- 
American citizens wlio are doing good work 
;' ^' — ■-' " in Tyrone Township. Livingston County, is 
the aliove named who owns and operates a farm on 
section 1.'). He seems to ]K)sse.ss all the qualities 
necessary to jn'osperity in this lini' of work. l)eiiig 
industrious, thrifty and oliserving. noting evei-y 
change in the condition of the soil ami in the 
climatic intiuences. and being quick to take advan- 
tage of eacli. 

He of whom we write was born in ^lonnioutli, 
England, September 4, 1809 and is a son of AVill- 
iam .and Ann (Williams) \A'illianis both natives of 
Monmouthshire. The father was a sliocmaker Ijy 
trade and he and his good wife lirouglU to man's 
and woman's estate seven sons and four daughters. 
Our subject and his eldest brother, Thomas, both 
reared families and two of the daughters, Elizabeth 
and Ann each had two children: Elizabeth, Mrs. 
Combs, having a son and a daughter; and Ann, 
Mrs. Wright, having two daughters. 

The family all remained in their native home 
with the exception of Edward Williams who came 
to the United States in 1850, spending five weeks 



upon tlie Atlantic and landing in New York in 
June of that year. He had heard in his native home 
of the wealth of climate and soil of the fair State 
of Michigan, and hither he came at once making 
his home in Waterford Township, O.akl.and County, 
where he rented a farm for three years. In the 
spring of 1853 he removed to the home which he 
now occupies on section 15, T3'rone Township, 
purchasing at that time sixty acres, to which he 
has added by purchase until now he has ninety 
acres, all of which is highly improved and richly 
productive. 

The marriage of Edward Williams and Sarah 
Roberts took place June 17, 1844. Mrs. Williams 
is a daughter of AVilliam and Sarah (Roberts) 
Roberts. To her were born in England two chil- 
dren, Ann. wife of (ieorge Lockwood.and William, 
and three were born after the migration of the 
family to this country, who were, (Tcorge, Eliza- 
betli wlio died unmarried, and Mary who was the 
wife of Ernest Winters and is now deeea.sed. Mrs. 
Saiali Williams was called away from her earthly 
duties ;nul cares .hinnary 31, \XH->. .'Uid lier loss has 
been most deefily felt liy her family and friends. 
She was an earnest and active inemlier of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church and useful in society. 
This family is one of the most highly res[)ected and 
efficient in the township, as the father is looked 
upon as a leader in many ways, and all of the 
household hare well lifted themselves for spheres 
of usefulness. The son-in-law. Ernest Winters, 
served liis coimtry foi- ovei- thiee years in the 
Third Michiunn Infantrv. 




ARTIN JOHN McPHERSON was born in 
, Howell. Livingston County', Mich., May 
11 1. 1)^41. lie was the third white male 
child liorn in the village of Howell. His 
parents were William and Elizabeth (Riddle) ]Mc- 
Pherson, natives of Scotland. They came from 
Scotland to Livingston County and settled in 
what is now the village of Howell, in the year 
1836. 

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fourteen years old. After this he attended the 
State N'urnial Si'lionl ;it V|isil:iiiti. Mioh.. Un- twi. 
year.<, fi'oni .Septi'iiilier, 1 «.");'). t(; .huio. 18.")7. Dur- 
iiiir tlu' winter of 18r)7-.").H he tauyht a disliiil 
.-(•hixil in the ti)\vnsiii|i <<{ llaiidy. Livingston 
County. In April. 1H;")8. he enteied, as eleric, tlie 
store of wiiii'h liis fathei- and liiotlier (\V. .MePher- 
son. .Ir..) wtMv proprii'lors. aii<i contiiuicd in tlu'ir 
eini)loy until .lanunry 1. lf<iW.\vhcn he lii'c;nnf a 
nu-mher of the lirni. 

The style of the liiin at thai linu' lie<anu' W. 
.MePherson A- Sons, sinee whieli time althousih 
there have lieen ehanges In its nieinhership the 
njime of the lirni ii.-is reniaiiiiMi nnrhanut'd. Tin- 
linsiness was established lu \\ illlani -Mcl'licrson. 
Si-., in 184;! It has sinee then j^rown to coi-n - 
spond with the iiu'rease of wealth and population 
in the eounty until it now oeeupies three larav 
stores and is one of the most extensive l)uslnes> 
hou,-es in the county. 'Flic tirm is noted for its 
honoralile business methods. Px'sides his business 
interests in Howell .Mr. .Mcl'lurson is a partner in 
the linn of ('•. S. liuruessi^: Co.. in Hriiiiiton. .Mich., 
and special partner in the tirm of H. II. .Mills A- 
.Sons, Topeka, Kan. 

August 14. 1872. .Mr. Mcl'heison was married to 
Miss Frances 1*. Fo.-ter. a (Jauyhter of the l>e\-. 
(Tustavus L. and Caroline (Raseh) Foster. .Mr. 
Foster being at that time pastor of the Preshyter- 
ian Chtircli in Howell. Mi. Mcl'lier.son has always 
been a Republican in politics. His first vote for 
President was cast for Abraham Lincoln in 1864. 
lie is a member of the Presbyterian Church of 
Howell, ot whieii he is one of the Trustees, lie i> 
greatly interested in Sunday-school work and ii.is 
been .Superintendent of the I'resbyteriaii Sunday 
.school sinee 18()8. 




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ir.ILLlAM II. F.VINCF. A traveler i)assing 



11/ along the highway near section 27.Haud\' 
Township, l.,ivingston County, cannot but 
notice the highly cultivated farm, beautiful farm 
residence, .and ('xcellent outbuildings belonging to 
Mr. Faunce. lie came here forty-four vears ago 



when there was no F'owlerville and no postoHice 
and when all this district was ;i densely, timbered 
legion, and here he has math' his mark and has df)ne 
>plendi(l pioneer work. 

Our subject is a native of New Bedford, Bristol 
County. .Mass., and was born in 1819. His parents 
.lames and Rebecca (Hathaway) Faunce, were also 
natives of the old Bay State, and the father who 
was a farmer there was a son of Nathaniel and 
.Vliigail .\. (.Snell) Faunce .lamc> and Rebecca 
Faunce h.'id .■! f;iiiiily of nine children, and six of 
these have jja.-^sed over the dark river. Those who 
are still living are: our subject, .Sumner and John. 

Having received his education in Ma.s.sachusetts. 
our subject remaineil at home until the age of 
tifteen. when he began working for neighboring 
fanners ,ind later entered the ship yurd at New 
Bedford, where he lemained for seven \ ears and 
was also employed in the same line of work in 
New York ( ity. After a lire whicli destroyed his 
business, he came to Michigan and purchasing Land, 
established a home and brought toil his bride .Inli;i 
A. Boweii. who \va> then living in Handy Town- 
ship. The young man then proceeded to swing 
the ax and clear the forest trees from otf his land, 
l-'our children blessed this union. and threeof these 
liavi' pas.^ed to the better world. The son Sumner 
.M. is married and is living near .Vtchisoii. Kan., 
upon a farm. The mother of that son was earh 
taken from her husband .-ind <hild |)a.ssing .away 
at the age of thirty-two years. The second wife 
whose maiden name was .Sophi;i .1. Andrews has one 
daughter, named Ketta K. 

The parents of .Mrs. .Soiihia .1. Faunce are l.o- 
reii/.o I), and Perinilia (Andrews) Andrews both of 
whom are natives of the Empire State. Living>lon 
County. N. V., was the family home and these ]iar- 
ents weic blessed with six children, four of whom 
are now living namely: Rus.sell .\.. Mary A.. Mrs. 
Wright; Mrs. Faunce and Harriet A., Mrs, Perry. 

•lames Oi-son Fannce, the brother of our subject, 
who has now passed to the other world, was a 
soldier in the late war and was wounded by a shot 
through the right arm in the first battle of Bull 
Run and taken prisoner during that conflict. For 
niiu' months he was kept pri.sonerin the .\nderson- 
ville jiri.son pen but was finally exchanged. Our 



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subject has held the office of School Director for 
sixteen years. He has built the beautiful home in 
wliich he now resides and has phxeed upon his farm 
the outbuildings wliicli so well adorn it. Mr. 
I'";nuicc lias been a Deacon in the Baptist Church 
foi' some liLteen 3'ears at Fowlerville, and is looked 
upon as one of its most efficient and reliable nieni- 
Ijers. His political views have brought biin into 
atliliation with the Rejjublican party and he talces 
an intelliiient interest in all that pertains to the 
welfare of uur couiitr\'. 



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ILLIAM McPHERSO.N, .Ik. The subject 
of this sketch was born in Inverness, 

|V?"^ Scotland, March 9, 1834. His parents were 
William and Elizabeth (Riddle) MePherson. They 
came to tliis country in 1836 and settled in Howell, 
Mich. Tlie village at that time boasted but one 
frame building, a hotel, which also contained the 
county offices and a general store. 

Mr. MePherson 's father was by trade a black- 
smith and pursued that avocation until 1843. when 
lie engaged in the mercantile business. He was 
a man of exceptional Im.siness ability, and was en- 
dowed l)y nature with excellent judgment and 
good common sense. With the hearty co-operation 
and .assistance of his sons he built u|j and extended 
his business until having established an enviable 
reputation for progrcssiveness, honorable dealing, 
and integrity he was recognized as one of the most 
successful merchants in the interior of the State. 
At an early day in the history of the town he and 
his wife, who died September 7, 1874. assi-sted in 
the organization of the Presbyterian Church of 
Howell, of which tlu'\ were ever after honored 
members. They were alwajs active in every effort 
to pi-omote the moral welfare of the community in 
which they lived, and the intluence of their exam- 
|ile iiiid of tlicir conscientious devotion to duty is 
best shown in the character t)f the children who 
revere their memory. ( )n the 1 (itli of March, 189 1 , 
surrounded liy his eight cliildivn, foiir sons and 



four daughterSjWilliam MePherson, Sr., died, loved, 
respected and mourned by all who knew him. 

During the boyhood of the subject of our sketch 
lie enjo.ved such educational advantages as the vil- 
lage school afforded and at the age of sixteen he 
entered his father's store in the capacity of a clerk. 
In 18r)(> he was admitted .as partner with his father 
in 'the mercantile business, under the linn name of 
William jNIcPherson & Co. Later his brothers, M. 
.1. and E. G. became associated with the firm, the 
name of which was changed to William MePherson 
iV Sons. For several _\'ears Mr. IMcPherson has been 
largely interested in pine and timber lands in 
Michigan and other States, besides conducting 
stock-raising and general farming on several fine 
farms in Ingham and Livingston Counties. He has 
also for the past thirty years been an extensive lo- 
cal dealer in wool. These varied interests requir- 
ing so much of his time, he decided to retire, on 
January 1, 1884, from the mercantile business. 

L^pon the removal of his brother Alexander to 
Detroit in 1890, Mr. MePherson became partner in 
and assumed the management of the banking house 
of Alexander MePherson & Co., which was estab- 
lished by his brother in 1805. In politics Mr. 
MePherson is a stanch Republican, having cast his 
first Presidential liallot for John C. Fremont. In 
188.T he was ap|iointed State Raili'oad (dniinissioner 
liy Oov. Alger and served during his administra- 
tion. He was a delegate from the Sixth Congress- 
ional District to the Ke]>ul)lieaii National Conven- 
tion licld in Chicago in ISSH. and was eliosen liy 
the State delegation to represent Michigan on the 
committee which was to formally notify President 
Ilanisuii iiiid \' ice-President Morton of their 110111- 
inations to thi'ir resjiective olfices. He has often 
been a delegate to State and county conventions 
.•iiid h;is represented his constituents with ;i dignity 
tluit has redounded to his own honor ;iiid credit. 

In 18r)9 Mr. ^IcPherson man ieil Miss Jennie 
1\L Ranney, of Rochester. X. Y. A l.-idy of intel- 
ligence and relinement, .Airs. .MePherson dispenses 
the hospitalities of their beautiful home with grace 
and dignity. They have had four children, three 
of whom, two daughters and a son. are still living, 
the eldest son having died in 1878. in his nineteenth 
year. From his parents Mr. MePherson inherited 





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habits of untiring energy, persistence and strict in- 
tegrity, those sterling qualities which liavc made 
the Scotcli character so famous in sony: and story. 
To tlicsc diaracterit^tics, no doubt, is due the suc- 
cess wliicli lia.s so generously rewarded liis Inliurs. 



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\f?AMHS M. SKINNER. The l>usiiicss mcii of 
Lansing liave accomplished a great work in 
^1 I forwarding the interests and developing 
y^J' X\\c resources of this lieautiful city, and 
none liave done more for its prosperity tlian those 
who have engaged in building its fine dwellings 
and business Idocks. By their taste and skill, their 
enterjjrise and energy, tliey have made this town 
in its external .appearance to corresptmd with the 
well-known s|)irit of energv and cultui-c which 
pervades the ranks of its citizens. 

Mr. Skinner, who is a memlicr of tlie firm of 
Skinner A- Maghar, contractors and builders, has 
has been in this line of business since 1886. He 
wa> born in Windsor Township, Eaton County. 
.Mii'h., on the IDthof Septcmlter, 18()3. His lion- 
ored parents were Ornial I), and I,y<lia M. (Reeves) 
Skinner. Tlie father was a farmer in Eaton 
County, and one of the early settlers of that re- 
gion. The grandfatlier. who also bore the name 
of Ormal I). Skinner, hewed liis own way with InV 
trusty ax from Eaton R;i])ids to his faini. lie 
cleared the trees from the tract of lanil whicli he 
had purchased and made of it a tine farm, where 
Ids son lived for many years. Tiie faliier passed 
from eartb in 187;5. 

.\t the age of eigiiteen yeai's James Skinner 
learned the trade of a carijcnter with Eugene Wil- 
cox, wlio lived in the country. i'if\ious to that 
time he had been gaining his education, first in tlie 
home schools, and then in the city High School. 
He spent one year in .hickson afti^i' ii>arning his 
trade, since which time lie has made his honu' in 
Lan>ing. When he first came to the city he 
worked until 1M8(! with Fuller \- Wheeler, and 
after that date he began making contracts, and 
acted upon his own respoitsibility. He entered 



into partnership with Mr. IVIagiiar and erected tire 
residences of II. H. Larnaid and C. C. Hopkins, 
tlie two handsomest homes in the city. He also 
enteied into arrangements to build the library at 
Olivet, a Imilding worth #2.'),00tl and known as 
the Lconai'd-Hecrage Memorial Library. This is 
one of the finest buildings in the State, and 
is a great credit to the reputation of 'Sir. Skin- 
nei-. 

Besides these promini'Ut buildings which we luive 
mentioned, Mr. Skinner has built a large number 
of smaller hou.ses and has an extensive business, 
keeping from twelve to fifteen men busy all the 
time. He has a fine home at No. 418 Ottawa 
Street West, and other real estate in the city. So- 
cially he is a memlier of the Knights of Pythias. 
Miss Myrtle E. Baker became the wife of our 
suliject .\pril 18, 1888. This lady is a daughter 
of Capt. James H. Baker, of this city, who was an 
early resident of Lansing. He is now in the 
lumber business in Northern Michigan, and has a 
high reputation as an active business man. 

In connection with tins l)rief biographical sketch 
the reader will notice a litliogra|ihic poi'trait of 
]\Ir. Skinner. 



•' ARRIS HENRY. ( )ne of the most beautiful 

)I homes in Howell Township. Li\iiigston 

County, may be found upon section 20. It 

l(i^ is situated upon a small farm of forty acres 
belonging to Mrs. llciny and is exceptionally fine 
in its situation and adornments. This gentleman 
is a native of Steuben Countw N. V., where lie 
was born in IK.'io. and he is a son of John and 
Polly ((ioodrich) lieiiiy, who were also natives of 
the I-",mpire State. 

The parent,- of our subject came to ^lichigan in 
\M[ and became early settlers of this county, mak- 
ing their home in Brighton Township, whence they 
removed to Howell Townshi]) in 1S48. Of their 
family of eleven children si.x are now living — 
Isaac. Harris. .lane. Maria. M.arilla and Emilv. 



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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 



After fourteen' years of life npon the farm, 



niiide hi,« liome upou forty acres of Iniul on section 
2(1. Howell Town.^hip. After liviiiii here for two 
years they sold their projierty and returned East. 
Hut three years later they returned'to ^lichigan 
;inil settled on section 20, upt)n forty acres of land 
wheii' Mrs. llenrv now lives. After Jlr. Stewart's 



wiiere his .idvantasi:es were limited by the district 

M-hool curriculum. Harris Henry liegan working 

lor others, at whicli he continued until he went 

home and took charoe of liis father's farm, as hi> 

parents weie then in tlicir declining years. It was 

aijreed amony tlie eliildrcn. with the consent of death, wliich took place in 1J<(J7. his widow was 

the parents, that this son should take upon himself united in inarriage with Aljiheus |^Filch. a New 

tlic caiT of his [lai-ents throughout their lifetime ' Yorker, lie <lied in 1882 after which she'becnme 

and wlien thev died the home farm siiould be his. the wifi' of .\lr. Henry; she is an active .■in<l earnest 

In tlie course of time he sold tlie old place and member of tlic Methodi-st Prote.><tanl ( liurcli and is 



purchased another in (ienesee County, where he 
f(pund opportunities for brick-making, in wliich he 
engaged and worked in this line of Imsines?- for 
some six vears, both there and in this county. 



useful in its communion. ^Ir. Henry is an earnest 
believer in the doctrines of the Democratic party, 
and although he does not seek otlicial positions he 
is intelligentlv interested in the movements of his 




ment 



.Since that time he has lieen engaged in farming i party and ever ready to cast his vote for its pros- 
.•ind most of the time lias been in Howell Township. > |)erit\-. 

Tlie marriage of this enterprising and progressive 
farmer with a lady of culture and refinement, 
.Vdelia Phillips by name, took place in l«.'jit. Slu' 
was a daugliter t)f (iayland and Margaret Phillii>s, 
iind after hei- union with Mr. Henry became the 
mother of five I'hildren. three of whom are now 
living, namely: .lennie, Eugene and Plinn (•. .leii- 
nie married Mr. lirundage and has three children — 
Lena. Etna, and an infant unnamed; Eugene was 
united in marriage with Miss Ko.se Hook. 

Mrs. Adelia Henry died in 1882. and hy his .sec- 
ond marriage Mr. Henry lirouglit to his home Mrs. 
.Vlzina Fitch, the daughter of Hiram and Rachel 
(Kenyon) Stephens. ^Ir. Ste|)hens came from New 
York to Michigan in IKoO. and settled on sec- 
lion 20. of Howell Townshiii. where he continued 
his former nvoeatiou of faiining. He had a ttne 
jjroperty of one liundred and eighty acres which 
he put in a tirst-class condition and lie and lii.s 
good wife lived there until his death. Tliey were 
l)Oth connected with the .Methodist Church and 
were useful in this relation. Of their nine children 
six are now living, named as follows: Madison, 
Mrs. Henry. .lohn. Abliie jind Lucinda: the follow- 
insi' are deceased — lulia. Henry. .Samuel and Pres- 
ton. 

.AL>. Henry was born in .IefterK)n County. N. Y.. 
and there i-eceived her education. When quite 
young she was married to Franklin E. Stewart, a 
native (jf New York who came West in 1850 and 



HOF. WlLLl.V.M II. HAWKE.S. Belonging 

to the English nation and an outgrowth 

of the great manufacturing cla.s-; which 

fosters a sjjirit of greater progre.ss, ad vance- 

nd originality than is elsewhere found in 

British life. Prof. Ilawkes since coming to America 

li;i> de\-eloped latent nualities that make of him 

as loyal and ardent a suliject of I'licle .Sam and 

almost as characteristic a one a> natives of New 

England itself. He was born in Derby City. Der- 

j by.sliire, England, August 5. lHr)il, and is a .son of 

.lames and ^larv (Lightfoot) Hawkes. natives of 

Entjland. .Mr. Hawkes. Si-., was engaged in boiler- 

I making, carrying on a large manufactt)r\-. He 

came to .Vmerica in 1867. first locating in Medina, 

N. Y.. but being most importantly engaged in liis 

busines> in the city of Rochester, X. Y. In 18(ii» 

he came to Michigan and settled in .Vllegan County. 

I where he purchaseil a large farm. He is now li\- 

inu in Ann Arbor, retired from the active pursiiit> 

of farm labor. 

()ur Mibject is one of ti\e children born to hi> 
parents. He is the eldest; Arthur E. follows him. 
then Julia A., who is now Mrs. 11. Clark; Elizabeth 
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subject's paternal ffraiiilfiitlii'i' wasWilliMiu 1 l.iwkes, 
who was a slicplieid in the old couiitiv. lie died 
at Ihf yodd (lid age of i'iii:lily-sevcii years. Mis 
wife was Hi'liivt-a (Thomas) Ilawkes. They reared 
a large family, whose names are as follows: \\'iiliaiii, 
Sarali. Ann. .hiiic. Klizaheth. {{ii-hard. Tli(>iiias..lohii. 
.lames and Kinma. The u:reat-ii:rand|P!ir('nts weie 
Richard and .lulia Ilawkes. tlie former lieinijf a 
wcaltliy laiidownei'. They had a family of four 
t'liil4ieii — lolin, William, .lames and Richard. Our 
sultjecl's maternal grandparents were Kichard and 
Mary (Haynor) IJirhtfoot, natives of Kngland. 
The former was an Knglish sciuire and a large land- 
owner. He had a family of nine children whose 
names are as follows: Ann. Sarah. Klizaheth. .Mary, 
.lulia, Emma, Rebecca. Kliza and William. The 
preceding progenitor on this side of the family 
was .lohn Lightfoot. He also was a large laud- 
owner and the father (^f four children — .lohn. An- 
drew, .James and Richard. 

Prof, ilawkes began working at the fonudrv 
business when eight years of age and early mas- 
tered the trade. He wa.s also engaged in farming 
when twelve years of age, carrying on his father's 
l)lace until he was eighteen and at the same time 
he attended school at I'lainwell. Allegan County, 
this State, graduating therefrom in 1M7h. After 
finishing his course in this institution he accepted 
a position as fireman on the (Jrand Rapifls A- Indi- 
ana Railroad and thus continued for one year, 
after which he was engaged in teaching school 
during the year of 1880. The following summer 
he was emploM'd in the sjiringworks in Kalamazoo 
tind then went to the Ann Arbor High School, 
graduating in the classical course in 18H.'!. He was 
not content with his accpiirements and entered the 
rniversity of .Michigan from which he graduated 
in 1H87 and soon after was called to take charge of 
the schools at Uirniinghani. ():ikland Count w this 
State. He remained thert' for three years, after 
wliich he came to Howell and is now Superintend- 
ent of Ihc pulilic schools in the city. 

The origin.al of oiw sketch united his fate for 
better oi worse with tlial of Miss Fanny Stinison. 
of .\u\\ Arlior. Mich. Their nuptials were solemn- 
izc(l in 1887 on the 27th of XoveniKer. .Mrs. 
Ilawkes is a daughter of .lolm IJ. and Mary (.Sutton) 



Stirnson. natives of Canada and of English descent. 
The lady is one of a large famil\- wliich comprised 
ten children. They are liy name William. .lohn. 
Philip, (u'orge. Fanny. Fred. Minnie, .loseph. .Mil- 
Ion .-uid .Mabel. 

The married relations of him of whom we write 
have been of the plea.santest nature. He has a 
beautiful home and a pleasing and attractive wife. 
They are the paicnls of two children — .lanetll.and 
Minnie "SI., who are pleasing little ones with large 
promises for the future. l'olitie;illy our subject is 
a member vf the Republican ))artv. Ixcligiously 
his sympathies and associations are with the Pres- 
byterian Church. He is also actively engaged in 
Sunday school work, having a lai'ge class of young 
men. 






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\T'KRRY C. CA1>LI'P is the name of a well- 
known man in Meridian Township, Ingham 
County. He w.hs born in Shelby, Orleans 
County. N. Y.. .luly 2.S. 18;!8. His father, 
David C. (iallu)). was born in Hrattleboro. \'t., 
Sci)tember 2, 18i)0. He was a butcher and faiiner 
in an early day. when he ,-;ettled in New York. 
When our subject was six years old his father 
came to .Michigan and settled at Redford, Wayne 
County, where he remained until 181'.). when the 
family renio\cd to Meridian Township, purchas- 
ing a farm on section 1. 

Disposing of the tract abo\e mentioned, in a 
short time Mr. (J.-illup. Si-., bought a faim in Hath 
Township, which he also sold in a few years. He 
then moved back into Meridian Township and 
|)nrehased a farm on section .!. where he lix'ed 
until 18()(i, when both parents came to live with 
the subject of our sketch. 'The de:ith of both fie- 
curred while iiunates of his family, in 1871. Ilieir 
decease being only twenty-one days apart. .Mr. 
(iallup lives on a fine tract of six acres of land on 
section' 27. 

When our subject was only twelve years old he 
started out in life for himself. His oppfu-tunities 



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t<i oliiiiiii Mil i'(UiC!itii)ii WL'it' of tlip most meagre 
iKitiUf. iit'vur attendiiiii' soIhhiI .•it'tt'r he wiis t'oiii- 
h'eii years old. < >ii niriviiii;- al this ivife he worked 
(111 the farm for two years, and then eiioaged to 
drixc a train. liaiiliiii>' freii>ht lictween Okeinosaiid 
Detroit. He eontimied tliis work until Sei)tember 
11. |H(il. wlu-n he enlisted, and i;<iin<i' to the fi'ont. 
sfr\cd until the 22d of l'"eliru!iry. 186;'). lie wa'- 
assiuned to duty in the Aiiny of the rotomae and 
was in all the liard-foii^iit liattle> with that di- 
vision. For one year he was llriyade C'ommi.isary- 
Serut'ant. after wliieli he took a siiiK-iniimerary 
|)osition and finally received an hoiioralile dis- 
eliarue. Coniint;' home I'roni the war. he de\'oted 
himself to farmiiiii' one year, after wliieh he went 
to work on the railroad, and was thus engasied six 
wars, live yearsof whirh time he held the iio>itioii 
of seetion boss. 

Wearvina' of railroad work, our >ulijeet rounied 
iiis trade as .a eariienler and joiner, and lia>tliu> 
lieen steadily engaged sinee 1X7(1. With a view 
to making a luMne. Mr. liallu|i wa> united in inar- 
riag'e with .Miss Lydia K. Tolinan. of Okenios. 
Their marriage was .solemnized Fehruary 11. 1M(>4. 
]\Irs. (iallnp. however, did not long siirvi\'e. her 
decease oceurring the following .Se|)tember. 

The original of our sketch |_l;iter contracted a 
marriage witii .Mi^s Lucy Stillman. daughter of 
Daniel .Stillman. of .Vlaiedon Township. They 
were united .\pril 29, 1 «()(>. The names of their 
three children are: Frank, who at the ageof twenty- 
two assists his fatiicr al home; Lena, who is a chariu- 
ing miss of eighteen; and I), \eriier. who is seven- 
teen years of age. .Socially Mr. (Jalliip is a member 
of several secret societies, lie is a charter nicinbcr 
of the ALasonic Lodge of Okemos. having been in- 
itiated in the Capital Lodge. \o. (>K. of Lansiii"'. 
in lM(;;i. lie is also a charter member of tlie Car- 
|)eiitei's I'nion. of Lansing, and a charter member 
of the Okemos .Vlliance. lie keeps alive his remi- 
ni-iceiiees of war times by his associati(ui witli the 
(irand Army of the Republic, and was faithful to 
the Knights of Labor as long as that organization 
maintained its footing in Okemos. Politieallv lie 
i~ a Democrat, lie has been an incumbent of se\- 
cral township ottices. having been llighwav Coni- 
luissioner and for t weiit\ -one vears Director in his 




school district. Onr .subject's grandfatlier. I'erious 
(;alln|). was liorn in N'ermonl in an early day. It 
is sui)))Osed that thi> family to which lie belongs are 
descended from one of Ihree brothei's who came 
from Iri'hind. .leiry. as lie is familiarly called, is 
a genial and whole-souled man. who is well in- 
formed on tlie events of the day. an<l who has 
man\' friends in all classes of societ\. 



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.VX .lACKSON. The village of Pinckney 
is jiioud to count among its citizens a 
number of retired farmers who. after li\es 
of .severe toil. ha\iiig by industry and 
eiiteijirise accumulated a comfortable competency, 
.•ire now taking their comfort in this village. 
Among them there is none more h<uiore(l than 
Dan .lack.son. whose .sterling integrity and earnest 
advocacy of every movement in favor of religion 
and morality have gixeii him the res|H'ct of all 
and have earned for him the gratitude of all with 
whom he has been a.ssociated. 

Dr. Cyrus .lackson. the father of our subject, 
was born in Connecticnt in I7H7, and having been 
gnaduated at Yale College and taken a professional 
eour.se. became a physician, which calling lie fol- 
lowed of well as that of a farmer. He married 
Jane <^iiiek. a native of Pike County. Pa., and a 
daughter of .loliu H. (^iiick. a farmer. Dr. .lack- 
son's father, .losepli .lackson, was also a farmei' and 
a soldier in the Revolutionary War, while two of 
his sons .ser\ed their country faithfully in the War 
of 1H12. 

The parents of our subject were united in mar- 
riage Februai y '.I. 1X11. in Pennsylvania, and \cr\ 
soon removed to New ^drk wliere the following 
year they inirchased a farm in Lyons Township. 
Waviie County, and tliere remained until death 
called them hence, the father dying in DSd;'), and 
the mother Sejitembcr 10, 1872. she being f)f great 
age. Iiaving been born in 1 7xs. Tliey were the 
jjarents of ten children an<l th'e of tliem are now 
lixiiig. 

The mother was ••in earnest Christian •woman, de- 



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PORTRAri" AM) lilOlilv'ArilK AI. AI.IUM. ;>3!t 

vout Mild riiiisi.-tiiit ill liiT ivliiiioii^ iliitio .-iikI .i MmkIi In. I .s7^>. Iii~ u ifc liciiii; Mi>. .Iciiiicttc ( I'ratl ) 

iiicnilu'r of the C'luisliaii ( liuicli. Hffoii' hi.- dfiilh \\ dod. widow of W'iliiaiii W. \\'ood. iiiid dHUsrhtfr 

llif falliiT of mil- r-ulijeft took u|) :i lai'm' tiiicl of of Miles and I nuia (Cooley) I'latt, natives of \'er- 

laiid ill .Micliiiian. sixteen hundred and eiiility aeiis uiont and ( oniieclicnl respeelixel \ . .luilue T. M. 

in all.it lieiiiii' :dl wild ( ioveiniiient land. The ( Ooley is an uncle of .Mis. .laekson. aii<l her parents 

DeiiKK'iatie party eoninianded the alleyianee of 1 )i . were united in New York and died, the father in 

.laekson. wlio was aetive in every political issue. Wisconsin and the mother in New \drk. They 

( )ur siilijecl was one of twins who were horn had nine children, of whom se\cii are still siir- 

.hily 2. IHlil. in Lyons Township. Wayne County. \ ivinu. 

N. V. There he receixcd the liest ad\ aiitayc- to Mrs. .laekson w;is horn .\i;iy 2.'!. IH.')."). in (ieiiesee 
lie procured ill the district schools ami took the Coiinly. N. V.. ;iii<l haviiiii heeii iiiarried there in 
usual trainiiisi i>iven to a fanner's hoy. lie urew I S.V2. c;iiiie t<i .Michiiiaii and settled upon a per- 
to iiianiiood upon his father's farm and started fectl\' uiiliroken farm in W indsor Township. |-',atoii 
out for himself in IH4."5. heiiiii then a younu niaii ( onnty. Her first hushand was .ictive in cleaiiiiii' 
of some twenty-four years, lie (h'ci(h'<l that the and iiii|iro\ina his farm hut was killed aceich'ntally 
West was the hest i)la<'e for him and he came to Noxcinhcr '.•. ISli.s. .-n .-i shootinu match. They 
Stockhridiic Townshi|i. Ingham ('i>iiiity. Mi<-h.. were the parents of four chililreii hut none of them 
localiiii; upon three liiiiidred .-ind twenty acres — ari' now living, and she h.as no children hy her see- 
the first tract of land entered troin the (loverii- ond marri;ii;e. 

nient in liiiiham County — wlii( h was uiven him .\fter cleariiiii ami hreakinj;' ahoiit one hundred 
li\' his l.'ither. which land w;is the south li.alf of and sixty acres and feiiciiiii' in his whole half sec- 
section I. ill that township, aiicl upon which he tioii .Mr. .laekson hiiilt .a small lirick house Ifsx2f 
found no iniproveineiits. The yoiiii>>' man dro\-e feet, and sonu'what later erected a ham measuriiii;: 
his team thidUi;h from New York to his new lioiiie .">2xl<i. for which striuture he had to draw the 
in .Micliii;aii. lumlier from I'lint, lie was not thorouuhly con- 
New dear's Day. 1M44. marked a i;reat epoch in tented in Micliinaii .and after seven years ex|)er- 
tlie life of oiir siihject. for the union w.ms then icuci- here he sold his farm in IH.'idand returned 
soleinni/.ed hetween him and a lady he had finiiid to New ^(ll■k. where he inaile his home upon ;i farm 
in his new Miehiean home and whom he had of one hundred and forty .Mcres in ( Irleans (dunt.v. 
chosen as his life eoiniianion. Her maiden name -a tine proiierty for which he paid '<7.(MI(l. Two 
was .luliza .S. Haekns; she w;is the cjauirhter of ( ). \ears later he deterinined to return to the \Ve.st 
.1. .iiid Diantha (Kina) liacku-. froni ( ienesec ami sold his New ^drk proiterty and came hack to 
( ouiity. N. ^ .. where she was horn May I «. \s->i'<. Michiuan. In \s:,:<, he houi;iit a farm in Ilanihurj;' 
Her father was a \'erniunter. who caiiie to .Miclii- Township. I.iviiiiist(ui (onnty, .and remained n]>on 
gan ill 1837 and .settled in rnadilla Township. it until 1 SC.'i. when he fonml a sail' for it. 
where hoth he and his ijood wife remained until In |S(;."i this lientleman came to the villaue of 
called away hy ileatli. I'inckiiey aii<l :i yi';ir later piiroliased a f.arni one 
Twoof the three children liorii to .luliza ( Haekns) mile south of the corp<iration. |)ayin,u- ^IS.OOd for 
.laekson are now lixiiiii. iiainel\ ; .Mliert. who was .-i hamlsoinc tr;ict of two hundred and fort.v acres, 
horn .Novemhei in. 1H4-I and who married Tillie Here he de\oted himself to the cultivation of his 
llrown and with her ami his one son li\es in this f;iini until l'<7x. huyiiiii- an adilitional tract of two 
townshi]); Oria U.. who was liorn ()ctolna' 2."). 1MI7. hundred an<l forty acres ;i little farther .south at a 
married Klla P>rowii :iiid lives in I'utiiaiii Town- cost of >=I2.i"hi. This new farm he deeded to his 
ship. ( >scar .\.. who was horn .l.-iniiary 2. l!^."ili. two sons. 

ilied April 2.i. IM71. The niotliei of these son- since Aiiril. Im7.'<. .Mr. .hackson has retired frt>iii 

passed away from earth .Vpril HI. I.s7'i. .active work and has made his home in Pinekney. 

The second marriage of Mr. Jackson took place He and his uood wife arc active niemher- of Ihi' 



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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 



Metborlist Kpiticopal ('Inuvli and sJieatly interested 
in Sunday-school work, and Mrs. .Taefeon has been 
for many years a teacher therein. She is .also a 
useful member of the Ladies' Aid Society in which 
she holds the responsible ortice of Treasurer. Mr. 
.lackson is Trustee and Steward in the church and 
in both of these responsible positions his well- 
known inteiirity and sound judgment give him 
llie t'lintidence of tho.se who are associated with 
him in clim-c'li fellowship, lie is a man of broad 
intelligence and deeply interested in the great 
affairs of the world outside his county and State. 
He took great pleasure in attending the centennial 
ex))osition at Philadelphia in 1H76 and looks foi-- 
ward with intense interest to comi)ariug the out- 
look he tlien obtained in regard to the world's in- 
dustries with what he hopes to gain at the World's 
Fair in Chicago, iu 1893. The affairs of education 
in tlie township have always awakened an interest 
in this gentleman and he has l>een a member of the 
local .School Hoard. He was for fifteen years agent 
for the Livingstcjn County Insurance Company. 

Both .Mr. .and Mrs. .lackson have been strong 
advocates of temperance and cordial workers in 
different societies which have been organized to 
fight the saloon power. He is a Democrat in his 
political views and has held the office of Highway 
Commissioner in both Hamburg and Putnam Town- 
sliips. lie was one of the old-time A.ssessors of 
Slockliridge Township. The twin sister of our 
subject. Margaret L. .lackson, married jNIr. Ira 
Crou.sc. November 11, 1846, and moved to Hart- 
land Townsiii)) where a farm was given them by 
her father. She died May 2, 1875, leaving one 
son. I'"r;iiik. 



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<^L]BERT GUN80LLY. 




The general 



public rejoicing in commercial circles over 
the magnificent and unparalleled crops 
'<^ll that almost all portions of the United 

States have yielded this year (1891) indicates how 
gi-eat a power the agriculturist is m the country. 
AVithout him as a productive factor, the manufac- 



tures, of which we make so much and for which 
our legislation seems chiedy to be exercised, and 
finance generally would lie crippled as it has been 
in ])ast years. The State of Michigan is more than 
royally represented in the successful agricultural 
year, cereals and fruits flowing into the markets 
fi-om this direction in a luscious and golden stream. 
He of whom we write is one of the many who has 
reason to be congratulated on the state of the 
season and country. 

.\ resident on section 25, Leroy Township, Ing- 
ham County, the original of our sketch is a native 
of A\'ayue Count}-, X. Y.. there being born October 
!i. IHlil. He is a son of Henjamin and Elizabeth 
(Stausel) GunsoUy, his fjither being a native of 
Pennsylvania and his mother of New York. Both 
his father and his paternal grandsire were soldiei's 
iu the Revolutionary War, his father being only 
fourteen years of age when he enlisted. 

In 1833 he of whom we write came with his 
parents to the State of Michigan. He was at the 
time only fourteen years of age and the wilduess 
of tlie country was not as .serious a consideration 
as to older and more thoughtful minds. To be 
sure he had to work hard in hewing down the 
trees, helping to make roads and in plowing and 
planting and in the old-fashioned and laborious 
harvesting, when the flail was used in threshing 
out the wheat. There were rainv seasons and dull 
.seasons in which the game with which the forests 
abounded could be chased and streams known only 
to our suliject, where the fattest and most luscious 
of trout were to be caught, and poor as tiie coun 
try was in resources for housekeeping, after one of 
these exi)editions the mother would set out a talilc 
covered with game that was fit for a king. 

The famil}- were among the first settlers in 
Plymouth Township and there our subject attained 
manhood, isolated to a great degree from his kind 
and necessarily thrown back upon nature. He re- 
ceived a limited education in his youth, attending 
school but one winter. Since that time, however, 
he has read and studied by himself, so that he 
ranks well as an intelligent man. He was married 
to Lucy M. Jackson, March 1, 1846. She bore him 
five children whose names are as follows: Isaac, 
deceased; Jane; Mary; Julia, and Henry, de- 



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.■)41 



I'Piised. .[iiiif married Saiiuu'l Dalv and Mary is 
the wife of CliarU's Waamici-. Afti-i- the dt-ccMM' 
iif liis fir>t wit'i' he wa,- a sccuiid time iiiMiTir<l. Ilic 
ceri'inoiiy l>eiiia' solcinni/.od April 12. lH()ii. 'I'lii' 
pri'sciil wife was fninierly Mrs. Knieliiie Tiirrell. 
uidiiw (if the l.ate i''rederic-l< 'rurrell of iiifJ-liani 
('oiiiity. who Mas killed in the late war. 15y this 
iniioii there have lieeii two ehildreu — Albert II. and 
Norah A. 

■Mr. ( JuiisoUy first came to inaliam County, in 
ISKi. :ind lias heen lesidiiig here the a'reater part 
of the time since then, heinu one ol the oide:<t 
pioneers of l^eroy 'I'ownsliip. lie is the owner f)f 
eighty acres of hind and lieiiii; an indiisfrioiis and 
hard-workinii' man he li;is lieeii successful in .mccii- 
iniiljitina a comfortalile fortune. ( )nr snliject has 
served in .several locil ofliccs. He has liecn Ilisli- 
way ('()inmi.ss>ioner in the county. Mrs. (iuiisolty 
is a native of New York State, having lieen horn 
in Wayne County, .hmiiary \'2. IH.SM. She is a 
daniihter of .lohn .and .Mary Kiipeit. early settlers 
in Injriiam County. Our snliject favors the l)rin- 
ciples of Prohiliition. lielieviiiii the future prosjiei'- 
ity <if the country depends upon its purity in mor- 
.•ils and that it I'aiinot lie strong in this respect 
while so great a temptation as the manufacture and 
sale of intoxicants is liefore the youth <if the 
country'. .\n excellent liii:incier. he enjoys the 
confidence of tlie best business men in the eoni- 
niunity. lie with his wife, who is an intelligent 
and estimable lady, are among the most honored 
and highlv respected members of society in i.croy 
'rownshi)!. 



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« »ILI,I.V.\I II. .\l( .\III,I..VN. I'.oiii Scptem- 
1^^/ ber 21. IHll. ill Schenectady ( oiiuty. N.^l'.. 
V7V the subject <if this sketch is a son of Isaac 
and .lane (Combs) .McMillan, both <if whom were 
natives of the l-'.mpirc State. ( )ur subject 's grand- 
father on the p.atciiKil side came to the Initecl 
States in Colonial days and served in the Ke\-olu- 
tioiiaiv War. His childicii ;iie as follow^: .laiiio, 
.bihn. Alex. Isaac. William. S;iiiiiicl .■ind .lane. 



I.saac Mc^Fill.an was a carpentei- and joiner. lb- 
was born .lanuarv 11. ITlt.'i. and was called out in 
the struggle (if 1.SI2. lie died August II. 1m:m. 
at the patriarchal age of ninety-live years. His 
wife died February 5. 1H77. at the age of sixty- 
seven years and six months. .She was the mother 
of four children — Susannah, .\lexander ('.. b'obert 
.1. and \^■illiam II. Prior to his marriage willi the 
abo^c mentioned lady, our subjectV lather liarl 
been married, .and b\ that union became the 
parent of one child, a son. who.se name was Hugh. 
'I'lie family to which our subject bekmg.s moved 
to Li\ingstoii ( Oiinty. .N. V.. in IS,')H. and came 
to .Michig.'in the followiiii; .liiuc. Thev landed in 
Detroit in XoNcnibcr of the .same vcar.aiid located 
on one hundred acres on .section 'Mi. which the 
father improved, and whereon he resided until his 
death. Our subject's maternal graiidsirc w;i,- .lohii 
Combs. 

The original of oui' sketch was reared in New 
^drk. ;iud there received a conimon-.scliool educa- 
tion. During the latter part of Ihc war. when the 
call was made for i-e-inforcenicnts. the xdiunr man 
enlisted. September C. I,S(;|. in Conipain K. 
'rwenty-tirst ^lichigan Infantry. He was a |)artici- 
))ant in several battles that made inemoi'able that 
last year. The battle of Na.shville deeply impressed 
him. lie was also present at the battle of ilcntoii- 
\ille. N. ('..and participated in thetirand Hevii wat 
Washington. After his discharge, which took 
jilace the last week in .liiiic. he w.as eng'aged at the 
car(>enter's trade, continuing; in that until his 
mother's death. 

After the decease of tlic mother ol our subject. 
he licg.'in fanning on the old homestead which he 
now owns. He has served in several townshii) 
offices, and has always filled these |)ositions to the 
satisfaction of his constituents and to his own 
credit. He inherits Republican jirinciples and 
gdveiumcntal theories. His t'ather was formerh .-i 
\\hig. though during the latter part of hi..- life he was 
;i Republican. as is our subject. lie, however, favors 
ridliibitidii principles, laying great stress upon 
this as one of the i.s>ues of the future. .Soci;dh 
he belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
lows. 

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Miss Alice Norton, who was horn in Clieiiaiiso 
County, N. Y., and is a daughter uf (iillierl and 
Celia B. Norton, of the same State. Prior to lier 
marriage Mrs. McMillan was a teacher and came t(j 
Michigan in that eai)acity. unattended by relatives, 
as her father had died m her native State. Her 
motiier passed away in Michigan. Her father was 
a soldier in the late war. and in one of the battles 
received a bayonet tlirusl from the effects of which 
he died. He and his wife were the parents of 
three sons and four daughters. Mr. William II. 
McMillan and his estimable wife are tlie parents 
of five children, whose names are Herman I.. 
Emma B., Louis, Jane V. and William. Both Mr. 
and Mrs. McMillan are highly respected members 
of society in Cohoctah Townslii|i. and few social 
gatlicrings are complete without their genial pres- 
ence to brigliten and animate the occasion. 



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Albert d. Thompson. Among tiie 

(ff'^iO county olHcials of Livingston County, who 
//' '* make their home in Howell, we find no one 
(^/ wlio is more deservedly popidar on ac- 

count both of character and long acquaintance 
than the Deputy Registrar of Deeds, whose name 
we have just given, for he is a native of this little 
city and having grown up liere and shown himself 
a man worthy of esteem and regard, has taken 
his place among the best citizens of this, the county 
seat of Livingston Count\'. 

The natal year of this gentleman was 1847 and 
he is a son of Edward and Rocelia (Ward) Thomp- 
son, both of whom came to this State from New 
Yorlv. The father had been a farmer before com- 
ing to Michigan, but upon settling in Howell in 
1836 he built a furnace in the central part of town 
near the Toledo, Ann Arbor it Northern Micliigan 
Railroad depot and carried it on through life and 
in connection carried on farming extensively. Botli 
parents died in 1852. The grandparents Of our 
subject, Moses and Margaret Thompson, were both 
natives of the Empire State, and after coming to 
Michigan in 1836 they settled upon a farm in 



Howell Township, and there spent the remainder 
of their days. Of their nine children three are 
now in life: Randolph, Lucinda and .lane. Moses 
Thompson was the son of a Scotchman who settled 
in Pennsylvania. 

The |)arents of Mrs. Rocelia (Ward) Thompson, 
were David and Sarah Ward, who reared a family 
of eleven children in New York. Of that number 
the following are now living, namely: Rollin, 
Ulysses, .Stephen, Richmond, Diana, ]Mandeville, 
Ursulla and Ilerschel. Edward and Kocel a (Ward) 
Thompson were earnest and devoted members of 
the Bai)tist Church and brought up their three 
children in the faith and worsjiip of the Christian 
religion. The brother and .sister of our subject are 
Alvaro and ^laiy, who is now Jlrs. Thompson. 

Edward Tliompson kept a number of men in his 
employ at the furnace and on the farm and his 
furnace was notable as being the first one estab- 
lished in the county. His two hundred acres of 
land lay within the village limits and the best part 
of Howell is now linilt n|)on what was the Thomp- 
son farm. This gentleman laid out an addition to 
the city which is known as Thompson's Addition. 
He donated a half block of ground for the county 
buildings and upon this land has been placed a 

i beautiful edifice. He also gave the grounds for 
the first cemetery. His own beautifiU residence 
which he erected on Mill Street remained his home 
until death. He was an early settler who did much 
for the improvement of Howell, and was a man of 
principle and integrity, whose influence was as 

] powerful in an unconscious way as it was helpful 
by intent. As property increased in value in 
Howell he of course grew in wealth and became 
one of the most prosperous men in the place. 

After taking what schooling ho could .secure in 
the public schools of Howell, Albert Thompson at- 
tended college at Hillsdale, Mich., and later took a 
business course at Ames Business College, N. Y., 
graduating in 1865. After farming for twenty 
years upon an eighty-acre farm in Shiawassee 
County, Mich.. iNIr. Thomp.son came to Howell 
in December, 188'J, to accept his present position. 
He filled a number of minor offices in Shiawassee 
County and was also Supervisor for three terms 

I and was Township Clerk for live terms. His mar- 




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I'iaifc in lH(iH hioiiiilit to \\\> limiio ;i true lu-liiin.'itc 
Mini coinpaiiion in tlit' [iiMxin of Mis,-; Kniil\ llani- 
niimd of tliis county, whose paiiMits, /ina and ( )livc 
( ('ai|icnt»'r) llaninumil. wcic liotli natives of tlie 
Knipiie State. Four lovely eliildren iiave blessed 
lliis union and are jTrowini;; up to lie the comfort 
and comi)aiiions of their parents. They are named. 
l.yman. Rose, Lillie and Alvaro. Tlie Hepuhlican 
partv is tile political oriifanization with wliich Mr. 
'riiompsou finds himself in sympathy ami he is an 
earnest worker for its success on all occasions. lie 
is a prominent man in the social order which i.s 
known 1>\' the ma<>ic initials of K. ( ). T. M. 



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OSKIMI BOWDISII HILL. M. !).. whose 
portrait ajipears on the opposite pajje, was 
horn in Fairfield, Franklin County, \'t., 
^j)' .lanuary 2.'), I K21, ;ind is therefore at this 
writinu' ( IMIM ), less than sixty-eight years old. Hi.-. 
]iateiiiMl u'randfatlier was of Kn<;lish descent, while 
on his mother's side he comes of I''rench ancestry. 
Both ( Jrandfather Hull ami (irandfather Howdish 
(originally t^pelled Bowditch). Mere Colonels in the 
Revolutionary War, and the latter was Sheriff of 
Franklin County, Vt., for several years. 

The father of our subject, who i>ore the nanie of 
^ of Timothy Hul l, was married to Orrisa Bowdish 
and they remained in Vermont until May, 1830, 
when they removed to Michigan and settled in 
Leoni, Jackson C'oimty. At the time of their re- 
moval hither Jo.seph B. was a l.'id of twelve years 
and he had attended a good common school in the 
(Ireen Mountain .State. After coming here he did 
not receive much benefit from the schools of Leoni 
as they were inferior to the .schools of \'ermont. 
He was a pupil in a select school for two terms and 
jiursued his studies with private te.acher.s, expecting 
to complete his education at Middlebury College, 
N'ermont. His father engaged in business as an 
hotel-keeper for a short time and subsequently 
operated as a farmei- ami merchant until he died 
in IS 11 1. 

The death of his lather changed our .^-ulijecl's 



life from >rudy to l;ibor, as the support of his 
molhei- and the six children (two boys and four 
girls) devolved upon themselves. Their whole 
wealth consisted of eighty acres of unimproved 
land worth about «f>(l(l. When .loseph B. was fif- 
teen years old he taught .school in North Adams, 
Hillsdale County; he had a large nnmbei' of |)n- 
pils — about sixty — twenty-five of Ihem being over 
twenty years of age and .several jireparing them- 
selves for t(;achers. For several years he followed 
the profession of teaching and studied as circum- 
stances woidd permit or necessity required. In 
IHM. his health being poor, he visited his native 
place, hoping to recuperate his strength. While 
then' he taught in his native town. 

In the spring of 181,'), finding his health not im- 
proved but rallu'r the reverse, our subject returned 
to this Stale and studied nu'dicine with Dr. Brown. 
ha\'ing pre\ionsly ie:id for a slioit time with Dr. 
\'. Meeker. Soon afterward an accident happened 
which determined him to study medicine and 
surgei'y elsewhere. .V hunter named Scott had . 
been ill for .soTue time and ujion recovery his lirst 
act was to unload his gun which had been loaded 
during his sickness. Several times he tried unsuc- 
cessfully to fire it off. Impatient, he brought the 
gun lieavih down upon the floor when it was dis- 
charged anil tin' b;ill pa>scd through the under 
jaw, obli(piely acro.ss the face, liackof the nose and 
lodged in the skull above the inner a igle f)f the 
eye. Dr. Brown was sent for, but althcnigh an ex- 
cellent physician he was no surgeon and upon ex- 
amining the wound he fainted. Our suliject at- 
tended the man ami extracted the bullet. 

Not lieing able financially to study away from 
lK)me and having an opportunil\ to .secure a posi- 
tion, he entered the .services of Messrs, Goss, Darl- 
ing S; Balch, who contracted to build several miles 
of railroad between Kalam.a/.oo and New Buffalo 
on the Michigan Central lini'. lie spi'iit .'ibout two 
and one-half years with them, having charge of a 
store and keeping the conlpany's accounts. His 
leisure time was devoted to study and without in- 
terfering with his other bu.sine.'^s. he accumulated 
and read (piite ii medical library. Dvuiiig this time 
he sent all lii> money |o lii> mother excepting the 
little which was necewary for his personal expenses. 



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Upon leaving the employ of the company he en- 
gaged in the mereantile Inisiness at Comstock, 
near Kalamazoo. Imt lemained there only a short 
time. 

AVe next find Dr. Hull in Kalamazoo, where he 
entered the ottice of Trof. .1. .\dains Allen. Tlii.-; 
gentleman w.as then Professor in the Indiana Med- 
ical College at LaPorte, subsequently Professor in 
the Medical Department of the Michigan Univer- 
sity, and at the time of his death President of Rush I 
Medical College, in Chicago. Having become ac- 
quainted with Prof. Allen while residing in Kala- 
mazoo, our sulijecl chose him as his preceptor and 
attended a course of lectures at LaPorte. When 
Prof. Allen was elected to a Chair in the Michigan i 
I'niversity our subject attended two courses of 
lectures there, graduating April 21, 18.02. He then 
returned to his old home in Leoniand commenced 
the practice of his profession. 

After residing in I^eoni three years Dr. Hull was 
married to Emily Hewitt, an estimable and intelli- 
gent lady, the daughter of .Jephtha and Mary 
Hewitt, of Leoni. After their marriage the young 
couple went immediately to Lansing, where they [ 

m 

still reside. The Doctor soon became recognized 
as a thorough physician and his practice grew rap- 
idly, spreading over an area of country twenty 
miles in diameter. He is now in active practice, 
having all he wishes to do. Of the six children 
l)orn to himself and wife three now survive, viz: 
Jesse Butler, who was graduated witli honors in 
medicine and surgery in the medical de])artment of 
Michigan University in \M{y, Laura P.. wiio is 
studying music at the American Conservatory of 
Music in Chicago; Harriett, who is now fourteen 
years old and in the .lunifir Class of the Lansing 
High .School. 

In 18.54 the Doctor was at the convention held 
in .Jackson when the Pe)iulilican party sprung into 
existence luidcr the nnks of the beiiutifiii city. He 
cimtinued to vole with that party until I<s7l when 
he became dissatislied with the cfiurse taken by the 
Oovernment iu deiding u ith the whisky revenue 
thieves. Since tiien lie has been a Democrat and 
has represented tin's party as a delegate to i-itx . 
county and St.-ilc cdu vcnticnis. P>ecau>c he re- 
fused to \'otc the Kc|iublican ticket he was. in 



1876, removed from the Examining Board of Pen- 
sions and a Republican put in his place. He had 
held the oltice of Examining Surgeon for Pensions 
since 181)2, having received his cnmmission from 
Abraham Lincoln. 

Dr. Hull has filled the ottice of Alderman four 
years, also that of Superintendent of the Poor for 
Ingham County, and Director of the Poor for the 
city of Lansing, County Physician, and Physician 
of the State Reform School. He is now a member 
of the State Medical Society and Secretary of the 
Lansing City Medical Society. In 1864 he re- 
ceived the appointment of acting Assistant Sur- 
geon of the Ignited States Army and reported at 
the Clay (General Hospital in Louisville, Ky. Soon 
after he was directed to report for duty to the 
First Battalion. Ohio Sharpshooters, Capt. Barber 
commanding. This battalion was doing duty at 
the headquarters of the Army of the Cumberland, 
Cen. George H. Thomas commanding. Our subject 
retained his position until the close of the war 
when he returned to his home and resumed his pro- 
fession. Earl\- in the war he was appointed by 
Gov. Blair Examining Surgeon for the draft in 
Ingham County, which service he performed and 
examined nearly three thousand persons. 

In 1870 the Doctor was elected .Secretary of the 
.State Insurance Company, which was nearly in its 
death throes, but with the assistance of Dr. I. H. 
Bartholomew, its President, he reorganized the 
comiiany and id.aced it on a solid foundation. 
.Vfter being with the company nearly two years he 
resunie(l the practice of his profession. The ct)m- 
pany afterward concluded to cease doing business, 
and re-insured its policies, paid all indebtedness 
and died an lionorable death. Soon after coming 
to Lansing the Doctor joined the Masonic frater- 
nity and is nf)w a member of Lodge 'iso. 66, also 
of Chapter No. !), Boyal .Vrcli Ma.sons. From his 
lio\lioiid Dr. Hull li:i>liecii a firm teinpcrance iiian. 
using no toliacco or ;ilcohol in .•my form, except as 
a medicine, and lias constantly used his influence 
to su|ipress their use wheri'Ver and whenever lie 
could consistently. .VltlKuiah when young his 
lie.-iltb was delicate, by adopting regular and teni- 
liciate b;iliit> his hejiltli has impro\ed and is now 
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wliicli |nev('iit> iinuli iihysical labor, lie nml liis 
wife joiiK'd llic I'lcshyti'riaii Clnnvli soon aftcf 
cniniiiir to this city, and now tln-y wilii all tlicir 
cliiliiifii. lu'lon^' Id that iii'iiiiiiization. Mr's. Hull 
has ciiiiaui'il with the ciiuivh in many hcncvolent 
nndcrtakiniis and tlic i)oor havi' always found re- 
lief Ihroui^h her exertions. 



JI'OSKIMI RTI>KR. Tiiere is prohahly no man 
more iironiinent fur inteiligenee and charac- 
ter within the cnntines of Genoa Townshi]), 
I-ivini;ston County, than he of wlumi we 
write. His success may well be attrilnited to his 
intellisjence. his yood manauement and hai'd work, 
and he has the universal esteem of the community. 
Ilewasliorn in DeKalli Township, St. Lawrence 
County, N. V.. March 2.'), 1H17. His father. Joseph 
l\i<ler Sr.. who was l)orn in Rockland County, 
X. Y., was of Holland descent. This parent was 
bereaved of his father .and mother when (luite 
younii and was lioundout to learn the shoemaker'.s 
trade in New York City and therefore received 
but little cducaliiiH. He was a Soldier in the AVar 
of I SI 2 havini; u^one as a volunteer from Delvall) 
to Ofi'densburir. and later he engaged in farming. 
Me received a payment of 8150 .as a pension from 
the Government. 

The father of our subject came to this State in 
1833 and .seftle(l in Milford Township. Oakland 
County, u])on (ifty acres of land. In 18;!;'i became to 
this conntv and resided with hisson until his death 
which occurred at the age of eighty-four. His wife 
bore the maiden name of Sarah Peck, and she w.as 
leared in New '\'ork. Her children were Martha. Je- 
mina. and our subject, besides one who died when 
quite young. The mother passed from earth about 
the year 1830, being still in middle life, and her 
death was ('aused liv a cancer. 

The education of our subject was t.">ken in the 
district schools after he was ten years old, and he 
rame West in 1H.''3 by w.ay of water to Deti'oit, 
and then by team to Oakland County. After two 



years' residence there he came to this locality and 
took uj) one hundred and twenty acres of (iovern- 
ment land. He exchanged one horse for a \ oke 
of oxen and workc(l for his neighbors to gain the 
money to obtain another yoke. There wei'e then 
tinly three houses in the township. l>ut he soon 
added aiKither to the settlement. The Indian liail 
passed his house and the .savages were freipicnt 
callers. He could talk tlieir language and they 
traded him venison for commodities wliicli he 
could furnish. Wild game was abundant and he oc- 
casionally brought down a fine animal, but never 
devoted himself to hunting. It took five da^ys to 
go to Detroit and back with ox-teams as was nec- 
es,sary to obtain supplies. 

Mr. Hidei' c.'irries on mixed f.aiining and raises 
lai'ge numbers of stock and at one time made a 
specialty of Shoit-horn cattle. In Octolier, 1H.')H, 
he w;is awarde(l the diploma for the best cull ivated 
farm in the county. This was given him at the 
Livingston County .Vgricullural Fair. He now 
has two liuudred .'ind eleven acres of land having 
given to his son some sixty acres. His marriage 
March 19. 18411, united him with Isabella .M. Fish- 
back, who was born in Dcpuyster, St. Lawrence 
County, X. Y., M.-iy 3, 1«2I. 

JNL'.s. Ridei-'s parents. .lacob an<l Elsie (Stearns) 
FMshback were from New York State, who came 
here in 183(3 and lived in (ienoa Townshi]) for one 
year and afterward removed to Marion Township, 
where they carried on !i farm of one hundred and 
twenty acres. The father died when sixty-four 
years old from consumption and the mother, who 
retained her faculties most wonderfnll\'. passed 
aw'ay at the age of eighty-foui-. Her eight s(nis 
and six daughters all grew lo yeais of maturity 
and one of these daughters is now ninety-four years 
old and is living in the .State of New Y'ork. The 
mother was a Presbyterian in her religious belief. 

Ten children came to bles.s the home of our sub- 
ject, and .seven of them reached the age of maturity. 
George W. died at the age of sixteen. Andrew J., 
owns a commercial college in Trenton, X. .1.; he also 
runs two large cranberry bogs yieldingabout three 
thousand Itushels a year: Alberl .1.. is a farmer in 
IlandyTownship: l'"Jsic. Mrs. Millon Pettybonc. is 
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married a music teacher and dealer in musical in- 
struments at Stanton; Henry D.,is a farmer in this 
township; William is at home and Nettie is the wife 
of Dr. E. D. Millis of Webberville. 

The church connection of this family is with the 
Free Will IJaptists and Air. Hider is a Democrat in 
his i)olitical views, lie was only twenty-one years 
old when he was elected Assessor and he shortly 
became Township Clerk, and afterward served as 
.Justice of the Peace ior a jj-reat many years. He 
has held ottice nearly all the time since he reached 
his majority. He is a charter member of tiie Genoa 
Grange and li.as held oHice as Overseer and Chaj)- 
lain. He erected his neat frame residence in 1853 
and his two large barns were built in 185(1 and in 
1887. He h.is taken great interest in the cullurc 
of trees and has many of them upon his place. 



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Vi? S. GRISWOLI) is a farmer on section 7, 
Hartland Township, Livingston County, this 
State. He was born in Chemung County, 
^ N. Y.,near the city of Elmira, his natal day 
being December 21, 182:5. His parents were also 
natives of the Empire State, his father being Henry 
Griswold,who was born in New York and there 
reared on a farm. He came to Michigan in an early 
day, and in 1886 settled in Hartland Township, 
Livingston County, upon the section where he still 
lives. He at once built a frame house wiiich con- 
sisted of a single room having the modest dimen- 
sions of 16x18 feet. He with his family at once 
bent their energies toward clearing u[) the place 
and niaking it a |)r(idu(:tive and tit place for habi- 
tation. 

At the lime that oui- suhjcct came with hi.- |iar- 
ents to this State, one saw moic Indians th:iii white 
men, and wild animals skulked .and glided through 
the sJKulowing boughs of the trees of the forest. 
Henry Griswold, our subject's father, died on his 
home place Sejitembcr 17. IS77. During his life- 
time he lyas an adhcrcnl of the |irinci])les of the 
Whig party. He ui-c-upiiil :i uuiiilier of positions 
iu local ottice, having been .Justice of the Peace 



several years, and also- held several school offices. 
He was a member of ' the ^Icthodist Episcopal 
Church for fifty years, and was always a gen- 
erous worker in the cause of the Gospel. He held 
various offices in the church and was intimately 
connected with the growth of that denomination 
in this vicinity. He was well known throughout 
the country as a hard-working man, with an innate 
appreciation of the spirit of truth. Our sul)ject's 
paternal grandfather, Elisha Griswold, supposed to 
have been born in Connecticut, died while yet a 
young man. Our subject's mother, who was before 
her marriage Miss Elizabeth Snell, was born in New 
York State, in Chemung County. She died in 1878. 

Henry (iriswold and his wife were tiie ])arents<if 
ciiiht children, and of these our subject is the eld- 
est. He was reared in his native place until twelve 
years of age. His tirst schot)l days were passed in 
learning the three R's in a frame schoolhouse not 
a great distance from his home. After coining to 
^Michigan with his parents at the age of twelve, he 
continued school in Hartland Townshii). remaining 
at home under his father's roof until he was of ,age 
after whicli he clerked in a general store at Par- 
shallville, Hartland Townshij), remaining there In 
all for a period of about six years. 

The original of our sketch \vas married October 
28, 1850, his bride being Esther Mason, who was 
born in Riichester, N. Y., October 25, 1825. After 
settling in life our subject located in the village of 
Parshallville, where he was engaged in a general 
store until 1866, then took a partnershi]) and con- 
tinued with the linn until 1«88. when they sold 
out the stock, but our subject still owns the build- 
ing. For twenty-five years he had the position of 
Postmaster in the village of Parsh.allville. was Su- 
pervisor foi' two years jiikI .Iiistice of the Peace for 
eight yeaiv. He has served in all the ottices of the 
ScIkxiI Boai'd times witluiut end. 

( )\ii- subject is a Repulilican in his political [n-ef- 
erence. After selling out his interests in the vil- 
lage he removed to the farm where he at present 
resides. His home is built on the site of the old 
homestead of his father. His pj'esent residence was 
erected at a cost of ¥;5.5O0. and contains ever.\ 
comfort and iiuiny of the luxurio of life. It is a 
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clot^et* and heated with ii Iuiikki'. II i> tiiii>ht'd 
throughout mo.st beautifully with natural wood, 
and it* furnished comfortalily. not too good for u.se 
or perfect enjoyment. One hundred and eighty 
aeres spreaid awa.y about the place and are dotted 
with shade trees of the choicest varieties. It also 
has a fine orchard. Our subject also owns one hun- 
dred and twenty acres on section ;>, and all nf his 
realty possessions arc under cultivation. lie is 
engaged quite largely in the l)reeding of stock, 
having from twenty five to fifty head of cattle to 
dispose of each year. There is a tenement house 
upon his place thai is occu])ied by an able assistant 
in his agricultural work. ( lur >ubjecl and his wife 
arc the parents of one daughlei'. whose name is 
Klla. .She is the w-ife of ('. A. Farshall, who is en- 
gaged in the milling business in the village of 
Ilartland. Our subject has two good liarns upon 
Ills place, each 8().\.")(i feet in dimensions and hav- 
ing basements with solid stone foundations. These 
he built at a cost of !5'l,r)0(). Mr. Griswold is one 
of the substantial and solid men of Ilartland 
Township. He is public-spirited and progressive 
and has ever been ready l<> give a helping hand 
and encouraging word to any good cause tliat 
promises to be for the benefit of the people. 



^^^j HAHLKS riKKKLI.. Weare plea>ed to prc- 
il( _ sent the name of a highly respected farmer 

\wr' who resides on section ."{. Lerov Township. 
Ingham ( (luiity. ;iiiil who was liorn in AVayne 
County. Mich.. .luly 1 1. If^lil. His parents, both New 
Yorker>. were Ch.Muncy (<leceased) and Kleriiioi 
Turrell. tlie hitter lieing the graiiil-(hnigliler of a 
Revolutionary >oldier. With lli^ parents our sub- 
jci't came, at the Jige of eight years, to Ingham 
County. Mich., tiaveling in wagons with oxen a> 
the motive powei'. They became among the tir>t 
liioiieers of I,ero\ Township, making their lionie 
two miles Miuth of \\'eblierville and later moving 
on to the faiin now owned by their son. 

The sur\i\iug children of this fnmily are .\iiii 

1^.. wife of IIenr\' Wilber. { li:irles. I,uc\' .1.. wife of 



Isaac Dove, and Jefferson. The father who was a 

Democrat in his i)olitical convictions, died during 
the days of the Civil War. 

Having received his education in the district 
schools of Ingham County, Charles Turrell took 
up his life work as a farmer, but on the day he 
reached his majority he enlisted in the army of his 
country, joining Company E, Eighth Michigan In- 
fantry, and being assigned to Hurnsides' army. He 
fought in the battle of James Island where his 
brother, Frederick, was killed, and took part in the 
conflicts of Bull Run. Chantilly. South ^Mountain. 
.Vntielam .•iiid Fredericksburg. His icgiment le- 
inforced Grant's army at Vicksburg and took part 
in the battle of .lackson and also was active at 
Knoxville. Tenii.. tin' Wilderness. Spottsylvania, 
the siege of Fetersburg, taking part in the last 
charge of the reliel works at Fetersburg. They 
took ]wrt in thetirand Review at Washington and 
were honorably discharged .luly .'io. 186.5. 

Henry Turrell. a brother of our subject, was 
killed in the battle of Chickamauga and the father 
died at .Vnnajiolis. .Md.. a victim of typhoid fever. 
This patriotic family sacrificed not only the father 
but two brothers in the service of their country, 
and their mourning is mingled with joy that they 
were able to do so much for the cause of the I'liion. 

The marriage of tiur subject took place May Itt. 
186H. and his bride. Emclinc .Starks. is a daughter 
of Hiram and Reliccea Starks. both of wlioni have 
passed to the other world. Only one child, a ,*on, 
Ilir.-uii. came to ble^s this In ir.e ;iiid he has been 
called from life. The bereaved [larents have 
adopted two sons. Elsworth and Willie, and to them 
lhc\ have given true )iarciital (•••ue and training. 
The fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres is in 
an excellent state of cultivation and besides attend- 
ing to his own agiicuilural puisuits our siiliject 
has found time to serve his towiishi|) as Ilighwav 
(Onimissioner, to which he was elected upon the 
Repulilican ticket. 

lb" of whom we write is prominently idenlitied 
with the F. Turrell Fost No. !):?. <;. A. R.. at Web- 
bcr\ ille. wliicli w:is named in honor of his brother, 
Fredciick. who fell at .lames Island while charging 
the rebel force. ( hailcs Turiell receives a pension 
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history is replete with incidents of bravery as a 
soldier and wortli as a citizen. He is a member of 
the Ingham County' Pioneer Association and com- 
mands the respect of all who know him. both for 
his own sake and for that of his family whose lives 
will ever be cherished as a part of the history of 
the county. 



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i:Y:\IOrR E.HOAVE, a fanner on section 5, 
Howell Township, Livingston County, is 
the owner of a beautiful home and one 
hundred and sixt_y acres of land. He came 
to this place in 1856 and has since made this his 
residence. The first house in which he lived was 
built partially of logs, the other part being a frame 
dwelling. Prior to Mr. Howe's purchase of the 
place this building was used as an hotel, and doubt- 
less many are the travelers who in pioneer days 
found it a very refuge of rest and comfort. ( )ur 
subject continued to use it as a residence for some 
eighteen years and then built his commodious and 
attractive farmhouse where his family enjoys all 
the comforts of life. 

Mr. Howe was born in Ellia Township, Gen- 
esee County, N. Y., September 19, 1817. His father 
was Setli and his mother Achsah (Washburn) 
Howe, natives of Connecticut. They were the 
parents of ten children and of these our sub- 
ject was the ninth in order of birth. The 
mother died in 1819, while the son of whom we 
write was still young. His father was a local 
preacher of the Methodist persuasion and for forty 
years his home served as a place of worship for the 
people in the locality in which he lived. In the 
early history of Genesee County, N. Y.. where tiie 
progress was not so rapid as in pioneer days in 
Michigan, the latter having been benefited by the 
progress in the East, preacher Seth Howe called the 
people together for spiritual instruction which he 
gave according to his understanding. Two years 
.after the decease of his first wife he contracted a 
second marriage, his bride being Mrs. Dunning. 
By tills union there was one child. Our subject's 
father died when seventy-live \ears of aue. 



The original of our sketch, when a child six yeai-s 
of age went to live with an older brother and re- 
mained with him assisting in the farming and en- 
gaged in painting until he was sixteen years of 
age. Later he visited Washtenaw County, tliis 
State, where a brother and sister were living. 
While there he worked at carriage building, and 
later took up clock-making, carrying on tliis last- 
named business in partnersliip with a brother. 
After remaining several years in Michigan lie re- 
tiuned to his home in New Y'ork. He pledged 
himself to remain with his father as long a.- that 
parent lived, and fulfilled his pledge. 

Mr. Howe entered the matrimonial relationship 
March 26, 1846, his bride being Miss Pliebe A. 
Boutell, who was born August 21. 1822. She was 
a daughter of Ira and Elizabeth (Brown) Boutell, 
natives of Hartford, Conn., and Newport, R, I., 
respectively. Her father was a farmer bj- calling, 
and for some time lived in Batavia, N. Y'., coming 
thence about 1808. He was at that time a large 
farmer. Mrs. Howe is the only child; -her mother 
passed away from this life in 1828, and seven 
years after the father married a second time, his 
wife being Harriet Jane Ketchem. By this union 
there were three children, only one of whom is now 
living, whose name is Ira Boutell. When but six- 
teen years of age he went into the hardware busi- 
ness at Batavia, N. Y., and later received a Captain 's 
commission in the War of the Rebellion. A brave 
and heroic soldier, he received promotion to the 
rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Now a resident at St. 
Louis, Mo., he is engaged in the wholesale and re- 
tail grocery business and has been greatly pros- 
pered, being considered one of the very wealthy 
men of that city. 

Mrs. Howe w.as educated at Middleliury Acad- 
emy. N. Y'.,and in her younger days was a te.acher. 
At the time of solemnizing their marriage Solomon 
Judd officiated. They commenced housekeeping 
at, Pembrook, Genesee County, N. Y'., on a farm of 
fifty acres, part of which was owned by Jlr. Howe's 
father. They remained witli him until -his death. « 
which occurred the 13th of June, 1852. After that 
]Mr. Howe, with his brother, Ebenezer, built and ran 
a steam sawmill for two years; in the meantime he 
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lin;\lly IrMilfil lur Mil lidlclnt l')Usli\illc. ( ifiioci' 
County, N. V.,wliifli he ran as a temperance house. 
They also owned a grocery at the same place, lint 
at tlie expiration of the first year they traded llieir 
property tiiere for a farm at Cary ville, X. Y., where 
they remained for one year, wiien they sold and 
came to Howell Township, this State, in 1856, set- 
ting out from New York, October 14, of that year. 
They brought five small children with them, iiav- 
ing been tlie parent* of nine childicn. six of 
whom are now living. 

The first few years tliat our subject and liis fam- 
ily spent in this State were years of hardship anil 
denial. Mr. Howe was obliged to work out fur 
other people, as his new fa;m would not support 
himself and family. Sorrow also came to them_ 
for their family whs afflicted with sickness and two 
of his children were taken away. The names of 
the children whose presence has come as a blessing 
to their parent»s are Alice C., Eugene E., Marllui 
.\.. Ellen F.. Willie C, (ieorge K., Ida I., and Ada 
E. Willie C. died in New York in 1M51, while 
still an infant; Ada E.. who was horn March III, 
1863, died September 22, 1863; .Mary .1. died Oc- 
tober, 4, 1863. when twelve years old; Alice C. was 
educated at Ypsilaiili Xorinal School and lliere 
received her certificate as a teacher in 18(;!l. Slic 
has made teaching her life-work and is greatly lie- 
lovefl at Wyandotte, Wayne ('(Hiiity this State, by 
many who received her instruction during fifteen 
years of educational work in that plai-e; she has 
also taught in other pl.aces and is considered (uie 
of the best teachers in this part of the country. 
For the past few years she has been engaged in 
school work in the district in whicji her father 
lived, unselfishly giving up any aniliition that she 
might have for a broader s])liere in order to lie able 
to be with her parents in their declining years. 
Eugene E. married Adelpliia Hill; he is the fatliei 
of three daughters — Mary .1., .\da E. and Alice .V. 
He is a fanner in comfortable I'lri'unistMiices and 
lives very near his father's place: .Martha A. is the 
wife of A. S. Person: she is inotlier of four children 
— Myrta M., Seyninur II., Conu lius (i. and .Viiiiic 
B. They live in the village of Howell. Willie ( . 
married Huliy Hill; lie is the father of twocliildren. 
daughters — Norah I'., and Heitlui .M..and lives just 



imiili of lii^ fai'iii. (ieorge F. niariied Norah Hart; 
they have one child, whose name is .Stanley; they 
reside in the village of Howell. Ida L. married 
Dr. Aliranis. of Dollar Bay, this State. .\ll the 
members of the Howe family h.'ive fine farms and 
good homes. 

Mr. Howe has gi\en his chihlren every educa- 
tional advantage possible. The family are mem- 
bers of the Methodist Ejiiscopal Cluirch. the father 
having been so connected from Sdiilh. He has lield 
various positions in the ehurcii and ha-s been a 
generous supporter of that body. Politically, he is a 
Prohibitionist and is regarded as one of the prom- 
inent men of the county. 



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HA \'. REEVES. Putnam Township, Living- 
ston County, contains a cla.ss of intelligent 
and well-educated farmers who have seen imich 
of the world and whose choice of a home in this 
locality is founded, not upon a narifiwing igno- 
rance of wli.'it else llie world can offer, liiit upon .-i 
full com|)reliension of the advantages of this re- 
gion over many others. .Vmong these men of 
bro.'id mind and cxpciiciice in life we iii;i\' name 
the gentleman of whom we write. 

Howell Reeves, the grandfather of our subject, 
was born in Oviii. \. V.. ()ctolicr 11. 1777. and 
married Elizabeth Wood, who was born October 
1 1. 1783 and died .Inly 11,1816. After her death 
he was again married. By the lirst marriage, from 
which our subject is descended, -there were eight 
children, viz: Mehitahle. Mary. Charles W., Sarah 
(Ieorge, Kitsie, .lames ;ni(l .lolm 1).. the last named 
being the only survivor. Howell Reeves died Xo- 
\emlier 7. 1853, having had tliri'i' children by his 
>ecoiid iiiariiage— Gabriel P.. Elizabeth aii<l How- 
ell — all of whom are still living. 

(ieorge Reeves, tlie f.nther of our subject. w;is 
burn February 11, 1 .Sill), near AV est Town. Orange 
County, N. Y. He married Lavinia. daughter of 
.lames Lane, and she was born .Inly (>, 18U7 in 
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took place April 22, 1829, and they resided in 
Orange County until the death of the wife which 
occurred about 1831. She left one child, our sub- 
ject. The father again married, February 6, 1832, 
choosing sis his wife Martha Eliza, daughter of Will- 
iam and Sarah (Roe) Allison, natives of New York, 
wlio was born August 31,1813, and lieeamc the 
mother of ten children. 

The family made their home in Orange County. 
N. Y., until they came to Michigan in tlie 
spring of 1836, establishing themselves in Lima. 
Washtenaw County, where the father kept an hotel 
for a short time and operated a farm until the fall 
of 1837, wlien he removed to Pinckney, moving 
his family into the second frame building which 
was ever erected in that village, being a store and 
hotel combined. These two conveniences to the 
public were operated by him and were the first in 
the village. In those days the well-known writer, 
Caroline Matilda Kirkland and her husband, Will- 
iam Kirkland, resided in this village and they are 
well remembered by our subject. 

During the two ^yeaj's' residence of the family in 
Pinckney the father built a brick addition to the 
hotel, which is still standing. In 1839 he bought 
the mill site and farm upon which our subject now 
lives and on it built a tlouring-mill in addition to 
the sawmill which was already there. In tlie former 
he put four runs of stones and operated both mills. 
In addition to this he erected a residence into 
which he removed in 1839. He had a farm of six 
hundred acres and during his lifetime he cleared 
off about one hundred and fifty acres of it, making 
his home here until 1877, with the exception of 
the time which he spent in California in 1849. 

George Reeves was successful in his business 
operations and was a prominent man, taking a 
lively interest in politics and besides being one of 
the earliest Supervisors of the township, served for 
a long while as Justice of the Peace. His political 
affiliations are with the Democratic party and he 
was esteemed a leader among men of that shade of 
political belief. He died in April, 1877, and his 
wife is also deceased. The year after the death 
of this gentleman the mill in which he had taken 
so much interest in was liurned to the ground. 

Tlie suliject of our sketch was .seven vears of 



age when he came to Michigan, to which he came 
by the way of the Erie Canal, makiug an unusually 
slow trip as he was laid up for three weeks at a 
bridge. He attended school at Pinckney but made 
fre(pient visits back to New York. In the spring 
of 18-19 he joined his father in making up a party 
to take an overland trip to California. They 
started from Michigan in a wagon, going to Joliet, 
111., then to St. Louis, Mo., where they spent a week 
laying in supplies, whence they traveled to Lex- 
ington, Mo., where they bought cattle. From that 
point the real journey began, crossing the Kaw 
River at Topeka, then moving toward tlie Platte 
River, east of Ft. Kearney, then to the South Pass 
of the Rocky Mountains and on to Salt Lake City. 
From this city the party moved north around 
Great Salt Lake to the valley' of the Humboldt 
River and following Green Horn "cut-off," the 
party arrived in the Sacramento A'alley at Deer 
Creek. They kept on until they reached Feather 
RiA^er. locating on Long's Bar, where they staid 
most of the winter working in the mines. In the 
spring our subject went to Yuba where he made a 
business of keeping a restaurant for a sliort season. 
Thence he went to Butte Creek and located a claim 
which is known as Reeve's Bar which they worked 
till August, 1850, when they determined to return 
home. There were four of them working this claim 
and although they took out 1200 per day every day 
they became so homesick that they could no longer 
remain there and came home. The journey out 
across the plains occupied from March 27 until Oc- 
tober, but they returned by the way of Panama. 
They considered the trip on the whole to have lieen 
a successful one. During this experience the 
the father suffered from a severe attack of c)u)lt'ia 
but his life was spared. 

After remaining at home a year the young man 
made arrangements with his father to take and 
carry on the mill property which Inisiness he con- 
tinued until the fire. He became interested in bee 
culture some four years ago and now ships honey 
to Bay City, having some forty hives of I)ees. He 
is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to 
the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Knights Templar and 
has been Senior Deacon. He has always taken an 
active part in politics and is a stanch Democrat. 




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He is at present Justice of ihc IV'iut'. wliich (itlici- 
lie lias lii'ld for seventeen years, lie lias also served 
as .Scliool Inspector. His father was Postmaster of 
I'inckney in 1839 and iield the commission of Aid 
to (k'n. Brown, of tlte Michisf.'in niiliti;i. 

The ocntleman of wlioni we write hiis never 
iMken to iiiraself a wife hut makes liis lioiiie on tlie 
ohi homestead with liis sister's family. His many 
fi'iends would he pleased to see him surrounded 
by a family of his own and rcjjret that so noble 
:i man should not have cho.sen to have made some 
line woman haiijiy by his companionship. 



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ILLIAM S. C.VLKIXS. It is ever a sjrate- 



'' ful task to lay a wreath f)f memorial screen 
upon the grave of one who has fougiit 
nobly the battles of life and by his strong right 
arm has upheld the banners of religion and moral- 
ity, making the world better foi- his li;i\iug lived 
in it. Such a tribute we gladly offer to the meni- 
oi\ I if the gentleman whose name introduces this 
brief bidgraphieal nntiee. and whose portrait is pre- 
sented in connection with this sketch. 

One f)f the early settlers of I.ansinii. .Mr.( alUins 
canie lo this city in lH-17. at which time the c;i|iital 
was located here, and at once engaged in business 
with Ml-. Norris. carrxingon a |iotterv. However. 
for many years prior to his demise he w;is engage<I 
in selling lands for the late .lames Turner, and was 
.•ilso in liusiness as a fire insurance agent, making 
the latter his special line of woik (luring the l;ist 
lifleeii or twenty years of his lite, lie w.ms boin 
in I'eriiington. near Ixochestei'. N. V.. l-"eliiuaiy II. 
|is| 1, .•ind there receixed a tlioi<iugh and compre- 
hensive ('(lucation. In IH.'it;. he and his father 
came West, and settling in South Lyon Township. 
Oakland County. Mich., proceeded to clear a f.'irm. 
Having subdued this trad of land with their axes, 
they removed thence, in IM4 7. to what was at that 
time the little city of Liinsing. 

.Vfter a residence in Lansing of about fortv-two 
years. Mr. Calkins died November M. I H8'.). sincerely 
iniiurniMl not onl\- bv his famih . but bv all who 



had known his faithful life iind unswerving integ- 
rity. He was prominently identified with the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, in who.se communion 
he had finind strength and comfort since he was 
sixteen years old. He was one of the first six wlio 
organized a church in Lansing and was always a 
stanch and .active niem^ber. He ofliciated in the 
Central JSIethodisl KpiscojKil Church as Trustee, 
Cla.ss-leader and Steward until on account of his 
health he c<juld no longer till those otHces. For 
five years before his death he was nearly helpless. 
Politically he was a Re])ublican. 

On August 30, 1H7.5. Mr. Calkins was united in 
marriage with j\frs. Martha .Stedman. who still sur- 
vives him. and whose portrait is also presented on 
an accompanying page. Her maiden name was 
Martha Francies. .-md she w.-is born in .SugarGrove, 
Warren Countx, I'a., October 2(1, lH31.beinga 
daughter of Setli A. and Carlara (Fox) Francies. 
When she was quite \-oung her father removed to 
Ohio, and from there lo Ihuce, Macomb County, 
this State, when she was eleven years old. He 
was a shoemaker and found in the West a better 
opening for his trade. In hci- early womanhood 
she married Charles II. ( . Mosher.of I^ay. who died 
in the arm\'; she was afterward united in marriage 
with Mr. Kingsley Stedman. who died in Lapeer 
in 18()!). Since liei- niairiage with Mr. Calkins, she 
has lived in the house where she now resides. .She has 
an adoi)ted son, Mr. A. A. .Mosher, of this city, who 
is with the Lansing l.,umber Company. Since she 
was a girl of twenty, Mrs. Calkins has been a mem- 
ber of the .Methodist Kpi.scopal Church. Notwith- 
standing the varied experiences through which she 
has pa.ssed and the .•itHictions which ha\'e fallen to 
her lot, she is still vigorous and active, bearing- 
few marks of the years which have fallen to her. 



(<l ftALTKR A. CLARK. Perhaps there are no 
\rJ// more enterprising and cultured residents 
^^' of Livingston County, than those, who, 
like oui- subject — one of the first-class farmers in 
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iind descended from New York parentage. The 
iiHrifiiltunil interests of New Vcu'k have been for 
so louu' a time hiahl.V develoijed and in a ttoiirish- 
inii' condition that the animus of the farmei's in 
that secti^)n leads to a higher standard in regard 
to the cultivation of the soil and theimpi-ovement 
and the beautifying of the farm home than is to 
be found in many other parts of our country, 
l^ildic sentiment thus secured among the agricul- 
tural class docs not cease within its limits but de- 
scends to tiieir children even when they are horn 
in the "wild and wooly West." 

The residence of our subject on section W. jtre- 
.sent:< a pleasing apjiearance and is the seat of a 
finely cidtivated farm. Mr. Clark was born on 
section 1 7. Marion Town.--hi|i. in I85(l. and his fa- 
thei-. Lyman Clark, a farmer and carpenter, was 
l>orn in \ew York in IWi. The father received 
as good an education as the common schools af- 
forded and was united in man-iage in \HH\ with 
Lydia Wallace, a daughter of (ieorge and Lydia 
(I^awrence) AVallace. These parents were from 
Massachusetts and had five <-hildren. the daughter 
Lydia being liorn in ISlKi. 

T>yman Clark came Michigan in 1836 and bought 
some land in Washtenaw County and afterward 
came to Marion Townshij). Livingston County and 
here ]nuchased one hundred and sixty acres whieh 
he afterward sold and bought eighty acres which 
pleased him better on section 17. Somewhat later 
iie inuchased one hundred and sixty acres on .sec- 
tions !) and ICi. He here made his home until liis 
death in 1874. His good wife with whom he liad 
lived so many years in closest union and harni(my 
was not separated long from him but followed him 
to the grave in 1875. He was a Republican in his 
political convictions and consistently cast his vote 
for the success of that party. P>oth he and the 
mother of our subject were devotedly attached to 
the Baptist Clnu-ch with which they were in com- 
munion. 

The gentleman of whom we write received the 
advantages of a comnnjn-school education and re- 
maining at home with his pareuts assisted his fa- 
ther through his youth and when he became a man 
undertook the management of the farm. Some 
three years previous to hi> fatliei-'s decease he 



brought home to his parents a daughter in the 
[jerstjn of Maggie A. Twillev, daughter of James 
and Rebecca (Lound) Twilley. These parents were 
from Lincolnshire. England, and Maggie who was 
born in \x')2 \\»> the youngest of their five chil- 
dren. 

Our subject and his intelligent and capable wife 
have been blest with five children : Ethel R., (icr- 
ti'ude L.. Lawrence T., Briggs L. and ^^'alter Burr, 
and in their training and education Mr. and Mrs. 
Clark take a deep and altiding interest, and the 
young people pronii.se well to reward the affection 
and efforts of their parents in their behalf. 

The Republican platform and declarati(uis em- 
body pretty thoroughly the political ideas of Mr. 
Clark, who has ever shown an intelligent interest 
and zeal for the suci'css of his party and li.'is been 
active in townshi]) politics. For two terms he has 
filled the responsible ottice of Township Treasurer 
and is one of the Directors of the Agricultural an<l 
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OBERT W.VLKER. There is probably no 
family in Oceola Township better known 
for integrity, fair dealing, enterprise and 
\@ intelligence than the one represented by 
the name at the head of this ))aragraph, and it is 
one of those which have helped to make Living- 
ston County a center for all good influences aiul 
a county which is known throughout the Com- 
monwealth as one of the most intelligent and en- 
terprising sections of Michigan. 

( >ur subject was born in Ontario ( <uinty. N. Y.. 
in the township of >[anchesler, (_)ctobei' ."i. 1882. 
He i> .-I son of Henson and Matilda (Arnel) 
Walker, both natives of Maryland, of wlumi oiu' 
readers will be plcnsed to learn nmre in tlie life 
sketch of their son riiomas A. Walker, upon 
anotliei' paije of thi^ Ai.ium. Roliert is the sixth 
son and eiulitl] cliild in this household, and 
was only three years old when lie made \i\> 
entrance into the State of Michigan with his 
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schoolhouse in Oceola Townshiij. and never went 
outside the bounds of this township f(jr his edu- 
cational advantages, yet he made such a tlioi'ough 
application of what lie here learned and studied 
to such good advantage under the thorough yet 
somewhat restricted drill and curriculum of the 
Oceola schools that he obtained a comprehensive 
ami luinmon-sense preparation tor the l>at11c uf 
lil'c. He remained with his parents until the death 
of his father, assisting him in ever\ \\;\\ in his 
jiower. 

We must here introduce into this sketcli the 
name of her who became the c(mipani<)n of our 
subject, Fidelia Cole, who was ))oi-n in Dutchess 
County, N. Y., January 3], 1832. Her parents, 
Knos and Laura (Mason) Cole, were natives of 
New York, and she was the lirft-born of their four 
sons and three daughters. Mr. Cole was a Ixiat 
builder in his yi)unger days, liut finally abandoned 
that occujjation and followed farniing. He came 
to ^Michigan in 183(>, and located in Creen Oak 
Townsiiip, Livingston County, where he took up 
land from the (iovernmeni and tfansformed it 
into an iin|iroved farm. He came to ( )<-cola Town- 
siii|) in 18,")U, and there both he and his good wife 
remained until tliey [lassed from earth, she at tlie 
age of forty-two and he when sixty-six years old. 
Their daughter. Fidelia, was united in marriage 
witli our subject in 1852. Her youngest brother, 
Arthur Cole, was the youngest Probate Judge ever 
elected m the county. He took his seat in 1885. 

For awhile after their marriage the young couple 
remained with the iiarents of the l)ride and then 
IHirciiased the farm where they now reside, which 
is the old Cole homestead. Three sons and one 
ilaughttr have blessed this union: Laura, the wife 
of William 15. Eager, whose liiography is to be 
found elsewhere in this volume; Lyman, wlio iiiar- 
lied Hattie ^IcMillaii and resides in Oak (irove 
Township, J^ivingston County; Mason, who niar- 
rieu Jessie Rumsev and resides in Howell Town- 
ship; and Thomas, who married Ftta Hardy and 
resides with her parents. 

Besides the home farm of one Innulred acres, our 
subject has one hundred and forty acres of tine land 
in Howell Township, most of which is highly cul- 
tivated. Into his attractive and pleasant home 



he has put some ll,5(in. This was built in the 
place of the one that was burned to the ground in 
1871. He is deeply interested in every movement 
which lends to secure the best interests of the 
farming community, and with this end in view he 
is a hearty worker in the (Jrange. In the Baptist 
Church Vioth IMr. and Mrs. AValker are most highly 
esteemed and prized as being earnest workers 
whose truly Christi.in spirit makes them helpful to 
all with whom they come in contact. 



OHN F, SALL'M.VKSII. The gentleman 
whose biography we ha\'e the pleasure of 
here presenting has jirobalily handled more 
land in Ingham County than any other 
man. In his younger days he did an extensive 
liusiness in trading and exchanging farms; he has 
also broken up, upwards of twelve hundred acres 
of new land, luniiig broke over six hundred acres 
by contract. He w.as born in London, England, 
.lanuary 8, 1828. His father, John Saltmarsh, was 
a merchant and green grocer in the world's metro- 
polis and continued to follow that business until 
he came to the United States in 1838. He was 
prosperous in Europe until the breaking out of the 
wars in 18.'i8. when his llu^iness suffered to such 
an extent that he deemed it i)rudent to come tt) 
the I'nited Slates for econoinic reasons. 

Mr. Saltmarsh, Sr. proceeded almost iininediately 
to ^Michigan which was at that time particularly 
conspicuous because of its recent admission to the 
Uni(m as a State. He lirst settled in Pontiac but 
spent the year in prospetting and in 183i) came to 
Meridian Township. Ingham County, three \ears 
after Lansing was located. He imrehascd one 
hundred and sixty acres of the farm that his son 
at the present time owns and which was .then a 
dense, wilderness. He was one of the first settlers 
in the township. Our subject's father knew 
nothing aboiit farming when he came to the United 
States, but he was determined to learn and when 
in Ptmti.ac, after he had located his land, he took 
a job of chopping twenty acres of wood in order 



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th'at lie might becdinc m <iOOcl woodsman and he 
soon liooMnie fiuniliuT- with the ditfeient |)linse> of 
pioneer life. His sun renieniiiers hjivint; .seen him 
come iiome fi'om I>.insing carrvinji' (ine-half liushel 
of snit on liis liaek. Politically he was fii-st a 
Denioeiat and then became :i KepuMiean. Inil 
finally .settled down fli-mly in liis Democratic 
principles. He was .histice of the Peace for many 
yeai's and when his decea.se occnri'ed while livinji 
in ^'iriiinia. May 12. 1881S. his loss as a citizen was 
keenly felt. The mother of our subject was prioi- 
to her marriat>e a Miss Mary Foster, a sistei' of 
Charles Foster of ( )kemos. 

On the breaking out of tlie wai- the oriuinal of 
tmr sketch left his farm of one hundred and twenty 
acres and went to the front. He enlisted in IHtW 
in the First Michigan Infantry and .served foi- a 
period of three years and sixty-tive days, beint; as- 
signed to duty with the .Vrmy of the Potomac. 
He was in many a hard-fought battle and learned 
to brave shell, shot and powder. He was a par- 
ticipant in the .second battle of lUdl Pun and was 
at Aiitietam and South ^lounlain. From the close 
of the war he was engaged in farming until |SH(i 
and then went to Virginia where he purchased a 
farm of seven hundred and thirty-live acres in 
Surrey County. This is a fine fruit district and 
one year he had a net income of ><H(i(l fiom his 
))ear cro|). He remained in A'irginia for four years 
and still owns the farm. 

Mr. .Saltmarsh was man led six \ears after the 
war to .Mrs. Flleu M. Kidin, widow of Martin 
Kuhn, of Livingston County. I'wo children have 
been born of this union — .lohn .\.. whose natal 
day was October 24. IHTo and Sarah L., born 
Feltruary 2. \x7-2. Both are at home with theii- 
parents. Our subject is a Mason, belonging to 
Virginia Lodge, No. 77. Both he and his wife are 
meniliers of the Farmers" .\lliance. In their church 
a.ssociations they are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal body at Okenio.s. Politically he is ;in 
Independent, usually voting the Keinihlican ticket. 

He of whom we write is a rugged and stidug 
man both mentally and physically. He never had 
any sickness until the last yeai- of the war and was 
considered by the men of his regiment as the one 
who could endure the greatest hardships. In in- 



telligenee he is far in aihance of the average 
farmer. He has a natuial aptitude for mechanical 
work and can repair an\' machine in short order. 
He is the owner of a fine farm of five hundred and 
ninety-two acres in Ingham County, most of which 
lies in Meridian Township. 




.1. TOWXLKV. is the owner of a l\nv farm 
located in Hartland Township. Living- 
. stoii County. He is a native of New York 
having Ijeen born in Tompkins County, 
Inly 27. 182;'). Oue subject is one of the pioneers, 
however, in the .State of Michigan, having conte 
here with his parents in I8.'?(). From that time to 
thi>. he has seen the |)henomenal growth in i)o|)U- 
lation and improvement in every asjject of life. 
There are now large and beautiful cities on the 
borders of streams that were foimerly but a place 
where the deer came to quench their thirst. The 
country that then held only malaria and ague foi- 
the early settlers, is now drained and irrigated so 
that it is at the same time healthful and a jirolifie 
agricultural region. 

()ur subject's father was Benjamin Townley. a 
native of New Jersey. He was one of the men 
who served in the War of 1812. hence to him 
all honoi' is due as being one to sacrifice home 
comforts and to run the chances of war foi' the 
IJieservation of the dignity and unques it)ned 
rights of his conntr\'. He was a shoemaker In- 
trade and was the |)ro])rietor of a large manufact- 
uring business in Tompkins County, keeping busy 
fi'om thirty to forty liands in his sho|i at that 
|>lace. His manufactures were ship|)ed to New 
York City oiue a week, and at that day it was con- 
sidered a \ery large institution. He cari'ied on the 
business as long as he I'cmained in the State of 
New York. but. like many others, when the reports 
of the wonderful fertility and ri<-hes in timber 
lands and ores were brought to the Kmpire State, 
he saw hy vi.sion large opportunities for his sons in 
the future of that .State and here came in 183(), 



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.-I'ttliiiii' in ilarthuul T()wii>lii|i, l^iviniistoii ( uuiity. 
!it wliifli time he loeated on section !^. 

At tlie time of loeatino; in tliis State. .Mr. Towii- 
le\ '.■-. Si-.. f;iriii was a |ieife(l wildei'iiess. '["all 
trees towered overhead, and llie spjires between 
were a tanjjle of slirul)s and \ines tlirouyii wliieh 
scudded rahhits. while from tiie limhs of the over- 
towering' trees screcclierl (iwl> ami wildcats. ;ind 
to tiie neijjhliorina' lironU came tlic mi hi eved. 
Heet-lindK'd deer. They secureii Ihe land directly 
from the (iovernmcnt, cleaicd a pljice in tlie midst 
of the forest and with the trees that they thus 
felled, hnilt a log house, not inijiosina: in style of 
architecture or finish, but .still a liomc in the new 
country. They were obliged to makeman\ make- 
.-hifls in erecting e\en this liumble abode. 'I'he 
oidy w;i\ of procuring .shingles was to make them 
as best tiiey could, by hand, and tools were neither 
|)lentiful nor easily accessible. I'ndaunted by the 
)nan\ inconveniences that they had lo |int up 
witli. they bent every energy towiird improving 
their place and succeeded in making it very honu'- 
like and conifoi'tablc. All the coiniiioilitics of 
life thai they could not raise on their own farm 
had to be purchased at Detroit, but the younger 
members of the family consideiiMl it ;in c\ent to 
be looked forward to with delightful anticipjition. 
to go to town on lioiseback. even though they had 
to coHU' li;ick laden to the point of stilling, with 
meal bags, and the numerous packages that would 
bring delight to the family at home.simpl\ liecause 
they came from a store. 

.Mr. Townley. Sr.. died on his farm in Living- 
ston County at the age of seventy-two years. In 
politic> he was an old line Demorral. a follower 
of (lay and C'dhoun. His wife was before inar- 
r'iage a .Miss Betsy Reeves, one of the good olil 
names of New .lersey fame. She was the life-long 
companion and heli)er- of her' husband, .and like 
him, died at the age of seventy-two years. I'liey 
reared a large family of cliildr-err. nine in nnmbei-. 
having two daughters and seven son>. ()ftheM' 
our subject is the lifth child in order of birth and 
the third son. 

The original of dur >ketch ".•!> <inl\ eleven 
year.- old when with his parents he came to Mieli- 
ignn.andlhc writer can imagine witli wli.-il delight 



lie \iewcd the wildeiries> witli boyish eyes, it being 
filled with .-ill kinds of lai'ge and small ganie. His 
yoiriig niiird had no thought of the toil that was 
was nece.s.sai-v to tr-ansform that tangled mass of 
beaut\ into the orderly appearance of civilized 
life. Indeed, what to hiirr wei'e long days spent 
in hoeing the corrilield or in building r'ail fences, 
or in cho|iping wood to be u>cd in the winter' in 
the great Hi'cplace. when thei'e wa.- a prospect be- 
for'e him of days of coon hunting, oi' a swim after' 
a har'd d;ry's work in the pools or the streams that 
Ire alone kirew. Were there no pleasures in those 
early days.' ask the boys of tlro.se days as Holmes 
affectionately calls the as,sociates of his school days, 
eveir after- they wcie matirr'ed and gi'ay headed 
men. ()iir' sirbject's lirst school days wer'e s])ent in 
New ^dr'k, but .after coming to this State, he at- 
tended the .-iclrool held in the log .schoolhouse 
which the settler's made all haste to er-ect. arrd for 
which they obtained .-i teacher- in llai'tland Town- 
ship, and .althorrglr. per-lra|)s, he was not ••crammed" 
with the sciences and classics as are our collegians 
of to-day. Ill- there olitained a good know-ledge 
(if Knglish. and n-a> well drilled in the Rule of 
Three. 

()irr subject i-i-niained under- his father-'s r-oof un- 
til after- Iris death, taking care of the old gentle- 
man during his l;rst sickiress. He w.as marr-ie<l No- 
xcnibei •>•>. I.s.')|. his br-ide beingMar-y i-^. \\ iswold. 
who like himselt was ;r native of New York State, 
having been born in (hemiing t'ounty. A])ril Ki. 
1m:!2. she w;is the foiir-tli i-hild in or-der of liii-th 
:rird the si'cond daughter. She cairre to thrs State 
with liei' pai'i'Uts when foirr' years of age birt when 
a \oung gill w-as by therrr sent bat-k to New York 
to be edir<-ate(l. making her home while there with 
Ih'I- rrrother-'s sister-, lir IH-17 she r-elirr-ired to tlii> 
Stale .-ind was enir.'iged a> .-i te.aclrer- until lier mar'- 
riage. 

On taking to liirnself a wife. .Mr-. Towrrley lo- 
cated wlrei'c he still r'csides. He has made many 
irnproverrretrts orr the place. Neat fences have 
takeir the place of the old I'ail fences. .V tirre or- 
chard lra> lu'eri planted that yields an abundance 
of luscious fruit, aird shade trees of various kinds 
and haviirg a beautiful \-ariety of color, have lieerr 
planled in -vinrnetrii'al and artistic order-. Mi-. 



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and Mrs. Town ley are the parents of two sons, the 
elder wlio hears the unusual name of Kress, was 
born in this townshi]) and county, .lanuary 24. 
18.5(J. lie was here educated and l>ecame popular 
and well-known among the people of the comniu- 
nitv. In 1H««. he was elected Treasurer and in 
1890 and 1891 was "iven the position of Super- 
visor. He is a Repuhlican in liis jjolitical prefer- 
ences. He is still on the bachelor list, but is too 
eligible to long- remain so. The second son is 
Wells (t.. Iiorn on the old homestead, as was his 
brother, in Hart land Township. Livingston County. 
Octolier 24. 1 «!).'). He was reared at home and is 
an intelligent and interesting young man. 

Our subject's farm (•omi)rises two hundred and 
fifty acres of well imi)roved land. Here he is en- 
gaged in doing a general farming business. He 
has some very fine grades of horses in whose breed- 
ing he is particularly interested. He of whom we 
write is a Repnl)lican in his political preference. 
He has lieen elected to several local ofHces, having 
served as Koad C'ommissionei', and in other school 
offices. His farm boasts a natural advantage en- 
joyed liy but few agricultinists. There are two 
tlowng wells sixty feet deep upon the jilace and 
from them he waters tlie place with cool and liv- 
inir streams. 



1t^- <>>'• THOMPSON CRIMES. Among the 
prominent and representative men of Pinck- 
uey, Livingston County, Mich., wlio, 
while of Eastern birth, have made them- 
selves thoroughly "Western men in their interest, 
influence and lifework, we are pleased to mention 
the miller and farmer, whose names appears at the 
liead of this short sketcli. He was born November 
1(1. 1.S24, in Cortland County, N. Y. His father 
lieing .Tames Grimes and his mother Elizabeth 
Whitney, natives of New York in which State they 
made their home through life. 

The father was a carpenter and joiner and also 
had the trade of a millwright. During the war of 
1812 he took part in that conflict, but did not re- 



ceive any wound therein. They wei-e blest with a 
family of nine chddren. five of whom are still liv- 
ing. Hy the death of his mother our subject was 
left an orphan at the age of eight years and from 
that time on felt tiiat he must lake care of himself. 
He picked up what education he could and making 
his liome with a married sister worked out by tlie 
niontli and also learned the valualile trade of car- 
riagemaker. 

The young man came to Michigan in 1847. 
making his first stopping place in Waterloo Town- 
ship, Jackson County, where he contracted the 
fever and ague. Six months later he came to Liv- 
ingston Coinity and for two years worked at his 
trade in Pinckney. After five years" service with 
an employer he bought out the l)usiness and car- 
ried it on for a numlier of years. He finally sold 
out his interest in this line and entered the mer- 
c.intile business with his father-in-law. in which he 
contuiue(l for some time and after dissolving that 
connection lie operated a farm until two years 
ago. He then bought an interest in the ttonring 
mill known as the Pinckney Flouring aud Custom 
mills. 

This flourishing mill has a capacity of seventy- 
five liarrels per day ami ^Ir. (irinies and his part- 
ner, Mr. ]\Iann, liave liuilt up an excellent trade so 
that the mill is kept running the year round. It 
is fitted for water power Init also has a fifty-horse- 
power engine so that steam can be used in emerg- 
encies. Four men are constantly employed to 
kee]) the mill in operation and the market for its 
product is lively all along the Air Line iVr fJrand 
Trunk Railroads, lietween Jackson. Detroit and 
Wni Huron. The firm also ships to points outside 
of Michigan. 

Tlie marriage of 31r. (Jrimes took place New 
Year's Day. IS.^JO, and he was then united with 
Miss Emily 'SI. Mann, an accomplished and intelli- 
gent lady, daughter of Alvin and Lucy (Whittle- 
sey) ^lann. INIr. IMann was a native of New York 
and became a pioneer in this part of Michigan, as 
he came here among the early settlers and in his 
day was a prominent business man in Pinckney, 
taking an earnest interest in politics and concern- 
ing himself for the welfare of the Republican 
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cliililii'ii. tlircc (if wlidiii ;ii-c niiw livinu. Siiirc 
the (li'.-itli (if .\lr. .\l;uni lii> wile li:i-< nintiiuu'd 
to ni;ikf her lioiiu' in tliis villaac Their daiiulitcr 
.Ml'.-, (iriiiio. was liuni in Nc« V(irl< Apiil !.'>. 
IM.'i.'i. 

Tlic li.-iiiil 111' I'riix iilcncc ha- ilciiifd <hihlicii tn 
Mr. and Mi>. (irinics Iml llicy iin\'i' luit hot'ii cou- 
ttMit t(i livo witliout liltU' dui',- in thi-ir hvmv and 
h.'ivc rcaii'il sonic tlnvf or I'onr cliildivn. in whom 
tlu'V lai<r a tcndci- intori'-t and for whom tliey have 
provided. Mr. ( Jrimes has l>eeu ;i memliei' of the 
Sons of Teniperanee and also of the (iood Teni|i- 
h'lrs as well as the Masonic order. Political mat- 
ters have ever interested his mind, as he was in 
youth !i Democrat. Imt since the orjianization of 
the l\e|inlilic;in paily he h;is attiiliated with th.at 
line of i)olitical tlion<>Iit. .Mthoiiah the townshi|i 
has always lieen Demociatic. yet this jicntlenian 's 
|)ersoiuil populaiily lia,- lieen such as to place him 
several times in oflices of tr\ist and responsibility. 
For .several ye.ars he has served as .histice of the 
J'eaee and his inciiinliencx' of that office has tended 
to the jiromotion of peace and si'oodwill anu>ns>: his 
I'ellow-eitizens. He has also heen placed in the 
position of Township ( lerU. whci'c his record was 
most excellent. 

'I'he liroader experience of .Mr. (Jrimes is to he 
found in hi- work in the .State Lesrislature. to 
which he was elected :ind where he served in 
1S7!I-H<I. lie was a personal friend of the Hon. 
Zaeli (liandler and helped to elect that uentlenian 
to his Last term in the I'nilcd States Senate. His 
handsome farm adjoining the \ illau'c of I'inckncv 
comprises iiinet\-live acres, all of which is under 
cultivation and upon it he has liim-cif placed ex- 
cellent imi)rovements. He .also has eiuhly acres of 
imjiroved land in I'nadilla Township, to all of 
which he de\dtes considcralile time, liesidc- super- 
intending the operations of the mill. 

Jlr. (irinies started out for himself as a chihl 
without means and with no one to help him .and 
has made an honorable leeord and has uained suc- 
cess in life besides beinj;' of ir|-eat service to his 
fellow-citizens. I-'oi- many years he h;i,- been upon 
the X'illaue School Board and beside> preparinii 
and presenting to the Icirislature the bill iMcorji- 
oratinir Ih'^ villaijc of I'inckney he wa- for three 



\(ar> Ihr I'icsident of the X'illaffe Board and is at 
piesent lilling- the sanu' oiHce. He has lieen Trea- 
surei' of the Blue Lodge in the Masonic order and 
h.as also lillcil the -ame position in Pinckney 
( liaplcr. 



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EI..MKH K. C'HANSTON. Among the men 
to whom the township of Tyrone, ].,iving- 
ston ('()unty. owes much of its pro.sperity 

as an agricultural center is the one whose nanu' is 
now given. He was lioin in this township. August 
28, 186;'), and i- a sou of l)a\id ( ). and .Sarah 
(Beebe) Cranston. The grandfather. Kli Cranston, 
was a farmer, and David was reared upon a f.arm 
near Kingston. N. V.. and became a \'erv success- 
ful fai-mer. having accumulated b\ his own effoi-ts 
a handsome fortune and an estate of o^er foiir 
hundred acres. His home farm in tin- western 
part of Tyrone Township i- one of the lichest and 
best improved ui the county, lie was alwa\s a 
Democrat in his i)olitical views and was placed b\- 
his neighlKH's in various local otlices. He reared 
to maturity two of his four children — our suliject 
and 'I'essie A., who becanu' the wife of Pierce 
Slicker. 

The mother of our subject was born in Living- 
ston ( ounty. N. Y.. Septemlier 12, I8;!8. being a 
daughtei- of .Vlfrcd and Sarah (Clark) Beebe. .Mr. 
Beebe was born m I8I(). in Livingston County. 
>«'. Y..and his wife wasa native of (ienesee County. 
T(j them wei'c irrantcil twehc children. onl\- tixc 
of whom lived to years of matuiity. viz: Sarah 
1>.; Henry S.. who died in Libby Piison; .Martha 
Buck: Nancy and Amos, deceased. The father 
of this family removed to Zanesville. Ohio, and 
two y<>ars later came to .Michigan, where he made 
his honu' in Osceola and in other localities, but 
finally si)ent his last days in Fenton, where he died 
about the \eai- 18()2. His widow survived him 
until .Vugust. 18110. 

Our worthy subject spent his boyhtnid and 
youth uiiou the farm and studied in the district 
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education. Upon attaining liis majority he began 
life for himself ui)on two hundred acres of land 
situated on section 21. Tyrone Township. It was 
in April. 18HH. that he l)onglit one hundred acres 
where he now resides on section 22. and he has 
here one of the handsomest and most productive 
farms in the township. 

Sarah Page, a native of Lyons Township. Oak- 
land County, and a daugiiter of James and Fan- 
nie (Meade) Page, liecame tlie wife of our subject 
March 11.1885. In his early career Mr. Page was 
a substantial farmer and one of the leading men in 
his townshii). He now manages an hotel at Argen- 
tine, Mich., and has an honorable war record, hav- 
ing served in the ranks and risen to the position 
of a Lieutenant. By his first wife, who w.as the 
mother of Mrs. C!ranston. he had three sons and 
three daughters. The two children of our subject 
and his faithful wife are Elsie L. and David ().. 
and to thc'^e little ones are given faithful and af- 
fectionate care and training, and the fond parents 
may well cherish the hope that they will grow up 
to be of value to the community and an honor to 
Iheii- progenitors. 



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I^SAAC T. AVHKHIT. In every community 
' there are some good men and women with 
J whom every one claims relationship through 
the bonds of affection, and we find no couple in 
Handy Township, Livingston County, who are 
more beloved, and who seem to be nearer in the 
lionds of sympathy to their neighbors than "Uncle 
Wright and Aunt Harriet," as our subject and his 
good wife are universally called. To them all 
know that they may come sure of a cordial greet- 
ing and a kindly word, and confident that when 
the time of trouble or of special joy draws near 
the sympathy of these good friends will be theirs. 
The farm of our subject is situated on sections 
26 and 27. Handy Tow-nship, and comprises an 
extent of one hundred and sixty acres, upon which 
Mv. Wright has lived now for some twenty-three 
years, and which he has greatly improved. He was 



bom in Greene County, N. Y., November 29, 1812, 
and has now nearly reached his four-score years. 
His parents, Thomas and Saiali ( llouk) Wright, 
were born in the Kin|)ire Stale, and were there 
united in marriage. They carried on a farm in 
(xreene County. that State, before coming to .Mich- 
igan in 1838. The Western home was in Iosco 
Townsliip. where they carried on a farm of one 
hundred and twenty-four acres, and upon this old 
homestead they reared a family of twelve chil- 
dren, and there spent their later years. Two only 
of their offspring are still in this life — our suliject 
and his sistei'. Lucy. Mrs. Acker, of Woodhull, 
Shiawassee County. The father was a Democrat 
in his political views and a memlier of the Ma- 
sonic fraternity, and in his church connections was 
a Methodist. His father's name was William and 
his mother was a Miss Lyon, both being natives of 
New York. William Wright was a soldier in the 
Kcvolutionary War and was taken |)risoner by the 
British. 

He of whom we write received his education 
and practical training upon his father's faiins in 
Onondaga and (Tieene Counties, N. Y., and re- 
mained with his parents until he reached the age 
of twenty-five, at which time the father divided 
the proi)erty with him, and Isaac sold his portion 
and came to Iosco Township, thi> county, where 
he purchased eighty acres of land for ^200. It 
was ail timlier land, and after clearing oflf the 
trees he exchanged it for another tract in the 
same township, and later came to the place where 
he now lives. He has chopped trees since he was 
nineteen years old until within a few j-ears of the 
present date. 

In 18;i5 Isaac T. Wright took to wife Miss Har- 
riet Terry, who was born in 1815, and was edu- 
cated in New York, preparing herself for a teacher, 
and filling that position for a number of years. 
Her parents, Norman and Sarah (Works) Teriv. 
were both natives of the Empire State. Mr. and 
3Iis. Terry had a family of four childrren, liut 
only one besides Mrs. Wright survives, namely: 
Sarah A. Smith, of Bath. Mich. 

Isaac Wright had four children in .all; his son 
George married Ariniantha King and has one 
child living, Bessie; they have lost three. They 




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live upon the old homestead in Iosco Township. 
His son. Thomas (1., who hns now departed this 
life, leavint;' seven orphan children, married Sarah 
Lanireux, who died. Iea\ inii' fonr children — Isaac, 
Milo. Mary and Thomas .1.; and his second wife. 
Rosella Crowfoot, who is also deceased, left three 
— Sarah K., Harriet K., and Floyd (). 

The oHi<'e of K'oadniastiM- has been filled — and 
well tilled — liy our sul)ject, and he has also been 
Commissioner of Iliijhways. Hoth he and his 
yood wife are earnest and useful members of the 
Methodist Episco])al Church, in which he has served 
as both Steward and Class-Leader. He has been a 
nuMnlier of this religious body since his eighteenth 
ye;ir. and Mrs. Wright has also been connected 
with the church since she was seventeen. In the 
early days of his residence in this county he had 
to go to Dexter to market and mill, which was a 
journey of twenty-live miles to be taken over the 
roughest kind of roads. In his days he killed a 
great many deer and is the only man in this 
county who ever shot a white deer. In those days 
everything in the line of grain and food was 
scarce and expensive, .as they had to be bronght 
by team from so great a distance. For his first 
two barrels of tloni- he paid -^.'ili. and for his \\r=it 
liarrel of .salt he was obliged to ex])end *l. He is 
still a tall man. measuring six feet in height, 
and when ;i young man weighed two hundred 
pounds. He is a constant worker and his facul- 
ties are yet undimmed by age, and it is the |)rayer 
of all who know him and his good wife that the\- 
may long be s]iared to shed abroad tlieir beneficent 
influence. 



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DMIM) ALLCIHN. The County of Kent. 
England, is the place of nativity of the 
gentleman whose portrait is shown on the 
opposite page and whose biography we here briefly 
record. Jlore than three-quartei-s of a century 
have passed since he made his appearance in the 
world, his natal day l>eing February 2.'). 1K15. He 
is a son of William and Mercy (^Hawkins) Allcbin, 



his parents both being natives of England. He 
was reared on a farm and received the rudiments 
of his education in the pay schools of his native 
land. He would not be worthy of the name of a 
progressive Englishman, however, had he not taken 
advantage of the desultory course of study that 
he enjoyed to make experimental discoveries for 
him.-ielf in literature and the sciences, and by his 
.self-imposed curriculum has acquired a position 
which ranks him as an intelligent and well-read 
man. 

In l>s;31 when our subject wa> .--ixteeii \cars of 
age he with an elder brother, William, emigrated 
to .Vmerica, taking passage at London iu a s;uling 
vessel and after an ocean voyage extending over 
seven weeks he landed in New York City, wheie 
he resided for a slioit time. From tlieic he |iro- 
ceeded to ]\Ionroe County, N. Y.. where he leniained 
for a short period. In 1837 when the subject of 
the ailmission of Michigan as a .State was being 
agitated, our subject came to Ingham County, lo- 
cating first on section .'?.'?. Leroy Township. In 
order to penetr:ite to the land which they had 
taken up they were obliged to cut away the timber 
for a distance of six miles. 

< )u reaching their tr;ict our subject cleared fifty 
acres of land and theie he liuilt the fiist frame 
liarn in Leroy Township. He resided upon this 
tract for six years, thence removing to W'liite ().ik 
Townshi|) where he staid for several years. In 
1847 he settled on his present farm which is located 
on section 23, Leroy Township. At the lime of 
liis |)urchase about twenty acres had been improved 
and the balance he lias cleared, broken .ind culti- 
vated himself. ( )n his .■idvent into the countrx 
Indians and wolves were a more fre(iuent sight 
than the face of a white man and occasionally a 
bear was seen. He is now the owner of eighty 
acres of fertile and |)roductive land. 

In 183;') Mr. Allchin was united in marriage 
to Mi.ss Ann C. Angell, who bore him eleven 
children, six of whom are living; they are by 
name as follows: Elizabeth. .Vnan H.. Levi .S., Es- 
ther. .Vuna and Arloa. Elizabeth is the wife of 
.Inmes ^loni-oe; Esther married Alpheus lii.vby; 
Anna is the wife of William Marsh; Arloa married 
A. II. Libbie. 



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Mrs. Ann C. AUchin died in 1888. Our subject 
three years later was a second time married, his 
bride being Mrs. Mary V. Sowie, the widow of Eli 
L. Sowle. of Livingston County, Mich. Their 
nuptials were solemnized October 20, 1890. Mrs. 
Allchiu is a native of Washington County, N. Y.. 
and was born November 5. 1H29. She was a daugli- 
ter of William and Sarah Birch, natives of New 
York State. Mr. AUchin has served in a public 
capacity for a long time, having been School Di- 
rector and Assessor of his school district. High- 
way Commissioner and also Justice of the Peace. 
He is one of the oldest active representatives of 
pioneer days in I^eroy Township and can recall 
many incidents of pioneer adventure. He was 
formerly a AVhig, but on the reconstruction of the 
party became a Republican. Now, however, he 
votes with the Prohibitionists. 

Having j)assed his days in the liardest labor of 
pioneer life, Mr. AUchin is now enjoying the 
knowledge that his early efforts have given him a 
comfortable support for his declining years. He 
rests content in the knowledge of a life well spent. 
He has been a member of the Baptist Church for 
over half a century and was the prime mover and 
main supporter in the building of the First Baptist 
Church of Webberville. Ingham County. 



^y 'f/ •^- ^1H>I>''^- ^f- i^-- "■•!> Iioiii in (tnondaga 
\/\;i Countv, N. v.. August 1. l.s;i(i. nnd is a 




^AV/ son of Steijhcn and l^lizalietii (Dicker- 
son) Mills, natives of Alljany and Sclioharie Coun- 
ties. N. Y. Our subject was reared a farmer, 
that being his parent's occupation in life. While 
he was still a small child they removed to Wayne 
County, N. Y., about the year of l.s;33, where the 
father engaged in farming and at his trade as a 
millwright. In 1845 they removed to Washtenaw 
County, Lyndon Townslii|i. There .Mr. Mills 
Sr., purchased some land anti remained for a per- 
iod of two years. In 1848 he removed to Liv- 
ingston County, and seltled in the township of 



Conway, where he was engaged in faiming, clear- 
ing up one hundred and sixty acres of land. 

On first settling on the tract of land above men- 
tioned Mr. Mills, Sr.. Imilt a log house, 18x24 feet 
in dimensions. He was also oliliged to cut (^nt his 
own roads and hew down the timber, the nearest 
neighlior being at n distance of three-quarters of a 
mile from him and no road Ijetween the places. It 
was fifteen miles to Howell, but, although the dis- 
advantages were many there is something to be 
said on the other side. Game was plentiful and 
in the early daj'S of their struggle in the State 
doubtless they would many times have gone hun- 
gry had deer, rabliits and squirrels not been so 
plentiful. The nearest school was two miles from 
where our subject's parents lived and at best was 
but a crude affair, the rod playing an important 
part in school discipline. In pioneer fashion our 
subject was not to be put out by such small ci.in- 
sideration, but immediately set about making a 
road to the school. The nearest church was at 
Howell. 

Mr. Mills stood high in the estimation of his 
fellow-pioneers and was honored by many town- 
ship offices. He held that most important office — 
School Director and Trustee — for a number of 
years. He and his wife were members of the 
Wesleyau Methodist Church. He was a AVhig in 
early years and later became a Republican. When 
death took him from amidst his associates he was 
greatly missed. His wife is now a resident of 
[lowell, living there with her son, W. .1. She is 
eighly-tive years of age and still retains her facul- 
ties very well. She has been the mother of six 
children, three of whom are now living. The eld- 
est is ^frs. Hannah Tuckt-r of Conway. Livingston 
County; Wesley . I.. w]i<i is dur subject, and Mrs. 
Dalinda J. Hitchcock; the husband of the last 
named lady died in Libby prison a victim of the 
cruelty and rapacity of the Confederate soldiers. 
Mrs. Hitchcock is now a resident of Howell. 

Dr. ^X. J. Mills when a lad attended school in a 
log schoolhouse with benches made of split trees. 
Indeed, tlu' whole schoul iiutiit was as crude as 
well as could be imagined at the present time. He 
was obliged to go two miles through the woods in 
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(lis;i(lv:illtages lie ncciuircil n kiuiwlfrlsiv of the 
tlui'i' I{'s. Ill' ivinaiiu'd al lioiiic until lie was 
t \voiity-tW(> yi'ai's of a<ii'. Iicl))iiii> his fathei' clear 
and iTnpi'oxt' the I'aini. lie then learned llie coop- 
ei"s l:ade and was enyani'd in that husiness in 
Conway. Liviniistou County, for eiirht years. 
While enuaiicil in this ealling' he l)ursued a eoursi' 
of medical sfudy, takiiii^ up the Kclectic system, 
and in order that he might have time for study anil 
aiipliances to use. the greatest self abnegation was 
reqniied. Later he studied the TIomeo])athic sys- 
tem, reading with l)i-. !•',. .1. IJates, of Fowlerville. 
this county, and duiing the years of I8C3-()4 at- 
tended lectures at Cleveland. ()lii<). liiially gradu- 
ating at the Detroit Medical College in 1H(M. He 
liegan the practice of his profession in companv 
with Dr. Huntington of Howell, the gentlemen 
continuing as ])artiiers for two and (me half 
years. 

For the jiast twenty-seven years the original of 
our sketch lias been one of the most active and 
popular pi-actitioners in Howell. He has been suc- 
cessful also in a financial way and is now the 
owner of a fine brick block on Main Street oppo- 
site the court house. Tt comprises fourstores with 
oHiccs in the second story. He also erected four 
fine houses in the city, three of which he has sold 
at a very, fair prolit. The Doctor's residence is on 
the corner of .State and Summit Streets and is a 
large house, 24x()(l feet in dimensions with a line 
barn and outbuildings. It is surrounded by a \el- 
vet\ l.awn and rare and beautiful shade trees. Dr. 
Mills' religious views are those of the Seventh 
Day Adventists; being an ardent upholder of their 
theories and practice. He is also a stockholder in 
the Publishing Association, jjresided over by the 
Seventh Day Adventists and which is located at 
Battle Creek, Mich. 

Profiting by the Scriptural assertion that it is 
not good for man to live alone, our sul)ject was 
m:inied September I. 1H,')(!, his bride being Miss 
Adeline I. Hatch, of Allegany County, N. Y. She 
is a daughter of II. S. and Maria (lloyt) Hatch. 
The home and social life is such as to promote the 
growth of the best traits of the individual and 
family character. Mr. and Mrs. 3Iills are the pa- 
I'bnte of one daughter, Carrie E. 3Iills, who at- 



tended the Vpsilanti State Normal School after 
which she entered the college al Uattle Creek. 
.Miss Carrie has been engaged as teacher since .she 
was sixteen .\-ears of age. She was State Secretary 
of the Intei'iiational Tract and Missionary Socielv 
.•md was sent to Texas and ^Vashington Territory 
in behair of this association. She was also in Port- 
land, Oie., and while there was ])rece[)tor of the 
Adventists Scluxjl for four years. Our subject's 
wife, Mrs. Adeline .Mills, died April l.i. IHO;'). IJy 
a second marriage he was united to Mrs. ^Vnnie M. 
K'athbun. of Highland, Oakland County, Mich. 
She was a d.-iughter of Henry Uush of the same 
place. One daughter, .Vdeline I., was the fruit of 
this union. She is a bright and hand.somc young 
lady, now attending college at Battle Creek, tliis 
State. Mta. Mills passed away from this life to a 
better world November 11, 18'.)(). 

Our subject is one of the leading physicians and 
suigeons of this counts. In [lolitics he is a rank 
Prohibitionist and has been such since 1882. ai- 
1 hough foi-merly he atliliated with the Republican 
p.arty. He behnigs to the Homeopathic. State Med- 
ical Society and has been so connected for years 
past. He is one of the members of the Board of 
('ensiis and also belongs to the judiciary commit- 
tee. In 1887 he suffered a backset in his Inisiness 
by being burnt out. but immediately set about re- 
building. He lielongs to the Livingston County 
Pioneer Society and is one of the leading men of 
the county, giving liberally for all measures that 
promise iini)rovement and taking a deep interest in 
matters that pei'tain to ennntv or State. 



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flU^ K.MAN PRESTON. The representative of 
\ a family that has been notable in the annals 
of the history of Penns\ Ivania and .Michig.iu 
((^ our subject is now in the enjoyment of the 
bucolic life on his flne farm in AVilliamstmi Town- 
ship. Ingham County. He is the son of Ira S. I'res- 
ton, :i native of New York who was there married 
to Miss Chloe Buck, who was born in Pennsylvania. 
She was a daughter of Jonathan Uuck, wlio 



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lived and died in the latter State. The fathei- 
of Ira Preston and also the grandfather of 
our subject was David Preston wlio distinguished 
himself as a Continental soldier in the Revolution- 
arv War. wliilc liis lirollicr was on the opposing 
•side. 

(Jur subject is one of ihrce cliildrcn born to his 
parents. The eldest, Joseph P., is now a Method- 
ist minister and resides in Lyons, Ionia County, 
this State. Adelia A., who is now Mrs. S. Stebbins, 
was an early settler in llowell, Mich. The young- 
esl is he of whom we write. When a \()ung boy 
he was left motherless and Ids father was again 
married to Miss Caroline Parsons of Howell. From 
this union three children were l)Orn — Gardner. Ida 
M. and .jude. 

The original of oui' sketch was born May 1"2. 
1835, in Perry Township, Wyoming County. N. Y. 
and when nine years of age came to Michigan with 
his parents and when about fifteen started out in 
life for himself, his first occupation being thiit of a 
stage-driver from Flint to Saginaw, after which he 
was engaged m farming. In 1855-56 he attended 
the State University and graduated, taking a degree 
as Surveyor and Civil Kngineer in IHoG. After 
finishing his course in college oui' subject went to 
Fowlerville, Livingston County, and there became 
identified with the Spiritualists as a medium. lie 
has now, however, adjured spiritualistic doctrines 
having ascertained the truth. 

In 1857 our subject entered the regular seivice 
being one of the First Regiment and enlisting in 
New York. His first expedition was in Central 
.America. His milirary career records i)romotion and 
many experiences in various States. He then e)i- 
listed in the War of the Reliellion and at the liat- 
tle of Bull Run liis regiment was ordered to join 
McClellan's forces under Gen. Sykes. While in the 
battle of Harrison's Landing. .Tuly 16, 1862, our 
sul\ject received a ball in the right leg which he 
still carries; he also received a liayonet wound in 
the right knee at Savage Station. Later he was 
authorized by Gov. Blair of Michigan to raise a com- 
pany; securing thirty-three men he reijorted and was 
consolidated with tithers into the Twenty-sixth 
Michigan Infantry, our subject going out as Ser- 
geaut-Major of the regiment. He was promoted to 



the post of Lieutenant March 3, 1863. June 19, 
1863, he was incap.acitated for service by sunstroke 
while on the Black Water march and received his 
di-scharge December 3, 1863, and was transferred 
to the Bethany Reserve Corps at Fortress Monroe, 
where he was promoted to the position of staff offi- 
cer to Capt. A. H. Perry. He served until Decem- 
ber 1. lcSG4, when he resigned and came home. 

Eager for the much needed rest Mr. Preston set- 
tled in Jackson County, where he went to work at 
his trade as a mason, there being many evidences 
of his industry in the residences and blocks of the 
city. In 1869 he went to Lyons, Ionia County, 
whei'e he was engaged in building both residences 
and jjublic buildings. He worked at his trade un- 
til 1872 when he went to Chicago and assisted in 
tlie lebuilding of the city. His mariiage had taken 
place in 1H62, in .lackson wlien he was united to 
Betsey A. Tanner, a daughter of Martin Tanner of 
that place. Frum this union foui- children, two 
sons and two daughters, have been born. The eldest 
Charles A. is in Tacoma, Wash,, working for .an 
electric light company; Stella who is now Mi's. 
Bunker resides in Williamston; Frank L. is ojie of 
the firm of tlie electric light comjxany in Tacoma. 
Wash., .•iiid is ddiuii well. The youngest child. 
Kate was jidopted liy lier uncle. Warren Ttinner. 
and now resides in .lackson County. 

Mrs. Preston died .lanuary 15, 1873, and after 
the death of their mother the children were reared 
by their uncles. Jn 1873 the original of our sketch 
assisted in tin' liuilding of the Advent College at 
Battle Creek and then went to Duluth, working as 
assistant surveyor for the Northern Pacific Railroad 
from Duluth tn i'liiiet Sound. Ilecontinued there 
from fH71 to li^iS5 when he received the news of 
the death of ills father and came home. The next 
year he settled in Locke Township on a farm where- 
on he lived until April, 1890, and the following 
year was married to Amanda Shaw, ti daughter of 
.lonathan Stilson of Oakland, this State and an 
earl.\ settler. The wedding journey was .aeeomi)- 
lished with horse and buggy, their destination be- 
Chieago. where our subject laid fiiick for three 
weeks for*! per day. While there he wasaiipointed 
Special Police iuAVoodland Park. He at that time 
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tho AVorld's Fair was located in .Tacksoii Park 

mill tlu' iiri'Mlcr iiuiiiln'i- nf liis- lut- liciiiii Uicalcd 
not far from tliat ^ite. In' ^uUl at a very liaiidsunu- 
profit, lie returni'd to Lan.<ing, ]\Iic'li..an(l invo.itod 
:^fi.0O() in a farm and tin' rest of his fortune in 
iiood ical e.state and stock, also Icndint; ¥l.'i.O(i(i. 
><7.i>(Mi at .") pel- cent, and «(').(I0(I at (i per cent. 

Mr. I'leston is soriallv a iiiciiilici' of the (ioud 
Templars and also lielont;s to Kii 1*. .Uexander 
I'ost. No. 203. <;. .V. R. He has always lieen inter- 
ested in progressive movements .-iiid is a ])oucr 
lu the eommunity wherein he at |)iesent lives, not 
only because of his financial standing, hut foi- 
his ability in other directions. 






OilN 'SI. I'OTT.S. He whose name is at the 
head of this sketch is by birth a sul)ject 
of that empire n|)on whicii tlic sun never 
I sets, and whose standinu' amonu' the n:itions 
is at the present time the (inn .and unmoved one 
of centuries past of wise a'oyernment, successful 
combat and large conimcreial interests. Mr. Potts 
is just on the border land bet\veen the years of 
hale vigor and patriarchal age. having been born 
in England. January 23, 1826. He came to this 
State in 1833, and now lives on section It. Handy 
Town.ship, Livingston County, wiiere he is the 
proprietor of two hundred acres of fertile, finely- 
cultivated land, whicli under his care has been 
made to blossom like one t)f the agricultural g.ar- 
dens of Central and Southern England. 

He of whom we write is a son of William and 
Mary A. (Weaver) Potts, natives of England. 
They came with their family to this country and 
proceeded to the State of Michigan, where with 
their Hock of six youths and maidens they located 
in Milford. Oakland County, in 1833. There the 
father took up two quarter-sections of CJovcrn- 
meut land. It was densely timbered and the work 
of making a home was begun by felling timber 
whi<-h was hewn and mortised for a cabin. Later, 
when the work of clearing had progressed, they 
built a fine stone residence and good barns, mak- 



ing a beautiful home of the former dreary and 
uiiruiy tangle of trees, underbrush and vines. He 
w-as recognized as one of the most jiromineut men 
of the county, whose financial condition gave him 
precedence in matters requiring pecuniary aid for 
tlie development of the country. Our sulijecl's 
grand))ai'ents (111 the paternal side wevi" William 
;ind ^laiy (.MmiIIii) Potts, agriculturists in Eng- 
land, of whom our >uliject's father was one of five 
chililreii. 

The iM:iterii;il graiid|iarenls of Mr. Potts were 
ll( my .-iikI Mrs. Weaver, who were fanners in 
England. The niother was one of a large family. 
Six childieii came to enliven the dreariness of the 
pioneer home and made in themselves a little .set- 
tlement about their parents. They were Mary A. 
William. Kolieit. Francis. .John and .Susan. Francis 
and Susan are now deceased. All were reared in 
Oakland County, and there made their homes, ex- 
cepting him of whom we write. 

Oiir subject was reared on the home farm, and 
bent his efforts toward helping to clear the same, 
assisted liy his older lirothers, whose pride in their 
place was one with that of the father. Our suli- 
jcct's young shoulders were early fitted to the har- 
ness, for he began to work when seven _vears old. 
and has ever since continued the ways of industry 
and prudence learned in his early youtli.and now 
in his declining years, with his faithful companion 
who has been his loving hel]miate throughout life, 
he enjoys the hard-earned fruits of his youthful 
labor. Twenty-four years of his life were spent 
under his father's roof, and then he began life for 
himself, purchasing eighty acres of land, whicli 
was at the time jiartially imjiroved, in the tow-n of 
Commerce, Oakland County. There was a itaucity 
of improvement about the place, it bearing but 
one miserable log house and nothing besides to 
gladden the eye with the reminder that they were 
living in a civilized land, excepting, as the wife 
says, a straw stack looming up against the western 
horizon. They lived on that ])lace for some years. 
.V mushroom springs up in a night, but an oak is 
the growth of centuries. So all good work takes 
time and patience, and years pas.«ed before the 
place bore the semblance of a "down-east farm." 
with well cleared pastures, neatly built fences, a 



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comfortable house and commodious well filled 
barns. It was accomplished, however, and then 
our subject sold the place in order to purchase the 
estate wheron lie now lives. 

On coming to liis present location, Mr. Potts 
found a repetition of his other experience, but in 
a modified degree. The largest town near their 
residence — Fowlerville — contained no churches, 
hut there was a frame schoolhouse. On their place 
was a log house and m this they lived until 1883, 
when on the completion of a fine frame house, 
which oiH- subject had erected upon a com- 
manding- elevation overlooking the entire coun- 
tr\-, which is picturesque in the extreme in its 
diversity of feature, they left the log house to 
make their home in the more comfortable and com- 
modious new one. 

Mr. Potts was united in marriage to Jliss Eme- 
liza .Sly, their nuptials being celebrated March 14. 
1850. She is a daughter of Christopher and Eliza- 
lictli (Crawford) Sly, natives of New England, 
who removed to New York, making their home in 
Ontario County, where the father was engaged in 
farming. They came to Michigan in 1832, and 
settled in Commerce Township. Oakland County, 
where thej' lived until their decease. Their fam- 
ily comprised but two children — Mary A. Patten, 
of Oakland County, and ]\Irs. Potts. Mrs. Potts 
had nine half-brothers and half-sisters. Her 
father was a Whig in politics. Our subject, politi- 
cally, favors the Republican party, and gives his 
vote and influence in that direction. He and his 
wife are memliers in good standing of the ]\Ietho- 
dist Episcopal Cliurch, Mr. Potts having thus been 
connected since sixteen years of age, and a greater 
part of that time in an official capacity. Mrs. 
Potts has been a church luemlicr since fourteen 
years of age. Of the family of six children that 
have been born to this worthy couple, only two 
are now living. They are Mary E., who is now 
Mrs. Oeorge M. Crawford, and the mother of two 
children — Sjiencer G. and Eva M.; and John AV., 
who married Katie Haven, and which union has 
been blessed liy the advent of one child. Pru- 
dence. The four who have been laid awa^' in the 
arms of death are Adella and Adelbert, twins of 
ten and fifteen months of age each: Susan \'. and 



Eva E. A prominent man in all progressive 
measures, Mr. Potts is liberal to a fault, giving 
generously of his store Ijoth to public enterprises 
and to needy individuals. He is a strong tem- 
perance man, and his principles in regard to 
moral and religious matters are of the most tena- 
cious character. 




,|,URT BRAYTON. There is perhaps no fam- 
ily in Howell Township, Livingston County, 
^j I! which is more highly respected, not only 
for character, but also for talents and at- 
tainments than the one represented by the name at 
the head of this sketch. Their social standing in 
the community is exceptionally good, and their 
value as citizens is shown by the influence wliicli 
they exert. 

Mr. Brayton's farm of two hundred and fifty 
acres is situated on section 21, Howell Township. 
A beautiful residence and fine outbuildings mark 
the spot and tlie thorouglily cultivated acres show 
the hand of a careful, conscientious and intelligent 
farmer. Both house and barns show that no ex- 
pense has been spared to make them attractive and 
convenient for the comfort of the family and of 
the stock, which is being raised upon the farm. 

This gentleman was born December 18, 1836, in 
Ontario County, N. Y., his parents, Ira and Esther 
A. (Louk) Braytou. being natives of that State, 
who were married in Steuben County, where they 
carried on a farm for some years before removing to 
Ontario County. The family's migration to Mich- 
igan took place in September, 1838, and for six 
years they lived on section 9 of this township, af- 
ter whicli they removed to section 22. Later Mr. 
Brayton transferred his interests to Oceola Town- 
ship,where he carried on a brickyard. He also owned 
a grist and saw-mill in Howell Townshi)). He was at 
that time one of the most wealthy men in the county, 
and employed a large number of men. He was 
known far and wide as a thorough-going business 
man of integrity and ability and his enterprise 
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ownied some six luindred ac-res of laml. Botli lie 
and his good wilf were active members of the Bap- 
tist C'liiirch. and in his political aHiliations he was 
a Rei)ublicau. He died in Kent Coiintv. Alich., in 
18h;). 

The i)arents of this |)ioneer were Nathaniel and 
Patience (C'arrington) Brayton, who had a line 
fni'in ill Rensselaer Connty, N. Y.. upon whicli were 
reared seven sturdy and stalwart sons. Xathaniel 
Brayton was a .«on of Henry and Mehitahle (Wal- 
lace) Brayton, natives of Massachusetts, iia liiay- 
ton had a family of six children, only three of 
wliom are now living. They are I'atience, now 
Mrs. Bennett, of Detroit; P>iiit.aiid Nathaniel, liv- 
ing in Kent County, the owner of a tlourishing 
flouring-mill. 

The joys and trials incident to the life of a farm- 
er's boy were the experiences of Burt Biaytmi in 
his early years, and he had the usual fun and drudg- 
ery which are to be found in going to tlie di>ti'ict 
school. He improved well tlu' advantages which 
lie received, and thus obtained a thorough coiiuiion- 
.sense education, and as a young man he lived for 
some six years in the village of Howell, wlieic he 
carried on the business of ;i photogra])her. He 
then removed to this farm, where lie now resides. 
and for a few yeai> made lii> home in a log house. 

It was upon the .'iotli of Septemlier, \XtW, that 
he took the step which was decisive in its re- 
sults, as it made for him a home by bringing to 
his side a bride in the person of Mary . I. Park, 
of Howell, the daughter of Williain K. and l,u>ina 
(Coates) Park. Her parcntj? were natives of 
Broome and Steuben Counties, N. Y., respectively. 
and were married in tlie Empire State. Mr. Park 
carried on the vocations of farmer and lumberman, 
and superintended .sawmills and rafted lumber in 
the forests of his native State. His life ended 
while he was in the city of New York, but his wife 
afterward removed West with her family, coming 
to Michigan in 185;') and settling in Oakland 
County. Somewhat later she removed to Living- 
ston County and made her home in Howell Town- 
ship, where she lived until death called her away. 
She had a liriglit family of three children. Mrs. 
Brayton "s brothers being William V.. of Ingham 
County, and John Q., of Lansing. .Mr. Park was 



in his lifetime an advocate of the principles em- 
bodied in the declaration of the Whig party, and 
his wife was prominent as a useful and active mem- 
ber of the Methodist Church. 

The father of Mr. Park was Thomas, and his 
mother was Al)igMil Farland, both of Eastern birth. 
'I'-liey had a family of nine children who grew up 
(ui the faiiii to man's and woman's estate. The 
parents of .Mis. Park were Ransom and Patience 
(Britten) Coates, both New Yorkers. Mr. Coates 
was a merchant who came to Jlichigan in 18.5;"), 
and settled in Oakland County, where he engaged 
in farming, and at the time of his death was in 
Wayne County. He had a family of nine children, 
and while li\iug in the East was a man of consid- 
erable ollieial importance. 

Seven children have blessed the home of ^Ir. 
and ^Irs. Brayton, and of this number the eldest, 
Carrie, has married. The names t)f the others 
are Herinia I-".., Ira E., Mary E.. Williain P.. Clauile 
A. and Ivy L. Carrie is now :Mis. .1. C. Pell, 
and she has had four lovely children — Hazel \.. 
Audre\ .1.. llmi (•. .■mil Brayton, who died in in- 
fancy. Her home is upon a farm in Howell Town- 
ship. The four daughters have artistic talents 
which they have developed, and their skill and 
taste are well known and highly appreciated by 
their friends, and to all the family has been given 
musical l;ileiil. which ha> aided greatly in adding 
to the attractions of their liapiiy home. and to their 
usefulness as members of society. A fine grade of 
horses, cattle and sheep is to be found u|ion this 
line farm, and its iiroinietor is considered one of 
the most prominent and reliable fanners in Liv- 
ingston Countv. 



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OlIN DL'NNTXC;. A life well siient and 
duties well performed deserve a serene and 
' happy recess in the afternoon of life, pre- 
parative for the greater activeity to begin in 
the other dawning. t)nr suliject has retired from 
the active labor incident to farm life, having for 
vears been a successful merchant in Unadilla Town- 



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ship, Livingston County. He is a son of Jacob 
and Martlia (Taylor) Dunning, the fonner a native 
of Connecticut and a farmer by calling, who was a 
loyal and brnve soldier in the Continental array 
in the AVar of 1812. Our subject's mother was a 
native of Xew York State, having been born near 
Auburn. She died in 1828 and her husband in 
1833. The}' were the parents of six children, five 
of wiiom are still living. 

.lohn Dunning was born .lune 2, 1812, in the 
township of Byron, Genesee County, N. Y. He 
grew to manhood in that county, enjoying in his 
boyhood but limited advantages as regards educa- 
tion. He was reared on a farm and when about 
twenty years of age his father gave him his time 
and he hired out by the month to the nearest far- 
mer. At the small wages of 112 per month he 
thus worked until twenty-three years of age, saving 
what he could, and in the fall of 1835 he came to 
jNIichigan and purchased one hundred and sixty 
acres of land in the towmship of Waterloo, Jackson 
County, and then went back to New York. In the 
spring of 1837 he came to Michigan to stay. 

Going to Dexter, Washtenaw County, our sub- 
ject worked for a month for his board and then 
went to work for Cliurch it N(jrton, peddling fan- 
ning mills through the country, continuing to be 
thus occupied for Ave years, during which time 
the firm name was changed to Norton & Wakeman. 
At the expiration of his service here he was en- 
gaged for three years in Dexter as a clerk and then 
went into business for himself at Reeves Mills, 
March 1, 1846. The following December he moved 
his stock to the village of Unadilla and continued 
in the merch.andise business, carrying a general 
stock until 1884, having an experience in this line 
extending over thirty-eight years. Since the 
above mentioned time our subject h.is lieen in no 
active business. 

In Marcli. 1840, the original of our sketch was 
united in marriage to Miss Hettie Howell, a native 
of New Jersey who came to Michigan when a child. 
They settled in Dexter in 1835-3t;. Mrs. Dunning 
died August 12, 18()6. She was the mother of 
two children. <^ue of whom is still living, a daugh- 
ter. Flora, the wife of A. H. Watson aad lives near 
I'nadilla. She has three children, all bovs, of 



whom our subject is very proud. Two of the boys 
are now attending the High School at Ionia. Our 
subject was again married in 1870 to Miss Susan 
Doty, a native of Pennsylvania. She died in 1882 
without issue. Not belonging to any church, ]Mi-. 
Dunning has for years been a supporter of two 
churches in Unadilla. He has always taken an 
active interest in politics, being an ardent Repub- 
lican. His first vote was cast in 1836, for Presi- 
dent on the Whig ticket. 

Although nearly eighty years of age, he of whom 
we write still enjoys good health and has a robust 
constitution. He has always been temperate in his 
habits and a man of unexceptional morals. He 
now makes his home with his onl\ daughter. Our 
subject, having a large capital, makes a handsome 
income by loaning money. He owns stock in the 
Detroit Gaslight Company, has stock in the bank 
in that city and is also interested in a bank at 
Arkansas Citv. Kan. 




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RS. LOUISA SCOFIELD. one of the rep- 
resentative pioneer women of Locke Town- 
ship, Ingham County, making her home on 
section 3, was born in Niagara County, N. 
Y.. June 17.1816. Her father, Israel G. Atkins, 
was a native of New Hampshire, and her mother, 
Fannie Knight, was born in New York. Her 
father was a soldier in the War of 1812 and her 
maternal grandfather served under Washington in 
the Revolutionary War. 

Wlien still a small child our subject removed 
with her parents to Erie County, N. Y., and was 
there reared to womanhood, being given thorough 
training in both book lore and domestic science. 
It was upon the 1st of May, 1838. that she was 
united in marriage with Stephen Scofield, who 
w.as born in New York in 1809, and was a son of 
Josiah and Elizabeth Scofield. He had grown to 
manhood in his native State and w.as a man of 
fair education, yet practically a self-made man. 
Bv him she liad five children, four of whom nre 








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living, namely: Grace, the wife of Lewis Bridger. of 
Shiawa.<see County; Ellen, wife of S. F. Sniitli, Mayor 
of Owosso; Henry W.. who lives in I^oeke Town- 
ship; Marian, wife of Artluir Watkins. of Ontario 
County. N. Y., and Israel (i., who died in a hospital 
at Cincinnati, Ohio, while serving his country dur- 
ing tiie Civil War. 

In 1842 Mr. and Mrs. Scofield migrated to 
Jngham County, Mich., and here settled upon the 
farm where Mrs. Scofield now resides. Like most 
pioneers who made their homes in tliis unbroken 
forest they had hardshiiw and privations to en- 
counter. They first erected a log hou.se and in 
that resided for more than a quarter of a century. 
The present attractive residence was liuilt by Mr. 
Scofield and he did a great amount of pioneer work. 
He was a Republican in politics and served his 
township for some time as .histice of the Peace. 
He departed this life October 9. 1«69, respected by 
all who knew him. and in his death tli(> county lost 
line of her best citizens. 

The widow of Mr. Scoticld resides upcm tlie val- 
uable estate which he left to his lamily.aud in her 
adv;inced years she is enjoying the fruits of a life 
well sjjcnt in uscfubiess, and is surrounded by 
friends and neighbors who |)rizc her character. 
She is identified with the I'niver.salist Church and 
has ever lieen a valued niembei' of clinrcli .Mnd s(i- 
cial circles. 



VI 



^ OL. .JOHN A. SIIANNO.X. Although of 
alien ••uicestry. oui' sniijcct and the family 
to which he belongs have been conspicu- 
ous for the services Ihey have rendered their 
c()untry, both in the Colonial times and during 
the more recent strife between the Xorth and Suutli. 
Now li\-ing a quiet, bucolic life upon his farm on 
section Id, A'evay Township. lugliam County, he 
who.se portrait appears on the opposite page wajs 
born in AX'yaiulot County, Ohio, on the banks of 
tlie Tymochtee Creek. October 19, 182(). He is the 
st)n of .loseph C. and Ruth (Allgire) Shannon. 
The fatlier was born in Ireland and was a son of 



Patrick and Klizabeth (Shepherd) Shannon, na- 
tives of County Donegal. Ireland. 

Our sul)ject's grandfather, Patrick Shannon, 
came to .Vmerica a short time before the Revolu- 
tionary War, and espousing the cause of iiis adopted 
country, did good service in that war. He served 
under the direct command of Washington and 
was with him in that winter that will ever be 
memorable in .\niericaii iiistory, which was spent 
in terril)le suffering at Valley Forge. He was a 
man of large means, but his great heart could not 
endure the sight of suffering that could be j"e- 
lieved by his pocket book, and he spent his^sul)- 
stance in relieving the necessities of the soldiers, 
so that when the war was over he wjis left with 
very little. With his wife he then returned to Ire- 
land for a short time to settle their property and 
convert it into money. It was while they were on 
that trij) that our subject's father, Joseph Cresap 
Shannon, was born. The grandfather then came 
back to .\merica and settled in Kentucky, where 
his son was reared, and whence he enlisted as a 
soldier in the lUack Hawk ^^'ar, being a non-cojn- 
inissioned ollicer therein, .\fter that war was over. 
.Joseph C. Shannon .■ipprenticed himself to a taniiei' 
in Fayette County. Ohio, and remained with him 
for two years. During his api)renticeshi|i he lie- 
came ac((uaiuted with our subject's mother, who 
was a native of Faii'tield County. Ohio, .-iiid they 
were married before a great while. 

After the nuiriiage of our subject's father he 
was engaged in agrieidtnral woi'k upon his father- 
in-law's farm for a few years and then located in 
Wvandot County, where he entered land and 
al.so built a tanni'iy. .Vt the time of the birth of 
our sul)ject his parents' nearest neighbor lived at 
M distance(>r two miles, .losejih C. Shannon became 
so popular with the \\'vandot tribe that they 
conferred upon him the uuusu.mI honor of making 
him a chief. IK' attended tlieir coiiiu-il meetings, 
and the fact that he was so favored proved to be 
a great ])rotei'tion to him and his family. Our 
subject has inherited the title of chief in the Wy- 
andot tiibe. and is to-day entitled to that dis- 
tinction. 

.loseph C. Sluinnon latei removed to Ft. Findl.ay. 
Ohio, where he started a store. He was afterward 



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elected County Auditor, and wa.s serving in tlial 
cnpMfity wlien lie dropped dead on tiie ground 
whicli i.-- now used .is tlie eenieten' in Findlay, 
Oiiio. His decease oecuired in Miiy. l«;i(j, and liis 
liody lie^ interred in that cemetery. It was a 
niemonible and terrible occasion for our subject, 
who was with his father at the time of his dealii. 
His mother had died in 1828, and is interred in 
Wyandot County. His father was after that 
twice married. There were three children by the 
tirst marriage. By the second marriage there was 
one son, C. C. Shannon, now deceased, wlio was a 
soldier in the late war. He left several children. 
Hy the thii'd marriage tbei'e were three children, two 
daughters nliii died in youth, and one son by nanu' 
Hiram Strother Shannon, a silversmith by trade; he 
lives in Mineiva. Ohio, where he ke«ps an hotel. 
The immediate branch of the family to which our 
subbject belongs comprises, besides hinnelf. a sis- 
ter. Sarah E.. who married David Longshore, and 
and who.se home is now in Iowa. (,)ur suliject'> 
brother, Capt. Jo.-ieph (). Shannon, wlm now reside^ 
in Xel)raska, was a soldier in the War of the Kc- 
bellion. 

As a boy lietween the ages of six and ten, our 
subject spent many da\s with the Wyandot In- 
dians. He learned their customs and also became 
familiar with their language. Being a favorite 
with the liraves. he was taught to use the bow and 
arrow with the skill and expertncss of one of their 
own tribe. He went with them on two memorable 
journeys to Ft. Wayne and Detroit, lie was only 
ten years of age or thereabouts when his father's 
death occuVred, and was after that .sad event sent 
to live witl) his mothei's sister, a Mrs. Kachael 
Miuphy. of Delaware Countw Ohio. With her he 
made his home until he w.as .about sixteen years 
of age. He remembers that, as a boy, it was far 
greater pleasure for him to follow the Indians 
aliout, to hunt and lish. than to go to school, 
but while in Delaware County he was in atten- 
dance at the little log sohoolhouse for about 
three numths each winter. The teacher that 
he had must have adapted himself admirably 
to the temperament of his little pupil, for here 
he became fond of his .studies, and so great a 
reader that it was his delight to lie in front of the 



blazing logs in the lireplace and devour anything 
that came within his reach. .Vt the age of sixteen 
he successfully passed an e.>camination and received 
a license to teach. His career as a teacher began 
immediately, and for his .services he received ^10 
per month during the tirst term. He afterward at- 
tended Granville College, in Licking County, Ohio, 
until his senioi- year, managing to teach at the s.ame 
time during vacations. He had. however, ovei'-e.sti- 
mated the strain that his constitution could endure. 
for hishealtli failed him and he was obliged to leave 
school. His college course up to that time had 
been paid for by woi-king ujion the farm connected 
with that institution and also by teaching, which 
he followed for nine \ears. 

In 1850, when about twenty-three or twenty- 
four years of age. Mr. Shannon, having recently 
been converted, became a Methodist preacher m 
the North Ohio Conference. Those were days of 
the itinerancy, when a preacher traveled about on 
horseback, carrying with him only what he could 
take in his saddlebags, ^nid when, there being 
comparatively few churches in the country, the 
schoolhonses or private lesidences were the pl.aces 
of meeting. He traveled all over Northwestern 
Ohio, and wa^ stationed in Toledo for a year, al- 
though his first year was spent in ISryan, Williams 
County. He was at Fostoria for two years'. 

On .March 26, 1854, Mr. Shannon was married 
to Mi.ss l^ucy M. Bassett, of Grand Kajuds, Ohio. 
Their marriage was celebrated in Wood County. 
The lady was born in Erie County, Ohio. Febru- 
ary 15, 1832. By this marriage there have been 
born four children, whose names are: Anna A., 
Lillian E., Alpheus (!. and Katie. The eldest 
daughter was born in Water ville, Lucas County, 
Ohio. June 29, 1855. She married Otto Caple and 
they live in Vevay Townshij). Ingham County. 
Their children are: Harry, who was born in Indi- 
ana, August 21. 1877; Lillie !•;.. lioiu in Indiana 
.\.l)ril 1, 187il; .lohii .\.. born in \'evay Township, 
Ingham County. \\iv\\ 2. 1885. and Ruth, alsfi 
born in this township, .lanuary It. 1887. The .sec- 
1 ond daughter, Lillian K.. boni March I. 18(;(l. in 
F'ostoria, Seneca County, Ohit), married Edward 
B. Caple Januarj' 19, 1887, and lives on .section 
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in 1862. dierl in Februiuv, IKdlJ. Kntic wlio 
born in 11S73, died in that ^<anu' year. 

In Wood ( 'oiintv, Ohio, our sulijoct liccaiiu' con- 
nected witli llio military coinniitloe tlial made its 
lioadi|uarti'rs at Perrysburu, ( )iuo. lli.^ talonl in 
spei'cli making was in roquisition, as lie made an 
apppeal for volunteers throughout the State. He 
himself enlisted in the One Hundredth Ohio Infan- 
try, (\)m]iany .V. and was made C'a|)lain of the 
Company. Hi' was in tlie battle of Wilson's Creek, 
Mo., ill IH()1. before he had become a soldier, and 
his patriotism taking lire, he seized a musket and 
entered the thick of the fight. He now says that 
he wanted to prove whether he was brave enough 
to' stand under the fire of the enemy. After enter- 
ing the army in 18(52. he was assigned to the 
.\rmy of the Ohio, and was under Burnside's 
command, having rceeived his commission as Cap- 
tain July 15. 1862. His services having received 
honorable mention, he was promoted by Oov. Tod 
to the rank of Major, May 13, 1863. He had 
studied civil engineering and was enabled to as- 
sist O. M. Poe, now living in Detroit, in laying 
out the fortilieations at Knoxville, Tenn. 

Previous to this Mr. Shannon had been detiiched 
from the regiment and w.as on (ien. Biirnside's 
.staff, but while engaged on the work of the forti- 
fication he was transferred to the staff of (ien. Till- 
son. .Vflir the plans for this work were com- 
pleted, he was ordered to take charge of their 
construction according to the specifications that 
had been made. To relieve the troops that were 
worn with excessive duty he was ordered to em- 
ploy negro labor in constructing the fortifications 
.•ind .laiiiiaiy 6, 1864, he received an order to or- 
ganize a regiment of colored heavy artillery. The 
regiment was to consist of twelve companies of 
one hundred and fifty men each. It received the 
name of the First I'nited States Colored Heavy 
Artillery, and our subject was appointed its Col- 
onel. .\s is .so frequently the case where worth 
and merit receive their reward and jiromotion. 
our subject was not spared the jiain of jealous 
shaft-s. (ien. Tillson did all he could to belittle 
his work and loyalty, but our subject tvime out of 
the affair with Hying colors and was promoted to 
the position of Lieutinaiit-Colonel Ma\ 11. 1861. 



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and to the rank of Colonel November 4, 1864. 
On .lanuary l;j. 186.5. while in the line of duty, 
our subject's horse stumbled and fell, and roUliiig 
ovei- him. crushed the bones of the chest, and by 
this cat;istro|)lie he was ru])tured and otherwi.se 
disabled. Thus incapacitated for .active wcnk. he 
offered his resignation May 13. IMil.'i. It w.as ac- 
cepted, and he returned to his home. 

Previous to his entering the army our subject 
had studied law. and after his return home he was 
admitted to the bar in Columbus, Ohio, to practice 
before the .Supreme Court of Ohio. It was a grati- 
fying tribute to his ability as a man and an attor- 
torney that so early in his career he should lie 
elected Prosecuting .Vttorney for Wood County, 
Ohio. There he continued in the practice of his 
profession until he was stricken down with sick- 
nesss in 1884. His removal to his present home 
took jilace in 1885. He is now retired from act- 
ive life and makes his home with his daughter. 
His wife still lives and is the faithful conipaiiion 
of his iays of trial as she has been of his days of 
success. 

In his experience during the war. when there 
were so many incidents of oppression and wrong 
done by the soldiers on both sides. .Mr. Shannon 
gave a brilliant example of the magnamiuity that 
should ever characterize a true soldier and a gen- 
tleman. The lieli)le.ss and oppressed never turneil 
away from him without succor or encouragement, 
and offenders against the weak and helpless were 
most summarily dealt with; 

The following letter is a copy of an order by 
our subject to one of the Southern iiuii who li;i(l 
in his j)ossession :i little negro boy. who>e mother 
w;is very desirous to have hini: 

"HoyHs. FoiiA(;r\<i Exri:i>rno\. 

.\tclilevs Mill. Sevier Co.. Tenn.. 

.lanuary 3d. 1865. 
••Mh. Dk.an:— 

The bearer. .Minnie, desires to get possession t>f 
her little boy. Prank. I regard her claim .as better 
founded than yours. .She wishes to send her l)oy 
school. Vou. I understand, have said that no 
Yankees, or others, sliould take him. If she is not 
allowed peaceful possession of her own child. 1 
shall send and take him liy force of arms." 

(Signed) .Toiix .\. Sii wnon. 

Col. Conidg. Kor.aging Expedition. 



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rRANK A. BURKHART. Anions the sons 

of the Hiiiinre State who have liv their lives 
(if integrity. eiitei'|)ri.se and sueeess in Mieli- 
igan liiouglit credit upon botli the State of their 
liiilh :in<l tlie State of their adojitiiin. we are plea^^ed 
to nialve mention of .Mr. Burlvhart. wlio was liorn in 
l)eeernl)er. l^t.')2. in ifonroe County. N. Y. His 
honored parents. Henry and l>ydia (Ilagedorn) 
liurlvliarl. removed to tliis State when lie was an 
infant of one year, and brought him with them. 

Our snliject was lirought up upon his father's 
faiin and received an ordinary district-school edu- 
cation, which, although not broad in its sco]ie was 
thorough in its (h'iU. and gave him an excellent 
foundation for future attainments and a good prej)- 
aration for the woi-k of life. I'poii attaining his 
inajoritv the young man started out f(jr himself, 
farming fifty acres of land on section 8H, Cohoctah 
Townshiii. Livingston Count\. wliere he still re- 
sides. This has been his home with the exi-eption 
of six years, from April. 18H4. to April. l«tMl. when 
he was carrying on a grocery and jircivision luisi- 
ness in Howell, after which time heretu]-ncd totlic 
farm. 

In the spring of 1«71 .Mr. lUirkhart jiuiciiased 
eighty acres of timber land adjoininij his pi(.)p- 
erty on the north, and of that he has cleared 
sixty acres and has since added to it forty acres 
more. In IHH.') he Ixuight one hundred acies on 
section 28, in the Township of Howell, most of 
which is now imijrcn-ed. This property has been 
gained liy his own endeavors, and in addition Mr. 
lUirkhart owns a house and lot in Howell. 

Carlic C Allison was the name in maidenhood 
ot the wife of our snliject. to whom he was united 
in marriage .Vugust Hi, 1874. This intelligent and 
interesting lady was born in the township of Put- 
nam, this county. March Hi, 18,")7. .She is a daugh- 
ter of .lames and IJorothy (Hines) .VUi.Min. who re- 
sided at Pinckney. where ^Ir. .Vllison followed the 
doulile calling of a miller and a farmer. The three 
children who survive of the live who blessed this 
home are Addie B.. Claud \. and Ethel. Mrs. 
Iiurkhart has been a memlier of the Methodist 
l^pi.scopal Church since she was twelve years old 
and she is active in the service. 

The native home of ^Ii-. Allison was in Oranae 



County. N. Y., and his natal day May 7, 1873. He 

was but eight years old when his father died and 
he then lived with an uncle, (Teorge Reeves, and 
came with him to Pinckney about the year 1834. 
In 183(! he assisted his uncle build Reeves' Mill 
and he continued to reside in Pinckney until his 
death which occurred .lune 1. 18(i4. He left a 
widow and five childicn. His two sons and three 
daughters are now living but his wife died Sejjtem- 
ber 17. 187'J. at the age of lifty years, having been 
born March 8. 182.j. in Ticonderoga County. N. Y. 
She was a daughter of \V. Hines. a lilacksmith, who 
came to Washtenaw County in 1828, and Later 
came to Iosco Township. Livingston County, 
■lames Allison was the .son of Willi.ani Allison, who 
was born Ajiril ;'). 1791. in Orange County. N. Y., 
and his wife. .Sarah Hoe. who was liorn February .'i. 
1890. She brought him five sons and two daugh- 
ters. The family is of Irish origin. 

llioii the line farm of Mr. Iiurkhart a specialty 
is made of the raising of Merino sheep, and a fine 
lloi k in.-vy be seen there in good condition and well 
cared for. ^Ir. Iiurkhart is a man whose intelli- 
gence and judgment is respected by his neighbors, 
and in his political views he attiliates with the 
Hepublicau jiarty. Imt he cares nothing tor office 
and has never sought the political arena, preferring 
the enjoyments of home life and the pleasure to 
be found upon the farm. 



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HILO STUKI-:T. Nowhere in the township 
; of Tyrone and scarcely in the county of 
Livingston can a home be found more at- 
tractive and delightful than that of Mr. and 
Mrs. Pliilo Street, and in this fact we have again 
a jiroof that jihysical ability is not the ))rime fac- 
t(n- in the at t.-iinment of domestic order, comfort 
and deliglit. for the cultured and thoughtful 
woman who |ire-ide~ over that home has lieen in- 
capacitated for more than twenty years from ac- 
tive work, yet she has made a success of her home. 
Philo Street is a son of Stephen B. and .Sallie 
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1M0(). near Hartford. Ciinii. Al Ilio at;!' of tutu- 
years 111- l<i>t \\h fatia'i' and at'tci- tlial tiriir he 
lived ainoiit; f'trans;ei>. I'puii atlaiiiiiiji lii> iiia- 
jiiiitv 111' removed to Darieii. Hrio ( omit\ . N. V.. 
and there engaged in iie<ldlinii and I'arniinu'. and 
also lponi»^lit and sold stocl<. in the s|)rinii: of \x;\'.i 
he eame liy lake tu the Wolverine State, and made 
his home on one linndrc(l and >ixtv acres of land 
on set'tioii 17. Tyroni' Tcnvnsliip. this eonnty. 
From this foiest land he cleared the tri-es. and 
npon it he raised tine crops and eontinniMl to live 
here until his death, June 7. lHliS. 

The father of onr subject was a Uepnlilic.an in 
his political views, and especially active in the 
promotion of the interests of his party durina the 
Civil W'ai-. He served as .lustiee of the I'eaee foi- 
>()ine time .•iiid liefran life with little means except 
his innate abilities and character. His marriage 
took place in Krie County. N". V.. and to him and 
his wife Sallie wvw born ten children. Ihi'ee of 
whom were taken from their arms b\ death dur- 
ina' childhood, and seven lived to older ye.ars. 
They were named: I'liiebe. I'rudie. I'hilo. Ileniv. 
Sarah. Hiram and Etta. 

February 2. l.s:5H. was 'he n.-ital day of I'hilo 
Street, who was born ne.ar D.aricn. N. \. He was 
two years <)f age when he eame to this State with 
his parent.s. He grew u|) upon the farm where he 
now resides, and received the ordinary advantages 
of the district school. He was twenty-three years 
old when he began farming for him.self, and his 
first efforts were in working by the month and on 
shares for other,s. He now owns eighty acres of 
the old lioniei>tead, to which he has added Hfty 
acres more, and upon his farm he has placed a 
comfortalile handsome house, and most excellent 
and commodious barns. I'he i)rinciiiles of the Re- 
puV)lican imrty commend themselves to lln' judg- 
ment of Mr. Street, and he is also stronaU in 
favor of prohibitory action in reaard to the >ale 
of intoxicating liquor.-. 

The happy married life of this ai'ntleman be- 
gan March in. 18f)2, and his bride «a.- .Martha L,, 
daughter of .\iiios and Lovisa (Brooks) Dexter. 
This lady was liorii in Tyrone Township. March 
9, 18."U), and her parents are natives of Chilj. -M'ui- 
roe Count V. N. V. Thev came to Michiaan in the 



fall of |H;in. and lived there until the death of 
Ml. Dexter. March 2(). lH7:i. The religious pro- 
cli\ ities of Amos Dexter were in the direction of 
the I'roteslant .Methodist Church, but later in life 
he became a l-"ree Methodist. 1 1 is wife wa> a na- 
ti\-eol the same county as himself, and havini; 
reared to maturity four .sons and eight daughters 
she passed her last day> in Tyrone Township. I,i\- 
iiigstoii Count \-. this Slate. 

Mr. ;ind .Mis. Street are acti\e .iiid devoted 
nieinbers of the Congregational Church, and they 
have brought up their one daughter, Stella, who 
is now :\Irs. .1. .\I. Becker, in this faith. Mrs. 
Sticct was thrown from a wagon by a runaway 
team in .lune, 1.S7H, and wa.s seriously injured, the 
lower joint of the spine being broken. She was 
a conliinied invalid three years and has never en- 
joyed good health nor been able to labor much 
since that disaster overtook her. She is possessed 
of many ii;i1ur;il talents and is much aliove the 
average in intelligence and relinement. Being of 
an active mind, she could not be content in idle- 
ness, and dnriiig the past I'ight years she has em- 
))loyed her time and talents (piite prolitably as a 
taxadeiinist. .She now posses.ses one of the most 
v.'iluabic i>rivate collection of biids in the county, 
and di'.serves great credit for her lalior. The ^](eci- 
men> of her mounted birds and fowls attest her 
skill and are of great interest to all student* of 
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A\II) \'. S.Miril is a general farmer, liv- 
1 ina upon two hundred and forty-fi\e 
.acres in .Meridian and .Vlaiedon Townships, 
lie V..I.- born in Schoharie County, near 
.Middleburg, N. v.. .lune (i. 1x31. His father. Eli 
.Smith, was born in the same place in 1K(M), and 
was al.so a farmer. In 1837 he moved into Wash- 
tenaw County and there remained for a few yeai> 
and ill 1 8 IM came to Ingham County and settled 
in -Vlaiedon Towir-hip on what i- now known a> 
the I'erry ."sIcnciis farm. 

Duriiiy the si^veii \ ears Eli Smith remaiiieil 



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upon hi.s farm in Ina:hajn Conntv ho made a num- 
ber of improvenuMit.-i ujion tlu' place. At thai 
time there were l)ut few settlers in the township. 
From tliat phiee they moved into Clinton County 
and there remained for eight years. Thence he 
went to .Shiawassee C(_)unt.\- where the father died 
in llS«r). Our subject's mother. Sally (.Scran ton) 
Smitli. was a native of New York, she died in 
Alaiedon Township in November, 1851. Oursul)- 
ject's grandfather. 'Xoah Smith, was a native of 
New York, and a farmer by occupation. This 
liranch of the Suiitli family is of English and 
Scotch ancestry. 

During his younger days l-)avid helped with the 
farm and attended the district school when an 
opportunity pi'e.sentcd itself. At the age of eight- 
een he conunenced taking care of himself, working 
as a daj' laborer until he was twenty-eight years 
old. At that time the auspicious event of his mar- 
riage occxirred. Their wedding was celebrated 
April 11. 18G;]. Our subject's bride was Miss 
Lvdia .lane Iloldeii. daughter of Tobias Holden, a 
farmer and mechanic of Alaiedon Town.ship. She 
was born .January 13. 1838, in Dearborn, Wayne 
Countv. this State. Her father was foreman of 
the mechanics and carpenters who constructed the 
fort at Detroit. He was born in Schoharie County, 
N. Y.. ill 180(5, and died in his eighty-third year. 
The lirst American ancestor, Randall Holden. came 
to the liiited States and settled in Norwich, R. I., 
in 1(J42. The coat of arms is still in the possession 
of the family. ]Mrs. .Smith's mother was, before 
her marriage, Harriet Lewis. Her decease occur- 
red in 1862. She was a cousin of William C. 
Bouck who was (Governor of New York in 1786. 
Mrs. David Smitli was educated in the Detroit 
public schools and is a lad.y of refinement and cul- 
ture and has a decided talent in the composition 
of metrical literature. Mr. and INIrs. .Smith have 
lieen blest with two children. 

The son and daughter born to our subject and 
his estimable wife are by name Ida May and Lewis 
H. respectively. The former was born October 6. 
186-1. She married Charles C'. Case who now lives 
in the State of Washington; they have one child 
— Robbie, who is four years old. Lewis H., a 
farmer in Alaiedon Township, who was boru 



May 13, 1868, married Flora Webster of Pine 
L.ake; they also have one child, Ida Pearl. Mr. 
Smith is a member of the Masonic fraternity, be- 
longing to Blue Lodge No. 252, of Okemos. He 
is also a Royal Arch Mason of the Williamston 
Clia|)ter. Politically he is an enthusiastic Demo- 
crat and has always taken an active interest in 
county affairs. He is now Justice of the Peace. 
Air. !Uid Mrs. Smith are very hospitable people and 
are r('|nesentatives of that class whose pleasure is 
in making this world a happier and brighter .abode. 






iILBERT CUSHMAN. A general farmer on 
T sections 9 and 10, Mr. Cushman has learned 
JJI(\ the secrets of nature and .science so thor- 
oughly as to insure success in his dealings with these 
fickle deities. His farm comprises one hundred and 
forty acres which is fair, arable laud. Our subject 
was born in Dexter, Washtenaw County, this State, 
December 25, 1836. He is a man of Charles Cush- 
man who was a native of Putnam County, N. Y., 
there born in 17;>2. He was a farmer and black- 
smith and came to Michigan when a young man, 
])urchasing a farm north of Lansing in DeWitt 
Towiislii|). Clinton County. He was one of the 
first settlers in that towmship and there died in his 
sixty-third year. 

The original of our sketch remained under the 
parental roof until he was twenty years of age. 
during which time he attended the country school 
and .assisted in the work of the farm. His health 
failing him at that time, he went to California, 
where he remained for two years, during which he 
regained his health to a great extent. On return- 
ing to his home he was married in December, 1862, 
to Miss Bertha Cornwell of Delhi Township. She 
died August 5. 1880, and two years later, Nov- 

I ember 9, our subject was married to Olive Joy of 
Meridian Township. Two children were born of 
this union — Bertha born April 25, 1884, and Lena, 
June 10, 1886. 

After the first marriage of the gentleman of 

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owned coinpiisini,^ toity acres near Delta and there 
iriii:iiiicil fur tliici' \ o:us. I If then sold and iiiiived 
uixm an i'i<j;lily-afri' tract noar liy wlu'rc he re- 
tnaiiK'd four years. On M'Uini;' the place ahove 
spokiMi of he pnrcliascd lii.- iirocnt farm of which 
there was only ahoiit twenty acres cleared at the 
time. lie has ini|)roved tliis ei-cctinsa conifortalile 
and conveniently arranited liouse wliicli is now 
.-diout scventi'cn yeais oM. He has also added 
iSdod harns niid ontl>nildini;s and tlie place presents 
a neat and attractive appearance. He has done a 
ureat deal of hard work in order to (jel ids pro- 
perty in the sliape that it now is. 

(iilhert C'nslinian is not c(ninccted witli a)iy 
relifiions l)ody. His wife is a inenilier of the 
Presliyterian Clinrcii. He is a ineniliei- of the 
Farmers' .Vlliance at Okenios. thit* State, as is also 
his wife. .\ Democrat in politics he has always 
cast the weisrht of his vole and inlhience with that 
party, hut has ni> .■iniliition to lR>ld townshi)) office. 
He and ids wife aic rei)resentative people of the 
townshi]) and are intelliircnt and refined. 

.Mrs. Cnsliiii.-in was horn in Oakland ('(ninty, 
Mich.. December 2!». IHol. AVhen she was* a small 
child her i)arcnts moved into .Meridian 'I'ownshi]). 
thiscountN. She is a dausjhter of Horace and 
Dianlha Joy and her father now tnakes his home 
with her. He has always been a farmer. The 
lady was formerly a teacher, having a record of 
thirteen terms successfully discharged in Ingham, 
Clinton ;ind Shiawassee Comities. She also taught 
one term at Henderson. .Mich., and wherever .she 
has been her praises as an cdncatni' nia\ be heard. 



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B. IlOSLKY. Many of the native sons of 
the WulvcriiU' St.ate arc now active, enter- 
jiiising business men and farmers. This 
fact. con])led with the wimderful piosperity and 
advances which have been made in every depart- 
ment of living, i-miihasizes the truth Ih.'il Michi- 
gan is becoming one of the mature Si.ue- m the 
sisterhood of commonwealths, and th;il it can no 



longer be classed among the younger of the num- 
ber. Among these sons who are thus honoring the 
home of their liirtli we are pleased to n:ime M|-. 
Hosley. 

He (if whom we write was boin in Decrlield 
I'ownsliip. Livingston County. Mich. and his natal 
d;iy was Februar\ 2(1. I^(l.'>. He now has his lesi- 
dence (m section IH. ( )ceola Township, and his 
home has lieen in Michigan tlirouglK)Ut life, with 
the exception of four years' residence in Texas. 
whitlu^r he went in 1H81. with three thousand 
head of sheep. On his journey he lost fifteen 
hundred sheep dining a stcnmy period of le.ss than 
nine days, and the experiment w.as a most di.sas- 
Irons one to him as he lost in all some *] l,.')()(l. 
The father of our subject was born in New 

York and was a farmer by occupation. His n; • 

was William Hosley, and he was married in I,i\ - 
ingst(jn County, Mich., to Kliza H. Beach, who 
lived to complete .seventy years. The grand- 
f.'ithcr. .losepli Hosley, was also :i New Yorker by 
birth, who came to Michigan in very early times, 
becoming (nie of the pioneers of Livingston 
County, taking up land on the section where our 
subject was born. He lived to exceed eighty-four 
year.s. Four dauglitei's and three sons were granted 
to the parents of our subject, and they .are .all 
living and have est.abli.shed homes of their own, 
and no death has occurred among their children. 
The mother, Fliza Hosley, was the liist of the 
family to be called from earth, and when she 
passed aw.ay she left behind her twenty-five grand- 
cliildi'eii who will ever I'herish her memory'. 

Mr. Hosley is the third child and second son of 
his parents, and as he had his education in the 
pioneer days, his schooling was obtained in a log 
schoolhouse. after which he went to Howard City 
for further opportunities. He remained with his 
])arents until his niarruige, which occurred on 
Christnnis Day, 18(58. His bride. Martha Lawther. 
was horn in Howell Township, this county. Febru- 
ary 1. 1814, and she was the first-born of her ])ar- 
ent,-. .lames and .\marilla (Hnrmen) Lawther. 
These were early pioneers in Michigan, having 
come from their native homes in New York and 
Connecticut res])ectivel\ to Oenesee County. 
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two daughters and one son, and to all of them 
they are giving excellent opportunities for a 
liberal and thorough education. Willi.im .1. is a 
graduate of the Ypsilanti Business College; Nellie 
will be graduated in the fall of 1891 at Ypsilanti, 
where she is studying short-hand and type-writ- 
ing, although her previous education had fitted 
her for teaching in the district schools, and she 
had considerable experience in that line. May. 
who is now a young girl of thirteen, is still nX- 
tending school and under the parental roof. 

Mr. Hosley has a handsome farm of two hundred 
and twenty acres, which is well improved. lie is 
a stock-buyer and ,shi|)per, and h.nndles from three 
thousand to five thousand sheep every year. One 
year he shipped seven thousand to' the Texas 
market, but now makes Buff.alo and Chicago his 
objective points. He handles the best stock that 
can lie found and is a first-class judge of the 
horse, lie has a |)air of Abdallah stallions and 
has some of the fastest and best bred horses in 
the county. His political views are in accordance 
wifli the declarations of the Democratic party, 
and he is intelligently interested in jiublie move- 
ments as he feels is the duty of every patriotic 
citizen. For two years he was Supervisor of the 
township, and has held other offices, especially 
in connection with the schools. He was also Jus- 
tice of the Peace for eight years and has been 
Town Clerk. 



/p^lLBERT I. SARGENT. The beautiful farm 
||| (=- wliich bears the suggestive name of Maple 
^^^1 Ridge Faim, is located on section 26, Handy 
Township, Livingston County. The place is a 
Mioilel of agricultural neatness and productive- 
ness, its good features iii this direction being 
beautified by the taste and judgment of its owner, 
who came to this place in 1839 with his parents 
and grandparents. He now farms two hundred 
acres and finds that the best methods and the latest 
improvements in agricultural ways are those that 
bring him the largest returns. 
Mr. Sargent Is a native of Riitland County, Vt., 



being there born March 23, 1836. He is a son of 
Ira and Harriet (Ray) Sargent, who were also na- ^ 
tives of Rutland CountyTVUi The former was a; 
carpenter and millwright and followed his calling 
until he came West, at which time he .settled on a 
part of the farm now owned and occupied liy his 
son. It was at that time heavily timbered. ( )ur 
subject's paternal grandfather came West at the 
same time and settled in the same section, contin- 
uing to live there until his death, which occurred 
in 1871. Ills wife was, prior to her marriage, JMiss 
Lydia C'hurchill from Vermont. She preceded him 
to the better land, passing away in 1862. They 
had a large faniil}- and each member was obliged 
to do his or her share to make ends meet. Politi- 
cally the old gentleman was a Republican. His 
son and our subject's father was engaged in farm- 
ing and working at his trade until his death, 
which took place in 1842. He was a Whig. The 
wife still survives and makes her home with the 
gentleman of whom we are writing. She has at- 
tained to a good old age, being seventy -eight years 
old. Four children came to brighten the house- 
hold life: They are Fmily. now Mrs. W. A. Dor- 
ranee, of Deertteld, this county; our subject; George 
¥.. of Keokuk, Iowa, and Everett D., of Howell 
Townshii). 

(iilbert 1. Sargent w.as afforded all the advantages 
in an educational way that could be obtained at 
that early day, that is, he learned the three R's in 
a log schoolhouse in his district. He has always 
remained on the farm, after reaching his majority 
taking possession of the place to which he has since 
added one hundred and twenty acres of land. He 
has also other fine property in the eitj' of Howell 
where it is his intention to soon erect an elegant 
home and retire from the proprietorship of his 
farm. Success has crowned his efforts in this in- 
dustry ;ind he has taken advantage of the means 
which he has to enjoy as much as possible the 
pleasures of life, having traveled quite extensively 
and having learned much of the resources of our 
country from personal observation. 

"Lives shall not miss their counterparts and each 
shall meet its own." Mr. Sargent met his fate in 
the person of Miss Sarah Foster, of Iosco Town- 
ship, this county. She was a daughter of Martin 



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R. and Snsan (Hallack) Foster, early settk is of tins 
Stale. Their marriage was solemnized in .January 
1K(!2. After a niimher of years of wedded liap|)i- 
ness the wife died in 1«7!). After some lime uur 
subject was aijain married to Miss Belinda Dyer, 
of Calhoun County, this State. Slie is a dau5):liter 
of Orvil .-ind Lucinda (Andrews) Dyer, natives of 
New Voi'k. 'I'lu- father was a fainicr Miid eanie 
West to Miehif^ini as one of the early settli^-s of 
Calhoun County. There tliey resided until death 
elaiuie<l them for his own. Mrs. Sargent is the only 
child of this couple. Xo children have graced the 
unii)n of our suliject and his wife. 

'i'hc licautiful farm which is owned liy .^^l•. Sar- 
gent is given largely to the raising of line stock. 
Politically he is a Kepuhlican. and shows his pro- 
gressive tendencies, however, by attiliating with 
the Patrons of Industry and the (irange. Of the 
lirst-named body he has been Nice-President and is 
enthusiastic over the rights and privileges of the 
m.asses of the i)eople who are laborers. .\ generous- 
spirited man he has given liberally of his store to 
the ujibuilding of churches, schoolliouses and roads. 
The farm upon which lie at |)resent resides com- 
])rises two hundred acres, and is represented by a 
view on another p;ige. .V sojourn in its pleasant 
home, that is siuiounded with trei's and rolling 
lawns, and dewy meadows, would be an ideal one 
to the urbanite. wearv of the daily strugarle. 



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AVID O. DUTTON. This respected farmer 
residing on sectiim 5, I'nadilla Township, 
Livingston County, isa son ofl)a\id Dut- 
ton, Si., a native of Connecticut who was 
born August i, 1792 and of Vasliti Langdon, wlu) 
was born in Southington, Conn,, September 27, 
179.5. This worthy couple were married Novem- 
ber 27. 1816, in Southington. The grandfather, 
Moses Button, of Southington was a soldier in the 
Revolutionary AVar and afterward an ollicer in the 
State militia. In his later years he removed his 
family to Cbautiuiqua County, N. Y., where hie 



was a pioneer, and died in 18.5.5, at the venerable 
age of ninety-four years. 

The Dutton family originated from three liroth- 
ers who came to Connecticut from Denmark in the 
e;nly ( olonial days. ( )ur subject's maternal grand- 
father. .Vsaliel Langdon, was a fanner and Ijlack- 
smitli ill Southington and died in 18.52, at the age 
of eighty -six. His was an old Connecticut family, 
as the Langdoiis have been known since the found- 
ing of the c(>lony. .Vfter marriage David and Vashti 
Dutton removed to Vienna, Oneida County, N. Y., 
where the\' became pioneers and lived until 1834. 
when they came to .Michigan. \\'hile in Oneida 
County Mr. Dutton o])cratcd lioth a sawmill and a 
farm. 

rpon I'migiating to Michigan the Dutton family 
settled in Lima Township. Washtenaw County, but 
in 1837 made their home on section o, l'nadill:i 
Township, this county. It was then all wild land 
and after building a log cabin the young man ]iio- 
ceeded to fell the trees and prepare the land for 
tillage. Red neighbors were more jilentiful than 
while, and wild ;iniiiiMl> abounded, lie had liiit 
little more means than enough to liuy forty acres 
of land, and after imi)roving this he added to it 
eighty acres more of forest. lie was a temperate 
man in his habits, never using either li(|Uor or 
tobacco, lie took a lively interest in political mat- 
ters voliiig with the Rc|)ulilicaii party, and was for 
a number of \ears .Vssessor of L nadilla Township, 
liolh he and his excellent wife were charier mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church at Plainfield. lie 
died 'Slay 29. lH(;7.aiid his faithful compani(m sur- 
vived him iiiilil i)ecembei-2l. 18H1. Four of their 
nine children arc now living. 

David O. Dutton w.as born Ajiril l.'L 1827. in 
Oneida County, N. V., and was therefore seven 
years of age when the family emigrated to Mich- 
igan, where he acqiiire<l a limited eilucation in 
the log scliooUumse. He had tcunake him.-elf use- 
ful upou the farm while very young, and helped 
to fence the lirst fielfl here when so small that he 
and his brother were barely able to earr\- a rail 
between them. Hardshijw and privations were liif 
lot through all those early years, and many a night 
he went to sleep crying from hunger. He was 
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them and made his homo with them until the day 
of their decease. 

The hapjiv married life of Mr. Button began 
April 13. 1><52. when at the home of his bride's 
parents in Iosco Townshii) he was married to 
Alerey Jane Wright, a daughter of Samuel and 
Deborah (Bullis) Wright, natives of New York, 
where they were Ixirn in 179!l. Mr. Wright was a 
coojier by trade and his grandfather, William 
Wright, was a Ivevolutionary soldier. Air. and Mrs. 
Wright, came to Michigan in 18.50, and aftei' spend- 
ing two years in Iosco Township they removed to 
Ingham County, and after a few years made their 
final home on eighty acres of unbroken soil in 
Woodhull I'ownship. Shiawassee County. Mrs. 
Wright passed from earth .June UK 1882, and her 
husband died August 12. 188.5. They were the 
parents of twelve children, eight of whom are now 
living. Mrs. Dutton's birth took i)lace April 7, 
1834. in the village of .Jordan N. Y.. and she was 
sixteen years of age when the family came to Mich- 
igan. She received her education at the parental 
fireside, and was well trained in bolli domestic and 
book learning. 

To Mr. and Mi's. Dutton have Ix'cn born four 
children, namely: Charles ()., liorn March 15, 18.53, 
and married to .lane Loiignecker; George H. born 
.lune 5, 1858, who took to wife LillieMapes; Asa- 
hel L., born February 15, 1863, and married to 
Minnie Glenn; Orin .T. liorn .luly 21. 1868. who is 
unmarried and has de\-oted some time to teaching. 
Mr. Dulton h.-is two luuidrcd .-ind twenty-live acres 
nearly all under cultivation. On anc)ther i)age 
appears a view of his residence which was built 
in 1861. Me also put up tlie other buildings on 
the farm and is still actively cniryiiigon tlie work. 

I'he Protestant Aletli(i<li.-t Cliurch is the religious 
organization with wliidi (.)nr >ubicct and liis wife 
are actively connected and .\Ir. Dutlon has sei'ved 
as Class-Leader, Steward and Trustee, besides being 
a worker m the Sunday-schofil, as he at one time 
"i;icrintended the school, and his wife has been a 
ceacher therein. He has ever kept up his interest in 
political matter's and is a memhenof the I\c])ublican 
party, lie lias served liis township both as Higli- 
way Commissioner and as .Justice of the Peace, and 
has been a member of the School Board here. In 



1 his principles he is a strong temperance man. Dur- 
i ing all Mrs. Dutton's married life she has never 
kept hired help although she was not blessed -nhh 
dauglilers to assist her. 

Charles K. Dutton, a brother to our subject, was 
a memlter of Compauy 15, Twenty-sixth Michigan 
Infantry and served almost three ^ears. He was 
I wounded in the battle of the Wilderness and was 
captured and retaken, and was killed before Peters- 
j burg, .June 17, 1864, leaving a wife and one child 
j Carrie J., now the wife of Benjamin Bowers of 
Handy Township. The eldest brother of our sub- 
ject was Timoth}- I)uttt)n and was killed Septem- 
ber 21. 1840 liy a hor.se falling upon him. His sis- 
ter .Jane E. was burned to death March 22, 1838, 
in the log house on this farm, .\llan C. is now a 
retired physician living at liaton Rapids Alicji; Asa- 
hel L. is a farmer of Unadilla Tc)wnshii>. This i> 
I a family of ti'ue patriotism, .as all the sons who did 
not enter the army sent substitutes which they pro- 
vided iiersonalh'. 




\USTAV J. BAETCKE. From the earliest 
history there has been a medium and repre- 
ijj sentative of values current in use in com- 
merce, and money changers, as they were called in 
classic days, or bankers, .as they are now more 
generally known, set n\t their stalls with balances 
in the midst of every market place. Shylock was 
not by any means the first usurer to demand the 
pound of flesh, Ijut we aie all willing in the time 
of need to p.ay the pound to relieve ])ressing and 
present necessity, to whatever verge of despeiation 
it may later jjush us. The German people have 
been among the foremost in commercial circles in 
reaping a rich harvest from the banking business 
and many of the largest and most important bank- 
ing institutions are carried on by Germans. 

Mr. Baetcke, who is a banker in the village of 
Brighton. Brighton Township. Livingston County, 
although an American liy birth and bringing up, 
having been liorn in Genoa Township, thiscounty, 
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was also 05-ustav Baetcke. a native of ( iciiiinnx . 
llu'iv Imni ill IS((1. lie caiiif t(i AiiiciicM in is;!)! 
Mild sdon piuct'i'di'd to tin- infant State that it'ci'ivi'd 
till' distiiutive name, the Wolverine State, lieeause 
of the great nuinher of wolves found tlurc in the 
early day. He came to tliis eoniitry with tiie ex- 
pectation of finding a demand for his services in 
New York, as an architect and builder. Aljout tlie 
time tliat Michio;an was admitted to the Tiiion as 
a State, oeneral attention was attr.acted natniaily 
in this direction, and Mr. Hactclvc. lin ding extensive 
emigration hither, detcrmineil to himself come 
to this State and coming West liy Imat. landed in 
Detroit July I. 1836. 

Our suliject's father located in (ienoa Township, 
Livingston County, and there took u|) a tract of 
(Jovernment land having concluded to engage in 
farming. The country was ipiite new and he was 
<jne of the first settlers. He at imce heut iiis efforts 
to clearing and improving his farm. Iiaving before 
him the ideal of tiie beautiful farms in the Father- 
land. He was a successful farmer, culti\ating to 
the highest extent the tract which lie had pur- 
eh.ased. and after the (icrman fashion, making it 
yield him successive crops in the same season. lie 
was a highly respected citizen in the locality and 
much esteemed, not only for his acknowledged 
business ability, but for his courteous and gentle- 
ma ill \- dealings with his associates. He was a 
member of the Lutheran Church and w.as very 
influential in organizing the first duirch of that 
denomination in Genoa Townshiii, not only en- 
couraging it bv word and deed, luit by making 
himself one of its chief supporters during his life- 
time. 

Our subject's mother was before her marriage 
Miss Ann C. Ilartraan, like her husband, a (ierman, 
but having preceded him to this country by one 
year, coming to America in 183.5. She is still liv- 
ing and although quite advanced in years, is in the 
full possession of her faculties and quite vigorous. 
She is a devoted member of the Lutheran Church, 
helping on the good work of the spread of the 
Gospel by word and deed. Siic has been the mo- 
ther of three children, liut only two of the.se are 
now living, our subject and R. K. Baetcke. 

The original of oui' sketch was reared on the 



farm which his father purchased and cleared on 

coming to thi.s State. The rudiments of his edu- 
vation w-ere acquired in the di.strict school of the 
vicinity, namely, — in the log school lionse, wiiere 
the assortment of books was heterogeneous, and 
the birch switch was a more subtle persuader than 
the eloquence of the teacher. He enjoyed besides, 
one term of school at Howell and he also received 
the advantage of one term in the German school, 
perfecting the knowledge of Jiis father's tongue 
which he had learned in the home circle, and which 
he has since found to be of the greatest advantage 
to him ill the conduct of his business. About the 
time he of whom we write became of age, he en- 
listed in the War of the Reljellion, joining his regi- 
ment .lanuary 4. 1861, it being the Twenty-second 
^lichigan Infantry. He served until September 
20, 186.'). His regiment meantime was brigaded 
with the First Michigan and Mechanics' Corps for 
about four inoiiths. They joined Gen. Sherman 
and marched to Atlanta, from which place they 
went with (Jen. Thomas to Chattanooga acting as 
his headquarters guard. 

After his return from the war, Mr. Baetcke 
resumed his early avocation, that of farming, at 
the old homestead, and this lie conlinued to ])Ur- 
sue until M.'irch. IH'.tKwhen he moved to Brighton, 
having purcliased the bank in the previous month. 
This institiitiini wjis estalili.-hed by Dr. B. H. Law- 
sou in 1871. It is now conducted as a private 
institution and under the present management 
merits the coiilidence that it enjoys. It is operated 
under the linn name of G. .1. Baetcke & Co., and 
aitiiongh it is in its infancy, under the present 
regime it has already ac(|uired a high standing, 
not only in the immediate locality, but througlioul 
the surrounding I'ountry and especially among the 
agricultural class with whom our subject h.as been 
associated for years. 

He of whom we write, inaugurated his domestic 
felicity in 1874, at which time he married Amelia F. 
Gartner, who was born near Detroit. .Slie i 
daughter of B. F. Gartner who was a boot and shoe 
manufacturer, anr' died Feliruary 3, 1888. Mr. and 
^Irs. Baetcke are the |)arents of three children 
who are Leora C; Clara A., and (rustav G. Our 
subjiBct is R Republican in his political affiliation. 



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He has been Supervisor of Genoa Township for five 
terms and has served in the capacity of Treasurer fur 
two terms. He has several times been delegate to tiie 
StateConventious, and in 1888, was the Republican 
candidate for the Probate Judgeship for this county. 
His parly was, however, in the minority to the 
number of about four hundred, and in consequence 
he was defeated, although at the expense of only 
one hundred and forty-seven votes. Socially our 
subject is a member of the Grand Army of the Re- 
public. In his church relations he is a number of 
the Ivutherau denomination in this town, rnd is one 
of the most generous supporteis of that body in 
this place. Mr. Baetcke is the owner of two hun- 
dred and sixty acres of good land on sections 23 
and 26, of Genoa Townshij). Upon it are the best 
of improvements. 



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♦SS*HS4. 



APT. WILLIAM M. HORTON. We are 

pleased to present to the consideration of 
_ our readers a citizen of Handy Township. 
Livingston C'ouuty, who stands high in tlie estima- 
tion of his neighbors and is justly considered one 
of the most prominens men in the countj'. He is 
a progressive and successful farmer, whose splen- 
did estate of two hundred and three acres lies on 
section 3, Handy Township, and his beautiful 
home which he erected in 1885, is admired as one 
of the greatest ornaments oC tlie agricultural |)or- 
tioiiijf Livingston County. I'pou Ins farm lie has 
a beautiful oivhard wliich is exceedingly product- 
ive and most thoroughly cultivated. 

This gentleman was born in Hartland Township, 
this county, and is a son of John G. and Charlotte 
(Ormsby) Horton, lioth natives of the Emiiire 
State. The father canu> to Michigan as long ago 
as 183G, and settled upon a farm in Hartland 
Township, being one of the pioneers there. While 
living on the old homestead he was afflicted by the 
loss of his wife and he moved to Oceola Township 
somewhat later and there he died. In those early 
days he was obliged to go to Detroit for his sup- 



plies and thus had a trip of fifty miles to market. 
He was exceedingly useful as Justice of the Peace 
in his township and was also a preacher in the 
Methodist Jilpiscopal Church, and rode the circuit. 

This pioneer couple were the parents of four 
children, but our subject and his sister Mary, Mis. 
Roliinson of Lansing, are all that remain of that 
once happy household. The parents of John G. 
Horton were William L. and Eunice Tracey Hor- 
ton, both of whom were born in New York. 
William Horton was a farmer who made his home 
in Wisconsin about the year 1850, and was there 
eng.aged in farming until called from earth's activ- 
ities by the angel of death. Four sons and throe 
daughters filled this home and three of them arc 
still living, namely: Sarah, Mrs. Nichols; Char 
lotte, Mrs. Sheppard, of Missouri; and Carrie, Mrs. 
Harmer, of Wisconsin. 

The maternal grandfather of .Mr. Horton was 
AViUiam Ormsby; he and his wife were natives of 
New York and brought up ujion their farm two 
daughters, Charlotte (Mrs. Horton) and Laura ( Jlrs. 
Kesler). They were people of deeply religious con- 
victions and earnest life and ^Ir. Orinsliy's views 
on political question led him into alliance Avith 
the AV^hig party. 

.Vfter growing up upon the farm ami taking his 
education in the schools of Oceola Township, 
young Horton enlisted wheu only nineteen years 
old in the service of his country, joining Com- 
pany E, Twenty-sixth Michigan Regiment. He 
entered as a private but during the three years of 
his service he was regularly promoted to the offi- 
ces of Coi'ijoral and First Lieutenant, and placed in 
eominand in a colored regiment and continued 
with that body until the close of the war. He was 
more than ordinarily favored as he received no in- 
juries with the exception of two scratches from 
rebel bullets. He was in the battle of Mine Run 
and all through the campaign of the Wilderness, 
Cold Harbor, siege of Petersburg. Reames Station, 
and in many skirmislies, and with his colored regi- 
ment he took part in the siege of Richmond and 
was present when Lee surrendered to (irant at Ap- 
poinatt^ix. 

Having received his honorable discharge at 
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(lf\<)Ifil liiiii.-^flf \i< ii'C-U|JiT!itiiiu lii> Ih'mHIi :iii(I 
prepjiriiiii' IDr future usetiilni'.-^s. Duiini; the sec- 
ond winter lie taught school in Oceola Townshii). 
and then for two years studied at Albion College, 
after which lie attended the Commercial College at 
(Jiaiid Kapids, where he learned teleuraphy and 
I'.eceived his diijloiiia. lie now lixik a position as 
Icleiirapher at Kockfonl on the ( irand l{ai)ids A- 
Imliaiia Ivailrond and after one year look the sta- 
tion at Fowlerville for the Detroit. I,aii>iiig iV- 
Xorthcrn Road. Here he scived f(ir thirteen years, 
after which he gave u|) railroading and devoted 
hiin.self to agriculture. 

The liride who came to the InMiie of Mi'. Ilortoii 
HI lH7;i was Loaiia L., daughter of Lewis and 
Clarissa i^Mack) Leavens, New York people, who 
came to Michigan about 18()7 and made their home 
near Corunna, Shiawassee County. After awhile 
the^- removed into the city of Corunna. luit later 
made their home in Fowlerville. until called hence 
by death. Their three children were Mrs. llorton, 
Emory and Clara (Mrs. Fexer). .lay G. is the 
name of the little son who has come to brighten 
the little home of Mr. and Mrs. Horton and in Ins 
training and education the parents were united in 
true parental solicitude. Mr. Horton is an ardent 
Republican in his political views and prominently 
identified with the Grand Army of the Republic. 
He has well filled the office of Supervisor of the 
township and upon the School Board has done 
much for the cause of education. 



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\f OHN C. PHILLIPS, of Okemos, is a shoe- 
maker by trade. He was Ixini in tlu' town 
of \'erona, Oneida County, N. Y., in lH-21. 
and hence is now able to look I)aek over a 
period of sevent3' years of progress in which society 
has been benefited by the discoveries in science and 
arts, and the broadened view which the general 
public are taking of life in its broader aspect. 

Our suliject's father. .loab Phillips, was born in 
Rensselaer County. X. Y.. in 1792. He was origin- 
ally a fariner Init later in life learned the carpenter's 



.nid joiner's trade and workeil at that. He died in 
Mockbridge. Mich., at a good old age. The maiden 
name of our subject's mother was Ruth Case. She 
was born in the town of Charlestown, Dutchess 
County. N. Y.. in 179:5, and died in 186.5. When 
the original of our sketch was about five years old 
his parents icnioved to Lockport. N. Y., and when 
old enough he w!u< induced to learn the shoemaker's 
' trade. Never having received any educational 
advantages up to the time of learning his trade he 
sought to make up for this lack of opportunity by 
alleiidiiig a night school where he received the 
ludiuii-nts of .•! coniinon-school education. He re- 
mained in Locki)ort eng.aged in his tiade until his 
twenly-third year, when he was married to Miss 
Ksther L. I'hillips. of the same place, a lady bear- 
ing the same family name but in no way related 
to him. Three children were born of this marriage 
— Abner P. was born in 1^(47: he is now living in 
Little Rock, Ark.; his daughter, Ida. is now keep- 
ing house for her grandfather, and to her Mr. 
Phillips is devotedly attached; .lohn A., liorn in 
1858, is a telegraph operator ami the head of a 
large family. 

Soon after hi.- marriage our subject left New 
York and bought a fine farm comprising one hun- 
dred and twenty-two acres north of Ann Arbor, 
this State. He lived there for nearly twenty-three 
[ years, spending a portion of the time engaged at 
i his trade in Stockbridge. He fin.ally sold his farm 
and in 1868 bought a place adjoining the Michigan 
j State Agricultural College. He kept this for .about 
I twenty-two years, improving it greatly, and on 
selling it he moved to Okomos, where he has lived 
at four different times, coming here finally in 1889. 
Mr Phillips lost his wife in 1881. 

Duiing the war the original of our sketch was 
an enthusiastic Union man. He enlisted twice but 
for personal reasons was induced to hire a substi- 
tute each time. He was finally drafted but was 
thrown out. The hire of his substitutes and ex- 
pense attending his drafting amounted to over 
*1,360. Mr. Phillips has now a very fine farm in 
\Villiamston County where he intends to reside in 
the near future. He is allied with several frater- 
nities among which are the Odd Fellows, which he 
joined in Milan, the F'ree Masons, of which he lie- 



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came a member in Slockbridge. the "No Nothings" 
and the Fenians in Linden. In politics he is now 
an Independent although he has lieen connected 
with the Republican party and was once elected 
Town Clerk of Stockbridge. lie now votes for 
the best man irrespective of party. Mr. Phillips 
has passed through some stormy scenes in life's 
battles Init has always lieen honorable and u]iriglit 
in his dealings with his felk)w-men. 



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JOSEPH II. WILCOX. The fact that there 
are so many men who. have not only been 
successful in commercial and agricultural 
_ life in the Wolverine .State but who have 
accumul.ated large fortunes, speaks well for the re- 
sources of the State as well as the accumulative 
ability of its inhabitants. He of whom we write is 
a capitalist of no mean standing, being a power in 
commercial circles, not only in the immediate 
vicinity of Ilowell. Livingston County, Init through- 
out the county. He is a native of Onondaga 
County, N. Y. and was there born November 7. 
1809. He is a son of Jo.seph and Sibyl (Wright) 
Wilcox, natives of Rhode Island and Connecticut, 
respectively. The father was a farmer and had 
seven children. Of these only our subject is now 
living. The family names, however, in order of 
birth are Harry, John, Sally, Harriet, Josei)h II. 
INIarvin and Delilah. Our subject's paternal grand 
father was Matthew Wilcox, a native of Rhode Is- 
land. He also was a farmer and a soldier in the W.ar 
of the Hevolution. The Wilcox family are of 
P^nglish ancestry and their progenitors are of the 
most honorable standing in the mother country. 

Reared a farmer lad, our subject did not enjo\' 
many of the benefits of advanced education. 
He attended the common schools and acquired 
there what was necessary to a practical business 
education. He remained at home, assisting his 
father with the general farm work until he was 
twenty-four years of age and was then engaged in 
farming f)n his own account and also employed 
himself at carpenter work. His first real-estate 



deal was in Onondaga County, N. Y. and there he 
farmed until 1854, when he came to Michigan. 

On coming into the State the original of our 
sketch settled in Livingston County, where he |)ur- 
chased two hundred and fifty acres of land in the 
townships of Iosco and Marion, living on the same 
until 18(;5. when he moved to Howell and i)ur- 
chased a house and four lots, also eight acres of 
land in the southern part of village. This Last- 
named tract he platted and divided into city lots, 
calling it the Wilcox Addition to Howell. He has 
built three houses and bought and sold many 
others since coming to the village. 

In 18fi() Mr. Wilcox opened the first lumber 
yard in Howell and continued in the lumber busi- 
ness for four years when he sold out. He also had 
chaige of the railroad survey from Howell to Lan- 
sing and is the only man in Howell who gave 
money to the building of that road. He was 
elected a Dii'ector of the road was most generous 
in his donation, n(jt only of monej- but of land 
for the carrying forward of the enterprise. He 
was also a Director of the Toledo & Ann Arlior 
Railroad .and filled the same position on the How- 
ell & Lansing Railroad, giving his time and atten- 
tion for about three years to the work. It is an 
indisputal)le fact that ilr. AVilcox hasdone more to 
advance the interests of railroad enterprise than 
any man in the county. He has been the one to 
call meetings, take subscriptions, collections aiM 
endeavor in every possible way to interest the 
people at large in opening up the country liy rail- 
road. 

He of whom we write was for many years a 
middleman in the wool interests, buying the clip- 
pings of wool in this and adjoining counties and 
shipping to Eastern manufacturers. November IS, 
1833, our subject was married to Miss Mary \. 
Bush, of Pompey, Onondaga County, N. Y. She 
is a (laughter of William and Content (Grimes) 
Bush, natives of New Yt)rk. Her father was there 
a farmer and the head of a family that numbered 
twelve children, nine of whom are still living. 
They are, Mrs. A\'ilcox. ;\Irs. Wright, Romaine. 
Thomas, Mrs. Strickland. Mrs. Wicks. Isaac. Will- 
iam and Mrs. Miller. The three who are deceased 
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cox's ]jaternal graiulfjtlhcr was Conrad Rush. ;i 
Kevolutioiiaiv soldier of (iernian biilli and paii'iii- 
age, having eonie to America when eighteen years 
of age. His wife was ^I.'iry AVatson. He was the 
owner of one thousand acres of land and a very 
weaUli.\- farnu'r for his time. His family numbered 
twelve ciiildren. 'I'lie father of Content firimcs 
Hush was Tlionias (irinies, and his wife, ^lary 
Oreentield (inmes, both natives of the Kastern 
States. They had nine children, all of whom were 
daughters. 

Our subject had a family of five children; they 
are Candace who died in infancy; Willi;un II., 
Calvin; Charles who died at the age of twenty- 
one years and Rosette. The eldest son married 
Laura Smith and by this union is the father of five 
children — Charles, Joseph IL, Belle, Mott and 
Maude. Calviu married Mary J. Horton; Rosette 
is the wife of Adelbert F. Peavy and is the mother 
of six children — William, George, Homer, Calvin, 
Edith and Ethel. Politically he of whom we write 
atiilates with the Republican |)arty. He with his 
wife has been identified with the Christian Church 
for. many years and they have been libeial sup- 
porters of that body in the city. Mr. Wilcox has 
always taken an active interest in all the enter- 
prises of the communitj' and is well and favorably 
known both far and near. 



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AMES M. CHRISTIAN. Now in the merid- 
ian of his life and his liusiuess succe.ss, he of 
^,^1 I whom we write is one of the most prominent 
^^^^ citizens in Leroy Township, Ingham County, 
where he is known as a pioneer, whose effi)rts in a 
philanthropic way, as well as the building up of a 
fortune for himself, are known and recognized l)y 
all who are willing to render justice to a good 
man. He resides on section 27, Leroy Township, 
where he has .-i iK'autiful home and all the comforts 
of rural life. 

Our subject is a native of New York State, hav- 
ing been born in Onondaga County, March 17. 
1833. He is a son of Joseph and Margaret (Good- 



win) Clirisli.-iii, his father a native of New York 
State. Our >ubjecl's (Grandfather Christian, and a 
l)rother were Revolutionary soldiers. He of whom 
we write was reared to manhood in his native 
State and while still in early boyhood he was incul- 
cated into the mysteries of agricultural life. The 
advantages of education were unfortunately denied 
him almost entirely, he receiving the rudiments of 
what he acquired in the common schools. He is 
ill education as in financial standing a self-made 
man, having by nature a fondness for books and 
being a thoughtful and careful reader. To-day he 
is the ownc r of a fine library, and the latest works in 
tlie best class of literature are found on his reading 
table. 

Accepting Horace Greeley's advice to "go West, 
young man," he emigrated to Michigan and settled 
in Leroy Township, Ingham C'ounty, on his pres- 
ent farm. His constancy of nature is shown by 
the fact that he has never since moved, although 
there must have been many discouragements at 
various times in his career. He .settled in the 
woods and cleared up the farm by chopping down 
tlie trees and luirning out the stumps. He ha^ 
made it what it is to-day by the hardest efforts and 
has, besides, done much pioneer work. The town- 
shij) had only forty voters when lie came here and 
he has witnessed its growth to its present line pro- 
portions. 

The original of our sketch instituted a home .lan- 
uary I, LSo.S, and placed thereover as mistress his 
wife, Caroline Jones, a daughter of Nath.an Jones, 
who was formerly a pioneer in Leroy Townshij), 
Ingham County. .\s the years jjassed bj- little ones 
grew up around them until their family numbered 
nine children, six of whom are living at the jn-es- 
eiit time. They are Mary, Jenny, Wealthy. Ira. 
lilanche and Florence. The first named is the wife 
C. F. Teacliout; .lenny is the wife of G. I). Mann, 
and wealthy is the life companion of William \\'v- 
gant. The younger children are still at home. 

The owner of one hundred and twenty acres of 
fertile and productive land, ^Ir. Christian has made 
his pl.ice a model farm, giving to it constant and 
unceasing attention. His |)resent competency he 
has accumulated by his own efforts, as when he 
began life as a \oung"man he had but *9 in monev 



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to start out with. Our subject is a member of the 
Fai-mers' Alliance and is in favor of every meas- 
ure that promises to be for the benefit of tlie class 
to which he belongs, believing that legislation 
should look as much to the betterment of the agri- 
culturists as to that of the manufacturers. ]\Ir. 
Christian has served in positions of public trust, 
having been Highway Commissioner for several 
years, during which time lie accomplished much in 
improving the condition of these avenues of traffic 
and travel, and was Township Superintendent for 
five years. Me has also been .School Moderator for 
many years and is a progressive man in regard to 
educational matters. For many years he and his 
wife have been associated with the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church and he is now acting as Class-Leader 
and also does the work of the Recording Secretary 
of the church. He of whom we write has acquired 
his success in life by a steady adherence to a fixed 
outline of purpose. He is justly classed among the 
intelligent, public-spirited and enterprising agricul- 
turists of Ingham County. 



<Sif)EORCE SCHREPFER. The annals of the 
poor boys who become rich men are to be 
l^J found everywhere in America and nowhere 
more than in the rich and fertile West, for here it 
is that the virgin soil gave of her wealth to the 
sturdy seeker after success. It is not alone to the 
native-born that this good fortune has come, but 
many who came from the older countries of 
Europe (where generations of hardships and pov- 
erty had disheartened the i)eoi)le) have found in 
the New World the prosperity wliich they never 
could have looked for at home. 

Our suliject who is now a prosjierous resident of 
Cohoctah Township, Livingston County, was born 
August 5, 1832 in Byran, Germany, bis honored 
parents being Henry and Catherine Sehrepfer, who 
upon their farm reared five children to maturity. 
These children, Christie, Barbara, Rachael, George 
and .John, have all established homes and families 



of their f)wn, but our subject is the only one that 
has crossed the ocean and found his home in the 
United States. Before coming to America he took 
the advantages of a thorough German education 
which is given to every son of Germany, and at 
the age of nineteen he decided to emigrate and 
upon reaching this country, made his home in 
Philadelphia. After one year in that city and two 
3'ears in Baltimore he decided to make a visit to 
the old home and spent the winter of 1858-59 
in (Jermany. 

It was in the spring of 1859 that our sul)ject 
returned from his native land and came to De- 
troit, whence he journeyed to Howell, by stage, 
bringing with him his intended wife, to whom he 
was married the following year. .Sul)sequent to 
this happy event the young husband purchased 
forty acres of land upon which he now resides on 
section 29, Cohoctah Township. 

This land was covered bv dense forests and the 
young wedded couple moved into their log hut, 
which had but one door and one window, and 
there they lived in humble contentment for manj- 
a year. Prosperity attended the efforts of Mr, 
Sehrepfer and he was able by economy and thrift 
to accumulate a large property. He at one time 
had two hundred and forty acres, eighty of which 
he gave to his son, and he has himself with his 
strong right arm cleared the trees from about one 
hundred and twenty acres, and has i)laced suli- 
stantial and fine improvements upon his farm. 
His beautiful residence and good barns form a 
striking contrast to the little log house in which 
he and his wife made their first home, but in the 
new home there is no more haiipiness and content- 
ment than was to be found in the humbler abode. 

The happ3' marriage of George Sehrepfer and 
Mary Read took place in November 1860 and the 
bride, who was born September 25, 1838, is a daugh- 
terof Nicholas and Knutguinte (Bar) Read. Mr.and 
Mrs. Read reared to maturity three sons and six 
daughters and one son and foiu' daughters came to 
America. Their mother died in (iermany, but the 
father came to JNIichigan and ended his days here. 
He lost one son in the Franco-Prussi;in War and 
another son still resides in Germany. 

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regard for the land of his adoi)tif>n, and during 
the dark days of the Civil War he siiowed iiiin- 
self a loyal citizen, and enlisted March 29. 186.5, 
in Company E, Fifteenth Miehiijaii Infantry. Ho 
received his honorable discharge at Little liock. 
Ark. in .\ugust, 18fi6,and then returned home and 
resumed his farming operations. 

The ten children who were born to (Jeorge and 
Maiy Sciircpfer are: Henrietta, .lolin, Maggie, 
Henry M.. Mary E., Fred K., Anna, Carrie P., 
Laura and .lames. Henrietta is the wife of Albert 
Hetchler, and Maggie is Mrs. (Jeorge Rush. The 
youngest son died at the age of three years and 
Fred R. h.as established his own hou.«ehold. ( >ur 
subject and his wife are devout nieniljers of the 
Evangelical Ciiurch and have proved themselves 
both active and liberal. This successful man 
landed in New York witli l)ul -^1 in his jiocket 
and his success in life can only be attributed 
to his unflagging and i)crsisfent industry, his wise 
forethought and his ]irudciit thrift. He has 
adopted the ixilitical views of the Republican 
party and is .active in promoting its suci'css, but is 
in no sense a [jolitician. 



(r^ "^HO^LVS HILL, oneof the pronn'neut citizens 
flh^\' *^^ Lansing, and a practical and intelligent 
^^^^' machinist, is engaged in the plumbing, steam 
and gas fitting Inisiness. He was born in Edinburg. 
.Scotland, or rather in Kirkcaldy, a suburb <if that 
city, his natal day being March 27. 1843. His 
fatiier, I'eter Hill, who was liorn in Ivlinbui'g, w.as 
alsf) a machinist and in 184.') lemoved to (ihent. 
lielgiuni. where he was engaged to p\it up xinie 
Max-mill machinery. He was in that line of work 
for three years aiui then was em|)loyed three years 
longer by the .>;ame companv in building locomo- 
tives 

In 1 3.52 Peter Hill came to America and located 
for one year in .Milwaukee, but lincling business 
dull there he went to Detroit, wlu're he was I'm- 
ployed in Kellogg's machine shop, building in.arine 
engines. He was afterward in the em|>loy of tlie 
Michigan Cential Kailroad. and eleven years later 



jmt up a machine sliop of his own. He and his 
estimable wife still reside in Detroit. He is a I'ni- 
tarian in his religious belief, and a Republican in 
politics. His wife bore the maiden name of >Lary 
<ioodall and was a native of .Scotland, being the 
daughter of ('apt. Goodall, who followed tlie whal- 
ing business through life, and after his death his 
son stepped into his place. Mr. and .>L-s. Peter Hill 
have eight children, four .sons and four daughters. 
From the age of two until he was eight years 
old Thom.as Hill lived in Belgium and studied in 
the Helgian schools. He then sailed from Antwerp 
with his parents and after being seven weeks on 
the ocean landed in New York city, whence the 
family went, as we have seen, first to Milwaukee 
and afterward to Detroit. He attended school in 
that city and when fourteen years of age was ap- 
prenticed to a plumber, serving with D\idlev Ar 
Holmes of Detroit for three 3'ears and six months, 
after which he worked for them six months longer 
and then left the business to engage with tlie Mich- 
igan Central Railroad as lireiiian. but after a few 
months he went into the shops of that railroad 
c(n-poration. After an ai)pi-enticeshii) of three 
yeais in the machinery business under .S. A. Sweet, 
the master mechanic, he worked at the trade 
in different shops and then went as engineer on the 
Lakes for live .seasons, during which tinu- no acci- 
dents befell his boat. 

In October, 1H71. our subject went into the City 
Hall of Detroit .as engiiuH'i'. and wa> the first one 
appointed in the new City Hall in which he served 
for three years and foui' months. Next he went 
to .I.aekson and entered the machine shojjs of tiie 
Michigan Central Railro.ad and after two years wa.-- 
ap])ointcd by the boaid of State .\uditors as engi- 
lu'cr of the State Capitol. I'his board consisted of 
1). C. Holdeli of (irand Rapids. Secretary of State. 
Col. McCie;iry of Flint, and (Jen. Partridge of 
Hay City. Receiving this appointment in 1M7SI, 
he came here at once and took ch.'irge of his |)ost 
and received the apixiintinent with evei-y succes.";- 
ive term until the Democivitic party came into 
power. In IJSK;! Mr. Hill was made engineer and 
.Su|)erintendent of the Capitol and grounds and 
had under his care the whole builiiing with the 
superintendencv of some thirt\' men. He held this 



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Iinsilioii until FfliniMiy I.IH'.M. lie made improve- 
iiR-iits ill liif iiuiL-liiuen t'loiii time to time, and 
wliiie lip endeiivored to miiiiaue tluMMitiie busine;<(' 
<iii economic piinci|)lc> lie succeeded in givintt 
entile satisfaction to i'\-ery one. lie liad nioie 
Mian ordinary system in liis work, and every man 
iindei Ills supeiinteudency understood what duties 
weie expected of liim and that he was relied on to 
see that it was ' done. Nd lime could be wasted 
.•iiid 11(1 work neglected hut e\crytliing went as it 
were liy clockw<n-k. althmigh the mainspring 
was ill the character, mind and determination of 
Mr. Hill. 

A few weeks after leaving the emijloy <if tin' 
State Mr. Hill opened the business which he is now 
carrying on. He has a pleasant home at the corner 
of Capitol .Vxeiuie and Lenawee Street, over 
which his wife, who was Miss Louisa AV. Sullivan 
of Detroit, presides with grace and dignity. This 
ladv was reared and educated in her native city 
and is a daughter of Lawrence Sullivan, who he- 
fore his death was a real-estate dc.-iler in Detroit. 
The marriage of Mr. and ^Irs. Hill took place in 
Detroit October !'.). 1K()4. an<l they have .six inter- 
esting children, namely : Maud K.. Louise. Stewart 
(ioodall. I'earl. Kva and Harry Connant. ^Ir. Hill 
is identified with Zion Lodge, No. 1,F. ct A. M. 
()f Detroit and the Royal \vc\\ Ma.sons of Lansing, 
beinu also a charter memlier of the Knights of the 
.Maccaliees in this iilace. He is a strong Kepnblican 
in his comictions and is friMpieiitly made a dele- 
gate to connty and State coinentions. He is a 
man of more than ordinarv lireadtli of view and 
his intelligence and •■iftaliility make him a most 
agreeable cinnpanion. 

A lithographic portrait of .Mr. Hill is piesented 
ill connection with this biograpliical sketch. 



s^KOKCtE AV. COLEMAN. D. D. S. For the 
11 j^ Last twenty years the gentleman whose 
\^i|! name is at the hea<l of this sketch has been 
in possession of the largest practice, as a dentist, 
in Lansinsi, Ingham County. He here (opened 



liis otilee .Septenilier lo. 1S72. and <luring that 
lime has alleviated much suffering. an<l extracted 
many a nicked molar, that by its excrntiating 
surges of pain, rouso one's whole nervous or- 
ganization into a state of revolt and rebellion. 
Perhaps the d.ay will come when we will learn to lake 
such good care of our teeth that dentists will ha\e 
no occasion for the practice of their profession. 
but they will always be remembered kiiully. even 
in sut'li a blcsseil state, for the good tlu-y lia\t' 
done. 

Dr. Coleman w;is bom in Hatlle (reek. Michi- 
gan, February ;i. 1H48. He is a son of William H. 
and Lucretia (Merrill) Coleman, and rei'cived his 
education in his native place, after which he en- 
tered the olHce of Dr. (xeorge P. Holmes, having 
bound himself to the doctor for a period of three 
years in order to learn the profession of dentistry. 
He luoieoNfr |)aid ?!|(l(l for the [)rivilege of stndy- 
iiiii under the doctor for the first year. .Vt the 
second year he received small rcn umerat ion for 
the services that he was able to give, but at the 
end of that time he was released by Dr. Holmes 
from his bond. He then entered the Cincinnati Col- 
lege of Dentistry and graduated in the Class of '71. 
Thus prepared for the priietice of his profession, 
he located at ()li\el, Michigan, where he set up his 
lirst operating chair. This was a common rocker, 
a bona fide operating chair being an extravagance 
that he could not at that time afford. However, 
he began with the determination of working his 
way uf), and indeed, he w-as very successful, re- 
maining in Olivet until August. 1^72. aftei- wliieli 
he came to Lansing and located in the block where 
he now is. He has, by his attention tv business, 
and his skill in his profe.'^sion, bnilt himself up ;i 
practice that pays handsomel}' and has also gained 
a jirominent i)Iaee among his professional brethren. 
Dr. Coleman h.as ])racliced continuously since 
coining to the city, with the exception of Iwo ;iii(l 
a half years, when lie was in the Lansing National 
Bank, the latter part of which time he held the 
position of Receiving Teller, but resumed his pro- 
fession witlniut a break in his large practice. ()iir 
subject is a member of the Stntc Dental Associji- 
tion and keeps well abreast of the times in all 
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month (August, 1891) lie is attendance on the 
Association wliicli meets this year at Sanlt Sle. 
Marie. 

The original of our sketch took upon himself 
the responsibilities of married life Mareli 27, 1872, 
at which time he was united to Miss Kniily l\Ic- 
Donald, a daus^hter of \V. A. and H. Mc- 
Donald, residents of Battle Creek. Mrs. Coleman 
is a lady of exceptional attainments, being talented 
and accom])lislied, besides having a striking per- 
sonal attractiveness. At the time oi their mar- 
riage, she held a |)osition as teacher in the Hattlc 
Creek High School. Our subject, with his wife, is 
a memlier of the Congregational Church, and he 
is therein an usher, also holding the oflice of Sec- 
retary of the Sunday-scliool. They have a daugh- 
ter, (iertrude Louise, who is an attractive miss, 
gifted with a bright mind and pretty, gracious 
manners. Dr. Coleman is a man of high reputa- 
tion and one who is liked bv all. 



Vl/OHN A. MASTIC. The gentleman whose 
name is at the head of this sketch is the 
(jroprietor of a farm of eighty acres located 
on section 26, lland\- Townshij). Livingston 
County. He came liere when twelve years of age, 
in 1844, his parents having emigrated westward at 
that time. He was born in Kssex County, N. Y. 
in 1833 and is a son of Asa and .Sophia (Ray) 
Mastic, natives of Vermont and married in the 
same State. The father was by trade a lilac'ksmith 
and followed his calling in the E.ast. He only 
lived two months after coming to Michigan, his 
decease taking jilace when he was forty-four years 
of age. His wife survived him by many years, her 
fieath occurring in September, 188;'), and her inter- 
ment taking ])lace in Handy Township. One of a 
family of eight children, our subject is the second 
in order of birth. They are Charles, who resides 
in Lansing; William whose home is in N'errnont; 
Jane, who became Mrs. Steward; Deliah. who be- 
came Mrs. Hall; and Mary, who is Mrs. Hoyt. 
Our subject was educated in the district schools 



of Handy Township and on becoming twelve yeai-s 
of age was thrown upon his own resources and de- 
pendent upon himself for bolli food and elolhing. 
He llrst began to work out for faiiiiers and later in 
life came to this place, in 18(51 purchasing ft)rty 
acres. He later added forty acres more, only five 
acres of the last-named trad having been cleared 
at till' time of his purchase. On making his first 
investment in real-estate here a cool review of his 
position showed him to be posses.sed of (Jiily *!')(> 
outside of the bare land. He had no team and no 
farming implements, but had a strong constitution, 
a keen-edged ax ami .'i young wife who was in her- 
self an inspiration. Together they set to work 
and besides rearing a family made of their ))lace a 
beautiful home. Our subject is now considered 
one of the successful farmers of this townshii). 

He of whom we write has been doing a gftod- 
Samaritan kind of work, aside from what he has 
accomplished that h.as been above mentioned. He 
has reared two families liesides his own — that is 
seventeen people in all that he has clotlied and 
supported. In I8(!() our subject was united in 
marriage to Caroline Hoyt. She died in 1880 
leaving a family of seven children. They are 
Julia, Frank, Charles, Hert, l.,ydia, Carrie and May. 
Julia is now Jlrs. C. Barry and is the mother of 
two children — .\verv and Fred — and a resident of 
Handy Township. Frank married Alice Coleman 
and has one son — Leaon; they reside not a great 
distance from the home place. Charles married 
Lucy Barber; they are tlie parents of one daughter 
— Maude, and reside in Fowleiville. Bert, Lvdia 
and May are now deceased. 

Mr. Elastic was a second time married. Mrs. Me- 
linda Mann becoming his wife. By her previous 
marriage she was the mother of three children — 
Frank. Minnie and Fred. The eldest son married 
Tinnie Barry; they have one child, a daughter 
wliose name is Belle. Minnie is the wife of 
Thom.as Fellows. By the present marriage our 
subject is the father of two children — .John H. and 
Gracie. The confidence and esteem in which our 
subject is held in the c(mimunity is shown by the 
fact that he has been elected to tlie most honorable 
ottices and which are the pride of American dis- 
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osts. Ho has hci'ii ;mi incuinlicnt of tlicsf |i(isiti(>n> 
for the past I'iiiliteeii Acais aiid lias lu'cii I'atli- 
in;istt'r for IwiMily years. 

In IM77 Mr. Elastic iTCctcd upon his place one 
of tlie he,-,t honses in tlie townsliip. It iseonimod- 
ious and eomfortalile and |)|-o\ided with all the 
conveniences tiiat are so necessary to loh farm lift' 
uf its drudgery. He has iiiood hai'iis and ontlndld- 
inos and his land is in a high state of cultivation. 
.V fine orchard set out years ago is now a .source of 
both pleasure and piolit. Here the original of 
our sketch is engaged in lireeding horses of |)ure 
lilood .-md r:iisiug cattle, sheep and hogs. 

The gentleman of whom we wiite is in his poli- 
tienl following ;i Democrat and an ardent lielievei' 
in free trade, lie is ])ulilic spirited to .a degree 
and many of the improvements of the tow-nship 
have liecn greatly forwarded l>v his enterprise. 
ha\'ing helped to Imild roads, school-houses and 
cliurehes. ( )n moving into his lii>t residence, 
wliieli is the log t'uliin above mentioned, he lived 
at ,1 distance of half a mile from the nearest neigh- 
bor, the country between them being a thickly 
wooded tract. ]^ersonall\' Mi-. Mastic is a genial, 
whole-souled man who is po]iular with liisacquaint- 
anees and associates. He is five feet, six inches in 
height !ind weighs about two hundred pounds, and 
is a man of great sti-engtli and enduiance as can lie 
conjectured from the amount of work which he 
has accomplished. 



E^^^^ 



■it; KROMl-: W. HANI). The litV sketch whicli 
we now lay before our readers, is that of a 
man who has made his influence felt, not 
only during the i|uiet days of jteace. but 
when the dark clouds of war hung over our land. 
At that time he joined hand in haixl with his 
neighboi-s. and upon the battle-field, stood shoulder 
to shonldei- with his comrades in defense of the 
old flag, and he noAV feels that the country foi- 
which he fought is dearer to him than if he had 
remained at home in her hour of distress. 

This gentleman lives upon .-i beautiful and 



w(ll-cnlti\ated farm of fifty acres, situated upon 
section U(, Howell Tf)wnshii), Livingston County, 
rpon it may be seen substantial farm buildings and 
here is i-aised a fine grade of stock, among which 
we may name f\dl-blooded Holstein cattle and 
graded Short-horns as well as Hambletonian and 
other thoroughbred hor.ses. 

The nativity of Mr. Hand was in Lixingslon 
County, X. ^■.. April ;i(l. \KM'i. .and his parents 
were Ehen .•md Lusiiia ( f'ullci) Hand. The father 
was a contractor and builder who came to .Michi- 
gan in 1HH;{. ;ind having settled in the village of 
Brighto}! was active there in his work beii g- the 
principal builder in Brighton foi' nianv years. Mis 
death oceiu'red in 184:'). Four of his nine t'hildren 
now survive, namely: Lurinda (Mrs. Ogden), 
Rhoda, .lose])hinc {Mrs. I'ryor) and our subject. 

The \illage of Brighton was the scene of the 
lioyhood and early edncation of Jeronu' Hand and 
he I'csided uudci- the parental roof until after 
his father's death. He then worked out for neigh- 
boring farmers until his enlistment in Company I, 
Twenty-second Michigan Infantrv in 186;"). He 
was in service until the close of the war and took 
part in the battles of ^lission Ridge, Lookout 
^lountain and Chickamauga, and received his lion- 
oralilc dischai'ge at Louisville, Ky., .Inly IX. IHfi,"). 

After his return from the seat of war .Mr. Hand 
purchased forty acres of land in the townshij) of 
Handy, ]>ivingston County, and after living ufion 
it two years disposed of the same and purchased 
the properly where he now lives and which he h.as 
highly improved since it came into his hands. His 
neighliois have rai.sed him at different times to the 
offices of Road Commissioner and Drain.age Com- 
missioner and in both positions he has done excel- 
lent service for the township. 

The marriage cerenuniy for Jerome W. Hand 
and Miss Elma Coonradt was )ierformed at the Innnc 
of the bride in 1«.')7. Thi> iady is a daughter of 
Adam and Klizabeth (Cogsdell) Coonradt. b<ith of 
whom were b<nn in New Brunswick, N. \. Mr. 
Coonradt was a farmer who came \\'est in IS.'iti 
after his marriage, and settled in the township of 
Milford, Oakland County and eng.aged in farming. 
He came into this township in 1867 and settled 
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Mini li\cil until Ills ilcMlli wliicli tixik i)l;u'(' in IH7."). MMli\i'> of ScuIImihI. wIutc Uu' fiiriiici' was engaged 
His widow survived liini for tliii'u yi'nrs and K-tl as a sli('|ilici-d. hut alti'i' toininu lo Ainciica lie lie- 
nine eliildren. seven of whom are now liviiii;. came a farmer. Tliey were the parents of eleven 
namely: .Mary (Mrs. Hunt ). ( alherinel Mrs. Lock- childicii. one of whom, .lohii .Mclntyre, was a 
wood), Elizalieth (.Mrs. Seavei). .Malinda (Mrs. .soldier in the Uevoliili<inary \\ ar. He of whom 
Hayes), Lousi;! (Mrs. Mann). Leonard. Lima (.Mrs. we write is one of a family of eleven children. 
Hand), and Hannah (Mrs. iiiish). Mrs. .Se;iver only nine, Iiowcmt. now li\iiiL;. They are Donald. 



is deceased 



lane, Peter, .\iin. Iluiili. I'iora. .Mai\. .lames and 



To the hoiiie of .Mr. and .Mrs. Il:iiid Iwochildren .laiiet. The Iwo who are deceased are Kliza and 

have come and they hear the names of Selicia 1). Ruth. 

and Calvin L. The princiiiUs of the Democratic The reliuious traininu in the homestead was that 

party are those which in the judirmenf of Mr. of the Pieshyteriaii denomination, hotli parents 

Hand are best adapted insecure the well-heinji of heinu meinhers of that hody. The father of tln' 

the citizens of our country and to insure the pros- l'amil\ was a \Vliii>;, hut in later years became ji 

perity of the nation. He is an ardent and etlicienl Republican. He was honored h\ seveial positions 

member of the ( i rand .Vriny of the Repulilic and within the <,dft of the township .and was jrreatly 
delights in its reunion, lie has a pleasant liou.se ' respected ;is .a niiin of inteirrity and ijood financial 



and lot in the village of Howell liut prefer> to re- 
side upon liis taiin which he is ;icti\('l v can\ iiigon. 



standing. <)iir subject was raised on the home 
farm and remained at home until he wn.s twent_\- 
si.\ ye.ars of age. He received ;i liheral education, 
.attending select schools in .\nn .\rhor. .Vfter 
linisliing his course of study he was engagi'd in 
teaching in Ingham County, this State, being 
thus employed both before and after marriage. 
Mr. Midntvre made his Mi-l piiichase of laiul in 
lpV,()N.\LI) McINTYRL. Our subject has White Oak TcnMisliip. Ingham (oiinty. in \h:,x. 
|l 1, abandoned active business life while yet It comprised eighty acies of land and he Iniill 
i^Jf^ at an age thai he can enjoy the pleasures llieicon .-i line hi'wed log hou>e. He later added 
that his large resources can give, anil in other land and improxed this mi that it became 
this lie >how> a wisdom greater than th.at displayeil regarded as one of the best farms in the district. 
hy the majority of men. He raised tine c;ittle and sheep u])on the place, 

lie wa- born in .Montgoniei\' ( oiinly, N. V.. ( )n the breaking out of the war oiii- subject 
September l!l. lK;il. He is a son of .l.ames .and cnlisleil in ( ompany .\. of the I'irst Michigan 
.Mary ( McCall) .Mclnt\ re. both n.ativesof thel'.ni- l-'.ngineeis and .Mecli.anics liegiment. being miis- 
pire State. Our subject's f.Mlhei was there an ex- lered into service in December 1868. After a varied 
tensive farmer, but foreseeing great opportunities in .■iiid inteicsting service he was honorably di.scharg- 
Ihe new Slate of Michigan, he came West and set- cd .and rcluined lionii' October I. IMfi.'). He was 
lied ill Inadilla Township. Livingston ('oiint\. with Shcriiian on his meiiiiu'able ni;irch from 



tiist taking up .a ipiaiter xctioii of ( iovernmeiit 
land of the clas,-- llial is known as oak openin<rs. 



Atlanta to the sea. 

.U'ter returning from the war he sold his placi' 



On his newly acquired tract he erected a log house ;nid moved to the city where he purchased prop- 
wliicli he made his losideiice until death overlook ci t \ in the eastern pail of llu' town and upon 
him, .lanuarv "ifi. 1872. His wife suivi\-ed him which he now lives. He was united in marriage 



iiiilil .luiie 1. 18H;b 

(Hir subject's |)aternal yrandsire was Donald .Mc- 



iii M.")S lo .Mi» Olive .M. Herrick of Waterloo. 
Jackson Coiintv, this .state. .She is a d.aughter of 



Inlyre. wlio>e mital day was .liily Hi. IT.'i'.t. His .Samuel .M. and Sarah K. (Newman) Herrick. 
wife was Ann MrlnUie. and llic\ m'H' lioth nalixcs of New ^ork where the former was .-i liool 



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and shoe maker. He came to Michigan in 1845 and 
settled in Waterloo, engaging soon after in farm- 
ing. Of eight children which were born to thi* 
couple only four are now living. Isaac X., William 
S.. Sarah K. and Olive M. The parents died in 
.lackson County, aftei- a long association -with the 
meniheis of the Presbyterian religious body. The 
father was originally a Whig but later became a 
Rejjublican. 

The original of uur sketch has a family of five 
children. They are (ieorge H.. Anna M., Ella, 
Flora B. a id Donald. The eldest son married 
Marv Smith; they are the parents of four children 
(ilenn. Ethel, Benjamin II. and .Tosephine. This 
son is a farmer by calling and also a politician; he 
is now Supervisor of the township. Anna M. is 
]\Irs. .1. II. Smitli; she is the mother of three chil- 
dren (irover, Letha and Mclntyre; her husband is 
also engaged in farming. Ella is now Mrs. I. .1. 
King and is the mother of two children, Lee and 
Ei-ma. Mr. Mclntyre is an nnconipromising Re- 
publican. He is a meml)cr of the I'nion Veteran 
I'nion. He and his wife are members of the 
Methodist Ei)iscopal Church. Our subject has 
been the architect of his own fortunes, having had 
nothing to liegin with but what he made by his 
own efforts. 



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\,>^i RS. HELEN L. M. LAKE. One of the 
most potent factors in the civilization of 
II' any section of our country is to be found 
in the charactei' and intluence of its women 
of education and refinement. Not only all who 
come in contact with them, liut all who live in their 
\ Icinitv. are insensibly elevated and refined by 
knowing that such women are in their midst. This 
is trebly true when such characters add to their 
iuduence the power of a gentle and amiable dispo- 
sition, which is effective by its very apparent lack 
of aggressiveness, for it arouses no opposition 
and leads the way to higher things. 

Such a character do we find in the widow of 
.George B. Lake, whose loss was deeply felt by all 



who knew him when he passed from earth in 1884. 
This gentleman was born in Howell Township, 
Livingston County, in 1845, and was the son of 
Rial and Mary F. (Burt) Lake. His father was an 
educaeor, being at one time a professor in a school 
of high standing in Philadelphia. Vermont was 
his native State and he came to Michigan in 1838, 
settling in Howell Township, where he engaged in 
farming through all his later years. 

The education of George B. Lake was carried on 
in the schools of Howell and was supplemented l)y 
home instruction, whicli fitted him admirably for 
his matriculation at the Michigan University at 
Ann Arbor. He took there a course as Civil Engi- 
neer and received his diploma in 1869. Subsequent 
to his graduation, Mr. A. A. Robinson, who was a 
classmate of his at the university, wrote him, beg- 
ging that he would come to Kansas, where he (Mr. 
Roliinson) had secured a position on the Atchison, 
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. Mr. Lake joined his 
friend .and became A.ssistant Engineer in 1869. In 
1871 the young man had advanced to the position 
of Division Superintendent of the Atchison, To- 
peka & Santa Fe Railroad, and five years later he 
became Superintendent of Track and Bridges. In 
1878 he took the position of princip.al Assistant 
and Consulting Engineer, and in 1884 he became 
Chief Engineer of the same road. During the same 
year he was taken sick at his home in Topeka, Kan., 
and died of pneumonia. 

The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Lake had taken 
place on Christmas Day, 1878, and at the time of 
his death they had two beautiful children, (Jeorge 
B., -Ir.. and Helen. After her husband's death Mrs. 
Lake returned to her home in Howell. She was a 
daughter of Dr. Z. II. .and Lutheria (.lohn.son) 
jSIarsh. both of whom were natives of the old Bay 
State. Dr. Marsh received his medical education 
at .lefferson College. Philadelphia, fiom which he 
took his diploma and |iracticed his profession for a 
short time in a small town called Ware \'illage, in 
Massachusetts, before removing to New York Citv, 
where he remained in the active practice of his 
profession until he came to Michigan and settled in 
Howell. Besides carrying on his profession here 
• he established the first regular drug store in Howell, 
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time his lii'iiltli iMilcd mikI he rt'tircil t'niiii ;\cti\f 
life. Me lias now reMclicrl the vein ralilc !ii;e of 
eijjlitv years and was liereaved ol liis lieluvcd and 
faitlifid wife in 1«.S7. Of lluir lluee eliiklivii liul 
Iwd are lixiiiii. Mrs. Lake and her brother. Ivlwiii 
.1. Marsli. who is a lawyer ;it (iiand Rajiids. 

Since .Afrs. Lake's return to Howell she lias lniill 
a fine jjreenhousc. the only one in the county, and 
has e?tahlislie(I a llonrishinu luisiiiess in cut (lowers 
and potted plants. She also looks after her farm 
in ttie township and has pi'oxcn hei'self.'i thoi-ouiih 
anil s\steiiiatic Inisiness woman. The home in 
which she and her children reside on llnhhle Street 
is the scene of a liannonious household and a hos- 
pitable abode. She is .a l.ady whose edncation. both 
literary anil musical, made her a true helpmate and 
a fittiiiii' coinp.anioii to tlie talented and hioiily edu- 
cated i;entleman. with whom she had the liap|iiness 
to spend the brief years of their married life. She 
has laiiiilit in the pulilic schools of Lansing and 
:il.so tauifht music in Hig l{a|>ids. Mich., and 
wherever she has lived and in whatever circle she 
ha- inoxed she ha- lieen alil<c bclo\/d and prized- 

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EDWARD ( .( II.VPIN, one of the |iioinincnl 
attorneys of the city of I>ansinsi'. Inifhain 
■ County, has his ofHce at No. Ids ^Iichii;aii 

Avenue West, .and has been enirasied in the pr.ac- 
t ice of his profession since 1X7.'?. He is a native 
of Connecticut, and was born in the city of New 
Haven, .hine IS. 1«11. His father. Kev. S. S. Chapin. 
is a clersivman of the Kpiscopal (linrcli. and his 
mother, who died in 1S7(). was .lulia ( Coan ) Cha- 
pin. I'ntil lifteen year- of aye Mr. Chapin lived 
tive vears in New H.aven. two in New York City 
and eight near Norwich. Conn., and then came 
West with liis parents and located in the city of 
Marshall. Mich., whci-e his fathei' had lu'cn called 
to the rectorship of the Kjiiscopal Church of that 
citv. Mr. Chapin a- a boy attended school in Con- 
necticut and in 'he iity of Marshall, and srradua- 
ted at Racine ( ollc.;c. Racine. AVis.. receivino the 
degree of li.'ichelor <>!' Arts in the class of lM<i7. 



Aflci liiiishiiiL; his collesire life he was eonnected 
with the Slate I )e|)artnient of the State of Miclii- 
uan until IH7I. He then entered the law otticeof 
Messrs.Dart A- \\ ile\ . in Lansiiiif, and was admitted 
to piaclicc in l.H7.'i when he opened :in odicc and 
h.-is (-(jntinued in pi-acticc to the present time. .\lr. 
( hapin held the otiicc of Circuit Court Commis- 
sioner foi four years, and was also Citv .\ttornev 
for the city of Lansinu- for a like nuinber of years. 
Ill politics he has always been a Republican, and is 
a menibei- of the ^lasonic irrder: he a nieinlier of 
the Episcopal Church, ami for many years has 
been fine of the Wardens of St PaiiTs Church, of 
LansiiiL!. Mr. Chaiiin was m.arried on April 2'2. 
ls71.toKlla R. Kino, of .\cw York { ity. 'I'hey 
have three chilflren: (drmdius King. Roy Dike- 
man .and Maficlle Rose. Mrs. Cha|)in's father. Mr. 
.lames W. l\ing made his home in Lansing from 1 H7 1 
until his decease in 1H,S(. His wife. Mrs. Hannah 
S. King, is still living, and l■esirl(■^ with .Mr. Chapin 
and his wife. 'I"he Cliainn family and the Coan 
family were .all of New Pngland stock, as were 
also the laniilies of ^l:■, and Kiiiu. l'"or the last 
four years Mr. Chapin has been coiinecteil with 
the legal de|iartment of the Minneapolis. St. ]»a\il 
A' Saiilt SI. Marie Railw.ay company, .and for (lie 
last two years li.as been one of the directors of the 
Peo|)le's .Saving IJank of West May City. In ail- 
ditioii to his business in connection with the rail- 
road, he has given his attention to gfiierai law 
iiractice. 



^j^KORtiK W. I'RKKMAN. The manufactui- 
'11 i -— > ing interests of Lansing form .a very con- 

'^^ siderable factor in the develoiinient of the 
resources of this city and section of this State. 
'I'he wealth of .Micliiil.an '> mines .and forests could 
never have lieen transniuteil into gold had it not 
been for the touch of the philosopher's stone, which 
ill this instance consisted of the inventive genius 
and enterprising si>irit of the men of the .state. 

( )ur subject, who i> the Seiaetarv and .Manager 
o1 the AiHicrson Roail ( .art Company, is one of 



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these men, bright, shrewd, enterprising and intelli- 
gent, who have helped to change our State from a 
wilderness to a populous center. He organized the 
company in wliich he is interested and is a thor- 
ough and practical manufacturer. lie was horn 
in Lockport, N. V.. JLarcli 12, 1«44, 'liis father, 
Robert Freeman. l)eing a native of New.lersey, and 
later becoming a farmer in New York. 

Robert Freeman emigrated from the East to 
F'armington, Oakland County. >Iicli.. and there lo- 
cated upon a farm until lH;i.").whcn lie removed to 
Prairieville, Harry Co\inty. and made that his final 
home, as he i)assed away l)efore tlie l)reaking out 
of the Civil War. lie was a man who was deeply 
interested in ])ublic matters although lie did not 
take an active part in them, but voted the Demo- 
cratic ticket, and was an earnest and devoted mem- 
ber of the Methodist F^piscojial Church. His wife, 
who was of A\'elsh descent, liore the maiden name 
of Mary A. Chapman. Her father died in New 
York and she lived until 1885. when she passed 
away in Michigan. Eleven children have called 
her mother and six of these are now living, two 
sons having lost their lives in the Civil War. 

He of whom we write was a little fellow of some 
three years of age when he came to Michigan, and 
made his home with his parents about eighteen 
miles from Detroit, and he was eleven years old 
when he went to Barry County, where he studied 
in tlie district schools and early went to work upon 
the farm. After his father's death he undertook 
the management of the old farm, which consisted 
of eiglity-flve acres, a tract of land which he still 
owns and which is in a fine state of cultivation. 
In 1863 he became clerk in the office of the Regis- 
trar of Deeds, being in the department which had 
charge of the Abstract of Titles. Here he remained 
for one year only, as his patriotic impulses led him 
to give up his office and enlist in the service of his 
country. 

The young soldier became a member of Com- 
pany E, Fifty-first Wisconsin Infantry, being mus- 
tered in at Madison, Wis., and serving until the 
close of the war in the Army of the Potomac. His 
regiment was engaged in skirmishing and raiding 
and took part in Price's raid. Mr. Freeman was 
detailed as clerk in the Adjutant's Department and 



served there for some time. In the spring of 1865 
he was ordered to Leavenworth, Kan., where he 
was mustered out and discharged under tlie special 
order in .July, 186."). The regiment was returned 
to Madison, from which point they dispersed in 
August. 

The oil fever w.is now at its height and the 
young soldier went to Pennsylvania and speculated 
for awhile, but as he did not make a fortune he 
soon returned toBarry and again entered the office 
of the Hegistrar of Deeds. Here he continued for 
five years and in .lanuary, 1871, he was appointed 
Clerk in the State Department under Mr. Stryker, 
in 1872, and finally liecame chief clerk in his office. 
He served for four terms under iMessrs. Stiyker, 
Holden, .lenniso, and Covant, making sixteen 
years of faithful service in this office. In January, 
1887, Mr. Freeman received the appointment to 
the office of lilxecutive Clerk under (tov. Luce, and 
by virtue of his appointment he was also .Secretary 
of the Board of Pardons. This position he filled 
until October, 1887, when he resigned his office to 
enter business. 

Mr. Freeman became an incorporator of the 
Anderson Road Carl Company, October 18, 1887, 
and was at once elected its Manager and Secretary 
being a large stockholder and one of the Directors. 
The business has been greatly enlarged and they 
now manufacture a full line of the carts, making 
a specialty of road, track and speeding carts, and 
turning out from forty to fift^- vehicles a day. It 
is a thorough manufacturing institution and makes 
every part of every vehicle in its output. 

The happ3' home of our subject is at the corner 
of Ottawa and Claypole Streets and the lady who 
is the presiding genius became IMrs. Freeman in 
Grand Rapids in 1867, her maiden name was Carrie 
A. Mead, and she was born in Fishkill, N. Y., and 
is a daughter of Finch JNIead, who became an early 
settler of Michigan, where he still carries on a fine 
farm. Three children have crowned this union; 
the eldest George L., is already a young business 
man and is in the employ of the Road Cart Com- 
pany, while lidith E. and ,Ioe B. are at home with 
their jiarents. Mr. Freeman belongs to the Inde- 
pendent Order of Odd F'ellows. to the Royal Ar- 
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and devoted member of theCongreffatioiial ('Iniich 
ill wliicli slic (X'Oipies a position of iist'f illness jiiid 
iiilliuMicf. Tlic (li'claratioiis of the Hi'iJiihlican 
party einlinily the polilical views of .Mr. l-'reeiiian 
and lie is most earnestly and devotedly attaelied to 
his party, lie is Cliairiiian not only of tlie \\ ard 
Cominittie. lint also of the City and ( nuiity Coni- 
niittee and has fre(|neiitly lieeu a delegate to 
county and State eoiivenlions. 



EXKY (;. REYNOLDS, M. S.. the Secretary 
|{ of the State Hoard of Agriculture, was born 
in Buffalo, X. V.. .Inly 4. 1«;31. The 
advent of the first ancestor of the Reynolds 
family to the United States dates from 1(;.'?-I,at 
which time he came from England. The faniilv 
name was spelled for several generations Raynold.s. 
but was changed to Reynolds by the father of our 
snliject because of the contlictiiig claim made to 
the mail that came ft)r him by another man of the 
same name. The first delinite knowledge we have 
of this family begins with the history of the Rev. 
Peter Raynolds, a Congregational minister, who 
was born November 26, 170((, and died May II, 
1768. He left a son who was known as Deacon 
.lolin Haynolds. His birth took place in Enlield, 
Conn. His son, .lames L. Raynolds, was also born 
in Enfield and was an officer in the War of 1H12. 
F'rom him descended James L. Reynolds, the father 
of Henry ('■ He was born in Enlield. Conn., .Iiiiie 
7, I«ll. 

.Tames L. Heynolds removed from his native 
.State to Ohio in If^.'i.! and settled in JMa.ssilloii. 
where he was employed as a merchant for fifteen 
years, afterward he went to Chicago, where he 
spent fifteen years, successfully engaged in mer- 
cantile business. In 1866 he retired from act- 
ive labor and his decease occurred in California in 
1H7.'5. Henry G. Reynolds spent the first fifteen 
years of his life in Chicago and was a student for 
one year in the High Schotil of that city. In 1H66 
he entered the 3Iichigan State Agricultural Col- 



lege at Lansing. From this institution he grad 
uated in 187(1 with the degree of Uachelor of 
Science and in 187.'{ his Alma Mater honored him 
with the degree of .Master of Science. 

.Vfler graduating .Mr. Reynolds spent nearly 
three years in ICiirope. traveling and enjoying an 
advanced course of studies in the labratory of Dr. 
Kresenius at Wiesbaden in (iermany. He then lo- 
cated at Old .Mission. .Mich., where he was employed 
as a fruit-grower until called to his [ireseiit position 
ill 188.'). While at Old Mission he was especially 
interested iii .apple and pear (iilturc. 

On Septemlier 21, 1^71. Mr. Reynolds was mar- 
ried to -Mi.ss Frances Llewell\n of Mexico. Mo. 
Mrs. Reynolds was born February 28, 1850, in 
J.,OHisville, Ky. Her father, Robert Llewellj-n, was 
born in IJirmingham. I'.nglaiid; her mother, .\bi- 
gail Knott, was born in I)iil)lin, Ireland, but was 
of English .ancestry. The mother of Henry ('<. 
Reynolds bore the maiden name of .Mary (ireen 
Duncan, and was born .lannary 1, I8r.». at Ma.ssil- 
lon. Ohio, of which her father, James, was the 
founder. He was a man of recognized ability and 
great executive power, having sterling business 
(|ualities and a profound interest in the pioneer 
development of the .State. He is still rememliered 
ill Massillon as a man to whom the city is indebt- 
ed for many of the privileges it now eHJ03"S. He 
was also one of the earliest developers of the I'pper 
Michigan mining district, in the region of Negau- 
nee. He was lioin in Concord. N. II., May 2. 178!(, 
and died in Chicago. March I."). 1 86;i. Mrs. Rey- 
nolds is stili living and resides with her sou at the 
IMichigan .Vgricultural College. 

Mr. and .Mrs. Henry (J. Reynolds are the parents 
of six children whose names are as follows: I-"red- 
eiiek I-., Robert L., Duncan I... Jessie L.. Margaret 
\'. and tiraham L. Frederick, who was born De- 
cember 21. 1875. and Robert, liorn .lunc 25. 
1.S77. are students in the .\gricultural College; 
Duncan w.as boin O-tober 2. 187'.>; Jessie. Aiiril 

I 22, 1883; Margaret. October .JO, 1885, and Graham 
Octobers, 1887. Mr. Reynolds was a member «if 
the Michigan Slate IJoard of .\griculture from 

; 1H7S) to 1885. Roth he and his wife are members 
of the EpiscHipal Church of Lansing. In poli- 

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the industrial system of the college. During his 
Secretaryship he pre|)are(l anrl ptililislied a general 
index of the agricultural I'eports of Michigan from 
IMlDto IHHK, inchisive. 'I'his work has been ap- 
preciated h_v all who have had occasion to refer to 
tliese volumes. 

In connection with this biography will be found 
a lithographic portrait of TVIr. Reynolds. 



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JpHiOBRRT M. PORTER. Tie of whom we 
|Wj write w.as born in Hillsdale ("ouiity. this 
V State, in the township of l.ilclitield. Decem- 
ber 12, 1851. lie was only sixteen years of 
age when he started out in life for himself and 
was engaged in clerking in a drug store at (^uincy. 
Thence lie was employed in a dry-goods store 
where he remained for three years and was then 
clerk in the dr3'-goods house at Litchfield, remain- 
ing tliere also two years. His advent into Will- 
iamston, Ingham County, was made in 187.5 and 
since that time he has here made his residence. 

On first coming to Williamston our subject 
was engaged as a clerk in a dry-goods store 
and remained there for six years. He then came 
into the liardware store in the year of 1881 as 
clerk for ^Ir. .lessup and has since been engaged 
here. In 1878 Mr. Porter was married in AVilliam- 
ston to Flora J. Clark, a daughter of Henry Clark, 
the mother being Margrette (Siiaw) Clark. They 
wei'c natives of Leroy, (ienesee County. X. Y. 

Tliis union, which has been a very happy one 
has lesulted in the Iiirtli of two children — 
Clarence 11. and Howard C.. both of whom are 
at home. Mr. Porter is a Master Mason, being a 
member of Williamston Lodge, No. 153. Politically- 
he is a Democrat and has held oflice under his 
party in the village of Williamston for the past 
two years. He has been Township Clerk for six 
years and is tlie present incumlient of that position. 
Our subject's father, Robeit M. Porter, was one of 
the founders of Albion College and he of whom I 
we write holds a life scholai'Ship there and also a 
life scholarship in Hillsdale College which was pur- I 



chased by his father. A brother of the senior 
Robert M. Porter, was a Rei)resentative in the 
United States congress from Minnesota and a 
brotlier of our subject's mother, .lacob Sttikes, was 
a nieml>er of the Treasur\' l)e|)!utment of the 
United States. 

It will not lie out of place to here give a some- 
what extended notice of the parents of the gentle- 
man of whom we aie writing. His father was 
Robert M. Porter, a native of Lancaster, Pa., who. 
in an early d.ay, came to Calhoun County, Jlich. 
and followed milling in Homer foi' a number of 
years. He afterward went to Litclilield, Hillsdale 
County, and there ran .-i mill known as that of 
Fowler A' Porter. He then went to Scipio Town- 
ship .■mil w:i> the proprietor of ;\ large establish- 
ment known as the Pcirter Mills. Latei- he went 
to ISurr ( )ak, St. .Iosei)h Count v. and there ran n 
mill and linally located in (^Miincv, Branch County, 
and was there engaged in the milling business with 
a Mr. Rogers, continuing in this connection until 
his decease, which occurred in 1883. 

Robert Porter, Sr. w.as married, in Phdadelphia. 
to Miss Fanny Stokes, a native of that city. She 
died in lH5il in Sci|ii(j Township, Hillsdale County, 
Mich. To this couple were born four children — 
.lacob .\I., Henry C., Harriet. Robert M. and 
Fremont C. Our subject's father w.as nearly all 
his life engaged in milling. He was a Master 
Mason which was greatly to his advantage in pio- 
neer days. 







ORTOX M. MONROE. A goodly number of 
veterans of the late war that were drawn 
from Ingham County still survive and offer 
a bright example to the young men who arc com- 
ing uj) to-day of the disinterested loyalty that 
prompted them to throw all inl<o the balance with 
the chances of war. for at that lime there was no 
.assurance, in fact apparently sm.M 11 chance, of any 
reniuneralion for services and it « as certain that 
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one of the inosl vnliaiit of tlic rt'iri incut tli;il went 
out fwnn his native State, and that was detaiU'd to 
duty in the Army of the Ciiinheiland. 

Tlie gentU'inan who now owns the model farm 
located on .section .'51, Lcroy Townshii), is a n.-itive 
of Livingston County, this State. lie was liorn 
September 23, 1840, and is a son of Francis and 
Luana (ITix) ^Monroe. He is a lirotlier of .1. ^I. 
Monroe, of whom a sketcli ajjiiears in another jirirt 
of this Ai.nuM. Reared to manhood in liis native 
State during- his })oyhood life, school duties and 
farm duties were shared witji the balance in favor 
of the latter, for at that time there was much to be 
done to put the land in a productive state and la- 
bor was not easy to l)e had. lie engaged in farm- 
ing as soon as he was able and old enough to do 
the lightest woric, and altliough he is not among 
the olrler men of the State he can still recall many 
pioneer experiences relating to his ^youthful d.ays. 

The wiiter doul)ts whether there is any other 
nation tiiat has such extensive readers as are the 
Americans, and although Mr. Monroe's education 
would not be considered at the present time a lib- 
eral one he made up the deficiency in this respect 
by broad and general reading. lie is an intelligent 
man and a good conversationalist. August 11, 
1H62, our subject enlisted in Company H, Twenty- 
second Michigan Infantry. He fought in nian.\' 
of the battles of the late war which are already 
celebrated in history, and as time pa.sses will stand 
<jut more prominently in the history of the nation. 
He was a participant in the battle of Chickamauga 
and was there wounded in the left arm by a niinie 
ball, after which he was in the hospital for a short 
time. He was discharged from active service De- 
cember 8, 18G3, after which he leturned to Michi- 
gan and has since made his home in this State. 

After returning from the army Mr. Monroe was 
married December 28, 1864 to Miss Caroline Sim- 
mons, a daughter of Ephraim and Xancy Simmons. 
of New York State. This worth\- couple Iki\'c 
been the parents of four children, whose names 
are as follows: Fred L. married ^Nliss Lorn L. 
Hubbard, and resides on the home farm; Nel- 
lie A., Lewis N. and Harry A. The daughter 
is now the wife of O. W. Stowe. The original of 
our sketch farms eighty aci'es of as good land as is 



in F>eroy Townshi)). He is a member of the Meth- 
odist I'rotcstant Church and morally his character 
and standing is without reproach. He is of a i)ro- 
giessive tendency and seeks to encourage every- 
thing that tends to have a refining and elevating 
influence, both in this family and in general social 
relations. Politically, our subject is-a Republican 
and the success of his party is as dear to him as 
though he were personally interested. 



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rRANK W. SllLMW AV. M. D. We are 

i; pleased to present the life sketch of this 
/i\ [jrofessional gentleman, who has made his 

mark and established his rep\itaion in Ingham 
County. His father, Charles Shumway, was born 
in 1822 at Evans' Mills, Jefferson County, N. Y., 
and removed while still a young man to Ohio, 
where he was graduated in medicine in Cleveland, 
Ohio, and later came to Jackson County, Mich., 
where he began the practice of his profession at 
Napoleon, .\fter a number of years he removed 
to Lowell, Kent County, whcie he resided \nitil his 
death in 18r>',». 

Dr. Charles Shumwa.\ and his wife, Elizabeth 
Bunton, were the parents of the following chil- 
dren: Charles A., who is engaged in the book and 
stationery business in New York City; Frank W., 
our subject, and (ieorge. The father carried on a 
drug-store at Lowell in connection with an exten- 
sive practice which reached through almost eveiv 
section of Kent County in those early days. and he 
was cimsidcred a pioneer all through that region. 

Christmas Day, 18r)(), was the inimal date in the 
life of our sulijcct and he was liiirn in Lowell. 
M.ass. When a little child of tlii-ee years he lost 
his father by death and grew up under the care 
and guidjincc of his mother. They have always 
remained togethei' and she now makes her home 
with him. In the course of time he and his mother 
removed to (irand Rapids, afterward to Ionia .and 
finally to Lansing, where our subject commenced 
the study of medicine under Dr. C. M. lladen. He 
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graduated from the Western Reserve College in 
1881 and from the Medical Department of Woos- 
ter University in 1881. He had naturally chosen 
the Western Reserve College as his Alma Mater as 
his father had acquired his education there. 

Williamstown liecanie the scene of the young 
Doctor's first efforts to establish a practice and his 
success has been pronounced. He has added to his 
social prestige and influence by a matrimonial al- 
liance with lone W. Crossman, daughter of the 
Hon. D. L. Crossman, of whom mention is made 
elsewhere in this work. This marriage took place 
in October, 1888, in Williamston. Dr. Shumway 
owns a residence in Lansing and some fifteen 
building lots in that city, besides a residence on 
Grand River Street E., and other property in 
Williamstown. He is a Mason of l)0th the Blue 
Lodge and Ro\'al Arch Degrees and is Past Com- 
mander of the Knights of the Maccabees at Will- 
iamston, and has been Village Health officer for 
four years. In politics he has made himself one 
with the Republican part}' and is an earnest sup- 
porter of the princii)les and policy of that body. 



^ EE (4RAXD CLARK. Could an old set- 
tlers' meeting be held at some convenient 
point in Hartland, Livingston County, 
where all the men who have lived in this State and 
county from its earliest settlement could meet and 
talk over the exjieriences of by-gone days, man\ 
would be the interesting adventures and danger- 
ous risks encountered. Although our subject 
would not be the oldest of these, his would be no 
uninteresting tale. He is now one of the sulistan- 
tial farmers located on section II. of Hartland 
Township, Livingston County. He was born in 
Montgomery- County, X. Y., in the town of 
Kingsborougii, Xovemlier 2.'), 1814. 

Our subject's father was Elislia Clark, a native 
of Connecticut ; he was a shoemaker, and afterward 
became a maker of gloves and mittens. He died 
at the aye of aliout forty-six years in Xew York 



State. The mother of our subject lived to lie 
seventy-six years of age, her decease taking jtlace 
in her native State. They were the parents of six 
children, three sons and three daughters. All but 
one of these are still living. He of whom we 
write is the second child and son, and was reared 
in his native place where he remained luitil twenty- 
three years of age. 

Our subject's first marriage took place December 

I, 1837. His bride's name was Catherine M. Vro- 
nian, a native of the same State with himself. 
They were the parents of six sous whose names are 
as follows: William H., Wellington, Edward X., 
Lanson E., Artiiur B., and Lorenzo (i. William 

II. is a resident in Hartland Township, and here 
operates a farm; Wellington resides iuOwosso; 
Edward lives in Hartland Township; Lanson who 
served as a soldier in tlie late war, died in 188'J; 
Arthur and Lorenzo both reside in Hartland Town- 
ship. The mother of these children died Septem- 
ber 14, 18.50. She was laid away in all tenderness 
in Hodges cemetery. 'J'he oldest child at tlie 
time of her death was fourteen years of age. 

For three years Mr. Clark kept house with his 
family of six boys, the youngest being only two 
years old at the time of his mother's death. Jt was 
quite a struggle for him to fill the place of mother 
as well as father for his motherless little ones, and 
many weie the womanly duties that he was obliged 
to perform. ^londays he gave up to the neccessary 
domestic work, washing, ironing and baking, At 
the end of three years he again married, his wife 
being in her maiden days Abigail (i. Bussey, a 
native of Xew York, who came to this State with 
her parents in the spring of 1843. 

After our subject's first marriage, he located in 
Ontario County in tlie town of Mctor, X. Y., 
where he for three years worked at the cari)euter's 
trade; at the end of this time he came to ^lichigan 
and located in this county and township, where he 
now resides. At the time of his advent here, only 
seven acres of the |)lace were improved, and a little 
old log house had been erected by some previous 
owner. He was to woik the farm on shares, and 
s(j continued for about eight years, at the end of 
which time he purchased it, going into debt 
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oiiiitiinl iiitiMi'^t which \vm> ;it lh:it lime dc- 
inandt'd. llo did not fully i-lcar the phui' Irdiii 
cnomnbranct's until 1860 and fur twenty yoais 
made tlie oritcinal little old loif house his home. 

.Ml'. Clark is ii(>w the owiiei- of twd hundred 
acres of line. |)ro(hictive land, most of which is 
under cultivation, lie is duins a "eneral farming 
business, paying especial attention to the breeding 
of certain kinds of stock. He keeps al)0ut two 
hundred head of sheep, which are good breeds and 
always bring a good market price. .Mr. Clark 
came here a poor man anil with a large family to 
lake care of and sutTering many disadvantages, it 
took some time to establish him in a good financial 
position. He well deserves the respect and confi- 
dence that his neiglibf)rs and fellow-townsmen 
accord him. having been throughout life a self- 
sacrificing, loyal and jiatriotic citizen, and one 
who has never deviated from tlu' principles of 
truth and honor, whatever iii.'iy have been the 
t*unptation. lie has been awarded several local 
otHces in the gift of the township, having been 
Road Commissioner and Path-master for a niunber 
of years. He is a Re])ulilican in his political pref- 
rence and in his religious relations :i member of 
the Baptist Church. 



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G1:()R(;K IIK KS. one of the best known 
fanulies in Putnam Township, Livingston 
County, is represented by the gentleman 
whose name a])pears at the opening of this par- 
agraph. His father, .Vmos Hicks, was a Massa- 
chusetts farmer, and his mother, Mary Love, a na- 
tive of Kngland wlience she was brought to 
.Vmerica when an infant. They moved from New 
York to Michigan in 1K2.5, and settled in Washle- 
naw County, near .Vnn .\rbor, when there was but 
one log hou.se in what is now that beautiful uni- 
versity town. The father s(>ttled his family u])on 
an unbroken farm, to which they had come in a 
wagon diawn by an ox-team. Our subject was 
then an infant in his mother's arms, and in cro>s- 
ing the Manmee River the wagon gave a lui<'h .•ind 



Ihicw mother and infant out into the ileep mud. 
The wagon wheel pa.ssed over the child and buried 
him but when he was extricated and washerl he 
was found to have >ustained no injviry. 

Indians abounded in those days, and there were 
but few whites near them. The savages weie 
friendly and neighliorly. and the family had many 
interesting experiences with them, but never an\ 
ditliculties. Mr. Hicks i-emembers seeing over one 
hundred canoes with Indians in them upon the 
Huron K'iver at one time. The father was a great 
hunter, and provided the family abundantly with 
wild meats. He died in 1H:5:5. and his wife sui-- 
vived until about twenty-three years ago. The\- 
were the parents of fifteen childi-en. four of whom 
are still living. 

The natal day of oui- subject w.-is November (!. 
1H24, and as he was born in New "i'ork State just 
before the removal of his parents to the AVest, he 
did iu)t have the opportunities for education that 
had been given to his older biothers and sisters, 
for a poor man in pioneer times must take what 
he could get and not what ln' would wish; but he 
was sent for a short time to a subscription .school, 
and received home training in true |irinciples and 
in love for his country, as his father had been a 
soldier in the \\'ar of 1812. The boy grew up in 
the wild woods of Washtenaw County, and began 
to work as soon as he wais large enough to do so. 

When eighteen years old the young man went 
to Ypsilaiiti to learn the blacksmith trade, and 
worked at it for three years, after which he was 
employed by various farmers in Washtenaw 
County until he became a victim of the California 
fever in ISfjO. and went by the way of Panama to 
San Francisco. He was very sick upon his trip 
out, suffering from Panama fever, and was forty- 
live days out of sight of land, but in the mines he 
was fairly successful, and was gone for two yeais. 
coining back by way of Nicaraugua. Wlien he 
started for honu' from California, after he left the 
mines he was met by a man upon a mule who 
stopped him and questioned hitn. and then pas-sed 
on. Two miles furtiier on he mci him again, and 
the thiid time he met him, and he evidently in- 
teinled to rob him, but for some rea.son let him go. 

rpoii retiii tiinii- to Mieliisfan ^Ir. Hicks bonsrht 



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eighty acres of the faiin upon which he now re- 
sides, finding' it partly improved and upon it a log 
house. He had had enough of a roaming life, and 
being determined to remain in Michigan he estab- 
lished a home liy taking to himself a wife March 10, 
1853. Mrs. Hicks was born in New York sixty- 
two years ago, and in her maidenhood was known 
as Lucy A. Lowell, whose father, .Joseph Lowell, 
was an early settler near Scio, Washtenaw County. 
T\w home farm is now all finely improved, and 
they had une hundred and sixty acres in Sand- 
stone Township, .Jackson County, which they have 
given to their son. 

Mr. Hicks has done a vast amount of hard work 
in I^ivingston County, Michigan, and all the build- 
ings uiion his place have been put up by him, and 
he drew with his team from Saginaw County every 
stick of lumber which went into his residence. He 
and his excellent wife are the parents of six chil- 
dren, Ave of whom are now living. They are as 
follows; Mary F., born February 27, 1854. now 
the wife of Sharon Swarthout, of Anderson, and 
mother of three children ; George Henry, born 
.June 30, 1856, who married Nettie Thompson. and 
lives in .Jackson County ; Charles, born September 
1, 1861, who married I']va Hendee, and lives in 
.Jackson County, and has one child; Herbert M., born 
.June 5, 1865 ; and Emma, November 6, 1868, who 
both live at home. To all of these children the 
parents have given the best educational advantages 
which were within their ability to procure, and 
althougli deprived of such opportunities in his 
own childhood, the father has appreciated them 
for others, and in his position as member of the 
School lioard he has been efficient and judicious. 

Politics have ever interested this intelligent 
gentleman, and in his early days he voted the 
Whig ticket and later the Republican, but is now ■ 
affiliating with the People's party. He was urged 
to run as a candidate for Supervisor upon that 
ticket, but declined. He still carries on the farm 
himself, but he and his good wife are both suffer- 
ing the effects of having worked too hard through 
all tlieir younger years. 

Mrs. Hicks was the daughter of .Joseph and 
J'liebe (Ives) Lowell, both of whom were natives 
of Vermont, who removed to New York in 1818, 



and there made their home until 1837, when they 
came to the Wolveiine State and settled in Web- 
ster Township, Washtenaw County, upon a farm 
from which they removed, somewhat later, to 
Marion Township, this county, and the father 
died there forty years ago, while the mother sur- 
vived him some eighteen years, and died in 
Ingham County. They were the parents of eight 
children, four of whom are still living. Mrs. 
Hicks was born September 3, 1821), in A'ictor 
I'dwnsliip. Ontario County, N. Y. After coming 
to Michigan she attended both district and select 
schools, and thus prepared herself for teaching, 
which she ])ursiied for some time in Ingham 
Count}'. 



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\p*^^ ARLY II. SEXTON. So many men in these 

Jl) d.ays of large chances have made more than 

?^ handsome competencies, having begun with 

/ \ nothing on starting out in life, that such 
cases have ceased to be remarkable. The qualifi- 
cations, however, necessary to bring about such 
success can never cease to be worthy of our admira- 
tion. He whose name is at the head of our sketch 
is one of the army of pushing, aggressive men who 
are never satisfied unless they can attain the 
highest position that can be aimed for. Mr. 
Sexton started out in life without money or influ- 
ence, but by the exercise of his fine executive and 
financial ability he succeeded in amassing a hand- 
some fortune, and attaining a social position in 
the community in which he has cast his lot that is 
second to none. He is universally known through- 
out this vicinity as a capitalist of undeniiible abil- 
ity. 

Mr. Sexton is a native of Sherburn, Chenango 
County, N. Y., there born May 20, 1821. He is a 
son of Joseph and Janet (Wallace) Sexton, natives 
of Connecticut. The former was a farmer by oc- 
cupation, although he united the employment of a 
builder and contractor with his other interests 
while residing in New York State. He took a 
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('lu'Mipcakc ('.■ili:il mill :il^(i nni'oii 1 lie ( hciKiU'iO 
L'iiual. wiiL'lv lie weut al'lir his iii;inia<>C', .setlliny 
in Chenango County. He oanie to Michigan in the 
month of March, 1837. first locating in Washtenaw 
County and from there later coming to Livingston 
C'oiinty and settling thi-ee miles south of Howell 
on a farm wliicli he imrehased. He dit-d Feli- 
ruar\ It, 18to. His consort was spared until 
18()3, passing away in December. Mr. .Sexton, Sr., 
owned one Iiundred and twenty acre.s of land of 
the kind that is known as oak openings. Helniilt 
thereon a log house and was considered one of the 
wealthy men of the townsliip. He was of Irisii 
descent and his wife of Scotch descent. They had 
a family of eleven children, all of whom grew to 
manhood and womaniiood. 'I'lieir names are as 
follows: Octavia, .\ugustus. .laiiet. William. Sarah 
1'.. .lohn II.. .Iiilia A., .Sanford K'.. Sylvester. I'aily 
II. and Daviil II. The cliildit ii who are still sur- 
viving are .Vugiistus, William, .Sarah, Sanford, I'arly 
.•ind David. Thi'ir comhined .ages aggregate four 
hundred and lifty-nine years. 

Our subject's father was a Whig. He and his 
wife were followers of the Methodist Church, join- 
ing it in its primitive days when the wearing of a 
flower or ribbon was considered a sin. He was a 
liberal man and his children are all highly respected 
members of the community in which they live. 
Our subject was raised a farmer boy and lived at 
home until about twenty years of age, .Such edu- 
cation as he has received was acquired before he 
was fifteen years of age, at which time he left home 
and liegan working for himself in order to be self- 
supporting. In 1841 he went back to New York 
and was engaged on the New York it Erie Rail- 
road, at the time forming the .acquaintance of the 
lady whom he afterward made his wife. 

Mr. Se.xton was united in matrimony to Mis.s 
Lucinda L, (ioing, daughter of the Rev. .lames 
and Annie (Young) (ioing, natives of the Slates 
of X'ermont and New Hampshire respectively, their 
marriage being solemnized May 8, 184'2, Our 
subject's wife is one of seven children, five of 
whom lived to be men and women grown. TIkn 
are .Seneca Y.. Samantha T., .Sarah A., Lucimla I,., 
.lames L. and .lo.seph. 'I'he lady's paternal grand- 
parents were .lonathan Jind Saiah (Kendall) (ioing. 



Tliey had a taiiiily of four sons and one daughter, 
all of the sons becoming Baptist clergymen. They 
are .Jonathan, .lames, Kliab and Ezra and Sarah, 
who married Rev. Elijah W. Freeman a Baptist min- 
inister. The first named was President of the 
( iranville College of Ohio; Ezra wa.s'connected with 
the same college and also had charge of the collec- 
tions for the colleges. The family have always 
taken a high stand in educational and literary 
matters, being known far and near as men of un- 
usual culture and mental training. 

After his marriage in 1842, Mr. Sexton returned to 
Michigan on foot in order to settle up. some business 
matters in the way of collection and notes that 
were due here. He could not, however, get the 
money, as there were no currency in the country, 
lie managed, however, to make a trade for fifty 
.■icres of land in (Jenesec ( dunt\. which was the 
liisl land lli:it he owiieil. lie ncNcr-. however, re- 
sided at the place. Failing in getting his mone\ . 
which he wished to use to bring his wife and es- 
tablish himself in the West, there was no alter- 
native but to go back to New York on foot again. 
He borrowed ¥2.5 and accepted from his wife the 
little store of money that she had laid .aside out of 
her earnings iis a te.acher. With this he procured 
a wagon and one horse and with this outfit he 
brought his wife and first-born, Sarah A., at that 
time three months old, with the few things that 
were absolutely necessary to their exi.-.tence. They 
led a Bohemian kind of existence on the way hither, 
being on the road for four weeks, during whicli 
time they camped out over night in their cfivered 
wagon. 

The first home of the 3'oung couple In this StAte 
was in Marion Township, Living.ston County. 
\\heie our subject secured forty acres of land and 
built thereon a log house. Later he purchased an 
adjoining tract so that his farm aggregated one 
hundred twenty acre.s. This he sold and bought 
one hundred sixty acres in the western part of the 
township, afteiwai'd adding forty acres more. This 
he lived on until IMIKi and moved into Howell in 
IMCiT. building a residence on the place where he 
now lives. Since coming here he has built two 
hou.ses adjoining his home andownsanotherhou.se 
near bv. He owns one hundred and sixty acres of 



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land ill Kaiisas and also has a store building in 
Oxford. Kan., and as the years have passed has 
purchased various tracts of land in Micliigan. 

Five children have come to the parents who 
have made their struggle so bravely and have done 
so mucli to mitigate the hardships and trials that 
they iiave endured. They are Sarah A., Cornelia 
M., James X. P., George A. and Carrie A. The 
eldest daughter is now Mrs. Jacob Hoagland. She 
is the motlier of four daughters — May, Beatrice, 
Edna and Editii. Cornelia is Mrs. Horace Hoag- 
land and is the proud parent of three daughters, 
Minnie S.. Mabel G. and Georgia. James married 
Corlistallatton; (ietnge A. married EudoraHatton; 
Carrie A. is the wife of E. (t. Augel and is the 
mother of two sons. Vaiireiislear T. and Harry S. 

Mr. Sexton is a Re])ubliean in his political way 
of thinking. He fraternizes with the Masons and 
religiously he and his wife are connected with the 
Baptist Church, of whicli body he is a Trustee. 

In their own prosperity they do not forget their 
early struggles and deepl}- sympathize with those 
who are situated as they were and are ever ready 
to give a helping hand. 



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^ETP>U DEAN.- Among the i)ioneer fami- 
lies of Livingston County none is lietter 
known throughout the community t'lan the 
Deans, who came hither in 18.37 when the 
subject of this sketch was a little boy of seven 
j^ears. In consequence of his early removal to this 
vicinity this gentleman has taken almost as deep 
an interest in the affairs of the county as though 
he were native born, and the regard and esteem 
which is universally granted to the sturdy and 
honorable pToneers of the early days has come to 
to him by inheritance. 

The beautiful farm of one hundred and twenty 
acres which employs the energies of our subject is 
to be found on section 9, Howell Township. 
Peter Dean was born on the IKtb of January, 
1830, in Livingston County, N. Y. He is of East- 
ern parentage, his father, Josepli, being a native of 



New York, and liis mother, Sarah .Sigler, having 
been born in the Keystone State. Joseph Dean 
was a farmer b}' occupation and after coming to 
Michigan operated a farm in Brighton Township, 
Livingston County, until death ended his labors 
in 1842. His faithful and devoted wife survived 
him until 1863. 

Tlie paternal grandfather of our subject was 
D.aniel Dean, who was a native of Wales. He was 
a boot and shoe maker by trade and came with his 
wife, Ann Van Horn, to Brighton, Mich., the year 
previous to his son's migration hither. He here 
carried on a farm until his death., Steven children 
formed Jiis household, and his son Jfisepli had 
eight children, four of whom are now living, 
namely: Peter, Abraham W., Rensselaer, and 
Hannah J. 

The bojhood of our subject was spent upon a 
farm and his school days found him attending the 
school of the village of Brighton. He lived at 
home until 1842, after which he worked at farming 
in this county'. When he was thirty years old he 
purchased a piece of land comprising fifty acres 
and lived upon it one year in Sliiawiissee County, 
but he did not feel at home there and sold that 
property and returned to Howell Township, where 
he bought sixtj'-three acres, and somewhat later 
added to his estate by purchasing seventeen acres 
just across the road from his other property and 
upon this new purchase he now lives. In addition 
to this he has bought forty acres one-half mile 
south of his home. He carries a fine grade of 
stock, paj'ing especial attention to fine horses and 
good sheep. 

The first marriage of this gentleman united him 
with Miss Hannah Ackley, a daughter of Edwin 
^Vcklcy of this county, and by this marriage there 
were two children, Bertin .1., who has now married 
Miss Augusta Tobin,and lives upon a farm in this 
township, and Claude B., who is still with his 
father. Tlie mother of these sons departed life in 
1886. By his present marriage he took to wife 
Mrs. Maggie Hodges of Clinton County, Mich., 
who had by iier first marri.age two children, Bertie 
and Eda. This lad}' is a daughter of Francis and 
Margaret (Bristol) Cardinal, natives of Montreal, 
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There Mr. Cnnliiial (iit-il mid tlu> widow cniiu' witli 
lii'i- family to Cliiitoii Coiinly. Mich., wliciu slio 
lived until death called her hciicc. Of her ten 
children four are now liviny. namely: ( arolinc. 
who i.-* Mrs. Isaac P.rown; Maiiyie. Mrs. De.'in; 
Sarah. :Mrs. I'.radley. and Olive, Mrs. Hradiey. 

He of whom we write is a pulilie-.spirited man. 
who has ever taken an intellii>ent interest in the 
l)olitical movements of his adopted land, and has 
attached himself tu the Hepulilican part\'. lie has 
iu\ er sout^ht ottieial jjosition, Vmt wields a strong 
influence among the men of his party and is 
looked upon as a leader of thought. The early 
ex])eriences of his father's family in their first 
years in tliis State are full of ineideatsof interest, 
an<l he might recount many tales of hardship and 
deprivation. l'])on their first coming here they 
were at one time destitute of everything in the 
eatable line except potatoes and they lived for an 
entire week upon baked potatoes without salt. 



\f OIIX H. C1IA8E, A. B.. A. JL, LL. B. Among 
the citizens of Lansing who are influential, 
in [lublic offlce.s and in business circles, we 
are pleased to present the portrait and bio- 
graphy of Mr. Chase, who is engaged in the real- 
estate and insurance business. For the past four 
years he has been Justice of the Peace and his 
term of office expired jMay 4, 1891. 

Mr. Chase was born August o. 1846, in the 
township of Bedford. Calhoun County, this State, 
two miles from Battle Creek. His honored father. 
Daniel S. Chase, was born in Charleston, N. Y., 
and his grandfather, Benjamin Chase, was from 
Khode Island an<l at an early time removed to 
Chase Hill on Holland Patent, forty miles from 
Buffalo, where he made his home for many yeais. 
They belonged to the old Rhode Island Chase 
family and our subject is in the eighth generation 
from Aquilla Chase of Colonial fame. 

Daniel .S. Chase was a natural mechanic and 
early took up the trades of carpenter and niill- 



wiiyhl. lie was a man of [irogressive ideas and 
easily developed his carpenlei- work.so as to under- 
take the business of contractor and builder, and at 
the time of his deatli was the owner of both a .saw- 
mill and a gristmill. Numerous mills have l>een 
favored by his w()rk. .as he ]jut in .Stanton wheels, 
both horizontal and upright, in many places. He 
moved to Baltimore. Bairv Co\intv. tliis State, in 
1854 and l)0ught a tract of land in the township 
of Baltimore, wdiere he put up a sawmill on Cedar 
Creek. In 18r)9 he erected a gristmill, which he 
had in operation at the time of his deatli, October 
20, 1859. 

The lady who became the wife of Daniel S. 
Chase bore the maiden name of Lucy Y. Hicks, 
and was the daughter of William Hicks, of Battle 
Creek who came to that place in 18:55. Her three 
children are, our subject, Franklin M., now in 
Boyne City, and Mrs. Francelia M., wife of Alex- 
ander Edmunds of Baltimore Township, Barry 
County. Our subject left home soon after his 
father's death and lived with Mr. Hicks of Cal- 
houn County, but the mother remained at the old 
home until 1863 when she went to Johnstown, 
Barry County and in the year of 1866 she re- 
moved to Olivet. Her son John resided with her 
in that village until 1874, receiving his education 
and being graduated at the college there during 
that year, receiving the degree of A. B. Later he 
took a post-graduate cour.se and afterward entered 
the law department of the I'niversity of Michigan 
at Ann Arbor, and earned the additional degrees 
of A. M. and L. 1.. 15. After this he was for a 
time in Detroit .and in Battle Creek. 

While in Battle Creek, Mr. Chase met with an 
accident from an unruly horse and had his knee 
badly injured, which caused him to be laid up for 
two years. When he was able to be about again 
he took up his trade of carpenter and came to 
Lansing in 1882. Here he followed his trade until 
1887, when he was elected to the office of .lustice 
of the I'eace. He was a candidate (ni the Hepuli- 
lican ticket, and although the wards were Demo- 
cratic he had a large majority of vote's against 
two titlier candidates and could have had the re- 
election, but refused to consider it. .Since the ex- 
piration of his office, he has been engaged in the 



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Imu prui-licf. .Mr. CliMSc «;i> iii:irii(Ml in 1H7!) 1<> 
.\li>s Al)liic .M. Dunsiiiorf, diiuglitei- of I'liilo l)uii>- 
iiioii', wIhi \vm- ;iii old settler of V|)sil;iuti. Waslile- 
lUMV Cduiity. 'riiis lady \v:i,- lidin Oiloliev "id. 
I?^r>7 and now lias tlii-ec children — 'I'heron 1'.. 
Lois and Walter R. 

.Mr. C'liUfe has lieen a inemhei- of the Masonie 
Older since 1871, having joined it ill Olivet, and 
serving as Senior Deacon in 1H72. The foUowinii 
yeai- he was elected Worshipful Master Ity a special 
dispensation from tlie floor and from a change in 
the Grand Lodge liy-laws in regard to elections in 
snliordinate lodges. lie held the olHce a year and 
a half, attending the (irand Lodge twice, lie 
joined Lansing Lodge. No. .'i;!. in IWJSf) liy 
dcniit. and lie has here lieeii for two years Senior 
Deacon, .Secretary for one year and last year 
served as Worshipful M.aster. lie was re-elected 
to that odici' liul declined, accepting instead the 
Secretaryship. During Ihe year when he was 
Master the lodge conferred se\i'nly-six degrees 
and had fouiieen degrees left o\er for Ihe follow- 
ing' year, thus liringing it in range wilh the most 
important ones in the State and it now stands liftii 
in rank for active work. 



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LONZO (. Fl'l-LKR. The name at the 

,^^ head of this sketch which is honored and 

ijj ■'■ dignihed by having lieen that of one of 
(ffif/ the most lii'illiant men in recent history in 

America, is al.so that of the proprietor and owner 
of the farm on section 2;{, ^\■illiamstown Township. 
Ingham CVtunty. lie was here horn .January "2."), 
1H4K, and has since been a resident of this jilacc 
with the exception of about six years spent in 
Shiawassee County, lie remained at home until 
about thirty years of age, renting the farm of liis 
father for a pait of the time. 

Our subject is a son of George K. Kullei-. a native 
of Dutchess County. \. Y.. who, when a \ounii 
men, learned the carj)enter's trade and when twen- 
t v-one years of age he came to Michigan, stopping 
first neai- Ann .Vrlior. While there he lost his 



heart to a maiden of the disliict whose name was 
.Miss Deborah Riuikcr. d.-iughlcr of William P>iiiikei-. 
a nati\c of New "lOrk and an early- settler near 
.Viin .Vibor. Soon after their marriage the\ came 
to .lack.Min and settled on a farm where they resided 
for some time. The following children came to 
them diM'ing that period of their history: Orlando. 
Dorman. .lochroc, Rebecca andCJeorge. The eldest 
son is now deceased. Dorman is a resident of 
Lau.sing and a builder and contractor. The other 
chililren are all decea.seil. 

In 1M42 (;eorge K. Fuller came to Inghani ( oiinty 
.and .settled on three hundred and twenty acres of 
land, a jiart of which our subject, his son. now re- 
sides on. He broke and cleared tliistr.-ict anil there 
realized the hardshi|) of |)ioneer life, .\fler coiii- 
inu' to Ingham County the following children were 
born: (ieoi-gc V.. .VIon/.o ('.. W:irren ;iiid- .Mary, 
lie w:is:i meinlier of the State Militia and took a 
\-cr\ prominent st:iiid in the early affairs of the 
coinil\. .Mrs. l)cbor:ili (Hunker) Lnllei- died in 
\H'i:\. ;it the age of sixty-three yc;ii-s. her ilc- 
cc:isi' occurring in Willi:imston \ill:ige where tlic\ 
IkuI rcside<l ;ibont one ye;ir. ()ur subject's f:itlicr 
later married Catherine Gratton. who now resides 
«t Williamston. .Mr. Fuller returned to the farm 
and resided about two years, liut his last days were 
si)ent in the \ilhige. His death was accidental and 
occiured while unloading wheat in Willi;nnsl(in. 
He pa.s.sed away Deeembei' 24. IHH;?. His n:it;il day 
was .Vugust 11. IS 11. 

On the death of our subject's father he of whom 
we write, left a farm which lie h;id purcli:ised in 
Shiawassee County, and which comprised one 
hundred twenty -.seven :icres. which he owns at 
the present time, and came to his father's farm. 
liV purchase he came into po.s.session of one-third 
of one liundred twent\' acres ui)on which lu' now 
resides. Having a home and all the conditions of 
domestic happiness exceptini; a wife, our subject 
eiitereil into the m;irif;d relation .March 1.'), lJS7t;. 
His ni:irriage took place in the city of Lansingjiiid 
he was united to Miss Lucy C. L:irral)ee, a daughter 
of \\'illi:ini L. Larrabt'c. ;i iKit i\'c of New York, who 
mo\ ed to l'ennsylvani:i wIk'u a boy ;ind w:is 
about eighteen years of age when became to \\ ;isli- 
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Mr. I.Miralici' wms iiiariit'd to l'',liz;i .MuHidImikI. Ilic 
fullowiiiii' ciiildrcii weic tlie ri'siilt of tliis uiiidii: 
The three yoniiiivsl died in infancy, those suiviv- 
iiiU are ^\'illiMln C, Jenny I., Luey ('., Ksther 1'. 
and Silas M. In IHGo Mr. Larrahee eanie to Inif- 
harn County and settled 071 a farm in Willianiston 
'rownsliip where he reside<l until hi> death, which 
look |ilace in 1HM(). 

The domestic relations of our suliject have been 
\ cry happy, his devotion to the f;irm work out of 
(hiors has been seconded by his wife's perfect house- 
keeping within. Tlicy are the ])arcnts of four 
children — .lenny IM., Lucy M.. Nelson A., and 
Edwin K. Socially ;\Ir. Fuller belonirs to the l{oyal 
Arcanum. He is a Mason, being a member of a 
lodge at Willianiston. He is also a member of the 
Fanners' Alliance. Politically he is a Democrat and 
was ap|)ointed to till the term of Charles K. Paddock 
as Supervisor in 1HH8 and has since been elected to 
the same ofHce three years in sueces.sion. Oursub- 
ject had only the advantages to be gained at a 
common school and in the academy at Lansing. 



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l^ANIEL HEKRICK. The owner of the farm 
on .section 21, J>eroy Township, Ingham 
County, is one of the prominent and intlu- 
"^ ential citizens of this district. His career 

has been identified for many years with tiie growth 
of the agricultural district wherein lie lives. He 
was born in Steuben County, N. V., November 3(t, 
1830, and isason of Riifns and Lucinda(Sherwo()d) 
Herrick. His father was a native of New York 
State and his mother of Mas.sachusetts. He was 
the second son of the family in order of birth and 
when al)oiit seven years of age his parents lirought 
him with them on emigrating to Michigan. 

The mode of traveling was at the time of our 
subject's advent into the State very different from 
now. The\ traveled to Huffalo. N. Y.. with an ox- 
teani. They then loaded their household goods 
upon a vessel and came to Detroit by way of the 
lakes. Thence they resumed their ox-teams ;niil 
proceeded to Washtenaw County, this State, the 



fa iiily locating ii] Salem Townsliip. that county. 
Shortly after their settlement here they sustained, 
ail irre])aiable loss in the death of the father. Thus 
tile widow was left with six little children in a 
new^ country where life was by no means eas}'. As 
can be imagined the young peo|)le had to shift for 
themselves as best they could and wlieii a mere lad 
our subject began working out for two shillings a 
day. As he grew older his services grew mcjre val- 
uable and he was able to assist his mother in sup- 
l)orting the family. His school advantages were 
very limited, but he has so keenly aiipreciatec] edu- 
cational advantages that he has been one of the 
most ardent promoters of the upbuilding of educi- 
tional institutions in this district. 

.Mr. Ih'rrick's marriage was solemnized October 6, 
IH,").'!, the bride being ^Slarv ■!. Hoberts, daugliter of 
E. C. Roberts, of Washtenaw County, a pioneer 
of the aforesaid county. The young wife encour- 
aged her husband so that it was not long until they 
had acquired a home of their own that was com- 
fortable and cozy, if it could not boast the elegan- 
cies of fashionable life. Eight children were born 
to our subject and his wife, and of these four arc 
still living. They are Dwelly, Fred E., Edna H. 
and Adda. The eldest son is now a professor of 
"music in the new State of Washington, as is also 
the youngest daughter. They are all accomplished 
young people and are greatly respected wherever 
they are found. 

In 18;');$ Mr. Herrick came to Ingham County 
from Washtenaw County, settling first in a log house 
on his present farm of one hundred and eighty- 
one acres. It w.as at the time very wild and the 
work of reducing it to its present finely ])roductive 
state has not been small. The exiienence of our 
subject does not differ greatly from that of other 
|)ioneers in the State, in that he can recall many 
an instance of adventure, and even of tragedy, 
that would make the eyes of the present genera- 
lion lirow round with astonishment or fear. In 
the early days his home was a frequent stopping 
place for the Indians who were consUmt in beg- 
. ging a night's lodging or a meal. Mr. Herrick has 
served as School Director of his district for a num- 
ber of years and has always taken an active inter- 
est ill both church and school matters. His life 



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lias lit'cii chanifloi'iy.oil liy strict adherence to Cliris- 
tinii |)i'iiici|)les. lioth lie aiul liis wife are members 
of the Methodist Kpiscopnl Cliiirch and have lieeii 
so connected foi- years. Our suliject is .Steward of 
tliat body and has tilled other ottices. Alt]iout>li 
one of tlie older men who still enoaue in active 
fanninu-. 'Siv. Ilerrick does not allow himself to be 
left in the rear in the proo'iess of his callino;. His 
fai'm is not only well kept up but he owns some of 
the finest aoricultnral implements that are the latest 
pattern in desion. He and his wife in the meridian 
of theii' career enjoy to the full the blessings and 
advantages that are granted them in return for 
tlieir enrh' vears of lalioi-. 



A^i RS. .SAI>LV ANN OAKLKV. Ainoiio the 
/// I prominent women of White (),-ik Townshii) 
/// '» we are ])leased to present the name of the 
' lady of ijroperty who resides on .section 

."58. a laily who is notalile alike in her home and in 
.social and chnrcli circles, and to whom is univer- 
.sally "ranted the esteem and respect of tlio.se who 
know her. Mrs. Oakley is a native of New Vork 
where she was liorn in Ibd 1. anil she has therefore 
rounded out four.score years of a hapjn' life. 

I!irli;ir(l ()akley. the Inisband of oui' subject, was 
born in IKOl. in the Kmi)ire .Slate, their weddin"' 
dav lieing October. 2."). IJ^.'i;"). The maiden name 
of Mrs. Oakley was Sally .\nn (iarrett. Two years 
after marriage this excellent couple started for 
Michigan to take possession of the farm which Mr. 
Oakley had |iiirchased the previous year. Here 
uiion the same section where the widow now makes 
her home they began life in the new West ;ind 
reared their family. 

The children of Mrs. Oakley are as follows: 
Minerva, born August 13. 18.S7, now ^Irs. Thoma.s 
Turner, and the mother of two ehildren; William. 
W.. born .Inly 19. 183!). who married .lane ^'all 
Bnren and has four children; Kieliard .S.. whose 
birth took place September 2;'), 1841, and who mar- 
ried, first. Cornelia Osman. who died without leav- 



ing children, and the se<-oii<l. Sarah Kiggs, who 
has one child, and .lames (;.. whose birth took 
place .luiic 1. 1843. and win) married Addie Hedge- 
land. To .lames and Addie Oakley was one child 
born. Mary Hedgcland. and who is now married to 
Mr. .John Clemmcns. The next son. .Vndiew .lack- 
son by name, was born .September •'). 1845. and has 
now passed from earth. ( !eorge AVa.shington born 
November 27. 1817. iiianied ^raria Ihdl and has 
two children, Eddie and I'.lla .May. Mary .lane. 
Iiorn February 17. 18i)(l. is married to Wesley Hay- 
ner; Daniel Potter, born A|)ril .'>. 1852, is united 
with .M;iry Waffel, liy whom he has had three chil- 
dren, two sons and a daughter. The youngest son. 
.lonathan Oakley, born ^Marcli 25. 1855, is now de- 
ceased. 

Mrs. Oakley is having a tine business and general 
farming carried on on liei- estate which is her jirop- 
eily during life, and she jiiits tlie work iii the 
liaiuls of her sons. 'I'lie farm is well stcicked and 
they arc c-irryiiig it on with etliciencv and success. 
The lather was a radical I )emocrat and the sons 
adhere to the .same political doctrine. The ^letli- 
odist Church is the religions body with which they 
arc in .sympathy, and they are earnestly interested 
in Sunday-school work. Mr. Oakley departed this 
life at his home in this township .Inly 111. 1877. 




,jr^ ETH P. IIAHRIS. a repre.seiitalive citizen 
of section 18. Locke Township. Ingham 
Count\-. is a native of (ienesee County. N. 
v., and was born ;May 1(1, 1842. His jiar- 
ents were Daniel and l^Iiza (Sage) Harris, natives 
of Connecticut and .Massachusetts respectively. 
The boy was broiighl ii]i on the farm and became 
a farmer, wliicli c:illiiig he has pursued through 
life. He received a fail' education in his youth 
and has been an extensive reader, in which way 
111' has enlarged ;ind enlivened his iiiidei'standing of 
men and books. 

Our subject was married Febniary 2',i. 1871. to 
Mary .1. Wilson, whose mother, .Sarah Wilson, was 
a native of New York, and her father. Robert, was 



PORTRAIT AM) BIOGRAPHICAL ALHIM. 



621 



Mil l-;iiu-li>liiMMii. I'.y l\\]> iM;ini:iL;c two cliililirn :i ti:iil IcMiliiiii to tlic pljicc mikI tlic\ had t<i liiid 

wcif Imhu. S;u;iIi 1'. .iiid .Iiilni. Ml'. II;uii> liist llu'lr w.iy tlicif li\ iiieniis of a |>()(kcl (•i>iii|):is>. 
cainc Id .Mifluuaii in Iwd'J and ivtiniud to New Tin- land which the I'Idcr Ml'. Van Atta ha'l lo- 

Yiirk til sctMii-i' hi.-^ liiiiU-, whom iic> liroiiulit to his cated was situated nine iiiilos northeast of Ann 

luw iioiiu' in 1.S71. lliii' tlii'V settled in the wihl Ailior. wliii-h was at that tiiiu' onlv a small villasre. 

woods of Locke Townslii]) and for einht \ ears did tlie louritiy aiovind lieintj a dense wildeinesss. 

ireiiuine pioneei- work, and sutt'eied from tliat ( )nly a \-eiv few settiei's had arrived in the coiintv 

|iiai;ue of |iioiieei- life, tlie atriie. Tliev own some |irevious to that time. Ills nearest neiijlilior on 
ei<rlity acies of land :ind he is now considered one , the south was six miles distant. .K.aroii \'an .Vtta 

of the leadinu' farmers of the county. was a pulilic-spirited man and interested in the 

The Deiiiocralic jLaity emhodies the |iolitic:il pidifress of the count\. In |iolitic.- he wa.^ an 

|iriiici|iles which .Mr. Harris eiidoi>es and his help- earnest Democrat and wa.- one of the first Sherilfs 
iiiii hand is always ready 1o forward any enterprise ! of Washtenaw County. He was a successful 

which sli;ill liiiild up the social, industrial and f;irmer. commeiicinu with a (|Uarter section of 

tinancial iulerests of the county. It is now his land, he improved it and added to it from time to 

third year as a school olticei' and several years ii»<i time until his death which occurred in IH77.and 

he was elected .liistice of the l'e;ice liul decline(| to at which time he owned a \-aliialile farm of three 



i|iialify. 



hundred and tweiit\' acres. .Varoii I!. \'an .Vtta' 



.Mrs. Harris w. -IS I Mini Noveiiilier 1 7. I S 1;!, in lOssex lirst wife died in IH:^7. leaviiiir three children — 
County. N. ^. When her f;itlier (ii st emigrated to William, who dieil in his ninth \c;ir: M.aruaretta. 
.Vmerica he located in Canada for a short time and who was lioiii in lM.'i;5 and married to Hiram Smith 
then removed to New York, where he died. She of Pine Lake; and (ieori>e I!., the suliject of this 
lias one hrotlier. (harli's I). Wilson, who resides in sketch. .Vhout four vears afti'r the death of his 
New York. Her father was a (Quaker in his leli- lirst wife. .Mr. \'an .Vtta was ajfain married, his 
iiious life and her mother :i niemlier of the .Melh- liride lieiiiii' ICIinor Dowers, a n.ative of New York, 
odisi l^piscop.al Church. In the social circles of Seven children were liorii to this ii!arri:iL;c. four of 
Locke Township .Mr. and .Mis. Harris lill a lariic whom still survixe. 

and important plai-e and are depended upon to lead (Jeoriic 1>. Van .Vtta reinained at home atteiid- 

tlieir uciyhliors in nialler- of iiiutu.al importani-e iiii;' the piihlic school and helpiiiL; with the farm 

until he was alioiil twenty \ears old: he al.so spent 
one term in the ^iisilanti State Normal School. 
M'lieii alioiit tweiit\' years of aue he removed to 
the township of Locke and hoinjht one hundred 
and lifty acres of land. lieeoiiiini>- indelited for it to 
the extent of ¥111111. April I.!. I M.JC. our suliject 
wus niarrieil t<i I'Llizalieth Smith, .a daughter of 
.l:imes .-ind Klizahetli Smith of Hath Towiiship. 
( liiiton ( ouiily. this Slate. They were iiiitive.s of 
New York and came to .Michiaan in an earlv daw 



and interest. 



J^<J, 



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^rr^l-'AnH.K W. Y.VN.VTT.V. lives on .a line 

f.arni of li\e hundred .-iiid thirteen acres in 

.Meridian Township. In;iliaiii ( oiiuty. this 
State. He was hoin in Northtield 'Township. 
Washtenaw Count\. -Inly ;>, 1H3."). His parents si'ttlini;- in Washtenaw County, 'llwy soon r» 



were .\aron I>. and ( ynlliia ( Haiiirliart ) Van .Vtta. 
who were li;iti\es of .New .lersey. 'They were m;ii- 
ricd aliout \X'2'J and in \H:',-> thc\ nioxfd to .Micli- 
iiian. .VrriviiiL; in Detroit in due cour.M- of time 
tlu'\ st.-irted for their new home in W asliteiiaw 



moved to Clinton ( dunty. howevei-. and were 
.imoiii; the earliest settlers there. Mr. .Smith died 
I'eliruaiy ti. IX.Tti, his wife siirvivinir him until the 
followini; autuinn. 

Mrs. ^ an .Vtta w;is one of fourteen children 



touiitv. It is pidli.-ilile that Mr. \ all .Vtta located burn to these old pioneers and at the present dat*- 
this land in lf<27. .Vt any late there wa- not even | ( I Hid ) there are eifiht representatives of the fain- 



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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 



ily living. She was born in Washtenaw County, 
November 12, 1836. The original of this sketch 
remained on his farm in Locke Township until the 
fall of 1858. when lie exelianged eighty acres of it 
for eighty acres of the land now occupied by him. 
There was at that time only thirty acres partially 
cleared when he bought it. He added, however, 
to this from time to time until he owned at one 
time eight hundred and forty acres lying in one 
tract. 

Eight children have blest tlie union of our sub- 
ject and his wife. They are Cynthia A., Carrie .1., 
Hose E., George JI., Theoren A.. ( )etavia P>., Bertha 
C. and Fernando K. Tlie eldest daughter was born 
Ai)ril 18. 1857. She was mariied to Edward Elliot 
of \\illiamst()n Township. They have five children 
whose names are. Bertha, Maude. Orlo, Kay and 
Mnr\'. Mrs. Elliott wax educated in the High Schools 
of Ingham Ct)unty. Carrie, who was born Septem- 
ber 30, 1859, married Ernest Banghart of Lansing; 
she is the mother of three children — Arthur, 
George and Fred. Mrs. Banghart was also edu- 
cated in the High Schools of the county. Hose E., 
born IJecember 18, 1861, took a three years' col- 
legiate course in Hillsdale College, during which 
she made a specialty of music; ( ieorge M., born 
September 21. 1863, took a course in both Hills- 
dale College and tlie Micliigan State Agricultural 
College; he is now in a wholesale and retail hard- 
ware establishment in Bucoda. Wash.; Theoren A., 
born .January 23, 1866. took a course in Poucher's 
Business College in Ionia; he is now a farmer in 
Newton County. Mo.; Octavia B. was born April 
20, 1870, and is at licmie; Bertha C. was born 
March 3, 1K72. and is now a student at Hillsdale 
College; Fernando E. w.as born October 11), 1878. 
and is still at home. 'Mr. Van Atta luas always 
kept a good grade of stock, a portion of his farm 
being especially adajited to this line of agricultural 
business. 

Both our subject and his wife are members of 
the Free-AVill Baptist Church of Bath, with which 
they have been connected for thirty five years. 
Their commodious brick house was liuilt in 1879 
and is convenient and attractive. The attendant 
farm buildings are also substantial and capacious. 
In polities our subject lias always been a Demo- 



crat but never an aspirant for political honors. 
The family have a host of warm friends in Ing- 
ham County and are universally esteemed liy all 
who enjoy the pleasure of their acquaintance. The 
gr.andmother of our subject on his father's side 
was a native of Holland. 



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AHRISOX ( ). CALL. The gentleman whom 
Jl Uncle Sam has seen fit and proper to place 
at the head of postal affairs in the city of 
Mason, Ingham County, Mich., is he whose 
name is at the head of this sketch. Besides being 
personally a man whose integrity, intelligence and 
fitness for the olfice render him eligible to such a 
position, he has the addition.al advantage of hav- 
ing .served the country in its hour of need, and 
during the late Rebellion hazarded his life in the 
chances of war. This, in a wise, is a sort of obli- 
gation that is recognized, even before any other, 
when it is in union with fitness and capability. 

Postmaster Call was born in Springiiort, Cayuga 
County, X. Y.. April 17. 1842. He is a son of 
Orlando B. and Caroline C. (Crandall) Call, the 
father being a native of Colerain, Mass., and the 
mother, of Providence, R. I. On the paternal side 
our subject is of Scotch descent and on the mater- 
nal, of English, thus uniting two stanch and sturdy 
temperaments, that are blended, modified and beau- 
tified by their residence and adoption into America. 
Our subject's parents came to this State in I85H. 
the father being a Baptist minister who had early 
acquired land here, so that our subject was reared 
on a farm. 

.\s a bf)y the gentleman of whom we are writing 
received all the advantages that were to be obtained 
in a country school and the additional one of being 
a member of a family whose head was a gentleman 
and a scholar. At the breaking out of the War of 
the Hebellion young Call w.as in the Union School 
at Corunna. He enlisted in Company A. of the 
Twentietli :Michigan Infantry, August 9, 1862, and 
was the greater ]iart of his service in the Army of 
the Potomac, For six months he was detailed tQ 



PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. (j2;! 

fluty as a wout ill Ki'iitucky ami Ttnm'»c«-. (luiiiii; tur >f\ cral \cai>. In l«7.'! lie ifiiiovi'd to Mason 

wiiifli IhiR- lie had iiiaiiy inti-rt'stint"' and cxcitiii"; and was >ooii al'U'i- I'lccted Justiei' of the Peaee, in 

adventures, lie took part in the liattle of Kreder-* which oOiee he served for twf) years. He then 

icksliurs. was also at Horseshoe IJend and at Green I'esiifned .-111(1 was appointed I'nder .SJierilT. in 

River Ford. He also ex|)erieneed tlic horrors of wliicli ia|i;i(ily lie otiieiated for four vears. durinit 

war ill the liattles of tiie \Viideriie>s Mini at .Spotl- wliich time he ilid the principal work of the 

svhani.'i. wliere lie witli liis reiiiiiient was eiiiiajjed Shciitl. lli> aliilit\ lieiii^ reeoonized. he was 

ill a hand to liaml eiiconnli r with a lehel brigade, i elected SheritT. served two vears and then retired 

.\t the latter place lie was captured, escajied .'ind ' to his ftirni in .Maiedon Tow'nshi|). Inirhani ( 'oiint\ . 

was retaken three siicie.'<si\c tiiiKs in one day. At Midi. During' this time many demands were made 

North Aiiii.-i i;i\ci- he ri'ceixed :i slight womid in npon his strensrth. and his health sntTered in conse- 

tlic knee from a miiiie hall. Init was not enough ipiencc. :ind for :\ year after the expiration i>t his 

wounded to inca|)acitale him for service. While , term as .Sherilf he traveled in iioithern .Miehiifan 

scouting he w.as with Lieut^s. M. .\. llogan. Thomas foi re>t and recreation. He was also interested in 

C'amiihell. of the lOighth ^lichigan Infantry, ('apt. >oine l:iiid in which he had invested in Charlevoix 

Thomas Iveaton. Maj. .MeHetli. of Kentucky, .'ind (oiiiity. 

William Uramlctte.a son of ( ;o\-. I'.ramlette. of Ken- The tii>t lir<'ak in the <loinc>tic life occurred 

lucky. 'I'hcsc partie- were alxi >cnuts aiul with ( )ctolicr 2 I. I H7(;. ;it which time his wife died, leav- 

lliciii lie <lid li'ood ~cr\icc. At one time, with | ing liiiii lliice children: Carrie P..lioin .Vutrust "i.'i. 

Ca]>t. Ilogan. lie pciictivitcd the enemy's lino a IHCM; jvliih i-;.. Scptcmlicr ;!(!. IMTli; miiiI llarix 

distance of ten inilo and c:ipturcd live rclicl >ol- W'.. .Iiil\ 2;t. Is7fi. ( )iir Miliject was airain married 

dieis. .-iiid liidULilit tliciii to (■.•imp as trophio of l-'eliruar\ I."). \HH{. to .Mi>s Isaliel Lindsiu'. :i 

their valor. I Ic was hoiiorahlv discharged .\l;iy .'!(i. d:iiiL;litci' of .loliii .-iiid Mlizalicth ( Doiinon ) l.iiid- 

IS(1,"). Mr. (all i> pidiid of the distinction tli:it he >:iy. Mr>. Call i« a iiatixc of I.enawee ((luntw 

was one with thirty otliei^ who opciicij Ihc w.-iy in Mich.. Iieiiig tlieie hoiii .liiiic 17. I.S.'i.'i. H\- thi^ 

the ( oiifedcr.'itc line- and took the lirst ailillciy ni.Miriauc (here i> one child, wliox- .-Kh cut into the 

into Peteishurg. his regimenl. with the I'irst world was made' .Ian iiar\' (i. IMMl. 

Miehig:iii Sharpshooters and the .Second Michigan The original of our sketch istme of a larye faiii- 

Inftiiitiy. Iiciiig the first to i;ii.-c their colors in that ily. in which were clc\-cii children. lie i> the 

city. sixth in order of liirtli. and besides himself three 

.Vs may lie inferred from the f:ict that our .-uli- of his lirothers served duriiii; the w.ar. Tliev .are 

ject left school tocnli>t in the war. Iii> ediicat ion .loliii M.. who lost his life in the second battle of 

w:is not completed and he wa- more than ever dis- ■ Hull Kiin. His leg w.as shattered bv a shell, and 

satisfied with his attainnients after Inning asso- | two :iiiipntatious being necessarw he did not siir- 

ciateil with intelliuciil and liiaiiiy men diiriii;; \i\'e t he sutferingof ;i se(<>nd. He left two cliil- 

tlie war. and lc;iiii ing as miicli of the country .as ] dren. one of whom is still living and whose ii.-ime 

he did. so. .-iflei' icturning home he entered the is Kva M. She married Willi.-im .Minw of llornells- 

inihlic school at Lan.-ing. Ilii- State with the \illc. N. \. I Icnry. who served two terms dnriiiir 

deteriniiiation to ac(|uire a c()iii|)letc education. the war. was three times wounded ;iiid discharired 

Our subject was married October 2(1. IHIw. to .Miss on account of wounds, but afterward was accepted 

Kuiiic K. Lamb, of Howling (ireen. ()liio. where as .-i >harp.-hooter. ag.ain recci viuii' ;i wound, which 

she was boiu ( )clober 27. IM.'il.aiid wa> a daughter is .an honorable decoration. testament:ii-\ of lii> 

of Dr. William (;. and Painelia (Chapni:iu) l.ainb br:i\('iy and loyalty. He now lives in Loinlon* 

both natives of ( )luo. Tenn.. and i>tlie icci|iiciit of .a pension. .Uiiru.s- 

.\fter his marriage our .-ubject devoted hi.-attcn- lus T.. who serveil two \ears in the First MichijiaM 

lion during the -iiinmei> to farming;, and the win- Sharpshooters. w:i>>liol through the boih . his luni; 

ters were spent in teaching. lie wa> Ihii^ emploved being |>enet'-ate(l by the ball. He i> now Postnias- 



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ter at Lake View, Montcalm County, Mich., and in 
the receipt of a pension of $16 per month. The 
war record of Postmaster Call is distinguished for 
his readiness to undertake extra duty, as he never 
lost an opportunity to volunteer where there was 
a dangerous or arduous task to be undertaken. 
He was the first one of tiie three who volunteered to 
remove the abattis in front of tlie enen\v's works at 
Petersburg, and at that time he was put in com- 
mand of all who went out to do such duty. The 
place was one of such danger that it was considered 
sure deatli to those who undertook it. 

In his religious relation our subject is a member 
of the Baptist Church and has ever Ijeen ready to 
uphold and support (iosi)el work. He is a Trustee 
in the body of which he is a member. Socially 
there are many calls upon him, and he is in con- 
stant requisition when a speech is to be made be- 
fore a political or social assemblage. He is associ- 
ated with the Knights of Pythias and is a Master 
]\Lisnn. He is. of course a member of the (irand 
Army of the Reijublic, l)eing regarded with affec- 
tionate admiration by his comrades. In this body 
he is a Past Commander. 



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^jf^GBERT TOMS. We lierewith present the 
Ife] sketch of a prominent and wealthy farmer 
/*' — '-^ and stock-raiser, whose home is upon sec- 
tion 7, Locke Township. He is a native of Genesse 
County, y. Y., and was born on the 31st of 
ilarcli, 182.5. His parents, Samuel and Celesta 
(Eldridge) Toms, were natives respectively of Sara- 
toga and Washington Counties, N. Y. Scotch stock 
is said to have originated the family on the 
father's side and the mother's ancestors were Irish. 
Egbert Toms is the oldest son in a family of four 
and was reared to manhood in his native county, 
where from early boyhood he engaged in farming. 
But few educational advantages were offered him 
in his youth and he has found it necessary to sup- 
plement by a systematic course of reading the 
schooling which lie then received. 

Egbert Toms and Sophronia Kennedy were mar- 
ried Eebruary 7, 1855. This lady is a native of 



Wyoming County, N. Y., and is now the mother 
of six cliildren: Samuel, Clara. Zida, Germain, 
riysses G. and Charles 31. In the spring of 1X65 
Mr. Toms with his familj', emigrated to Ingham 
County, Mich., and settled upon the farm in Locke 
Township which i.-. now liis. He has taken an in- 
terest in forwarding tlie educational affairs of the 
citizens of the county. His excellent and amiable 
wife is an earnest member of the Baptist Clnirch 
and they are botli ever active in promoting move- 
ments whicli will elevate society. 

The interest which Mr. Toms nwintains in the 
agricultural community and liis devotion to the 
cause of the laboring man have brought him into 
connection with the Patrons of Industry. The 
beautiful farm of three hundred and twenty acres 
speaks forth tlie praises of the man whose system- 
atic liand and thorough industry have brought it 
to its present jirosperous and piolittc condition. 
This estate wliich is one of tlie finest in this sec- 
tion of country, is represented liy a view on an- 
other page of the Aluum. 



'II OHN W. 8TELZER. The prominent farmer 
wliom we now present to our readers was 
^^ born April 2, 1839, in Bavaria, (iermany, 
^^!fJ of which country his parents, Wolfgang 
and Margaret (Kreial) Stelzer were also natives. 
The grandfatlier who likewise bore the name of 
Wolfgang, was a farmer and the father of three 
sons and four daugliters. 

His son Wolfgang was the only one of the 
family that ever came to the United States and he 
migrated in 1854 with his family of seven chil- 
dren namely: Margaret, John W., Adam, John B., 
Elizabeth, .James and Henry. He settled on sec- 
tion 13, Cohoctah Township, where he cultivated 
one hundred and sixty acres of land, and this was 
his home until his death. December 7. 1876. He 
was sixty-seven years old at the time of his demise, 
and his good wife survived him for seven years 
dying April 14, 1883. They were both members 
of tlie Lutheran Cliurch,and possessed of unosten- 
tatious Cliristiau characters. 




RLSIDEIICE or J. W. STELZER,SEC.13.,C0H0CTAH TR, LIVI NGSTON CO.,Iv'iiCh. 




RESIDENCE Of EGBERT TO M5 , SEC. 7. , LOLKL iP, INoHAM CO.,MiCf-i. 



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Our suhjwt received his eflu<;i1iun in lintli liie 
(ioiiiwii niid tlie Knalisli laiiiiiiMsics ;iii(l tliii.- ;it- 
t.-iiiicil u tlioroiiyii yroimdiiiii in tiic eleinciils. 
When nineteen years old he heiran wink fur hini- 
M'lt' and lalxired \<y Ihc nmntli for three years. 
Dnrinii: llic last of lliis pericid he received the 
yearly wage.s of ^l(l(i from l)i\ Allen, and l>y care- 
ful economy was enabled to |)urchase ciiility acres 
of timber land, situated where he now resides on 
.section l.'i. This he at once began to clear and 
l)ut in condition for cultivation, lie now owns 
tive hundred and ninety aci'es and lias cleared in 
all about three hundred acres. I'pon this farm he 
has placed a iijood house and excellent Iiarns. lie 
h.as not only kept liini.self clear from debt but h;is 
accumulated means aside from his real estate, in 
which he has had some assistance from his fathei 's 
estate, from which he received -sl.HOO, so that lu- is 
now the heaviest tax payer in the township. 

it was in ^lay, IfSti.S that Mr. .Stelzer was united 
in marriage with Margaret Thumser. daughler of 
Nicholas and Margaret (Rank) Thumser. who came 
to the I'nited States in the fall of IH.'j.Sand settled 
on a farm in t'ohoctah Townshij). Thcii- dauiihtei- 
is a native of IJ.avari.a. as is her husliaiul. and in 
their union they have found harmony and j)ros- 
))erity. The four children who liave been granted 
to them are: Augusta. Matilda, [-"red .!.» anii 
-lohn 1>. Augusta is now the wife of John SIcider 
and has established a home of her own. The Lu- 
theran ;ind the Kvangelical Churches are the re- 
ligious bodies with which our stibject and his wife 
are respectively ctmnected. and in their eluiich 
work llie\- find a broad held of inlluencc. The at- 
tention of the reader is invited to a view of the 
plea.sant honiestea<l of .Mr. Stelzei-. found el.sewhere 
in this volume. 



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^p^RANT S. BURGESS. He of whom we shall 
.'11 J--, attempt to give a short biographical sketi-h 
^i^l in outline is the 1 ending merchant in the 
pretty town of Urightim. Livingston County, this 
Stftte. He is also a native of this State and county 



and conseqently his interests naturally center here 
more than they otherwise would. Pioneer life in 
Michigan isa familiar tale to him and its hardships 
.-IS well as its ad\entures ha\e made a lasting im- 
pression upon his mind. Mr. liurgess was Ijorn m 
riilnam Township, this county, December 2."), 18)1, 
and has liei<' made his home all his life, having 
started out in life for himself at an early age and 
attained his jiresent high standing by his own un- 
aldeil efforts. 

()ur snbjcct's father, .Samuel liurgess, who was a 
native of New York and born .sometime in the year 
1 .so'.t, canu' to Michig.an at the age of seventeen, in 
the year l><2(). with his mother and ste])fatlier. his 
own fatiier having died when he was (|uite young. 
The family settled near Ann Arbor at a day when 
.settlers were few and far between. .Michigan was 
then a Territory and continued so for several 
years after their settlement here. In 1«.'5.3 oiw sub- 
ject's father staitcd out in life for himself, locating 
in I'ntnam Township, Livingston County, and two 
yiai's later took up a piece of land from the (!ov- 
erninent, cleaving .-md improving eighty acres. 

To such good pnrpo.se did the elder Mr. IJnrgess 
pursue the work of clearing his tract, that when in 
18.")4. he sold it. there was not a tree standing on 
it. lie seemed to have an innate love for the for- 
esl. and th.at ye.ai'. after disposing of the farm that 
hi' had improved he went into another locality, 
that of Handy Township, and purchased one hun- 
dred and sixty acres of wild land on which not a 
stick had been cut prior to his coming, and inline- 
diatelv beaan the work of clearing and iin|>roving 
.■mother farm. His li.-ud work, however, did not 
avail him nuicli in the end for his health was broken 
down. and he saw scarcely. m well day after locating 
on hi> new farm .'ind linally died in l^^dl. Ilewasa 
typical i>ioneer and endureil many of the (irivatious 
and vicissitudes incident to the life which he had 
ado|)ted. Heal one time made the breaking of 
new land a business and at times owned three or 
four yoke of oxen which were in constant leijuisi 
tion by the early settlers. A liardcr-working man 
never lived. 

Our subject's mother was in lier maitU'ii da.\ s 
.Miss Lucy A. Perry, a native of Saral(,)ga County, 
N. Y. She survived her husband thirty yeare. finally 



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passing awav .Ttimiary J. 1S91, at the good old age 
of seventy-eight years. She was the mother of 
tive eliildren, tliree of wliom are still lixing. Our 
subject was reared on a farm, the rudiments of his 
education were received iu tlu' pioneer log school- 
house of his day. and those who know of the ad- 
vantages given in an educational way at that time 
can appreciate the fact that the three months of 
.schooling during each winter did not afford much 
of a chance for any great accumulation of liook 
lore. Tiie school that he attended was a'mi'.e dis- 
tant fr<un his home and in the winter he had tn 
wade through the snow to his hoot tops, and often 
-SO long would he he detained iu gettiug home after 
school tliat hi> mother feared hei' son was lost iu 
the suow. lie is familiar with s(.)me of the hai'cl- 
ships incident to pioneer life and knows the suffei- 
ing for want of sufficient clothing and food 

After the death of Mr. Burgess' fathci- the young 
man began working out by the month on neighbor- 
ing farms. He continued to so em|iloy liiuisi'lf for 
nearly tivi' yeais. In ISfKl he accepted a position 
as clerk for Willi.'iui Mid'herson iV Sou. of Howell, 
Livingston County, with whom he remained for 
six and f)ne-half years. As an employe he proved 
himself so tnistworthy and cai)able that in March. 
IST.'i. tli<'\' soul him .-in iiitei'est in a general store 
Avhich they li;ul established at Itriglitou. three yi'ars 
befoi'c. and there he went to manage the business. 
This he continued to manage successt'nlh until 
1888. when the firm name was changeil from Alc- 
Phersou iV Co.. to (i. S. Burgess A- Co. 

Uud<'r its ne\v |iioprictoi>hip. oi' rather the 
change of name, for the management continues as 
liefore. the business has grown and h;is ])roved to 
be very piotilalilc. It i> located in a iloulile-slore 
building that is liUed with goods comprisinga good 
stack of dry-goods, grocei'ies, boots and shoes, hats, 
caps and ready-made clothing. \u addition to 
the store was made in l.sisi;. Mr. iJiu'gess under- 
stands ))erfectly the requiremeuts and needs of his 
patrons and keeps constantly on hand so well- 
assorted n stock of goods that those who ]iatroui/.e 
him can find nothing to be betlcied iu his line. 

The oi'iginal of oui' sketch bec.-ime :i bencdic'l in 
1H71, at which time he was married to Miss Sarah 
E, Jeuks. a native of Ohio: she is an intelligent 



and amiable lady, drawing about her the best cl.ass 
of peoi)le in social intei-course. Their union has 
been bles.sed by the advenjt of live children — Lan- 
tie C; Amelia, who is deceased; (Jeorge S.. Charles 
G. and Bruce. As the little ones are growing up 
to manhood and womanhood they are realizing the 
fond hopes of tiieii- parents in becoming intelligent, 
refined and educated. Their home is everything 
that a home should be in its purest sense; not a 
palace, but a place where the best nature can de- 
veloj) under the most favorable circumstances. 
They are sni-rounded with all the comforts ;ind 
many of the luxtn-ies of life. Our subject is in his 
l>olitical liking a l\ei)ul>li<-aii. lie is liberal in his 
religious \-iew>, but his Mife i.- a mcmliei' of the 
rinptist ( hnrch. 



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ylLLIA.^1 T. COLISTKU. This repres- 
entative citizen, residing on section 28, 
, J Locke Townshij). Ingham County, was 
boiii. March 22. 1K20. in Ontario County. N. Y., 
and is a son of Roliert and Plnebe (Sharpsteen) 
Colistei'. The p;iternal ancestors were Scotch-Irish 
and he is from (ierman stock on the mother's side. 
Of a large family of children born to his parents, 
only two arc living: Emma C., the wife of .loseph 
lU'dges in Ingham Cminty being the only sister of 
our sulijeet. W lien about twelve years old this 
youth emigi'ated with his |iarents to Oakland 
County, this State, and there the mother ))assed to 
her reward, and the fatlier died after their iv- 
mo\.al lo (liulou Count\' a numlier of years later. 
In lioth these locidities they were considei'd as pio- 
neers, as they settled upon unliroken land in the 
forest and cleared it for cultivation. 

A ilistrict school education of the most priinitive 
kind was all that this young man had offered to 
him liul upon that scanty Init sure foundation he 
has liuilded a superstructure of intelligence and 
bro;id information, a-^ he has cultivated a taste 
tor reading and has fed ujiou substantial literature 
Celestine Freeman w.as the maiden name of the 
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DccciiilKT. \XV.K Slio was lioiii. Octolicr 2H. 1.S2'.I. 
in NiaiiMia (OuiiIn , N. \. Ht'i- fntlier. I):ivi(l Ficc- 
iiiaii was a native i>( New York aiui lici' niotlicr, 
I5etsev Thoinas, was liurii in (unnrcticut. Tin' 
Freemans are said to lie of (tornian (extraction. 
To her parentis were horn five cliiMrcn. tlircc only 
of whom are now living, namely: ()i|iha, Harriet, 
the wife of AVilliam Giinn and INIrs. Colister. 

This lady came to Michigan with her parents 
when she was tifteen year.s old and in Ihc woods 
of Meridian Township, Ingham County, the\ did 
pioneer work. She taught four terms i>f school 
after coming to this State and is ;i woman <if more 
than tirdiu.ary intelligence. Ilei- three li\ ing chil- 
dren are: Emma A., wife of F. A. I'eiler; .Mary, 
wife of W. M. .lolinsoii and Henry. Tiie Colisters 
came to their present farm in the fall of IH'jC). :iiii| 
under their hand it has greatly imjiroved so that 
it is now very productive and in a line condition. 

In political matters Jlr. Colister is decidedly 
independent as he casts his ballot foi- the ni;in and 
the measure and not for the part\. and is c\cr- re- 
garded as one of the inost pulilic spirited ami 
enteiprising men in the township. His excellent 
propei'ty has been gained through the industry 
;iud self-denial of himself and his good wife and 
thev have sjient then' li^•es in usefulness and 
friendly kindness to all who have come in their 
wav. Their farm comprises some eighty acres of 
land which liear the indis|)utable marks of the iiand 
of a thrifty farmer. Mr. Colistei- is identified 
with the Masonic order and is highly iespccte<l in 
th;it bodv. 



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iJAXK P. VAX BURKX. wholesale and rc- 
j) tail grocer and dealer in pro(luce at Will- 
Is ianiston, Ingham County, is a son (»f F. 
C. A'an lUuen and a grandson of .lames .M. \'an 
Huren, a native of Xew .Jersey, who at an early 
day became a pioneer in St. .Tosepli County, this 
State. His last years were spent in Mt'iidon. .St. 
■I(vse|)h County, Mich., where he carried on the 
business of a livery stable. He reared a lamily of 



llirce sons and four daughters, his son Oeorge 
being the buihU'r of the AVjikeman House at Men- 
don. 

1'. C. \au iSureii was of New .Jersey birth and 
WHS but a boy wlien he came to this .State. Upon 
reaching his m.-ijority he engaged in farming which 
he carried on until within the last twelve years 
when he li.as retired from business, and merely looks 
aftei- his own intere.stvS, being a landowner in St. 
.To.seph County. He was married in that county to 
Mary Doiu'. a daughter of Klisha Done, who died 
in California. Mr. Done was a farmer and miner 
and also a successf\il spei-ulator. The parents of 
our subjec-t had three children Frank I'.. Eva A. 
and Maude. 

He of whom we write lirst say the light in .Mcn- 
don Township. St. .IcKseph County, December 21, 
I.S21. .\t the age of seventeen he commenced 
clerking and for about four years was in the gen- 
ei:il store of .1. li. and II. .Vnderson. He tlun went 
to Coldwater and clerked for W. S. .VUen and was 
in his dry-goods store for two years, at the expira- 
tion of which time lie entered the wholesale and 
retail di\goods house of Donehoe ct Riardion at 
Muskegon. Later he sent two years at Stevens 
I'oiiit. \Vis.. :iii<l afterward traveled in the West 
for a wholesale tobacco tirm. thus acipiirinii- (piite 
an exi)erience. 

The next mo\e of this enterprising young man 
was to enter the wholesale dry-goods lK»use of A'oigt. 
Ilerpolshimer iV- Co., at (Jrand Rapids and in IHM2 
he c.Miiie to W'illi.Miiiston and engaged in the 
giocciy .and produce business, h.aviug sales during 
the first year to about •s-'Kl.HlKI and in IMilO liis 
sales amoiinteil to s!7.").ii(i(i. He carries the largest 
stock of groceries that is to be found along the 
line of the Detroit A' l-ansing U'.ailway. keeping in 
.stock full\ s^ll.dOd worth and is an extensive 
buyer of produce in (iiffereni parts of the .State. 

Mr. X'aii linrcn was married in l.'^Hlat Mendon. 
to .Mar\ ICIiiie whose father, a native of (u'lniany. 
lived and died in his native home. To our subject 
and his wife have l)eeii born three children, namely: 
Mabel who died at the age of one year: Martin 
Clyde and Eva I.eon.a. He carries over sJlil.lMlii 
life insurance in the New Voi-k Life Insurance 
Company and in the Modern Woodmen, He has 



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a fine business education and is counted as one of 
the leadinu; luisiness men in tlie county, lie is 
sti-ietl\' teniiierate in bis lialiits, as neither tobacco 
nor strong- drink ever passes his lips. His political 
views hrinu; him into attiiiation with the Demo- 
cratic party and lie is earnestly desirous of the suc- 
cess of that organization. 



,yr^^\ iiii,ni.rji\ iiv..\.\. ,v imveler jouriie\ ing 
along the highways of Conway Townshi)). 



HESTEIJ ])K.\S. A trav 
III _, along the hig 

^i^' Livingston Comity, must be well pleased 
with the appearance of the farms which greet his 
eye. They aie well fenced, neatly cultivated and 
richly productive, and with their handsome faini 
houses and substantial and attractive barn?- and out- 
l>uildings make ujja lieautiful ])icture of rural pros- 
perity. These farms are an indication of the wealth 
and progress of the count\-. and among them we 
are pleased to mention that of ^h: Dean. 

Our subject was born in IJS.JIi.in (ienesee County, 
Mich., not more than two miles from Flint, and re- 
mained there through his infancy rem<_)ving when 
two years old to Cohoctah Township, Livingston 
County. Thence tlie family returned tj Genesee 
County and afterward made theii- home successively 
in Brighton and in Conway, both of which latter 
places are in this count \-, and finally settled upon 
the farm where Mr. Dean iiuw resides. 

Daniel Dean, the father of our sulijcct, was born 
ill l!S24.in Xew York, and \\;i> twelve years old 
uiicii he came lo llii> State where he >till resi(le>. 
His wife, J^ydia Curtis, wa.- a native of the Empire 
.Slate, where she w.a.- Iiom in IS2(), .and to them 
were granted ten cliihlrcii. four daughters and six 
sons, namely: ^lary. deceased; .b)lin, Itorn in 1847, 
who is now married to Jlary Carpenter and is the 
father of two daughters; Lucy, who has married 
.\lhert Nichols and has two sons and one daugh- 
ter; Willter, boiii ill is.')!, dct-eased: Truman, mar- 
ried Nijrma McKcaii. whu li:i~ lirought him two 
cliildreii; ^lori'i>. who man ied Leviiia Carr. and 
lias one child; Chester; Willard, deceased, born in 



1858; Martha, born in 1860. and m.arried to Frank 
Randall, liy whom she had one child; and Agues, 
liorii ill ]si(i;!.wh() married E. (Ueason and has one 
child. 

Till' marriage of Chester Dean with Laura Katli- 
liiirii «liirli took place in If^.sT. rcsulti-d in the 
birth of one child, a daughter. Ada, who was born 
September 21. 189(1. Mrs. Dean is a native of 
Conway Tdwn.-hip. and was burn November 8, 
I86(). I'pon his farm 3Ir. Dean has one hundred 
and seventeen head of sheep and has an average 
sale of ■'s."il."i wortii nf wool and sheep each year, 
liesides this tlock he has sutlicient stock to enalile 
liiin to carry on general fanning in tiie best and 
most |)rogressive manner. His political views in- 
cline him to vote the IJepublicau ticket, but lie has 
leanings toward the cau.-ic of Prohiliitiun wliieli 
render him ipiite inde]ieiideiit in hi^ \iite. as he 
believes a man >!iuuld use lii> own eommon sense 
and iudgment rather than to lie blindly le<l by 
party leader,-. 






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'i [ OlIX H. BHI.STOL is perhaps as well kn.nvn 
as any man in the township of Tyrone. 
Livingston C<iunty. as he has made his 
home in the county for nearly fifty years, 
and has always been highly respected here as a 
thorough-going fanner and bu.siuess man. Hi> 
wife, too, shares in the esteem whieh is gi\en to 
him and she has a high standing in the most cul- 
tured circles of this ))art of the county. 

Mr. liri-lol uas born April 24. 1S.'12. in Kusli. 
Monroe County. N. Y.. where his parents, .lolin Y. 
and Sarah (Moon) Bristol, were then residing. The 
father was born in Rensselaer County and was a 
son of Bethel and Catherine (Fleampstead) Bristol, 
liethel was a shoemaker by trade and in later years 
removed to >Ionroe County where he engaged ill 
farming. He ami his good wife, who were both 
memlier> of the Methodist P>piscopal ( liurcli. 
Iiroughl up in llie f.-iitli and gracesof the Christian 
religion four ^on> and three daughter.--, a> folli)w>; 
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Hiid .M;uy K. In li^lii .lulm ^^ I5ri>t<il cninc to 
Mifliigaii :uiil seUlud in iX'urtield, Livingston 
County, on one hundred and twenty acres of land, 
which he ure.'itly improved and renderecl very 
productive, liesides carrying on farming lie was* 
a carjjenter liy trade and ;i tliorough workman. 
Ilis inotiier made lii'i' liome witli Alonzo in lier 
latiT years and died at Coldwaler, Midi. lie was 
twice married, iiis lirst wile having died in New 
Yorlv, and liis second wife, Olive Seal, liaving sur- 
vived him. She had six children — Thielie. I?ethel, 
Daniel. Fannie, .Tames and Cora, while thi' children 
of the liist m;irri;ige were Sarah ('. (deceased) and 
.lohn II. 

The subject of this liiographieal sketch s]ient 
his hoyliood upon the farm and took advantage of 
such upiiortuiiilie.-- as the district schools afforded. 
.Vt tlie age of twenty he liegjni fur hinix'lf in the 
coopering business, and in it cuiitinueil fui' about 
three years, after which he puich.'ised one hundred 
acres in Deerfield TowiishiiJ which he cleared and 
improved and upon which he lias an oi-chai-d of 
ten acres. The family wascstablislied in its present 
home. .Vinil HI. 1S7;?. on sections 2il and .'io. Tyrone 
Township, ■{"lie estate comprises some nne hun- 
dred .'ind twenty acres, which are well-improved 
both by cultivaticm and buildings, and Mr. Ilristol 
owns besides some forty .-icies in Tyrone Township. 
and one hundred .and twenty acres in .Midland 
County, this State, having in all over four hun- 
dred acres besides village propei-ty. 

Prior to locating where he now is, this eiiter- 
jirising man purchased a foundry, blacksmith and 
wagon shop at Parshallvillc which he operated for 
about live years. He is greatly interested in horses 
and raises many fine animals. He is an active man 
in the Democratic I'.'Uiks and lias sei\('(| as .lust ice 
of the IVace-and also as \otar,\' I'liblic. He has 
been niarricd three times, his first wife being I'olly 
Iv. daughter of Iia and Hannah (Parks) .Marble, 
who carry on a farm in Deerfield. .She was the 
ipother of si.\ children — Ira ().. Charles II.. Wells 
1).. Clarence .\.. .1. Ward and Sarah C. She met 
with her death by being overturned in a bugity 
and being thrown violently to the ground, her 
neck w.as broken. 

The second wife of our subject. Mary Chambor- 



lin. died childless, and the third wife, .\lice M. 
.Seaton, daughter of Richard and Kmily Seaton, 
now presides over his home and shares with him 
the respect and regard of his neighbors. 



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vp^ TEPIIKX P. LEKUrn )N. There is a finely 
^^^ operated farm on section 34, W'illiaraston 
'l/Jj) Township, Ingham County, that is owned 
by him whose name appears at the head of 
this sketch. He is a grandson of Henjamin Leigli- 
ton, a native of Maine, who in an early day went 
to New York, where he died, aiul a son of Natlian 
Leighton. who was liorn in Maine, went to New- 
York with his parents, and in 18.5;') came to Mich- 
igan and settled in Ingham County on the farm 
now owned b\ our subject. Here he lived witli 
his family until the death of his wife, when he re- 
moved to the villaiic of Williamston, -spending the 
remaiiiderof his life there. His marriage had been 
solemnized in New \dik. his liride being .\bigail 
('••nil. Prom this union there were eleven children, 
four suns and seven daughters. 

.Vftcr the death of .\bigail Leighton. our suti- 
ject's father ag.ain niaiiied. his wife being Mrs. 
M.anda .lulian. a widow. The iiusband died in 
.August, 1«h;5. and Manila Leighton died in 1H91. 
On coining to Michigan our subject's father had 
bought one hiinrli-cd and seventy-five acres of land. 
This he had for the most [lart cleared and improved 
and was one of the promoters of the he.st interests 
of Ingham County. .Stephen P. Leighton was 
born .lannary lit. 18.37, in Wayne County, N. Y., 
in Huron Townsliip. and was but a la<l of sixteen 
years of age when his parents came to ^lichigan. 
He lived at home, giving his father his time until 
twenty-one years of age, after which he continued 
workingat home until the breaking out of the w.-ir. 
and in 1H()2 our subject enlisted in Company II. 
Tweiity-.'^ixth .Michigan Infantry, ami during tlie 
desperate pei'iod of bloodslieil and varying for- 
tunes, was a hyal soldier to the cause of liberty 
and equality. He was honorably discharged in 
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battles — those of the VVihlerness and Spottsj'lvania, 
where he was wounded in the left foot and was 
taken to the hospital, remaining there for three 
months, after which he again joined his company 
and was promoted to the post of First Sergeant, 
aftervvaixl receiving a commission as Second Lien- 
tenant. His regiment was <ni jjicket duty wlien 
(ien. Lee surrendered. He has received a pension 
of $i i)er moiitli in i-ecognition of his services. 

Decenilier .30, 18(56, our subject was married in 
Ingliam County to Miss Rozella Loranger,a daugh- 
ter of Nelson Ix)ianger, an early settler in Ingham 
County. Mrs. Leighton's mother was Mary Lor- 
anger and to the parents were born eleven children, 
six sons and five daughters. For the greater part 
of his life l\Ir. Loranger was a merchant, being one 
of tlie leading men in Williaraston. 

As the fruit of their married life seven children 
have come to our subject and his wife. They are. 
Ell A., Hiram, Xelsoii, Rozella, Stephen P., Annie 
and Isadore. Mr. Leighton h.as' always devoted 
himself to the agricultural calling and li.as always 
l)ecn a haid worker. He now owns seventy acres 
of land wliereon he lesides and one liundred and 
sixty acres in Crawford County; he also owns a 
valuable lot in the village. Socially he is a Mason, 
having attained a Master degree and lielonging to 
Lodge No. 1;)3. He also liclongs to Eli P. Alex- 
ander Post, No. ni.i (i. A. R. A Democrat in 
[irinciples and prejudices and one of a most pro- 
noiinced kind, he has been placed liy his party In 
several official positions. 



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OSEPHUS LARK. The early struggles of 
some of the men wlio have made a financial 
^,^1 I success of life are worthy of reeountal and 
^^f,' make most interesting reading. The lioy 
wlio became tlie man of wlioni we now write, start- 
ed out in the world for himself with a manly spirit 
of independence at the lender age of ten years. 
Two ^3 suits of clothe,- was all that he earned dur- 
ing his first seven months of work, after which he 
labored for one numth to earn a pair of lioots, the 



first pair he liad ever had, and after that worked 
for some seven months for one man at the rate of 
*2 a month, after which his stupendous wages were 
raised a little higher and during the next seven 
months he had ^3 a month. The highest wages he 
ever received while working in New York was ^«, 
and during the last three summers of this period 
of his life he was in the employ of the same man 
for whom he worked when a little boy. Notwith- 
standing his small wages he managed lo l.'iy In 
^200 during the last four years tliat he vv.as thus 
engaged. 

The home of our subject is situated on sections 
8 and i), Occola Township, Livingston Countw He 
was born In JNIontgomery, Orange County, N. Y., 
March 13, 1832. His father. Jacob Lare, was a 
native of New York where he grew to manhood. 
He was known far and wide as one of the best 
blacksmiths in that region and horses were brought 
to him from many miles away. He was located at 
Searsville and Pine Bush. He had lost his father 
when (piite young and had therefore been bound 
out to a master. His marriage in New York united 
him with Elizal)eth Bodine, who was boi'ii in Craw- 
ford Township, Orange County. They came to 
Michigan in .huie, I860, but their real residence 
here was not continued for many years as the 
mother died in 18(U» and the father p.assed away in 
187 1. Their household consisted of three daughters 
and three sons. 

In New York .losephus Lare received his early 
education and remained there until he reached the 
age of twenty-two years after which he came to 
Michigan in 1856 and making his way directly to 
West Bloonifield Township, Oakland County, began 
working by the month on a farm. He remained 
there for four years, doing f. arm work summers and 
chopping cord wood din'ing the winters. The 
wages he I'cceivi'd r;niging from >!|3 to ¥l(i jier 
month. 

The m.arriage of our subject with Catherine F. 
!Merithew took i)lace in Oakland County, Novem- 
ber 11,18.')8. This lady was born in HlooiiiHeld 
Townsliip. Oakland County, December 10, 1839, 
and she is the youngest daughter of AVilllam and 
Philomela (Wisner) Merithew. The father was a 
native of Seneca Countv. N. Y.. and the mother (jf 



'(llJlKAn- AND HKKiKAl'lIK AI. Al r,IM. 



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( !l\ Ua;l I iMIlll \ . < ■! 1\ . \\ i~licl W .-1^ Mil IIIK Ic l>r 

.Mrs. l.iUf. Il u.-i.-- A|iiil 2. !.'<.");». when mir siiliji'ct 
cjiim' t(i Livingston Cuuulv .■iiid lif lixcd for livi' 
vcjus with tlic i)nrents of Mis. I>:uf. tit'tci- whicli he 
iMovi'ci into ;i loy house wiiicli .still remains on the 
|il:icf where lie now resides. After seven years in 
this |)riiniti ve home he liuilt ;i Iwo-story frame honsr 
ill I.S72 at a <-o>t of s!.i..")ilil. 

.Mr. a II (I .Mr>. I, are h.-n'ehad .-i lari;e family of 
fourteen ehililren anil their eldest, Fraidv II.. w.is 
liorn Deeemlier 17. IH;')'.(. lie was eleeted 'i'owii- 
shi|i Clerk hist in IS,s-> when he >er\cd two years. 
and W.MS ri'-eleete<l in l.S'.M. Hi' married .Vpril 20. 
I«S|. .Susan !{.. dauuhter of T. K'. ;inil ^lary St;iley. 
M l>. f'raiiU I. ale'- f.-ilher i^ -keteheil npon aiiollirr 
|)ai;'e of this volume. She wa~ horn in Ijowell 
'rownship. this county. .Vpril 27. IS.V.). aiid as tlu'v 
ha\'e no children of their own they ha\c ;ido|itcil :i 
d;iUi;liter. ( >li\'e .Moody li\ name. 

'{'he second son of our sulijeet ( icorue II. \\ . was 
horn Novemher Hi. I«(i2 .and died .luiie HI, l«M2. 
Fannie ('. who was horn .Vpril (i. IHd,). is the wife 
of Lewis Diekerson of Marion 'rownsliip. ( lara !>. 
horn .M.-irch 2M. I K()7, is a te.acher of excellent repnte; 
.Mary .1. horn .March .">. l^Ki'.l; I'liila K. horn .May I. 
1H7II. died .May 12. 1H7(I; .Minnie .1., horn Seiiteni- 
her II. 1.S7I. h;is hcu-mi her career a.s a teacher; Jo.s- 
epliiis horn .Vpril I. l«7;5.(lied .luly 2.j. IH75: Hel- 
ena ('. horn .laiiuaiN 1.'). 1)^7.'). .and died l'"elirn;ir\- 
I 1. the .same year; Myrta. horn .Inne 2. I«7(i; I'^rnesi 
(;., horn Mny 12, l«7«, died Ocloher II), IHHK; lien- 
jamiii (i., horn .laniiarv 'MK IMKI; Nettie 1'., horn 
Septemher 17, 1SK2, died Xovemher '.I. IH.s'.l. and 
one child died in infancy unnamed. 

When Mr. l^are started out as an iiule|)enilcnt 
farmer he hought eighty acres of land where he 
now resides for ¥l ,<l<l'l, payint; >f(H) down in cash 
and iisiuii the remainder of the money which he 
had .saved h\- his haid work to stoi'k the place. lie 
piMchased tweuty-eiiiht sheep as his lirsl stock and 
he added hotli animals and acres nntd he now [los- 
sesses a fine estiite. His land i-omprisis three hun- 
dred acres, two hundred of which havi' loiii; heen 
known jis the Conklin farm. I!verv huihlinu upon 
the place has heen put there liy him .•ind the tini- 
Iier and luinher for it he drew from l*"linl and For- 
estville. He now keeps on an .■iver:i<><' one liun- 



<hcd .ilid cijihi \ ln-:<d ol >heep iic-ide> olherslock in 
proportion. He huilt a frame house and :i good 
barn 14x;')2 feet for his sen in IHMl.at :i cost of 
*2,fl()(l. 

.Mr. and .Mrs. Lare and all their family with the 
exception of tlu' eldest son. I'r.ank. who belongs to 
I'rcshylerian Churcli. belong to the Methodist 
ICpiscoiJal t'hureli and there is no household more 
thoroughly respected or more ii.seful than they. 
( )ur subject is Superintendent of the .Sunday-school 
and has been for some fourteen years. His excel- 
lent wife is President of the Ladies' Aid .Society. 
.Mr. Lare was Supervisor of Oeeol.a Township from 
I.SM.") to l!SH(i, and is now .luslice of the Peace an 
ollic<' which he ha-orcnpied for eight year-. He 
w;i- Township <'lerk from ISCI io I«(!2 .•ind has 
been School Inspector for m.in\ years. He has 
been ( la<--Leadcr in the <hurcli and also Steward 
.•ind rriislee in I he >anie. 



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IDWIN \i. .MKUri'lIKW. This respected 
head of a highly esteemed family in Oeeola 

Township, Livingston County, bears a 

splendid record as one of the noble defenders of 
the old llau in the d.ays of the Civil War. It is 
with great delight that the historian .sat down be- 
side him to listen to his thrilling details of the 
da\.- of condicl .anil tin' part which the regiment 
to which lie belonged took in the Civil War, ami 
we feel sure that the nu'ii and women who peru.-ie 
this voluine will take an eipial interest in reading 
the annals of his life. 

This gentleman was born in Springport Town- 
ship, Ca>uga County, N. V., .lanuary 21. lH;il. 
His father. William ^lerithew. was a native of 
Cayuga County, where he was born in l)Sl;i. He 
was at first a farmer by occupation, but atone time 
was a contractor at .Vuburn St.ate Prison, buying 
staves and lumber, and engaging for seven years 
in a general biLsiness. He came to Michigan in 
1M.52 and located in Oakland Coimly, but in IM:<;i 
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county, where he improved a farm, and in 1837, 
during the trouble between Ohio and Micliigan, 
enlisted as Drum Major in what is known as the 
Toledo War. He remained in West Bloomfiekl 
Townsliip until 1859, when he came to Oceola 
Township and made his home on section 9, where 
our sul)ject now resides. I'pon this place he made 
substantial improvements and here remained until 
his death, which took place in 1871. 

\Villiam Merithew was an old-line Whig and 
voted that ticket until the organization of the Re- 
publican party, and at the convention which was 
called for that purpose he was a delegate. He was 
Anti-slavery in principle and was interested in the 
Underground Railroad. Many a negro did he 
help to send through to Canada to find freedom. 
He was a man of deep religious convictions and a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His 
father, William Merithew, who was of Pennsylva- 
nia Dutch origin, was in the Revolutionary war as 
a soldier. 

The mother. Philomela Wisner, was a native of 
Cayuga County, N. Y., who lived t(j the age of 
sixty-four years. She was a daughter of Moses 
Wisner, a New York farmer, who was a Colonel in 
a regimentof State militia during the War of 1812. 
In one conflict he was entirely covered by the 
sand which was thrown up by a shell which struck 
the ground near him. He was also captured by a 
band of Cayuga Indians in 181:5, but made his 
escape by getting them to smoking, and then when 
one of them left the door o])en he slipped out, 
and hiding in the corn made good his escape by 
paddling across Cayuga Lake in a large potash 
kettle. This brave and crafty Colonel was the 
father of (tov. Moses AVisner, who is thus the uncle 
of our subject. 

Edwin R. Merithew is one of a family of seven 
children, and was only one vear old when with his 
parents he migrated to the Territory of Michigan. 
His entire education was taken in tlio log school- 
houses in W^est Bloomfleld Townsliii>, Oakland 
County, and he began independent work liy labor- 
ing by the month for his neighbors. In the year 
1852 he went to California, making the journey 
by water by way of Panama, taking the steamer 
"United States" from New York City to the 



Isthmus, and there journeying by a French sailing 
vessel, "Fion Brothers," to San Francisco, making 
that part of the journey in sixty-seven days. He 
went into the mines at Long Bar in the Yulia 
River and remained there for three years, dividing 
his time equally between farming and mining. He 
returned in 1855 l\y the w.ay of Greytown, land- 
ing at New York City. 

U|)on the young man's return to West Bloom- 
Held Townshii) he decided to give a "hostage to 
fortune" l)y establishing himself in his own home 
with a wife. He was, therefore, married Septem- 
ber 8, 185G, to Harriet Pennell, a native of that 
county, wjio was born in 1833. In 1858 they re- 
moved to Oregon Township, Lapeer County, 
where thej' took new land and began cultivating 
it. They first, however, had to put up a log 
house, for which Mr. Merithew cut the logs and 
made the shingles. This jjalatial residence, meas- 
uring 2(1x26 feet on the ground, was now tlu'ir 
liome while they improved this property, and tliey 
remained there until 1864, when the husliaiul en- 
listed in the defense of his country's flag. 

Company E, Eighth Michigan Infantry, was the 
body of troops to which the young man altaclied 
himself, and they were at once sent to Cincinnati 
and thence to Louisville, after which they were 
ordered east to Anna])olis, Md. They were made 
a part of the Ninth Armv Corps, and upon April 
9 they were in Washington, where they marched 
over the Long Bridge and upon May 6 took pait 
in the battle of the Wilderness, after which they 
were eng.aged in the conflicts of Cliancellorsvillc, 
Cold Harbor and Petersburg. During this siege 
they took an active ]inrt, and as he was wounded 
thei'e he was sent to the hospital, where he re- 
mained for six weeks, and tiien returned to Peters- 
burg, wlu'ic lie was on picket duty every other 
night until the 28th of JLirch, 1865, and was 
under fire for one hundred days. On April 2 he 
was the first one to mount the defences of Fort 
Mahan, and this w.as tiie last ct)nfliet in which he 
was engaged, as after this they went to Wasiiing- 
ton and were on picket duty until Jidy .'5(1, 1865. 
His regiment was mustered out of service at De- 
troit. August 3. and he returned to West Bloom- 
field Townsliij) and worked in a saw-mill in the 



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town of CoinnieriH'. IIi> lirst wife liaving died in 
SeiilPiiihei', 1 «(;;{, lie \v;is united witli liis present 
wife MmicIi 8, 18(!(;. This lady was liorn in \M'> 
in ('(inuiieR'e Townslii|i, Oakland County. ;uid her 
maiden name was Kliza .1. C'umpldn. After this 
marriaiie he removed to Oeeola 'I'ownship. I,i\- 
insfston (diuity. where he now resides on his 
father's old honu'stead. 

.Mr. Merithew has two ehildren li\ his lirst mar- 
riaore, a daujihter and a son. The daughlei-. .Miee. 
is the wife of J.,, liuekloo. and Charles M. is a car 
inspector at Owosso on the Toledo it Ann .\rl)or 
Kailro.-id. liy his second union he has six cliil- 
driMi. who are ('((ually divided between sons and 
d,'iui;hters, luimely: Flora, * the wife of I'lie 
li.-itchelor. who resides in Oeeola Township; .l.-icoh. 
Inza, Norali. Edwin R. and Oscar V. 

One lunulred acres of well imjiroved land forms 
the estate of .Mi'. .Merithew, upon whicli he is cai- 
ryiny on a iieneral faiininy liusiness and where he 
keeps from eiijhty to one hiuidied head of sheep. 
lie is ke<'nly interested in all matters pertainiui;' to 
l)ulilic affairs, and has servi'd his township as .Ivis- 
tice of the I'eacc and was elected in 18.')(i as Con- 
st;ilile of West llloomtield Townsinp. Iiciui;' the 
first man elected on the Kei)uliliean ticket in this 
section. For fouiteen years he has heeji .School 
Director in Oeeola Township. He is a freethinker 
in his reliijfious views, and is a memlier of the 
(Ji-and .Vrmy of the Hepublie and has tilled almost 
every otlice in the i;ift of his comrade.s. 




^;KSLi;V K.MKKV. Amony the old .-ettlers 
of Lansinjr. who have been efficient in 
buildinji- up the city and makina' it what 
it is to-day, in the social, fin.aucial and business 
woild. we are |)leased to mention 'Mr. Emery, 
whose i)ortrait is shown on the opposite page, lie 
is a member of the lirni of liartlett A- Emery, deal- 
ers in real estate and in.surance. their otlice heinjj 
located on Washiuiiton Avenue. Mr. iMuery came 
to this cit\- in the spring of \H'h^ and for five years 
had charue of the city school, 

Oiu- subject was born .Inly \S. ]H-><.). at ^drk. 



Livingston County, X. Y„ and is the son of .Sam- 
uel and Nancy .1. (Wesley) Emery. His paternal 
ancestors belong to the old New England stock of 
Emerys, and Sanmel Ijiiery \va.s a farmer in New 
Voik. The boy removed with his parents from 
l,i\ingst<>n County to Cattaraugus County, and a.s 
soon as he was old enough he attended Genesee 
College at Lima, X. V. lie eom|)leted his Fresh- 
man, So])homore and .lunior years at that college, 
but his SiMiior yeai' was interrupted bj- the failure 
of his eyes and he had to leave college before 
giaduation. As soon as his eyes would |)ermit he 
began teaching, spending two years in this pro- 
fes.sion at East Avon, then in Barry Center, N. Y.. 
for two years, and afterward at Barnegat, N, Y. 
After one year there he came West and taught for 
two years at (irandville. Mich., and at Lamont was 
in chaige of the I'nion Schools for three years, 
lie then came to Lansing and after following his 
profession here for live years and for a while at 
Okemos. he bought a large farm at the latter 
jilace. 

.Vfter ^Mi'. Emery gave uij teaching he spent 
eight years in traveling for A. S. Barnes iV Co., of 
New York, handling their school books and having 
charge of their Western business. He managed 
their agents both in ^Michigan and other western 
States; and having thus gained experience in the 
book business he established a liook store in Lan- 
sing, which he carried on for ten years. At the 
end of that lime he sold out his busine.ss and again 
took chaige of Alichigan for .\. S. Barnes iV' Co. 
After three yeais he entered into jiartnership with 
Mr. Bartlett. and at the beginning of 1887 opened 
an otlice for the tran.saetion of real estate and in- 
surance bu.sine.ss. The.se gentlemen handle real 
estate for themselves and others, and also represent 
a number of insurance companies, both in the line 
of lite and lire insurance. 

For three years .Mi-. lOinery was a piomineiit 
member of the Board of Education t)f Lansing, and 
later a member uf the Board of Examiners, in which 
cajiacity he was of incalculable value to the cit_v,as 
his thorough education, his genuine culture, his 
breadth of view and experience, have given him 
an exceptional outlook. While on his farm he was 
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iirei- of tlic ^licliijian (eiitral Fair. Miid ocmiiied 
other positions of tru.-it and lionor. IK' is a mem- 
ber of Masonic Lodge Xo. ■i-i. and has lon^ held 
ottieial position in theUniversalist C'hiircli. of whieli 
he is a prominent member. 

In 1851 Mr. Emery married ]\Iiss Adelia (iil)son. 
of Barry Center, X. Y.. but in Uss than twelve 
montlis mourned the untimely death of his loved 
and loving young wife. Two years later he mar- 
ried her sister, Laura E. Of this marriage was 
born one son, Archie Martelle, wjio lie fore the age 
of three years was bereft of a mother's love and 
care, for death again entered the household. This 
son, A. M. Emery, is now established in one of the 
leading bookstores of Lansing. 

In January of 1X70, Air. Emer\ was united in 
marriage to Mi.ss Sarah E. \'an Dervoort. of Phelps. 
N. Y. This lady has since become inominent in 
the reform movements of the day, and is the 
author of a little book entitled ''Seven Financial 
Conspiracies." which is attracting much attention 
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J'«^'NDKEW F. SAWYER. The highly re- 
/ I spexted family at whose head stands tlie man 
(/ 14 whose name we have just given, exerts a 
^^' powerful intlnence for good in Green Oak 
Township, and indeed throughout Livingston 
County, and wherever its members are known. 
Character always must tell in its effect upon those 
who meet it, and there is no such argument for 
uprightness and intelligence as an upright and 
intelligent life. 

Mr. Sawyer is a native of this county, and was 
born in Hamburg Townshij), June 12, 1835. His 
father. Caleb Sawyer, was born in Massachusetts 
in 1811, and in his early .years removed to New 
York, where he became a farmer. Michigan 
became his home in 1834, and he then took up 
land in Green Oak Township, and brouglit on his 
family the following spring, thus becoming one of 
the first settlers in this region, lie did much pio- 
neer work, and having subdued the wilderness and 



placed liis farm in a productive condition, passed 
here the remainder of his (hiys, d\ing in 1«82. 

Caleb Sawyer came to this State witli limited 
means, but he was a man of enterprise and soon 
built up a flourishing business in brick manufac- 
ture, and for a number of years supplied his 
neighbors with this valuable commodity. His 
good wife, the mother of our subject, bore the 
maiden name of Caroline Wheeler. She did not 
long endure the hardships of jjioneer life, and 
passed from earth in 184(1, at the early age of 
twenty-nine _\ears, leaving five children, four of 
whom are now li\ing. The father married a 
second time, but b\- that union had n^) children. 
Hy his third marriage he had four children. 

Farm life and the district school filled up the 
early yeai's of the boy who grew to be so pros- 
perous a farmer. His schooling had to come 
mostly in the winter months, as he was needed at 
liomc during the busy seasons, and he remained 
with his parents until after he reached his ma- 
jority, sub.se(|nent to which he entered the employ 
of neighboring farmers. During the summer of 
1861 he worked upon his father's farm, and in the 
following spring he purch.ised seventy-live acres 
near Whitemore Lake, in Washtenaw County, and 
began life for himself. After three years upon 
this farm lie purchased land in Green Oak Town- 
shi]}. upon which he lived for two and one-half 
years. He also spent one year in Brighton, but in 
the fall of 1869 lie purchased his present home on 
sections 3 and 10, (ireen Oak Town.ship, a property 
which was already well improved. 

Nothing in the life of Mr. .Sawyer has ))een more 
productive of happiness and tiue prosperity than 
his union in marriage with the lady of his choice, 
who.se intelligence, social qualities and many 
amiable traits make her a notewjorthy woman in 
this township. Their wedding occurred December 
28, 1860, and they then established a home to- 
gether which may well serve for a model of do- 
mestic happiness and genuine hospitality. 

This lady, whose name was Drusilla Coe, was 
born in Green Oak Township, and is a daughter of 
Harrison Coe. She has become tlie mother of one 
son. Fred, who was born September 5, 1876, and 
whose manly character and devotion to his parents 



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:ilrc!i(ly ijive aliuii<l;mt |)i<»inisi' of ;i inMiihuud 
wliioli will ivward his (loNotcd |inrcnt> fur llicii- 
care and cultiirf. 

Tho Repiililicaii |iait\ in its (Iciiaialinns i-iii- 
Imdii's the prinfiples of political i'wini)niy wliicli 
Mr. Sawyer l)elicvcs to be best adapted to insuring 
liic jirosperity of our country. For two years lie 
lit'ld the olliee of Town Treasurer, and has also in 
his eapiieitv as Road Commissioner improved 
ureatly the liigli ways of the township. His one 
luindred and twenty acres of land are in the liest 
condition, and exceedingly productive. 

With his partner, jMr. C'oe, our suliject is the 
proinietor of the " Ragstreet " Hock of Sliro])- 
sliires, and the head of that Hock is the well-known 
" I'ride of Ragstreet," who was imported in 
August, 1889, and has won tirsi picniiuin as the 
best Shrop.shire rain lamb at the State Vti'iv at 
Lansing, the International Kxposition at Detroit, 
the Kastcrn Agricultural .Society at ^'psilanti, and 
the Market Fair at Brigliton. 



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'UDOE RULLIX II. PERSON. The honor- 
able gentleman whose name is above does 
not bear the weight of years Ih.'it one is apt 
}^/ to associate with the station of life to which 
lie has attained. Although in the meridian of his 
successful career, as well as of his years, our sub- 
jecl is .fudge of the Thirtieth .Judicial District of j 
.Michigan, embracing the counties of Livingston | 
and Ingham. It seems peculiarly titling th;it the 
sons of the State slioiild occuiiy these honorable ' 
jiositions, and Mr. I'erson is a native of loscc) 
Township, Livingston County, being here born 
Octolier 1."). 18.")(>. He is a .son of Cornelius H. and 
Lucinda (Stafford) Person, natives of Xew York. 
( )ur subject's father was in his younger days a 
teacher, luit later became a farmer. In 18;i7 he 
with his father's family came to Jlichigan and the 
party settled in losco 'I'ownship. Livingston j 
County. The gentleman's parents were Daniel 
and Fanny (.Stevens) Person, natives of A'ermoiit 
and New ■^'oik resiiectiveh . On comin<r into this 



(State they took up a quarter section of Govern- 
ment land, to which they devoted themselves to 
improving and cultivating. This was secured in 
18;5(; and was at the time heavily timbered. The 
inilirovements that he placed upon it greatly en- 
hanced the value of the tract, which before his de- 
cease W.1S made not only a comfortable home place, 
but a most attractive .•ind beautiful agricultural 
spot. Daniel Person's death occurred in 1874. 
His wife survived hiin by a number of years, pas.s- 
ing away in the city of Howell in 1880. The 
father had been .liistice of ' the I'eace several yeai-s 
before his death. He had a family of live chil- 
dren, all of whom lived to attain manhood and 
womanhood. 'I'liey were Cornelius H., Polly, 
Laura, Sally and Stephen. Polly became Mrs. 
T(mcray and (lie<l in Nebraska, where she went in 
18.59. 

Daniel Per.son 's f;itlierwas the Rev. Cornelius 
(i. Person, .-i native of New Hampshire. He was a 
farmer until twenty-nine years of age, and then 
engaged in preai'hing until 1833. He bad a fam- 
ily of .seven children. Our subject's family on the 
paternal side were of English ancestry. On the 
maternal side our subject's grandparents were .Jo- 
seph and S:illy ('i'aylor) .Stafford, natives of Ver- 
mont and .Mas.sachu.setts res])ectivcl3\ The former 
was a builder as well as a farmer in New York, 
where lie carried on a succcs>ful and lucrative busi- 
ncs.s. He had a family <if seven children. The 
])rec'eding generation nnjst immediately connected 
with .loseiih .StalJ'ord w.a^ represented In' Isaac and 
Keziali (Slater) StatTord. natives of Vermont. The 
father was a farmer and was obliged to work very 
hard in order to supply his ten ehildren with the 
necessities of life. His father was .loliu StatTord, 
who came from England. 

Besides farming in Iosco Township for many 
years our suliject 's father was also .Superintendent 
of Schools ill the townshi|), and after leaving his 
farm he c;iiiie to Howell, where he now lives, hold- 
ing the ollice of .Justice of the Peace. Contrary to 
the usual order in his family, he has only two sons, 
our subject, .Judge Person, and Ozro, who is en- 
gaged in fanning, rntil nineteen years of age the 
original of our sketch outside of his school life w.as 
ensrasred in farming, .\fter that time he taught 



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school for two winters, engati'iiio in the work in 
this eountv. although not living at home. He at- 
tended the Howell High School and was early 
elected Deijutv Regi.«ter of Deeds, which jiosition 
he tilled for two years. 

The young man had determined to become a 
lawyer and liegan to read law with Dennis Shields 
of Howell. After a course pursued with much ad- 
vantage under this preceptor he entered the law 
school of Ann Arbor, and after taking the full 
course there was admitted to the bar in 187.3. lie 
then started foi- the West and settled on the Ke- 
|)ulilican River in Ilarland County, Neb., at once 
engaging in the practice of his profession. He 
had a large patronage while in Nebraska, but was 
unable to collect on account of the grasshopper 
scourge from which tliat district suffered so severely 
at the time of his lieing there, every green tiling 
having- been eaten by these pests. Not being able 
to live on debts he returned to Howell in 1H75 
and engaged in the practice of his profession here. 
On the formation of this circuit our subject was 
appointed and in April thereafter was elected 
Judge. This election was in l.s;)!. running far 
ahead of his ticket and receiving a complimentary 
vote of nearly fourteen hundred strong. 

Judge Person has held theoHiceof Circuit Court 
Commissioner besides his other oflice, and has also 
been Recorder of the city of Howell. He resides 
in a beautiful home, which he himself erected in 
1887. It is located on Clinton Street and is a 
(jicture of beaut}- and attractiveness. He of whom 
we write was married in 1873 to Miss Ida Madden 
of ^lonmouth. 111. She is a daughter of James G. 
.Madden, a i)romineut lawyer of that place. Our 
subject and his estimable and attractive wife are 
the parents of three children, Harlow. Harry and 
.May, who are bright young people who will with- 
out doubt be shining examples of what the best of 
iiiBuenees and advantages can do for naturally 
rich natures. 

The original of this sketch is a Democrat in his 
political following, lie also affiliates witii llie 
Masonic Society and is in demand socially on all 
public and private occasions, being a man of great 
|>ersonal attractions and striking conversational 
powers. .ludge Person is one of the organizers of 



the lirst State .Savings Bank of Howell. He is 
also a large stockholder and is variously associated 
with the large and important enterprises of the 
community. 




\L^ ON- DANIEL L. CASE. The gentleman 
whose name heads this sketch just fails of 
being the oldest resident of this county, 

^^ only one other, William A. Dwire, having 
preceded him here. Mr. Case made his entrance 
herein 1843. He is a Canadian by liirtli. having 
first seen the light of day at Three Rivers. Decem- 
ber 21. IHll. and is hence iiow(18!ll) an octogen- 
arian. In spite of his age he is still an active man 
in the jierfect possession of all his faculties. His 
parents were originally from the State of Connec- 
ticut. His father whose name was Elijah Case went 
to Canada just before the War of 1812. On the 
lireaking out of the war he was required to take 
the oatli of allegiance to the British crown, 
wliicli he refused to do. in consequence of wliieh 
he was arrested and imprisoned in Halifax until 
tiie close of the war, after which he joined his 
family who had removed to Monroe County, 
N. Y., during his imprisonment, and died a few 
years later from disease contracted while thus 
incarcerated. 

Here Daniel lived until his eighteenth year and 
had such educational advantages as were common in 
the districts. On coining to Michigan, which was 
then called the Indian Territory (1829), Mr. Case 
first stopped at Pontiac, and in the spring of 183(1 
came to where the town of Jackson now is. At 
that time there was but one cabin on its jn-esent 
site and not another iiiliabitant witlnii tliirty miles. 
He remained until 183(! and then went to Texas. 
wliicli was tlieu the arena of the political andGov- 
erninental strife of the period. He remained in 
Texas until 1842 and then returned to the Wolv- 
erine State. Mr. Case corrects the impression that 
the family of Bhickinans was the lirst in Jackson. 
^\nien oui- subject arrived in the spring of 1830, a 
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and Mr. C'a-ie rlrove the ti-ain thai iiiovfd tlie Blaek- 
iiians into .lacksou. Our .sulijcct was in Texas 
(liirinu; Ilnuston's \\':\v with Santa Anna, ami 
l)i:R'ti('('<l law. iiiviuij his attention to the 
cfiniinal codi'. his sjrcat strength liein^i in the 
pleailinir of his eases. Ills license permitted liini 
to praetice in all .Statesand he lieeanie widely known 
•as a lawyer of unfailing success in any ease that he 
undertook. The greater [lart of his practice \v;i> 
along the Mississip])i. fronitialena to New Orleans, 
lie also t<»ok charge of a number of cases in Texas 
and few lawyers in the country eipialcd him in le- 
gal acumen and skillful fencing when sucli tactics 
were neces.sary. 

After his return to this state .Mr. Ca.se practiced his 
profession until 184.5.at which time he was ajjpointed 
by the (Jovernor as Fro.secuting .Vttoiaiey for the 
county. -Vt the expiration of two years he was 
again appointed but resigned and embarked in 
merchandising in the city, being also interested in 
politics. In 18.50 our subject was elected member 
of the legislature and in 18,58 the honor was pressed 
upon him as an election to the post of .\uditor- 
General. which position he held for two years. 
Meantime lie continued iiis business of merchandis- 
ing in connection with his political and oltieial life 
until 1878. 

He of whom we write has been pressed into ser- 
vice in various offices of the municipal Government, 
lie has been a member of the School Board and 
.Vlderman. Anxious to retire from |inblic life he 
gave up his business and resigned the in;ijori!y of 
his oHices in 1878. Iml in 1887 he wa> a|)poiutcd 
on the board of eontr il of the school for the blind 
and since th;it time has >er\-eil as Tre.-isui'cr of llic 
Hoard. Mr. ( jise is very active and takes a gre.-il 
(leal of out of door exercise, sehloni aUowing a d.-iy 
to pa.ss when he does not ffo to the city to tr;ins:ict 
semie business. 

.Mr. Case was first united iu m.airiage with .Miss 
.\Iarinda Brown of Pittsford. N. V.. whose decease 
occurred in 1817. Three children were l)orn of 
this union as follows: Julieii M. married Mi.ss Sophia 
Peck and they became the parents of four chil- 
dren. Daniel. .Sophie. Rex Ron.ald and .lulieii. lb' 
died in London in .lune, 181H(. while on a tour in 
Kurope; Daniel was a sttnleiif at West Point when 



the late war broke out and he enlisted in tlie 
Seventy-eighth New York Infanliy. being ap- 
pointed by the Governor a Lieutenant. Thi.s 
reginuMit was afterward consolidated with the 
One Hundred and Second New York Infantry, 
lie was captured ;it the battle of Peach Tree 
("reek while serving as aid to (ien. Hooker and 
w.as c<nilined in rebel |)risons for ten months, 
lb' dieil short 1\ after the close of the war 
from exposure incident to his prison life. Helen 
the eldest child of o\irsubject is the widow of .Vnd- 
rew Adams and now^ makes her home with iier 
father. She lias one child. .Mrs. Mary Collins of 
Chicago, 111. By a second marriage Mr. Case was 
united to Miss .\delia Monroe of Eagle, Clinton 
County. thisState,she dying in 1887. There were 
no children l)y this marriage. 

Altiiough our subject was brought up in the Pres- 
l)yterian Church and his inclinati<ms were all in that 
direction, giving generously for it** support, he is 
not a member, but a liberal-spirited, conscientious 
man, the friend of humanity. He is a member of 
the M.asonic fraternity, and also belongs to the 
(irand .Vrmy of the Re])ublic. Mr. Case was in the 
Civil War as Assistant Paym.aster and served for 
nearly a year, when failing health obliged iiim to 
resign and he has since lived retired. 



T <)i:i, II. |)1KI>. Above the average in in- 
1cllii;cure .ind .-i m;in of more than ordin- 
.■ii'\ erndilion i> llic jiiiisiierons farmer 
w hose name ue herewith give. His popidarily 
is based not onl\ on his ability botli as a thinker 
and an active luisincss man. but also on the genu- 
ine goo<l will with wiiieh he regards his fellow- 
nu'u anrl the kindl\ spirit which he exhibits in liis 
intercourse with ihcm. His home is on section "ifi, 
(Jenoa Townsiiip. Livingston County, and he was 
born iu Steuben Cotnity. N. \'.. on Christmas 
Day. IS I-.'. 

.loseph Dykes, the father of our subject, w.is 
b(.rn in (ienoa, N. Y.. in 1807, and is of German 



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descent. He followed the double avocation of a 
farmer and shoemaker, and wlieii quite young 
made his home in Steuben County, N. Y., where 
he married .lane O'Neal, who had her nativity in 
New Jersey in ISll. Se\en out of their nine 
children grew to maturity, viz: Hiram, Jerusha, 
Alice, Sarah, Araminta, .loel IL, Oscar, George and 
Elizabeth. The family came to Michigan in 1844, 
and settled in tlie wilderness, making their home 
in a log cabin. In 1864 they moved on to the 
farm where the family now resides, which tlie 
father carried on until his death, at the age of 
seventy-seven years. He was a member of the 
regular Baptist Cliurch, and in politics was first a 
Whig and afterward a Republican. His faithful 
wife, who was also identified with the Baptist 
Church, survives him and makes her home with 
her son. 

Our subject was only a year and a half old when 
he came to Michigan, and he obtained his educa- 
tion in the log schoolhouses and sat upon the slab 
benches which were supijorted by pin legs. The 
rate bill system then jjrevailed and quill pens were 
the prominent features of the writing class. When 
twenty-one years old the young man began work 
for himself, but it was not long before he left the 
jieaceful avocation of agriculture and enlisted 
under the banner of his country. He joined Com- 
pany A, Twenty-second Michigan Infantiv, and 
served from January 6, 1864, to September 16, 
1865, receiving his lionoral>le dl.scharge at ISIur- 
freesboro. 

The Twenty-second Michigan was first sent to 
Chattanooga, Tenn., and remained there until the 
1st of May, when it was sent to the front, in 
Georgia, and took part in the battle of Kenesaw 
Mountain, being in all the engagements of the 
Atlanta campaign. It w.as in Sherman's army 
under the command of Gen. Thomas, and did 
Prov(_)st duty at Atlanta until the last of October, 
when (ien. Thomas' nriny returned to Chatta- 
nooga, and there went into winter (piarters. doing 
provost duty in that city. Our ^ubject was then 
ordered to Murfreesl)oro, Teun.. where he re- 
mained uutil June, 186;'), and was then sent to a 
small station on the Chattanooga ck Nashville 
Railway, where he was on guard dutj'. At Mur- 



freesboro he was transferred from his old regiment 
to the Twenty-second Michigan Infantry. He was 
sick with the measles at Chattanooga, and was in 
the hospital for some time, and has never since 
really been well, in consequence of which he re- 
ceives ¥6 a month pension. 

Upon his return from the battle-fields, Joel 
Dykes resumed farming, and bought out the in- 
terest of the other heirs in the liome farm. .Inly 18, 
1867, he was happily united in marriage with 
Miss Amelia Morgan, who was born in Dundee, 
Monroe County, Mich,, March 16, 1844, Four 
children have come to their home, and all are now 
living except Lois, their eldest, who died when 
two years old. The daughters who are with them 
are Edna, Etta and Ida. 

rpon his eighty acres of fine land Mr. Dykes 
carries on mixed farming and has most of his 
estate under cultivation. He is a Republican in his 
political views and has twice been made candidate 
for the otlice of Supervisor, but as there is a large 
Democratic majority in the tow-nship, he has never 
been elected to that position. He served for two 
terms as Commissioner anil for one term as Treas- 
urer. 



IIARLKS E. BEIRMANN. Prominent in 
agricultural and political circles is the ex- 
tensive farmer and popular citizen whose 
name appears at the head of this sketch. His at- 
tractive home and beautiful farm are situated in 
Genoa Township, Livingston County, and he is 
well-known as the ex-Sheriff of the county and 
ex-1'ostmaster of Howell. 

Our subject was liorn in Hamburg, Germany, 
June 1, 1827. His father. William Henry Beur- 
mann, was in the mercantile business. He died 
when about forty-eight years of .age, and his gX)od 
wife Henrietta E. (iluer, lived to be sixty-seven 
years old. They were both earnest and conscien- 
tious members of the Lutheran Church and reared 
their five children under the influence of the (Gos- 
pel. His wife came to Michigan with the family 
in 1840 and became a pioneer in the wilderness. 




PORTRAIT AXI) lUOCRAl'IIK \T, VMSIM. 



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He of wluiin we write (.•aiiii' tu Aliiei ica wlu-ii 
tliirteeii vcais old, liaviiisj- l)ecn ten weeks on tlie 
liriiiy (lee|i. lie eiijuyeil llii' triii j^reatlv and was 
sea-siek I'oionly one da\. llavinii; reaelied Anieriea 
llie family eanio direetly to Livingston County, 
and liuilt a log house in wliich they made their 
home on (hiistmas Day. l^^ln. Krieiidly Indians 
frequented their door and tluir mother fed them 
with a kindly hand. In his boyhood, Charles 
Heurmann helped to kill a bear near Whitney Lake 
and in triumph eariied home some bearsteaks. His 
brother William w;is (piite a lunitsman. ,-ind shot 
many a cU-er. wolf and turkey. 

Only two acres of .Mr. I>eurmann's farm was 
bioken when he settled herein l.Stll. and he now j 
has one hundred and sixty of his two hundred and 
twenty acres inider c-ultivation. He raises both | 
Sjrain and stock ;\nd pays attention to the better 
grades of animals. He has had some full-blooded 
Ourham cattle and now has fourteen hor.ses. some 
of them draft and some roadsters. His beautiful 
brick residence was erected by him in I.S7.'!. ;it :\ 
cost of ¥4.000 besides his own lalior. 

Fidelia llageland to whom ( liarlcs L. Ileiinnann 
was united in marriage in l.s.')2. was born in Steu- 
ben County. X. Y .. and came here with her p;u-ents. 
Christopher ;ind Clarinda llageland. in the year 
|H;{.'). Of the eleven cliildren who have blessed 
this union, seven are now living, namely: Charles 
E., who maiiied Mary liidwn and li\i'> in llowell; 
W. Henry, who took to wife Rachel ^\',nlkel•. and 1 
makes his home in Oceola; Clara, who is at home: I 
Ivlwaiil .M.. wliii mariied Stella Kn;ip|i and resides 
in Howell; .Mary, who is Mis. Aaron ( . Swit/.er. of 
Howell: liert. who is now in Iowa: and Kenzie, 
who resides with hi> parents. 

Ill ISTfi our subji'ct was the onl\ m:ui on the 
Republican ticket in the <M)unt\' who iecei\-ed his 
election, as the county lia~ :i Demoiiatic niajoiil\ 
of from four hundred to four hundred and fifty, 
lint his popul.-irity carried his election by one hun- 
dred and twenty iiiajorit\ and at the time of his 
ri--electit>n in 1H7M, his majority was three hundred 
and seventy-five. During the lirst twenty months 
of his shrievalty Mr. Iicnrmann was .alilc to lake 
tweut\-live men to the State pri>nii .-it .lackson. 
L juler i'resideiil Arthur's a[)poiulmcnl he took 



cliaige ol the poslolliceat Howell. .lanuarv 1, 1M«2 
and served for four years and two months. He 
h.is been successful in everything which he has 
undeitaken, with the exception of his candidacy 
for County Treasurer in 1872, when the Democratic 
iiiajority was too much for even his popularity to 
ovi'icoine. 



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i^EORGE O. IIASKILL, an old >,,ldier of th 



^^EORGE 0. HAS 
11 (— Army of the C 
^^! citizen residing 



uinbeiiand and ;i prominent 
on .section .'io, Locke Town- 
shij), Ingham County, is a native of New "^'oi-kand 
was born Ai)ril l.i. is|!t. He is a son of Henrv 
and Harriet llaskill and was the youngest son of 
the family, and came when only four yeai-s old to 
make his home in .Michig.'ui. 'I'he tir.st residence of 
the family was near Rlymoulh, Wayne County, and 
when abcnit seven years t)ld he came witli his par- 
ents to Ingham County, .settling in Leroy Town- 
ship, in the midst of the unbroken forest. 

'I'lie fath(-r of our subject died in IH()2. in l,erov 
Townshij). and the mother makes her home in Locke 
Townshi|>, and is now with .Mrs. V. Davis. In 
this township our subject was reared to manhood 
ami remembers with delight the scenes of ])ioneer 
life and the deer hunts in which he engaged as l.at ■ 
as IHt;.') and IM(>(). aftei' he had returned from the 
army. He received his education in the district 
.school and had no further advantages of this kind 
after he reached the age of fifteen. 

The young man enlisteil .March '.I. IXfi.'i.in Com- 
pany C. l'Lle\enth Michigan Infantry, and was 
engaged pi'ineipally in guard duty in vai'ious 
]»laces. going as far south .as Chattanooga. Knox- 
ville and Strawberry Plain. He received his hon- 
orable discharge at .la<'kson. Mich.. Se]3tember 2J<, 
18(),"). after which he returned to Ingham County, 
and now' receives a pension of ^\ I per month. If 
was in the spring of 1H74 that he settled upon the 
eighty acres of land which he now has under such 
tine culfivafion. It w.-is then an unbroken foresi 
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and cultivated that before proceeding to subdue 
the remainder of the farm. 

Christmas Day, 1874. was the date of a notable 
event in the life of this young man. as he was then 
united in marriage with Damaris Munsell. He is. 
identified with the (uand Army Post at Williams- 
town and also with the Farmers' Alliance, and is a 
Democrat in his jiolitical ^'iews, and in ever}- rela- 
tion of life he is most cordially esteemed by those 
who know him. 



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ANIEL GANNON. Among the foreign 
American citizens of Cochoctah Township, 
Livingston County, who have established a 
reputation as farmers of thorough-going enterprise 
and system, we are pleased to mention the name 
which we have now given. This gentleman was 
born November 14, 1843, in County Kilkenny, 
Ireland, and is a son of Mich.ael and Mary (Tuly) 
(iannon, the latter being a native of the same 
county where her husband and son first saw the 
light. The paternal grandfatlier of our subject 
reared four sons and two daughters, only two of 
whom came to America, namely: William, who 
lives in Fenton and was an early settler of Hart- 
land. Livingston County, and Bridget Whalen, 
who was a widow when she emigrated to this 
country. 

Michael Gannon was a farmer in his native land 
where he died in 184 7. The foUowing year his 
widow brought her children U> the I'nited States 
and remained in New York City for about one 
year, after which she came toHartland, Livingston 
County, and purchased forty acres of laud where 
she resided until death closed her labors in July, 
1869. Her nine children are: Margaret, Richard, 
deceased. IMary, Bridget, .lames, AVilliani, Daniel, 
Julia, deceased, and Anna. 

A common-school education was given to Daniel 
Gannon and upon gaining his education he began 
work for himself in Cohoctah Township, buying 
one hundred and sixty .acres of timber on section 



8, which he proceeded to improve. He now owns 
two hundred and eighty acres, all of which he has 
cleared from timber and embellished with good 
liuildings. A view of liis residence, which is one 
of the finest in the township, appears elsewhere in 
this volume. He began life with no ca])ital but 
has now a handsome competence and his success is 
due to the fact that he possesses push, pluck and 
perseverance, three char.acteristics which are ever 
essential to success. His political views are in ac- 
cordance with the declarations of the Democratic 
party and he is an earnest worker for its success. 

The marriage of Mr. Gannon to Ann McKcever 
took place September 1, 1870. Mrs. Gannon w.as 
born in H.artland, this county, and is a daughter 
of Hugh and Ann(Neson) !McKeever, natives of 
Fermanagh and Monaghan Counties, Ireland. He 
came to the L'nited .States and spent six \'ears in 
New York, and then as he had decided to make it 
his permanent home returned to the old country 
for his bride, and brought her to New Y'ork. Tiiey 
lived there for two years liefore coming to JNIichi- 
gan, and ui)on arriving in this State made fiieir 
new home in llartland. 

To our suliject and his estimable wife were lioru 
seven children, namely: Clement . I., jMary B.. Hugh 
F.. (ieorge W.. .Joseph D., William M.. and Casper 
H. These children have all been trained up in 
the religious faith of their parents and ancestors, 
and are dev(.)ted members of the Roman Catholic 
Church. 



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ANSOM F. PATTERSON was liorn in AYil- 
loughby Township, Lake Count}-, Oliio. 
t4'> \\\ May 24, 1840, and is a son of .lohii and 
\@Eliza (Bennett) Patterson. His grand- 
father, on the iiaternal side, John Patterson, was of 
good Scotch ance-itry, being himself a Scotclmiaii 
by birth and bringing up. On emigrating to the 
I'nited States he settled in New York, his wife 
making a pleasant home for himself and famil\- of 
five children. There were three sons .and two 
daughters with names as follows: John, George, 
James, Laura and Pruda. The old people died 




RESIDENCE OF R. F. PATTERSON , SECT!, DEERFIELD TP, LIVI NGSTON CO., MICH. 




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in till- Stale Avliere their lii>l liuinc avms made (in 
ciiniinir t<i tliis eonntrv. 

The ininieiiiale iiniiicnitor ot' our Milijeet was 
h(ini «)n the nld hiiniesteail in New Vdik, and 
reared to fairly understand the dnties incident to 
farm life, lie was eighteen years of auc when his 
father died and soon after devoted hiniseir to 
learning the lilaeksniith's trade. When tweiity-foui- 
years old he removed to the lluckeyc State, wliei-e 
he .secured a farm and alioiit l<s.")l c'lme to Flint, 
this State, and entered three huiidre<l and twenty 
aciH's of land in Ihada 'l"ownslii|i, Sjiginaw ('onnl\ . 
Tills he cleared and inqiroved as did he al.so.se veial 
other f.arins. In IKIM he removed to (ireenliiish, 
Clinton County. Xow. at the age of eighty-eight 
years, he lives with his children. li;iving divided 
his property among them according to his own 
ideas of right and equity. 

Our subject's mother died in I.HCI .md Mi. 
I'atter.son, Sr.. married a .second time, the union 
lieing with IMrs. Jane Glllett. The first wife hore 
him fifteen children, of whom ten weic reared to 
years of manhood and womanhood, 'i'hey are Si'l- 
den .1.. (Teorge, our suliject, lOdward .1., Cliauncy 
Franklin. ^laria, Mary .1., Olivia and Flmira. The 
eldest son served in the Third Alichigan Cavalry 
during the late war. while Oeorge enlisted in ;iii 
Ohio regiment: Edward .1. served in St<ickt(in's 
regiment and also in the Sixth Regular .\rtillery. 
The children were reared in the creed of the Haptist 
Church. Our subject's motlier wa.s a daughter of 
Selden Bennett, a farmer of Irish origin. 

After reaching manhood Ransom 1''. I'allcison 
came to Michigan with his father .'ind settled in 
the woods. His school days were very few, the 
whole time passed in such .an institution over text 
books, comprising at tlu' most, only a fvw 
weeks, lie has acconii)lished much, however. f<ir 
himself in an educational way, being of a ipiick 
and assimilative natui-e. He assisted his father in 
clearing four farms in Saginaw County and at the 
age of fourteen was hired out and worked in an 
hottl at 'Slo per month, living \ariousl\ at Chesa- 
ning. St. Charles and Bay City. During the sum- 
mers ho assisted his father at home with the harvest- 
ing. 

December 16, 18G;i. :Mr. Patterstui enlisted in 



Company O, Third Michigan Cavalry. lie wa.s 
engaged in thelii-sl light at Collierville,Tenn.,and 
was distinguished foi- ids readiness for duty. He 
served until March. IM(j.">, when, while engaged in 
building a bridge, he I'eceived a .serious injury, 
which h:is affected him ever since. He wa.s dis- 
charged February, IHdi!, .at San Antonio, Tex., and 
his rcginu'iit disbanded at .lackson, Mich., in 
Marcli. .'iftei- wliiili he went to fireenbusli, Clinton 
C<iunty, and there icmained for one \ear and a 
half.- ill' then removed to Deer Creek and per- 
manently located, his i-esi<U'nce being now at that 
place. For the first four years after coming iiere 
he c( inducted his fanning operations on shares, 
lie now resides on .section 7. and he anil his wife 
own one hundred and sixty-three acres, of which 
about one hundred acres have been cleared and 
improved and bear a good class of building.*. He 
is the owner also of another farm and of one hun- 
dred and twenty acres.. 

.Mr. Patter.son has been twice married. His first 
nianiage was May ."il. liSfili. at which time he 
was united to Fli/.abeth Howe, who was born on 
the f;irni where our subject now resides. .She was 
daughter of John and Eunice (.lones) Howe, who 
came to this State from near Yonkers. X. Y.. in 
IHIdand settled in Deer Creek. Mrs. Howe was 
born near l,ock|)0]t. N. \. She reared two chil- 
dren — lames and Elizalieth. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Patter.son died March 12. 1«7I. 
leaving one .son whose name is John F. The 
jiresent wife was previous to her marriage a Miss 
Kv:\ .lohiisoii. a daughter of Michael and Bethania 
(.loues) .bihiison. the fathei' being :> retired mer- 
chant at Linden. \'>\ this marriage our sniiject i» 
the [larent of two cliildreii — Fred and Zada E. 

On another page of this \-olunie the reader will 
liiid a lithographic view of .Mr. Patterson's pleasant 
home. 






« |H.L1AM H. DECKE. To give a sketch of 

\/\ll' *^^*^ ''^'^ story of a prominent business man 

J^' and an old soldier is a pleasant task, and we 

arc pleased to have so good a subject in tlie name 



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which appears at the head of this paragraph — the 
proprietor of one of I^ansing's large retail and 
wholesale markets. ^Nlr. Decke was born in Ger- 
many, at Ilermaurode, Ilessen. July 27, 1839, and 
was there reared until he reached the age of fifteen 
years. His father, Christoitlier Decke, was a native 
of the same town and a farmer who had lieeii well- 
to-do. lint his property was much dejileted during 
the season of war, as he had to quarter soldiers. 
He was a man of true Christian character and 
worthy of the respect of all who knew him. In 
18,")8 the youth with his jiarents came to America, 
locating in I'enfield, ^Monroe County, >'. Y., com- 
ing somewhat later to Michigan and making their 
home in Delta Township, Eaton County, where 
tlic father died at the age of eighty eiglit and the 
mother passed away when eighty-nine years old. 
She bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Allirecht. 
Her father, .lt)hn Albrecht, was a prosperous farmer 
In their native place and a soldier in the wars waged 
by Napoleon. They had eight children, four lioys 
and four girls, of whom our subject was the young- 
est, lie came to America to escape militar;. duty, 
leaving Bremen in the spring of 1856 and upon 
landing, making his way to Washington, Orange 
County, N. Y. This young man had not a nickle 
upon arriving in this country and he set to work 
to find employment and cheerfully labored for $4 
per month. As soon as he liad earned enough to 
make the journey he cjime to Macedon. Wayne 
County, N. Y., and worked on a farm and attended 
school for three months. 

In August, 1861, the first cavalry i-egim,_^nt raised 
in that county enlisted this young man in its ser- 
vice and he was mustered in at Hochester .'is a 
memlier in Company I, Eighth Xew York Cavalry. 
( )n ills wav to the front he received a serious in- 
jur\'. falling tliirty feel from a railroad abutment, 
and injuring his ankle, lie was in a hospital at 
Wasliington until .Tune, wliile his regiment was at 
^Tenden Hill ready t\>i' the spring campaign. This 
liody took part in contlicts at Edward's Ferry, up 
the Shenandoah, the battle of Winchester, Harper's 
Ferry and Annapolis .Junction and then went down 
the Shenandoah Valley again, back and forth all 
througli the fall. Having joined the Army of the 
Potomac, they took part in the battles of Autictam 



and Hagerstown, then followed the rebels up the 
liapidan and after several fights turned and went 
to Fredericksburg. Chancellorsville. Beverly Ford, 
and Gettysliurg. Afterward they returned to Fred- 
crick City and on to Williamsport, fighting every 
day for a week. 

At Frederickstown our young hero was wounded 
.July 10, 1863, being shot through the right thigh 
with a minie ball and was in the hospital for three 
days without attention, and his companions dis- 
paired of his recovery. As soon as he considered 
himself able to resume active service he asked to 
lie sent to his regiment but as those in command 
dill not think him yet able the3' refused, liut he 
stole away, saddled a horse and w.as soon with his 
comrades. 

The young soldier was present during Mead's 
letreat and saw smoke at Rapidan, Stephensljurg 
and Brandy- Station, also at Fairfax Station and Cul- 
})eper. His regiment was the first cavalry body 
to cross the Rapidan in the spring of 1864 and 
they took part in the battles of the Wilderness and 
at .Spottsylvania, also in those at White House, 
Cold Harbor and in front of Petersburg. During 
Wilson's raid they lost one-half of their men. They 
went up Weldon railroad in the Shenandoah Valley 
to Winchester and Fisher's Hill and were driven 
back from Newmarket to Middletown, but they 
succeeded in repelling the rebels and took back 
every wheel that was lost on Wilson's raid. Octo- 
ber 19, at the battle of Fisher's Creek this regiment 
captured fifty-eight pieces of artillery besides other 
liootv. The regiment was mustered out December 
H. 1H64. at Rochester, N. Y. 

At the battle of Ihandy Station the young sol- 
dier was seriously injured by his lioise which 
jum|)ed over a fence as it was coming in from 
picket duty in the night. At the battle of Cul- 
peper Courthouse he received a~sabre thrust in 
his right shoulder but did not leave his regiment 
ft)r hospital treatment at that time. His only other 
serious wound was a shot received in his right 
hand from a revolver. 

After reaching home ^Ir. Decke was employed 
on a farm until September. 1865, when he came to 
DeWitt. INIicli.. and began work on a farm, and in 
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Township. Here he ini|ii(i\i'<l hi> |il.iic ;iiiil cini- 
tiniu'<] llu' cultivation (»f the .-ioil until lie linally 
drifted into the meat busine.ss. In li-;7(l lie opened 
a market in Lansinji: and two years later removed 
to town where he now carries on an extensive bus- 
iness, nut Hilly in the local trade, both wholesale 
and retail, but also by buyiiiiT and sliippinii; to dis- 
tant |)oiiits. lie has accumulated rc.-il estate and 
owns three houses in the city. 

The marriaoe of our subject took pl.ace in 1-ioclics- 
ter, in \Xi')ii. and he was then joined to Miss ^fary 
Gorman, of Xe«aik. N. .1. Five children have 
crowned this union, namely: William, (ieoiii'e. 
KliiuT. Frank and Charles. All are .at home except 
Frank, who is |iursuiiii,'- his studies ;it the rniver- 
sity of Michii;:an where he expects to take his di- 
ploma with the Class of "it."?. This thoronuii-going 
business man is intclliicciil in liis understanding of 
American public affairs and aHiliates with the Re- 
])ublican party. lie is highly esteemed by all who 
come in contact with him in a business or social 
way. and he has every reason to be proud of his 
sons. 



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HS. SARAH M. DRKW, 



Tin 



St unable 



lady to ■whom we would now call the at- 
& tention of our readers is the widow of 

Emerald I). Drew, a New Yorker by birth, 
whose parent-s were Xoah and Amy (Lyon) Drew, 
who as well as their son were natives of the Em- 
pire State. Noah Drew was a farmer, and many 
years ago came to Michigan, settling in Marion 
Township, Livingston County, and afterwaid 
making his home in ITowell. hi 1X><,') he went to 
Fngland on business and spent some lime there, and 
prcxious to his contemplated retuiii he died there 
in IHHII. The mother was living in Marion Town- 
ship, this county, when she received her call tothe 
otiier world. Their children were Emma 1)., .Tc)lin 
('., Martin V.. ^Milton. Allen. Ellen (Mrs. Hughes), 
Mary (.Mrs. Conklin) and .lob AV. 

Emerald D. Drew was a mechanic, and made his 
home at Howell, where he cna.iiied in the business 



of a builder and eontraetor. and stmie years later 
entered upon a mercantile e:ireer. He linally sold 
out his intercst-s in Howell, and in 1875 e.stabli.shed 
himself in the mercantile business at Eowlerville, 
and thus continueil until his death in 1H77. He 
was a successful business man and built nji a large 
and jirosperous trade. His political views bnnight 
him into .s.\iii|iathy with the principles and move- 
ments of the Republican party, and he was a 
member of the Odd Fellows. He belonged to the 
Christian Israelite Church. 

Mr. Drew went to California in 1860 and en- 
gaged in mining ojierations, and later undertook 
an extensive fanning business in which he was 
(piitc successftil. He remained there .seven yeare, 
returning to the East in 18()7, and two years Later 
he established himself in a home of his own by 
choosing as his wife Miss Sarah M. Hughes, of 
Howell, daughter of .lolin I), and Delia M, ( Perry) 
Hughes. Mr. Hughes was a native of New Jersey, 
and his wife was born in New York. They came 
^Vest previous to their marriage and were united 
in the bonds of matiiinony in ^Vashtenaw County, 
where they settled tni a farm. Later they came 
to Livingston County, and took charge of a 
farm two and one-half miles e.ast and south 
of Fowlersxille. Handy Township. Mrs. Drew 
lost her father by death in I. SH'.I. but her mother 
is still with her. and they make their home 
together. The live childicii of Mr. an<l Mr.s. 
Hughes arc Sarah .M. (Mrs. Drew), .\rvid II.. Nor- 
man R., Lucy A. (Mrs. Van Riper) and Jlinnie D., 
now deceased. 

The father of Mrs, Hughes was .Io.seph Perry, 
.•ind his wife was .Sally Carr. They came \Vej<t 
froiu New York in 1K27, settling at Lodi, Waslite- 
iiiaw County, Mich., when there were only two 
small houses in what is now thi' city of Ann 
Arbor. Of their eight children, only two are now 
living — Delia (Mrs. Hughes), and Emetine (Mrs. 
Camp.) The others are Norman. .Vntha M.. Weller. 
(;rant P.. .\daline. Booth, Lucy .\., Hurgess and 
INIerritt, 

Since the death of her husband Mrs. Drew has 
continued to carry on his mercantile business. 
She suffered a heavy loss in the 6re which look 
place March 15, 18;)1. but she is undaunted iu ber 



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detennin.itioii to succeed in l)usiness. For its ac- 
commodalioii she is now liuilding a handsome 
brick l)locl< on tlie corner of (Ji'und Avenue and 
Grand River Streets. Her lieautifnl home is situ- 
ated on (irand Avenue. She is a hidy of consid- 
erable cnltiu'c, and received her liiu'lier education 
at Pinckney. Wlien fifteen years old she com- 
menced teaching, jn-acticing her [irofession in both 
Washtenaw and Livingst<m Comities. She is pro- 
licien.t in both (lerman and music, and gives in- 
struction in the latter art. Her father, whose 
memory she greatl3' reveres, was a |)r()minent man 
in the Metliodist Episcopal t'liurch. and tilled the 
otKce of Classs- Leader. She is both socially and 
in a liusiness way one of the most important 
ladies in Fowlerville, and has the res|)ect and con- 
fidence of the community. 

The parents of Mrs. Hughes, .loseph and Sally 
(Carr) Perry, moved from Genesee County, N. Y.. 
to Saratoga Sinings. same State, wliere tliey resided 
twelve years prior to coming to Michigan. Mrs. 
Drew prior to her marriage was a member of Star 
Lodge, Fowlerville, ^Mich. 









'\f^ ETEK ( )LSEN, deceased. A large foreign 
iVj element has gone into the make up of the 
social and industrial life of Michigan and 
llic continent of !Mn-o]ie has fui'nishe(l 
many woilhy citizens who li:i\c iii:i(lc thcnisi'ht's 
honored and respected in this .New \\ Orld. Among 
them we may mention with respi'ct the nauic which 
.'ipliears at the head of th.is sketch, the name of one 
who for many years was well-known in Cohoctah 
Township, Livingston County but has now "passed 
to that bourne from whence no traveler returns." 
Mr. Olsen was l)oni. .luiie 7, 1841), in Fjelde, 
Denmark, and he is the son of Ole Knudsen and 
Bodil Knudsen, who carried on farming operations 
in their native land and brought to man's and 
woman's estate two sons and two daughters. All 
of their children with the exception of one daugh- 
ter have made their home in the United States. 



Our subject came hither in 1872 and with 1300 
capital settled in Howell, and began working at 
whatever employ he could find. In 1875 he joined 
his lirothcr. Kniid. in taking one hundred and 
sixty acres which they cleared and improved and 
brought into a highly productive state, our subject 
placing \ipon his portion a handsome residence. 

Mary J^arsen was the name by which the lady 
was known who became the wife of our subject, 
March 12, 1875. She was born in Kykkerup, Den- 
mark, May 24. 1857 and is a daughter of Lars and 
Anna C. (Kasniussen) Knudsen. Her father was a 
farmer and he and his goo<l wife had eight daugh- 
ters and four sons, all of whom grew to woman's 
and man's estate. One son. Christian, has since 
died in Oceola, May 11, 1889, having been in the 
I'liited States since 1882. Four daughters. Sine, 
Sophia. Christina, and Mary, came to the United 
States and the second of these daughters died in 
Marion Township, leaving a husband and one 
daughter. Mrs. Olsen was the first of her family 
to come to this country. 

;\Ir. Olsen returned to the old country to bring 
his bride to her new home and after their arrival 
here in the spring of 1875 others of the family 
connection became interested in the New World 
and many of them decided to emigrate hither. To 
this worthy couple were born two sons, Fred 
Ferdinand and Christian C. The Lutheran Church 
is the religious bodv with which our subject was 
identified from childhood and with which, with his 
faithful wife, he is still connected. His political 
views lirought him into synip.'ithy with the Dcniii- 
eraticpaity :ind Uv was e\er intelligently interested 
in the mo\ements of American jjolitics. His death 
took place. Decemlier 7. 1887 and lie was trul\- 
mouiiu'd by those who had been :iss<,ieiated with 
him in life. 



lEORGE G.MORTON. Meridian Township, 
which is located in the northern part of 
Ingham County, has many beautiful farms, 
but none are better managed than the small one, 
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to the g'cntlcmaii whose iiiiine is Mt tlie liead of 
this sketch. It wouhl seem that in tlie '3(ls liiere 
must have lnen a sjeneral exodus of fainilics fioiii 
New York Stale to Jlieliiiran. and Mr. Morton was 
one of the long train to come iiither at that time, 
making his move Octoher '2(i, 1839, from Whites- 
hurough, Oneida County, X. V. His father, Seth. 
^lorton, was a native of Rutland. \i., having lieen 
horn tiiere in 179."). 

Our subject's immediate progenitor w.is a car- 
penter by trade, but carried on fai'ming in connec- 
tion with his trade. When his son, George, was 
but eight years old the family determined to come 
to Michigan, and made the nionientous journey 
hither, settling tirst in Bengal Township, Clinton 
County, in 1837. At that liinc there were very 
few white settlers in the township, and they were 
obliged to go to DeWitt, thirteen miles from theii- 
home, as the nearest point at which thej^ could get 
groceries. Wild game was at that time ver^- plen- 
tiful, and very frequently the |)ioneer stood in his 
doorway and shot deer. 

That necessity is the mother of invention is 
never more apparent than in pioneer days and our 
subject's family had to resort to many ludicrous 
makeshifts. A tree to]) was used in lieu of a 
clothesline, and was also 'ihe vehicle u|ion wlii<-h 
the wheat was dragged to the barns. These stir- 
ing conditions of life, however, were calculated to 
develop firmness, strength and independence of 
charocter. In 1H.')2 Mr. Morton. Sr.. was attracted 
to California with the Iiands that were constantly 
startingout to that jjroniised land of golden treas- 
uff. The trip o\'erland (iccupicd six months and 
two days, and on arriving he spent two ycai's in 
working in the gold mines. The feverish life of 
earl}' days was not pleasing, however, to the old 
gentlemae, and he returned to i\u>w (piiet Michi- 
gan, .'uid having cleared up a farm he moved into 
DeWitt, where he die(l. His wife, our subject's 
mother, was in her maiden days Miss I'hilora 
Tultle, a native of one of the Eastern States. 
Her decease took place in I si! I. at the age of sixt\ 
ye<u's. 

The original of our sUctch remained at home 
until he had reached his majority, giving his 
parents the benefit of his work and attending dis- 



trict school. On the breaking out of the war in 
I Ht; I, his patriotism took a |)ractieal turn, and in 
September of that ycai' he enlisted in the Second 
Regiment. 1'. S. Shar|)shooters, Company H. and 
serued faithfully until the close of the war. He 
was .assigned to duty with the .\rmy of the Poto- 
ni.ac and was with Berdan's V. S. Sliarp.s|iooters, 
serving in the Second Division. .lune 1, 18(j4, he 
was taken prisoner near Petersburg, and was first 
sent to Libln-. but was subsequently changed to 
Andersonville. and from there to Charleston, and 
thence to Florence. During the nine months of 
his imprisonment he .suffered the miseries incident 
to those foul places. While at Florence he was at 
one time three days without rations. A brave 
and daring soldier, he made a record in his 
military life that his friends feel justly proud 
of. 

On the close of Ihe war Mr. Morton returned to 
DeWitt and ccmdueted the work on the old farm 
until 1874. Ambitious, lujwever, to manage a 
larger estate, he rented the old homestead and .as- 
sumed the charge of the lai-ge farm of six hundred 
and forty acres in Delhi Townshii).iemaining there 
for .seven yeans. He then returned to the old home- 
stead, and there worked for one year, at the expira- 
tion of which time he st)ld out and bought tlu- 
farm u|)on which he now resides. 

The gentleman of whom we write was very hap- 
pily married in 18G1 to Miss .lane Cushman. a 
daughter of Charles Cushman. who was an old 
pioneer in De Witt Township. Mrs. Morton is 
also a sister of (Jilbert Cushman. of .Meridian 
Township. The lady was born I'"elii-uary 17. 1839. 
in Washtenaw County, this .State, and when 
three years of age. she with her parents moved to 
Clinton County, this .State. Children of their own 
have been denied this worthy couple, but they 
bestowed the wealth ()f their alTection and ])rotect- 
ing ("ire upon an adopted son. taken into the fam- 
il\' when he was eight months of age. He goes liy 
the name of the name of .loseph .1. Morton and 
was born 'Slay \'>. 1871. This young man has 
most llattering [Mospects for the future. He is 
bright and intelligent and his friends will be 
greatly disappoint<'d if he does not realize their 
expectations for him. Mr. Morton is a menil)er of 



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the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Capitol 
Lodge, No. 6(5, of Lansing. He was formerly a 
Democrat, but for the past twelve years has been a 
(ireenbaek advocate. The center of a wide circle 
of friends, Mr. Morton merits the esteem and con- 
fidence whicli is acc<iiilc(l liijii on every side. 



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ORTIMER I). OARDNKR. This gentle- 
man, who is the son of Amilo and Han- 
nah (Mixtei) Gardner, is the grandson of 
William (iardiicr of Connecticut, who was 
one of the early .settlers of Millford, Oakland 
County, Mich., but wliose death occurred by 
drowning, after he had returned to Connecticut 
when an old man. His large family of children 
bore the following names: Alexander, Amilo, 
Almiron, Abel, M^'ndred, Lovilla,Lucy and Delia. 
Alexandei', Almiron, Abel, l^ovilla and Lucy have 
died. William (Sardner married Mary Randall, 
wiio was Mrs. WightiiKin by a previous marriage. 
He was an active Democrat in his political sj'mpa- 
thies and served his country in the War of 1812. 
Amilo Gardner was liorn September 18, 1805, 
and jjursued farming most of his life, although in 
early years he was a drover, buying cattle all over 
the State of New York. He also served as Justice 
of the Peace through most of his life in New York. 
In 1850 he moved by team and wagon from Her- 
kimer, N. Y., to Fulton County, 111., being thirty- 
three days on the road, and the following spring 
he pursued his journey to Michigan by way of 
Chicago, and in the spring of 1851 (only forty 
years ago) his horses mired in the streets of Chi- 
cago and he had to pull them out with an ox- 
team. He bought and settled upon two hundred 
acres on section 28, Tyrone Townshi]), Livingston 
County, and he proceeded to clear and improve it 
and place upon it excellent farm buildings. 

The father of our subject was the first man who 
raised hops in ^lichigan and he sold as much as 
$5,000 worth of this crop in a single year. A 
team, a wagon and ^7 were his fortune when he 
left New York, and he is now a successful man, 



owning thi-ee hundred and eighty acres of excel- 
lent and richly cultivated land. His six children 
are Mortimer D., William D., Alonzo E., Austin 
R., James R. and an adopted daughter, Laura L. 
Williams. The father and mother are earnest and 
devoted Christians, and members of the Christian 
Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church re- 
spectively, and the father has ever been an active 
and stanch Democrat. He is a liberal giver to 
church and charitable purposes, and the house of 
worshi() which was erected upon his farm was half 
paid for by this liberal family. He has served the 
public as Postmaster for twenty -six years. 

The mother of Mortimer Gardner was born .lan- 
uary 8, 1814, and died October 7, 1881, being a 
daughter of David and Hannah (Bronson) Mixter, 
who carried on a farm in New York. The subject 
of this sketch was born May 10, 1834, in Warren, 
Herkimer County, N. Y., and received a common 
school education, by which he so thoroughly 
profited as to be able t(j teach in both New York 
and Michigan. He makes a specialty of teaching 
Mono-Chromatic painting, which he finds very 
profitable, and he sometimes receives from his 
pupils as much as 1500 in a single season. He 
moved with his jjarents to the West, but not lik- 
ing Illinois, started back to New York, and stop- 
ping in Michigan found a congenial home, which 
he has since maintained in this State. He began 
farming with his father, and also "kept tavern," as 
it was then called, where they now reside. 

The marriage of our subject December 27, 1854, 
to Miss Sarah A. Griswold brought to his home a 
cultivated and intelligent lady, who is a lit help- 
mate to this i)rogressive man. She was born in 
Chemung County, N. Y., and was a teacher for 
years, being lai'gely self-educated. Her parents, 
George (r. and Alzina (Roberts) (Jriswold, were 
born inChenumg County, and her father was a 
farmer, who came to Oceola Townshi]), Livingston 
County, in the territorial days and here owned a 
large tract of land. His family consisted of four 
sons and four daughters. 

Mr. and Mrs. Gardner have had boin to them 
two children, Amito (!. and Adda A., now the wife 
of George Wilcox. Our subject is an honored and 
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Masons, and botli lie and lii.< "i'ood wife are leading 
members of tlie Metliodi.st Kijiscopal Cliureli. 
Since his first coming to tlie State lie iia.s resided 
continuously in Tyrone Township, and he now 
owns one hundred and ninety-one acres on sec- 
tions "27 and "iM, from most of which he has him- 
self cleared away the trees. 'I'liis gentleman has 
been active in politics and attends all the conven- 
tions, having served nine years as clerk, lie has 
generally declined political honors, but lias served 
as Deputy Sheriff for twenty-live yt-ars and as 
Notary Public for the same length of lime. 

William I). (Jardner, a brother of onr subject, 
married Leiiora (Jriswol 1, and they .are the parents 
of two sous. Alouzo married Nettie L. Reed and 
Austin R. married Mary Kinsman, and to Ihciu have 
been granted two daught(>rs. .lames 1!. (iardner 
married Emma Kinsman, and Laura Williams, the 
adopted sister, is the wife of .losepli R. ( HJNUold 
anil has three sons and two dauyhters. 



SULAND S. WILCOX. Ihis well-known and 
highly respected farmer whose pleasant 
^ \V home may be found on section 10, Oceola 

^^Sl Townshi|i, Livingston County, is of Kast- 
ern birth, his nativity having occuried .Inly H. 
1H;^0, in Alleghany County, N. V.. where his father. 
Alouzo Wilcox, was also a native in 1H07. Our 
subject's mother, Sarah Dean, a \'ermontcr by birth. 
lived with her young husband on the tract known 
as the Holland Purchase until they came to .Michi- 
gan in 1836. 

The first family home in the W(;st was on wli.at 
is known as the Dr. Wixoii place, in Xovi Town- 
ship, Oakland County, but after about a year the\ 
came to Livingston County, settliuii' in Oceola 
Township and taking up (loNcrnmeut land on 
.section 33, in the year 1837. Here the young man 
cut logsand built him a log house measuring about 
14x24, and having cleared up the place, improved 
and cultivated it, made it his home for .seven years, 
subsequent to which they leniovcd to sections 1 



and 9, of the same township, and there again built 
a log house and improved the land. His last years 
were spent in l-'owlerville where he lived to he 
seventy-four years old. His politics led him to 
atliliate with the Democratic party and he served 
his township faithfully and etiiciently as Highway 
Commissioner. His good wife lived to be seventy- 
eight y(!ars old and was the mother of six sons and 
five daughters, all but one of whom are still living 
and \\ii\v families of their own. 

Our subject is the first-ltoni of his parents and 
w'as a child of six years when the familj- migration 
w^as made to this State. He has therefore spent 
most of his life here and received his schooling in 
the log schoollKuises of Oceola Township. His 
boyhood diiys alternated between school and farm 
work, and lie was an elficient hel]X'r to his father 
and whi'u quite young assumed charge of the farm. 
I'or ten years he was accustomed to go into the 
[line regions during the lumbering seasons but 
spent his summers on the farm. 

Debby Chamliers was the maiden n.ame of the 
lady who became the bride of our subject, .Septem- 
ber 27, 18i)7. She was born in New York but came 
when (iiiite a siiiall iliild with her father, .lames 
Chambers, to Michiaan. After maniage the young 
couple made their home <m the spot where they still 
reside, as the youna man had purchased one hun- 
dred and sixty acres and had it jiartly paid for be- 
fore marriage. Here he built a little log house in 
the midst of the clearing and proceeded to ini- 
liiove the property and cultivate it. Not a stick 
had been cut upon the place before he took it, but 
previous to settling here he had put twelve acres 
into condition for tillage. 

Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox have been blessed by the 
birth of tliiie children, n.amely: Alonzo .1., who 
married Miss Hetty Staley, of Oceola Township; 
Kmiiia 15. and Adellicrt, both of whom reside at 
home. From small beginnings our subject has 
gained a handsoine property, and besides the one 
hundred and sixty acres on the liome place he has 
forty acres on section 4, seventeen acres on section 
3. and fifteen acres on section 2. The attractive 
and commodious house in which his family now 
resides was erected by him in I86SI at a cost of 
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37x37 feet, the old barn is 30x41 feetand the grain 
barns are 36x44 and 30x46. He keeps on an aver- 
age one hundred and liftv head of sheep which he 
ttnds to be profitable, and he deals largel^^ in them, 
buying and selling. He also keeps good horses. 

The political views of Mr. Wilcox have led liim 
into alliance witli the forces of the Democratic 
party and lie lias great faith that the principles 
promulgated by the author of the Declaration of 
Independence will yet triumph in the government 
of America, but he is not an office seeker and has 
held no positions of public service. He was at one 
time a member of the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows. He is well-known in the county- as favor- 
able to all good causes and pays generously for the 
support of institutions of religion and education, 
alhough he is not a member of any particular church. 



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BER S. ANDREWS, editor of tiie Williams- 
ton Enterprise, is a son of Sylvester An- 
? drews, and a grandson of William Andrews, 
who was born October lli. ITSil, in Rhode Island, 
and died May 7, 1856. Wlien a young man Will- 
iam Andrews went to New York, and in 1813 was 
married to Rebecca Hall, a native of Saratoga 
County, who was born May 13, 1796, and died 
October 20, 1824. To them tlie following children 
were born: George, deceased; Martin B., Eii B., 
Sylvester S., Delia E., Hiram B., Charity C. and 
Susan L. All of these children were born in New 
York, and it was in 1833 tliat AVilliam Andrews 
came to Michigan and settled in Commerce Town- 
ship, Oakland County, whence he removed in 
1845 to Howell, Livingston County, where he 
died. His good wife spent her last days with her 
eldest son in Ionia County. Her liusband passed 
his last years upon a farm, liut during most 
of his life devoted his energies to managing a 
sawmill. 

Sylvester Andrews was Itorn Felirnary 18, 1821, 
in Saratoga County, N. Y., and was twelve years 
of age when he accompanied his parents to Michi- 
gan, and upon first leaving home was engaged in 



the sawmill business in Port Huron. His wife, 
Alalia, was a daughter of Isaiah Hudson, a son of 
Abiam Hudson, of ]Morristown, N. .1., who was a 
soldier in the Revolutionary War. The paternal 
grandfather of our subject had the following chil- 
dren : Frank, Elisha, Nancy. Sydney. Eliznbetli. ( )1- 
ive, Pluma A., Maria and Charlotte. Air. Hudson was 
a millwright and farmer, and a man of consider- 
able property, and one of of the pioneers of Oak- 
land County. He finally removed to Saginaw 
County, where he engaged in mercantile busi- 
ness. 

To Sylvester Andrews and his good wife were 
boi'ii only one child, oui- subject. The father is 
an express agent at Howell, Mich., where he is 
also engaged in selling agricultural imple- 
ments, a line of Inisiness in which has been in- 
terested for many years. He is still in active 
business, although he has reached the limit of three- 
score years and ten. His faithful and dev(»ted 
wife was snatched from his side by death in 
August, 1855, when the cholera swept llinnigh Port 
Huron. He li.as since that time twice married, but 
no children have been born. 

Eber S. .Vndrews was born in Port Huron, May 
12. 1853. and at the age of six went to Livingston 
County witli his parents, where he resided until 
1872. He started in life for himself at the age of 
thirteen, and worked upcm a farm until he was 
apprenticed to Joseph T. Titus, and after working 
for three years at the printers' trade decided to 
attend school for a year at Howell, which op])oi- 
tunity he improved most heartily, as he had had 
no other education except what he received in the 
comnnjii country schools. In 1871 he went to 
Saginaw, and in 1872 was married in Howell to 
Emma Huntington, a daughter of Dr. William 
Huntington, who, when a young man, had emi- 
grated to Oakland County, where he was married 
to Phffibe Tibliits. 

The father of Airs. Andrews, although now 
seventy-four .^ears of age, is in active practice .as a 
physician in Howell, and his son William (Ms also 
following the same [irofession there. After mar- 
riage Mr. Andrews made his hcjme in Jackson, 
and afterward in Kalamazoo, and later in Howell, 
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he pureliased an inlpre.st in the LivinirJ^ton lirpubli- 
can.nnd after one year's exporienee upon that news- 
paper he eame to Williatnstiin, and purehased in 
Deeenilier. 1874, the AVillianiston Eiileiprisp.wh'wU 
lie has since conducted and edited. He has one of 
the best equipped country offlces in tlie Stale, and 
has Iniilt up quite a Inisiuess in job ijrintin":. as for 
fifteen years he has made a specialty of society 
printins":, and his ]M])ev lias a circulation of twelve 
hundred. 

To our subject and his ainialile an<l inteiliii'ent 
wife have been born four children — ()liv(^ M. re- 
sides at home and graduated in l«ill from the 
Willianiston High School; .Tessie is in the senior 
class of the same school; anil Helen and Xeina 
are still school girls. Mr. Andrews is ;i U'oyal 
Arch ]\Iason. belonging to the Williamston J^odije. 
2s'o. 153. He is also connected with the higher 
branches of the order of Odd Fellows and belongs 
to Williamston Lodge. Xo. 20.'). Li tiie Bai)tist 
Ciiurch with whicli he. his wife and daughter are 
connected he is a leader, and is now for the third time 
tilling the otliee of Clerk of the Siiiawassee IJaptist 
Association, which includes Ingham, Clinton and 
Shiaw.issee Counties. He is memlierof the Ancient 
Order of United Workmen, and has been a mem- 
ber of the City Council during three ti'rins hi 
politics he is a Republican. 



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f^ RRIN N. MOON, M. D. One of the younger 
practitioners of the healing art in the city 
of Howell, Livingston County, Dr. Moon 
has ah'cady had a fair degree of success, and being 
a well-informed man as well .as a skillful i)racti- 
tioner it could not be otherwise. Dr. Moon, whose 
portrait accompanies this sketch, is a native of 
Cheshire. Allegan County, INIich., his natal day 
being December 2S, IS;")?. He is a son of Nelson 
O. and Emeline (Hewett) Moon, natives of New- 
York. In his youthful days, Mr. Moon Si-, was 
engaged in teaching in his native State and after 
he came to Michigan, in 18.").5, he was also for a 
time employed in the work of .-i pedagogue, con- 



tinuing in this direction until Ids marriage, which 
took place in Allegan County, Mich., March 1. 18.07. 
After that he settled down to farming, continuing 
this work a^ long as he lived. He held the office 
of .Justice of the Peace and was also Notjiry Public. 
The death of Nelson O. Moon took jilace March 
II), 187.'{, his wife having preceded him by several 
years, her death occurring July 10, 18(jH. HLs 
father was Royal H. Moon, a native of New York 
and a farmer, who died in 1812. He had only two 
children — Mrs. Ann Bagly, who died in 18G6, and 
the father of our subject. 

Dr. .Ah)ou is one of five children, only four of 
whom are now living. They are in order of birth 
Orrin .\.. our subject. Mrs. Nettie Joj', Mrs. Ella 
Bennett and .Mrs. Abbie L. Thimipson. Our subject's 
father was a Republican. He served in the army 
for eighteen months, being commissioned as Second 
Lieutenant and belonging to the Third Michigan 
Cavalry, Company I. His health failing him he 
was obliged to resign his commission and return 
home. He and his family were niemliers of the 
Baptist Church. Our subject remained on the 
farm until his fatiier's death, receiving very good 
educational advantages meantime. After fiui.sliing 
the district school in the vicinity of his home he 
attended the Hallle Creek High School. after which 
he entered the dental office of D. C. Hauliiii-st .and 
was there empkned for two j'cars. At the expi- 
ration of that time he began to read medicine with 
Dr. Anilspaugh of Battle Creek, and in the year 
1878 began the study of medicine in the State 
Lniversity at Ann .Vrbor. 

On leaving Ann Arbor he located, first at 
.lamestown, Ottawa County, !Mich.. where he s|)ent 
one year and then attended the Keokuk Medic.il 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, being grad- 
uated therefrom .AFarch 1, 1881. There he held the 
p(jsition of Assistant Demonstrator in Anatomy. 
He then returned to .Jamestown and remained ft>r 
another year, when he moved into the Holland 
Colony in Ottawa County in the township of Zee- 
land, where he was engaged in practice for some five 
years, after which he removed to Fennville, .\lle- 
gan County, where he opened a drug store in con- 
nection with his practice, be being a registered and 
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last-named jjlace lie sold o\it his business interests 
and came to Howell in 1IS87 where he has sinee 
been in active practice. Here he has a large and 
remunerative patrtmage and is popular among all 
classes of iieojjle. 

Dr. !Mo(>n was first married September 13, IHT'.t, 
to Miss ]Minnie S. Van Zee, of Salem, Allegan 
Countv, INIich., and one child was boni unto them. 
Selwyn \V.. whose birth occurred December 31, 
1^81. The union was au unhappy one and on 
June 13. 1KM5, in the Superior Court of Grand \ 
Rapids iu chancery before the Hon. Isaac H. Par- 
rish. .Judge of said court, a divorce from the bonds 
of matrimony was granted untv the complainaut, 
Orrin N. Moon, and the care. custt)dy and educa- 
tion of said .Selw\ n Vt'.. was granted vmto same. 

Dr. Moon was again married .September 10. 18«."i. 
his bride l)eing Miss Cecelia Walters, of (Jrand 
Rapids, this State. This estimable lady was born 
in Cardiff. Wales. December 4, l!S(i4 and has borne : 
her husband two children, who brighten the home. 
Tlie_y are — Orrin N.. born March 1. 18S7, and 
Cecil W., March 1(1, 1889. Socially the Doctor 
lielongs to Howell Lodge No. 38, A. F. it A. M., 
and also to the Chapter No. 7 tif (irand Rapids. 
He also is identified with. the Grand Rapids Coun- 
cil No. 10, the Knights Templar of Howell, and 
the New Moon Lodge No. 284, I. O. O. F., of 
Jamestown Center, Mich. He is the oldest mem- 
ber of the State INIedical Society residing in 
Howell. His practice has extended beyond the 
immediate locality so that he has now a wide 
circuit in the country, which entails much liard 
riding. This, however, is a hardship that most 
physicians are not averse to. 



'jll OHN A. GREENFR. This worthy citizen of 
Cohoctah Township, Livingston County, 
who has proved his worth as a member of 
society and as a successful farmer, was born 
September 13, 1859, on his father's old homestead 
where he still resides, an estate which is located on 



section 28, of the township. He is a son of Charles 
and Henrietta Greener, who came to the United 
States frimi Germany about the year 1835. They 
made their first home in Pennsylvania, where the 
father worked in the iix)n mines, but after that 
made New Jersey their home for a short time, and 
during their stay there ]\[r. Greener was a teamster. 
This enterprising coui)le had heard much <if the 
fame of the Western land and especially of the pro- 
ductiveness and climate of Michigan and they de- 
cided they would no longer remain in the E^ast, 
where they had found no great demand for their 
efforts. They thereftue took yiassage l>y boat on 
the I{;rie Canal during the year 1837 or 1838. and 
from Buffalo came by Lake Erie to Detroit. Upon 
reaching Livingston County they took up the land 
which now forms the homestead, and'settling ui»)ii 
forty acres, went to work to improve it and plant 
crops. To this farm they added from time to time 
until they owned one hundred and seventy-five 
acres, which they remained ii\»m until death 
ensued. The father passed from earth in April. 
1863, at the age of fifly-two years, and his widow 
died in October, 1883, having reached the age of 
sixty-three years. They were the iiarents of seven 
children, namely: John, who died in infancy; 
Charles, who died at the .age of thirty; Elizabeth, 
Luther, ^largaret, .b)hn A. and Catherine E. 

The children of this family were liroughl u|) in 
the faith of the Evangelical Church, to which their 
jiarents both belong, and although they were 
unable lo give their offspring much of this world's 
pos.sessions, they did leave them a sacred heritage 
of faith, hope and charity. To our subject was 
given the best opportunity which was then avail- 
able for .an education, but the common schof)ls of 
the day were narrow in their curriculum, although 
excellent in drill. But pioneer boys did not have 
much time to devote to study, as their strength and 
labor was needed in >uliduing the wilderness and 
raising the neces-sary crops. 

Since the death of tlie father this son has made 
his home upon the homestead and he has added 
thereto one hundred ami twenty acres, eighty of 
which he ha* imiiroved. His married life l)egan 
October 12, 1887, and his bride was known in 
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iiiterestinij; lady is a native of C'olioclali Townsliip 
and a (lanuiitci' of Amos and Sarah ((iorden) Pralt. 
Slip is an active and etiicieut niemlwr of the Meth- 
odist Kpiscojjal C'hnrcli. where her inlhience is 
liiuhly jiiized. Tlie political ideas which Mr. 
Greener considers most sound are those wiiicli are 
expressed in tlie deliverances of tiie Democratic 
party and he li.-is faith in the ultimate success of 
that Iiodv. 



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OlIN K. STKT.ZKK. IJeU.nginii- to that cl.iss 
of Teutonic emigrants whose indu.stry and 
economy soon placed them in comfortable 
and responsible positions on coming into 
the new country, our subject has taken advantage 
of every circumstance that he could turn to his 
own account, and the consequence is that he is in 
a most conil'drtablc linanciai position and ;i laiiner 
who has accumulated a handsome competency in 
the purs\iit of his calling in this State. A resi- 
dent on section 12, t'olioctah 'I'ownship. Livinii;- 
ston County, he was born .June 1;"). IX^M. in (ier- 
many. and is a son of Wolf (4. and ^fargaret (Crul) 
Stelzer 

The oiiginal of this sketch came across the 
ocean with his jjarents, landing in this country in 
l.s."].! and llii'v inusuod their course at once to the 
northern tier of the Central States and located in 
Livingston County, enjoying the advantages of the 
district schools in his adopted land. It was not a 
great while until our subject was equipped for the 
struggle of life and working on an ecpial footing 
with the majority of other youths of the nation. 
At nineteen he began work for himself, being em- 
ployed in the service of farmers by the month and 
year and receiving >!.'5.')0 per annum for two years 
and ¥21(1 for three ye.ars. When twenty-two years 
of age he left home and was engaged in work by 
the iiioiitn. The lirst farm which he himself owned 
eonqnised forty acres of timber land which he pur- 
chased in 1H7I. This he cleared and improved 
and has from time to time added to the original 
lUMiliase until he now owns two hundred and 



thirty-one acres. His success in the world was as- 
sured l)efore he ever received any pecuniary assist- 
ance, for on his father's decea.se lie received ^1.200 
from his estjite. Mr. Stelzer h.as cleared for 
himself and others over three hundred .acres of 
land. 

.Since coming to this State our subject has never 
been a resident in Cohoctah Township and his in- 
terest in this locality is consequently, paramount, 
here are his nearest and dearest ties. September 6, 
1880. he was married to JLargaret Thumser, who 
was here born May 12. IHo.o. She is a daughter 
of .lohn and Hannah (Siler) Thumser, who were na- 
tives of Germany and Saxony respectively. Our 
subject and his wife are the parents of two chil- 
dren — Eddie and Elraa, who are intelligent and 
progressive young jieople. ^[r. Stelzer is a Demo- 
crat in politics. 



1|/^^ EM;V F. .MALTl'.Y. This sterling .and 
leading man and excellent farmcrand stock- 
raiser, residing on two hundred forty acres 
vvs>^ of excellent land on section 7, (Jreen Oak 
Township. Livingston C'onnty. w.as born at the old 
.Maltbv homestead on the same secti(m, March 28, 
1845. Almon Maltbv, his father, was born in 
Henrietta County. X. V.. in LSI Land m 1832 came 
at the age of eighteen, in comjiany with a brother, 
to the Territory of Michigan, and [lUshed into the 
wilderness to make a home. They located where 
the pretty little country town of Brighttin now 
stands, although the country for miles around was 
a wilderness. 

As soon as they could convenienth' do so they 
erecte<l a saw mill and began to manufacture lum- 
ber for the army of home seekers who were follow- 
ing in their footsteps. They operated tlie mill for 
a number of years and in the meantime .Mmon 
Maltby entered eighty acres of land in Shiawassee 
County, although he never located upon it. He 
erected the first franu* house in I.righton. 

The father of our subject was a young man of 
more than ordinarv intelligence and education, and 



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Uiiiulit school diiniig the first winter after his ar- 
rival in Hamburg Townsliip. He wasfonrl of hunt- 
ijig and during liis pioneer days killed a good 
many deer. He subsequently- purchased eighty 
acres of land on section 7, Green Oak Townshij), a 
short distance fi'om Brighton and there located. 
He was an active, industrious man and became 
very prosperous. He cleared and improved his 
land .IS far as it was po.ssible and from year to year 
acquired additional acres as his means permitted. 
At the time of his death, which occurred in 1883, 
he owned four hundred acres of choice land. He 
was for three years Supervisor of (ireeu Oak Town- 
ship. 

Almon Maltby was twice married, his first wife 
being Jane Hawley, whose married life was brief, 
lasting through only a few years. Of her three 
children one died in infancy and two lived to 
manhood and served during the Civil War, one of 
them dying in tlie hospital at Xashville, Tenn. 
The second wife liore the maiden name of Esther 
Moore. She was liorn in ]Sew York and came to 
Oakland County with her parents at an early day. 
She is still living and is now in her seventieth 
year, and her four children are all living. 

The young man of whom we write, availed him- 
self of all the advantages he could secure in the 
district school, and in 1866 attended a commercial 
college in Chicago for one term. He remained 
with his parents for several years after reaching his 
majority and had the management of the farm 
during most of that time. He celebrated the one 
hundredth anniversary of our Nation's indepen- 
dence by a most impressive ceremonial in which he 
was united for life with the lady of his choice. 
Miss Mary Kn.abb, a native of the Keystone State. 
This union has resulted in the liirth of two sons — • 
Almon H. and Robert D., sons of whom any parent 
may well be proud. They are bright boys and well 
deserve the confidence of their parents, and are 
very helpful to their father upon the farm. Almon 
H., who is thirteen years of age, cut during the 
harvest time thirty-five acres of grain. 

The political views of Mr. MaUby bring him 
into connection with the Republican party and he 
is quite prominent as a quiet leader of thought in 
their ranks. For several vears he has filled the of- 



fice of Justice of the Peace and is still in that oflfice. 
He has also been Supervisor for three terms, being 
first elected in 1884. He has a fine farm, a good 
liouse and l)arns, all of which have been erected 
by himself and he takes great interest in rais- 
ing good grades of stock. He has a fine flock of 
registered Shiopshire sheep and a very fine herd of 
Jersey cattle, which is considered one of the best 
specimens of that jiopular breed in this vicinity. 
JNIr. ]\Ialt)iy is a popular and progressive farmer 
and an excellent citizen, who is willing to help for- 
ward all nnivements which will be for the benefit 
of the eommunitv. 




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RS. ELMRA WHITAKER. The presence 
of a good woman in a neighborhood is a 
lis seource and cause of public congratula- 
tion, for by her works of tender mercy, 
symi)athy and benevolence, she can accomplish 
more than one of the sterner sex, and in these 
days of emancipation from old time ideas as 
regards incapacity for business life, her sex have 
proved themselves to be the equal of their brothers 
in the energy and judgment with which they pur 
sue their chosen calling. She of whom we write 
is the successful proprietor of a fine farm compris 
ing one hundred acres on section 32, Handy 
Township, Livingston County. 

INIrs. Whitaker came to this farm in 1859. Part 
of the land was cleared at that time. At present 
she is engaged in general fanning, supplementing 
the products of her fields, orchard and garden by 
the income that she gets through her stock. It is 
a fine place and well cared for. The lady of whom 
we write was born in the township of Pennfield. 
Monroe County, N. Y., June 18, 1834. A\hen 
only eight years of age her parents brought their 
little daughter with them to the State of Michigan. 
They were Rufus and Angeline (Burlingame) 
Morrison, natives of New Y'ork. The former was 
a farmer by occupation and calling and on coming 
to Michigan located in the township of Salem, 
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Oiir suliject is one of five diildren. The eldest. 
Elizalietli. is now Mrs. Martin. Xext in urder of 
birth oome.s lier of whom we write. 'I'hcii Mor- 
timer, Oscar and .VIexander. The father's de- 
cease t^)ok [ihice in SaU'in. in 1H4!(, and the motiier 
in Klint, Mieii., in 1 ><« 1, .Mrs. Whitaker's fatlier was a 
Democrat in his vote and political following. Her 
earl\- traininu: in a religious way was that of the 
Methodist Kiji-seopal Church, both parents being 
membei-s of that body. Our subject's paternal 
grandsire was Samuel Jlorrison and his wife was 
Mary A. (Canada) Morrison, natives of New York 
and there engaged in the calling of agriculture. 
They had a large family and were ke))t busy sup- 
plying the necessities of the cliildren. The father 
was a Democrat. The maternal grandparents were 
David and Nancy (Miller) Bnrlinganu'. They 
were kindly Christian people who endeavored to 
live by the preeeptti of the (Joldcn Hulc. Tliey 
also liad a large family. 

Mrs. Wliitaker became the wife of (unden \. 
Whitaker, in January 18.52. He was a native of 
Utica, N. Y. and the son of Hiram and Cliristian 
(Casselman) \Vlii»aker, from Connecticut and 
Pennsylvania respectively. Tlie former was a 
blacksmith and the bellows were kejit going prett\' 
constantly in order to keep tlu' large family which 
clustenMl .■iliout hi> health and lioard. led and 
clothed. Tlicy came to Michigan and settled in 
SaUMii. W ashtcnaw ('(nintv. at an e.arly day. Mr. 
W'liil.-ikcr was reared on a larm and w:i> largely 
occupied with that calliug throughout lii> life, al- 
though he was engaged in teaching singing schools 
for soMU' lime prior lo and after his marriage. This 
event took place iu \>^.'>'2 and he immediately 
settled on the farm which his widow now occupies. 
lie was a Democrat iu his political lines of tliouglil 
and was actively interested in lioinii all that he 
could to strengthen his jiarty. 

Mr. and Mrs. \\'liitaker have liceii the parents of 
three children. ^V^da. Fred and Alice. The eldest 
daughter is now Mrs. K. (;ain|)l)cll .•lud is the 
mother of two children Inez and I^v.-i. Fred mai- 
ried Salin.da Barl)er: .Mice is now .Mrs. .S. 1). Hoy 
and the mother of one child, a ilaughter who hears 
the euphoueous name of lla. The heuelits an<l 
beauties of an education can scarcely be appreci- 



ated more than l)y ovn- snhject. Siie h.is made 
many .sacrifices in order to give her children every 
advantage possible and they are cultured and re- 
fined men and women whose presence is most 
beneficent in their cho.sen places of residence. 
Mrs. Hoy is a musician of no mean talent and has 
been engaged in instructing othei-s in the divine 
art. The lady of whom it is our ple.-i.sant piivilege 
to give a biographical sketch, is a woman of great 
perseverance and constancy of purpo.se. She 
carries on her farm most successfully and has made 
of it an ideal abiding |)lace. It is a very fertile 
spot in which she raises fruit that is a i)ictine of 
Insciousne.ss. She breeds hoises of .-i high 'jrade 
and also raises cattle and iiriiin. 



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=^ YI.VK.STEH <;. NOBLK. .V resident of 
^ the village of Fuadilla. he whose name is 
ft/JI,' at the head of our sketch is <Mie of a dis- 
tinguished family whose mcmhers have been 
conspicuous in civil, military and commercial life. 
His lather. l-',lnathan Noble, was a native of New 
llaxcu. ( iinu.. Ilieie born in I77<i. lie was a 
manufacturer of hats. et<-.. and at <uie time a 
\-ery wi'.allhy man. but losing much of his prop- 
erty came to Michigan to it-triexi' if possilile his 
lost fortune. His wife w.as .Vseii.ath (iilberl. a 
natix'c of New York. The couple weie mariied in 
Otsego ( onnl\ . N. ^ .. .-uid came to .Michigan in 
1H2I. .Mrs. .\senath Nolile died iu l«22. Uvv 
husliand m.ariied three times, she lieing his second 
wife. They were the [)arents of three <'hildreu. 

The eldest of the family to which our subjei-t 
belongs was Butler ti. Noble, an officer in the 
Fnited States Custom House for thirty yeare and 
a s])len(lidly talented man. He was also (iovernor 
of Wisconsin during the Civil AVar and then went 
to .New ^orU where he was first Inspector of 
drugs and medicines in the New York Custom 
House, being also H.'irbor Master for sever.al years. 
Onl\ a few weeks ago (1891) he dieii from a fit of 
apoplexy in Brooklyn, N. Y., at the age of seventy- 



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Ave years. His wife soon afterward followed him 
and her daughter, the wife of a rk-h (^tuaker. died 
on the same day. The youngest son. Herman C 
Noble, was a member of the State Legislature in 
1848 and died at the Capitol Imilding m Lansing. 
The father of oui- subjeet passed aM'ay in 1841. 
In 1831 the parents of him of whom we write came 
to Dexter, Mich., and located eighty acres of 
wild land on section .'54. I'liadilla Township, Liv- 
ingston Country on the west one-half of the south- 
west quarter of section ;i4. In order to reach their 
tract they had to follow an Indian trail, there be- 
ing no roads at that lime. Their first night in the 
vicinity was spent in the cabin of Amos Williams, 
on section 3;5. 

Mr. Noble, Sr.. built a log shanty ten feet square 
and this he covered over with grass. It was made 
of tamarack logs and comfortalile in spite of its 
diminutiveness. They had the first horse team in 
the townshiiJ and cut their way through the 
woods. That was before Michigan had lieen ad- 
mitted as a State and when (iov. Mason was 
at the head of affairs. Our subject's father was 
the first Justice of the Peace appointed in the 
township; he was also appointed Associate Judge 
by the Governor above mentioned and the first 
town meeting here held convened in the log house 
that was our subject's first home here. The to'mi- 
ship was named after Unadilla, N. Y., a pretty 
village on the Suscpiehanna River, it being so 
christened by our sul)ject's father. He acted as 
Justice of the Peace for many years and finally 
died upon his farm. 

On first coming to Inadiiln there was but one 
family in the townslii|) and no neighbors near 
them. Indians were plenty and although their 
log house, the increased dimensions of which was 
25x33 feet, was not palatial in its proportions 
all newcomers were welcome at tliat early day. 
The family had to go to Dexter or Ann Arlior to 
m.arket. Our suliject's fatliei- was an E|)iscopalian 
and was a good man, his morals being irre- 
proachable. 

The original of our sketch was born in Genoa, 
N. Y., March, 12, 1819, His father's n.ame will 
ever be remembered in that pretty city as he was 
the founder of Hobart "College of that place. 



Receiving the rudiments of his education in his 
native State our suliject was but twelve veai's of 
.age wiien he came to Michigan. ^Vhen .seventeen 
years old he started out in life for himself without 
means and without friends excepting those he 
made. He went to Cleveland. Ohio and hired out 
to the contractors who were building the State 
aqueducts and was thus engaged for three years, 
working up until he received ^3 per day. He then 
spent one summer in Cleveland recruiting. He 
has repeatedly been at the home of William Henry 
Harrison. After visiting Chillicothe, Cincinnati 
and St. Louis, he i-eturned home and settled on the 
farm. He did not long content himself, however, 
with agricultural work, Init soon after was engaged 
assisting in the building of the ^Michigan Central 
Railroad from Dexter to Jackson. He then helped 
in the arduous task of building at Leoni on the 
^liciiigan Central, working under Engineer ILay- 
den. In the spring of the year 1841* he joined the 
camp of the A\'olverine Rangers and set out to 
cross the i)lains for California. They purchased 
their outfits at St. Louis, made a camp at Indepen- 
dence, Mo., and then set out on a trij) which 
took six months. They lost their entire train in 
the mountains, having taken the celebrated Green 
Horn cut-off. Their train was very long, the 
wagons being drawn entirely b^' oxen. He left 
the train and went ahead with one other man 
crossing the American Desert, a distance of sev- 
enty-five miles on foot, the horses having been 
stolen by night by the Indians. The suffering was 
terrilile. His desire for water was so great as to 
cause perfect agony. 

He of whom we write i)roceeded to Ajiple Gate 
Pass in Oregon, cro.ssing the mountains to the 
head waters of the Sacramento River. On arriv- 
ing in the (iolden State Ihey went into the mines 
and BIr. Noble had the good fortune to open one 
of the richest veins discovered by his party. He 
staid in California for a time engaged in mining, 
finally going back to .San Francisco on foot. Work 
of a different sort was [plentiful and jmy ing and 
our subject soon abandoned mining and began 
work at -SI 6 per day, spending there the fall and 
winter. He then went on up to Feather Hiver, 
finally coming home by way of the Isthmus and 



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(iuriiiir tlu' joiinu'V liilhci- s|)iMit tlirof weeks on tlie 
water in a dead calm. Landing;' in Central Anieriea 
he <-anie theme t(i New ( )iU'ans and finni there 
pioeeedcd to .Miehiuan, when l)uyint!; <>nl iii> 
lirotlierV interest he .-ettled on tlie old homestead. 
In l.s I I our snlijeet was nnited in marriai»'e to 
Miss Charlotte K. Monta»ue. a danijhter of Luke 
and Eiiniee (Salslmry) .Montairue. They have 
been tiie parent.s of two ehildren. l)nt lioth have 
died. Mrs. Noble is a memlier in yood standintf 
of the I'lesliyterian Chnreh. ^Ir. Noble has taken 
an active interest ni local |MiJitics. For six years 
he was Iligliway (-'ommi.ssioner and was elected 1)\ 
the Democrats, although he has been a I{ei)nbli< an. 
Now retired fiom .'letive lalior our sulijeet has 
reduced his cares to a niinininm by disposini;' of 
the j^reater |)art of his farm, and now has only 
enough to sujipoit him iiic<'i\. 



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yilLLIAM VAX lU'RKN. Lansino. Ingliam 
/ County, as the capital of the State, has her 
y -^ full (piota of citizens who are keenly alive 
to all political (piestions and the fact that the .seat 
of government is situated here, no doubt stimu- 
lates an interest in [public movements and builds 
nj) a community of men who are known, for lack 
of a better term, as politicians. In our use of this 
word we wish it to be understood that we do not 
imi)ly that class of so-called politieaiis who may 
better be ternie(l demagogues, but tliose men wIk) 
are sincerely interested in political questions and 
have eome to the fremt as leaders. Such an one 
is found in the i'nited States Marshal for the 
Eastern District of Michigan, who resides in Lan- 
sing, 

This gentleman w.as born in 1843. After serv- 
ing an apprenticeship in a printing office in 
(iuelph. Caiuula. he c.ime to Detroit, ^lich.. in 
1860, when a boy of eighteen years and where he 
remained a .short time. Like most printers he w.as 
seized with a <lesire to >ee more of the world, ami 
made ionrney> South anil K:isl, workini: in various 
jjlaces, returning, however, iu a few munthb to 



Detroit, lor a time he was employed on tlie 
Cnmmi'rvkd Adwrtisr-r which situation he left to 
to take "cases'" on the Advertiser and Tribune. 
lie soon worked up to the position of foreman 
which place he held until December ."51, |H7(I. ex- 
cepting a short jieriod when he oecupieil the posi- 
tion of foreman of the Tribviw book room. 

In .laiiuarv, 187 I, Mr. \'an IJureii came to Lan- 
sing and took a iiosition as foieman for W. S. 
(ieorgeiV Co.. who were then .State printers. Me 
continued as foreman and superintendent of the 
meehanieal department until .ifter the death of 
Mr. (leorgeiii December, 1881. In .lanuary, 1882, 
he was appointed Inisiness manager of the eoiieern, 
and ill .I:iniiary. 1884, he bought a one-third in- 
terest in the liusiness and became managing |)art- 
ner. In .lanuary, 188(j, the whole outfit w.as sold 
to Thorp iV' (iodfrey. During all of this time the 
firm had been publishing the Lansing Ri'publicdn 
of which for four years INIr. \:\\\ ISnren was gen- 
eral m.anager. Mr. Van linreii in coiii|)aiiy with 
B. M. Buck organized the Lansing Furniture Com- 
pany in I88() and carrie<l it on for a few mouths, 
after which the business was disposed of. 

When the City National Hank was organized 
Mr. \'aii Huren w.as one of its incorporators and is 
now one of its largest stockholders and a director, 
lie has confined himself very clo.<ely to business, 
with the exception of a journey which he took in 
1889, when he made a tour from the .\tlantic to 
the I'aci lie coast. It was ujioii the 2ittli of March. 
I8i)(), that President Harrison appointed Mr. \:\\\ 
Huren I'nited States Marshal for the Ea.stern Dis- 
trict of Michigan with headcpiarters at Detroit. 
This district covers ,about one-half of the Lower 
I'eiiiiisula and involves heavy res]ionsibilities. 
Other official duties have devolved upon him in 
the p.ast, and have been thoroughly discharged. In 
l,H87-88 he w.as Alderman of the .Second Ward of 
the city of Lansing and he was also the Supervisor 
for one year. In 1879 the citizens of Lansing 
made him their M.avor .'iiid he received a re-elee- 
tioii in 188(1; he has also held various county of- 
fices. 

No p.Mit of the career of .Mr. \'aii Ihiicii i> mure 
>atisfa<-toiy to hi> frieiid> and fiirni.^hes irre;iter 
vceasiou for Ihaukfuluesa ou bio own part than 



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the step whiel) he took in bringing to his home, 
as his wife, ]Miss Julia (i. O'Cnllaglian. This inter- 
esting event toolv jilat-e in IJetroit in 1867, and 
the lady who is possessed of unusual refinement, 
intelligence and culture, was born, reared and ed- 
ucated in the beautiful city of the Straits. Slie is 
n daughter of the late Hon. Jeremiah O'C'allaghan, 
a former wholesale and retail grocer, who had a 
flourishing establishment on Woodward Avenue, 
and who w.as a member of the Legislature in 18.52. 
Tills charming and talented lady was engaged in 
teaching in Detroit previous to her marriage. She 
is the happy mothei- of four children, namely: 
William, (lerald R., (ieorge H., and Julia G. 

Mr. Van Buren, who is a thorough American in 
Ills views and political ideas, is strong in his faith 
in the future of the Rciiublican party and a leader 
in its ranks, being frequently a delegate in county 
and State conventions. He is a member of Cix\n- 
tal Lodge, No. CO. C'ai)ilal Chapter, No. 9, R. A. 
M., and of Lansing C'oinmandery K. T., No. 25. 
He also belongs to the Royal Arcanum and Knights 
of the < iriii. 




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OSES JONES. The ipiiet, unostentatious 
/// IW ^ork of the modest citizens and sturdy, 
industrious workers in any community, is 
more fully i)rized no doubt after they 
have gone hence, and those very qualities 
which made them esteemed and beloved should be 
kept in mind and presented for the emulation of 
the y<_iung, for such character is of more worth than 
many traits which shine with greater brilliancy. 

Moses Jones was liorn March 22, 1831, in Steu- 
ben, Oneida County, N. Y.,and was the son of John 
and .luditli (Hill) Jones. The grandfather, Grittith 
.hnies, came with his wife from Wales and became 
a dairyman in New York. His son, .hjhn, was a 
cooper l)V trade and coming to Michigan in 1839, 
settled on forty acres of fine land upon section 25, 
Cohoctah Township, Livingston County. This he 
had purch.ased prior to his coming from Onondaga 
County, N. Y. He owned about three hundred 



acres of land at the time of his death which took 
place, November 5, 1871. He was a substantial 
citizen and a public-spirited man, and served as 
Justice vi the Peace and School Inspector devoting 
much attention to school matters. He also acted 
as Assei5S0r in 1840. 

Mr. Jones w.as twice married, having by his first 
marriage one child, who is our subject. The second 
wife was known in maidenhood as Sarah Boutell 
and she had four children only one,Kenzie, living 
to maturity. Their mother died in September, 
1890. She was well-known as a devoted member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Moses Jones 
spent his boyhood and youth on the farm and 
studied in the district schools. He early chose 
farming .as his life work and pursued it in connec- 
tion with his father. He was so prosperous as to 
own four farms comprising six hundred acres in 
all at the time of his death, which took place De- 
cember 16, 1889. He was prospered in his work 
and devoted himself unceasingly to it and althougli 
alwaj's active in work for the RepuVilican party he 
ever steadfastly declined to receive otHcial honors. 

Our subject w.as united in marriage July 22, 
1866 with JMary Jane .\llen who was born in Ma- 
con, (ia., January 12, 1841. She is a daughter of 
David and Emeline (Parker) Allen, the former 
being a native of W.ashington County, and tlie 
latter of Oneida County, N. Y. Mr. Allen was a 
carpenter and joiner and also a millwright. In 
November, 1839, he removed to Georgia, where he 
engaged in farming and the lumber trade and died 
in August, 1865. His widow still survives and 
makes lier home in Dooly County, Ga. The fam- 
ily w.as long connected witli the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church South with which she still holds 
her connection. Three of her daughters are still 
living, namely: Mary J., Emeline and Lue^y, all 
married. Adelia and Irene are deceased. Mr. 
Allen was a son of Seth Allen of English origin, 
whose wife, Lucy King, was a daughter of vSolomon 
King a prominent farmer of Washington County, 
N. Y. 

To Mr. and Mrs. Jones was born one child, John 
K., who died at the age of sixteen. Mrs. Jones 
now owns the homestead besides other property of 
value and carries on the business with ability and 




RESIDENCEOF ilk J. A . BROWN 1 NG , 510.24. OCLOLA TP., LIVINGSTON CO., MICH, 







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success. She has ever heen an aftive aiul devoted 
inenil)er of tlic Methodist l-^piscopid Chiiicli. Her 
liusband was a lilieral LiiviT ti> |iulilic and rhnrcli 
l)urposes, in wiucli virtue she foihnvs in his foot- 
steps as she is tndy devoted to liie cause of Christ- 
ianity. 

A view of the cozy residence and rural suriound- 
infTS on the homestead of Mrs. .lone.s will he found 
on ;i not her page. 



\T^DWAHI) BROWXIXO. A mental picluie 
iW] conies to the wiiter of a tv])ieal modern 
/*' — -^ farmer. Tiie owner of a line ti-act of land, 
as he i.s seated on his mower, ready to drive off for 
the fields, there is a proud consciousness in tlie 
poi.se of his head and the earriage of his l)road 
shoulders, that he is the alisolute monarch of the 
rich domain under Ids eye. He is as (jniek in Ids 
movement and execution as in his faculty of form- 
ing opinions in regard to his work. He has a firm 
seat upon the mower, which is of the latest and 
most approved design, and drawn by horses that 
are sleek, muscular and well fed. He is a {)leasing 
picture of rural prosperity. 

The farm of which Mr. 15rowning is proprietor 
and a view of which is shown on another page, is 
located on section 24, Oceola Township, Livings- 
ton County, and comprises four hundred and 
eighty acres of as tine land as there is in the 
county. Besides devoting himself to general farm- 
ing, he pays much attention to the breeding and 
raising of fine sheep, and also has many of the 
finest breed of cattle and horses. Our subject 
was born in Kinderhook County, N. Y., August 
23, 1821, and his father, Peter Y. Browning, wa.s 
a native of Connecticut, although reared in New 
York State. His mai'riage took place in Dutchess 
Countv, N. Y., his bride being a Miss .'^arah Cramer, 
a native of the same countj- and State in which 
her marriage took place. She is still living at the 
age of ninety years. 

Peter Y. Browning settled in Xcw York after 



Ids marriage and after remaining a few yeai-s in 
that State, he came to Michigan and located in 
Monroe County. Thence he came to Livingston 
County in llS.'JG, and settled in Oceola Townshi]) 
on section 21, where he took up a large tract of laud 
from the fiovoinmeiit in lK;i,'). He cut the logs 
from the forests about the little clearing, and built 
a small log liou.se. which his wife made .as homelike 
.•I nd attractive as her resources would allow. He 
s|)ent the remainder of his life in improving the 
])lace, cutting down forest trees, planting orchards 
of fruit trees, and otherwise improving the place 
until his death. He pa.ssed away at a good old 
age, and it must have been a sati-;faction to him, 
to see the result of his lalxtrs in the well tilled 
land, the fields of waving grain, the orchards red- 
dening with their burden of fragrant fruit, and the 
tine stock grazing in the meadows. He and his 
wife were the p.arents of seven children and of 
these our subject is the eldest. He w.as sixteen 
years of age when his parentis made their advent 
into this State, and had all a boy's eagerness in the 
readiness to experieiiee the novelty of their now 
positi(ui. His early education had its foundation 
in his native jilace, and he linished in a log .school 
house. The winters, however, were all the time 
that could be spared from the labors of the farm to 
accjuirc anything even so important as an edu- 
cation. 

Mr. Browning's wife was in his maiden davs 
^liss Helen Beebe, a native of New York. \i\ her 
he became the father of three children, all .sons. 
Two of tliese, however, died in infancy, and the 
only surviving child is .Tohii .\., who resides with 
his father and is in ijartnership with him in his 
agricultural business. Our subject located directly 
after his marriage, in a little log house which he 
built on section 20, and there he lived for many 
years. He and his son now own four hundred 
acres of well-improved land, and keep from two to 
three hundred sheep which are of tlie linest breed. 
He also has some especially tine horses, making a 
specialty of the raising of blooded cattle and 
horses. Mrs. Browning died a few years ago, hav- 
ing for many years been a faithful companion and 
helpmate to her husband in his efforts to obtain a 
firm footing in the agricultural business. 



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In his political preference, Mr. Browning is a 

Ii'cpiiblii'aii Mild lias held several local offices iiitlic 
i^ifl of till' tonnslii]) in which he resides. Vov 
eight years he held the office of Postmaster in 
Oceola Center, and discharged tlie duties of the 
])Osition most satisfactorily. 



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»1LLIA:M F. IIYXK. This prominent and 
successful gentleman, who was born on the 
old Ilyne homestead on section 8, of 
Brighton Township, Livingston Couuty, June 22, 
1K17, isason of Charles T. Ilyne. This gentle- 
man of wealth felt that it was necessary that his 
son should grow uj) to develop his own powers 
without mnch aid him, and he tlieref<ne started 
the young man out in life without much of any 
means or llnaucial help. The son now thanks his 
father for this hard exiterience. as, thronah being 
thrown upon his own resources he has Itecome a 
snccessful man and a manager of ability. 

William F. Ilyne acqiiii-ed his education in the 
schools which were kejit in the log school houses 
in Brighton Townsliip, to which he went during 
the winter months nntil lie reached the age of ten 
years, after which as he was the eldest c>f the family, 
he devoted himself to work upon his father's farm. 
He assisted in clearing away the forest and luitting 
im[iroveinents on the faiiii until he rt'ached the 
age of twenty-three years, when he and his Iirother, 
Frederick, entered into partnership and liegan 
farming on their own account. 

The young men began at tlie foot of the ladder 
and worked their way np by untlngging persist- 
ence and trne "grit" :ind many a night tliey 
worked till a late hour, supplementing the labors 
of the day. The i)artnership coiitiiiue(l for eii;h- 
teen years, at the end of which time Ihev divided 
their interests amicably, altlunigh no pre\'ious 
.settlement had been made during the eigliteen 
years that the brothers had worked together. 

He of whom we write has been twice married, 
his (irst union iu l!S7(l luiugiut;' to his home Miss 
3Iary Durffec, u native of thio county. Two chil- 



dren blessed their home and their life together 
continued for ten years, when the wife was called 
to her heavenly reward. The children are naiiied_ 
Charles (J. and Annie. The latter is still pursuing 
her education and Charles has just graduated from 
the Detroit Commercial College and is a young 
man of jM'omise. Mr. Ilyne was a second time 
married in IKKl taking to wife Louis Hicks, of 
New York, who has one child, Beatrice. 

The splendid farm of live hnndred and twenty 
•acres which is in Mr. Hyne's estate has upon it 
elegant buildings and a most delightful home. He 
jiays special attention to the raising of tine stock 
and has fast horses of the Wilkes breed as well as 
Merino sheep. Short-horn cattle and other excel- 
lent varieties. He is also an equal partner with 
his two brothers in the ownership of the gi-ist mill 
at Brighton. His political views have brought 
him into sympathy with the Democratic party 
with which he votes and for whose success he is 
earnestly solicitous. 



SRAKL SPEAKS. The foundations of society 
are laid in the agricultural districts, and 

i among the farming material which builds up 
all social and financial structures. We are grati- 
fied to be able t(j present in this Ai.ut'M life sketches 
of many of the representative farmers of Locke 
Towushi]), Ingham County, and among them we 
name with pleasure the citizen whose name we here 
give. He is a native of Erie County, N. Y.. and 
was born May 10, 182!). His parents, Ezra and 
Mehitable Spears, were natives of Xew Ilamiishire. 
When the boy was only three years old his father 
was taken from him by death, and he was early 
thrown upon his own resources. He and his 
mother were de\'otedl\' attached to each other and 
until her death which occurred in her eighty- 
third year, .she made her home with him. 

Our subject attained his majority in his native 
Stale and having received the rudiments of an 
educ.'ition. he has e\er endea\dred to su])plenieut 
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ent fom>e of readinpr. His first marriajjc took 
place ill 18,")() in New York, and his liride was 
IJaclicl Miller, wild liec'inie the mother of one son, 
i-l/.r.'i. She passed from earth In 1H17. 

The present Jlrs. Spears was previous to her 
marriage to oni- suhjeet, in IHfi;"). Mrs. Sarah 
Stoughton, widow of 1,. 15. Stoti<iliton, of Iiiiihani 
County, a pioneer in tliis section. The two cliil- 
dren of this marriage are Haeliel M. and Ivhod;i K. 
Mrs. S|)ears is a native f)f ( )utario, Canada, and was 
lio.n .Vi)ril 14. 183(1. She is the dau<>;hler of i'aul 
and S:uah Clay, both of Kastein liirlli, and her 
father was a soldier of the War of 1812. She was 
I'eared in Canada until she reached her seventeenth 
year, and then came with her hrother to Iniiliam 
County. l>y her first m:irria<>e she had six- 
children, three of whom are now living, namely: 
Esther M.. .Mrs. I'.risto; Sarah S., Mrs. Clark 
and Lillian J^., ^L's. Harager. jNIr. and Mrs. 
Spears are active memhers of society and u.se- 
ful in every department of life. Eighty-live 
acres constitute the whole farm which has 
been gained through the united efforts of this 
worthy couj)le. lie is indei)endent in politics and 
ca.sts his ballot according to his best judgment and 
his honest convictions. 



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AIMUEL X. HUFF. Among the many en- 
ter[)rising farmers that distinguish Meri- 
dian Township as one of the most progress- 
ive in the Ingham County sisterhood, there 
is no sturdier son of toil than he whose name Is 
at the heail of this sketch. His father. Thomas C. 
Huff, was born in Na])anee, Canada, in 182(), and 
died there in his sixty-third year. I le was a black- 
smith liy oecu|)atioii but engage(l also in fainiing. 
At the time of his death he was the owner of n 
fine tract of two hundied ;ind sixty acres in Lena- 
wee County, lying on Lake Ontario in town- 
ship 4. 

Samuel Huff, the |iatern;d uraiidsire of him of 
whom wc write, was also a prosperous farmer and 



a native of New York, but who went to Canada 
at an early day. The maiden name of our sub- 
ject's mother was Isabelle Sills. She was a native 
of Canad.'i. where she still resides. The natal day 
of our su I iject was August 3(1, 1859, and he w.is 
born in Napanee, Canada. The first eighteen 
years of his life were spent in Canada, where he 
helped his father on the farm and in the black- 
smith siiop, but desiring to work in a country that 
offered greater advantages to a poor man, and 
being of a .self-reliant nature, he came to Michigan 
and settled at Gra.ss Lake as a blaek.smith. He 
made it a plan to work in tlieliest shops in ^lasoii. 
Lansing, Saginaw and in other places that he might 
become acquainted with the different methods em- 
ployinl by the various mechanics. In this way he 
obtained a minute knowledge of the different 
branches of his trade and wa.s enabled to do work 
that was beyond the ability of the average black- 
smith. 

In ilue course of time our subject located in 
t)kemos, where he remained for seven years, mak- 
ing the most of his opjiortunities. In 187!t he w.as 
in a position to purchase a fine farm of one hun- 
dred and ten and a half acres of laud on sections 
L) and Ifi, now occupied by him. He has been in- 
terested in mixed husbandry since that time and 
his efforts have lieen successful to a gratifying de- 
gree. In 187(5 ^Ir. Huft' was united in marriage to 
Miss Lavina Strayer. From this union one child 
was born, Mary .lane Huff. The little one was, 
however, soon left uiotherless. Our subject was 
again happily mai'ried, his bride being Mrs. ^larv 
.V. Button, their marriage being solemnized in 
1879. .Mrs. Huff was born October 23, 1849, neai' 
Lockport, Niagara C'ouiity, N. Y'. She is the 
daughter of Danfoj'th and Margaret (Orum) But- 
ton, now of Alaiedon Townshii), where the former 
is a prominent farmer. Mrs. Huff's maternal 
grandparents came from Scotland and located in 
Mason, where they engaged in the mercantile trade 
until the time of their death. The union of our 
subject and the present Mrs. Huff has been blest 
bv the advent of two children — Maggie B., born 
Augu.st 23. 1883 and Bessie, liorn August 30, 1889. 

The irenth'm.'in of whom we write is in politic,-- 
a strong Democrat. In 189U he was elected High- 



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way Commissioner of the township. Mr. Huff 

merits tlie esteem of all wlio kiii:)w him aud lie has 
demonstrated a thriftiness that many less i)ros))er- 
ous farmers misjht well imitate. 



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^^ IMON W. DICIvERS( )N. The farmers and 
^^ fruit-raisers of Marion Township, Living- 
i)) ston County, have among their numlier 
many whose intelligence, activity and enter- 
prise are a credit alike to themselves and the 
county in which they make tiieir home. These 
help to give to Livingston County a standing for 
intelligence, productiveness and liusiness ability 
which enriches every farmer within its hounds. 

Mr. ])ickersc)n, who resides on section 11, Clar- 
ion Township, was Ijorn in New York in 1836. 
His father, David l)icker»on. a New York farmer, 
was born in Vermont in 18(1(5 and there received 
a common-school education. He was married in 
1830 to Lucy, daughter of Waitstill Smith, who 
had five children of whom Lucy was fourth in or- 
der of birth, being born in 181'2. 

The father of our subject came to Michigan and 
settled on one hundred and sixty acres in Marion 
Township, in 1836. He soon began to burn lime 
from marl, jn-oduciug as much as thiity-two hun- 
dred liushels in one year at which time his son. 
.Simon, was the manager of tliis business. The pa- 
rents had six children, of wliom onr subject is tlic 
third, and tlie^' gave to tlieni the best educational 
advantages which thev could secure and brought 
them up in the faith and ])i'acticcs of tlie Chiistian 
religion as both parents were earnest and active 
members in the Methodist Episcopal Church, where 
David Dickerson was Steward for maii\' years. He 
was a worker for the Kepulilican jiarty but never 
held any oftices. His first home in the West was a 
log house and he afterward built one of stone. This 
early settler died in 1884. 

At twenty-one years of age Simon W. Dickerson 
began to work the old farm on shares and three 
years later, in 1809, he felt that he was thoroughly 
enough established in life to take to himself a wife. 



His bride, Amanda Kingsley, was born in New 
York in 1834 and she is now the proud and happy 
mother of seven children, five of whom are still 
on earth. Alma and Freddie were early called 
aw.ay from this life; Lewis J. is married, having 
chosen as his bride Fannie Laire, :ind he has two 
children. The four children who are still beneath 
the i)arental roof are Edwin K., Lucy, Ida and 
Lillian. 

In 1860 our suljject purchased ninety-five acres 
of land to which he has added until he now has 
one hundred and sixty-seven and one-half acres. 
His eldest son, Lewis, has purchased of his father 
some seventy acres on section 10. which were once 
a part of the home farm. In the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church ^Ir. IJickerson acts as Steward and 
Trustee and Iiotli he and his wife are active mem- 
bers therein. He is identified with the Farmers' Al- 
liance luit ordinarily votes the Republican ticket, al- 
though he is not a man who is closely bound by 
party ties. The principles of the Republican party 
are dearly prized liy him, but he is growing to feel 
more and mtne that all issues must be subsidiary 
to that of throwing the saloon power from the 
throne which it has erected in tha political 
arena. 






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THOMAS AND .lOHN MdilVENY. The.-^e 
lirothers who are so well known thidugli- 
out Oceola Township, Livingston County 
as being together engaged in a general farming 
liu>iiiess on section ;'), are both natives of Oceola 
Township, where Thomas was lioin April 27. 1843. 
and John June 10, 1844. Their father, John Mc- 
ftiveny, a native of Ireland, was born in 1785 and 
was a weaver by trade who came to New Yc)rk in 
1810. There he settled on an unimproved farm 
of one hundred and twenty acres, which after im- 
proving he sold, and made his home for some time 
in New Orleans. 

The family finally came North and settling in 
Oceola Tovviislii[i, Livingston County, took up 
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on section "». and there built a loij liouse IfixSO 
feet in dimenr^ion.s and hetjan elearimr away llie 
trees and cultivating the soil. Margaret C'onklin, 
had l)ect)nie the wife of .lohn ^rcCiiveny, Sr., in 
Ireland and !>he is now living iiaving reached a 
good old age, but the fatiier passed away after 
attaining to eighty-(ive years. He was a Democrat 
in his political atliliations and was earnest in his 
advocacy of the principles of tliat party. 

Five daughters and tive sons, were granted to 
this worthy couple, the two eldest being Thomas 
and .John of whom we now write, while .lames 
was born in 1841): Bridget who is uo\\ de- 
ceased; Margaret was born in 1818 and died in 
1890, and Mar)- who was born in 1850, married 
AVilliam Robb in 1871 and is the mother of nine 
children. Next came Kate who was born in 18.52 
and is now in Detroit and Martha who was born 
in 1854 and married William Kallahan and has 
four children. Edward was born in 1850 and 
died at the age of five j-ears and the youngest 
child was Martin, who was born in 1851 and died 
in 1853. The parent*; of our subject are blessed in 
grand-children, having nine who are the children 
of their daughter, ISIary, Mrs. Robb, their names 
being Anna, .John tl., William, Ella, Isabel, ^lary, 
Thomas, Aggie and Rose, and foui' who ;ue the 
children of their daughter Martha, Mrs. Kallahan, 
whose names are: Mary, ^largaret, A'eronica and 
Monica. 

The paternal grandparents of the men of whom 
we w-ritc were Irish by birth and their names were 
John and Mary (Sheridan) McGiveny, Mary being 
a cousin of Gen. Philip Sheridan ; they were the 
parents of two sons. The maternal graiulfather 
was John Conklin, also a native of Ireland. The 
father of our subjects cast his first vote in America 
for Andrew Jackson. Thomas, the eldest s(m has 
never married but John was united in marriage 
with Anna Kallahan and is by her the fathei of 
two daughters and two sons, namely: Mary .1., 
who was born October 13, 1879, John, born Sep- 
tember 22, 1884, Margaret, June 21, 188(;. and 
Thomas, December 15, 1888. 

.lohu JleGiveny, the eldest of our two subjects, 
enlisted in the service of our nation .March 22, 
1865, entering Comiwny B.. Fifteenth Michigan 



Infantry and being in the .ser\ ice for six months. 
He spent most of the time at Washington and 
Louisville, Ky.. and w.as confined six weeks in a 
hospital in the latter city anil two weeks in a hos- 
pital at Detroit. 

Tlie brothels have un their place some two hun- 
dred and fifty head of sheep and sell on an aver- 
age every year from *5(I0 to ^¥700 worth of wool. 
They also have fifteen head of horses. Thomas 
has held the olllce of County Commissioner, Post- 
master and School ^loderator. They are both 
Democrats in their political views and take an in- 
telligent interest in the public affairs of the country 
of their adoption. 



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'A IVTLLIA.M II. \AN' DEHCOtJK. The hon- 
%/iJ// *^'"''*'j1'^ lineage of our subject is a matter 
V/v// of just i)ride in the family, as his grand- 
father w.as the William II. ^'anDercook who came 
from Holland with his father, William, in the 
Colonial days, when the father became notable as 
a participant in the Revolutionary conflict. The 
parents of our subject were Isaac and Abigail 
(Haze) \'anDercook, and their son, our subject, 
w.as born in Green Oak, Oakland County, Mich., 
October 27, 1836, and in time he became a farmer 
of Cohoctah Township, Livingston County. 

The grandfather of our subject was a farmer in 
Monroe County, N, Y., and his large family, John, 
Young, AVilliam, Isaac, Michael, .Vlfred, Lester, 
Susan, Catherine, Iluldah and Plnvbe, all grew to 
years of maturity. The father of this numerous 
household came from New York to Michigan in 
the early pioneer times, settling in Sumter, Wavne 
("ounty, about the year 1825, where he has died 
.since the days of the Civil War. and his wife sur- 
vived him for several years. 

The father of our subject, who was born in 
Monroe County, N. Y., came to Michigan with his 
parents and removed to Oakland County about 
1832, but on the 10th of April. 1838, he lo 
cated in Livingston County, making his home 
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and 36, in Cohoetab Township. Here he has 
l)eeomc a well-known and important citizen, and 
. besides the oMice of Justice of the Peace, he has 
tilled numerous local oHices. His wife died ]\Iarch 
24, 1886, having lieen the mother of nine chil- 
dren, seven of whom he saw grow to years of ma- 
turity, namely: Cornelia, Sarah. Esther. "William, 
Lyman, Lorenzo and Alfred. 

He of whom we write carried out the patriotic 
i-ecord of his familj' by enlisting in Company K, 
Twenty-first Michigan Regiment, and his brother 
Lyman enlisted in the same regiment as wagon- 
master, while Lorenzo was a private in the same 
company-. The father of these sons took part in 
the war which was waged many years ago between 
Ohio and Michigan, and he was identified with the 
Free and Accepted Masons. The original of this 
sketch had his early training ujjon the farm, and 
received the ordinary education which could be 
obtained in Michigan during his boyhood. At 
tlie age of twenty-two he began life for himself 
by lumliering in the pine woods, and two years 
later he was married and settled down to cultivate 
a farm of sixty -seven acres on section 1, Howell 
Township. Here he resided for Ave years, and 
then removed to Oak Orove, where he entered' the 
mercantile business. In March, 1875. he bought 
one hundred acres on section 14, Cohoctah Town- 
ship, where he has since resided, and upon which 
he has l)uilt a handsome home. 

When this young man left his home to engage 
in work for himself, his father gave him only 
^I, and this is the capital, as far as money 
goes, upon which he has based his success in life. 
Rather let us say his capital was his sturdy 
strength, his resolution, his willingness to work 
and his undaunted perseverance. He at one time 
owned two farms in the township of Howell, one 
of sixty-seven acres and the other of one hundred 
and five acres, and these he sold before buying 
the property where he now resides. He also owns 
eighty acres in Deerfleld Township. He has 
served as Justice of the Peace for twelve years. 
His military service began .September 6, 1864, and 
he received his honorable discharge at Camp Blair 
June 5, 1865, after which he returned to his farm. 

The matrimonial alliance into which our subject 



entered June 2, 1861, brought to his home a faith- 
ful helpmate in the person of Frances A. ilartin, 
who was born in the township cif ]\Iilford, Oakland 
County, November 11, 1843. Her parents. AVill- 
iam 11. and Nancy (Cooper) Martin, were natives 
of England and New York, whence they came to 
Michigan. The two children of our subject are 
Nellie, the wife of Noah F. Richardson, and Clara, 
who is at home with her parents. The Order of 
the Free and Accepted Masons is that witii which 
Mr. \anDercook has allied himself, and both lie 
and his wife receive expressions of the highest 
esteem in the social circles of the township. 



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ON. DANIEL L. GROSSMAN, the well- 
known and iiiHuential banker of the firm 
of Crossman (ir Williams, of Williamston. 
KG)) was born, November 4, 1836, in Cayuga 
County, N. Y., and in 1844 his fatlier. Deacon 
Samuel Crossman removed to Dausville. Mich., 
then known as Ingham Center, and there estab- 
lished a village store. At the age of fourteen our 
subject attended a school at Spring Arbor, which 
was then known as the Michigan Central College. 
After two years of study at that institution lie lie- 
gan teaching b"ut before long entered into partner- 
ship with his father at Dansville, and continued 
therein for three 3-ears. He then Ijought out his 
father's interest and having platted the town and 
named it Dansville he continued in the mercantile 
business until 1871. He had early shown great 
facility in the management of business and at the 
age of sixteen he was trusted by his father to go 
to New Y'ork and buy the goods necessary for the 
business. 

After leaving Dansville. Mr. Crossman came to 
Williamston and in partnership with George (i. 
Whipple engaged in buying and selling grain and 
carried on a general warehouse business until 187.5, 
when he Iniilt a large flouring mill, which he o])er- 
ated until it burned in 1888. In 1874 he had 
opened a small exchange office in connection with 



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his <>raiii luisiiies-. iiiul llius i>i;iihinlly luiilt up tlie 
banking interest wliicli uuw so largely alisoilis his 
attention. lie is also a somewhat extensive landed 
liro])iietor in Iiiirliani County. 

The lady who in liSo'J became llu' bride ut .Mr. 
C'rossnian, was Miss N. M. Woodhonse, a daughter of 
.Joseph Woodhonse, a native of Pennsylvania and 
one of the early settlers of Livingston County, 
Mieh. to which he came in IH.'S'J. Two children 
blessed this union, a son who p.assed from earth at 
the age of four years and lone W., who is n(jw the 
wife of Dr. F. W. Shumway, of the same village. 

The father of our subject, Samuel Crossman, was 
born, August 3, 1796, in Hillsdale, Columbia 
County, N. Y. and belonged to one of the oldest 
New England families. In boyhood he showed a 
fondness for military tactics and also for mechani- 
cal occupations, and quite early he was both Ituild- 
ing c<nnmittee and contractor in b\iilding the 
Baptist Church in Sennett, X. Y. His first mar- 
riage was with Philena Sheldon in ISli), and of 
their six children two died in early life and the 
others were .Tohn S., Philena (iMrs. Hill), Louisa 
(Mrs. Strimg) and our sulijcct. The mother of 
these children died in 1H4;) when the subject of 
this sketch was only eight yeai'S old. 

The second marriage was with Mary \. Sheldon 
who at Ann Arbor, Mich, still survives in feeljle 
health. One of her children died in infancy and 
the other, Charles S. is in business ni New York 
City. After giving essential and elHcient aid in 
the settlement of Dansvillc, the father bought land 
overlooking the city of Ann .\rbor, and built for 
himself a home, where he spent the rema nder of 
his days, dying May 27. IHSIO at the age of ninety- 
four years. lie was ever a warm-hearted, wise and 
trusted leader in all good works and was a member 
of the Baptist Chvn'ch lor nearly three-score years. 

The father of Samuel Crossman was Lemuel 
Crossman. a nati\e of Connertic\il whose iiianiage 
with a .Miss Andress brought him live sons and 
two daughters. lie was a farmer, and at an early 
day lenioved to Hillsdale, X. V. and after a few 
vears made his home in Onondaga County. X. Y., 
where he resided until death ended his days. 

The Hon. I). L. Crossman is a Republican in his 
political views and cast his lii-st Presidential vote 



for .M)raham Lincoln. He has been a member of 
the M.nsonic order since he reached his majority 
and is now a Knight Templar and has been High 
Priest of the Williamston Chapter for four yeai'S. 
He li.as been a Xotary Pul>lic from the time he was 
twenty-one until the present date, and has tilled 
tln' ollices of Township Clerk of Ingliam County 
and Supervisor in both Ingham and NVilliamston 
Townships. Both in this village and in Dansville 
he was for a numlier of terms a member of the 
village Council and in both places was continu- 
ouslv for years School Director. He served for 
live years under President Lincoln as Postmaster 
at Dansville and in 186r> became Assistant Clerk in 
the House of Uepre.sentatives. 

In IXCu Mr. Crossman was elected a member of 
the House of Representatives of the State of 
.Michigan, representing the second District of Ing- 
ham County and continued in this oflice for two 
terms, four years. Beginning in 1873 he was for 
eighteen years chief clerk of the House of Repres- 
entatives, and at his three last elections he received 
the unanimous vote of every member of that body 
both Democrat and Ivcpiiblican. For six years he 
was a memlier of the Board of Control of the State 
Reform School and for the last two years of that 
term its Treasurer. In Ist76 he was substituted for 
one of the presidential electors for Rutherford B. 
Hayes and was sul)squently summoned to W.ash- 
ington to give testimony before the Klectoral 
Commission. He has now retired from pultlic 
olhce on .account of his health. Mr. Crossman 
helped to organize the Michigan Miller's .Mutual 
Fire Insurance Company, and for si.\ years was ils 
President and .\djuster. until he was no longer 
al)le to travel al)0ut upon its busines.*. 



<^(f^KRXOX t. S.MITII. Although Imsiness 
may not be .as lively at a small ■• corner 
grocery store " in a Michigan town as upon 
New York's famous market street, known as Ful- 
ton Street, or Chicago's commission liou.se place. 
South Water Street, one tinds in such a place .is 
irreat and interesting an amount of undiluted 



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human nature as in metropolitan thoroughfares. 
Nor are men wlio till the soil necessarily without 
ideas relating to j)ublic matters and doubtless 
Blaine or even the High Priest of English free 
trade — Gladstone himself — could profit by the 
ideas and opinions advanced by their followers 
while seated upon the top of a herring barrel and 
whittling a stick. Our subject enjoys man3' a 
good stor>- and many a fresli bit of human nature^ 
as displayed by the frequenters of his place of 
business, which is located at Fleming's Corners, 
Howell Township, Livingston County. Mr. Smith 
also enjoys the distinction of being the Postmaster 
of this place. 

Our subject is a native of this county and dis- 
trict, having been born on section 28, December 6, 
1838. He is a son of John W. and Jane W. 
(Campbell) .Smith, natives of Ontario County. N. 
Y., and Vermont respectively. The father was a 
farmer and a mechanic and came to Michigan in 
1834, while it was still a territory. After making 
a prospecting tour which proved very satisfactory 
to him, he returned to New York, but came back 
to Michigan in 1836 and located on section 28, of 
this township, taking up a tract of Government 
land comprising eighty acres, and later added an- 
otlier forty to his original piu'chase. Thereon he 
lived ten years, engaged in making his farm pro- 
ductive and attractive. 

Our subject's father, while an earl^' settler, was 
honored by election to several of the important 
offices in the township. He was the first Justice of 
the Peace in the town and held that office twenty- 
one years. He was also the first Postmaster out- 
side of the village of Howell, and continued in 
that capacity until 1864. He was one of the 
])roininent men of the township and when his 
decease occurred, January 1(>, 1871, liis loss was 
felt to be an irreparable one liy friends and asso- 
ciates, as well as in his immediate family. As a 
pioneer he witnessed tlie growth of the country 
and saw it change from a wilderness to one of the 
most fertile agricultural regions in the Union, In 
an early day he shot a gray eagle of immense 
size. It measured nine feet from tip to tip of its 
outspread wings. The first court lield in this 
township was presided over by Jolm Smith. Po- 



litically he was a Democrat, his earlj' training 
being in that direction. He was a member of the 
JNIasonic fraternity. He and his wife were the 
parents of four children, our subject being the 
eldest. He was followed by Mary, now Mrs. 
George II. Shipm.an. Then came Frank P., at the 
present time residing in Lansing, the youngest of 
the family being Ella B., the wife of J. A. Eicher. 
The mother still survives and makes her home 
with her youngest daughter. She is seventy-four 
years of age. 

The orignal of tliis sketch was reared a farmer, 
receiving his education at Fleming's Corners and 
the village of Howell. He lived at home until 
the breaking out of the war, at which time he en- 
listed in Company K, Ninth Michigan Infantry-. 
He remained with the regiment one year and was 
wounded in the battle of Murfreesboro, two balls 
lodging in his right shoulder. These he still 
carries as souvenirs of that bitter experience 
through which he passed in company with other 
heroes of the nation. Incapacitated from active 
service lie] was discharged at Camp C'hase, Ohio, 
in 1862, but recovering he re-enlisted in the fall 
in Company C, Fourth Michigan Calvary, which 
is distinguished by its capture of the President of 
the Confederacy and the General-in-Chief of South- 
ern forces — Jefferson Davis. Our subject was 
Sergeant of his regiment and served faithfully 
until the close of the war, during the latter part 
of which he was on detatched duty. He served 
in many battles until that of Lovejoy Station, 
when, iiis liorse being shot under liim it rolled 
with its whole weight upon him and so disaliled 
was our subject that he was again incapacitated for 
duty. He was taken prisoner at Murfreesboro on 
the 13th of July, 1861. He was kept in dur- 
rance, however, only seven da3-s, being exchanged 
.at the end of that time. On another occasion 
while engaged in a skirmish he was taken prisoner 
twice in one day, was once recaptured and once 
escaped. He escaped m.any of the hardsliips of 
the soldiers as regards disease, having only measles, 
typhoid fever and chills and fever, lie was in 
the hospital three times while sick and hurt. 

After Mr. Smitli's return from the war he re- 
sumed farming, but later went to Lansing and was 



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tliPip oiiijMiicd in .'i sliop as mamifactiiiTr of sasii 
and blinds for sevonteen years. On givin"; up tbis 
position lie entered the business of agriculture 
ajiain and was thus enujajjed for three years. lie 
purchased eighty acres of land, giving his atten- 
tion to general farming. Thinking to better his 
condilion he sold the farm and tame to the i)lace 
where he is now located in IHiHi. He first rented 
his place and punliascd il in ISIIO. He has been 
the |)roi)riet<ir of the sturo and Postmaster since 
.luly. IH'.Mi. 

Oui- subject has held the iillii'C of C'onslalilc of 
this township at three different times ami April last 
was again elected. Mr. Smith was married in .\pi'il, 
1884, his l)ride being Jfiss .lennette AVells, of How- 
ell; she is a daughter of .lehial and Elizalieth 
(Steward) Wells, natives of New York, who came 
to jNIichigan in 1849, soon after settling in Howell 
Townshi]). Two Inight children are the fruit of 
this union — Katie B. and .Matie B. Politically he 
of whom we write follows in the footstejjs of his 
father, being an ardent and uncompromising Dem- 
ocrat. He belongs to the (iraud Army of the 
He|)iililii' .111(1 is one of the prominent men of the 
township. 



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ISS L. ANX.V UALLARI). M. 1). In the 
capital city of .Michigan there is no more 
popular or well-known jihysician than the 
lady wlio>e name initiates this sketch, .■iiid 
portrait is |)resciited on the ojiposite page. 
She is a woman of intellectual sujierioril v. of 
pleasing prest'iice .•uid iiianneis, yet of .-triking in- 
di\idnalit\ . In the twelve years which she has 
devoted to her profession in this citv she has 
eariieil Mil eii\i;ible reputation in llii' coliiiiiuiiity 
and State and among the profession, as well .as a 
prolitable anil extensive practice which calls her to 
all pMrt> of till' State foi- counsel among women. 
Her success in business has been such that at the 
death of her father the family made her tln'ir 
choice to .■idniiiiistei the affairs of the estate. 

Dr. IimIImiiIV pateinal gramlfather was Kie<l- 



eric Ballard, who was born in New I]am|ishire and 
died in Sparta, Ohio, at the good old age of eighty- 
nine years. His eldest son, Appleton Ballard, was 
liorn in Hanover, N. II.. July 1, 1809. Wlien lie 
was a bo\- the family removed to Vermont. Ilei-e 
he met Epiphene Ellenwood, to whom he was mar- 
ried in 18:50. In 18:36 the family removed to 
Sparta, Ohio. In 1848 tliey came to Lansing. Ing- 
ham County, before tlie day of railroads in this 
State, spending two weeks on the road. Four sons 
enlisted when the war broke out, one being but 
seventeen years old. One found a grave in Vir- 
ginia, the others returned, .all with battle marks. 

Mr. Ballard spent the early years of his man- 
hood as a shoemaker, later as a merchant, and the 
last years as a vegetable gardener, pa^'ing unusual 
attention to the propagation of choice new varie- 
ties of vegetables. He was the owner of forty 
acres of land in tlie northeastern part of the city. 
Before he died be had platted this into eitv lots, 
and the farm is now known as Ballard's Addition 
to the city of Lansing. In his ])olitical |)references 
he was a Hepulilican and a strong advocate of tem- 
perance, even radical on thai subject. He became 
a Christian at twentv vears of age and (lining the 
greater part of his life was connecteil with the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, in which body he was 
for many years a Class-Leader. His whole life was 
marked by his Christian faith and zeal. His hon- 
esty and integrity were iininipeachable. A man of 
large symp.athies and generous inipnlses. he was 
charitable, both in his opinion of others and his 
conduct toward tlieiii. His last words were. •• I am 
near the end. my soul is ready. "' He died Octo- 
ber -ifi. 188;"). 

Ei)ipliene ICIIeii wood was liorii in 1 lalifax. Nova 
Scotia. Scpteiiilier 9. 1809. She was the oiilv 
daughter of David ElIenwoo<l. who was Captain 
and owner of a merchant sailing craft between the 
>\est Indies and Nova Scotia, and whose death 
occurred on the sea. Some years after the death 
of the father the Ellenwood family removed to 
\'erniont where the daughter married .Vppleton 
Uallard. .Mrs. Ballard was the mother of ten chil- 
dren and caie<l for three motherless grandchildren 
during their early years. She was a ■wise, tender, 
patient, faithful wife and mother. She died March 



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.'SI, I8HH, ;it the residence of Dr. Ballard with whom 
>lie hM(l made her home after her husband's death. 
Mr. and Mrs. Ballard celebrated their golden wed- 
ding on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1880, at 
which time the\' were the recijiients of sincerest 
congratulations and sulistantial renicmlirances 
from hosts of friends. 

The entire family of ten children lived to man- 
hood and womanhood. .lames Allen, the eldest, 
enlisted in 1M61 in the Third ^lichigan Infantry, 
serving his country faithfully until lie dropped 
dead on one of those Virginia marches, a victim of 
heart disease. Ma3^ .5, 1864; >Sindenia A. mari'icd 
Dr. (i. W. Topping, of DeWitt, Clinton County. 
Mich.; David E. became a pioneer settler of Kan- 
sas. After seeing that State through its troubuhuis 
times he enlisted early in the war and was made 
Quartermaster-General of his regiment. He has 
continued a citizen of Kansas, being twice elected 
to the Legislature. For some years he has resided 
at Ballard's Falls, Washington County, owning 
there a magnirtceut farm of eighteen hundred .acres, 
besides valuable property at the county seat. lie 
has a family of nine children; Henry D. also en- 
listed in 1861, in the Second Regiment, ^lichigan 
Sharpshooters, in which he did faithful service 
until disabled liy a l)ullet wound in the shouldei-. 
when he was transferred to hospital service until 
the close of the war. He is eng.aged in gardening 
near Oshkosii, Wis.; Eunice, who was pos.sessed of 
an adventurous spirit and missionary zeal, for some 
years taught (lovernmeiit Indian schools at Sault 
St. Marie, and at IMt. Pleasant. At the latter place 
slie married iVUtert Bowker. After removing to a 
farm in Oliver. Clinton County, she died lea\ing 
a young child; Alonzo, who went to the war at the 
age of seventeen, in the First Kegiment of Jlichi- 
gan Sharpshooters, has also adopted Kansas for his 
home, and is a successful merchant in Barnes, Wash- 
ington County; Everett, the \-oungest son, is still 
a resident of the old home place in Lansing; Dr. 
Ballard is the next in order of age; Sar.ah IVI. 
married William E. West, and is living at Lansing; 
Alice, the youngest of the faniily, after graduating 
from the Ijansiug High School, took a select course 
in Boston University, and while there mari'icd her 
cousin, W. (). Crosliy. ])rofessor of geology in the 



Massachusetts .School of Technology. Their home 
is a few miles out of Boston. 

Dr. L. Anna Ballard was born in this city .July 
"21, 1H48, the family having come to the State the 
April previous. Her early life was spent here and 
she was educated in the city .schools and in the 
Misses Rodger's Female College, which in those 
years was a center of culture, and from which her 
eldest sister had graduated before her. After en- 
gaging in teaching for two years she entered the 
drug store of Dr. Topping, at l)e Witt, where she 
continued for three years as drug clerk and student 
of medicine. Then taking a course in the medical 
department of Michigan Universit\-, she went to 
Chicago and continued her studies, spending six 
months as dispensary physician in the Hospital for 
Women and Children, which is under the supervi- 
sion of Dr. Mary H. Thompson. Following this 
siie entered the Woman's Medical College oi Chi- 
cago, from which slie was graduated in the spring 
of IHT.s. rc<civing the degree of Doctor of Medi- 
cine. On competitive examination she was given 
the position of resident physician in the Hospital 
for Women and Children, which she retained six 
montlis. To ac(juire still mure knowledge and 
skdl to administer to the ills of humanity, she de- 
voted a few months moi-e to the work of dispensary 
visiting physician, visiting those destitute women 
who were too ill to go to the dispensary. 

Thus equifiped for her life work, in April, 187i), 
Dr. Ballard returned to her childhood's home 
where she could give that cai-e to her aged f.ather 
and mcither that their declining health required. 
She opened an oHice as i)hysician and surgeon in 
the central part of the city and with persistence 
won, and zealously maintained her position in the 
front rank of the profession in the city. She was 
one of the organizers of the Lansing Medical So- 
ciety in 1H82, at which time she was elected Secre- 
tary and was continued in the position for seven 
years, after which she was elected President, hold- 
ing the chair for one year. At the death of Dr. 
Shank, the oldest physici.an of Lansing, the peculiar 
hoiHir was paid Dr. liallard of being selected by 
him, and his selection being endorsed by the Med- 
ical Society to deliver an address at his funeral in 
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disiliniiuislii'd herself 1iv the cldiiiicnt eulogy paid 
tlu' deceased t'liend and old pliysieiaii. and the 
iiuMr |i|cM ina(h' I'fir tlie priifcNsion. l'"(>i' furlhei' 
|)arlieulais in iejj:ard to tliis seesketeli <>t' Di-.Shank 
in another i)()rti<>ii of this Ai.r'.iM. 

i)r-. I'.allard lias always taken an active part not 
only ill all jnoniessive movements lelatint;- to 
science and art luit also in evervthino: that prom- 
ises to further tlic advancement of woiiiaiil<inil in 
every avenue of life. She iden tided herself with 
the work of the l,aiisin>i- Industrial .Vid Society in 
\>^1U ;ind for sexcral years has lieeii the First \'ice- 
I'resident and niemher of the Hoard of Trustees. 
She is associated in the Lansino Chapter of the 
Kastern Star. She is a proiiiisiiiL; niemher of the 
Lansiim Woman's Club, an old literary society 
that has lieeu a jxitent aiicnt in the community 
for the clex'ation of literary tastes and in educat- 
ing its members in Imsiness ventures, as it owns 
its hiiilding, a handsome editice in the center of 
the city, erected in l«!l(l, and in which property 
eacli memlier is a stockholder. 

Afoie tiian ten years .ago Dr. Uallard found a 
large field for tlioughl and effort in the Woman's 
Christian Temjieiance I'nicni. She has given earn- 
est labor to this work and occupied honorable po- 
sitions. Frimi 1H.S7 to IMDI she was President of 
the Central I'nion of Lansing. In the .State or- 
ganizations she has tilled the Su|ierintcndencies of 
Social Purity and i^cgisl.atioii. in the winter of 
18«7 she led the effort with the Stale Legislature 
to amend the law on "age of consent." and suc- 
ceeded in getting the age raised fi'oiii ten years to 
fourteen years. Her address at this time before the 
.loint .Tudieiarv Committee wasan earnest eloquent 
appeal, and was so highly esteemed that one of the 
ablest lawyers in the Senate asked that it be inib- 
lished ill leaflet form and a.ssisted in its distriliu- 
tioii to the legal fraternity of the State. 

Dr. I5aliard's church relations are with tlie Mcth- 
otlist l-',pisco])al body, being a member of the Cen- 
tr.al Church of this city. Here too she has not 
hesitated to exert lier influence in a progressive 
way, and with a logical pajier look jiart in a pub- 
lic discu.ssion on the admission of w-onien to the 
Methodist General Conference. The Young Wo- 
man's Christian Assoc-iation finds in her an enthu- 



siastic worker and lilveral suiiiiorler. and witli hi'r 
religious tendencies she finds in this organization 
an ideal avenue for work of heart and brain. 
With the pen she is at home and is a fluent writer. 
The Transactions of the Stale Medical Society of 
IHSit; contains a v.-iluabic pa|)er presented by her to 
the society, lecording original work and .study. 
She is the author of some of the best literature 
circulated b\- the Woman's Christian Temperance 
I'nion. She takes the delight of an educated and 
cultiv.ated woman in current literature, and being 
an advanced thinker with decision of character 
and opinions, but with modesty and deference of 
manner, she is an interesting convers.ationalist. 
Her life is cliar.'K-terized liy simplicity and integ- 
rity, which with her e:irnestne.ss of purpose is en- 
dearing her U> A large circle of associates socially 
as well as professionally. 



(<l lK,ILLIA.M J. McHKNCH. M. 1). The gentle- 
\/\//i ™*'^ ^^ whom this sketch is written, is a 
^^\y physician whose reputation as a practi- 
tioner of the healing art, extends far beyond his 
own locality. Vieing of an intellectually assimila- 
tive nature that readily absorbs the pith and truth 
of every new and imjioi'tant discovery in the fields 
of pharmacy and chemistry. A .scholar by nature, 
with a love for research, our subject is moreover, a 
humanitarian who.se i)leasure is in relieving suffer- 
ing and pain rather than the acquiring merely of 
a reputation. So in touch with Xature is he of 
whom we write, that he "finds tongues m trees, 
books in the running brooks, .sermons in stones, 
and good in everything." 

Dr. >rclleiich is a native of the Empire State, 
having been born in Sclioliarie County. Se])tember 
1(), IM.'il. lie wa-- ri'ared on a farm and acquired 
the rudiments of his education in the district school 
in the vicinity of his home, subsequently taking a 
two j-ears' counsc in Malone Academy. In the fall 
of 18,53. after completing his academic course, our 
subjet t came to ^[ichigan, and was engaged in 



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teaching during one term of school, in Green Oak 
Township, Livingston County, the following j'ear 
being engaged in the same way in Brighton Town- 
sliip. In the meantime liis plans for studying 
medicine were being matured, and all liis subse- 
quent work was with that object in view. 

In the spring of 18.')4 tlie young man began 
reading medicine with Dr. Ira P. Bingham, of 
Brighton. In the fall of 18;');'^ he entered the med- 
ical department of the State University at Ann 
Arbor, and tliere spent three years in the pursuit 
of his professional studies, graduating' with the 
Class of '.58. During this course of instruction he 
of whom we write embraced, not only every oppor- 
tunity' offered in the regular curriculum, but car- 
ried on special studies. During the summer of 
18.56 he took a special course in analytical chemis- 
try, and also gained an insight intu the revelations 
of microscopy. 

Dr. McHench associated himself in 1857. with 
Dr. Bingham, of Brighton, in the practice of medi- 
cine, and continued with him until .January. 1859, 
w-lien he removed to New Hudson, Oakland Countw 
where he pr,acticed until the following October. In 
the fall of 1859 he went to Philadelpliia. where he 
took a course of lectures in tlie .leffersoii ^ledicai 
School and Hospital; his many friends in Brigh- 
ton, however urged him so strongly to return to 
tliat village tlint he did so in tlic spring of 18(1(1. 
and here he has since made his home, absenting 
himself at intervals tliat he miglit pursue his stud- 
ies in the Eastern cities. 

The original of this sketch went to Ilaltiinore, 
July 1, 18G4. and passing an examination, entered 
the army on contract as acting assistant surgeon. 
During his service in tliis capacity, he had sole 
charge of four wards in the hosi)ital for some time 
and here he gained a valiialile experience in sur- 
gery. At fibout the close of the war. Dr. ilcHench 
returned to Brighton and resumed his practice. In 
1870 he went to New York and took a special 
course of lectures on diseases of the eye, ear, heart 
and lungs, and also jjaid especial attention to phy- 
sical diagnosis generally m the licllevue Hospital, 
enjoying at this time dissertations on these subjects 
by the most eminent specialists. 

In the year 188(1. our subject again visited the 



American metropolis, again taking a like special 
course upon the diseases of the throat, etc. Dr. 
McHench. as is seen from this synopsis of his ]iro- 
fessional career, is thoroughly well skilled and he 
now- enjoys the entire confidence of the populace, 
and lias a most profitable practice in the town of 
Brighton. The gentleman of whom we write, has 
moreover many advant.ages of mind and person; 
he is a well-read and highl}- cultivated man. In 
1876 he was ajjpointed as one of the four delegates 
from Michigan to the Centennial JMedic.al Conven- 
tion that convened at Philadelphia. He is a inem- 
])ei' of the Oakland Academy of Medicine; is a 
member of the State Medical Society, and also of 
the American Medical Society. He was a|)pointed 
a delegate by the Oakland Academy of iledicine 
to the Jledical Association which met in Philadel- 
phia in 1876, and was also appointed by the .State 
Association as delegate of the convention which 
met in New York City in 1880. 

Dr. ^rcllench's wedded life dates from Novem- 
bei' 18, l.s(iis. when he married Miss Margaret 
K. Sowle, of Livington County, this State; their 
union has been lilessedby the advent of one daugh- 
ter, (iertrudc, who is an accomi)lished young lady. 
She has atlended the Iligii Schools of Brighton and 
Armada, and has attained great proficiency in mu- 
sic, painting and French at the school at St. Clair, 
this State. The Doctor is the fortunate possessor 
of a beautiful home in Brighton; it is a frame house 
of im|)osing size and style of architecture, and its 
interior arrangement .and furnishing, is marked 
bv a refined yet rich elegance, giving evidence 
that it is the home of culture. Our suliject is a 
follower of the political doctrines of promulgated 
by the Repulilican party. In his religious opinions 
he is liberal, although his wife is a member of tlie 
^Methodist Episcopal Church. 

The father of our subject wasAVilliam McHench, 
a native of Massachusetts. He removed to Scho- 
harie Count\ . N. Y.. with his parents when al)OUt 
twelve years old, and lived there until his death, 
which took place in 1867. He was a soldier in the 
1 Patriot's War. having the post of Captain in a New 
1 York regiment. He was a farmer by occupation. 
Doctor IMcIIench's grandfather came to this coun- 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOrTRAPIIICAL ALBUM. 



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luiiovi's tlint 1r' w:is a native of Scotlaml. as liis 
SiiaiKliiiotlier was a native of tliat eoiiiitiy. Alter 
eoniiiiij to the New World, lie fiist settU'd in New 
.lersey. tlieiiee lie iciiioveil to Massachusetts, and 
Knally si'ttied in New York. ( )nr siilijeet's mother 
was in her maiden days .Mi>s Ann Feii>nsoii. a 
native of New York, lie was a|i|ioinli'd for three 
years 1>,\' Direelors of the Detroit Medieal C'<dlege 
as one of the C'onnselors whose duty it was to ex- 
amine >tiident> for i,n;icliiation. 



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i^^UE<.nH)UK R. STALKY. Amoiisi the ex- 
if('^^ tensive and iirosperoiis farmers of Howell 
Vg^' Townshi]). Liviiiii'ston County, we are i>rat- 
itied to plaee bet'ore our readers the sjeiilleman 
whose iiaiiu' we now i>ive. and wliose pleasant 
farm house will lie found on section l.'i, of the 
township just nanie<|. lie is of Kastern liirth. 
liavinu' eome from .Moiitttomery County. N. ^'..and 
his natal day was April 2!l. 182."). 

.lolin and Uelieeea (Devonpeek) Staley were the 
parents of onr suhjeet. and they were natives of 
New ^'ork. who h;id an exten.si\'e farm of five 
hundred acres in the lownsliip of Florida. .Mont- 
gomery ( 'onnty. N. Y..and in this home llie\' lived 
and died. The parents of .lolin .Stale\- were llen- 
drick and IJaehel .Staley. both natives of ( Jermaiiy, 
who after eimiinii' to .Vmerica made their lirst lionu 
in New .lersey and hater removed to New York, 
where they p.M»ed the i-ciiiaiiidcr of ihcir da\>. 
They h:id one of tlio>i' maunilicent farms which 
.-lie to lie lounil in the Finpire State. Ileliilri<-k 
Staley. Millionth a foieiu'iier li\ liirth w;\> a true 
Jiatriot. who when Washington calleil the friend- 
of liberty to arms, left his |ilow in the furrow and 
shouldered his musket, leaving his wife and two 
chihlren lollii' pid\idenee of (iod. rhi> heroic 
wife shelleriMl .-md cared for liei' <-hildreii during 
his absence, and whi'ii the Indians pa.ssed through 
that sect i< 111. buiniiiL;- .•md raiding the homes and 
killing the uliili'-. >h<' sheltered licix'lf and her 
children on the hill>ide among?t the underbrush. 
Rebecca Devonpeek was a danghler of .lohn and 



Su.san Devonpeek who were natives of Holland and 
came to -Vmerica after theii- marriage, and carried 
on a large farm in .Montgomery County, where 
.lolin Devonpeek ;dso pursued the trade of a car- 
penter. .John and Rebec<'a Staley had a family of 
seven children, only four of whom are now sur- 
viving. Tlieir names were Rachel, now .Mrs. De- 
(iraft; .lohn II.; (larrett. deceased; Theodore R.; 
Abraham, who died in the war; Winslow 1'.. de- 
ceased; and .laeob who lives in New York. The 
father was a Whig in his eai'ly davs and later a 
Republican and both he and his worthy wife were 
members of the Dutch Reformed ( hnrcli of Miner- 
ville. N. Y. 

The original of this sketch was reaicd :\ faiiner 
boy and received a common-school cdiic.-ition, re- 
maining at home until he reached the age of twen- 
ty-two. lie then undertook farming on his own 
account in ,M<nilgoinery County. N. \ .. .and in the 
sining of lH").'i he came to Howell Townslii(i and 
purchased a farm. l']ioii this estate lie has ])laee(l 
a beautiful home and line farm liiiildings and has 
richly adorned it with sliadi' and ornamental trees. 
In this home he dwells with his beloved and faith- 
ful wife who was united with him in IHlil. Her 
maiden name was Mary .McMillen and she is a 
daughter of .lohn and Anna(Hanna) Me.AIillen, fif 
Montuomcry County. N. Y. Their life together 
has lu'cn an unbroken period of harmony and do- 
mestic bliss, shadowed only b}- the death of one 
son. William A. II.. who died at the age of thirty- 
three years. The remaining children are: Anna, 
now Mrs. Moody, who is the mother of four chil- 
dren — .M;iry li.. .Maud II.. Ole and ( llie twins; Al- 
beit.i. now Mrs. \V:iriier. the mother of two chil- 
dren. Howard and Liiella; Ilattie. .Mr>. Wilcox. 
whose two children are May and Theodon : Susan. 
Mis. I.are; Mary and Luclla. 

r.oth ,Mr. anil Mrs. Staley are act4\ c and etlieient 
members of the Fii-st Presbyterian Church of How- 
ell and with them their children are united in a 
true and hai)py Christian faith. The Republican 
party receives the allegiance of this gentleman and 
he i- an enthusiast ic member of thetJrand .\riny 
of the Republic, belonging to Waddell Post. No. 
I 1."). His war experience gives hiiu a special inter- 
est in this? organization and he delights iu reunions 



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with his old comrades. He belongs to Company F, 
Fifteenth ilichijjan Regiment in which he took 
service for three months, beginning April, 1865. 
He went as far Soutli as (ioldsl)oro, X. C, and was 
mustered out of service at the hospital at Alexan- 
dria. Va. He has filled various minor oflices and 
has lieen Assessor. School Director and Tre.asurer. 
He is one of the prominent and thoroughl}' suc- 
cessful farmers of the county and owns forty acres 
of fine land in Coohoctah Township. 



Ni^Vpate 



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YROX H. WASSON. Patriot blood flows 
freely through the veins of the man whose 
A5 name we have just given, and he feels 
that he does indeed love more truly the 
country for which his ancestors suffered in past 
times. His father was Samuel Wasson, a Vermont 
farmer who did valued service as a soldier in the 
War of 1812, and the father of that parent was 
one of "Washington's troops in the war of the 
American Revolution . 

Samuel Wasson was united in marriage with 
Sarah Moon, a daugliter of Thomas Moon, a Rut- 
land, A't., farmer, who jtassed his later j'ears in 
Cattaraugus County, X. Y. The parents of our 
subject were married m ^'ermont and removed to 
New York where they lived a number of years, 
then removed to Micliigan in June 1837, making 
their home on an unliroken tract of two hundred 
and fourteen acres of I'nadilla Township, Living- 
ston County. Their log house was a distance of 
one mile from a neighbor, ^Ir. Beale who kept 
the Post-otlice .at Plainfield. There were then no 
roads except as the pathway was marked out by 
blazed trees between this pioneer home and Dex- 
ter. Two log h(juses were at that time used as 
hotels in this vicinity one Iteing kept byMr. ]:)unn 
and ruiiithcr liy Mr. Dyer. This early .settler began 
life here witli more means than many of his 
ncisfhliors, as he was able to pay for his Land to 
provide himself with a team of horses and a yoke 
of oxen and had some money still remaining for 
the necessities of life. It is now thirty-five years 



since he passed away from this life at the age of 
seventy-two years, and his good wife who survived 
him for three years died at the same age. 

Of tlie eleven children of this worthy couple 
three are now living: John, our subject and Polly 
(]Mrs. House). The parents were possessed of gen- 
uine Christian character and were charter members 
of the Presbvterian Church of I'lainfleld, where 
;^h■. Wasson was a Deacon and Elder for manj' 
years, and often supplied tlie pulpit by reading a 
sermon when no clergyman could be obtained. He 
was an old-line Whig and a man who was deeply 
interested in both temperance and education. 

The birth of Myron Wasson occurred in Genesee 
County, N. Y.. February 17, 1821, and he was 
therefore sixteen years old when he came to Mich- 
igan. As it was necessary for every one who was 
able to labor to put his .shoulder to the wheel, this 
lad's education was cut short and he turned in to 
help clear up the new farm. He remained at home 
until he reached his twenty-second year, and was 
then married November 13. 1842, to Margaret 
Clawson,a daughter of Levi and Christine (Gates) 
Clawson, a New Jersey couple, who moved to Oliio 
in 183.5 and in 1837 made their settlement in 
I'nadilla Township, Livingston County. Mich. 
Mr. Clawson was in independent circumstances 
and built for his family a comfortalile frame hou.se 
befoie clearing up liis farm. He passed away from 
j eartli in 188(1, having completed eighty-four years 
i of u[>right living and his faithful and devoted 
wife survived until 188t», when in her ninety-fourtli 
year she departed in the odor of .sanctity. Mrs. 
! Wasson is the only survivor of their nine children. 
Mr. and Mrs. Clawson were charter members of 
the Piesbyterian Church here and Air. Clawson had 
held his membership in that liody for over fifty 
years. Ilis political views led him into alliance 
with the Democa-atic party, and lie was an earnest 
advocate <if movements directed toward the 
maintenance <if temperance. lie filled the otfice 
of Road Commissioner but cared little for office. 
To his children he gave a good disti ict school edu- 
cation and advanced them in every way in his 
power. His father, Abram Clawson, and his grand- 
father, John Gates, were both New Jersey farmers; 
the father died in his native State and the latter 



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683 



jmssed iiway in Ohio. Mt'tfr :i l(m<!; rosideiK-f tin-re. 

Mi-.-i. AVm^sou was hoiii .Inly 11, lH2<t. in .Sussex 
County. N. •!. and was si'\ iMitecn years old wlien 
slie eame to ^licliiaan. Tin' young' couple startt'd 
out ciiii)ty handed and estal)lislu'(i their home upon 
tlie little farm of lifty aeres, which lie liad from 
his father. They were much vestiicted in circiini- 
stances, as will he shown hy tiie fact which is re- 
lated that their winter supply of suu.'ir w;is onl\' 
three pounds. Besides the ohl homestead of two 
hundred and forty acres, which is in the hands of 
a tenant. Mr. .•lud Mrs. Was,s<>n own ninety-three 
acres on which they reside. 

Five of the nine children of oui- snliject arc 
now livins', namely: Ja'vI ('.who married 1-juma 
M;iy ;ind live.s in Topcka. Kan., witli his wife and 
three children: Sam\iel T. who with his wife. Viola 
Wood and his one child, lives on the old Wa.sso)! 
homestead; Kdwin S. who is married and lives in 
Ottawa. Kan.; Koliert A. who took to wife ^Fary 
Sherman .'ind lives in Ottawa, Kan.; ^lillon 1... who 
married (ailie liullis and Nvith hi> wife and two 
ehildien lives in this township. To all of their 
olTsprint;' our subject has ijiveu good education. 

The l're~liyterian Church is the religiou.s body 
with which our subject and his wife are .actively 
connected, and they have done luvich good service 
in the Suu<lay-scliool. .Mrs. Wasson is a nu-inlier 
of the Foreign and Home .Missionary Societ\-, o\er 
which she at one time ijiesided, and Mr. Wasson 
has lieen a member of the School Uo.'ird. lie i> a 
Republican in his political views and :\ man of 
correct habits of life, as he never uses eithi'i' to- 
bacco or. whiskey. The health of both is g 1 

with the exception of m-c;i>ioiial att;ick> of rheu- 
matism. 



'^; OIIN IIOWK (deceaseds I'lieie is alw.ays a 
greater interest in a history where one finds 
wi-itten "tinis" at the end, than one in 
which the reader i> left to woiulerwhat will 
come next. Our subject has linished the story of 



life and the .-ieal of ai)|)roval of thetireal Librarian 
has been set upon it. IJelonging to the chtss of 
men who from earliest youth are bread wiiiners. 
winning their night's repose and the sntHciency to 
sup[)orl life by the hardest labor, oi\r subject faced 
the problem sturdily and aecejjted the result with 
content. 

Mr. llowe was bom in the iiianufactuiiiig t(_)wn 
of C;irlisle, Kngland. April I'.l. 1)^11. lie was a 
sou of .lohn and IClizabeth (Steele) Howe. His exo- 
dus to the I'liited States took place in the spring 
of 1X21. when he landed in New York City, whore 
he spent one year, thence going to A\'estchester 
County. N. Y. He was a machinist by trade, hav- 
ing grown up, as one might say, to the business in 
his n:itive town, which is noted for its great cotton 
manufactories. On .settling in Westchester County 
he was employed as a machinist in a cotton factory 
and there remaiiu'd for several years. The busi- 
ness at fli;it time, however, was not so profitable as 
ill later Ncars and the jiromise for advancement 
w.'is greater in the ^\'estel•n country than in the 
Kastern town, hence onr subject came to Michigan 
in 1S:U :uid.settled at Deer Creek, where he entered 
a tract of land from the ( iovernmemt, setting him- 
.self with gre:il energy to im])roviug the .same. 
His was the first sawmill ever built on Deer Creek. 
He continued business at this place until 1848. at 
which time he <lied. Our subject w.as <me of si.x 
children boi-n to his father, their names being .7t>hn. 
.lon.illi.'in. William. Thomas, Susannah and Mary. 

The original of our sketch was.emplo\ed in the 
factory until coming to .Michigan in 18:51. when he 
engaged in fanning. Ili> f;itlu'r gave him his tirst 
start in life. |)resenting him with one hundred and 
sixty acres of land that was loi-ated on section 8. 
Thi> he cleared and iiiipio\ (•(] and his widow now 
owns the original hoiiU'stead of one hnndred and 
thirt\' acres. Mr. .lohn Howe died August 1.3. 1887 
and was greatly mourned by friends as well as rel- 
atives. He served in several township oftices and 
was Supervisor and also represented his county in 
the legislature ill ls<.-)7. His marriage took place 
.laiiuarv 14, 1811, when he was united to Miss 
K>ini<'e .loiies, who wa- born in the town of AFid- 
dlelicld. Ot,segO County. .\. V., February 2:i. 1822. 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 



Jones. The former was a chair-maker by trade and 
came to Michigan in June, 1829 at whicli time he 
settled in Salem, AVashtcnaw County, where he 
engaged in farming, lie lost his wife here in 1833 
and he himself passed away later. Of eight chil- 
dren l)orn to himself and wife seven survive there 
being three sous and f(jur daughters, as follows: 
Martha, Alonzo, William, Aurelia, Eunice, Betheuy. 
and Alfred. Mrs. Howe made her home among 
strangers from the time she lost her mother and as 
a young girl she suffered some bitter experiences. 
Our subject and his wife wen: the parents of three 
childreu — James, Elizabeth, who was the wife of R. 
V. Patterson and is now deceased, and Amelia, 
who died in early childhood. 



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UTHER C. KANOUfSE. A grateful nation 
3) will ever hold in honor those who, in times 
^ of peril, offei'ed themselves upon their 
country's altar and faced death on many a bloody 
battlefield. In their memory will poems and songs 
l)e written, anniversaries remembered with flags 
and banners flying in the air, and patriotism exalted 
in a million throbbing hearts. On Decoration Day 
we pay our tributes of love to our honored soldier 
dead, while those who survive are the objects of 
our liighest esteem. Not only did Mr. Kanoiise 
sei-ve with valor in many a hard fought engage- 
ment, lint his efficiency received merited recog- 
nition, and while he entered the service in the 
ranks lie was honorably discharged at the close of 
the war, a commissioned officer. 

I'pon the l)attletteld of life, where heroism is 
called for no less than when facing ghastly death 
at the cannon's mouth, Mr. Kanouse has made an 
honorable record. Ju.st and honest witli all, gen- 
eidiis .•iiul kind, a close acquaintance reveals more 
and more those exemplary traits of character which 
makes him influential among the residents of Liv- 
ingston County. His home is pleasantly located 
on section 5, Cohoctah Township, and comprises 
one hundred and eighty acres of good land, more 
tliaii one hundred of which have been cleared by 



I the personal effort of the owner. By a proper 
rotation of crops the land has been brought to an 
unusual fertility, while substantial rural structures 
have been erected to serve the varied purposes of 
modern farm life. A view of this tine homestead 
ajipears on another |)age. 

A native-born citizen of Michigan, .Mr. Kanouse 
was born in P>Hrns, Shiawassee County, June 29, 
1842, and is the .son of "J.acob and Mabel (Drake) 
Kanouse. During his youth the schools were scat- 
tered at remote distances on the i)rairies or in the 
timber laud, and educational privileges were few. 
However, such as they were, Mr. Kanouse took ad- 
vantage of them and extended his fund of infor- 
mation beyond the proverbial "Three R's." After 
he had completed the course of instruction in the 
comnu)n school he was a student in the State Nor- 
mal and made u.se of his knowledge thus acquired 
I in the profession of a teacher, which he followed 
one winter. It the meantime he gained a practical 
training in the duties of agricultural life and early 
' learned the habits of industry and economy which 
contributed in no small degrci' to his success in 
later years. 

The breaking out of the Civil War caused Mr. 
Kanouse to abandon teaching, and on September 
4, 1862, he enlisted in Company I^, Sixth ^lichigan 
Cavalry, as a private. Among the engagements in 
which he participated are the following: Hanover, 
Hunterstown, Gettysburg, IMonterey, Boonesboro, 
Snickers Gap, Kelley's Ford, Culpeper, Raccoon 
' Ford, White's Ford, Jack's Shop, James City, Buck- 
j land Mills, Brandy Station, Stephensburg, Morton 's 
i F'ord, the Wilderness, Beaver Dam Station, Yellow 
Tavern. Meadow Bridge, Milford, Ilawes Shop. 
Baltimore Crossroads. Cold Harbor, Trevilian 
Station, Winchester. Shepardstown, Berry ville. 
Opequan, Loui.sa Courthouse, Five Forks, South 
Side Railroad, Ducks Pond Mills, Riggs, Sailor's 
Creek and Appomattox Coui-thouse. 

As might be expected, Mr. Kanouse did nt)t pass 
through all these engagements uninjured. At 
Boonesboro. Md., he was wounded in the left arm 
and placed in the hospital. This not being a very 
desirable place to stay, he left without permission 
after remaining three weeks and joined his regi- 
ment, preferring active camp life to the tedium 




RESIDENCE OF L . L ARMST RONG , 5EC 34., HARTLAN D TR, LIVINGSTON CO., MICH. 




RESIDENCE OF LUTHER C. KANOUSE, SEC. 6., GO HOOT AH TP^LIVlixiGSTON CO.,MtCH. 



PORTRAIT AM) IIIOGRAPHK AI. Al.l'.lM. 



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and nil pleasantness of the hospital. At Tievillian 
Station lie was ayain \vo\infled. and receivinii: a 
sixty days' furioULih. returned home. .\1 the 
expiration of the time lie rejoined iiis reijiment. 
.\.t Winchester tlie liurstiny; of a shell knocked his 
horse d()\vn and in the fall Mr. K.anouse had his 
left arm broken. He was then only a few ft'et 
from the enemy's line. .Vnother furlouijh of sixt\' 
days was li'iven him .•ind he ;iii;iin joined his regi- 
ment at its expiration. 

.Vltoi;ether. the regiment to whirh .Mr. Kanouse 
lielonged participated in .sixty-two engaiivmants. 
The hor.se which he rode ])a.ssed through all un- 
.scathed, and at the return of peace was lironght 
home and kept until death e.ame to him from old 
age. When the regiment left .Michigan for the 
tield of action Mr. Kanouse was made Duty Ser- 
geant, and after the battle of Gettysburg was com- 
nii.ssioned Oiderly. In .September, l><(j.'5, he was 
promoted to .Second Lieutenant bvit never received 
his commission. In ^May. ISlil, he was commis- 
sioned First Lieutenant, and in this capacity w.is 
discharged November 21, IK (!;"), at Kort Leaven- 
worth, after making a tour through the West fight- 
ing Indians, etc. With others who had helped to 
save the flag of our country he [)articip;ited in the 
(Jrand Keview at Washington ;ind tliencjime home, 
having received pay for a service of three years 
and three mouths. In 1864 he held an election at 
Harper's Ferry, when bis father w:is appointed to 
collect and carry the votes home to be counted. 

.Since the close of the war 'Sir. Kanouse Ii.as been 
engaged in farming on section .5, where he now 
resides, lie first purchased forty acres to which 
he afterward added as he was able. While devoting 
himself principally to agriculture he has not over- 
looked his duties as a citizen ancl is .in active Re- 
publican, having a linn faith in the [irinciples of 
that party. His fellow-citizens, recognizing his 
aliilities, have elected him to all the minni ollices 
of the township and he has also .served two terms 
a.-< Supervisor. He has been delegate to several 
.Slate conventions, and in every position has en- 
deavored to advance the interests of the commun- 
ity where he resides. Socially he is a member of 
the Masonic fraternity. F. A- A. M.. and also is 
identified with the I. U. U. F. 



The plea.sant home belonging to Mr. Kanouse is 
presided over by a lad}- of refinement and culture, 
whom he brought hither as bis bride many years 
ago. .Mrs. Kanouse was known in maidenhood as 
\'ianiia(;aston, and was born in Livingston County, 
this St.ate, to Ma)\ in and I'hilinda (Parsons) Gas- 
ton, natives of Madison County, N. Y., and Con- 
w.ay, Franklin County, Mass., respectively. The 
paternal giaiidjiarentsof .Mrs. Kanouse were Elijah 
and .Susannah (Sears) (Jaston; the former, who was 
born in .Ma.s.sachusetts, moved to Is'fw^ York, and 
thence to .Michigan where he died in ISll. He 
w,as twice married, his first wife dying in New York 
in 1828. and his .scecmd wife being .Mrs. P0II3' (.Sears) 
North, a sisti'r of the first wife. Tracing the lineage 
back still further we find thai Elijah (Jaston was a 
a son of Robert ( iastoii. whose father emigrated 
from Ireland to .Vmeiiea at an early day. 

In May. I8;f(!, Mar\in (Jaston emigrated to 
Michigan and .settled three miles north of Howell. 
One year later he ieiiio\-ed to Handy Towii>liip 
where his father had entered eighty acres. After 
remaining there many years and improving a fine 
farm, in 1888 he came to the home of our subject 
and there he receives the devoted attention of his 
children and granilchildren. He was deefjly be- 
reaved by the death of his wife, who passed away 
in May. 1888. The ceremony wdiich united the 
destinies of .Mr. K;iiiouse and ^'ianna (iaston was 
solemnized .Inly |o. 18(;l and their wedded life 
has brought to them no .st)rrow save the lo.ss liy 
death of three children. The two who siu'vive are 
Nellie ^L, the wit'eof Ivlw.ird House, and Birney G. 






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ORENZO LEROV ARM.STRON(t. The 
(^ gentleman who resides on the farm on .sec- 
: tion .'54, llartland Township, Livingston 
County, is one of the pioneer .settlers of the Stati- 
of .Michigan, and although having reached more 
than the three-score and ten years usually allotted 
to man, his mind is still vigorous and keen; he is an 
epitome in himself, of the changes that have taken 
jilace in the history, not only of the State, but the 



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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 



country at large. He was born in Onondaga 
County', N. Y., in the town of Fabius, Fehruary 15, 
18L5. His fatlier was Eraxtus Arnistrong.a native 
of Connecticut, and was horn in 1781. He was, 
however, doubtless of English ancestry, as the name 
is one that one meets most fiequently in England, 
and ranks high in the social order. 

Erastus Armstrong was reared in liis native Stale 
and had reached his majority when lie left home 
to go to New York State. There he [iiirehased a 
farm of fifty acres in Onondaga County, and this 
he bent his efforts to improve. I lis decease took 
place in Monrtie County, N. Y. in 18'21. Iieing at 
that time in tlie prime of life, only about fort}' 
years of age. Our subject's paternal grandfather 
was Lee Armstrong, a native of Connecticut, and 
a farmer. Although he himself did not participate 
actively in the Revolutionary War. his lirotheis 
were jn'ominently engaged therein. Our subject's 
mother was before her marriage a ]\Iiss Roxana 
Stowell, a native of New Hamsjishire, but reared in 
A'ermunt and married in New Yoi-k Stale, in On- 
ond.aga County. She died in Michigan at the age 
of eighty-eight years, liaving come hither with her 
sons. She was the mother of eight children, .six 
sons and two daughters. 

1-orenzo L. Armstrong, our subject, was the fifth 
son in the family. His tatiier, having died when 
our subject was only six years of age, he was reared 
by his uncles .and aunts. At the age of about 
twenty he came to "Michigan in 183;'). making the 
journey hither with an ox-team; on the way here, 
however, he traded off his oxen for a span of 
horses which he drove the rest of the way. He 
lii-st A\cnt to ()aklaiid County, where hi' remained 
working li\ tlie month and da\'. and also taught 
scliool. Not a i;rcat while after coming to this 
State lie was married toMiss.hilia Ann Annstrong. 
a native of Connecticut, born in the town of 
Franklin, New T^ondon County, August 2'.l, 1821. 
She was the second daughter and fourth child of 
Lee and Mary (Spofford) Armstrong. She re- 
mained in her native place until aliout eight years 
of age when she went to New York with her par- 
ents, thence to Ohio, and at the age of about fifteen 
years, came to Michigan and settled in Oakland 
County. After marriage our subject located in 



Milford, Oakland County, and there remained for 
eight years, at the end of which time they removed 
to Hartland Township, this county and settled on 
section 23, residing in that i)lace for a number of 
years, until, in 1855, they removed to the place 
where they now reside. 

When our sultject and his family settled liere, 
there was only a log house on the farm. During 
the years lliat have passed si ice making this their 
home, he has made marked improvements, build- 
ing his present residence in 1873, at a cost of 
•13,000. This comfortable and attractive residence 
a view of which appears on another page, is one 
well suited to the serene enjoyment of advanced 
years. He has fine barns and outlniildings upon 
the place, hit? barn being well arranged and 4Gx8G 
feet in dimensions. The place has so greatly 
changed in aspect as to be hardly recognizalile as 
the one to which they originally came; at that time 
there were wild animals of all kinds in great 
numbers. 

The location of the home shows an apprecia- 
tion of the lieautifiil in nature, as Avell as dis- 
crimination in tlie most advantageous jjoint for 
improvement. Our subject has planted a fine 
orchard, which, during fruit season is laden with a 
juicy and odorous burden. He devotes himself to 
general farming, and is the owner of two hundred 
and eighty acres of land. He had at one time, 
four hundred and eighty acres in a body in Hart- 
land Township, and has been a very large farmer, 
employing a great deal of lalior, and handling 
large numbers of stock. Now he rei ts his farm 
onl\- keei)ing a geiier.al supervision over the place, 
impro\iiig it -.as his fancy dictates. As can be 
imagined by oiii' e\<'n ignorant of the hardship'" 
of ))i<ineer life, the ;is]ieet of this trad- has not 
been changed and ma<le what it is at the present 
time, without a great deal fif hard work. 

Our suliject has reare<l two adopted daughters. 
The eldest. Mary Iliiies. died at the age of Iwenty- 
thiee years. The second daughter, Cor.a May 
Mart, became the wife of Thomas II. Clark, and 
resides in South Lyons, Oakland County, this 
State. Our subject's first vote was cast for Presi- 
dent Van Buren; in 1840 he voted for W. II. 
Harrison and for the grandson, Benjamin Harrison 



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CH'.I 



in ls«8. Mr. Aiinstronii; ims held a niimlicr of 
li)r;\l (illicc's it\ tlip townsliij). Iiaviiii;' l)jeii Su|n i- 
visur ill 1S()1 am) ayaiii in 1S7I, 1S7."), 1«7() and 
IH77. Altlioiisiii 111' i.s 11 nii'iiilH'i- of the Congroga- 
tional (Iniicli of Ilaitland and a Deacon in the 
same, hi' is not, in favor of sectarianism. lie was 
the manager of the lirst threshing machine in Liv- 
ingston County, tliis State. lie has done much 
surveying in the way of making roads, dividing 
laml. etc. to tiie entire satisfaction of all interested. 



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'OIIN W. BOARDM.VN. a prominent citizen 
of Leroy Townshij), Ingham Co\inty, wliose 
lieautiful home is situated in \Vel)liervilie, 
was liorn in Connecticut, Mi"'<'l' •"•• "^-^'i- He 
came witli iiis parents, Watson L. and Klizahetli 
Boardman from New England to Inghani County. 
>Ii(h.. ill Is.Sm Mild made a settlement in Locki' 
Township, lieing the first family within its hounds. 
A h>g cabin in the woods was the first Michigan 
lionie of this family and they at once liegan the 
work of felling the trees and preparing the land 
for cultivation. The father died uiion the farm 
leaving a family of i\\v children, four of whom 
are now living, namely: Maiy. now the widow of 
Mr. Lepley in Livingston County; Helen, wife of 
James Payne in (iratiot County ; Daniel L. in Kan- 
sas and John W. The father served as Road Com- 
mi.-isioner and was a prominent man in the town- 
ship, lie was twice married hut had no children 
liy the second union. 

Our suliject grew to niaiiliood in Locke Town- 
ship, and saw hi^ full shall' of pioneer life, iiis 
mother w;is called away from life when he was 
was .■iliout twelve years old and after receiving his 
edncMtioii in the district schools of the township 
he entered upon his life work .as farming. lie was 
married .Inly 1, 1M.)8 to'llenrietta Fisher, who was 
horn Ocloher I'.t. l.s;i'.t in Wayne Comity, N. V. 
and is a daughter of IJobert and .Maria (\anWert) 
Fisher. .Mr. and ilrs. Fisher li;id si'ttled in Locke 
Township, this county, at an early day when Mrs. 
Boardman was only ten years old. Of their ten 



children eight are now living, namely: Kehecca, 
(.Mrs. I'inekncy), CJeorge L., William, .lames, David, 
Andrew and Josephine (wife of (ieorge Hamilton) 
besides ]\Irs. Boardman. The parents are members 
of tlie Methodist ICpiseopal Church and citizens 
highly respected in the township. 

Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Hoardmaii. and two !tre now living, namely: Fran- 
cis K. and John AV. ()ur suliject resided on his 
farm in Locke Township until IH84 wdien he re- 
moved to Webberville, and has since made it his 
home. He owns a farm of one hundred and twenty- 
one acres which he hius accumulated by his own 
efforts, ai)ly seconded by the help of his faithful 
and jueiciou.s companion. He enlisted in the Union 
-Vrniy .Vugust 12, ISfi'i, joining as a private Com- 
pany II, Twenty-sixth ^Michigan Infantry, which 
became a part of the .\rmy of the Potomac. He 
participated in a number of skirmishes an<l did 
duty mostly in Virginia and for a short time was 
in North Carolina, receiving his honorable dis- 
charge Augu.st 29, 18(53. 

This gentleman is an etticiont and active member 
of the (irand Army Post at Webberville, and has 
been .senior Vice Commander and Sergeant of tlie 
Post. He is also identified with the Ancient Order 
of United Workmen at Fowlerville and an active 
worker in every cause which he deems of value to 
the community. In politics he is in sympathy with 
the Rei)ublican parly and in this connection is es- 
teemed as an infiueiitial leader of thought. All 
who know him lejoice in his prosperity, and feel 
that it is the just rewaid of his ett'orts and integ- 
rity. 



HKI) .M. COFFKV. ( )nc the stirring young 
farmers of this section, he of whom we 
write is already the possessor of one hun- 
dred and twenty acres of laud located on section 
17. IIand\' Township, Livingston County, and 
this he devotes to general farming. Since locat- 
ing upon the place he has added many improve- 
ments and has already greatly enhanced ita value. 




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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 



He was born on the old homestead, on section 16, 

llniidy 'I'ownship. this county, Ai)iil ."). l.SOL lie 
is the son of Levi and .lulielte (\Vliite) Cutfev, 
who came to this State in \x2i> and soon united in 
marriage. They lived lieic until death claimed 
them for its own, the father passinj;- aw.ay Febru- 
ary 24, 1891, his wife having i)reeeded him by ten 
years, her decease occuriing .lime 8, 1881. 

Our subject inherits from his father the acciuisi 
live faculty to a large degree. ^Mr. CViffey, Sr., 
was very successful in his agricultural )iusiness 
and had acquired five hundred and eighty-seven 
acres of land which bore fine imjjrovements — a 
good conifortalile liouse lieing the center of the 
domestic circle iind around it fine barns, granaries 
and sheds for cattle, liefore coming to Handy 
Township our suliject's father first settled for a 
slioil time in Marion Townsiiip. Later he removed 
to Washtenaw County and then came to Handy 
Township. He was highly respected liy all classes 
of people as being a man of unerrnig judgment 
and high business capacity. He accumulated a 
very handsome property before his decease, whicii 
w.as divided among his sons, who are four in num- 
ber, namely: Frank, Henry A., Fred M. and Mar- 
shal. All the sons have taken up tlie agricultural 
calling and all live not a great distaiu'e from the 
homestead in pleasant and c(jmfortable homes of 
their own, having pleasing wives. They are 
l)rominent citizens and respet'ted by all who have 
dealings with them. 

Tiie original of this sketch received his educa- 
tion in the district schools of the vicinity and was 
reared a farmer lad. lie lix'ed at home \intil he 
was twenty-one years of age and [\\v\\ niari-ied 
Miss .lulia I.iiig of ll;iudy 'l"owii>hip. Livingston 
Count \. Slic wa.- :i dauglitei' of Ivlward and 
Klizabeth ( i'ahncr) Ling, nafixcsof F.ngland. tlie 
father having came to this country in 1850 liis 
wife following hither one year later. They first 
settled in New York and came to .Michigan in 18(ir), 
staying for some time in Oakland County, where 
he was engaged in farming and later, in 1869, 
coming to Livingston County and settling in 
Handy Townsiiiii on a I'.-nin ofeiglity .-icres. Tln'y 
were the parents of twehe cliildren. of whom the 
following arc now living: Kdna. now Mrs. Par- 



ker, John, Jake, Hiram, Mary, who is Mrs. Coffev, 
Amelia also a i\Iis. Coffey and .lulin. also INIrs. 
Coffey, ( ieoige and Luella. ( )ur subject belongs 
to the industrial party, that appealing to his ideas 
of file way in which a competency is to be accjuired 
rather than by any favors than can be exacted 
from reluctaiit legislators. He is also a Patron of 
Industry and a member of the Farmers' Alliance. 
One child, a daughter, whose name is Fdith B., and 
whose age is eiglit years, lirightens the household 
and is the object of a loving affection of lioth 
parents. J\Ir. Coffey is one of the active young 
farmers of his township and the signs of the times 
are sadly awry if his future success does not justi- 
f\' his friends in their anticipation. 






^ IVILLIAM O. IIKXDRYX. This native 

V\A/r ''*'^*^ "'' '^Ji'^''ii"''''"i^^'li" """■ makes his home 
V^/^' in Cohoctah Townshii), Livingston County, 
was born in the township of Bedford, "Wsyne 
County, August 1.0, 1842, being the son of Water- 
bury 'SI. and Betsey Ann (Killinoar) llendrvx. 
The grandfather was a miller, and met his death 
by an accident in his mill, and the father, who 
w.as Ikumi in Steuben County, \. V.. September 4, 
1809, was a cabinet-maker and carpenter, who 
came to Michigan in the spring of 1833. 

Here Waterbury Ilendryx entered eighty acres 
of land in (ireenlield Township, Wayne County, 
and after a short time moved to Redford Town- 
ship, where he .-igain took eighty acres, which he 
l)ut in condition for fanning. There hi' resided, 
with the exception of three yeai's, until IS.'it;, 
wlien he came to ( dhiK'tah and bonghl one hun- 
dred and sixty acres of timber land on section 17. 
Having put this in splendid condition, he sold it 
t(i onr sTibject in 186.'). He was an ordained min- 
ister ill the Methodist Kinscop.'il Church, and 
preached for many _\ears. After coming to Liv- 
ingston County he joined the United Brethren 
Church. About the yi'ar i8;")8 he wiiit to Lansing 
and lived for four years, and later bought a fruit 
farm in Sauga tuck, Allegan County. In 1887 he 



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iiiovi'd to Spink County, S. Dsik.. wliero lie now. 
iTsidos upon :i farm. For some twelve years he 
served liis eon\niunil\ a^ .lustice of llie I'eace. 

The father of our sulijeet was twice niari'ied, and 
liy ins lirst union lie had eiijlit ehildren, seven of 
whom urew to maturity — 'I'homas. of ()maha; 
.lohn. who was killed in California in 18(1;"); Henry, 
who was killed by the fall of a tree at the a<re of 
sixteen years; Clark, wlio was a soldier in the 
Ninth .Michit>an Infantiv. and was killeil in a .saw 
mill; Waterhury, at South Dakota; ^\'illiam ().; 
.lames, of Nebr.aska. who also served in the Ninth 
Mieliioan Cavaliy; and \Vhite<nnli, who died at 
the aiie of ei<>'hteen months. 'I'he mother of the.se 
sons died February II. I><(i2. and the father was 
ai£ain married, tlii> time ehoosini; as his life com- 
pany Kmeline \'anRlarcomb. who had two chil- 
dren. Fred and Nellie. 

Ax the age of sixteen, liaviny received larm 
training and a common school education. \\'illi!im 
Ueiidryx began life for himself, and was mariied 
at the age of eighteen, at whic'li time he undertook 
inde|)endciit farming. 'I'he family patriotism, 
whicli was strong in him, led liin] to enlist, March 
2(). 1H()2, in Company II, Ninth .Michigan In- 
fantry. ITe was sent to .St. I,oui>. and was tr.ans- 
ferred to the Thirteenth liegimciit, in which he 
served through tlie campaign .-it Corinth, after 
which he rejoined his own legiment at ^Murfi'ee.s- 
boro, and w.as there captured with six conijianions. 
Ueing paroled, they went to Columbus and weie 
there exchanged, and in September were called out 
to defend Cincinnati. They were also detailed to 
guard the military prison at Nashville, and at oiu' 
time acted as body guard for f!en. Thomas. He 
was mustered out of service at Nashville in .Sep- 
tember, 18(5;"), and discharged at Jackson. Mich.. 
November 1.'). with the rank of a Corjioi-.'d. 

Returning liome, .Mi-, llcndiyx boiighi his 
father's farm in Dei'cmber. and upon it he has 
since resided, and has dev<jle(l himself largel\- to 
the raising of thoroughbred cattle and I'ascas 
horses, and also in shipping ship timber. He ha> 
•acted as Justice of the I'eace for eight \-cars. and 
is active as a worker in the Republican ranks. He 
has Iieen married three times, his first union taking 
place January 1. ISfJd. with ^Fartlia. daughter of 



■Willi.-im and .Vbigail licnjamin. She died Decem- 
ber 2(;, IHCl. and in Scjitember, 1862, :Mr. Ilen- 
dryx was marrii'd to Fucy .\nn Swank, a native 
of Ohio, and a daughter of Daniel and (Jrace 
( .Mills) Sw.'uik. Nine children were the result of 
this iii:irriage : AN'illiam ().. t^race, Frank 'W. 
John 1)., Myrtle, Je.'ise, Frances, Tlnmias and 
.\ggie. Their mother died ^Farch 26, 188'). The 
present Mrs. Hcndiyx is .Vl/.erettii. daughter of 
Henry and Miiicr\a (.Morton) IFoisington, of Tv- 
roiie Township, and widow of Flavil (Jriggs, and 
to this ni;iriiagc no children have been granted. 
This highly respected and esteemed family are 
known not only throughout the limits of the 
township, but also in bro.'idi'r circles, and in all 
walks of life they are u.sefnl and worthy of the 
reuard in which lhe\' are held. 



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" _^ ENRY N. liFACH. who is .serving his fourth 
j)term as Supervisor of Brighton Town.ship, is 

-,J^ t)ne of the enteriirising and progressive far- 
•)) mers of Livingston County. He wiis born 
in (ireen Oak Township, just across the road from 
where he now lives, January 8, 1847. His father w.as 
I,e(irand Heacli. a n;itive of New York, there born 
November I. isiii. He w.a.s a farmer and came to 
Michigan at an early d;iy, locating a piece of (iov- 
ernment land on section 1, f ireen Oak Township. 
IJvingston County. Here he pas.sed through the 
various stages and jihases of pioneer life and 
cleared and im])roved one hinulred and twenty, 
acres of land. He died March 13, 1874. 

Mr. I'.each, Sr., came to the Wolverine State 
without means and what he acquired before his de- 
cease w.as made by hard labor and most dilligent 
effoi't. He was an honest .as well as an industrious 
man, and enjoyed the confidence and respect of all 
who knew him. For many years prior to his death 
he had been a member of the Fresbyterian Church 
and stood high among his a.-<sociates in that reli- 
gious body. Our subject's mother was in her 
maiden days Mi.s.s Znba Bryant, born December 25, 
1817. She was a native of New York and was the 



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constant and faithful companion of her husband's 
pioneer days. She was a life-long Baptist and by 
her interest and energy did much to establish that 
religious body in this section. She died July 27, 
1885. She was the mother of four children, only 
one of whom, our subject, is at present living. 

Flenr^- Beach was reared and educated in his 
parents' home. Me received a district-school edu- 
cation and for a short time enjoyed the advantages 
offered at the graded schools at New Hudson. He 
began farming for himself in 1872. lie and his 
brother Alanson together purchased a part of the 
farm which our subject now owns and which is 
located on section 36, Brighton Township. 
Together they farmed this for some time. After 
their father's death they purchased their sister's 
interest in the old homestead and soon thereafter 
divided their landed interest, the brother taking 
the old homestead and our subject retaining his 
l)resent farm. 

The original of this sketch was married Decem- 
ber 12, 1871, to Miss Ella Burnett, who, like him- 
self, is a native of this county and State, having 
been born in Green Oak Township October 17, 
1850. They are the parents of six children, five of 
whom are now living at home. They are Louie 
L., Belle L., Grace II., who is deceased; Nell, Hen- 
richa and Newton B. Mrs. Beach was a daughter of 
Jonathan and Sarah (C'lough) Burnett, the for- 
mer a native of Canada and the latter of New 
York. They came to INIichigan at an early day 
and were among the first settlers of Green Oak 
Township. The father died January 22, 1881, 
having been born in 1799. The mother died Feb- 
ruaiy 3, 1884. The)' had lived together almost 
fifty years in the closest and most sympathetic 
companionship. Six of their seven children are 
still living. 

Our subject is a Republican in his political pref- 
erence, giving the weight of his intluenee and vote 
to that part3^ The people of the township have 
shown the confidence which they repose in his 
integrity and aliility by electing him to a number 
of offices in the gift of the township. He was 
elected Supervisor in 1887 and still serves in that 
capacity, it being at jjresent his fourth term. Mr. 
Beach is the owner of two hvindred and seventeen 



acres of good land that is highly improved. He 
has thereon a comfortable, commodious and attrac- 
tive farmhouse, nith fine barns and outhouses. 
Although a general farmer, he makes a specialty of 
breeding sheep for the city markets. Much ciedit 
belongs to him of whom we write for the indomit- 
able energy with which he has pursued his career. 
He licgan life without any means, but has .suc- 
ceeded in acquiring a handsome competency by his 
careful management and his industrious, prudent 
ways." He is a clever, energetic and industrious 
man, prominent and influential in the community. 
His wife is known throughout the county for her 
amiable, generous disposition and broad. i)rogress- 
ive ideas in social as well as other matters. 



^ERDINAN]^ W. MUNSON. The gentleman 
^"i whose name is at the head of this sketch is 
the proprietor of two hundred and eighty 
acres of as fine land as there is in I^ivingston 
County. This is cidtivated to perfection, the 
latest and most improved methods in scientific ag- 
riculture being employed. There is also thereon 
a home of which any man might well be proud — 
not a palace whose care and expense may embarrass 
and harrass, it is yet a home in every sense of the 
word — a place of beauty and comfort in which one 
may live and learn to appreciate how good it is to 
be ))orn in the latter part of the nineteenth cent- 
ury and to l)e a citizen of the United States. 

The Empire State is the scene of the nativity of 
him of whom we write, having first opened his 
eyes in his father's home in Broome County, N. Y.. 
on the banks of the Susquehanna River, March 
31, 1831. His parents were Samuel S. and Phebe 
A. (Walker) Munson, natives of Connecticut and 
Saratoga, N. Y., respectively. His paternal jiro- 
genitor was a tailor b^' trade, having served an 
apprenticoshii) of seven years and worked at that 
business until he was thirty-one vears of age, when 
he gave it up to engage in farming at (ireat Bend. 
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he cnine West, settling in Kowlerville, Livini;>liiii 
Cnuiity. wiri'ii' lie was enji^afjed in t'MriiiiiiL; iiiilil 
tlu' latter i)art of liis life wiien, retiring' from 
aitivo lal>or, lie removed to Fovvlerville, where he 
(lied February 1, 18«7. His wife survived liim hut 
a shoi-l time, iier decease oeeurring May 2, 1887. 
Tiiey were aged res))ectivcly eighty-seven and 
eiglity-four years at the time of tlieir death. 

.Mr. MuiiM>irs paternal grandsire was .\lmond 
Munsoii. :i unlive of Conneeticut. He was a far- 
mer liy (•••illiiig liiit was engaged in the lumber 
luisiness during a large portion of hi> life. IK' 
s|)ent his latter d.ays at (ireat Bend. I'm., where he 
was greatly respected as a promineiil 111:111 of known 
integrity and high reputation. [lis acquaintance was 
very wide and he was ])opiilar wherever he went. 
He had served in the Revolutionar\' War live years, 
his father and three brothers having also been 
engaged in that struggle for indei)endence. Alto- 
gether they aggregated a service to their country 
of thirty-one years. Our subject's great-grandfather 
was a Lieutenant in the Ivcvolutionary War. 

The fathei- of him of whom we wriU- was in 
early d;iys ;i Whig ami l;iter a I\epublii;iii. In his 
chui'eh relations he anil his family are members of 
the Methodist F,pisco|)ai bo(ly. in which he always 
has held some ollice. His wife and our subject's 
mother was. previous to her marriage, a .Miss Phebe 
Walki'r. Her father was Stephen Walker, .-i native 
of Khode Island, and her mother was l.ydia ((iard- 
ner) Walker, born in Hudson, >.'. Y. The former 
was a house-builder, and followed his trade througli 
life, r.otli he and his wife died at Camillus. On- 
ondaga County. X. Y. He belonged to that (piaint 
religious body that, so ])crsecuted in Kiigland. 
sought a refuge in the I'nited States under their 
distinguished leader. William Penn. Our subject 
is one of twelve children, only three of whom ai'C 
now li\iiig. Tlie\- are .Mrs. IC. M. .Spencer of .Mar- 
(piette, this .State; Mrs. S. .\. Lowe, also of Mar- 
fpiette, and the gentleman who is the subject of 
this sketch. 

The gentleman of whom we write eai-ly i-eccived 
the training of a farmer's boy. He received his 
educaticm at the Fairmont I'nioii School, near 
Syracuse. N. Y.. and is a graduate of the State 
Normal School at Yusilanti. Prior to his entrance 



ill the lasl-nained institution he engaged in teach- 
ing and continued the work after he had fini.shed 
his collegiate course, having taught the first union 
school at Howell and being Princip.-d of tlie same. 
Four teachers were under his supervision. He also 
taught in How.agiac, Cajs Coiintv. being Principal 
of that school and also having supervision of sev- 
eral under teachers. His next location was at 
Hastings. Barry County, this State, where he held 
the position of Principal. .Vt the three latter 
places his wife was engaged in .school work with 
him, heh.Tving been united in marriage Septemlier 
(), 18i")8, to Miss Frances P. Lake, a native of Phil- 
adelphia, Pa., and a daughter of Hial and Mary F. 
(Bui-t) Lake, natives of Vermont, who came West 
while .Michig.an was yet a territory an<l settled in 
Howell Township. 

Mr. Lake was a graduate of the .Middlebury Col- 
l(\ge of Vermont and taught until he came West, 
having left Philadelphia with his wife and two 
children and on his advent into the State located 
seven hundred and fifty acres of Government land. 
Thereon he built a log house and for many years 
lived a life of seclusion and coiiipaiative isolation, 
for the most freciueut visitors were the Indians. 
For many years they had no neighbors nearer 
th;in a mile and ;i half. It was in the midst of 
timber openings and their nearest market was at 
Dexter, a distance of twenty-two miles. He lived 
here until I8.")l.Mt which time his deceaseoccurred. 
His wife still survives. She has been blind for the 
last ten yens, but is a lady of culture and a charm- 
ing comcisMlioiialisl. She is a true Christian, 
having with her husband, abided by the principles 
which the Man of .Sorrows laid down for his follow- 
ers. Of the family of eight children that came to 
enliven the hcirlsand home of this worthy couple, 
(mly two are now living, ^Irs. .AInnson, the wife of 
our subject, and Henry P^jHow of Gunnison, Col.. 
a K'eceiver in the I.andOttice. (Jeorgc B. w;i.s Chief 
iMigineer of the Atchison iV- To|)eka Pailroad. hav- 
ing been connected with that road for fourteen 
years. He was a graduate of .\iin .\rbor. and died 
in 18Hl.at Topeka. Kan. His wife and two children 
live in the village of Howell. Mi^. Lake being a 
daughter of Dr. Z. II. Marsh. Their daughter. 
Helen F. died in IHTO. She w:is a grniluate of the 



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Female Seminary at Lansing. .She taught in the 
college at Lansing and also at Lebanon, Inch, be- 
ing Preceptress of the seminary anrl also Principal 
of various private schools. 

The original of this sketch has a family of two 
children — Melvin IT. is a graduate of the Howell 
School and at present Division Engineer and Chief 
of Construction in Mexico, of the Mexican South- 
ern Railroad; Wei ton M. is a Professor of Hort i 
culture in the Maine State College. He graduated 
at the Michigan Agricultural College in 1888, at 
twenty-five years of age. ()ne son, Rial Lake, died 
in early manhood, wi\en about twenty two-years 
of age, in Topeka, Kan. He was then acting as 
Division Engineer on the Santa Fe Railroad. We 
quote from an article written by his chief, the 
resident engineer of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa 
Fe Railroad, and published in the Topeka Common- 
vealth at the time of his death. "He rose rapidly and 
shone brighter than those of twice his age and ex- 
jjerience, and at the early age of twenty years he 
was made Division Engineer on one of the most 
important and difficult divisions of the road." Mr. 
Munson is in his political liking a Republican. He 
lias filled several niunici|)al offices, having been 
School Director for a numljer of years. He is re- 
garded as one of the prominent and substantial 
men of the county and one upon whose word one 
may thoroughly rely. Mr. Munson has filled the 
offices of President and Secretary of the Livingston 
County Agricultural Society and through his in- 
fluence and labor with otliois greatly jjromoted the 
interests of the same. 



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<| felLLIAM M. CARR. who is one of tlie 
\/iJ/i ^^^'^y settlers of Willianislown Township. 
W^ 'ingham County, is a son of Caleli Carr who 
was horn in New York, October 20, 17!)."). but who 
lived in Canada from liis fifth to his thirty-fifth 
year. He was there married, Seiitember 12. 1820, 
to Catherine AVholsapjjle, who was luini in New 
York, October 14, 179fi. Their children were 
Harriet, Julius A.. William 'SI., .hilia ;\L and 
Charles W., all of wliom were born in Canada. 



In 18.34 the father of this houisehold came to 
Michigan and for a year and a half lived in Farm- 
ington Township, Oakland County. He then re- 
sides for three years in the village of Kensington 
after which he removed to Locke Township and 
three years later in 1842 came to AVilliamstown 
where he remained for the remainder of his days. 
He was the first blacksmith in the township and 
built the first frame house therein and had the first 
grist ground. His father also bore the name of 
Caleb Carr .and was a Methodist minister who came 
to Michigan in 1836. 

Caleb Carr, .Jr. was a pioneer of Ingliani County, 
and made his home on forty acres which he owned 
till death, although he lived for several years in 
the village of Winiamst(m. He had been a soldier 
and a prisoner in the War of 1812. and was ever a 
hard working man. He died in 1868 and had 
mourned his wife for eight years. His son, Will- 
iam, was born JNIarch 3, 1826, and was therefore 
eight years old when the parents cnme to Oakland 
County, Mich. 

At the age of twenty-three tliis young man was 
married, April 8, 1849, to Matilda M. Moore wlio 
died .Tidy 26, 18.50, leaving a son, George M. Carr. 
Our suliject was again man'ied to Sarah 1!. Simons, 
August 17, 1851, and she had one child wlio died 
in infancy. Mrs. Sarah Carr was lx)rn, March 25, 
1833. in Royal Oak Township, Oakland County. 
Mich., where her parents, .John and Alartha Sinnms, 
were pioneers. He afterward removed to Howell, 
Livingston County, where the mother died in 1845 
and somewhat later the father made his home in 
Willianistown, ,'ind there died, ^l,ay 22, 1854. 
They had four sons and three daughters. William, 
Cynthia. Sarah, Henry, .loel and Martha. 

Since the .age of tliirteen our subject has resided 
in Ingham ('(ninty and since 1839 when he at- 
tended the first township meeting, he lias not 
missed one of these meetings. His first purchase 
comprised forty acres, to which he somewhat later 
added eighty acres and afterward gave forty to his 
son. He has lieen a hard worker and has cleared 
and brdki'u all his land and made all the iiiiprove- 
ments. lie helped to build the first house in the 
township, the tirst mill and the first barn. 

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efforts to lu'l)) (ill lip till' quotn of tlii' townsliii) so 
tliat tluTc niiglit he no di-Mt't, Imt was liiinself 
liiiall\ drafted and served tlirec iiinnllis in llie 
army. He has licen for three terms the {'oiiimis- 
sioiier of lliginvays to which otHce lie was raised 
oil llie Repulilieau ticket, having- I)cen attached to 
that party since its organization. lie is President 
of the IMoneer Society of four towiishijis, namely: 
l.ockc. I.eroy. ^^'hentH(■ld and Williaiiistovvn. and 
in the (iiaiid Ariii\ he is a piDiiiiiieiil and elficicnt 
meinher. 



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OX. JOHN A. KKRH. Although death has 
laid its hand iiiioii the heart of our subject 
.'V^'' and has stilled the pulse of the machine, 
there is still an emanation of his spirit 
hre.'ithiiig out renii'iiilirances of the good that lie 
has done :md examples that might well lie emu- 
lated by the young. From .Taiiiiary, IHoS. until 
the tune of his death. .Inly 29, 18(J8, he was State 
Printer and Binder, and for two years after his 
death, his wife carried on his business. lie was born 
in XewVork June 7. 1X25, and was a son of John 
Kerr, who came of Scotch ancestry. Ilis parents, 
who were natives of Ni'w Jersey aiicl there mar- 
ried, settled later near Auburn. N. Y. 

( )iir subject passed his boyhood days in his 
native county and was there engaged in the pur- 
suit of his studies. After having (inished his 
course at the school which he attended, he read 
nie<Iiciiie with Dr. Thompson and attended his 
lectures at liutTalo, N. Y. C'omiiellcd to work his 
wav th 11 High the medical college, he was so fortu- 
nate .as to get a good jiosition to travel during 
the vactioii for the linn of I'orter it Sanborn. He 
was to introduce school books and especially 
Towne"s Headers, generally advertising the firm. 
Making a marked success in this branch of the 
trade, he was offered a iiosition with the lirm 
and gained so good an iii>iglit into the business 
while with them, that in IsfiO he went into busi- 
ness for himself in the city of IJochester, doing a 
wholesale and retail and piiMishiiig business. The 



firm name was Waiizer, Beardsley A- Co. Thus 
established, lie felt himself justified in taking upon 
liiniself the responsibilities of matrimonial life. 

.lanuary 22, 1H50, Mr. Kerr was united in mar- 
riage with Miss I'olly 1'. Phelps and in Rochester 
he made his home and was engaged in business 
until the time of his going to Detroit in 18,54. 
At the l.ast-nained jilaee he established a iiublisliing 
house under the lirm name of Kerr, Doughty iV 
Lapham and conducted a wholesale and retail 
business in books, first locating on Jefferson Avenue 
and afterward on AVoodward Avenue. While 
still thus connected he secured the contract for 
furnishing the State with stationery. Recogniz- 
ing an opening for the right kind of men for 
securing the State work, Mr. Kerr sold out his 
interests in J3etroit and came to Lansing in 1 8.59. 
lie purchased the Stale printing oflice and .secured 
Hufus ITosmer as partner; after JL-. Hosmer's 
death it was continued under the firm name of 
Kerr A- Co. The company contracted to do all tlii' 
State printing and binding and our subject built 
the block afterward used by the Sinte liepublimn. 
Prior to his death Mr. Kerr had built up a thriving 
business and was recognized as one of the leading 
business men of thecity and State. 

.\ man whose capabilities were early recognized, 
Mr. Kerr was (piickly jiuslied to the front in the 
oflici.al management of the city. lie was elected 
Mayor of Lansing, being the second to .serve in 
that capacity after the ineorporaticm of the niuni- 
ciiialitv; prior to this he had been Supervisor of 
the townsliii). The town being so new at the time 
he was JLayor, very few improvements had liecn 
made, and to him belongs the credit of inaugnrat- 
ing a new system of beautifying streeUs and milk- 
ing the city generally more attractive. He caused 
the double rows of trees to be set on the streets, 
the latter to be reduced to a uniform grade and 
ill many other ways improving the place. Mr. 
Kerr was the lirst iiroperty owner to introduce 
gas into his house and oflice .as an illuminating 
agent, manuf.acturing his own supply and on his 
own premises. 

On first coming to the city and before bringing 
his family hither our subject pureli.osed the block 
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Slift'ts and liere he completed a fine home that 
is still imposing in size and style of architectufe. 
It was the first reall}' fine dwelling erected in the 
city of Lansing and still maintains its prestige. 
The house, which is Colonial in its simplicity, 
thereby acquiring an added dignity and elegance, 
stands on the southwest corner of the block and is 
surrounded by a well kept and velvety lawn, 
shade trees of choice varieties and varied shades of 
foliage, making tlie place an ideal S3'lvau retreat 
that yet is the favorite meeting place for the best 
classes of people in the city. The parlors of tliis 
beautiful home, presided over hy a charming 
hostess, have been the scene for many a l)on mot, 
and here the choicest spirits have met, ranging 
in nature -from grave to gay. from lively to 
severe." 

Mr. Kerr was ever an active business man; he 
managed successfvilly a large amount of real estate 
and realized from that a handsome jtrofit. He was 
by nature a lilieral and public-spirited person. 
During the War of tlie Rebellion, altliough he was 
incai)acitated for active service because of the 
official position he held in the city of his residence, 
he used his influence and means mt)st liberally for 
the aid of the brave soldiers who went out. Our 
subject was a scholar, his literary taste in literature 
was of the most refined and cultured character. 
At the time of his death he was the possessor of a 
very fine library, volumes selected with care at 
different times during his career; most of these 
were handsomely bound by himself. Conspicuous 
among the large number of books included in his 
lilirary are the works of the British jioets, finely 
bound in one hundred and sixty volumes. That 
he was a lover of fiction is shown by the many 
novels of the better class found on the shelves, 
and among these are the Waverly novels; Harper's 
magazines are also liere found, from the first num- 
lier until the present time. His tastes as a biblio- 
phile are also shown by a very rare collection of 
f)ld and valuable works, many of which are the 
only editions extant. It is, all in all. not simply 
a large liljraiy. but a very rare collection. AltlH)ugh 
as a youth he had not the advantages of higher 
collegiate work, he was at the time of his death a 
highly educated man, so made by his own efforts. 



having been throughout life a great and discrim- 
inating reader and student. 

Mr. Kerr's useful career on earth was suddenly 
ended July 29, 18()8, while returning from St. 
Catherines, where he had been for his health. His 
death took place in one of the coaches of the Great 
Western Railroad near London, Canada. He was 
brought to Lansing and with the greatest honors 
and deference that could Ije shown by his associ- 
ates, both in business life and social relations, amid 
a great concourse of people, who were assembled 
to pay the last tribute of respect to one of the 
men who had done so much to make a reputation 
for all that is desirable in the capital city of Mich- 
igan, his body was interred in the Lansing ceme- 
tery August 1, 1868. Being a member both of 
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the 
Masons, the ceremonial was conducted with the 
pom[) and solemnity for which these orders are 
conspicuous. Politically he was in early life a 
Whig, l)ut on the organization of the Republican 
party he was one of the first men to aid its growth 
in this State and w.as always thereafter recognized 
as one of the most prominent leaders of the party. 

Our subject's wife, who was before her marriage 
Jliss Phelps, was born in Ira, Cayuga County, 
N. Y., January 27, 1827. She is a daughter of 
Deacon Israel and Ruth (Ilawley) Phelps, and 
received her education at the Auburn (N. Y.,) 
Female Seminar}'. She is a bright and intellectual 
woman of varied accomplishments and large ca])a- 
bililies and was of great assistance to Mv. Kerr in 
his business career. Even before their marriage 
she assisted him financially so that he was en.abled 
to take the stand in commercial life that he 
acquired. She is a woman of large artistic taste 
and instinct and the credit of the plans that made 
his home so beautiful belongs in no small degree 
to her. She has decorated it and taken her |iart as 
hostess so well that it is one of the noted resorts of 
this part of the State for men and women of cul- 
ture and intelligence. 

Of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Kerr one child 
survives, by name Elizabeth R. She is now Mrs. 
Dr. Hull, of Gettysburg, S. Dak., and is the mother 
of two children. Ergo Charles and Otho. Mrs. 
Kerr's children who died are Charles E., who sur- 



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vived his fsitlier's de.-itli live years and passed 
away while in tlie Uower of iiis youuif manhood 
when twenty-two years of ajje, and a little daugh- 
ter, Mary I'., who was taken away when only six 
months of asje. Mrs. Kerr is a menilHu' of the First 
Presbyterian Cbureh and has been so connected 
for many years, her traininj^ Ijeing largely depen- 
dent upon her church relations, as her parents were 
devoted members of that body. 

In connection witli this sketch .•ii)|)('ars a htho- 
grapliie |Kirtrait of ISfr. Kerr. 




^\ KS. KIJZAHKTII IJAUNHOUSE. Among 
the llKirouah-goinii' farmers of Livingston 
County there are a number of ladies, wlio 
having been vinitcd in their early days to 
men of character and cnlerprise engaged in the 
business of fniining, and now having l)ccn widowed, 
are devoting themselves uiillinchingly and with a 
good degree of success to the business of agricul- 
ture. As they have learned the business by taking 
a partner's intei-est in it during the happy days of 
their inariie(l life, they are admirably adapted to 
carrying il on indeijendeiitly. 

JMis. r.arnhouse is one of these women farmers 
and is establi>liiiig an cxcelieiit reputation for 
thoroughness and success. She was horn in Penii- 
sylv?nia in ISKi and the good man to whom she 
was imileil iu marriage w.as a native of Ohio, being 
born in the same year as herself. His name was 
Abner IJarnliouse. Mrs. liarnhouse was twenty- 
two years old when she came in her maidi'iihood 
to Ohio, and >he was there united with .\L'. ISaiii- 
house in marriage. 

The young couple were not contented with their 
life in Ohio and decided to come farther West, and 
having heard of ^Michigan as a land of promise, 
they made their way to this Slate. To their home 
came six children, two d.'iughlers and four sons: 
.Susannah, now deceased: Oliver married KUa R. 
Brown, who has presented him with three children : 
Kmma ('.. .\lta K. and Millie M.; .lolm. who was 



born in 18.53 and is still making his home with Ins 
mother; Daniel, deceased, who w.as born in 18.5.5; 
Mary A., born in 18.56, wh<» is at home with her 
mother and brother; George "W., born in 1857, who 
is unmarried and at home. 

The parents of our subject were Peter and Cath- 
erine (Rud.aseal) ^liller, botli of whom were natives 
of Pennsylvania. They were the jiarents of eleven 
children, four daughters and seven sons, and our 
subject was the first-born. Her brothers and sisters 
are: David, deceased; Mary M., now the wife of 
.k>hn Runier and the mother of two children; 
Henry married L. Miller, by whom he h.ad eight 
children; Peter, Daniel, ^licliael, Eva. ^fary Ann. 
William and .John. 

I'pon her estate Mrs. Barnhouse is carrying on 
general farming and makes a specialty of the care 
of sheep. Her home is substantial and attractive 
and the outbuildings are excellent and sufficient in 
both number and cap.'icity for accommod.-iting the 
work of the farm. The Ke])ublican i)arty received 
the hearty endorsement ol Mr. l!ainhou.se and he 
trained up his sons in the i)rinciples which are 
embodied in the platform of that party, but in 
these days the sons feel that the saloon question 
outweighs to them the matters of tariff and the 
other l)ranches of political econcmiy which arc in 
dispute between the old parties, and have placed 
themselves in the ranks of the Pr<iliibitioni><ts. 



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^ IIAWLKS T. HVNi:. It gives us pleasure to 
chroucile the events in the career of a man 

'^' whose tendencies have alw.ays liecn in an 
upward direction. AVe fref|uently associate cliance 
with success, but the etymology of the word allows 
no such association. Success is that which crowns 
achievement, and there must l>e vigor and force to 
achieve. He whose name heads this sketch is a suc- 
cessful man, not only in abusiness way, intimating 
that he luas attained a good linancial standing, but 
by rising to the best ideal that we have of maiihiie.s.s. 
He is endowed with a bright intellect, and clear, 
quick perceptive faculties; a business man of no 



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moan calibre ami one who is held in the hiafhcst es- 
teem by his friends and associates. 

Mr. Ilyne, who has for more tlian fifty years 
been a resident of Brighton Township, Livingston 
County, is a native of Prussia and was born in 
tlie village of Somerta, near Alfoot, in Saxony, 
September 21, 1824. His father, (Godfrey Il.yne, 
was a native of the same country and locality, and 
was by calling a farmer and fruit grower. He emi- 
grated to America with his family in 1840. He 
landed in New York after a tedious voyage of 
twelve weeks on the ocean. Three weeks later he 
arrived in Detroit with his family, and from this 
place he came direct to Livingston County, set- 
tling in Brighton Township where he purchased one 
hundred and sixty acres of virgin forest land. 

At the time of the advent of our suliject's father 
iji this county, there were but very few settlers 
in the township. A log house was soon built and 
in that the family lived for several years. The 
forests abounded in wild game, and Indians fre- 
quently visited the settlement. Godfrey llyne 
was an industrious, hard working man and well 
educated, although suffering a disadvantage in this 
country from his imperfect knowledge of English. 
He was, however, thoroughly conversant with bus- 
iness methods. He lived to clear and imi)rove a 
considerable tract of land, and died May 11, 1874, 
at the ripe old age of foui'-score years. He was a 
zealous Christian and a lifelong member of the Luth- 
eran Church. Our subject's mother bore the maid- 
en name of Mary Tietman. She was a native of 
the same place as was her husband. She was the 
mother of five children, and feeling that her work 
on earth was well done, her decease took place in 
March 1878, at the age of eighty-four years. 

Mr. Hyne's eldest brother, Godfrey, w.as a natural 
mechanic. He had learned the carpenter's trade, 
and also that of a millwright, but died in 1812, two 
years after coming to this country. William the 
second brother, and entered the King's service early 
in life. He was promoted from one position to 
another until he finally became Police .Judge for 
the city of Northausen, which position was filled 
with credit until a few years ago, when he resigned 
on account of old age. The fourth brother or the 
one younger than our subject who is the third in 



order of birth, Frederick C, i.s now :i retired busi- 
ness man living in Fowlerville. The fifth a daugh- 
ter Annie, is deceased. He of whom we write was 
reared in his native villiage where also he at- 
tended school from the ages of five to fourteen 
years, inclusive. He was about sixteen years of 
age when he came to the New World with his par- 
ents and already possessed a fair education, (^uick 
to learn he soon conquered the idioms of the Eng- 
lish language. He assumed the management of 
his father's affairs, transacting the business of what- 
ever nature in his own name. 

In those early days the family were hampered for 
means and had to jiractice the utmost economy to 
get along. The countiy was new and there was 
■very little money current, nearly all business Ix'ing 
trade. Young Hyne was a youth of indomitable 
pluck and energy, but had hardly gotten started 
on the road of success, when he was arrested in his 
career by a sunstroke, which so prostrated him that 
for several years he was under the care of a physi- 
cian, during the most of which time he was unable 
to do hard work, although he was not idle. A fol- 
lower of the goddess Diana, he spent much time in 
hunting, and kept his family supplied with the 
most delicate venison, and bear meat. He also be- 
came a skillful trapper and secured a large amount 
of fur, for which he found a ready market at rem- 
unerative ])rices. During the summer he carried 
(in farming, doing his trapping in the winter sea- 
son. 

That was a day when nearly every one owned 
his own land, and our subject was not behind the 
others in this. He purchased land, cleared it and 
r.dded more, but never went into debt beyond his 
means. He was united in marriage in August, 
1847, to Miss Ilenne L. Westphal, a native of the 
Fatherland, who came to the United States with 
her parents about 1844. This resulted in the birth 
of eight children whose names are as follows: AVil- 
liam, Frederick, Harriet, Celia, Franklin, Louisa, 
Amelia and iVniia. William married and Is a pros- 
perous farmer in this township. Frederick is at 
the head of a home of his own and m.anages an ex- 
tensive business of his own. Harriet is the wife of 
C. H. Francis, Esq. a prominent attorney in Ba^' 
City. Celia is the wife of James McNamara, a 



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farnuT ill ( ii'iion 'rowii.-liip. l'"ianl<liii has a lioiiii- 
of Ills own and livos on a t'aiiii in I'liiuiilon Town- 
sliip. l.oiiisa is till' wife of .lolin C'aiUr. a fmiiior 
in Maritm Townsiii|i. Amelia ami Anna are at 
lionie. 

I'olilicallv. the oi-iiiinai of our ski'tcli lias alwa\s 
been a Denioeiat, and while he has lieeii proniiiieiit 
and inthienlial in the eoiineils of his paitv, he has , 
never had time to pioiierly attend to Ihe duties of 
imlilic olliee and has never been prevailed mioii to 
aeeepl one. He has been a Mason for Ihirlv years 
anil an aetive member of the lUue I^odjie. Chap- 
ter andC'oinniaiidei y. As a farmer he has been 
remarkably suceessful. lie has cleared and highly 
iin[)rcved u large tract of land, lie owned a iiiag- 
niticeiit farm of fourteen hundred aeri's in Urighton 
'rown:«lii|), in one body but divided it among 
his children. He has also owned at various tunes 
several farms in other localities. As a stock-raiser 
he li.as endeavored to excel, always breeding only 
the best. 

About the time the Detroit, Lansing A Isortli- 
ern railroad was built through IJrighton, the firm 
of C. T. Hyne it Son built a large elevator and 
until a year or .so past, bought and sliip]ied a vast 
amount of grain, wool etc. The gentleman of 
whom we write has recently retired from the active 
management of his affairs, and -with his family has 
moved to the beautiful little city of Brighton, hav- 
ing given the care of almost all of his iiroperty into 
the hands of his sons. Now that he has arrived 
at an age when he can with complacency look 
back ujion his career, and rertlizes the obstacles that 
he has had to surmount in order to attain his pres- 
I'lit position, it is evident that he is eminently a 
sidf made man and in every respect the architect 
of his own foruines. He began life without means 
and early assumed cares too heavy for joung 
shoulders. He has undergone some ver^' severe 
trials, especially in his pioneer days, but on the out- 
set of his career, he came to the determination to 
succeed in spite of everything, and he has not been 
disappointed. AVhalever he has undertaken he 
has accomplished and has never known the mean- 
ing of the word "'to fail". A man of remarkable 
foresiglit and excellent judgment, his progress 
during the early [lart of his life was slow but sure. 



The rule In his business has lieen to go as far as 
his means would permit, but no farther. It has 
moreover, Ikh'ii a marked trait to his character, that 
he carefully balanced every subject, and arrived at 
a logical eoiielusion before undertaking any enter- 
prise. In his dealings with his fellow-men he lias 
been upright and honorable, and li.as ever done 
unto others as he would wish to be done by. In 
1.S7K he visited his mother eonntry, and althongh 
the ties of coiisangiiinty are strong, his pride and 
loyalty is in his adopted land. He is [iroud of the 
fact that he is an Aiiieriean citizen. Our subject's 
wife and daughters are memliers of tlie Evangeli- 
cal Church. 



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^w/ EWIS KKTCIir.M. This respected citizen 
of C'oliiiet;ih Township, i^ivingston County, 
was born December 18, 1830, in Hanover, 
(lermany. and is the only one of two sons and 
one daughter who came to the I'liited States. He 
received a good (ierman edneatioii, and after 
coming to this country in the fall of 1811) attended 
the public schools of Livingston County. In Aug- 
ust of that year he had left (iermany for the New 
World, and he landed in New York City in the lat- 
ter part of Septemoer, coming directh' to Michi- 
gan, and .settling in the towaiship of 15righton. 
Livingston County. His fortune in hand was 
about ^3;'), and he soon .set to work to place him- 
self in an independent (losition. 

After working for about four years for neigh- 
boring farmers, he took up the trade of a carpen- 
ter, which he followed until 1882. In 18()5 he 
had bought eighty acres of land on section 18, 
Cohoctah Township, and the following 3'car he 
moveil onto this farm and entered upon the work 
of felling the trees, clearing the land of stumps, 
and cultivating and improving the farm. I'pon 
it he placed handsome farm buildings, which 
are an ornament to the township. 

Mr. Ketehum was married February 3, I8.'i7, to 
Mary llyiie, who was born in Prussia, in the city 
of Krpel. Feliruary 3, 1839. Her parents, C4od- 



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frid and Elinor (Hafland) Hvne, came to the 
United Stales and settled in tlie townshii) of 
Brighton, this countj-. The father died in 1842, 
leaving one child, and his widow somewhat 
later married F. G. Crosman, by wliom she lias two 
ehildren. Tliey are connected with the Lntlieran 
Church. The five cliildren uf Mr. and Mrs. 
Ketchum are Helen, wife of John Hendricks, 
.\dolph C, Herman G.. Edgar F. and Fred L. 
]Mrs. Ketchum is an earnest and devoted member 
of the Evangelical C'liurch. 

Godfrid Hyne was the son of Godfrid and 
Mary llyne, who had four sons and one daughter. 
William remained liehind in (iermany, and the re- 
mainder came to this country, namely: Hannah, 
who died in Brighton and left one child, Charles 
T., and Fred. 



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/f^^ HARLES J. HODGE, is a farmer residing on 
[1(^1, section 12, Harland Township, Livingston 
^^/J County. He is a native of this State, hav- 
ing been born in .Southfield Township, Oakland 
County, August 9, 1837. Our subject's father was 
Jonathan O. Hodge, a native of Connecticut, who 
was reared in Vermont, going there with his parents 
at the tender age of three years. He came to Mich- 
igan in 1834, and located in Southfield Township, 
Oakland County, where he took up land from the 
Government, clearing the place in that desolate 
way which was necessary to early settlers, chopping 
down the timlier, and leaving a forest of charred 
and blackened stumps in the cleared spaces, that 
when not draped and covered with the vines and 
flowers of summer, jjresented a forlorn and dreary 
aspect. He built thereon a little log honse .and 
lived there for a time, finally moving to Tyrone 
Township, Livingston County, where for ten ^X'ars 
he worked the farm on shores, finally liuying the 
place where he now resides. 

Our subject's present home bore no improve- 
ments whatever upon his advent hither. For 
years he lient his effc>rts to clearing and cultivat- 
ing the land and remained there as long as he 



lived, passing away at the age of sixty-one years. 
Jonathan Hodge was a Republican. Our subject's 
mother was before her marriage a Miss Betsy Fall, 
a native of (^hio who came to Michigan with her 
parents in 1825. Her father w.as John Fall, a nat- 
ive of Mass.acliusetts. lie was one of the early 
settlers in Oakland County, where he s})ent the 
remainder of his life. Our subject's mother lived 
to be fifty-six years of age. She and her husband 
were the parents of four children, one daughter 
and three sons. He of whom we write is the first 
son and only surviving one. His sister Lydia,who 
is the wife of Mr. Seaver, resides in Highland 
Township, Oakland County. 

The original of our sketch was eight years of 
age when he came to Livingston County with his 
parents. His first school days were spent in South- 
field Township, Oakland County, and he finished 
his education after coming to Ilartland Township, 
Livingston County. He remained with his parents 
until their decease and married .January 1, 18fi2, 
in Oakland County', a lady whose maiden name 
was Chloe Cole, a native of the jjlace where she was 
married, having been born in Highland Township, 
November 13, 1839. She was one of twins. Her 
parents, Orin and Tamar (Firman) Cole, came to 
Michigan in 1834. and located in Oakland County, 
where the father still resides. The mother died at 
about eighty-two years of age in 1883. 

Mr. Hodge has lived on the place which he now 
occupies, ever since his father first located here. 
He has a farm of two hundred acres the greater 
part of which is improved, one hundred and 
seventy-two acres being under cultivation. They 
have a good, comfortable home and a beautiful 
place that shows the cultivation C)f years. There 
are fine fruit trees and choice shade trees that give 
the farm an attractive and iileasant aspect. Our 
subject has two fine barns. The first one wasl)uilt 
in 1862 at a cost of §450. It is 34x60 feet in 
dimensions. The- second Itarn he Iniilt in 1885, at 
a cost of §900. It is 34x64 feet in dimension. He 
keeps a good grade of stock, making a specialty of 
dealing in sheep, having some particularly fine 
grades. He of whom we wi-ite votes the straight 
Republican ticket, but feels that his dnt}- is done 
when his vote is cast for the man he thinks most 



PORTRAIT AND UKJGRAl'JIlCAl. ALlilTM. 



ny,i 



littiiiff for tlie fifficp in question. He has no ambi- 

liiiii li> lie ;iii dllict' liolilcr liimsi'lf. Socially he 
lii'lou^s to Fentoii Lodge Xo. 101), of tlio Masonic 
fraternitv. 



r 



y 11. 1,1AM TKAUSON. H IS iiii.loulptcdly a 
great satisfaction to a man who has 
reached years of maturity to look hack 
over a life spent in struggles to do well for his 
family and his fellow-men, to feel that those efforts 
have been recognized l)y friends and children, and 
to have tlie assurance that he has made the most 
of life and that tlic world is better for his having 
lived in it. 

Our suliject was born April .'!, l.Sli',*, in l)ui-li:nn 
County, Kngl.'ind. wlicre liis f.-itiicr, William, and 
his motlier, Saruli Ann (lUackburn) IVarson, were 
also born. The grandfather, Hol)ert I'earson, had 
a large f;iniily of cliildren, eight in all, naniel\': 
William, (Jeorge, Richard, Robert, John, Mary, 
IJet-sey and Elizabeth. They were all born in 
England, but came to Michigan and settled in 
Miiford Township, Oakland County, where tiie 
father was the second pioneer. He was a man of 
means and entered over one thousand acres of 
land, giving to each of his children a farm of 
eighty acres with a yoke of cattle, or one hundred 
and twenty acres without. 

The grMndfathcr of our subject was a local min- 
ister of the ;Metho(list Ei)iscopal Church and i)rob- 
ably preached moi'c funeral sermons in that 
vicinity than any other minister of that day. He 
livi'd to the advanced age of eighty-tliri'C years. 
His first wife dic<l in .Miiford Township and he 
there married his second companion. 

William Pearson, Sr., came from the mother 
country' in lH4;j, c(msuniing sonic nine weeks in 
the ocean i)assage from l,iverpool to (Quebec. 
From that city he came directly to Detroit and 
then teamed it to Miiford. where he settled on 
eighty aires and there resiilcd until his death, at 
the age of eiglity-.seven. in Novemlier. 1S«8. He 



had a family of six children, one of whom died at 
Detroit while on the journey, and the family com- 
jileted their nioiiinfnl journey to the new home, 
biinging with Ihcm the dear form of the departed 
child that they might bury it at Miiford. The 
surviving children are Robert, Oecn'ge, William, 
Joshua and Mary. 

Before the death of tlu' father he had ac<'iimu- 
lated a line farm of one iiundred and sixty acres, 
and he was a man of value, not only in a financial 
way, but as a citizen, and as a member of the 
Methodist Episcoiial Church, in which he was very 
active, serving as a Steward through all of his 
mmhood ^-ears. His faithful wife departed this 
life in the fall of 186.5. 

Our subject came to the United Stales with his 
liarents, and coming up the St. Lawrence River he 
fell overboard and came near ending his career by 
drowning, but was rescued by an Indian sailor, 
with whom he e.xchanged locks of hair and whom 
he keeps in grateful memory. He received a good 
common school education, .and at twenty-one began 
for himself, working for neighboring farmers by 
the month until the spring of 1860. when he 
started out with two neighbor boys for California, 
traveling liy way of New York City and Panama. 
In the land of the sunset he worked as a farmer 
for one year for ij!360. The second year he re- 
ceived ?!l;')() and the third year ^5.50. By strict 
economy he m.anaged to get along with very little 
of his wages, drawing only enough to clothe him- 
self, and then put his money into renting his em- 
])loyer's farm, upon wliich he thus worked during 
the fourth year. .Vs his crojjs failed he lost all 
that he had saved, Init during the lifth year he 
took the farm on shares and being now successful 
made ^2,r)00, with which in currency, he returned 
to the East. 

In the spring of I86.J the young man i-elurned 
to Miiford and bought eighty acres of land on sec- 
tion 21, Tyrone Township. Livingston County, 
which w.a.s mostly timber land. He set to work to 
fell the li-ees, clear out the stumps and rai.se crops, 
in all of which he was eminently successful. He 
now owns one hundred and ninety acres on sec- 
tions 21 and 25, and .all of it is in a well im|)i'oved 
condition. The beautiful home of Mr. Pearson 



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was for years jiresided over by a lady who was 
formerly known as ]Miss Rlioda Algeo, daughter 
of Lewis and Ann Algeo. She became the wife 
of our subject October 16, 1867, and to her were 
granted tliree liright and interesting children, 
Lewis, Mittie and Sarah. Mittie died at the age 
of five j'cars and tlie mother passed from earth in 
November, 1888, and will long be remembered as 
a woman of earnest Christian character and an 
active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
In this same religious body Mr. Pearson has been 
an active worker for twenty years, and in politics 
he is an earnest and stanch Republican. His sec- 
ond marriage took place in October, 1889, and he 
was then united with Isabel, daughter of John 
and Mary Ilolliday, whose many earnest and lovely 
qualities of heart and mind are highly apiireciated 
bj' those who know her. 






■^OHN T. CARMER. Tlie name of him of 
wliom we write belongs to a good old 
Holland family that transferred its loy- 
alty to the adopted country in early days, 
scmie of the re})resentatives of tlie famil\' having 
fought in the war in which America gained her in- 
dependence. Our subject is the son of Daniel and 
Betliiah (Turner) Carmer. Tlie paternal grandsire, 
Aliraham Carmer, came from Holland and settled 
in New .Jersey as a farmer. He died in New York, 
having been a Revolutionary soldier. 

The grandsire who sheds the lustre upon the 
name of his descend.ants as one who hazarded all 
for the sake of his adopted land, was twice mar- 
ried. He, )>y his first wife, had two children, 
namel}': John and Daniel. His second wife bore 
him live children, of whom three were daugli- 
ters. Like most of his countrymen, he belonged in 
religious matters to the Reformed Dutch Church. 
Our subject's father was born September 3, 1789, 
in New Jersey, and was reared a farmer. He was 
married in early manhood to Bethiali Turner and 
became the father of eleven children, of whom ten 
lived to maturit\'. They are: Sarah, Abraham, 



Cornelia, Naomi, John T., Ira, Esther, Ann E., James 
J. .and William. The eldest daughter is now Sirs. 
Ford; Cornelia married Mr. Henry; Naomi is 
the widow of Russell Palmer; Ira served during 
the War of tlie Rebellion in the Twenty-first 
JMichigau Infantry; Esther married Mr. Ekkart; 
Anne E. is now Mrs. Love; James J. served his 
country for four years in the Seventh Michigan 
Infantry. 

When a young man Daniel Carmer removed 
from his native State to New York, where he met 
his ^v'ife. They were married in C.ayuga County, 
X. Y., and thence removed to Erie County, subse- 
quently to Chautauqua County, of the same State, 
and from that place to Crawford County, Pa. In 
■Inly. 18 19, our subject set out liy wagon to Liv- 
ingston County, Mich., being ten d.ays on the 
road. He -located with his fiimily on section 10, 
Tyrone Township, on two hundred and forty acres 
of land, which he lient every effort toward improv- 
ing. He worked at a great disadvantage, having 
lieeu a cripple all his life. Since coming to this 
State our sul)ject has had charge of the farm and 
one. hundred and twenty acres of his ])lace belong 
to tlie original liomestead. He owns one hundred 
and sixty acres, upon which he h.as placed the best 
imiirovements. A view of the est^ate appears on 
another page. 

Mr. Carmer has always stood high in tlie regard 
of the community as is testified b_y the fact that he 
has been appointed to a number of township of- 
fices. He has served as Constable and Clerk, and 
for six years was Supervisor. A Denidciat in 
politics, he has associated himself only with the 
honorable and reliable men who seek for tiie good 
of the country and the elevation of the people. 
Unhappily the educational advantages be enjoyed 
were but limited, but he has been gifted with a 
large amount of common sense that h.as helped him 
ill the difficult jiositions of life where fine-spun 
theory would liaTe failed. He is a member of the 
Free and Accepted Masons, belonging to the lodge 
at Fen ton. 

INIr. Carmer has some interesting recollections 
of pioneer days, for being virtually the head of 
the household at an early age, responsibility de- 
veloped his youthful perceptions and he was a re- 



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flortivo man at an- aire wlion most Iioys tliiiik only 
of till- li<i|iti'r side of life. lie relates that he used 
often to (lii\e to 1 )etioil with an ox-teain, that 
lieinu' tiie nearest aeeessilile market, and that the 
jonrnev oeeupied fonr and live days at a time 
when it was not always safe to he on the lonely 
rt)ad. 



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/j^ IIARLKS K. DINSTON. who is one of the 
(I most sucee.ssfiil and prosperous farmers of 

^^^ Cohoetah Township, Livingston County, 
was liorn in. (Jrovelinid Township. Oakland County, 
Mich., Fel)ruar\- .'). ISIl. his jiarents heiny William 
and .lane (Welilier) Dunston. lie is of ICnglish 
parentasic, his father heiug a native of Lineoln- 
sliire and his mother of Somersetshire. 

About the year 1836 William Dunston made up 
his mind to leave the home of his forefathers in 
order to try his fortunes in the land of liberty. 
Accordingly he came to the United States and 
joiu-neved to this beautiful .State of Michigan, 
where In- estalilished himself on eighty acres of 
rich land and made il his home until death, which 
ensued in 1819. Before that sad event he had 
done great things in the way of pre|)aring his land 
for cultivation and improving it so that he was 
then having splendid crops in this new home. His 
faithful wife and the mother of his children long 
survived liira and reached the age of eighty-five 
years, passing from earth in the year 18.S8. Her 
five children are Anna, John, .Sarah, Charles E. and 
Benjamin, the eldest son dying at the age of 
twenty-two. None others in the family connection 
except AVilliam and Jane Dunston ever came to 
this country. Mr. Dunston took a great interest 
in the political affairs of this nation and allied 
himself with tlie Whig party. 

lie of wh(nn we write received his education 
through the admirable school system of Midugan, 
which even at that early day had attained a stand- 
ing superior to that of many of the AVestern States. 
His school days were cut .short by family necessi- 
ties, for when he was fifteen years old his eldest 



brother diid. and as the father hail been called 
fi-om earth when Charles was only five years oU\ 
the niaiiagenient of the family naturally fell upon 
him and he undertook to conduct the farming op- 
erations. These he carried on until the date of his 
marriage. 

At that tinu' Mr. Dunston decidi'd to come to 
Livingston County and here he purcha.sed eiglity 
acres on section lit, Cohoetah Township. From 
this he cleared most of the trees pre[)aratoi'y to 
cultivation, besides putting upon it excellent build- 
ings. • He has also eighty acres on section 24, Con- 
way Townshi|). and on both of these he carries on 
general farming and from them he derives such 
rich and varied crops as the climate and soil of 
-Michigan have m.ade possible. His success is due 
to his system, persc'verance and industry, as he 
started out without means and has had to attain 
his success in the hardest way. 

In March, 18Go, Mr. Dunston enlisted in the 
service of his country, joining Company A, Sev- 
enth Alichigan Cavalry. As the war soon termin- 
ated his .service was neither long nor severe and he 
received his houoralile discharge in November, 
IMG'), being mustered out at Detnjit. He is now 
on his third term as Supervisor of the Utwnsliip 
and is active in the Republican ranks, throwing 
his inlluence and his vote in favor of the |>rinci- 
ples which it represents. 

An interesting event in the life of Mr. I)un>tiiii 
took place the year after his army service, as he 
was married December 9, 186(j, to Charlotte, 
daughter of Henry anti Agatha (Fingbiuder) Lali- 
ring. This lady is by birth a n.ative of Holly, 
Oakland County, and her parents, who belonged 
to the :igricultural community, came from Ciermany 
many years ago. Their five children are Frederick 
Elizabeth, Henrietta, Charlotte and Soi)hia. Both 
l)arents died in Holly, !Mr. Lahring in 18()9 and his 
wife in 1858. He was bom in 1806 and came tt) 
the I'nited States when twenty years old, settling 
in I'hiladelphia where he lived for six years, work- 
in a sugar refinery and came to Holly in 1836. His 
wife was born in 1810 and came to the I'Hited 
States at the age of eighteen. They were both de- 
voted and conscieulious members of the Lutheran 
Church. 



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The political views of Mr. Uunston are such as 
are expressed in tlu' ilfelnraticm and platform of 
the Rei)iiMicaii jiartv and while he is earnest in 
the advocacy of these views lie eschews politics in 
tlio i)0i)iilar sense. |irefcrring the pleasures of home 
and tlie endeavors and industries of the farm to 
the excitement of the political arena. The mem- 
bers of tliis family have a high standing among 
their neighlwrs in a social way and their home is 
the center of true neighborly feeling and interest. 
This family have five children, as follows: Nellie 
A., Florence B.. Agatha J., Wayne E. and Gale J., 
all are at home with tlieir parents. 

A view of 'Sir. Dunston's pleasant home is })i'e- 
sented on auotlier page. 



J'^ 08EPII 1. BURTRAW, a general farmer and 
dealer in sheep, is the owner of a good farm 
of one hundred and ten acres on sections 5 
and 6, ^Meridian TownsJiip, Ingham County. 
He was born in Lower Canada, near Montreal, Jan- 
uary 4, 184.5, and is of French descent. His par- 
ents, Charles Burtraw and L^rsula (Gravilin) Bur- 
traw, were natives of Lower Canada. The former 
was born about 1815 and is a miller and farmer by 
occupation, now residing in "Williamstowu Town- 
ship, Livingston County. Our subject's mother 
died in Missouri aliout twelve years ago. 

When Joseph Burtraw was six years old his 
father removed to Detroit and followed the milling 
business more or less steadily for four years. Tliey 
then removed to Orcliard Lake and ran a farm for 
five years; while there our subject gave his father 
his assistance on the farm. The family, however, 
soon removed to Lansing, wliere Joseph remained 
until 1864, where he learned the art of photo- 
graphy. Me also worked in the State licpublican 
office for a time and was variously engaged until 
he enlisted in 1864 and was sent to the front. He 
was in Comjiany F, of tlie Twenty-eighth INIichigan 
Infanti-y, belonging to the Second Division of the 
First Brigade and the Twenty-third Army Corps, 



serving under Gens. Thomas and Sherman. He 
was in two battles, Nasliville and Wise's Forks. 

After coming out of the war our subject eng.aged 
in farming for one 3ear in Meridian Township and 
then went to Saginaw, where he acted as foreman 
for tlie Hon. AV. R. Burt for one j'ear, in cutting a 
State road. He also worked for him in his lum- 
ber camp. He next farmed for three 3'ears, after 
which lie removed to Missouri and there bought a 
plantation, but sold it soon after to return to New 
York, where he purchased a farm in Ontario 
County. Wliile there he was employed in general 
farming and particularly in hop culture. This lat- 
ter luisiness proved to be a pecuniary success, as he 
cleared !|2,.')00 the last summer. With the proceeds 
he returned to Meridian Township and bought a 
portion of his present farm. 

October 12, 1867, the original of our sketch was 
married to Henrietta Thatcher, of Ontario County, 
N. Y. The lady was a daughter of Lj-man 
Thatcher, who now resides on a farm adjoining 
that of our subject. From this union eight chil- 
dren have been born — Ursula, born April 7, 1870, 
and now the wife of Charles Ann is; Adell, Sep- 
tember 9, 1871, married Will Culver; Hattie, Sep- 
tember 7, 1873, resides at home; Mary, March 5, 
187.5, is also at home; Emma, August 9, 1877, and 
Frank, May 31, 1880, are both at home; Edith, 
December 11, 1888, is the baby of the house; and 
Lyman, born January 7, 1869, died in his second 
year. This large and harmonious family is delight- 
fully united in their church relations, as in other 
respects. They are all connected with the Pine 
Lake Methodist Church. 

Mr. Burtraw is united with several fraternities. 
He belongs to the Masonic lodge at Okemos, hav- 
ing been made a M.ason at Caiiandaigua, N. Y. 
He is a member of the Charles T. Foster Post, 
G. A. R., of Lansing, and also of the Okemos Alli- 
ance. Politicallj- the original of our sketch is an 
Independent, voting for the best man rather than 
the political favorite; he. however, usually affil- 
iates with the Republican part3\ Mr. Burtraw has 
taken care of himself ever since he was a lad of fif- 
teen years. In his 30unger days he was denied 
educational facilities, but has had the pluck to 
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regarded as aii intellifjent and woll-inforined man. 
He has good Inisiness ability and li.-is i)rosi)ered 
financially. I'rogressivc in every resi)ect, lie is 
esteemed liv all who know liini. 



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)ENTLEY SABIN, a resident of Conway 
Township, J>ivingston County, Mich., was 
born in Seneca County, N. Y., April 14, 
1810, and is therefore now a venerable gen- 
tleman of over four-score years. His respected 
father, .Tonathan Saliin, who was born near the 
town of Berlin in New York, had seven children 
and our subject is the first-born son. Mary Dake 
was the maiden name of her who became the 
mother of our suliject and her marriaiic with .Jona- 
than Saliin took i>lace in 1807. 

Tiie brothers and sisters of our suljject are as 
follows: Jvuanna, William. Mariah, Susan, Abigail 
and .Joshua. I^uauna. lioni in l.so.s. married S. 
JNIarr and has seven children; William, born in 
181 2, married Abigail CarpcntiT in 18|o. They 
have eight children. 

Nothing in the life of our subject is of more 
real importance and had a more direct bearing 
upon his happiness and prosperity than his mar- 
riage which took place in 1833. His bride was 
Electa Bigelow, daughter of Aljel Bigelow and 
Sarah Clark, who were the parents of eight chil- 
dren, Electa being the sixth child and fifth daugh- 
ter. She had a twin sister, Lura, to whom she has | 
ever been deeply attached. The marriage of this 
couple took place in Oakland County, Mich., and 
to them have been born six children. 

The eldest son of our subject bears the name of 
Montraville and was l)orn in 183,5. He married 
Julia Adams and to them have been born two 
children, a son and a daughter: P'rank and Eda. 
To the second daughter Mrs. Sabin gave the name 
of her twin sister, Lura. This daughter was born 
in 1837 and has married Mr. B. .J. Tuttle. The 
next son, F. D. was born in 1840. and married 
Lurinda Porter in New York in \x>'^i. They are 
the parents of two children, both sons: Wells, who 



was born in 18()f) and Elliott, who is now deceased. 
Harriet L. Sabin wsus born in 181t and married 
Andrew AVickman. She has three cliildren. Addie 
Saljin was liorn in 18r)2 and married Frank — iner, 
and is now the mother of two children. 

He of whom we write had his training and edu- 
cation in the Empire State and had reached his 
majority' before he was so filled with the Western 
fever as to emigrate to Michigan. Here he estab- 
lished hiin.self upon eighty acres of most excellent 
and arable land and did thorough pioneer work 
in what was then the Territory of Michigan. He 
is doing a general farming business, and is still 
active and energetic in the pursuit of his work, as 
all of his children have now left the parental roof, 
and he and his faithful wife remain together alone 
and are each other's best and chief companions. In 
tlieir declining years they are proving the value of 
the choice which they made in youth and are an- 
other illustration of the beauty of the harmonious 
and happy union, which is typified so charminglj' 
in the old song "Jo Anderson, my Jo, John." 

Mr. Sabin is ever intelligently and deeply inter- 
ested in all movements looking toward the advance- 
ment and prosperity of the fanning community 
and believing that the Farmers' Mutual Benefit 
Association is a means to that end, he is one of its 
earnest and enthusiastic advocates. In religious 
belief both he and his wife have been connected 
with the Fniversalist Church liut at present they 
are inclined to believe in Spirit u;ilism. 



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IIJAM N. Fi:i.l.<)WS. It is always a i)leas- 
ure to chronicle the events in the career of 
one who has l)een a brave and valiant sol- 
dier, and responsive to the call of his 
country in its moment of trial and need. lie of 
whom we write is a resident upon section 20. Leroy 
Township, where he owns a valuable farm. He 
was born in Fulton County, Ohio, .September 1!), 
1840. His parents were Nathan J. and Ann 
(Meecli) Fellows, natives of New York .State. Our 
sul)ject was reared in his native State and county. 




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and a greater part of bis life Las been devoted to 
agricultural work, altbougli when uiueteeii years 
of age be learned tbe blacksmitb's trade, serving an 
apprenticesbip of two j-ears. He has not since, 
however, made use of this knowledge. 

Mr. Fellows enjoyed the advantages of a com- 
nion-scliool education. Tlie schooling of his da}' 
was in no respect similar to that of tbe present 
time, the l)irch rod ijlaying a conspicuous part and 
the advantages being of the crudest nature. Not 
long after the firing of tbe first gun at Sumter our 
subject enlisted in tbe War of tbe Rebellion, en- 
tering the ranks September 1, 1861, joining Com- 
pany K, Thirty-eigbtb Ohio Infantry, and was as- 
signed to the Army of the Cumberland. 

After particii)ating in tlie l)attles of Shiloh,- 
Cbickamauga, Mission Ridge and in the siege of At- 
lanta, our subject was wounded in tbe left knee 
and sboukler in the last-named engagement and 
was in the hospital thereafter some ten months, being 
iinally discliarged June 15, 1865. At tliat time 
be returned to Oliio and was there married October 
20, 1865, the lady of his choice being Miss .loella 
Harrow. Tbe domestic relations of tlie young 
couple were of the happiest nature. Their union 
was blest by the advent of one son, liert. 

In 1867 our subject came to Michigan, and 
after a residence in Lenawee County of live years, 
be came to Ingham County and settled on the 
farm whereon be now resides in Leroy Township. 
He is the owner of a fine tr.act of land, which he 
has greatly improved and enriched by i)lanting 
orchards and erecting a good home and tine barns 
and outhouses. Our subject richly deserves the 
prositerity which he at present enjo3's. Socially be 
is a member of the Eli P. Alexander Post, No. 103, 
G. A. R., at Williamston, this State. For oueyear be 
was Commander of the Post, and has ofliciated in 
various caiiacities and ollices. lie is also a member 
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is 
one of the representative citizens of Leroy Town- 
ship, and, although bis residence here has not 
been as long as that of many, he is as lo_yally at- 
tached to the district as though he were a native. 
His military record is replete with interest, both 
to the veteran, whose exiieriences may have been 
similar, and to the .student of history. Although 



the mere statement of the battles in which he has 
been a participant conveys so little to the unob- 
servant reader, he has nevertheless shown great 
bravery on many a hotly contested field. As a 
citizen Mr. Fellows commands the conlidence and 
respect of all who know him and in business mat- 
ters his word is as good as his bond. 




GEORGE II. MclNTVRE. To have the 
esteem of one's fellow-men and especially 
JA) of those who know you most intimately in 
the every day relation of neighbors is worth much, 
and to gain it is a worthy ambition in the breast 
of any honoral)le man. We may truly say that 
the gentleman whose name appears at tbe bead of 
this sketch has attained this desideratum as he is 
well spoken of by all who know bini and is a man 
who has honorably attained to a broad and true 
friendship with many. 

Mr. Mclntyre w.as born, in 1859, in White Oak 
Township, Ingham County, Mich., in the log house 
where he now resides. His fathei-, 'Sir. 1). 3Ic- 
Intyre was a native of New York where he was 
born in 1833. Having grown to manhood he took 
to wife, Olive Herrick, l)y whom he bad five chil- 
dren two being sons and three daughters, and the 
son of whom we have tbe privilege to write is the 
eldest of the sons. His sister, Ann Mclntyre, mar- 
ried ,1. II. Smith, and became tbe mother of two 
sons and one daughter. Ella, who married I. J. 
King, bad two children, a son and a daughter. 
Flora remains at home with her i)arents, while 
Donald is also under the i)arental roof. 

The subject of our sketch is successful in his 
general farming business which he is carrying cm 
thoroughly and energetically. He is highly inter- 
ested in fine breeds of animals and has at present 
two hundred Merino sheep and some fine horses 
and cattle. He keeps tbe thorough bred Essex 
stock upon which be has taken the premium at 
county fairs and now has some thirty of those 
upon bis farm. He has a fiist-class standing 
among his felluw-farmers and is now X'resideut of 



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the St<ii'kl>ri<l;;c luidii Auricultiirnl Society which 
meets at Stuckbii(l<rc. 

Mr. Mclntyre was upiin .MmicIi 20. \sh:] united 
in nimriaijc with Miss Jlaiy t'. Smith who is like 
her iiiisbaud, a native of White Oak Townshiii. 
Ingham County, where she was born April .io. 
IKGO. Tliis union has l)cen crowned by the birth 
of four ehihlron, the eklest l)eing' (Uen S.,the next 
Ethel, and the younger children being Benj.amin 
Harrison and Florence. 

It is hardly necessary to state, after nuiitioning 
the name of Mr. Mclntyre's second son, that he is 
a standi Kejiublican in his political views and lias 
great faith in the man who now fills the Presi- 
dential chair. He has been a leader in his party 
in local matters, and has filled a minil)er of the 
minor ottices, having Ijeen especially ellieient and 
pnnninent as Pathmaster. I'nder Ins management 
the highways of his township have gained an ex- 
cellence for which they are well-known throughout 
Ingham County, and his incnnibencv to that ofliec 
has been exceedingly satisfactory to his fellow- 
townsmen. In IHitO he had chfiigc in While ();ik 
Township of taking the census and earrieil it 
through in good shape. His tine tract of one 
hundred and sixty acres is as fine land as can be 
found in Ingham County, and his wind-mill is a 
marked improvement and a decided hel)) in carry- 
ing on the farm work. Mr. Mclntyre is a gentle- 
man who well deserves the name, and stands iiigh 
in the social circles of White Oak Township. His 
family deserve and have the best wishes and kind- 
est regards of those who associate with them upon 
the intimate lenns of neighbors. 



^^1 LBERT M. DA\'IS. Genoa Townshii. 

^^Oj Livingston Countyj^ is full of farmers 
ij IIj whose ability, energy and enterprise have 
(1^ made them prominent and prosjierous, 

and there is probably no one of them whose rec- 
ord is more worthy of our pen than he whose 
name we have just given. His standing :iiiiong 



the people of tlie agricultural district of (ienoa 
Township, is abundantly attested by his otlicial 
position in the Crange and the respect which all 
citizens have for his intelligence is shown by the 
school ollices which have been his. 

Mr. Davis' farm lies on section 17, (ienoa 
Townshi]), and here he was born March 18, 1HI3. 
His father, John .1. Davis, was a native of Xcw 
Jersey and horn in IHlo, while the grandfather, 
Samuel .1., was a native of Wales, who came to 
America when (piite young and established him- 
self upon a farm in New Jersey. He came to Mich- 
igan with his son .John in 18.3.5 frtmi Genesee 
County, N. Y., where they had been living for a 
short time and Samuel .1. Davis died here when 
about seventy yeai-s of age. Their journey was 
made by way of the lake and they came from De- 
troit to the new home by a team through the mud 
and over the roughest roads. 

John .1. Davis took up his farm from the Gov- 
ernment when llure were very few settlers in this 
p;iit of the county, but there were Indians in 
.■iliundance and with thi'in lliey lived on friendly 
terms. He hunted and lished and killed many 
deer and always enjoyed that part of pioneer life. 
Ann Arbor was the nearest market .and thither he 
must go for sujiplies. He owned two hundred and 
twenty acres of land here, which he had in excel- 
lent condition. In his religious belief he was a 
Universalist and in politics he adhered to the doc- 
trines of the Democratic party. He received the 
appointment of Captain <>f the .State Jlilitia, his 
commission being made out by Gov. Bari-y. He 
was exceedingly useful in helping lay out the 
roads of the township and served several times as 
Collector. His death occurred in 1859 and he 
was long mourned as a u.scful and faithful fellow- 
citizen. 

The lady who was the wife of this |)ii;ncer was 
born in Scotland in 18)2, and bore the name of 
Mary Orr. She came to America with her broth- 
ers when sixteen years old, and for a few years re- 
siiled in New York City until her brothci-s came 
! to Michigan, when she accom|)anied them and 
made her home in Washtenaw ('(junty. Her mar- 
riage with our subject was crowned by the birth of 
four children, nainelv: ,\gnes K.. ( Mi-s. White- 



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head), Samuel J., Albert M., and Jolin J. This 
faithful and devoted mother is still living and is 
now with her daughter in Lunenburgli County, 
Va.. She is a woman of devout Christian life and 
a communicant in the Presbyterian Church. 

The subject of tins narrative grew up among 
the wild scenes of pioneer life, and remembers viv- 
idly numerous encounters with Indians, deer and 
bears. He took his schooling in the log school- 
house, sat upon the slab benches and kicked his 
heels against the pine legs thereof. Entrance was 
had to this schoolhouse by means of a door which 
was simply fastened with a wooden latch and the 
traditional latch-string, while quill pens were the 
instruments with which the children practiced 
chirography. Somewhat later the bo^' attended a 
select school or seminary which was kept by JNIrs. 
Dayfoot, and he there continued for two years. 
Subsequent to this he attended the High School at 
Fenton for a year and also took one year at Hills- 
dale College. His career at this latter institution 
w.as cut short by illness and he had to give up any 
further prosecution of his studies. This was a ser 
ions disapiiointment, as he had entered upon the 
study of geometry, Greek and Latin at Hills- 
dale. 

When this youth was sixteen years old he was 
severely l)creaved by the death of his father, and 
after he left sdiool, he, with the assistance of his 
t>rothers. carried on the farm and finally he de- 
cided to buy out the other heirs to the estate. The 
marriage which this j'oung man contracted April 
25, 1866, brought to his home Estella S. Saxton, 
who was l)orn in Marion Township, this county, 
January 14, 1848. Their three children are Rona 
E., Oliver L. and Myrtle M.. and all are living ex- 
cept the last named, who died when a charming 
child of three years. Mrs. Davis passed from earth 
May 8, 1881, and lier devoted husb.ind still mourns 
her irreparable loss. 

One hundred and tliirty of tlie two hundred 
and twenty acres lielonging to Mr. Davis' estate 
is now cleared and under cultivation, and here he 
carries on mixed farming and raises large numbers 
of cattle and hor.ses as well as other stock. His 
neat fr.ime house and his barns have all been 
erected under his own suiiervision. His political 



views are in accordance with the doctrines of the 
Democriitic party, and he is now serving his third 
term as Supervisor. He has lieen the Superintend- 
ent of the township schools and also School In- 
spector. 

In his religious life Mr. Davis is connected with 
the Episcopal Church .ind socially he is identilied 
with the Masonic order at Howell. He is also a 
member of the Grange and has held eveiy ortice 
from Master down. His devotion to the cause of 
the farmer has also led him to identify himself 
with the Patrons of Industry. He was esteemed a 
leader in many ways and has been a delegate to 
the county, congressional and judicial conventions 
of the Demociatic party, and has also sat as dele- 
gate in the State (irange and at countj- conven- 
tions of the I'atrons of Industry. Mr. Davis is 
now olliciating as President of the Agricultural 
and Horticultural Society of Livingston C(,)unty. 
He has also been President of the Township Sun- 
dav-school Association. 



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r/ UKE S. IMONTAGUE. The bar and bench 

£i) has many able representatives in Liviiig- 

^ ston County, men who stand high in their 



professions because of deep study of the best au- 
thorities on legal lore, and men whose native abil- 
ity stands them in good stead of deep erudition; 
men who also combine the two so that their native 
gifts are enhanced in value by extended study and 
research. Of these various gentlemen of various 
attainments none stand higher, nor are their ser- 
vices more sought than he whose name is at the 
head of this sketch. Quick, ingenious, alert, thought- 
ful and a fini.shed diplomat, only unlooked for 
contingencies that human eye could not discern 
can defeat him in n case which he has taken up, so 
that his reputation is not local liut widesftread and 
extending. 

Unadilla Township, this county, is the place in 
which our subject was born November 2, 1847, 
He is a son of Alexander S. and Sarah F. (Chip- 
man) ]\Iont.ague. natives of Greene and Wyoming 



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C'uuiilii's, N. V. 'I'Ir- I'utlioi' had coini' lo Miclii 
gnu in Uic year of IX.'id, tlu' lady wiioiii lie 
aftciwaicl made liis wilt' liaviiii;' pioci'dod liiiii 
liitlu'i- liy a year. The story as ohl as that of Adam 
and Kvii was liere i('|)oaU'd and they woic married 
in this eoiMily March 12. l»S[). 

Alexander Montanuo, our subject's father was 
reared vn a farm and early learned the duties ex- 
pected of a farmer's boy, such as hoeing, plowing, 
planting and tending the stock so that when he 
came to Michigan lie was well q\ialilied to be a 
successful pioneer. He |>urchased the first piece 
of land that was broken in I'nadilla Township 
and there made a model farm as the j-ears passed 
by, his tract comprising three hundred and sixty 
acres of land. He continued to reside on this place 
until deatli overtook him, August 8, 1887. His 
wife is still living on the old homestead, being 
seventy-one j'ears of age and enjoynig in the eve- 
ning of her life the atmosphere which is that made 
and impregnated with the spirit of her husband 
who was greatly honored as a citizen in the local- 
ity. He was elected to various public oflices, hav- 
ing l)een Justice of the Peace, Commissioner and 
the incumbent of other olHces. He cast his vote 
and influence with the followers of the Republican 
party. In church matters he was associated with his 
wife in worship at the Presbyterian Cliurch of the 
vicinity, being one of the organizers of that body 
in Unadilla Township and a meml)er for twenty- 
one years of the same, it being his sad privilege to 
see all the other organizers pass away before he 
himself w.as taken. He was a Ruling Elder and .also 
Superintendent of the Sunday-school. 

Our subject's paternal progenitor was a public- 
spirited man, realizing the advantage that every 
public inii)rovement gives to a locality. He gave 
not only his encouragement but generously of his 
money and personal labor in tiie building of 
bridges, churches and schoolhouses on the site 
where I'liadilla now stands and which was at the 
time of his advent here a wilderness. His father 
and our subject's paternal grandfather was Luke 
Montague, his mother, Eunice (Salisbury) Mon- 
tague, natives of Connecticut and Catskill, N. Y., 
resiHH'tively. The former was a farmer but early 
in life was enuaiied as a teacher and later became 



a merchant. He lived in ( ireene County but re- 
moved to Oneida County and linally settled in 
Cayuga County, there engaging in farming. He 
came to I'nadilla Township. Livingston County, 
this State, in 182(), purchasing a tract of two hun- 
dred acres, wliicii lie bent his energies toward im- 
proving. He also was an ardent Presbyterian, l)eing 
a Ruling Elder of that body, liotli of our subject's 
grandparents died in Unadilla Township. They 
had seven children whose names were Nathaniel L., 
Alexander S.. Elsie. A., Cordelia, Fanny, Charlotte 
and Putli. Three of these are now living. Cor- 
delia is Mrs. 1). M. Joslin; Charlotte married Mr. 
S. O. Noble and Fanny is Mrs. (J. Chapman. 

Our subject's great-grandfather was Nathaniel 
Montague, a native of Hadley, Mass. He, too, was 
a farmer and had a family of six children. He w'as 
a Presbyterian and an Elder; lie served in the Rev- 
olutionary war with his father, who was ^Lij. 
Richard Montague, one of the veterans who was 
with the Colonial troops from the beginning to the 
end of the war. He li.ad a large family and like 
his sons was a member of the same church. The 
Montague family are of English aneestiy. Tlie 
first to leave his native land was Richard Jlon- 
tague who came to America about 1G.'55 and event- 
ually .settled at Hadley, Mass., there engaging in 
farming. 

The lady who gave birth to our subject was a 
daughter of the Hon. Fitch Chi|)inan, whose wife 
was previous to her marriage JHss Susan vSpaf- 
ford. They were natives of Vermont Init lived 
for some time in AVyoming Count}-, N. Y. The 
former came to Michigan in 1H:5,5 and settled in 
Unadilla Township. Livingston County, where he 
became a large landowner. He was in the \Var of 
1812 and was a member of the Legislature of New 
York for three terms. Eight children were wel- 
coiiu'd to the home circle; tliey are Hannah M.. 
Spafford S., Lemuel, Sarah F., Susan, Frank, Ade- 
laide and Fanny. Only two of these are now liv- 
ing — .Spatford S. and Mrs. .Sarah F. Montague, 
whose father w.as a memberof the Episcopal Church. 
Both he and his wife lived and died in Unadilla 
Township. 

Mrs. Sarah Mont.ague' grandfather was Dr. Lem- 
uel Chipman. his wife being Sarah ( Fitch) Chip- 



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man. They were natives of Vermont and New York 
rcspeetivelv, the foniier lieiiio- a surgeon in the 
Kevulutkmary War, was at the memoiatile liatlle 
of lienniniiton. and indeed was through the entire 
war. Later he removed to Ontario County, N. Y., 
where he was a large hmdowner, and lie with 
Oliver Phelps owned all the land in Sheldon Town- 
ship, Ontario County, N. Y. He lived and died in 
tlie town of Richmond, Ontario County, having 
had a family of live clnldren. His wife was an eye 
witness of the surrender of Saratoga, she l)eing 
with her father at the time, who was a member of 
the staff of Gen. Gates. 

The original of our sketch was one of a famil\- 
of six children whoso namesareas follows: Louisa, 
now Mrs. Edgar \'an Sickle; Luke S., our subject; 
Clara A., now IMrs. Chipman ; Fitch C, Arthur A., 
and Frank K..all of whom are residents in Living- 
ston County, this State. Our subject was reared a 
farmer bo,y. After finishing the district schools in 
the vicinity he attended the Ann Arbor High School 
and was graduated at the Michigan Normal School 
in 1869. I'rior to this and while a student he 
taught two terms of district school and was elected 
Principal of the ll(_>wcll Ihiion School in 1867-68. 
Taking up the study of law he entered that depart- 
ment of the I'niversity at Ann Arbor, from which 
he was graduated in 1872. Prior to that, however, 
he had read law for a time with Olney Hankins of 
Ann Arbor. After his graduation he came to 
Howell and entered into partnership with Andrew 
D. Waddell, May 7, 1872, under the firm name of 
Waddell it Montague. This partnership lasted un- 
til the decease of the senior partner in 1881. 

Mr. Montague has a pleasant suite of rooms over 
the ]\IcPherson Bank. Here he first located with 
his partner and has ever since continued in the same 
place. The gentleman of whom we write has held 
the office of Prosecuting Attornej' for this county 
for four years. He is also attorney for the Toledo 
& Ann Arbor Railroad and has done business for 
other railroads. He is connected with various 
manufacturing enterprises, being a large stock- 
holder in the electric light compan}' of this place. 
Outside of his legal interests he is a large property 
owner in the county and has besides large amounts 
of pine lands in Michigan, Mississippi and Florida. 



He is a Republican in his political preference and 

and has lieen Chairman of county conventions for 
a numlier of years. Mr. Montague's practice is not 
confined to this locality but extends to other States. 
He has a beautiful home on Grand River Street, 
containing four acres of ground which is most at- 
tractively- laid out and has a fine residence. The 
presiding siiirit over his home-life is his wife, to 
whom he w.as united December 1.5, 188G. She was 
prior to her marriage Miss Ella Briggs, daughter 
of Henry C. ISriggs, of Howell, one of the jtopular 
men of this county. They have one chihl living. 
a da\ighter a few weeks old. 



3HHHi 



r YIMAN PICKARD. The gentleman whom 
we here represent, is one who enjoys the 
^ confidence of the biisiness community, who 
consider his word as good as his bond. He may 
well be classed among the intelligent and thrifty 
citizens of Locke Township, Ingham County, and 
both he and his intelligent wife are most highly re- 
spected members of societ}^ He is a native of Jef- 
ferson County, N. Y., and was born .July 14, 1828. 
His parents, Jonathan N. and IMary (Countryman) 
Pickard, were natives of New York and Canada, 
respectively, the Pickards being early settlers in 
the Mohawk N'alley in New York. Jonathan Pick 
ard was a soldier in the War of 1812, and in 1846 
he migrated to Jlichigan, settling in Locke Town- 
ship, this county, and here spent the remainder of 
his days. 

Of the nine children of this family the following 
survive: Jacob, Lyman, Mary (Mrs. William P>ar- 
ber), and Martha (Mi-s. Hiram Johnson). The fa- 
ther was one of the early representative pioneers 
of this region, an'd served as Justice of the Peace. 
Lyman Pickard received the rudiments of his edu- 
cation in the schools of Ohio, and thoroughly 
availed himself of every opportunity which was 
granted him. He has pursued a thorough and sys- 
tematic course of reading, and has ever kept him- 
self well-informed in regard to matters of public 
interest. 

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lifcaiiK' ,\iis. I'kkardiii ISod.aiul lo liiT witi' iiraiiUil 
tlireo cliildrcn. tlie t\M) now living licing' Rinaldo 
aiicl Amelia, the wife of tlio Rov. Kiniei- \\'nll<ins. 
of ilie InitiHl I'.ieUiren Clnnvli. After tiie death 
of the niotlier of tliesc children , Mr. Pickard con- 
tracted a second marriage witli Elizabeth C'lier, who 
had been S teaciier in the jjulilic school. l?y her he 
had six children, five of whom are livinir, namely: 
l.iicN'. wife of llarley t'lark. Lyman !>., Newman, 
l\au and Cora. 

He of whom we write became one of the biaxc 
boys in l)lue, who fought during the Civil War in 
defense of the Union.- lie enlisted Se|)tember -1, 
1H()4, in the Fourteenth Michigan Infantr\, and 
was |irincii).illy on detached duly, lieing stationed 
iit .l;icks(m, Mich. His honoralilc discharge was 
granteil in June, IXO;'), and he now receives a ])cn- 
sion of >!(; a nionlli. His tine tract of seventy .acres 
has lieen gained through his own unaided cffoits. 
For yeais he haslicen a member of the Local School 
Hoard in various capacities. He is a I?e|iiil>lican 
in his i)olitical |)rcfercnce. and jin .active wide- 
awake man, working heartily for every movement 
which will promote the soci.al. industrial and Miimii- 
ci.'il >ucccss of the counlv. 



|f_^ OX. FRANK :M. F()(;(;. a l.road exper- 

j) ience embracing life n))on two continents. 

h.as been granted to the gentleman of 

'ji®' whom we iu>w write, and with this experience 
h(> has gained breadth of view and soundness of 
jnilgmcnt which added to his n;itiirally keen abili- 
ties and thorough course of stuily, have made him 
a man among men, worthy of the res|)ei-t and ad- 
miration of llie iieo|)lc among whom he lives. ()ur 
subject was born in the year lHr)4 in Deerlield. N. 
II.. and at an early age he learned the practical ex- 
periences of a farmer's boy. He came of good 
Seotch-Irish stoek. which settled in Xew Il.ampshire 
in the early days, his father being Nathan Fogg 
and his grandfather Orrin. both natives of New 
Hampshire. His grandfather took part in tin- W.ar 
of 1«I2. and his fatliei'. who now roides in New 



Voik Cil\. \\a> a l.innci iii I )iii Held. N. II., and 
Lewiston, Me. His mother is of old Knglisli .stock 
and bore the maiden luime of Isabel Morrill. .She 
\V!U5 born in Slansted. (Quebec, and is a daughter of 
F. C. .Moi-rill. .'i farmer, who was in the Canadian 
Army during the War of 1K12. and died in that 
country. 

From earliest childlioixl young Fogg showed 
signs of talent, beginning school .at the age of 
three years and making such rapid progress .as to 
have conquered (ireenleaf's Arithmetic at the age 
of twelve years. When he was only eight ycai-s 
old the Civil War broke out and great i^olilical 
excitement prevailed. Even the \oiing held de- 
b.a4,ing soeieties,and this child took part upon every 
such occasion, speaking or declaiming. At the 
age of thirteen he was sent from home to attend 
school at I lampion Falls. N. II.. where he worked 
for his lioanl and also attended school at DeailHirn 
-Veademy, at Seabrook. N. H. Here he walked two 
miles each wa\' in going to ami from school. 
milked eleven cows night anil mojiiing ami acted 
as general chore boy. The following vears he 
altcriialc(| m'IiooI work with work at the shoe bench, 
and ill the hay tii'ld. attending sncces>iveh' the 
; I'ulnam Free School and the New Hampton Insti- 
tute. .Vt this latter ])l!ice he showed so clearlv his 
abilities as a logical dcbator and a student of his- 
tory that he was nicknamed the Young Na])oleon. 
and the following winter through the ad\ice of 
the Hon. J. I). Philbrick of ISoslon, he entered the 
Nichols Latin School and continued his [nvpaia- 
tioii for college. 

The dilliciillies connected with teaching boys of 
his own agi' in the "Hard Scrabble" district at 
Poland were brightened by the fact that here the 
young man met Miss .lulia Addilon. who. in 187"). 
Iiecame his wife. .Vfter coin|)leting the ten weeks 
<pr this term of school he entered Phillii)s Academy 
at Fxeter. .\. II., and cfuniileted his preparation for 
college. He now changed his method of self-sup- 
port by serving as a table waiter at the summer 
resorts in the White Mountains, and as it was then 
customary for students to tnkc this work, he found 
congenial coni])anionship among his fellow workers 
and appreciative and wealthy friends among the 
yuest^ who:n he ser\ed. At various time> hi' re- 



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ffivcd help from the renowned Dr. Sehenk and 
the millionaire Rockefeller, who continned his lib- 
eral lielp until he saw the young man through 
college. 

After completing his course at Bates College he 
began tlie stud^' of law with the Hon. M. T. Ludden 
of Lc->iston and in fourteen months was admitted 
to the Androscoggin bar, passing as some of the 
committee said, the best law examination of any 
young man ever admitted to that liar. He prac- 
ticed, however, liut a sliort time, as the Presidential 
campaign of 1876 awakened his interest in political 
questions and he became an earnest worker in the 
ranks of the (ireen backers and was soon advanced 
to a position of leadership. This led him into con- 
nection with the Hon. Solon Chase in the publica- 
tion of the "Chronicle" at Auburn, Me. In Jan- 
uary, 1879, he was elected by the Legislature to a 
seat in the Executive Council and as a member of 
that body he was instrumental in exposing various 
corrupt schemes. He believeSi in the strict con- 
struction of the constitution and laws and their 
rigid enforcement, and he is a true representative 
of the labor element. He has addres.sed thousands 
of people in the linest halls and opera houses in 
the country and has won a reputation as a put)lic 
speaker. He was nominated for Ccmgress in 1880, 
and made a magnificent run for that olHce. but was 
defeated. 

Selling tlie ■•Chronicle"', M|-. Fogg purchased a 
farm, near Lewiston, his father going security in 
tlie purchase. I'pon this Innd was a tine timbered 
tract of lieeeh and inMplc and he went into the 
woods with five men an<l chopped cord wood all 
winter, thus l)eing able to pay for his land in the 
spring. A year later he sold this property and 
coming to Michigan in the fall of 1882, located in 
Lansing, and purchased a half interest in the l^an- 
sing •'Sentinel" and in company with .1. M. Potter 
managed that paper until the cami).aign of 1886. 

A New York mining company now secured the 
services of !Mr. Fogg, to take charge of a mining es- 
tate in Africa, and in November, 1886, he left New 
York on the steamship "F]thio]5ia" for Glasgow, 
Scotland, and in London secured from the Gov- 
ernment a letter of introduction to the Governor 
of tlie Gold CV)ast in Africa, and an order demand- 



ing that he should have all the protection the F^n- 
glish Government could give him, which order 
was thoroughly complied with, lie sailed fidiii 
Liverpool on the steamer "Opobo", Capt. Nornian. 
It was a trading vessel and as it stopped at all the 
principal ports on the west coasts of Africa, he iiad 
an opportunity of visiting them. 

Iveaehing the (lulf of (iuinea our suliject jour- 
neyed inland to the gold mines whidi were situ- 
ated on a branch of tlie Niger River. It was a 
hazardous undertaking, as eveiy white man who 
had previously visited the mines had died. This 
estate was three hundred miles from the coast and 
was worked by taking off first eight feet of soil, 
then a layer of plumbago, and then the miners 
came to from eight to fourteen inches of gold-i)ay- 
ing-dirt. In the vicinity of the mines they found 
plenty of ebony, mahogany and the rublier trees. 
Mr. FV^gg remained there al)oiit a year an<l had 
numerous adventures with the natives, who more 
than once became mutinous. When Mr. F^ogg re- 
turned to F^iigland he brought back with liim 
^2.5,000 worth of gold dust, half of which was his 
share of the profits, and he also brought back, by 
the orders of the company, the bones of the two 
su[)erintendents who had preceded him. His con- 
stitution was terribly racked l)y the climatic fever 
which had gradually taken hold of him, and lie 
was reduced to almost a skeleton. After reaching 
Liverpool it was several weeks liefore he could 
travel and he then spent some four months in trips 
through FjUrope and Great Britain and returned to 
New York in July, reaching Lansing in August, 
1HK8. He intends some d.ay to form a stock com- 
pany and return to the gold coasts, build a rail- 
road and develop the mines, and says there is a 
fortune in it for .all concerned. 

Since his return to Lansing, our subject has en- 
gaged in his practice .as an attorney, although he 
devotes a large share of his time to dealings in 
real estate. He owns one hundred and sixty acres 
in O'Brian County. Iowa, as well as sixteen lots at 
Martha's Vineyard and he also oversees his wife's 
interests, as she has a handsome i)roi)erty of some 
4>2(), 0(1(1. Several tine I'csidences in Lansing are in 
his possession. Since his return from Africa he 
w.as elected a member of the Consolidated Stock 
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PORTRAIT AND BJOGRArillCAL ALBUM. 



lii 



Since his return to Ainerieii Mi'. F()j;;i;' lias t:ii<en 
(|uite a p.'irt in [xililies, and was cliaiiinan of tlie 
Aiiti-Mi()n(>i)olist State Convention in issl. uliicli 
nominated .Mr. Mills for Governor, and also eliair- 
nian of the t'oniiiessional Convention <i( this dis- 
triel for the (ireenliaek Lahoi- party, which ollice 
he occupied for three terin;;. lie \v:is also Secrelaiv 
of tlie I'nion Labor State Central Committee for 
one ye;n'. .Vt the l'"usion Convention, when the 
Democrats and (ireenhackers joined forces, hi' was 
chairman of the Conji'ressional Coniniitlee, and 
ma<U' the nominating speech, puttint;' foiwai'd tin.' 
lion. .John 11. Fedewa of St. .lolins for Conuress. 
lie is a menilier of the Free and .\cce])t('d .Masons, 
the Kniuhts of Labor and the I'alrons of Industry. 
I lis live children Ix'ai' the names of ( >rrin. N;i1 h:in. 
Frank. .I m ii u ' . ' and < i co i' uc. . -*• 



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j^ RS. CLARISSA (MOON) STKHNKS. -A 
perfect woman nobly planned, to warn, 
lij to comfort and command."' The yreat 
|)oet, Wor(lsworth, could not have found 
a worthier illustration of the woman he had 
in mind at the time of writing his exquisite verses 
laudatory of the virtues of the gentler sex, than 
she whose nanu' is at the head of this sketch; one 
who.se heart is tendei' and sympathetic, yet whose 
hand is firm to soothe and to heal the sick world 
th.at leans on her; one who has en<hireil much 
trouble and sorrow, the heavy hand f)f alHiction 
having been laid upon hei' nmri' than once, and yet 
she has accepted weal or woe with lo\ ing tiiist and 
resignation. 

Mrs. Sternes is the daughter of Thomas and 
Klizaheth ((iaidner) .Moon, who wcic natives of 
England an<l Canada, respectively. The former 
came to this country, first locating in Canada when 
a young man and engaged in fanning, lie soon 
acipiired two Inuidi-ed and forty acres of land 
which he stocked with blooded animals. This place 
he lived on through life. l?y his wife, to whom 
he wa.s married in Canada he had eight chihlicn, 
four of wlK>in are now living. The\' are our sub- 



ject, Catheiine, Elizabeth anil William. Catherine 
is now .Airs. IJell, of Canada; Elizabeth married the 
L'ev. Willi.nn Cook and lives in Michigan; William 
is a farmer in Canada. Our subject's p.atcrnal 
grandsire was Thomas .Moon, a native of England, 
wIhj there lived and dieil and who accunuilatc'd a 
handsome fortune in the pursuit of his calling, 
which was that of a farmer. The maternal gi-and- 
parents were .lohn and Catherine (Sliibley ) Cardner. 
The original of our sketch received the advan- 
tages offered in Canada in an educational way. 
She lived with her i)arents until lu'r marriage in 
1847 to the Rev. Ashford I)iamon<1, who wjis born 
i7i Canada and there al.so educated. He w.as the 
son of Robert and Sophia (Smith ) Diamond, natives 
of Can.ada, where they were employed a.s farmers 
and were peo])le of gOQd financial standing. They 
nu)ved to Michigan about 1851 and settled in the 
county of Tu.scola, where they were eugage<l in 
farming until their decease. After the marri.'igc 
of our siibject the young couple lived in Canada 
for live years where the husband was engaged in 
farming. In 1851 they came to Michigan and 
.settled in Tu.scola County where Mr. Dianiond 
took up eighty acres of land which he fanned for 
some years. While thus engaged he turned his 
attention to the ministry and began to prepare 
himself for that work, favoring the Protestant 
Jlethodist deiu)niination. lie completed his course 
of study and went upon the circuit and continued 
to be thus occupied until his decease. During his 
ministerial work he moved his family to Handy 
Townshi|i and preached his last memorable sermon 
in the Randall schoolhou.se two miles north of 
Fowlerville, passing away the following night. 
During the service on that last day he paused in 
his discourse and asked if any of the congregation 
wished to sa.\- a word for .lesus. There was no re- 
s])onse, and he continued. "I see, looking over 
these seats, many gray haired men like myself, and 
we sh.all soon go to the beyond." Afterward he 
said that it seemed to him that his mother's hand 
rested upon his head while he was preaeiiing, urging 
him to press forward, and also that he could see his 
little children who had gone before, flitting by on 
angel wings that were tipped with gold and chant- 
ing the glad hosannas before the throne, lie was 



4- CorreclTov. »*«o«>TeflL k, 6(^tC lelT^r 90^Z. , Rk5; 1<\*{T. 



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known far and near and tlie testimony of those 
wlio knew and loved him is tender and heautiful 
and a tribute that anyone miglit wisli to liave. 
He died in this township in 185.0. He left a widow 
and eig'lit children, four of whom only nve now 
living'. They are Thomas, Henry, Emily and AVill- 
iam. Thomas married ^Iar\' Harris; they are the 
|);u-ents of one child. William. Henry married 
Kllen Hayner, and is the father of four children — 
Carrie, Asiiford, Mary and Eva. Emily is the wife 
of Fayette Grant and lias one child, a daughter, 
whose name is Alta E. William married ^Maggie 
Ta\lor; he is a i)hysician of great popularity. 

The lady of whom we write was married a second 
time, lier present liusband being Allen C. Sternes; 
they now reside on .section a;3. Handy Township, 
where they have a very fine home. Mrs. Sternes 
is a member (_)f the Protestant ^Methodist Church 
and one of the noble women of the towusliip. 









^^p^EORCE W. ANDREWS. It is a favorite 
if (=) ligure of speech with i)oets .'ind literary 
'^^Jjj people in general to compare death with 
sleep. It is a false comparison, however, for death 
is not a sleep, Init an awakening to a more intense 
and active life — one in which the scope for good 
is greater than in our circum.scribed sphere on this 
terresti'ial glolie. Our subject passed from earth 
on January 2, 1882, and his widow, Mrs. Electa P. 
Andrews, dictates this tribute to the companion 
who was to her a hero and who In' the charm of 
his presence and beautiful principles of right held 
her in tlie inner shrine of his heart. 

Mr. Andrews was born in Milford, ^Mich.. 
February 22, 1838. His parents came to this State 
at an early day and the lad was orphaned while a 
mere babe, his mother being taken away when he 
was three months old and his father when three 
years .old. After that he was sent to New York and 
was reared by an luicle until twenty years of age. 
His educational advantages were limited but In- 
careful reading and diligent study he became well 
educated, and after fitting himself for the active 



work of manhood he returned to the scene of bis 
nativity and settled in Oceola Township, Living- 
ston County. Later he removed to Corunna Town- 
ship, Shiawassee County. 

Mr. Andrews was united in marriage to Miss 
Electa P. AVilcox in 1861. She is a daughter of 
Alonzo and Sarah (Dean) Wilcox, natives of New 
York and ^'ermont respectively. Her father came 
to Jlichigan in an early day and died in Fowler- 
ville, Livingston County. The mother passed 
away May 26, 1890. A family of ten children 
clustered around the heads of the household; their 
names are as follows: Lanson, Edwin, Ryland S., 
Lovina, now Mrs. Whitaker; P^lecta (Mrs. An- 
djews), Julius, Mrs. Julia Seims, Matilda, Mrs. 
Frank Abbott,Mrs. Josephine Keeckler .and George 
W. The father was a Democrat and the church 
associations of the family were with the ]Mctho(list 
Ei)iscopal body. 

Our subject lived at Corunna two years and 
thence moved to Iowa where he continued for two 
years, after which he returned to Michigan 
and settled at Deerfield, later moving on sec- 
tion '). Handy Township, in 1873. purchasing 
a little less than eighty acres of land, upon 
which were some few improvements. He here 
engaged in general farming and lient his ener- 
gies to improving his land until overtaken by 
death in 1882. The home that they have made 
here is ideal in its rural simplicity- and general 
agricultural neatness .and productiveness. In the 
rear of the house is a large red barn, which is ex- 
ceptionally fine. There is also an orchard. The 
work of the farm is now carried by Mrs. An- 
drews' sons. They devote themselves to general 
farnnng. 

Mr.s. Andrews is a lady of marked personality, 
having unusual executive ability and a fine knowl- 
edge of business methods. Her husljand was 
alw.ays the object of the greatest ivspecl and ad- 
miration among his .associates in their vicinity. 
Having learned the surveyor's art. he was often 
called upon to survey for ro.ads and in estalilish- 
ing lines for estates. He w.as one of the most 
useful and important men in the township. Po- 
litically he was an adherent of the Democratic 
party. Their family' comprised three children. 



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The I'hlcsl son. TliaiMciis C. iiiarrit'd Miss Ida 
(Jriiidliiiii. and is now tju' pioiid I'atiuT of one 
dauirlitcr — Myrtic Tlic SdiniLCor cliililrcn uvv 
I'.i'MJaniin !•'., and llck'n K. 'I'licy liavc icrfiNcd 
a uood I'din'alion and arc accoiriiiiislird as well as 
pnii'lical yuung i)co|)if. 



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?^K()K(;K W. 15ARMvS. TIiu sUinU Knglisli 
ancestry from wliieii oursul)ject is descended 
lias given iuni the true Aiiglo-Siixon traits 
of teni[)eranienl and eliaracter. These arc a iieri- 
tage which is more potent for the success of any 
man than thousands of gold and silver. Mr. 
Harnes was horn in ^Vulnirn. N. '^■., February 22, 
IH 10. liis parents lieing .lolm and Winifred (Barnes) 
IJarnes. 

.lolm liarnes. Sr.. the grand fa tlicr of our sul)jeel, 
was of Knglish birth, when' he belonged to the yeo- 
manry. and alfoserved his countay as a soldier and 
sailor. His wife was Elizabeth I'ayne, who bore to 
him four sons. Thomas, Joseph, (ieorge and .lohn. 
an<l foin- daughters. .Sarah, Mary, Winifred and 
.Vnn. The father came to New York when he was 
tiflv \eai- old and settled in Auburn, and in ISIM 
came to Tyrone Township. Uvingstun County, and 
settled on eighty acres of land on section 1.0. 
lleri' lie ami his good wife p.assed away fioni earth. 
They were lioth old-school l)a])tists in their early 
years :iiid later were connected with the Methodist 
Episcopal Cliiircli. Wlieii lie lirsl came to this 
country he embraced the doctrines of the Whig 
party anil afterward liecaine a Hepublic.-ui in senti- 
liieiil. and took a great interest In the prosecution 
of the war for the maintenance of the Inion, and 
died in 1X(>,'). I lis son .lohn. the father of our sub- 
ject, was born in England, as was .also the \<iun<j 
woman who became his wife. 

The parents of our subject settled in .\uburn. .\. 
'^'.. after tirst coming to this country, and later 
came to Michigan. The best opportunities to be 
gaineil in the district schools were eagerly' embraced 
by om- subject and he remained in the E.nst till he 
re.aclied his majority, when he came to Micliiijan 



with his gr.'indparents and began independent 
fanning operations. In September, IHIIl, (lein-ge 
I'larnes enlisted in Company I, Tliiid .Michigan 
(avalry. ami p;irticipaled in the battle of New 
Madrid, the siege of Corinth and the battles of 
luka. .lackson, Coldwater and llatchie. and in all 
some lifteen battles and skirniislies. lie was pro- 
moted to the rank of Sergeant in .Inly, 18(12. and 
at the end of three years received his honoiable 
discharge, lie iinmedlatel3' re-eulisted in the I'if- 
tv-(irst Missouri Inf.-intrv as a private and was 
made rciiuiting ollicer. He became Sergeant- 
Major and was long on guard dut\ . In August, 
18(!.') lie receive<l his linal discharge at St. Louis. 

rpon his return to .Alicliigan the young soldier 
devoted himself to farming for two years and then 
removed to Nebraska, but two years later letiirned 
to this State and has s])ent his time since that in 
Tyrone and lirighton Townships. While in 
Nebraska he took u|) the trade of a carpenter, but 
for the past twelve years he has devoted himself to 
farming. His lieautiful farmhouse stands upon an 
estate of lifty acres, on section 27, and evirytliing 
about the farm retlects credit upon the man who is 
carrying it on. In his otHcial ca|pacity he has 
served the township as Clerk for live years and is 
on his lifth term as Supervisor. He is active in his 
devotion to the DenKX-ralic [larty and has great 
faith in its ultimate success. 

It is a jileasant task to record the marital union 
of two whole-souled and true-hearted people such 
as our subject and Laura C. Slayton, wlio.se wed- 
ding day was Ot'tober (>. 18(57. This lady is a 
daughter of .\lonzo and .Melimla (Hamilton) Sl.qy- 
ton. who were born in AN'hiteslown. ( )neida Countw 
X. Y.. and Chemung County. N. Y.. respectivcl\. 
Tlieir daughter had her birth in Tyrone Township 
.Vpril 2.'i. 1817. The father of .VlonzoSlaylon was 
Daniel Sl.ayton.of Oneida Counly, N. Y. who mar- 
ried Lucy Roberts and at his death left a widow, 
two d.auglileis and three .sons. His wi<l<>w subse- 
ipiently married a Mr. Porter, bv whom she had 
one daughter, and she linally pa.ssed her hist days 
in .Macomb County, .Mich. 

The life story of Alonzo Slayton is one of inter- 
est. He was born December 20, I S04, and entered 
the regular armv, where he reached the rank of a 



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Sergeant and took part in the conflicts during the 
the Black Hawk "War. In 1835 he caine to Macomb 
County, this State, where his mother was living, 
and afterward settled upon a fine farm of two hun- 
dred and forty acres in Tyrone Township, this 
county. This he cleared and placed under good 
cultivation, and had o1)taiued frtmi it splendid 
crops, when he died, May 22, 1861. He had served 
his township as both Supei'visor and Justice of the 
Peace, and in 1844 his superior abilities and excel- 
lent judgment had raised him to the office of Asso- 
ciate Judge of Livingston County. Besides his 
training as a farmer he had the ti'ade of a carpen- 
ter and was occasionally called upon to practice it. 
At the time of his death he owned three hundred 
and twenty acres of highly cultivated and arable 
land. He was twice married; his first wife being 
Eliza Covil, and his second wife being Melinda 
Hamilton, the mother of Mrs. Barnes and daughter 
of Hugh and Elsie (Shipman) Hamilton. Mr. and 
Mrs. Barnes have been blessed by the birth of one 
child, Pearl M., and in tlieir home are to be found 
not only' the comforts of this life, but true harmony 
and haiiiiiness. 



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15^11 RS. ELI/A M. CLARK. The owner of the 
model little farm of eighty acres located 
on section 3, Ilartland Township, Living- 
ston County, is a lady whose name is at 
the licad of this sketch. She is a native of this 
State, having been born in Tyrone Township, this 
county, January 18, 1847. Her father was Amos 
Dexter, a native of New York, wliere he was reared 
until he came to Micliigan in 1838. He located at 
once in Tyrone Township, this county, there being 
Imt few improvements on the place which he pur- 
chased. He was a blacksmith by trade, and fol- 
lowed his calling even after he liad located here, 
setting up his forge upon his farm. He died on the 
26th of March, 1872, at the age of seventy-two 
years. During his life he was a member of the Free 
jNIethodist Church, in which body he was an ex- 



horter and a most devoted worker. He was well 
known throughout the county and enjoyed the re- 
spect of all his neighbors and associates. 

Mrs. Clark's mother w-as in her maiden days 
Jliss Lovicy Brooks, a native of New York, there 
horn in 1811. She was married in her native State 
January 29, 1830. Slie died March 29, 1891, at the 
good old age of seventy-nine 3'ears. She was the 
mother of thirteen children, twelve of whom grew 
to manhood and womanhood, and of these eight 
are now living. Mrs. Clark is the eleventh child 
and seventh daughter. The names are as follows: 
William, deceased; Ruth; John, deceased; Mariam; 
Sarah, deceased; Martha; Marj^Ann, deceased; Abi. 
Annie, Amos, the last of whom died in the service 
of his country; Eliza M., Celestine and Josepli. 

Mrs. Clark remained at home until her marriage, 
wliich took place September 1.5. 1868. Wliile yet 
a yoimg lady she had acquired a reputation for 
being a most accomplished housewife as well as an 
intelligent and capable young woman. Slic united 
lier fate for better or worse with that of Lanson 
E. Clark, who was a native of this State, township 
and (•(luuty, and was born December 18, 1844. He 
was the sou of Lee Grand and Catherine ^'roman 
Clark. He was reared and educated in his native 
place and was considered one of the young men 
with brightest jjrospects of that towTiship. He en- 
listed in 1862 in the War of the Rebellion, joining 
Company E, of the Twenty-sixth Regiment of 
Michigan Infantry, and after an honoralile service 
during which he Siiw much hard flgliting he re- 
ceived his discharge at Alexandria. A'a., June 4, 
1865, and was mustered out at Washington June 
28. 1865. after which he returned to liis home in 
Michigan. In one battle he was wounded by a 
musket shot which lodged in his head, and although 
it was not immediately fatal he never recovered 
from its effects, it causing his death in 18«9. He 
was buried in the Ilartland Cemetery amid the most 
deferential honors paid by a large concourse of 
relatives and friends. He was a noble, Christian 
man. and very well known in the county, also 
thoroughly liked hy all who knew him, although 
he was an in^'alid much of the time during his lat- 
ter years. His wife was his constant eomi)ani()n 
and guardian during this time. 



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.Mrs. (lark is tlif inotluT of seven i-hildreii. lour 
.sons and three daujiliters. «li<ise n;iiiies , -ire in oider 
(if l)ii-tli as follows: Ho.sa .Vdell, .\nna Delilia and 
Anson Delhert (twins), Amos Lee ( !rand. .losepli 
C.ahin, lilanelie Lo\ icy and Lanson .\. ('. Tlie 
oldest danjiliter is the wife of I'.eilon K. Pearson; 
they reside in .Milfoid. ( )al<land ( ouiity, this State. 
Anson J)elbeit died at the auc of nine year.s and 
ten months, and Amos died at the aire of eiirht 
years, one month and nine days. The other chil- 
dicn are still at home with their mother, brighten- 
ing her life in an endeavor to return the loving 
affection and eai-e whieh .she has lavished upon them 
in their early youth. .Mrs. t'lark is the owner of 
eighty acres of good land which she rents, and this 
brings her in a very comfortable income. 



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^J^) NOS SOW'LK. The owner of the excel- 
lently Miltivated f.arni. coiniirising one 

hundred and seventy-tive acres on section 

;i.'5, Ilowell Townshi|i. Livingston County, has wit- 
nessed the growth of this immediate section of the 
eonntry, he himself having come here in 18,5;), 
when the woods wei'e .still in their virgin state, 
an<l the deer, wildcat and wolves were more fre- 
ijuent visitors than any of his own kind. He 
built a shanty in the midst of this wilderness and 
m.ade that his home for a number of years. Then 
as his condition, linanciallw was bettered, he liuilt 
his present commodious and comfoitable dwelling, 
which is tlioroughly littetl for the enjoyment of 
life, lie kee[)s a great deal of stock, among which 
all' line grade cattle and a large number of hor.ses 
and sheep. 

The original of this sketch w.as boi-n in Tomp- 
kins Cttunty. N. Y., in the townshii) of Danbiu'v, 
on the !^tli of .lune, \H2C>. His parents were John 
and Florilla ( Dikeman) Sowle, natives of Rhode 
Island and New York, respectively. The former 
was a mechanic liy calling, and after a lifetime 
spent in the stinggle with the exigencies of exist- 
ence, his decease occurred in Cayuga County, X. Y. 
His widow came to Michigan in 1X46, with a 



family of chibbcii: her SOns-ill-Iaw, with their 
families, aecompjinied her, making in all a party of 
nineteen persons. They .settled in the township 
of Il.andy, this county, where they |)urch.ased land. 
There oiu' subject's mother passed away from this 
lite in September, I1S;")2. 

lie of whom we write was bionght up -a farmer 
l;id and drilled in the agricultural science, not as 
it is accomplished at the present time, but by the 
hardest manual labor. The rudiments of his edu- 
cation were received prior to his coming to Michi- 
gan, and indeed he had not many advantages 
after reaching the age of ten years, for at that 
time he commenced to be self-sui)i)orting, working 
out and icceiving ij."i.2.") per month for li is services. 
To appreciate the |)rivations and hardships of the 
famil\-, the reader must know tli.at the firet pair of 
shoes po.sse.ssed by our subject were obtained when 
he was six years old, and they were made from 
horse-hide — the liid<- of an animal which the 
family had owned. 

Mr. Sowle worked out by the month ami day 
until twenty-eight years old, at which lime he li.ad 
accumul.'itcd enough to be enabled to purchase the 
farm upon which he now lives. After t)btaining 
the home lie felt the need of a companion, and 
made misti-ess of his house Miss .lustina Curtis, 
They were married December 14, 1H,54. .She was a 
native of Handy Township, this county, and is the 
daug iter of Benjamin and .Mary A, (Hush) Curtis, 
who came to this .State and county in 1X3(5. Two 
cliildrt'ii. who are lixing. are the evidence of the 
plighted troth of our subject and his wife. They 
are .Mar\ .1.. who is now Mrs. (Jeorge Carl, and the 
mother of three children — Freddie, ^larcia and 
Martha, the two last named being twins. .She. w ith 
her linsbaiid and family, is a resident of this 
towi'.sliip. ;iiid is the owner of a farm of lifty-four 
acres, locati'd on section ;5.'5. The next child is a 
.son, (u'orge K.. who died when twenty-nine years 
of age. and the youngest is a daughter, Rosa A. P. 

Our subject, politically, alliliates with the Di'm- 
ocratic p;irty, that platform aiipealing more 
directly to his ideas of justice and right as far as 
governmental power is concerned, lie is a self- 
made man. having been not only industrious, but 
a good manager and exceedingly energetic, lie is 



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rewarded with the greatest respect and liking in 
the county, which has honored him on several occa- 
sions by nominating him to office. He has, however, 
refused to be an incnmlioiit of local offices, attend- 
ing strictl.y to his own legitimate business, which 
is tluit of farming, lb' has a beautiful home, 
which is not only conifortablc, being arranged 
with all conveniences that give modern farming 
so great an advantage over the old style, but 
being also an attractive edifice in outer appear- 
ance as well as inner arrangement. . He is a man 
of unimpeacliable character and standing. 



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<F^^REI)KRK'K IllllNKR. The owner and res- 
Ur/^; ident upon the line farm located on section 
/ll 13, Ilartland Township, livingston County, 

is a native of Prussia, the country that has so 
great a reputation for its soldiery, having one of 
the nuist magnilicent standing armies in the world. 
To it the world is indelited for many things out- 
side of a great military example. .She stands first 
in original experinu'nts in science and only second 
to i'^ngland in her literature. Its inhabitants have 
eonunon sense views of life that lead to a splendid 
physical development, for the (ierman nation as a 
people are noted for their fine physiques and lon- 
gevity. 

;\Ir. llibner was born May 2;"), 1831, in the dis- 
trict of Mactelnirg; his father, Daniel Hibner, also 
a native of Germany, he came to the United 
Slates in 1853, landing in Tsew York City, Decem- 
ber 4. He first located in Ohio, and there lived 
for one year, at the end of which time he proceed- 
ed to this State and settled in Springville Town- 
sliip, Oakland County, whence he removed to 
(iroveland Township, two years later, at which 
place he piu'chascd forty acres of farm land. This 
he sold and later Ijought a farm at White Lake, 
this he also sold and came. to live with his son, oxn- 
suliject, passing away from this life at his home, 
after having reached the age of seventy-seven 
year.;. Our subject's mother was before her mar- 
riage a Miss Catherine Daten, a native of Oer- 
m-mvaswas her husband. She was the faithful 



and loving companion of his life and finally died 
at the age of seventj^-six years. 

Our subject is one of seven children, being the 
eldest child. He was reared in his native land, 
and was twenty-one years old when he came to 
this country. He received his education in the 
Fatherland, becoming thoroughly wi'll drilled in 
the branches as taught in his country. On coming 
to America with his father, he resided for two 
years in Ohio, whence he came to ^licliigan and 
located in ( )akland County. He there hired out 
by the month on various farms, si)ending most of 
his time with Newton Biglo, of Springville Town- 
ship, working for him seven years. He received 
here ^10 per month for his first labor. ,Vfter leav- 
ing TMr. Biglo, he went to Holly where he purchas- 
ed forty acres of land; this he partially improved, 
R'niaining there for a period or three years, and 
then coming to his present location. 

On settling here Mr. Hilmer found that no 
improvements had been made, with the exceiition 
of a little log house, and he at once bent his 
efforts toward making the place somewhat realize 
his ide.'i of a farm. His marriage took place 
in Oakland Couuty, his l)ride being Miss Arslena 
Millhberg, like himself, a native of (ierman\-. 
They are the parents of eight children, five daugh- 
ters and three sons, whose names are as follows: 
Mary, Charles, Emma, Anna, Lenor, Henry, ]Mer- 
win and Susan. iSIary is now the wife of 'Sh: 'M. 
Wycoff, and resides not a great distance from her 
parents. The children are all bright and intelli- 
gent, the boys being gifted with considerable busi- 
ness capability and talent. The young ladies are 
accomplished and prepossessing. 

JMr. Hibner is the owner of five hundred and 
fifteen acres of land, all in one body except eighty 
acres which is on section 10. It si)eaks well for 
our subject's ability as a business man that while 
he came to this State with scarcely more than an 
abiding faith in his physical strength, and his 
aljility to work for what he wanted, he has acquir- 
ed his present handsome property. His residence 
a view of which appears on another page, was 
built in 187;') at a cost of -i^LaOO. It is a cozy and 
comfortable little home that is gay with the merry 
jests and ringing laughter of the 3'ouug people. 



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Our sulijt'ot (IcmIs ([uite cxtensivoly in slR'tp. 
and at luvscnt lia> two liuiuli-ed liead i)f (iiio breed. 
His farm is well stoci<cd. irriijati'd and drained, 
ancl he eidtivates the entire piaee with the excep- 
tion of eiarhty aeres. lie owns a farm on sec-tion 
1 I, u|)on wliieli is a good liouse, witii other im- 
provements. In ids |)olitie:d prineipies ami pridi- 
lection, Mr. Ilibuer is a IJepuhliean. His lirst vote 
was cast for Huehanan. He was reared in a Lu- 
theran family and is still an adherent of that failh. 
his wife and children also heloniiinu' to that 
church. 



^^IKOHCK A. MARSH. The a,-rieiillural ele- 
11 (=, meat forms the haeklione of every com- 
\^!j| miinity, for ui)on its character and work 
depends the real <U'Velopnient of the resonices of 
that section of the cMiunlry; and if enti'i'prise. in- 
dustry and intejirity are lackiiifi' the whole liod\- 
cor|Hirale will lie lacking in vitality, strenuth and 
success. 

Among the farmers of Hands 'rownship. Liv- 
ingston County, we lind Mr. Maisli. living on sec- 
tions 2'.t and 3(1. where he has a >plen(lid farm of 
one hundred acres. This county contains his 
native home, as he was born in I'nadilla Town- 
sliip. in the year 1849, and in that same township 
his parents Zen.-is and Mary ((ilenn) .Marsh were 
m.arried and made their early wedded homi-. as 
tiiey had come when quite young to this coinitx . 
The settled upon a wooded farm and having cleared 
it off and improved it. lived there till 1H(K) wlu'u 
Zciias Marsh died \\\n>u the old homestead, and 
twelve years later his faithful wife expired in 
I'\»wlerville. The principles of the Democratic 
p:irt\ had always been the political sentiments of 
.Mr. Marsh, liut he had not mcddleil in public af- 
fairs. 

The worthy Jiionei'r couple of whom we have 
now spoken had a family of seven children, of 
whom live are now living, namely: lOmily T., 
(JIi-s, Metcalf), Robert, our subject. Inez, (Mr.s, 
Powere) and Edward. The subject (jf this sketch 



remained at home through lioyhood and \dntli 
and received his schooling in I'nadilla Township, 
and when he reached his majority he settled half a 
mile south of Fowlerville for two years, and 
then sold that property, and lamc and purchased 
the place u\h>u which he now resides. He luts 
rlearc<l the timber fiom this tract and has placed 
upon il line buildings and other good improve- 
ments. His home is marked liy more evidences of 
l.i-te and culture than many farjn house.-> and its 
surroundings are most attractive. 

The ollice of C'onunissioner of Highways w'as 
given to him for two years, and for quite a long 
while he attended to the duties of Koad M.aster 
an<I has also held other ollices. The happ\- marital 
union of (ieorge A. Marsh aiul Susan Saundei-s 
d.-ites from 1873, when at the residence of the 
bride's parents they were made one. This lady 
was born in .Mai ion Township and is a daughter of 
Frederick and .Mary (Love) Saunders, an English 
couple who came to .Vmerica in 1836, and made 
theii- home for some time in Livingston County. 
Iiefore their marriage. Mr. Saiuiders attended 
school for a whiU' aflei' coming to .Michigan, and 
suli-eipient to his marriage, which took place in 
Marion Townshi|) he made his home there. Jlrs. 
Saunders' father was also a native of England. 
Henry (i. Lovi' by name, and he likewise came to 
America in 183(! and became tme of the pioneei'S 
of Marion Township. His f.aithful companion de- 
parted this life while they weie living in England, 
and he is now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Saunders were 
the iiai)py parents of sLx children, four only of 
whom now >ur\ i\e, they are: Mrs. .Marsh. A\'illiain 
IL.Tilla, (.Airs. Demerest, deceased), Mary .l.,(Mrs. 
Demerest), Lydia E., and Lyda (deceased.) The 
mother departed this life February 7, 188'.». 

.Vmong the i)rominent leaders in the People's 
p:irty in Livingston County. Jlr. .Marsh's name 
may well appear. His intelligence and thorough 
understanding of public' aflairs and his enthusiasm 
foi- the principles which that party represents, make 
him exceedingly intluential among the men who 
are following the iileas promulgated liy that paity. 
In agricidlural circles he is also regarded !U* a 
prominent man, as the line condition of his farm 
gives him a prestige which he richly' deserves. 



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His fine buildings and excellent improvements 
show to every observer the lifiiid of a thorougli- 
going and systematic farmer and his Durham cattle 
and line horses are wortliy <>f tin |)ri<lc which he 
feels in them. 



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RS. SAUEITA UICmroM). Tlie lady 
who is the (jwner of tlie farm that is a 
ii model of its kind and located on section 
19, Howell Township, Livingston County, 
has administered her business affairs with so much 
ability as to rank high among her sex as a financier 
and manager. Her farm conii)iises sixty acres 
which is under a state of careful cultivation. She 
came to this township in 1847 when the place was 
a wilderness, and although she belongs to the sex 
that was formerly spoken of by the "lords of crea- 
tion" as the weaker one, she did her part as ;i 
pioneer in developing the country, for weak in- 
deed would lie llu' woman in pioneer times who, 
in the stress and press of harvest labor coiild not 
go out in the fields with rake or hoe and accom- 
plish a fair day's work. 

The lady of whom it is onr pleasant privilege to 
here give a short biographical sketch in outline is 
a daughter of William and Betsey (Heroy) Brun- 
dage, natives of New York. Her father came to 
Michigan in 1847 and settled on section 21, of this 
township and county, having jnirchased a farm to 
which he bent his efforts to cultivate and improve. 
There he lived and died, having had a family of 
five children, four of whom arc now living. They 
are Charles; William. wln> lives in California; our 
subject, (Mrs. Richmond), and I'erry. of Gratiot 
Count}'. 

]\Irs. Richmond joined her fate with that of 
Tracy I\. Richmond, November 26, 18,56. He was 
born near Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1S;56, and was the 
son of Simeon and Poll.y Richmond, who came to 
Michigan and settled lirst at Tinckney where the 
elder Mr. Richmond worked at liis trade which was 
that of a carpculci-. Our sulijcct's husband was 
reared a farmer and icmnincd loyal to his calling 



thiough life. After their marriage he purchased 
forty acre> of land in Howell Townshiii on section 
20, and li\('d there a year, enjoying the comioits 
of home in this new location. He then rented a 
fai'm for foiii' \ears, after which heinu-chascd forty 
acres of land in tiiis vicinit\' and later i)urchascd 
the tract whereon his widow at present resides. 
His first purchase comi)rised fort\' acres, which was 
the nucleus of the fine farm which he owned at the 
time of his decease. Upon this he built a very 
good residence in which his widow now resides. 
Mr. Richmond was a man of progressive tendencies, 
greatly interested in everything that looked to- 
ward a furtherance of domestic, municipal or na- 
tional Government. Personally he was genial and 
very popular with his associates. His decease oc- 
curred May .5, 1880, at which time he was forty- 
three years and five months of age. 

Mrs. Richmond's consort was a Republican in 
his predilection. He was particul.ary interested in 
the governmental affairs of the locality. He left 
a family eomi)rising a wife and two children, 
.hiy, the elder son, married Celia Mcintosh, ,'uid 
now lives on the liome farm. He h.as two chililrcn 
— Ray W. and Eva. The younger child, a daughter, 
]\rary E., became Mrs. Frank R. Crandal. She is 
now deceased, having departed this life Marcli 1!), 
1888. She left two children — Tr.acy F. .and Mary B. 
.lay Richmond is his mother's able assistant in 
carrying on the work of the farm and it shows no 
diminution in care and attention, he evidently 
I)eing a man who thoroughly understands his busi- 
ness. Their home is a beautiful rural residence in 
the midst of a wide rolling lawn surrounded with 
choice shade and fruit trees. ( )ur subject is a woitliy 
lady who stands high in the regard of her friends 
and neighbors. 



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\f/()IIN ARMSTROXO. Although our suliject 
has passed three-quarters of a century, and 
during this time he has experienced the 
frost of the world's wintry wisdom, as well 



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mikI ji>y. Ills hcnrl is :is \ouiii; ;in(l \inliiuclu'(l as 
th()Ui;ii Vdiitli ui'ic iniinurlal. lie leiiiiiids one of 
a sturdy >':\k on tin' iiioiiiitaiii side, i-ouali ami 
rugared iif lnMiich and hark, yet iii\iiii!: an iiiipres- 
sii)n of stieiigtii aiidelinraeter such as no otiier tree 
conveys, and at the same time eastiny a jiraleful 
shade over tiie loo heatecl pallnvays tlirouiih the 
summer woods. Tlie tree hears upon it5 rui^ued 
exterioi' the history of nature, the storv of tem- 
pests, of <h<iulh. lh>od .-ind scorehina^ sunsliine. 'I'lie 
man is an unwritten history of moments of passion, 
restraint, reservation, pleasure and ■i)ain. He will 
tell you some of his life, hut llie addcn [lart, the 
l)art that we curious mortals care most to pry into, 
he locks in the de[>tlis of his own heart, as the oak 
hears in its inner rings its life history. 

( )ur suhject is the owner and proprietor of the 
f.'uni on section ■2(i, Ilarlland Township, Livingston 
County. He is a native of the JMnpire State, hav- 
ing been horn iu Fahius Township, Onondaga 
County, September 2S, 181(!. We will not here 
attempt to give a biography of his jiarents as one 
will he found under the sketch of our sulijeet's 
brother, Mr. L. L. Armstrong, in another part of 
this volume. He of whom we write is the young- 
est of six children born to his parents and of these 
three only are now living. .Mr. Armstrong was 
very young when obliged to start out in life for 
himself, being hut twelve \ears of age when he 
lirsl began to work as he coidd l)y the month or 
day. 

The original of our skelch received twenty-four 
.'icres of lanil in Monroe County, X. V.. from his 
mother. He however paid for the land and look 
care of his mother and brother until their decease. 
His marriage took place in Monroe County, X. Y., 
March ■2(), 1H18, his l)ride lieing Almira Talmage. 
The lady is a native of Saratoga County. N. Y., 
being there born in 1H2K. She was, however, reaied 
in the town of Parma, Monroe County, .^ftei- 
their marriage our subject sold their little tiact of 
Iwi'nty-four acres for IsLKIO. and he iniinediafelv 
invested the proceeds in a farm of lifty-two ami a 
half acres in the town of (ireece. Monroe Couiitv. 
of the same State, there he remained cairving on a 
general biisiness in agriculture until lH,')|.wlien he 
came to Ilartland, this county and state, and lo- 



cated on .section 2i!. He. with his family still live 
in the same log house that w;is on the place when 
he canu' here. He is now, howevei', Iniilding a new 
frame dwelling wlii( h he contemplates with much 
pride and |)leasui-e. 

Mr. an<l Mrs. .Vrmstrong are the parents of nine 
cliildien, seven of whom are now living. They 
are: Kdna, Lorenzo L., Charles, Lydie, .b>lin K.. 
.lulia K., and \Villiani 11. The oldest child and 
daughter is now the wife of Chester Camp>)ell. 
They reside on a farm in Antrim Township, Shia- 
wassee County. Lorenzo is a farmer residing in 
ll.-utland Township, this county. Charles is also a 
farmer living in Antrim Township. .Shiawas.see 
County. Lydie is the wife of II. lirowu, and lives 
in this vicinity. ,|ohn K. resides in I laitl.-iiid 
'I'ownship. .Julia IC. still makes her home with her 
p.'iri'uls as does her brother William II. 

Our subject is the fortunate possessor of three 
hundred and twenty acres of .some of the linest 
land in Livingston County. It is well imi)roved 
and so fertile that it needs only to he turned over 
with the pU)w aiul |)ut to seed to bring forth a 
bountiful harvest. Most of the improvements 
have been made thereon by himself although his 
eldest and youngest sons are now conducting the 
work of the farm on shares. Our sulijecCs first 
vote was cast for .lames K. I'olk. He is now an 
ardent Hepublican taking as great an inteii-t in 
political news as in his younger days. 



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f/_, IIC\:\[ W. r.AKKK. The old idea of the 

•horny handed sons of the soil" is to a 

■^' great extent exploded, agricultur.'il Mutli- 

f^j ods at this time being carried on with 
comparatively little manual lalior, the imji-.tv^d 
implements, whose motive power is steam or elec- 
tricity. accom|>lisliing in one-tenth the time the 
work th.'it was formeily peiformed In liaml. It is 
ipiite possihh? foi- even the great m.-ijority in this 
country .as well as in England to be •■gentleman 
farmers." The suhject of this skelch is tuie of the 
favoied rei)resentatives of agriciillnie in this di.s- 



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rict, ownins: a fln3 farm of sixty aoroB on sestion 
8, Meridiiiii Township. Inijliani C'ovinty. IIo de- 
voti'S liinisolf to g-ener.'il farming. lie was born in 
NorlliunilR-rland, Saratuga ('(lunty, N. Y., Noveni- 
licr ■22. l.S.'ST. IIi> f.atlR'i-, Ak'xandcr C. l!al<cr, is 
by ()t'Lnii)ation a farmer, and a native of Monroe 
County, N. Y., and tliere horn in 1810. Ili.s de- 
cease oceurred wliile lie was yet in the heyday of 
youth. 

Iliram I>aker's mother was in ln-r maiden days 
Miss Betsey L. Williams. She w.as born in AVilton, 
Saratoga County, N. Y., November l(i, 1811, and 
died October 23, 1888. Our subject remained ini- 
der tlie parental roof until he was sixteen years of 
age, helping his father with the farm. His oppor- 
tunities for attending even a district school were 
ver\' poor, and the knowledge usually acquired in 
the i)nblic schools he has lal)orionsly secured by 
individual study and l)y experience. When six- 
teen years of age he started out in life to make his 
own living. In company with another boy he 
went to Toledo, Ohio, and obtained work on a rail- 
road at th;it place. After [lUisuing this iieav\' em- 
plo\inent for nearly a year, lie returned to New 
Yoik and s|)ent six years in farming in Yates 
C<iunty. 

Having acquired a home and assured of, at least, 
the necessities of life, Mr. B.aker took unto himself 
a wife. His marriage with Miss Kate C. Chase oc- 
curred .lanuarv 8, 18(J1. The lady was a daughter 
of Calvin Chase, a farmer in that vicinity, and was 
born August 20, 18,'}7, in Carliondale, Pa. Care- 
fully educated, she became a teacher and was suc- 
cessfully employed in this ca])acity for several 
years. She enjoyed the special advantage of a 
course in I'nion Seminary in Delaware County, N. 
Y. In 18()1 the young couple came to INIichigan 
.ami rented a farm near Ilattle Creek, where tiiey 
remained for eleven years. They then removed 
into Ingham County, where they were engaged in 
farming foi- a short time. 

By iiracticing tiie strictest economy, our suliject 
was at last enabled to purchase the comfortable 
home that they now occupy. Several substantial 
improvi'inents had been made upon the place since 
they came here, and the careful attention in the 
way of cultivation that Mr. liaker has given the 



place has added greatly to its value. While in 
New York, Mrs. Baker was a member ol the liaptist 
Church, l)nt has not identilied herself with any re- 
ligious I)ody since coming here. They are l)oth 
niembersof Harmony Alliance, No. l.of I'ine Lake, 
the lirst lodge organized in Michigan. Mr. Baker 
was also the first candidate to be initiated in the 
Okennis (irange after its. organization. Our sub- 
ject has always been a Democrat. Mrs. Baker is a 
highly aecorn|>lished lady with decided tastes and 
talents in an artistic direction. Their home is 
nitide charmini;' b\' the dainty works of her hand. 




l\ ARSIIAI. COFFEY. One ol the most de- 
lightful homes in Handy Township, is that 

A^ owned by the enter|)rising young farniei- 
whose name is at the head of this sketch. 
He is the iiroprietor of mu' hundred and sixl\ 
acres on section 18, Handy Township, Livingston 
County, upon which is built a comfortalile and 
commodious home that is tlie meeting jilace for the 
choice spirits of the vicinity. Mrs. Coffey is an ex- 
ceiitionally attractive lady, with bright conversa- 
tional powers, and having much talent in the mu- 
sical direction. Her literary testes and judgment 
are of the most refined character, and their home 
abounds in the latest productions of literature and 
works of a scientific nature. They are thorouglil\' 
alireast of the times, and do not believe in looking 
on life as a dark or dreary state. 

Mr. Coffe}- was born on section 18, Handy Town- 
.sliip, where he now lives. His natal day was De- 
cember 18, 18(),"). His [larents were Levi and .lulia 

* 
(Wiiite) Coffey, natives of the P2ini)ire State, who 

came to Michigan at a very early day, and here 
the father accumulated by his prudence, economy 
and industry, a handsome fortune. At one time 
he was the owner of a very handsome estate, com- 
inising five hundred and eighty-seven acres of 
land. Prior to settling in Handy Townshij), he 
was in iNIarion Township, later settling in Washte- 
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:ilpo\f rflfiiiMl 111, .•mil whiTi' his ik'i-c;iM' look |il:iri' 
Fchniaiy 2 1, l.siil, liis wife liaviiis;' ])ih>ci'(U'(1 liiiii 
liy tt'ii years. 

l-'oiir SOILS irrew u]) alioiit llieir parents, aiul as 
tiny readied years of maliirity. made homes of 
tlieir own. Oursulijeet, Marslial Coffey, was mar- 
ried lo :Mi.ss Kllie C. (iriswolil. Novemlier 20. I8H!). 
Tlie lady is a daut;li1ei- of ,losei)haiid Laura (Will- 
iams) (iriswold, of Handy Townshii). one of the 
representative farmers of this locality. A native 
of .New York. Mr. (iriswold came to Michiiian in 
an early day. and now li\cs on section 22, of this 
townshii). Tiiey have a family of live children, 
whose names are .as follows: Bert, Jay. lOflie, now 
Mrs. .Marshal Coffey. Leah and Kntherford. The 
yonni;' peoiile have all lieen jiiveu the ailvantaues 
of a iilieral ediicatit>n, and havins;: !irii;hl. .'ispirinu 
natures they easily take their places in the highest 
soci.al raidss of the locality. Mv. (iriswold is a 
stanch Repniilican, oivin!>' his vote and inlluence 
« holly to that p.arty. 

Our suhjcct, .Marshal Coffey, is one of the pi'om- 
iuenl yoiinij farmers who by their proii;ressi ve ten- 
dencies and cucro-etic youui;- hlood l;'o to make 
Liviutrston County one of the stronircst in the sis- 
tcihood of this <jreat lumhcrinii- and ai>riciiltural 
State, lie holds to the Democratic faith. 






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\Ji ESSK .]AC()15.S. The oentleman whose name 
is at tlic head of this .sketch is the owner of 
a fine farm comprisino- one hundred and 

ninety acres and located on section 27, 

Ilowell 'I'ownslii]), Livingston (^'onnty. Mr. Jacol)s 
is one of the extensive farmers in tliis luwnshii), 
di\idinii; his attention lictween his own farm, where 
he rai.ses horses, cattle and hogs for market. an<l 
(loinjfthe threshinij for other farmers in the county, 
lie ])eiiiij tlio possessor of some of the finest and 
most modern machines of this kind. 

Mr. .Jacobs was born in .Steuben County, Corn- 
ing Townsliip. N. Y., December 18, 1840. Mis par- 
ents were IJenjamin and Nancy (Searls) .Tacolis. 
natives of the Kmiiire State. The former was the 



owner of one hundred .-ind si.xly acres of land 
which he cultivated before coining West, and ill 
1859 he sold this place and lakinor his way toward 
the setting sun settled in the town.shii) of Howell. 
He is now retired from' the active pursuits of an 
agricullur;d calling. Our subject "s mother died at 
Tlainlield, Livingston County, February 6, 1887. 
Mr. .lacobs, Sr.. is the father of nine children, six 
of whom are now living. They are Alary, .lesse, 
Levi, IJenjaiiiin, I'hilander and Charles. 

The original of this sketch received the greater 
part of his education in Corning. Steuben Countw 
N. V. He was reared a farmer boy and on com- 
ing \\'est with his (larents worked out on farms 
until he had accumulated enough to purchase one 
hundred ;iiid twenty acres in Cnadilla Township, 
this county. Fifty acres of tiiis tract was limber 
Land. 'I'his he cleared, and lived upon the place 
for .seven years, at the end of which time he sokl 
and came to the farm where he at present resides. 
His original piudi.ase here com|nised one hundred 
and twenty acres, to which he Later added seveiitv- 
two imnu'diatcly adjoining. Tweiitv .acres of his 
last pui'chasc w.as timber land that lie cleared. JMr. 
Jacobs has good, comfortalile farm buildings, tliere 
being three hou.ses upon the place and also three 
barn.s. In two of these houses there are tenants 
who assist him with the farm work. He has planted 
three orchards on his jilace which now \ icid 
bountifully. He also raises much small fruit and 
his farm being only two miles from the town of 
Ilowell he linds a ready market for this produce 
near at h.and. He has .as good a farm as there is In 
th(^ township and it has been so made liy his own 
industry and etTorts. 

In 18()r) the gentleman of whom we write was 
married to Jliss Ada M. IJarber, of Dexter, W.ash- 
tenaw County, this State. Their union has been 
blessed by the advent of eight children. They are 
.Vugusta. Mary. Sarah. H.arriet, Jesse. IJIanche, Will- 
iam H. and Jenny. .Vugusta married Harvey 
White; they .arc the parents of two cliildren — Ar- 
tansia and an inf.ant wlio at the time of writing 
was not named. They reside in Ingham County, 
this Stiite. Mary is now Mi-s. Carl Hoody. who is 
a resident of Colorado. 

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Naturally iiitereisted in local pulitics he is also well 
infoiiiu'd ill regard to the National (4overnment 
and can hold his own in aioument with any of the 
])enioerats in the vic-inily. Onr suhjeot has lieeii 
a very hard worker and the coinpeteiicy tliat he 
has gained has been secured only l>y the most in- 
defatigalilc labor. He has in connection with his 
farming interests been threshing grain for the last 
twenty-one years, doing most of the threshing for 
fanners who do not possess their own implements. 
He has a steam thresher of ten-horse })C)wer. 




ON. (iEOPiCiE COLEMAN. The early his- 
)|) tory of this family in America reads like 
the lines of a fairy story, as William Cole- 
man, the progenitor of the American branch 
of the family, came to this country from England 
in the latter i)art of the sixteenth century, and be- 
ing an oriihan boy, was bound out by the Captain 
of the vessel in which he came, to a ni.aii on Eong 
Island, who was a wealthy farmer. As this youth 
grew up to manhood he learned to love the beau- 
tiful daughter of his master, and at last was wedded 
to her. They "lived in liappiness ever after" .and 
had four sons, one of whom, named .)olin, settled 
in Connecticut, and from him came the family of 
our subject. 

The descendant of whom we write, who is now 
the County Treasurer of IJvingston County, Mich., 
and a resident of Howell, was born in Orange 
County, N. Y., September 7, 1!S33. His parents. 
Eri and Susannah (Lee) Coleman, were natives of 
that county and the father was a wagon-maker by 
tr.ade, who in his boyhood had been bound out for. 
.seven years to learn his trade. After serving five 
years he i)aid his master for the remainder of the 
time and started in business for himself in Orange 
County. Later in his life he i)urch.ased a farm on 
which were a gristmill and a jilaster mill, wlik'h he 
carried on until October, 1843. when he sold his 
proi>ertv and came to Michigan. 

Eri Coleman now .settled in ]\Larion Township, 
Livingston County, where he engaged in fariiiiiiii' 



u(Jon a live hundred-.aere tract, a great ((ortion of 
which he cleared of timlier, and remained u\um it 
until 18r)7, when he went to Pinckney, this couiily. 
lie engaged in the mercantile business and followed 
it until his death in 1864. His faithful wife sur- 
vived him and remained with her children until 
1873. The large farm was divided among the 
s(ms, our subject receiving two hundred acres, and 
two other sons, Jasper and Floyd, receiving their 
share. The father was the Postmaster of Pinckney 
for several years and ^vas one of the wealthy men 
of the county. He was a Democrat in his political 
views. lie had five .sons and one daughter, namely: 
Mary E., Milton, Charles, George, .lasper and Floyd. 
iSIilton is in California and w.as for twenty years 
the Overseer in the Navy Yard at San Francisco, 
and Jasper is on a farm in Clinton County, this 
State. 

The father of Eri Coleman was William and he 
was married to Mary Reeve. Both of them were 
natives of ()range County and they had a family 
of nine children. The father of William was .lohn. 
who w.as liorn in New Loudon County, Conn., and 
he was one of the four sons who were descended 
from the first progenitor, who married the lieauti- 
ful daughter of the wealthy farmer. 

John Coleman, the great-grandfather of oursub- 
ject. removed from t)range County, N. Y., where 
his .sou William was boru, to Pennsylvania, going 
thither about the year 1772, and remaining there 
until the occurrence of the Massacre of Wyoming, 
when he returned to Orange County, N. Y. His 
wife, Sarah, was a daughter of Josiah Coleman, the 
son of William, the originator of the family, and 
was, therefore, a first cousin of her husband. 

He of whom we write was reared upon the farm 
.and remained upon the old homestead after his 
fatlier left the farm, and went into mercliandising. 
He has about four hundred .acres of land in Marion 
Townsliip, oil which he lived from 1857, when lie 
took possession of it, until 1889. He purch.ased 
one hundred and twenty acres adjoining the city 
limits in 1881, and there he now lives. Besides 
these |)roperties in Clarion Towiishi}). he lias other 
lands in the .State. He h.as represented this county 
twice in the State Legislature, once during the ses- 
sion of 1883 and again in 1885, and for five years 



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has been Supervisor of the towiislii|>. I'loni the 
tiiiU' he was t\vi'iil\ -four years old hi' lilleil the 
otlice of .lustk'O of tlic Poac-o for sixteen years in 
siieeession, and ho was elected to his present [)Osi- 
tioii in ixm. 

'I'he nianiaire of onr siilijeet to Miss Sarah Kiih- 
liins, of JVIariim Townsliip, took place in 18;)o. 
'I'he parents of Mrs. Coieinan were Adam and Sarah 
(Hill) Rubhins, both of whom were born in Eng- 
land and eanie to Amei-iea in 1H3(5, settlini;' in 
Marion Township. I.iviniiston County, where they 
spent their li\es upon a farm. Mr. and Mrs. Rub- 
bins had eigiil ehildren — .Mary A. (who is Jlrs. 
Thoin;is). Clements, Ail.-un .Ir., Sarah ( who was Mrs. 
Coleman). Eliza (now ]\lrs. Coleman). Adeline 
(.Mis. l>eaeh).Luey (Mrs. Alford Tayk>r)..Tohii and 
I'Ji/.abeth (!Mrs. Reason, now deceased). Mrs.Sarah 
Coleman had a family of three children: Xoni. 
Eraiik and Wilmer. Js'ora is now Mrs. .Tohn Hen- 
derson; Erank is married to Alice Feunster an<l 
has three ehiUhen. Bruce, (Jeor-re and Nora; and 
Wilnier is nnited in marri.aue with Ilattie .Ieffre\' 
and has three chihlren. I.ouisc. I.aura and Charles. 

Mrs. Sarah Coleman died in l.H(i(l and .Mr. Cole- 
man married for his second wife hei' sister Eliza, 
who now h;is two children. Sarah and Susan. Our 
subject helped to oru:anize the Eirst State and Sav- 
inas Bank of Howell, and is a stockholder therein. 
His political views ha\c UmI him lo alliliatc with 
the l)emoer:itic |)arty. in which he has yreat conli- 
dence an<l for whose future prosperity he works 
and voles. 









^^1 LMERON DANIELS is a retired f.armer. 

''^Z II <Jwning a good tract of eighty-eight and 
'// Ifc seventy-nine hundredths acres of land on 
<Q0 section 22. .Meridian Township, Ingham 

County. He was born in the town of Reg'ia, Mon- 
roe County. X. '\'.. .lunc 21. 1«I7. His father w.is 
Elijah Daniels, wild was born in Massachusetts in 
IT'.t.i. While in .Massat'hnsetts he employed him- 
self as a baker and shoemaker, but after coniinii lo 



this county he became .a fanner, lie w.ns engaged 
in the War of 1812, .serving from the Ijeginningto 
tiu' close. He died in Niagara County. N. Y.. Sep- 
tember 18, 183!». Our subject's mothei- was. prioi- 
to her marriage, Miss .\xa Woleott, a native of 
Massach u.setts, but who.se rearing was chieflv in 
New Voi-k where her father was one of the very 
oldest sclllcis. 

Our subject lived at home until his father died, 
in l«.i'.t(the niotherdied in 182;»)and he helped clear 
up the new farm and support the family, as he was 
the eldest, \\hen seventeen yeais of age he worked 
out by the month, receiving for six months ¥7 and 
Inters^'.) jier month for his lalior. I le gave his earn- 
ings to his parents with the exception of fourteen 
shillings. After he had reached the age of nineteen 
ye.Mis he went to .school only one winter and .at 
that time i)aid his own tuition and worked for his 
board, .\fter the age of nineteen he worked at 
home until twenty-one. when he was engaged with 
other farmers until twenty-eight years of .age. He 
had learned the carpenter's and joiner's trade and 
combiiu'd this prolitably with his knowledge of 
farming. 

When Mr. JJaniels was twenty-eight ye.ars old he 
was mairied, November 9, 1845, to Miss Aurelia 
Ilnll, a native of Rome. N. Y.. and a daughter of 
Edmuml Hull, a farmer. Our subject's grandfather. 
Samuel Daniels, was a farmer in Scotland .and came 
lo the I'nited States in an eai'ly day. They located 
in Niagara County in the place that has since been 
eMlle<i ^he Daniel's settlement. (Someof the family 
aic known liy the name of McDonald). After 
maniagc our subject lived for a while on the old 
place and then sold his portion and moved to an- 
other part of the township. He again .sold and on 
the Isl of March, 18,j:3, landed in trie village 
of Lansing, remaining tliei'C employed asa eariien- 
ter and joiner until the spring of I8(;'.l. when he 
moved to the township of Bath. Clinton County, 
staying there for seven years. He then again sold 
.and in a slun-t time moved on the farm he now 
owns. ^Irs. Daniels was a devoted member of the 
Presbyterian Church, giving her aid and encour- 
agement to that body until it was disbanded here. 
Our subject is a meml)er of the Masonic lodge at 
Okemos. In politics he is a (Ireenbackcr. He has 



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fuiight in lift' for c\'cry iiirli of groiuul he haj; niude 
and is (le.serving- of tlie comforts wliicli his present 
position eualiles him to have. 

Almeron Daniels enlisted in tlie War of the Re- 
l)eHion in February, 1864. joniing Berdan's United 
States Sharpsliooters. He was with the Second 
Regiment in tlie battle of the Wilderness and at 
Spottsylvania and served until the close of war, 
reeeivino; an honorable discharge April 29, 1865. 
lie and his wife are the parents of two children — 
Myron II., who was born January 1, 1851 and 
married Phebe Hornish, becoming by this union 
the father of tinee children — Charles A., Lottie and 
Ira. Myretta II., born Decemlier 9, 1853, was mar- 
ried to Lewis N. Kent, of Okemos; they are the 
parents of two children — Ethel and Burr. 



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y.SCAR F. PERRY, tlie old settler and lead- 
K ing citizen of Lctcke Township, Ingham 
_ •^ County, is a native of Sandusky County, 
Ohio, where he was born .inly 11, 1843. He is a 
son of Ira I), and Mis. A. (Wright) Perry, the 
foriner a native of New York and the latter a 
Vermonter. He is from (Jei'man stock on the 
father's side and liis father's step-father was a sol- 
dier in the Revolutionary War. 

Ira D.Perry, the father of our subject, emigrated 
with his family from Ohio to this county in the 
spring of 1845, and established a home on the 
farm where the son now resides. A log cabin in 
the woods was for a number of years the familj' 
home, but the father finally erected the comfort- 
able house which is now seen iip()n this farm. 
Numberless hardships and ])rivations marked the 
pioneer life of the family, Init they struggled 
through tliem and lived to enjoy prosperous days. 
The father died in 1880. He was tiie father of 
nine children, of whom the following are now liv- 
ing: Oscar F., Orsamus, Rinaldo, Etta; F2va, wife 
of J. !M. Chapman; Elsie, wife of S. T. Sewell. 
The father was a IJei)ul)lican in his ])olitieal con- 
victions and a man of sterling (pialities. He held 
several of the township (illlccs and lille(l them all 



with credit t(.> himself and in-olit to his constituents. 

O. F. Perry grew to manhood in this county 
amid the stirring scenes of pioneer life, and hav- 
ing received his preliminary education in tin- dis- 
trict schools of Locke Townshii), was sent for one 
year to Lansing, where he had the advantages of 
the High School. This i)repared him for tlie busi- 
ness of life and gave him an o|)portunity of learn- 
ing the value of books. In consequence he has 
been a life-long reader and has thus become a man 
of intelligence. The lady who presides with so 
much grace and dignity over the home of our sub- 
ject, and who is an acknowledged leader in all so- 
cial movements, bore the maiden name of .h)- 
sepliine IJowlcy. She became j\Irs. Perry September 
14, 1X70, and is a daughter of Levi Rowley, an 
early settler of Locke Township. Her three chil- 
dren— .-Cora, Lizzie and Stanley — are liright and 
lir(_)inising, and in their future the parents cherish 
a fond confidence. Two hundred and forty acres 
of excellent land arc comprised in the home farm, 
and a view of this (ilace. with its princiiia' build- 
ings, is presented on another page. 

Mr. Perry enjoys the confidence of the business 
eommunity, and has served as Township School 
Inspector and Highway Commissioner. An active 
and iiublic-siiirited man, he is a ready iiromoter 
of every movement which will enhance the [iixis- 
perity of the community. His heaity good will 
and neighborly kindness have earned for him the 
regard of those with whom he associates, and all 
rejoice in his pros|ierity. 




LEXANDEU DOBIE. One of the best 
WhM known resiilents of Ingham Count.\' is he 
/ 14 whose name ajipears at the head of this 
.^^ sketch. He has a magnificent farm ct)m- 

prising five hundred acres lying in Alaiedcm and 
Meridian Townshijis. Ingham County. He devotes 
himself to geneial farming, his jilace being divided 
into meadows, corn and wheat fields and jiastures 
ill which graze lilooded horses and the finest 
cattle. Mr. Dobic was liorii in Diiiiifiiesshirc in 




RESIDENCE OF ALEXANDER DOB! E , SEC. 10, ALAIEDON TP.JNGHAM CO, MICH. 




RESIDENCE OF OSCAR f. PE RRY, SEC.IO., LOCKE T R J NGH AK 



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the l,o^vl.•unl:^ vf Scotland on lln' .JiMh oi .May, 
1817. His father. A\'illiani Doliic, was horn in the 
same piai'c in 177(1 and died in Ids sixtieth ycai'. 
lie was a carpenter and joiner hy tnide hut on 
eoininir to Canada heoanie the ]>ro|)rietor of a 
farm. 

A\'lien AU^xantler Dohie was hut three years old 
his father with his family emigrated to America 
and settled in New l'.runsui(U, Nova Scotia. The 
senior .Mr. Dohie remained in this country four- 
teen years, workint;' at his trade and conducting 
the work of a small farm. As he increased in size 
and streng'tli our suhject worked on the farm and 
attended the |)ul>lic schools of Nova Scotia. lie 
S|)ent his s|)ar(' time in learning his father's trade, 
lie had one sister whose name is now Mrs. Anna 
Mitchell, who makes her home in New Urunswick. 
Our suhject's father made his advent into Canada 
in 1H;!I and settle(l lirst near New London on a 
line tract of land comi)rising four hundred acres, 
which he purchasecl and operated until his death. 
He wiis very successful and on his decease left his 
family in very good circumstances. The maiden 
n.anie of the niollicr of the suhject of our sketch 
was Mary Coulter. She was a native of I'errvs- 
boro, Scotland, and was there horn in 178 1,pas.s- 
ing away in her eighty-eighth year in her adopted 
home in Canada. She was the daughter of (ieorge 
Coulter, a farmer. 

Alexander Dohie was In Canada not quite two 
years and then came into Michig.an and settled in 
Lenawee County. His stay there lasted only two 
years when he came into Alaicdon Township, in 
18.'5!l. Thci-c were at the time only thirty-six voters 
in the four townships that adjoined at the time 
our suhject came lit re. The country ahoiit him 
was for the most part wild and iinhroken and his 
lirst purchase was of eighty acres of land that 
forms part of his present farm and which he \n-o- 
cnred for '¥2 per acre. He hail oidy money enough 
to m.ike a jwyment of *10 and his personal effects 
consisted of one cow and two pigs. For tools he 
possessed a saw and an ax. It is needless to say 
that he suffered all the hardships incident to the 
life of a pioneer, hut ho hears testimony to the fact 
that in spite of the cold cheer he often exper- 
ienced, he enjoyed himself on the wliole and now 



looks hack over the old scenes with pleasuie. 
(iame was very plenlifid, a.s were also Indians hut 
the latter were friendly. 

.lames I'hillips was the first white settler in 
.\laiedon Township, coming into it one year pritir 
to Mr. Dohie's settlement. Our suhject wa.s mar- 
ried in Lenawee County to Maria Willev, .Inly H, 
]H3«. She was a daughter of Kli Willey. This 
marriage resulted in the hirth of the following 
children: William M.. horn October H, IKiX. is a 
[jrosperous farmer of .\laiedon; Adelaide, born 
August 2, IK 11, married Lewis Bennett of Water- 
ville, Ohio; JIartha A., born June 8, 181;}, died in 
her twenty-lirst year; Laura J., who was born 
^Marcli 4, 18 1.'). married Theodore IJurgess, a farmer 
in Di'lhi Township: ^[argaret L., born January 1, 
18 17, married .Martin Heed of Lenawee County 
and died in her twenty-fifth year; Susan JL, who 
was horn October 20, 1818, married Willis Shaw 
of Delhi Township, a fai-mer. 3Irs. Mari:i Dohie 
died October 20, 1848. 

INfr. Dohie was again married in .Vpril, 18l',l, to 
Eliza McCurdy of Meridian Township, a ilaughter 
of Thomas McC'urd.\'. Three children are the fruit 
of this union — Frances ('., who was born .May 11. 
1852, w.as married to AVilliam McHae t>f Wallace- 
burg. Canada; Alexander J., who was born I^Larch 
1;"), 18..')."), is a farmer in Alaii'don Township: .\iny 
15., was born August 12. 18(50, :Mrs. Kliza Dohie 
died in 1862 and our subject wjis again married to 
-lustine Williams, a daughter of John Williams, of 
this townshii). Mrs. Dohie was, prior to her mar- 
riage, a successful school-teacher of live years' 
exijerience. Six children were born from this 
marriage. They are Ilibbard J., whose natal day 
is June !), 186;'), and who is his father's a-ssistant in 
conducting the farm: (Jertrudc. who was born 
Jidy 17. 18(18, and died in early childhood; Allie 
who was born ^lay 30, 1871, .and died in inf.ancy; 
.Mberlra 1).. Iiorn .lune 24. 1871, who is a highly 
accomplished young lady with much musical talent; 
Flora, Ixn-n November 1. 1876, and a student in 
the Mason schools, and Retta wlio w.'ts born Dec- 
ember 18, 1883. 

Mr. Dobie is not a member of any church. He 
w.ns, however. l)rouglit up by .Scotch l'reshyt<'rian 
parents an<l h.as lost none of the (jualities, uK>r;dl\-, 



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that distinguish that sect. In politics he is a 
stanch Democrat, but lias never taken a ver3' act- 
ive interest in politics. It is said that Mr. Dobie 
helped "frame" the first house ever erected in Lan- 
sing. He is a self-made man in every sense that term 
implies. As the years ha\'e passed he has accum- 
ulated a handsome fortune in his agricultural work 
here. Elsewhere in this volume appears a view of 
his estate and the princiiial buildings, which are all 
excellent and conveniently arranged. A great 
reader, he keeps well-informed on all the current 
topics of tlie day. 



HARLES L. CARL. The subject of our 
, _ sketch is one of the most enterprising young 
^^' farmers in Ingham County. He owns and 
occupies a fine place, comprising two hundred and 
seventy acres on section 5, Meridian Township. 
His parents, Isaac and Jane (Towar) Carl, were na- 
tives of Maine and New York respectively. The 
natal day of the former was August 2, 1815. lie 
died in this township January 15, 1879. Our sub- 
ject's mother was born June 25, 1830. Her decease 
occurred July 27, 1883. 

Isaac Carl came to Michigan in 1844, and bought 
one hundred and twenty acres of the farm now 
owned by his son, this being a dense forest at that 
time. He was a self-made man in every respect, 
but at the time of his death had acquired a good 
property. He stood high in the estimation of the 
people of Meridian Townshii),and was at one time 
Supervisor, having lieen elected to the office by 
the Republican party, to which he adhered. Our 
subject was born on the old homestead, in this 
township, January 28, 1859. His youthful days 
were divided between an attendance at school and 
work on the farm. He progressed far enough in 
his educational pursuits to obtain a teacher's cer- 
tificate, wliich he did in 1877. He then taught 
nine terms of school in his locality and w.is suc- 
cessful, gaining a reputation for faithful and ef- 
ficient work. His growing farm interests, however. 



obliged him to leave teaching and to devote his 
time exclusively to the management of his estate. 
He inherited sixt\' acres of the old homestead, 
which gave him a good start in life, but he has had 
the good sense and ambition to increase his pos- 
sessions by individual efforts. '^Vhen only twenty- 
one years old he bought the remaining sixty acres 
of the old homestead, and two years later he 
added forty acres more to the estate, and when 
twenty-nine years of age he purchased another 
farm containing one hundred and ten acres. All 
this land is lying in one tract. 

Our subject has made most of the imiirovements 
which his farm boasts. Financially he is in a pros- 
perous condition that any young farmer of his 
age might envy. Mr. Carl lost his mother by a 
dreadful catastrophe, she having been instantly 
killed in a collision on the Rome, Watertown iV 
Ogdensburg Railroad, Julj- 27, 1883. Our subject 
was married to Aliss Corla Dennis, March 27, 
1884. The lady is a daughter of Leonard Dennis, 
of Wheatfield Ttiwnship, Ingham County, he 
being one of the prominent farmers of that local- 
ity and having located there from Wayne County, 
N. Y. Three children have lilest the union of 
our subject and Ills wife. They are: Leonard, 
who was born August 22, 1885; Leta, September 
28, 1887; and RoUin, September 23, 1891. Mr. 
Carl is a member in good standing of the Masonic 
lodge at ( )keiiios. For a time he was Secretary 
of his fraternity. In politics he is thoroughly in- 
(kiiendent, always voting for men known to rep- 
resent the best interests of the people. He is in- 
terested in the current events of the day and keeps 
well posted as to the world's history. 



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, LIVER EARL. Nothing is more conducive 
to the pros|>erity of any county than llie 
settlement within its borders of a commu- 
nity of iiraetieal, industrious and progressive farm- 
ers. They reinforce every good movement, and 
are the main factors in the development of the in- 
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acter aixl prnliiU-, tlii'v I'stalilisli n ivpiilMlioii for 
square dcaliiit;' and rclialiility wliiiOi in tiiiic forms 
IIk' foimdatioii ii|i<Mi which a Imsiness striicliiri' 
may he raised, and willioiit sueh foundation the 
huihlinii; of liusiness interests Is a vain Ui>k. 

The name whieli appears at tlio head of this life 
reeoi'd, is tiiatof a well-to-do and hiuhly respeeted 
farmer, wliose lieautiful estate of one Inindreil aeres 
lies on section 11. llowcll Township. Livingston 
County. 'I'liis s(ju <>f (Jliver and Lydia (Furger- 
son) Ivul. had his nativity Xoveniher 1. 1H2M. in 
Fulton County, N. Y. The lather, who was a New 
Yorker, was by trade a blacksmith, and died the 
year following; the birth of this son, so that he 
never knew what it w.is to have a father. The 
mother who w.as also a New Y'orker by birth, de- 
eidcd that she could more (easily support and bring 
uy) her six children in the new West, and she there- 
fore came to IMiohigan when Oliver was ten years 
old, and made her home in Oceola Township, Liv- 
ingston County. She passed from earth in 1871, 
and only three of her children are now living, ; 
namely: Robert, wlio makes his home in (ilovers- 
ville, N. Y.; Alfred, of Greenville, Mich.; and our 
subject. 

The usual occupati(jns and amusements of a 
farmer's V)ov, fell to the lot of this little fatherless 
lad. and he early developed true manliness of 
spirit. Starting out in life for himself at the age 
of twelve years, he worked for different neighbors 
and in different ways until 18.02, when the West- \ 
ern fever had settled in his veins, and he started 
in company with six men from this county and 
crossed the plains to California in search of the 
gold mines. One of the party sickened on the way 
and returned home, but the other five reached their 
goal in safety. 

Mr. Karl remained for twelve years in the West- 
ern land, and after mining for eighteen months 
and farming for one year, he purchased a team and 
engaged in sprinkling the streets of Nevada City. 
This business he carried on for six years, and then 
did teaming for three years longer. In the mean- 
while he had taken to himself a wife in the [)ersi)n 
of Miss Klizabeth Davis, daughter of .(ohn and 
Elizabeth (Camiibell) |):i\is. This couple reside<l 
in Nevada Cit\- until isii.'i. and in ((clobei- of that 



year they started U>v New York City. Mr. Karl 
was taken sick while they were on the Sacramento 
River, and had to suspend his journeying until 
February of the next spring. He was not alone in 
this affliction, as his wife and two children were 
also sick, and it cost them ^500 in gold to get back 
to New Y<irk City, comi ting the expenses of their 
jouiiiey and their sickness. 

The husband .and father, left his family in the 
Kastern raeti-opolis and came to this county, where 
he purcha.sed the land upon which he now lives, 
and to it brought his dear ones in .Inly, l«(ll. Ills 
son William is now married to Kmnia Brown, of 
llowt'll Township, a daughter of .John Brown, a 
resident here, and the other .son, John, is at home 
with his parents. Mr. Earl has made his intluence 
felt in this township and county, and is looked 
uiion as one of the leading men in the Republican 
ranks. 



*j EORGE AV. LANGl'ORD, M. D. For the pa.st 
twenty-two years Dr. Langford has been 
\^j^J known as one of the successful physicians 
of Ingham County .and he is still pro.secuting his 
practice at AYilliamston and vicinity. His father, 
Charles W. Langford, a miller l)v trade, was a resi- 
dent of Pennsylvania, but spent his later years in 
Iowa, with his son Charles, and there died. While 
living in Erie County, Pa., he was married tv .Mrs. 
Temperance IMasim, by whumhe had two children, 
(ieoige W., and Daniel \V.. but he had several 
children by a previous marriage. The father of 
Mrs. Langford was a ]\Ir. Palmer who w.as the 
father of three sons and two daughters. 

Dr. Langford was born May IH, I84(t. in luie 
County, Pa., and being without a falher'scare since 
four years of age he grew up under his mother's 
training and stie removed when he was twelve 
years old to Lenawee County, iMich., and here they 
resided until the breaking out of the war. The 
young man who had now just reached his majority 
enlisted in Ci>mpany K., First regiment Jlichigan 
Infantry, and after three months' service and one 



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year at home re-eulisted in Company I., Eight- 
eenth Michigan Infantry and was in service during 
the remainder of the war. The last nine months 
he was hekl as a prisoner in Castle ^Morgan and 
three months of that time he was in the prison 
hospital at C'ahaha, Ala. 

The academic education of this gentleman was 
taken at Fairtield Village in his county and he 
afterward spent two years in college at Adrian, 
in which city he studied medicine with Drs. Rhj'ud 
and Allen and graduated from the medical depart- 
ment of the I'nivcrsity of Ann Arbor in the spring 
of 18Gy. Besides taking the regular course he 
also carried on six extra "quizes. "After gradua- 
tion the voung medical man settled in Belle Oak 
in May, IHtJS*, and in September of the same j'ear 
he was married on the 29th of that month to Ar- 
villa R. Spariiawk, daughter of Noah Sparhawk a 
A'ermonter, who removed to Ohio at an early day 
and finally settled in Adrian, Mich., where he re- 
sided at the time of his daugiiter"s marriage. To 
the Doctor and his wife have come five bright and 
beautiful children, namely: Myrtie M., Theron S., 
M.aliel K., Maud, and (ieorge W., all of whom are 
still under the parental roof. Theron and Myrtie 
are graduates of Williamston High School, Myrtie 
is instructor of the intermediate department at 
Webbervillc. Theron was elected president of his 
class before graduation and was awarded the high- 
est scholarship of his class and on examination at 
the State Normal he was admitted to the Junior 
class. 

In 1872 Dr. Langford removed to Webber ville 
where he practiced his profession until November, 
1H89, when he came to Williamston. He owns 
eighty acres of land in Ingham County and an 
equal number of acres in Livingston County, and 
has a drug store and residence at Webberville be- 
sides a home and real estate in AVilliamston. He 
is a member of the State Medical Association and 
is a Republican in his political views but never 
as|)ires to iiublic office. For eleven years in suc- 
cession he was I'ostmaster at Webberville and for 
the same length of time carried on a drug store 
there. 

Dr. and i\Irs. Langford are valued members of 
the Baptist Church and the Doctor is a blaster 



Mason and a member of the Grand Army of the 
Republic holding ortieial position in tlie latter or- 
ganization. At Webberville he was successively 
Surgeon, Commander and Cha|)lain of the Post, 
and he now holds the position of Surgeon in the 
Post at AVilliamston. 






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SO~ 







ENRY B. APPLETON. The Appleton fam- 
ily is perhaps among the best known and 
thoroughly respected families of Hamburg 
Township and our subject lives in the midst 
of that beautiful lake region on section 2, not far 
from the lake which bears his name. His father, 
Isaac W. Appleton, was also a farmer and was born 
in New Jersey in 1807. Having received an ordi- 
nary education and having grown to manhood, he 
came in 1830 to Michigan and took from the Gov- 
ernment a farm of one hundred .and twenty acres 
in (ueen Oak Township. This land was entiiely 
covered with woods, and in order to establish a 
home tiie young man had to cut logs and build a 
log house. He continued to make improvements 
and early set out orchards, as he had come from a 
liart of our country where fruit-raising was con- 
sidered a necessary and legitimate part of a farmer's 
work and he found in Michigan a climate and soil 
suitable for its prosecution. 

Isaac Appleton sold his property in Green Oak 
Township in 1843 and coming to Hamburg Town- 
ship took one hundred acres, to which, in a few 
years, he added forty acres more, all of it on section 
2. He found this all a dense forest and went to 
work to improve it, building a house, barns and 
other necessary adjuncts to a farm. He had been 
married in 1832, soon after coming to Michigan, to 
Lydia Brower, daughter of Henry and Lydia 
(Dra|)er) Brower, who came from New York. Their 
daughter Lydia was the fourth in their family of 
nine children, of whom five are now living. She 
was born in Cayuga County, N. Y., in 1811. Is.aae 
and Lydia Appleton were earnest and consistent 
members of the Methodist Church and in his polit- 
ical views he was a supporter, first of the Whig and 
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To I.s'iiK' and I.yilia Applcton wcio liorii twosons 
1111(1 tlui'i' (lauirliti'is, four of wlioiu ari-now liviiiir. 
Till' only cliild that liasht-en lost tlifni liy doatli was 
a son wliu fiiti'icil till' arniv and was killrd at 
Spottsylvania, May 12, l<S(il. Our siilijcct was the 
younii'i'sl of this family. Iii'ini>' horn in 1X4."). One 
of the daiighteis of .Mrs. Lydia .Vpiih'ton was the 
tiisl white tVnialc child horn in (iri'cn Oak Town- 
slii[), liavinj^ had hci- advent. Noveiiiher 2(>. 1M.'53. 
This daugliter is now the wife of M. II. .Mexander 
of Wohster. IMieli. 

The snhject of our sketch had limited opjjortun- 
ifies for an education and was eighteen y*iiirs of 
aijo when he went into the army. At the clo.sc of 
tiie war. in 1865, lie undertook the management of 
his father's farm on shares and .soon purchased 
forty acres and afterward the remainder of the 
farm and made a home for his parents from that 
time on. In is.so he i)urchased seventy acres on 
section 2, thus completing a handsome estate. On 
January 1. 1868. he was united in marriage with 
Delia llahcock, daughter of William and Martha 
(Kenney) I$al)cock. "Sh: Hahcock w.as a native of 
C'anastota. X. Y.. and hy his first wife, Martha 
llohart. he had six children and by his second wife, 
^lartha Kenney. he had five, of whom Delia is the 
third in age, heing born in 1851. To Mr. and 
.Mrs. Ai)pleton have been horn three children — 
Carrie, wlio was a teacher for several years and then 
married Stephen A'aii Ilorne; Frankie who was 
graduated at Brighton has taught one term, and 
.Samuel Bert who lives at home. The mother of 
these children is an active member of the Congre- 
gational Church at Hamburg and the father pro- 
minently identified with the Kniglits of the Mac- 
cabees and the (irand Army of the Republic at 
Howell. In January, 186-1, Mr. Appleton enlisted 
in Com|)Mny K, >iinth Jlichigan Infantry and was 
.sent to Chattanooga. He was under (Jen. Thomas 
during the Atlanta campaign after which he re- 
turned to Chattanooga and from tlicre went to 
Nashville to guard the military prison. 

In 1882 Isasic and Lydia Ai)i)Ieton had the great 
and unusual felicity of celebrating the golden an- 
niver.sarv of a harmonious wedded life, and the 
following year the aged wife w.i.s bereaved of her 
husband. She is now a lady in vigorous health 



and full of activity and usefulness. She is notal)le 
as a needle-woman and since 1 88:5 has devoted her- 
self largely to the use of her needle and has made 
over one hundred quilts. She hasone (piilt which 
contains twenty-nini^ hundred and ten pieces. She 
still has her natur.al teeth in an excellent state of 
presei vation .and never has used glasses, although 
she has now rounded out her foiu-score years. 
I'pon the farm is a beautiful willow tree, live feet 
through, which Isaac Appleton brought to his place 
as a (ish stiinger and after thus using it, stuck it 
in the ground, where it has grown and tlourished 
for many years. 



yjfe>ILLIA]\I W. WOOD is a retired farmer 
/ living on section 10, of L'nadilla Township, 
WW Livingston County. The name at the 
head of this sketch is that of a pioneer whose .a.s,so- 
ciations from an early date have been with the 
progress and advancement made b\' his State. His 
father was Abner B. Wood, a native of Massachu- 
setts and a blacksmith by trade, although late in 
life he devoted himself to farniing. He served as 
a soldier in the War of 1812. t)iir sui)ject's mollu'r 
was Lucy B. (Warren) Wood, a native of IIami)toii, 
X. Y., where her marri.age took place, after which 
they came to ^lichigan in 1836, and settled on 
section 10, l'nadilla Township, on the western half 
of the section, the country being oak openings in 
this locality. 

At the time of our subject's parent's advent 
into this vicinity there were but thirteen votei-s in 
the townshi|). The father built a log house and 
began the work of clearing off his farm. There 
were then scattered bands of Indians in the Slate, 
chief among whom wiis Old Toag and his tribe. 
Mr. Wood Sr. supplemented the work of his farm 
by what he could earn at his trade for several 
years after coming here. They lived to a good 
old Age, the mother p.assing away in 1869, at the 
age of seventy-three veal's, and the father in 1871. 
at the age of ninety years. They were the iiarents 



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of five boys and two girls. Three of the sons are 
now living. Our suliject's mother was a member 
of the Methodist Episcoi)al Cliurch, while his father 
was of tiuaker parentage. He was a Whig in early 
days and later a Republiean. He was appointed 
Sealer of Weights and Pleasures iu his townsliip 
An energetic, ambitious man, he got his farm al- 
most entirely cleared off before his death. 

He of whom we write is the second child in order 
of age and was born Jane 17, 1817, iu what is now 
Wyoming County, N. Y. He received a common- 
school education and in his young manhood 
learned the carriage-maker's trade and pursued 
this occupation until he came to Michigan in July, 
1836, when he made his home withliis father, help- 
ing him on the farm for three years. He then re- 
turned to New York State and for six months 
worked in a machine shop. 

In 1843 Mr. Wood was married to ^Miss Persis 
M. Myler, a daughter of James and Ray (Buckle) 
Myler, residents of New York, but later settling in 
Michigan. Mrs. Wood was born in New York 
State in 1827, and having received a good common- 
school education, after coming here and after her 
marriage, taught school for a term. On returning 
to ^lichigan they located eighty acres of land on 
section 10, Unadilla Township. It was partially 
improved at the time and our subject added a 
small frame house where he lived for two years 
and then got possession of the homestead, living 
there until the death of his parents. He still owns 
this i)lace, which comprises one hundred and forty 
acres. He has cleared off forty acres and built the 
residence which the family now occupy and which 
is botli comfortable and commodious. His son 
now carries on the farm, Mr. Wood having retired 
from active work. Mrs. Wood died in July, 1849. 
She was the mother of two children, one of whom 
is now living, a daughtei-, Mola A., who is the 
wife of S. T. Wasson, and a resident of this town- 
ship, having one child. Our subject again mar- 
ried in 18.')1. the lady of his choice being Miss 
Marsjaret jNIyler, a sister of the former wife. She 
was bom in June, 1831, in New York. By this 
mariiage our subject and his wife are the parents 
of six children, all now living. The}' are Lucy 
Jane, Mary Elvira, Persis ^L, AVilliam R., Warren 



and Henry M. The eldest daughter is the wife of 
Freeman B. Decker, lives in Lake City Mich., and 
is the mother of two children; Mary is the wife of 
Fred Daniels, they live at Gregory and have two 
children; Persis I\L is the better-half of Elmer 
Bialey and lives in this township. She also has 
one child; William R. married l-llsie Fick and lives 
on the home farm. She is the mother of three 
children; Warren resides in Oregon and Henry M. 
lives at home. 

Our subject is a member of the JMasonic order. 
He has given his children good educational advan- 
tages. They have all been teachers in tliis county. 
Politically, first a Wliig. later our suliject liecamea 
Republican. He has been School Inspector several 
terms and was elected Supervisor but resigned his 
position. He was also Township Clerk for two 
terms. For the past ten years Mr. Wood lias lieeu 
much afflicted with rheumatism. 



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■i^jEORGE G. PERRY. Prominent in agricul- 
tural, educational and church circles is this 
enterprising farmer, in whose career may 
lie found an illustration of the worth of good 
principles and habits of industry, and he is giv- 
ing to his children the best inheritance — the ex- 
ample of a good father and such educational ad- 
vantages as will fit them for the higher spheres of 
usefulness. He is a son of Adam and Isabelle 
(Giddings) Perry, and his grandfather, Jacob 
Perry, who was born in Warren County, N. J., 
was a son of Reuben Peny, of Dutch origin. 

Jacob Perry came from New Jersey to the Wol- 
verine State in 1830, and made his home in 
Oakland County. He traveled with a four-horse 
team, being four weeks on the road, and purchased 
upon Ills arrival one hundred and sixty acres, 
which he at once reclaimed from the forest and 
placed under improvement. He was an active 
memlier of the [Methodist Eipiscopal Church for 
sixty-five years and lived a godly life up to his 
death at the venerable age of ninety-six. 

Tlie grandmother of our subject bore the maiden 
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New Jcrscv .•111(1 lived to ii'iir ciirlit sons .■iiul two 
(laiiirliti'is. and all of tlu'sc cliildivii survived to 
exceed the asie of sixty years and to lieconie lie;ids 
of families. Our subjeet's father was horn .hine 
2. lUdt, in Warren County. N. .1.. and in 1828 
came to Michigan liy way of Erie Canal and Lake 
Krie, and upon his arrival in Oakland 'rowiisliii). 
Oakland County, he enlered eiirhty acres of land 
on section 21, which he afterward incre.'ised toone 
hundred and twenty acres. He lived in Kenton 
for about twelve years and died March (!, 1889, 
having coiniileted four-score years and six. 

The mother of our subject was born in the 
town of Chili, Conn., and was the daughter of Al- 
nian and Lola (Miller) (liddings, who in the earl}' 
d.tys removed to Monroe County, N. Y., where 
tiieir daughter met and married Jlr. Perry. Mr. 
(iiddings served in the War of Inde]jcndence and 
also in the conflict of 1812, and came to Michigan 
about the year 1828, and here he made his home 
in Oakland Township, Oakland County, and later 
settled on Bald Mountain, near I'ontiac, where he 
entered land and improved one hundred and sixty 
acres of fine land, which he made his home until 
he was called from earth at the age of sixty-one. 
He was an old-fashioned Whig in his political 
views and a man of stanch loyalty to his jiarty 
and his country. Four stms and two daughters 
comi)rised his household. His daughter. I.sabelle, 
died at the age of seventy-six, four years before 
the decease of her husband. Her .seven childi-en 
are: Sarah, Lola, George (1. (our subject ), Lester 
X., Mary S., Ira (;. and James. 

The birth of our subject occurred in O.-ikland 
Township, Oakland County, this State, Octoiier 
21, 18;5;i, and there received such educational .ad- 
vantiiges as could be found in the district schools, 
and so well did he improve the op))ortunities thus 
furnished that he prepared himself for teaching 
and imrsued that work for tliiitecii \cmis in Oak- 
land and Livingston Counties, lie was elected 
Township School Insjiector when oiil\ twenty 
yeai-S old. and lie well ])erforincd the duties of th;it 
otlice. Wliile teaching he devoted himself to fann- 
ing during the suinmers, working by the month 
an<l on .■iharc-;. 

In 18o8 the vouny; man had accumulated some 



means by industry and frugality, and he purciiased 
eighty acres of land where he now resides, on sec- 
tion 23, Tyrone Townshiii. This land he lias cleard 
of the forest trees and i>l;ice<l in a good st-ate of 
cultiv.'ition. and from it he has won rich crops. 
.Since th;it first purchase he has added some sixty 
acres, and upon it all he ha-s carried on a succe.ss- 
ful farming business. He also raises lior.ses and 
hogs, and has a good reiiulatioii in this part of 
agricultural work. He served for six or .seven 
years as Townshi|) Inspector, and one term as .Jus- 
tice of the Peace. His political views are in accord 
with the platform of the Democnitic party, and 
during the war he was known .as a war Democrat. 
He enlisted in the army. Inil was never mustered 
in on account of his having lo.st the .second finger 
on his right hand. He is an earnest advocate of 
all inov<'meiits which tend to temperance and mo- 
rality, and for ten years jjast has stauchly stood In' 
the cause of prohibition. 

The marriage of Mr. Perry and ^H.ss Mary Petty 
took i)hice October 23, 18.j(). This lady is .a daugh- 
ter of .Jo.seph and Esther (Steele) Petty, natives of 
Pennsylvania, who came to Oakland County in 
1849, traveling by team and wagon, and p.i.*siiig 
four weeks upon the road. She was born in "Sit. 
Bethel, Hinitington County, Pa., October 13, 1833, 
and her parents both passed from earth in Kenton 
Township, in 1888, within eight weeks of each 
other. They lirought to maturity two sons and 
four daughters, whom they trained in the Chris- 
tian faith, both lieing Baptists iu their religious 
views and connection. Joseph Petty was the son 
of -lolin and Mary (Sherman) Petty, wliosc father, 
Jonathan Petty, of iS'ew .Jersey, w.as of German 
oriijin. Mrs. Perry's father was a stanch Demo- 
crat in his political views. 

The home of our subject was well tilled with 
children, as he and his good wife had a full dozen, 
and nine of them are still living, namely: Xel.son 
.v.. Emma Eliza, Etfie, Carrie, .Mice, Nettie, .lames 
J., Krank W. and Josephine M. 

Our subject and his wife are connected with the 
Conijregational Cliurch, in who.se .service he has 
licen a Di'acon for some ten veal's, and he has alst) 
siii)erintended it>< Sund.ay-school for the same 
leiiiTlh of time. Their children have been care- 



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fully trained in the faith and graces of the Chris- 
tian religion, and to them have lieen granted by 
their jjarents excellent oiiportunities for education. 
His oldest son was graduated witli lughest honors 
in the classical department of the High School al 
Fenton, and the others are all enjoying the liest 
advantages. Eliza is now the wife of A. F. Stone, 
and Effie is Mrs. Adam Miller, while Carrie has 
become the wife of Allen Dunton. In social and 
domestic life Mr. Perry is considerate and courte- 
ous, in business dealings honorable and straight- 
forward, and his reiiutation in every respect is 
most excellent. 



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I EORGE ABBOTT. There is nothing which 
i_— more effectually and thorouglily builds up a 
^J( community than the residence in its midst 
of families of broad culture, thorough education 
and true refinement. The influence of education 
is not limited to those who intentionally put 
themselves in the wa>' of acquiring it, but it per- 
meates the atmosphere audits blessmgs ai-e uncon- 
sciously absorbed by all who come in contact with 
those whose aims are high and who have a love for 
the better things of life. Such an influence is ex- 
erted in this community l)y the family represented 
in this sketch. 

Mr. Abbott's beautiful farm of two lumdred acres 
situated on section 2;'), 1 laudy Township, Livingston 
County, is one of the ttuest pieces of land in the 
county, and is in splendid condition. Not onh' the 
laud but all its ap|iurtenauces are first-class, and the 
orchard, the farmhouse and the barn are models of 
perfection. We are pleased to present a view of this 
fine place on another page. The fine stock which is 
raised byMr. Abbott is worthy of the pride which he 
feels in it and all admire his Clydesdale and Perche- 
ron horses. Shorthorn and Uuriiam cattle and fine 
wool sheep. 

In Unadilla Towushi)). Livingston County, 
Mich., Mr. Abbott was' born in 184(1. His i)arents, 
Syrenius and Susan (Chipman) .\bbott, were 
natives of Genesee County, N. Y., who came to the 



, Wolverine State with their parents and were here 
united in man-iage. The paternal grandparents of 
oiir subject were Abraham and .lulia (Brown) 
Abbott, who came to Michigan among the pioneers 
and settled in Unadilla Township, this county, 
where they si)ent the remainder of their days. The 
maternal grandparents were Fitch and ALary (Spaf- 
ford) Chipman, who came to this State, and made 
their home for the remainder of their lives in Una- 
dilla Townsliip. They had a large and interesting 
family. 

Syrenius and Susan Aljbott had a family of six 
children, only two of whom are now in this life, 
namely: our subject and his sister Sarah. Mrs. 
Mapes. Syrenius Abbott passed from earth Aug- 
ust Lj, IHHy, sincerely mourned by a large circle of 
friends. The early education of George Aljbtilt 
was taken in the district schools of Unadilla Town- 
ship and he remained under tlie parental roof until 
he reached his majorit}', and then started out to 
make his own way in the world. One hundred 
and sixty .acres of finely improved land was his 
first i»urcliasc, and this was in Unadilln Townshij). 
He lived on that farm until 1.S85, when he removed 
to his present home. For two years lie served the 
township of L'nadilla as Tieasurer while he made 
his home there. 

In 1870 Mr. Abbott wooed and won as his wife. 
Miss Josephine, daughter of Ashel and Prudence 
(Uyer) Button. Mr. Dutton was a n.ative of New 
York, and his wife was of New .Jersey birth, but 
both had removed with their parents to this State 
before reaching maturity, and their marriage took 
place in Unadilla Townsliip. Their six children 
are — JIary J., Mrs. A. Jackson; Josephine, Mrs. 
Abbott; Frank; Alina, ^Irs. Frank Sjiringstead; 
Pru<lence A.; and Charles. Their mother passed away 
in 1886, but the father still lives on the old home- 
stead, and is well known throughout the county as 
a progressive farmer and a stanch Re})ubliean. 

To Mr. and Mrs. Abbott has been born one son, 
William E., who is still beneath the parental roof 
and in whose future career they take the deejiest 
interest. They are giving him a tlK)rongh and 
liberal education and wisely preparing him for the 
responsibilities of life. He has had the benefit of 

i the best of home training and influences, as this is 



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RESIDENCE OF G . A . ABBOTT , 5EC.25., HAN DY TP. ., LIVl NG5T0N CO. MICH. 




RESIDENCE OF DAVID 0. S M ITH , 5EC.5.,MAR(0 M TP, LIVINGSTON CO. MICH. 



I'oirriJAri" and I'.ioci; ai'Iiicai, Ai.i;r.M. 



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one of till' host fnmilics in tlii' luiinlv. .Mr.-*. Ahliotl 
Ls possessed of a iiroad and eonipicliensive ednea- 
tion. and lias musical talent wliicli has liecn lii<;hl\ 
eullivated, liotli in the voeal and instiuniental 
lines. She is nniversall\- esteemed and admired for 
lioth abilitv and eulliire. 



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AVID (). SMITH. A beautiful and taste- 
ful home placed in attractive .surround- 
(§^^' ings and furnished according to tlie dic- 
tates of a cultured mind is an educative 
(lower in any community. The " new education " 
of which so much is said nowadays, teaches that 
we learn through the eye, and that a lesson which 
is agreeably taught h.as double force. For that 
reason we hold to the truth with which we opened 
this par.agraph. Much more does such a luniic 
educate when this home affords within its walls an 
exhibit which has been collected by one who en- 
joys the deep secrets of nature, and loves to hunt 
out her strange ways and works. Such a collec- 
tion of rocks and fossils and other interesting 
curiosities as has been collected iiy Mr. Smith leads 
the minds of the young and old alike above the 
sordid commonplaces of our daily life. 

Mr. Smith, who operates a farm in Marion Town- 
ship, Livingston County, and who is also the man- 
ager of a sawmill and thresher, was born in Erie 
County, Pa., March 10, 1834. His father, Nel- 
son A. Smith, who also followed agriculture, 
was born in New York in 1812 or 1813. Having re- 
ceived a common-school education, he started out 
when about twenty years old to work for others 
liy the month, and soon built up a good standing 
among men as a responsijjle young man in wlmni 
reliance could be placed. 

Nelson Smith was married about the year 1832 
to Angeline IJeach, the flrst-Iiorn ciiild of !>yinan 
Heach, a New Yorker. This daughter was born in 
1811 or 1815. Nelson Smith came to Alichigan first 
in 1835 and after locating two liundied acres on 
sections 8 and 17 in .Alarioii Townsliip, returned to 



i'eiinsylvania for one .\'ear, and then removed 
with ids family t<j the West, traveling liy means 
of wagon and ox-team. 

One daughter and three sons crown the union of 
Nelson and Angeline Smith, and they gave to their 
first-born the name of David. The mother, who 
died in 1888, was a Universalist in her religious 
belief. The father was a pnjrainent man in his 
township, active in his relations to the Democratic 
party in which lie was a decided favorite, as is 
shown by his having been an incumlient of the 
office of Supervisor for eight years. 

Our subject received only a limited education, 
as the necessities of the farm did not permit of his 
attending school for as long a term of years as his 
parents desired. He remained with them until he 
was twenty-seven j'ears old, faithfully assisting 
them in their efforts to put their farm in flrst-class 
condition, and to make it^ highly productive. In 
1861 he came on to the farm of one hundred and 
sixty acres which he and his father had purch.ised 
together, and upon which aliout forty .icres w.as 
cleared when he moved upon it. In 1865 he had 
been so prosperous as to add tt;> his estate one 
hundred and sixty acres on section 4, and twenty 
.acres in Howell Township. 

It v\as in 1862 that this young man was joined 
in marriage \vith the young lady of his choice. 
She bore the maiden name of Sar.ah E. Bailey, and 
is the oldest child of Charles and Mary E. (Cole- 
man) r.ailey, who had come from Orange County, 
N. v., where this daughter w.as born June 26, 
1843. She came to Michigan with her parents 
when she was four yeai-s old. Four children have 
blessed her union with Mr. Smith, namely: Nina, 
who died at the age of eleven years; Bailey B., 
Edward L. and Elvia. The two sons have been 
for some time in the far Northwest, Bailey having 
<rone there about four years ago, and both making 
their homes in Thurston County, Wash. Elvia is 
the wife of William Carlan, who lives in AVyoin- 
ing, about sixty miles west of Laramie, slie is the 
mother of two daughters — Sarah II. and Helen B. 

t)ur subject was reared upon a farm over which 
tlie Indians were wont to travel when going to 
Detroit for Government pay and supplies, .and 
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■with the red man and his papooses. This gentle- 
man is very fond of liunting, .nnd has made several 
trii)S for this purpose to the Northern Peninsula, 
and two trips to the Roeky Mountains, lieing accom- 
panied by his wife to tliat region in 1888. His first 
trip, which lie took in 1886, w.as in comi)any with a 
Mr. Charles G. Jewett. and they left Howell. Oc- 
tober 18, 1886, traveling to Omaha from Chicago 
by the Chicago & Northwestern, then took the 
Union Pacific Railroad to Anrora.Wyo., where they 
were joined by Mr. Carlan.Mr. Smith's son-in-law, 
and they with others made up a [larty which went 
about one hundred miles north and west. Here 
they were joined by Mr. Reed and a man to look 
after the camp, and they went about fifty miles up 
the Platte river, near where the Sweet Water emp- 
ties. They were gone four days and shot .seventeen 
deer and many antelopes. While ui)on this excur- 
sion they were caught in a blizzard and for thirt\- 
six hours their horses were not unsaddled, and 
they all came near losing their lives by cold and 
starvation. 

In 1888 Mr. .and Mr. Smith left liome in Sep- 
tember and sought the same locality, and were in 
Wyoming for three months. He has many fine 
trophies of his skill as a hunter, including deer 
heads and the skins of animals. He takes special 
pride in showing the skin of a grizzly bear which 
he shot on the Platte River, Itelow the Sweet 
Water. They have many very nice specimens of 
rocks and fossils which they gathered in the West. 
Their beautiful home, which was erected at a cost 
of l^.o.dOO, is conceded to be the handsomest house 
in Clarion, and the gracious hosiiitality which is 
the animating spirit <if this home adds a charm 
wliich no material externals can ever tjive. 



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ANIEL BOOXK SMITH. Although not 
one of the first pioneers to break road and 
ground in Leroy Township, spying the 
country out iis did his illustrious prede- 
cessor of Kentucky fame, our subject was one of 
the few who made the country accessible to those 



who came after. He is a native of New York State 
and was born November "i.'i, 183.5. He is a son of 
Uriah and Lavantia Smith, lioth of wlunn were 
natives of New York City. On the paternal side 
he is of English ancestry. His great-grandfather 
.Smitli was a Revolutionary soldier. 

Our subject is the oldest .son in a family of nine 
children born to his parents. Two of these only 
are now surviving — Daniel, of whom we write, and 
Rol)ert. He was but nine months old when with 
his parents he made the ditticult juurney from New 
York State to the wilderness of Michigan. They 
came at once to Ingham County and the family 
located in White Oak Township, being among the 
earliest settlers in that locality. Here our subject 
was reared to manhood amid scenes of the most 
(>rimitive pioneer life. The work of his early youth 
was that required of most i)ioneer boys. They did 
not enjoy many educational advantages but were 
the founders of the present state of society in 
which the youths have but to feel an inclination 
to learn to receive the most advanced metiiods of 
education!. Their first home was a log cabin and 
it was a great event when any of the neighbors 
drove the ox-team through the woods to spend a 
friendly hour. 

On attaining manhood our subject, like most 
30ung pioneers, felt that it would be a great ad- 
vantage to him to have a home of his own, for 
marriage then was conducted as much as now upon 
economic principles. A p.air of hands in the house 
and a bright smile and encouraging word were 
worth a great deal to the sturdy young farmer who 
had so much work looming up before him on the 
outside. Mr. Smith was married July 4, 1861, his 
bride being Miss Sarah A. Riggs, a daughter of 
Amos Riggs, and an early settler in Ingham County. 
The young couple began life together with a strong 
determination to make the best of their position 
and as is always the case under such circumstances, 
they succeeded beyond their most sanguine hopes. 
By this union there were two children, both, how- 
ever, jiassed away. 

Mr. Smith is the owiici- of two hundred and 
thirty acres of land which is under a high state of 
cultivation. This is unincumbered and well im- 
proved, bearing a good class of buildings. The 



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present comfortable estate on which he lives is 
owner! entirely hy our subject and is the result of 
his untiring effort*:. Socially Mr. Smith is pro- 
gressive and favors every measure that tends to 
the financial or social betterment of the community. 
Mrs. Sarah A. Smith died .lunc *2it, 188fi,.and our 
subject thereon w.as a second time united in mar- 
riage, his bride being Miss Dora INIiendorf. Their 
nuptials were celebrated April 14,1887. Our sub- 
ject has witnessed the growth of the country from 
the entrance of the lirst ])i<)neers to the present 
time, when it equals if it does not transcend in 
richness of product all the other States. At the 
time of his coming here there were many Indians 
and wild animals were constantly prowling through 
the woods, their incursions lieing occasions of great 
anxiety to the settlei"s, not that their lives were so 
greatly endangered, but the farmyard stock invari- 
al)l\- suffered from the foxes or bears on the least 
oversight. Mr. Smith is ranked among the most 
important business agriculturists of J^n-oy Town- 
ship and commands the respect and esteem of all 
in the community. 



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i^?RANK R. CRANDAL. In this year of un- 
i=<5*i paralleled crops farmers are all to be con- 
l^ gratulated upon their calling. Nature has 
yielded most liountifully of the best of her pro- 
ducts and the year IHSIl will long remain memor- 
able as one of the most prolific ones in the history 
of the country. Our subject is one of the fortu- 
nate ones who participates in the blessings that 
have been showered uiton his calling this season. 
He owns a fine farm located on section 21, Howell 
Township, Livingston Comity. 

The original of this sketch first saw the light of 
day Xovcmber 15. 1862. He is a sf)n of David F. 
and Caroline (Simmons) Ciandal. who were na- 
tives of Ontario County, N. V. Tlic f.iilu r came 
West in 1856 and settled at Salem, ^\■ashtenaw 
County, this State. I-ater he was engaged in farm- 
ing at Northfleld, and then came to this place in 
1865. Mr. Crnndal, Sr., first purchased thirty 



acres and lived upon his little farm until his 
death, which occurred in 1872. Our subject's 
mother resides with her daughter in HowelL 

He of whom we write is one of a family of four 
children. They are AnnetUi, now Mrs. F. Allen, 
Carrie, Mr.s. Amos Winegar; Frank H.. our subject 
and Fred F. The last named was united in mar- 
riage to ^liss Ro.se Dieterle. Our subject married 
Miss Libby Richmond in December, 1883. Two 
children were tlie fruit of this union — Blanche 
and Tracy. Mrs. Frank R. Crandal died in 1889. 
By a second marriage our subject was united to 
Ella A. Yerkes, April 15, 1890. They are the pa- 
rents of one child, a daughter, whose name is 
Carrie. 

Mr. Crandal, the father of him of whom we 
write was, in his political preference, a Republican, 
advocating the principles of that party on every 
occasion. Socially he was a Mason, and was par- 
ticularly well known throughout the country as 
an exceptionally fine horseman. He was engaged 
much of his time in buying and selling horses", 
dealing largely in those of the finest breed. Our 
subject has always been engaged in farming. As 
a lad he was educated in the district schools, 
during vacations and out of school performing the 
duties that are a jiart of the life of an .agricultur- 
ist. After his father's de.ath, our subject bought 
out the interest of the other heirs, and h.T.s since 
added thirty-live acres to the homestead. He 
i has some very fine stock, keeping graded I'cr- 
choron horses, .as well as cattle, sheep, etc., of fine 
breeds. 
1 Mr. Crandal was intrusted with township hon- 
I ors when very young. In 1886, when but twenty- 
two years of .age he was elected .Justice of the 
Peace, and also luld the ottice of Township Trea.s- 
urer. lie is a popular man with the Republican 
party of his district, and were it his ambition to 
have nuuli higher office, doubtless it would be 
o'ivon him. Socially he belongs to the Knights of 
the Maccaliees. Our suliject has advanced ideas in 
regard to farming, and he makes the laud yield to 
the fullest extent, feeding it liberally in order that 
it may feed him. He has a fine orchard and is also 
engaged in growing small fruit*. He with his 
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Church of the town of Howell. He is one of the 
Stewai<ls uf this body, lie has for llie past six 
years been School Director, anil while so engaged 
has done ellicient Avork for the district. Mr. Cran- 
dal is one of the prominent young men of the 
township of Howell, and his friends have every 
reason to expect of him a prosperous, progressive 
future. 



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EOK(;i-: L. CLARK. What are now uni- 
ersally conceded to be the best families 
of America are those wlio, through genera- 
tions have evinced those sterling cjualities of 
manly worth and womanly virtues which Lave 
helped to elevate the general community, and 
have buiU up that confidence whicli should ever 
exist between man and man, and which must 
prevail if true jn-osperily is to be attained. Sucli 
a family is lliat wliich is represented by our sub- 
ject. 

The gentleman we have just mentioned belongs 
to the firm of J. M. Clark A Co., manufacturers of 
hand and push cars, railroad velocipedes, ware- 
house trucks, baggage barrows and track tools, 
and their estalilishment is situated in .the village 
of Howell, Livingston County. George L. Clark 
is a native of Royalton, Niagara County, N. Y., 
where he first saw the light on Septemlier 15, 
1833. His honored parents, Robert W. and llul- 
dah (Bullock) Clark, were natives of Massachusetts 
and New York resi)ectively. Tlie father was by 
trade a boot and shoe maker, but followed farming 
throughout a considerable ijortion of his life at 
Royalton, N. Y., wiiere he died in 1839. His 
widow long survived him and completed her 
ninety-third year before her spirit took flight to a 
better world on the 18tli of Feliruary, 1890. 

Of the six children of Roliert and Iluldah Clark, 
four are now living — a son, Jud.son, lives in Carth- 
age, 111.; Mrs. J. C. Tucker makes her home in Clari- 
don, N. Y.; our subject is to lie found at Howell, 
as is also his brother, .lolin M., who is a member of 



the firm of J. M. Clark & Co. Robert W. Clark 
was a son of Adam and Polly Clark, l)oth of wliom 
were liorn in Massachusetts. Tliey have a huge 
family, whom they brought uj) on the farm, which 
was situated near IVlliam, Mass. Adam Clark was 
for thirty years a member of the General Court of 
Massacliusetts, and, as this will signify, was a very 
prominent man in the State. He had deep relig- 
ious c<uivictions and was decided in liis support of 
all religious institutions, being an Elder in the 
Presbyterian Cliurcli. 

George L. Chirk liad his early training in the 
home schools, and then attended the Brockport 
Collegiate Institute, continuing there for four 
terms. He then engaged in teaching during the 
winters, exercising his povvers in this direction in 
the counties of Livingston and IMacomb, in this 
State, as well as in New York. It was in the fall 
of 1855 that he came West, and .settled in Howell 
the folhjwing spring. During one season he ac- 
companied a surveying party which went on a 
Government sinvey to Duliith, where they made 
their headciuarters and worked along Lake Supe- 
rior. 

Subsequent to this excursion this gentleman en- 
gaged in the business which now employs his yiowers 
and time, building it up in connection with Mr. 
George Taylor, with whom he remained in iiartner- 
ship for six years, at the end of which time he 
bought out i\Ir. Taylor's interest. At various 
times he has had other partners, and his brother 
first took an interest in the firm in 1872. The 
works cover two lots and they emplov fr()m fifteen 
to thirty men. They have built u\> such a demand 
for their goods that these are shipjied all over the 
LTnited States. 

No event in the life of Mr. Clark has been more 
productive of true hajiiiiucss and genuine pros- 
perity than his marriage, which took place Decem- 
ber 29, 1861. He was then united for life with 
with Miss Sarah L. Axtel, daughter of J. R. Axtel, 
of Howell. Their four children are: Mary, who is 
now Mrs. E. W. Card, of Medina, N. Y., and has 
one child, Margery; Elizabeth I., and the twins, 
Robert W. and Winnifred R.. are unmarried. The 
son, Robert W.. is connected with the Traders' Na- 
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fill- mIkiuI :i yv.w. iiiul nil tlic <'liil(livii :iic al>iiii- 
(ImiiIIv rcwaiiliiia' tlioii' paroiUs for llio care and 
Iraiiiiiiii' wliifli tlii'\' l)i'st()wi'() ii|)(in tliciii in tliuir 
cliildliood. 

Till' i><)liti("il |irt'l'erciici's of 'Sir. Clark liriiig him 
into sympatliy willi llic principles and movements 
of the Ixcp'nlilican party, and he was for some time 
one of the village Trustees. Like his parents, lie 
is an active member of tiie Presbyterian Church , 
and in every walk of life he is esteemed as one of 
the reliable and prominent men of Livingston 
County. His pleasant home is on Mill Street and 
his shop faces on Gi'and Uiver Street. The Clark 
family settled in Massachusetts at an early day. 
having come from England, .and they wei-e all 
through their history in that State .among the 
prominent leaders in all puljlic movements. 



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ILVPvLLS (;. COOL. Were there to l)e a 
reunion of pioneers of Livingston County, 
L'nadilla Township could furnish, we doubt 
not, a larger proportion than almost any other, 
and many would be the experiences and adven- 
tures I'clated by the old-timers that would be of 
thrilling interest to the j'Oinig people of to-d,\v 
and also to the older people as reminiscences of 
similar experiences. lie of whom we write, a 
farmer, whose pl.ace is located on section 6, Un.a- 
dilla Township, Livingston County, is one of the 
old-timers, having come here at an earlj' date. 

Our subject's father was .Tohn Cool, a native of 
Pennsylvania; his mother was Martha (Sutton) 
C'oOl, born in New Jersey, and thej' were farmers, 
and came to ^lichigan in the spiing of 1836, set- 
tling on the place that our subject now occupies, 
the original purch.ase being four humlred and 
eighty acres of land. lie secured it from the (lov- 
eminent and it had never been previously cut b\- 
the [ilow and was as wild as nature allows. 

The father built a log house .and they bcg.an the 
process of making a iiome. There were no roads 
at that time, not even an opening, excepting an 
IiidiMii trial, which was calleil the I'lruad Trail and 



went from Chicago to Detroit. One liad to be on 
one's guard .against the incursions of the Indians, 
not that they wcre'so hostile but that they were sueii 
inveterate thieves aiul beggars. Tliev lia<l also to 
be watchful against the encroachments of the wild 
animals and on going out into the fields the gun 
w.as kept near at hand, for it was not infrequent 
to meet a liear or wolves. There were very few 
neighbors in the locality and very little money 
current. From his original purchase the senior 
Mr. Cool sold off one hundred and sixty acres. 
Before his death he built a good fr.ame house and 
and also barns. He cleared off sixty acres, which 
he cultivated thoroughly. The mother died about 
I wenty years ago and the father twelve > ears ago. 

Our subject is one of six children, three of 
whom, only, are now living. They are, he of 
whom wc write; Harriet, who is now Mrs. Gaylord. 
and Emeline. Our subject's mother was a mem- 
ber of the Christian Church. Politically his 
father was a Democrat and for years before his 
di'ath was a Supervisor and also Highway Com- 
missioner. 

The original of this sketch first opened his eyes 
on the light of day in the .State of Pennsylvania, 
February 17, 1822. He was fifteen years old when 
he came to Michigan, having received a common- 
school education in his native .State. It w.as the 
fashion at that time for boys to do men's work and 
our subject soon was competent to carry on the 
work of the farm. He remained at home until 
twenty -five years of age. 

At the .age above named Jlr. Cool took to wife 
Miss Mary Van Sickle, a daughter of Samuel S. 
Van Sickle, an old jiioneer who came to ^Michigan 
in 1835, and the following year .settled on section 
9, this township. Mr.s. Cool was born December 
16, 1827, in New .lersey. When married the young 
couple settled on the i)lace where they at present 
reside and here they have always lived. They are 
the parents of five children, four of whom are 
now living. Sen^pta .\nn is now Mr.s. Tafl: JIary 
.lane is Mrs. L. Jacobs; Margaret K. is Mrs. Laiig- 
titl. and Ettie K. is Mrs. Mapes. 

On first settling here the gentleman of whom 
we write had an undivided half of eighty acres, 
twenty-eight acres of which w.as im])rove(l. He 



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is now the owner of two hundred and eleven 
acres, of which one hundred and twelve acres are 
under the plow. He has always superintended 
the farm. Mr. Cool is a memljer of the Masonic 
order at Stockbridge and was Master of the same 
for six years. Like every loyal American he has 
taken an interest in politics, casting his vote and 
influence with the Democratic party. He has been 
Townsliip Treasurer for some time. 



f(_^ IRAM B. THOJIPSON. He whose name 
m is at tlie head of this sketch is a farmer re- 
^ siding on section 25, Hartland Township, 
Livingston County. He was liorn in Cato 
Township, Cayuga County, N. Y., September 2, 
1837, his parents being Hiram and Aurelia (John- 
son) Thompson. The former was born in Dutchess 
County, N. Y., in 1799, and was reared in his na- 
tive place until about twenty years of age-, 
at which time he removed to Mentz, Cayuga 
County. He was by occupation a farmer, and had 
a reasonable degree of success attendant upon his 
agricultui-al i)ursuits. Our subject's motlier was a 
native of Connecticut, being born there in 1799. 
She married her husband in Cayuga County, 
N. Y., after whicli tliey located on a farm in the 
same county, and there remained as long as they 
lived. Tlie father died at the age of sixty-seven 
years. The mother was seventy-one years old 
when her decease took place. 

Our subject is one of six children born to his 
parents. There were four daughters and two sons, 
and all grew to maturity, the decease of none tak- 
ing place under sixty years of age. Our subject 
is the youngest child of the family, and was reared 
in his native place. He received his education 
at Auburn, N. Y. He started out for himself at 
at the age of eighteen j'cars. 0))e3ing Greeley's 
injunction to "go West, young man," he went 
into Wisconsin and was there engaged for about 
two years; at the end of wliicli time he returned 
to New York, and remained there until 1868, 
at whicli time he came to tliis township and county. 



He located where he now resides in 1882. By his 
first marriage he became the husband of Helen 
Ross. She was a native of New York State. 
Their marriage took place December 2.5, 1859. 
This union was blessed by tlie advent of four 
children — two daughters and two sons — whose 
names are as follows: Carrie, William, Belle and 
Ross. The first two are deceased. Belle still 
resides at home with her jiaients, while Ross makes 
his home with his uncle. Henr> Holdridge. The 
mother of these children died in Michigan in 1871, 
and was interred at the c«metery at Highland, Oak- 
land County. 

Mr. Thompson was a second time married June 
9, 1875, his bride being Alice .1. Shaw, a native of 
New York, born in Ciiautauqua County, March 25, 
1849. She was reared in the same place with our 
suliject and w.as an old acquaintance. He of whom 
it is our pleasure and privilege to chronicle tlie 
leading facts in outline of his career, is the owner 
of one hundred and twenty acres of fine land 
which is all under cultivation. He engages in 
general farming, and each department is as perfect 
as assiduous attention and unfaltering care will 
make it. His place is well ini|)roved, and bears 
evidence of an intelligent oversight on the part of 
its owner. 

The original of our sketch cast his first vote for 
Abraham Lincoln, and has ever since voted the 
straight Repulilican ticket. Ho has been elected 
to a number of local offices, having been Super- 
visor of the township in 1878 at which time he was 
elected, and h.as continued to hold the otlice for 
eleven years. Althougii he was offered renomina- 
tion at the end ofthat term he refused to accept 
the position feeling that he had done his duty in 
civic afi'airs, and that after so long a service he 
was entitled to rest. Socially Mr. Thompson is a 
Mason, belonging to the Montezuma Lodge of 
New York State, No. 176. He is also a Master 
Mason. All the members of our subject's family, 
excepting himself and another, who is a member of 
the Methodist Cluirch, belong to the Episcopal 
Church. He is liberal in his religious views, will- 
ing to leave the l)elief of others alone if they will 
jiUow him the same privilege. 

Mrs. Thompson's parents were Joseph C. and 



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.TiilieUe (TTowe) Sliaw. They wore iiiUivi's ol 
roiiiiikins C'oiintv. X. V., but liotli dii-d in \"ir- 
uinia. 3Ii>. Tlioinpsoii i;^ tlic liflh cliilil in (nilcr 
of liiitli. and the ^^ecoiid daughter, lliere lieiiiir 
iiiiii' cliiUlien in the family. She heeanie the wife 
<if our subject at Ston\' Creek, \:i. Mi>. Tiioniiji.- 
^on suffered the loss of two Ijrothers, who were 
killed in the lute AVar of the Kebellioii. They 
were by name S(|uire and \\CsU'\. One was killed 
at Cold Harbor, the other at retersliurii;. Our sub 
jeet is now the township receiver for the Mutual 
Insurance Conii)an_\', of Livinuslou County. He 
is a man who enjoys the confidenee and respeet of 
all who know him, it beinj^' a rule with him never 
to assume responsibilities to the detriment of iiis 
own immediate interests, and at the same time to 
discharge conscientiously and perfectly the duties 
of any cnter|irise when in the line of pul)lic work 
prior vate interest, that his judiiincnt dictates Ihat 
he can rightly take upon himself. 






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'AMES li. FKOST. A native of Kngland. 
the advent of our suliject into the world, 
which took place December lo, 1830, was 
\^f^ made more of an official event than had it 
occurred in America. It was recorded in tlie 
parish register and the little stranger w.-us a subject 
for a godfather and a godmother who pledged to 
him a kind and protective oversight. His parents 
were Richard B. Frost and his mother w.a.s .Susan 
(Scott) Frost, a daughter of Edward Scott, a native 
of England. The paternal grandi)arents of oiu- sub- 
ject were large fruitgrowers and dealers. He of 
whom we write was one of si.K children, there be- 
ing five sons and one daughter. Three of the 
sons, namel}': William S., Charles C. and .lames II., 
came to America. 

In 1849 our subject started out foi' tlie land th.it 
promised speedy wealth and honors. He was only 
nineteen years of age when he settled in Oneida 
County, N. Y. on a farm. On his advent into tlie 
State he made his living by working by the day 
or month in the cfiuntrv, sometimes on a farm aiul 



Mimet lines in the timber. Hesirous of seeing still 
another phase of American life, in 1M.51 he came 
to .Michigan and settled in Livingston County, 
where he worked by the month on a farm, siiviiig 
all that he could until in 18/»o he was enabled to 
purchase a trad of land on section 16, Wheatfield 
Township, Ingham County. Some years later Ik- was 
married to I.ydia .Vustin, a daughter of Daniel 15. 
Austin, a native of .Maine, who was an early settler 
ill Livingston County, and finally came to Ingham 
County in 18;)2 where he spent the remainder of 
his life. The mother was born in New York, her 
maiden name being Preston. 

To him of whom we write and his amialile and 
estimable wife came nine children. They are 
Lucella 1... .lames E.. William K.. Celia .V., Walter 
H., Charles IL. .Minnie. Arthur and Elmer. All are 
living at the present time. The eldest daughter 
now reside^ in fJratiot County and is the wife of 
Mr. .John S. Doyle. The next two. sons, arc mar- 
ried and reside in Wheatfield Township. Mr. 
Frost settled on forty acres of land in the first 
place which he l(;ok up from the Oovernment. In 
the usual thrifty English way he has added to his 
original purchase three hundred and twenty-eight 
.acres and has chopped and cleared the place until 
it is an ideal agricultural spot. Besides the farm 
that he at jiresent owns he h.as also given a large 
amount of land to his children. He has erected 
good buildings upon his place and the grove of 
black walnut trees that he has planted and tended 
with such care gives the place its name. The farm 
is one of the finest in the county. 

Our subject has endured hardships and the 
privations of pioneer life, always having teen a 
hardworking man and richly deserving of the 
success that he has made of his .agricultural ven- 
ttu-e. The first team of oxen that were used in 
the township our subject raised. He is certainly 
one of the leading farmers of the township. A 
breeder of Shorthorn cattle and Shropshire sheep, 
Mr. Frost is one of the leading stock-raisei"s in this 
vicinity. Deeply ajiprcciative of the advantages 
that education gives a man, our subject is not spar- 
ing i>{ money or labor in order to give his children 
every chance possible to make themselves thor- 
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Democrat, in his xiolitical following to which he 

has adhcivd from Ihc first, our subject has never 
been an aKi)irant for i)olitical olHce or honors, pre- 
ferring to live the life of an independent farmer. 



, ANFORl ) PARKER. A large and honorable 
number of the men of Oeeola Township, 
Livingston County, liave a record of ser- 
vices to tlie country during the days of the Civil 
War, of which their county feels proud, and whicli 
it is not unlikely will be held as the choicest iieri- 
tage of tlieir descendants. To have helped to 
carry tlie old Hag through those dark days is an 
lionor and will ever be a joy to those who were so 
hai)py to l)e able to respond to the call of our war 
President, lie of whom we now write is one of 
these men. 

The original of this sketcli resides on section 4, 
Oeeola Townshiji. and is a ]iative of Genesee 
County, N. Y., having been born twenty-eiglit 
miles from Buffalo, Alay 3(1, 182.5. His father, Asa 
Parker, a native of New Hampshire, came to Gene 
see County at the age of twenty-five and theie en- 
gaged in farming. He was soon united with 
.Jennie Little, of Genesee County, who died in 
that county in 1827. Two years after her death 
the family came West and made a new home in 
Southfield Townshij). Oakland Ct)unty, being al)le 
to dispose of his New York proiierty for land in 
that place. 

A few years later JMr. Parker removed to AYalled 
Lake, South Lyons Township, where he remained 
for four or five years and improved a farm. He 
tlu'ii came in 1835 to Oeeola Township and took 
up eighty acres of land from the Government. His 
first home here was one which he put up hastily 
and it was a log shanty with shake covering and a 
floor of split bass-wood. He afterward erected a 
log house, cutting and hewing the logs himself. 
He spent his last days with his son our subject, 
and died April 10, 1867 when eighty-three years 
old. He was a Democrat in his political views. 
His good wife died at the age of about foit\ two 



3reai-s, before his removal West. Of their seven 
only two are now living. 

Our subject is the youngest child of his parents 
and was four years old when lie came to ^Michigan. 
His first school days were passed in Oakland Town- 
siiij), where he attended the log schoolhouse in 
Southfield Township and finished liis education in 
Oseola Township. He started out for himself at 
age of eleven years working on a farm for $5 per 
month until he reached the age of nineteen years 
during which time he bought the farm upon 
which he now resides. 

The marriage of our subject was September 16, 
1846, and his liride was Mary Ann, the second 
child in a family of eleven children of D. O. and 
Rachel (Legg) Taft. This lady was born in 
Worcester County, Mass., Ajiril 19, 182SI. There 
she was reared and trained until al)out fourteen 
years old when she came to Michigan with her 
parents. When Mr. Parker located where he now 
lives he had twenty acres of improved ground and 
a log house. He also had a yoke of cattle to work 
wilh and a cow which had lieen given to Mrs. Par- 
ker by her father. Two lovely daughters and four 
manly sons were granted to them. 

The childr':;u of our subject are E. Augusta, who 
is the wife of David ^'an Syckie. a farmer in I'lia- 
dilla Township; Orlando J., who married Florence 
Triimane and is in the drug business in Howell; 
Frank D., who is uniLed in marriage with Sadie 
Smitli, and is in the diy-goods business in Fowler- 
ville; Charley, deceased; EtHe J. .the widow of E. G. 
Emiiler, who was a lawyer in Howell and Emmet 
1)., who resides at home with his father. The 
grandchildren of our subject are four children of 
the Van Syckie household and two children of 
Orlando's. 

Mr. Parker has two hundred acres of well im- 
jiroved land, eighty of which are on section 4, and 
one hundred an<l twenty acres on section 9. The 
latter tract includes the eighty acres entered from 
the (4overnnient by his father. He split every 
rail which has been used U|)(>n the farm and has 
made all the im|)rovenients and set out every tree. 
Tlie commodious and attractive house was put up 
in 1869 at an expense of §3,000 and his barn cost 
■1<70(l. Hi' is doing a general farming business and 




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devotes cousidciMliU' nttciitioii to stuck. Ilch;i> 
two luiiulred lioad of shei']) and otlior stock in 
|)ro|)ortioii. lie is a I\e])idilican in his political 
views and was County Tivasurcr of Liviiiiistoii 
Connty in 1H84 and was Township Treasurer foi- 
one term, besides being a nicml)er of the Hoard of 
lievii'w and School Director for many years. 

.Mr. Parker enlisted Kebinary 2(), lHfi4, in Com- 
pany 1!. Kighth Michigan Inf.'intry. and was taken 
sick wliile still at Flint, Mieh., with a severe attac'k 
of inll.'unmation of the lungs. A.s soon as he could 
travel lie was allowed to come home and u|>on his 
recovery to health joined the regiment .at Warren- 
ton Station, ^'a., and was present during the con- 
llii-ts of the A\ilderness. lie was in the battles of 
Spotsylvania. Harrison Landing, and Cold Har- 
bor, also with the foives that made their r.aid on 
Petersburg, ^'a. He was again taken sick an<l was 
sent home on a furlough and received his honora- 
ble discharge .it Detroit. May 111, IXO.'). 

.Mr. and Mrs. Parker are very useful in the 
Methodist, Kiiiseopal Cluu'ch tt) which they belong 
.-ind for which he gave land when they were en- 
dea\'ering to ei-eet a house of worship. In all 
church juatters he takes an active i)art and was 
Steward for .a number of years and is still one of 
the Trustees. He also gave land for the school- 
honse which stands on the south part of .section 1. 
These instances of his liberality are only charac- 
teristic of the man who is ever ready to lend a 
heli)ing hand in every enterprise which will pro- 
mole the good of the coinmunity. This trait with 
his many other valuable and excellent elements of 
character make him universally esteemed and re- 
spected by his neighbors. 



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r^HoMAs McKi:i;x.\N, 



of the oldest 



lf'(^\ settlers of this county, who has lived here 
since I8;5fi. w:is born in Orange County. N. 
Y., October 30, 1831. His p.arents were .loiin and 
Margaret (Mossy) MeKernan; the father, wlio w.a.s a 
faiiner in Orange Connty. moved to Xortlitield. 
Washtenaw County. Mich., in 1h:!;?. Three years 



iatei- he remo\ed to White Oak Township, thi.s 
county, when this section of Michigan was entirely 
a wilderness. He took from the fiovernment five 
lots of new land and cleared off a good farm. 

I'pon that i)ioneer farm our subject grew to 
maniiood. The common schools of that day were 
somewhat limited in their eurricuhnn but the 
teachers were con.scieutious and devoted; thei)upils 
felt the nee(l of gaining knowledge and the drill 
was thorough and constant. ]\Ir. MeKernan ob- 
tained therein a go(jd, i)ractical education, and 
aftei' leaving school devoleil liiin.self to farming 
for some time. 

The family of .John and .Margaret MeKernan 
consisted of sixteen children, eight sons and eight 
daughters. Two .sons died in the army; Philip, 
who was the Captain of Company 15. Twenty- 
seventh Michigan Infantry, and William, who be- 
longed to Comjiany II. Third Michigan Hegiment. 
Our subject enlisted August 13. 1862, after his two 
brothers had lieen killed. .and became a member of 
the Twenty-sixth Michigan Infantry. Company II. 
and was in the Army uf the Potomac, doing most 
of his lighting in the Second Army Corp.*. He 
passed through the ditt'erent battles in which his 
legiment was eng.aged until he was discharged at 
Washington March 27. 186.5. upon the ground of 
physical disability. He had been in-omoted from 
the ranks of a i)rivatc to the i)osition of a Cor|)oraI 
and afterward to that of Sergeant. 

I'pon his return lK)me Mr. MeKernan again en- 
gaged in agricultural pursuits and remained on 
the fjirm till the fall of 1882. when he was elected 
to the otlice of Sheriff on the Democratic ticket, 
being the first successful candidate on that ticket 
for twenty years. He took the oath of oHlce upon 
New Year's Day 1883, and served for four years, 
after which he retired frtmi active work and has 
since lived in I.ausing at Xo. 605 North AValnut 
Street. To him and his faithful helpmate, who 
was formerly ^Mi.ss ^lary ^Velch. of AVashtenaw 
Connty. four children have been l)orn, three of 
whom, two sons and one daughter, died in infancy. 
The surviving child. Eugene, is now in business in 
Omaha. Neb., and travels for a New York firm. 
While living in White Oak Townslii]i. Jlr. Me- 
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missioner. Socially he is identified with the In- 
dependent Order of Odd Fellow?; and is liigiily 
esteemed wherever known. 

Mr. McKernan has long maintained the reinita- 
tion of a skilled hunter. Probahlj- no man in tliis 
county has shot more deer or other wild game than 
he, and he can say what perhaps no other man can 
trutlifully assert, that he killed one deer witji his 
father's rifle before he liad reached the age of nine 
years. At that time Indians were plentiful and 
were his only playmates, often accompanying him 
on liunting expeditions. He recalls vividly that 
the last three wild turkeys he brought down were 
shot with a ritle wliile the birds were on the wing. 
In connection with this sketch the reader will find 
a lithographic [lortrait of Mr. McKernan. 



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f/_^ ENRY BURKHART, deceased. Among the 
honored and resi)ected citizens of Living- 
ston County, who came here at an early 
\)l§)) day and proved themselves eilicient in pro- 
moting the growth of the colony and developing 
its resources along the lines of agriculture as well 
as in moral, religious and intellectual paths, none 
is worthy of more esteem than he whose name we 
place at the head of tliis paragrai)h. 

Our subject was born Octolier 19, 1820, near Mt. 
Morris, X. Y., and w.as a son of Samuel and Sally 
(.Johnson) IJurkliart, natives of New York. The 
father chose farming as his life work and came to 
Michigan In 1H4(). settling in Cohoctah Township, 
Livingston County, where he entered and improved 
a farm. To him and his good wife were gianted 
ten children, of whom eight lived to become the 
heads of families, namely: Henry, Uriah. Mary A., 
Emily, Marquiss, Sarah, Harriet and Hannah. Sam- 
uel Burkhart died suddenly in .I.anuarv, liSfil. as 
lie dropijcd dead without a moment's warning. Ilis 
wife survived him some five or six years. 

He of whom we write grew up u\>(m a farm and 
received but scanty schooling, as the educational 
advantages of that early day were very limited. 
The earlv settlers of Michigan were a class of intel- 



ligent and educated men and women, and they de- 
sired for their children the best opjiortunities and 
secured them as early as possible, but during the 
first few decades it was impossible for them to pro- 
vide as they would have wished in this direction. 

Thej"onngman l)ecame a wagon-maker by trade, 
a calling' which was very valuable in tho.se days, as 
wagons were not plentiful among the settlers and 
there was a great demand for them. Upon the 19th 
of March, 1844, he was united in marriage with 
Miss Lydia Hagedorn, who was born in the town- 
ship of Penfield, Monroe County, N. Y., .lanuary 
2-3, 1824. She was a daughter of Samuel and 
Rachel (Hall) Hagedorn, who carried on a farm in 
New York. The mother of Mrs. Burkhart had 
three sons and five daughters, namel_v: Jonathan, 
David, John, Alniira, Lena, Lavina, Margaret, and 
Lydia. Three of these children died in childhood 
and (jne of the sons passed away when a young 
man. Their mother who was a devout member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, died in 1832, and 
^Ir. Hagedorn married Margaret Randolph for his 
second wife and she became the mother of two 
children, Josiah and Esther. He was a Whig in his 
political views and he died in AVelister Townshi[), 
Monroe County, N. Y., in 1808. 

After the marriage of our subject he and his 
bride made their first home at Little Sandusky. 
Ohio, but in tlie fall of 184;") they came to Miclii- 
gan and settled in Byron, Shiawassee County. But 
here JMr. Burkhart was constantly afflicted witli 
ague, and after remaining here for a year they de- 
cided to leave the West and return to tiieir East- 
ern h(mie. It was not until November, 1854, that 
the family decided to try the effect of the Western 
climate, and ujjon their return to Michigan they 
settled in Cohoctah for a few years and later went 
to Flint, this State, where they purchased eighty 
acres of land and made that their lumie for some 
time. 

In the fall of 1865 'Slv. I'.uikliarf returned to 
Cohoctah Township and purchased one hundied 
and ten acres on section 33, which was mostly in 
a cleared and improved condition. Here he made 
his home until he was called hence liy death, .July 
17, 1888. The children of Henry and Lydia 
Burkhart are: AVilliani II. :IIomer. wlio died at the 



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iliic of tilhili; Alice, lilt- wil'o of RetllUcl l;;illilmni; 
Fijiiik A.; KUa (defouseil), wlio was the wife <if 
1-'i;miI< Dmi-ancc; Emma, the wife of Robert Rrave- 
M( r-: ;iu<l .lessie. Kver since tiieir inan-iat;e our 
sulijicl ami Ills wife have been active and interesteil 
ill the work 111' Ihe Methodist Kpiscopal Cliiiich. 
and the h»s of this esteemed and beloved brother 
vva- dee|)ly fell liy all the members of that body. 




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IRA.^I J. DANA. There is inobably no 
\] one in Leroy Townshi|). Iiiuhan County, 
W'ho is better known and more hitrhly 
ii§^ respected anioiia the old pioneers tlian he 
whose name we now j^ive. He was born Octolier 
22. 1h;5(I, in (ienesce County. X. Y.. and in 1«;57 
he <-aiiie with his [lareilts, Oren and Adeline ((iood- 
well) Dana, fiom New York to .Michiiran. m;ikinu' 
tlie la-it staLje of their journey with ox-teani to 
Detiuit. thus liecoininu; one of the first s'^ttlers in 
Leroy Township. Tiieir first home was in a los^' 
shanty alioiit I.Sx2() feet, and it was of 
rouiih construction with s|)lit plank for a Hooi-. 
.\fter residing there for aliout two years lhe\- 
erected a more comfortable log cabin. 

The f.-ither of our subject was the first Super- 
visor for the district which now compi'ises foui' 
townships. To his lumie came seven children, 
only four of whom are now liviii<;, namely: 
Iliiani J., James, ^lary (wife of A\illiain Turner), 
and Kdwin T,. He was a man of pulilic spirit and 
a leadei- in the Democratic ranks, and in his death 
the county lost a valued citizen and one of her 
original pioneers. He also for many years wa.s 
.luslice of the Peace, to which office he was elected 
by the vote of botli parties. 

Our subject jjrew up amidst the woods and has 
pleasant memories of Indian neighbors, wlio were 
friendly and si'lad to exch.inse kindnesses. His 
education was obtained in the early schools of that 
day. which, althoniih narrow in their curriculum, 
were tliorou<";h in drill and gave hiin a good foiin- 
<lati(ni for future study. Upon the 2;?d of 



tlclolier. ls,),i. he maiiied .Mary .V. I'.etts. who bore 
him two children, both deceased, and their mother 
has also passed from earth. The second wife bore 
the maiden name of Alice I'.aiiies. and to her were 
granted nine children, eight of whom .are n<jw liv- 
ing, namely: Nora (wife of l-raiik Horton), 
Charles F.. Hiram H., .Vdaline. ,Vlvin I).. Frederick 
F., Alta .M. and Cleveland. 3Irs. Alice Dana was 
some years ago called from earth, and .Mi. Dana 
married the i>resent ^frs. Dana, who was in lier 
maidenhood know as Ella Mann. One son. Earl, 
has blessed this union, and to all the children the 
father is giving excellent advantages for edu- 
cation. 

Mr. Dana has lived u|ion his farm for lifty- 
three years, with the excejition of one year spent 
in the mi'icantile business in AVilliamstown, and it 
is liy his h.-iiid that this beautiful estate of four 
hnniired and twenty :icrt's has lieen developed from 
the condition of the wihlerness toil* present pros- 
perous state. He is identified with the Independ- 
ent Order of Odd Fellows at AVilliamston. and 
in his political views is attached to the Democratic 
parly. His success in life is a cause of rejoicing 
not only :iiiiong the memliers of his family but 
also with all who have known his long life among 
them and his iiiarked characteristics of probity 
and lioniir. 



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HHISTOl'HER C. KIXCSEEY. Inevit.ible 
io every living thing, death is stdl a mys- 
tery, because of the great unknown that lies 
beyond the veil, which is only rent as breath 
ceases to p:i.ss the lips and the heart is stilled in 
its pulsation. One never realizes the ch.asm that 
the dread Angel of Desolation opens up until he 
has taken from us one who is .ts near and dear as 
nature h.as allowed the tie to be. The man whose 
name is aliove and of whom one might say in 
Shakespeare's words, "here is a man,"' passed awa.\- 
from this life .I.anuary .5, 1888. leaving to mourn 
his loss a widow — Mrs. Anna .V. Kingslev. 

Mr. Kingslev was born in Xew Y"ik St-iie in ]x:\H. 



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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 



He was the son of Jonathan and Polly Kingsley, 
natives of the Empire State. They came AVestand 
settled at Salem, Washtenaw County, this State, 
and there engaged in farming. There was a fam- 
ily of seven children, our sul)jeet being the fourth 
in order of birth. Although like most of the men 
who have acquired j)roi)erty in this State, he began 
with very little, before his death he had accu- 
mulated more than a liandsome property — being 
one of the prominent and wealthy farmers of How- 
ell Township. lie was the owner of a beautiful 
farm of two liundred and eiglity acres, bearing fine 
buildings and an excellently-built residence, also 
barns and sheds for stock. 

Tlie original of tiiis sketch was married first to 
Susan Thomas. IMrs. Susan Kingsley died in Fel)- 
ruary, 1879, and she was the mother of three chil- 
dren, whose names are, Luella, Christopher C. and 
Grace. In 1880 he was ifgain married, this union 
being with Miss Anna A. Stephens. Their nuptials 
were solemnized at Howell Township. Mrs. King.s- 
ley is a daugliter of Andrew and Eunice (South- 
well) Stephens, wlio were natives of Steuben 
County, N. Y. They came to Michigan in an early 
day and engaged in farming. Andrew Stephens 
was a man of great aliility, unending perseverance 
and higliest integrity. He died at Woodhull, Mich., 
and his wife at Williainston. They had a family of 
eight children, five of wliom are now living. They 
are Philander, Sarah A., Eliza .1., .losephine and 
Anna A., who is now Mrs. Kingsley. Those who 
passed aw.ay are: Nathan, who was a soldier in the 
late war of the Rebellion; he lost his health in the 
.army and died one year after liis return of con- 
sumption. The otlier sons who arc deceased are 
.loseph and Charles. Mr. Kingsley, during his life, 
was an ardent advocate of tlie Democratic party. 
Publie-sj)irited and lilieral. he took a deep interest 
in all that pertained to the growth and welfare of 
the county and liis intluence is still felt here. 

Mrs. Kingsley, who. in dictating this biographical 
sketch thus pays a triliute to the memory of the 
companion with whom she lived so happily for a 
for a number of years, is a lady of marked refine- 
ment and taste. She presides with dignity and 
grace over the beautiful liome of which her hus- 
band made her mistress. Her p.arents died in 



Shiawassee County. She is the mother of three 
children — Ezra A.. Mildred M. and Willie E., dead. 
Prominent in every measure that promises to be 
for the interest and advancement of the commun- 
ity in winch she lives, she is looked up to and 
rcsjiected by all who know her. 



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IRAM .1. LOVE.IOY. It is with pleasure 
f ^) that the biograi)her records a life which 
V.yjf' has been notable alike for service both in 
peace and war. . The militarj' record of ^Ir. 
Lovejoy is one of which any patriot might feel 
proud, and since the days of peace have come he 
has proved himself equally worthy in the ordinary 
avocations of life. His pleasant home is situated 
on section 3, Locke Township, Ingham County, 
and he is a Wolverine by birth, having had his 
nativity, August .'>. I^i44. His father, Hiram 
Lovejoy, was a native of New England, and his 
mother, Sarah E. Knowles, was bom in New York. 
William Lovejoy, a half-brother of the father was 
a soldier of the War of 1812. Hiram Lovejoy 
came to Oakland County, Mich., in 1837, and some 
years later made his home in Shiawassee Connty, 
removing to Ingham County in 1847, and taking 
land now occupied by his sons. 

When this family came here there were but five 
voters including Mr. Lovejoy. Sr., in the school 
district. .\ log cabin furnished a shelter for the 
family and here this hardworking pioneer did 
much in clearing the land. He died from a stroke 
of lightning, July 24, 1872, being killed while 
asleep upon his bed. He had been bereaved of 
his wife -January 24, 1867. He was a Republican 
in his political views and a conscientious member 
of the Church of the I'nited Brethren. 

Oui- subject was in his third year when he 
came to tliis county from Shiawassee County-, 
traveling with ox-teams, and here he received his 
early training and education. He remembers hear- 
ing the wolves Ik)wI and seeing the black bears 
prowl aliout his early home. He received a com- 
mon-school cducMtioii. which he has abundantly 



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siili|ilcuu'iilc(l li\- .-111 extensive eoui-se of i-e;i(liiio. 
He eiilisteil Auyusl 7, 1H(!2. in Cnnipnny A.Twen- 
tielli {{('uinient. Micliiiian Infantry, and look pari 
in till' lialllfs (<( I''i-e(leiicl\slinrii'. S|i(ills\ Ivania. 
llu' \\il(lenie,xs, N\ e Kiveiand ^ikil•nlisiles ol niindi- 
iiiilMiitanee. He served I'dv over three yeaix doinii' 
duty ill X'iiLjinia and Kentucky-, and reeei\-eil lii.s 
Ininoralile diseliarge. May 2«, IHOii, l)ut icniained 
in \Vasliiiii,'ton t() take ])ai-l in the (nand Review 
and was jii'esent at the fuiiiTal pau'eant <il' tlie lie- 
h)ved maityi'ed President. 

Aftel- tlie war Mr. i><)\-ej(]y letnrneil In lni;hain 
(onnty. and Imnuht tlie farm npnn which he now 
resides, lie was married .Maich 14. isil'.t. to Helen 
M. Honyhton, daui>liter of Horace Houghton, a 
wi'll-known citiziMi of (Jenesee County, N. ^'. 
Tliis con|)le lind one danshter. Cora l.s;d>el. who is 
now eni^atced in teaching; music. His eigiitv acres 
of linely eiilti\ati'd land h.ave been gained liy his 
effoi'ts. aided only liy the eo-o|)eration of his 
woi'thy helpmate. He is a Kei)nbliean in his 
political views and has served many years as Jus- 
tice of the Peace. He is identified with tiie Inde- 
pendent Order of Odd Fellows at Perry, Michi- 
gan, and is highly respected in that order. 



N. CL.VHK. The owner of the most ele- 
gant iiome in the beautiful little town 
^, of Brigliton is he whose name Is at the 
iiead of this sketch. The greater part of his life 
lias lieen spent in the calling of agricullnre. from 
the active pursuit of which, however, he is now 
retired, being determined to enjo\ what of life is 
before him. The greater portion of the time that 
he devotes to l)usine.ss is spent in the placing of 
investments. Our subject was lioiii in this State, 
in the city of Ann ^Vrbor, which is now best 
known as having so high a standing as an educa- 
tional center. Ills iiat.al <l.i\ was M.iy it. 1827. 
His father was .lason C lark, a native of Ma.ssa- 
chusetts, although he removed to \ew ^'ork when 
a young man. There he niariieil .Mi.ss Polly 



llrilton. ;iiid pursued the calling of farming in 
lli.at State foi- a miinber of years. In 1H2;5, before 
.Michigan had been admitted as a State, he emi- 
grated hither, coming by way of Lake Krie to 
Detroit, and settled upon land which is now 
located near the city of .\nn .Vrbor. M that time 
there were not more than half a dozen houses in 
the locality, lie there purchased land of the 
( H)\erniiient. and bent his efforts to clearing and 
improving Hie sami'. iiijikiiii; of it a lieantiful 
farm. 

. \l that lime Ihi' counliy was very new, the In- 
dians not yet having Iktii convinced that tliej- 
had not a legal and nioial right there. AVild game 
of all kinds was [deiitiful, and the larder wjus 
often stocked with the choicest venison, wild 
turkey, bear meat, and other meat viands, while 
corn and wheat were easily rai.sed in the virgin soil 
that needed only to be turned over with the plow 
after being cleared, and the seed therein dropped. 
The Indians on their way to Detroit to receive 
"their rations and presents were the most frequent 
])assers-by at the Clark home, and firm was the 
presiding genius there, or it is doubtful whether 
the tamily would themselves have had enough to 
eat and wear, such inveterate beggars did they 
find their red-skinned visitoi-s to be. The father 
subsequently removed to Scio Township, in AYash- 
tenaw County, and later came to (ireen Oak 
Township, Livingston County, where he took up 
(Government land, which he cleared and improved, 
and thus engaged he spent the remainder of his 
life, passing away from this world at the age of 
se\ eiity-foiir \eais. in IJSC.j. He served during 
the War of 1M12. He was much interested in the 
l)rogress of church work as accomplished by the 
Presbyterian deiioniination. in which body he wsis 
an Klder. and had been so connected for many 
yeais prior to his decea.se. Our sul)ject's mother, 
allhoiigh a native of A'erniont. was reared in New 
Yolk State, where she received her education. She 
was of French descent, and gifted with all the 
charms and graces of manner and mind of her an- 
cestors. .She was almost a life-hmg member of the 
Presbyterian Church. .She died in IH;jt;, leaving 
eight children, of whom fonr are still living, two 
sons and two dauifhlers. 



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PORTRAIT AND BlOGRAriUCAL ALBUM. 



Our siilijc'ft was born in the log house built by 
liis father, on tlie present site of Ann Arlior. He 
enjoyed 0UI3' limited educational advantages, for 
at lliat time there were but few seliools and l)ut 
little time to spare for even an aetpiisition of a 
knowledge of the three R's. and of the Rule of 
Three. He only attended school in the little log 
school house, that was quite a distance from his 
li<mie, about one term; but lieing an assimilative 
nature, the early deficiency was largely' made up 
for by later study and reading. He assisted his 
father in clearing and imi)roving the land, his ax 
ringing out diiring the winter season from dawn 
until time to take care of the stock. Great heaps 
of liranchcs and logs were converted into potash, 
that enriched and fertilized the land, fertile as it 
already was. He continued under the parental 
roof until twenty-one years of age, at which time 
he liegan farming the old homestead on shares, 
and in a few years he was enabled to purchase the 
l)lace. which was located ou section 9, of Green 
Oak Township. 

Our subject began threshing when he was only 
seventeen years old, and made that his business, • 
during the season, for about twenty-five years. 
During this time he invented a straw-cai'rier to be 
used on the old-fashioned wheat thresher. This was 
called a three-section stacker. Upon this he ob- 
tained a patent, and later he invented and had 
patented another stacker for use on the vilirator 
thresher. In the spring of 1873 Mr. Clark retired 
from active farming and removed to Brighton, 
where he has since resided. In the fall of 1872 
he disposed of his farm, and has since interested 
himself in mone3r lending. 

In November, 1853, the original of our sketch 
was married to INIiss Maria Goucher, who was born 
in Byron, (ienesee County, N. Y., in 183.5. She 
was a daughter of Austin Goucher, also of New 
York, who came to Michigan at an early day and 
engaged in farming, which he pursued until the 
end of his life, his decease occurring about 187;"). 
ISh: and Mrs. Clark have had no children of their 
own. but have raised two. Emma and Frank 
(Joucher, the former now deceased. They have 
also given a parent's care and affection to a young 
girl, Minnie Hatt, who. while with them, received 1 



an excellent education. Our suiiject shows his 
progressive ))rinciples l)y allying himself with the 
Prohibition party, whose platform he feels to em- 
body the i)rinciples that must be the issue of the 
future .as much in pulilic life as in domestic rela- 
tions. Ik)th he and his wife are members of the 
Presbyterian Church, in which l)ody he has ))een a 
Trustee for some time. 

Since making his home in Brighton, he of whom 
we write has been somewhat engaged in selling 
agricultural imi)lements, but his business is prin- 
cip.'dly that of lending money. Most of the win- 
ters are spent by om- subject and his wife in a 
more genial clime than that of Michigan. As the 
cold weather approaches they usually tlit to Cali- 
fornia or Florida, in both of which States they 
have spent several seasons. 



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KKDKK K r. S( IIROKDER. A n o t e- 
Y worthy element in our population is that 
class who, being the children of ourCier- 
man-American citizens have shown the excellent 
training of the Fatherland in their industry and 
thrift. They have helped to develop the resources 
of this country and many of them are prominent 
on account of their success in business. Among 
these we find the gentleman whose name appears 
at the head of this paragraph, who came to this 
county with only $11 in bis pocket and to-day is 
one of the leading financiers of the county. 

Mr. Schroeder, who is now a dealer in hardware 
and agricultural implements at Howell was born 
in Berlin, Canada, in 1855, his immediate progen- 
itors being Henry and .lohannah (Weyhrauch) 
Schroeder, botli natives of (iermany, who came to 
Canada in 184',). The father was l)V trade a tin- 
smith and followed that vocation in Canada before 
coming to Detroit in 1856. After his wife's death, 
wiiieh took place in 1882, this good m.an remained 
at the City of the Straits until 1886, when he came 
to Howell where he has since remained. 

The paternal grandfather of our sulijcct was 
Philip Schroedei-, who was b^- trade a cooper, and 



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Weill lo (':iii;i(l.i .ind ;irtci\v:ii il lived ;il I Jelroit llllt 
eveiituiilly reliinie<J to his native laiiil wliere lie 
(lied. The maternal uiandt'atlier..Iae(tli Weyhraueh. 
was a wajronniaker am) sjieiit his life in his native 
(Hdvince of Sax<»ny, (Germany. Tlif four children 
of lleiiiy Scliroeder are Mrs. I'eter Hrtz. of Detroit. 
Fredrick 1'.; ^Irs. Fred lUoss. of C'hicayo; and Al- 
fred A., of Detroit. 

lie of wlioia we write received liis e(|ucalion 
niostiv nl Detroit at the (ierniaii Lutheran School 
and earned hi.s fir-st wajjes at the age of twelve 
years, carrying parcels for the cr()ckerv stoi'C of R. 
\V. King. Here he remained for a year and a lialf 
and then began his apjirenticesliip to the tinner's 
trade, .\fter serving three years he worked as a 
journeyman four and a half years in Detroit, after 
which he came to Fowlerville and worked there in 
the same capacity for six months for Cook it Laugh- 
lin. At the expiration of that time these gentle- 
men dissolved partnership .Miid our suliject took 
charge of the establishmont for Mr. Laughlin and 
thus continued for six years. 

Mr. Scliroeder now went on the road, traveling 
for S. J>. Bignall ct Co., of Chicago, selling heavy 
hardware, and after about one year in their service 
he returned to Fowlerville and bought a half in- 
terest with JMr. Laugiilin in his business, entering 
into partnership under the tirin name of Laughlm 
it Scliroeder. Four years later Mr. Scliroeder sold 
out his interest in this luisiness and coming to 
llt)well established a hardware .store of his own. 
lie first opened across the street from bis present 
place of bu.siness. He then purchased lots on the 
corner of Walnut andCirand River Streets, and put 
up the linest luiilding lilock in Howell. It is a 
beautiful lirick block with diniensions of 2.'!xl22 
feet and is two stories in height, having .•in iniple- 
ineiit room 6.")x21 feet. Five men lieside himself 
are needed to keep this estalilishmeiit going. 

Some live and one-half miles south of Howell 
there is a handsome farm which is owned and man- 
aged by .Mr. Scliroeder. It is well improved and a 
credit to its owner. He also has a share in an 
orange grove in Florida. He wa.s one t)f the or- 
ganizers and is still connected with the Bending 
Works of Howell, and with two others has just 
Stfirted the Sampson IJasket and IJarrel W urks ni'ar 



the Toledo it Ann .Vrlior Railroad track. His niar- 
liage, which took place in 1KX2, brought to his 
home AH.ss Kugenia Naylor, a daughter of Edwin 
and Laura Nayhjr. His |)olitical views are such as 
are expressed in the declarations and platform of 
the Re|iublican jiarly and both he and his good 
wife are earnest and active members of tiie Metho- 
dist Kpiscop.-U Church. He is also identified with 
the ^fa.sonic order and has been one of its membei-s 
for some years. 



FON'AKD lir( K. A progre^ive agricul- 
(fd) luiist in lloweli Township, Livingston 
County, our subject is the proprietor of a 



line farm on section 30, It comprises one hundred 
and eighty-six acres of land, which is a model in 
the w.ay of cultivation and general appointments. 
He ha-s here a beautiful home and the finest bams 
and outbuildings. Coming here in 18.58, he first 
purchiused forty acres and built a log hou.se which 
served .ns the abiding-place for himself and family 
until he had added (jtlier lands to his original \n\r- 
cliase and was enabled by their productiveness to 
erect his present attractive and pleasing residence. 

Mr. Iluck is a representative of the Teutonic ele- 
ment in this country, having been born near the 
Rhine in 18;$7. He is a, son of Frank and Catherine 
(Kern) Iluck. natives of llermany. The former 
was a miller by trade and came to America with 
his family in the hope of bettering their circum- 
stances in IHIH. They first settled in Niagara 
County. N. V., but later came to ^Macon County, 
Mich., in IH.JI. There the head of the family re- 
mained for one summer and then removeil his fani- 
;ly and household etfects to Marion Township, this 
county. Later again he removed to Brighton 
Township. There he engaged in farming for some 
little time and then removed to Howell Townshi|) 
in l.S.')(!. Here he lived until his death, which oc- 
curred in I.SCII. 

Our subject's mother survived her hu.-band by 
several years, jiassing away in JIarion Township. 
They Ii.'mI a family of eight children, only four of 



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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPfflCAL ALBUM. 



whom, however, are now living. They are Valen- 
tine, Barbara, Leonard and Savilla. Frank Iluck 
served as a soldier nnder Naijoleon Bonaparte lor 
eight years during the campaigns in Russia and 
Spain and held the position of Lieutenant. 

He of whom we write was reared with a more 
intimate knowledge of farming than any other 
branch. After coming to this country he attended 
seliool in Brighton Township, and acquired a 
practical education that lias been of great as- 
sistance to him in his business life. He remained 
at home on the old homestead until after his mar- 
riage, wliich toolv place in Brighton, this county, 
January 1, iy.5«. His biide was Miss Mary Hacker, 
a daughter of .John and Helen (Crostick) Hacker, 
natives of Saxony, Germany. They came to Amer- 
ica in 1848 and settled at Brighton where the fa- 
ther of the family engaged in fanning and lived 
until his decease. On her luisband's death the 
mother came to live with her daughter, Mrs. Huck. 
and was there tenderly cared for until her death, 
which occurred in April, 188.5. They had a family 
of eight children, four of wlioni are now living. 
The\- are Mrs. Huck, John, Charles and Henry. 

Mr. Huck is most delightfully situated iu his 
domestic life. His wife is a model housekeeper and 
the comfort of her liusband and children are para- 
mount considerations to her. Their family includes 
eiu;ht cliildren, wlio are, AVilliam, Julia. !Marv. 
Rosa, Leonard, Lilly, Charles and Myrtle M. The 
eldest son is married, his wife having been a Miss 
Barbara Jadle. They have one son, "William, and 
are residents of Ingham County. Julia is now 
Mrs. William ^Mountain and is the mother of one 
daughter, ]Maude,and they reside in Sturgis, Mich.; 
]\Iary is now jNIrs. Munsell of this county; Rosa 
married Eugene Henry of this place; Leonard is 
the husband of Nettie White of Marion Township; 
Lilly is Mrs. Ilatt and resides in Conway, JNIich., 
she has one son, Howard; Charles and Myrtle M. 
still remain at home. 

He of whom we write has lieeii honored by elec- 
tion to many inij)ortant ottices in the township. He 
has been School Director for a number of years. 
Politically he is a believer in the doctrines of the 
Republican party. During the Rebellion he was 
drafted and served for three mouths, but he was 



never in any engagement, Johnston having surren- 
deied before his regiment reached the scene of 
action. The very iileasant home that ^Ir. Huck 
owns was built in 1 880 at a cost of *1.7(M) which 
did not include Ills (iwn hiliiir. He is the owner of 

some very tine stock, having graded andfull-M 1 

Short-horn cattle. 




ll-^"i^ilM^^^-=< 



?? ENRY A. COFFEY. One of the lepre- 
I; sentative men of the township, whose use- 
fulness and devotion to the general and 
pulilic interests of local Governmental 
matters makes him a more important factor in the 
community than any financial position which he 
may have, resides on section 18, Handy 'J'ownship, 
l^ivingston Count}', where he is the proprietor of 
eighty acres of good land. He is a native of this 
district being born in 1854, and a son of Levi and 
.luha (White) Coffey, natives of New Y'ork. Their 
advent into the State was made while it was still 
the abiding-place of the red man, the panther, 
wolf and deer, few white men having come here 
[irior to 182'). at which time Mr. Coffey, Sr., came 
into the territory. He was as yet unmarried, his 
nuptials lieing celebrated after settling in Handy 
Township. 

Our suljject's father first settled iu Marion 
To%vnship, this county, and later removed to 
Washtenaw County, finally coming to Handy 
Township, where he purchased land and engaged 
in farming, acquiring here five hundred and eighty- 
seven acres of as good land as the country afforded. 
He was an energetic, stirring man, of fine business 
capacity and made of his place a model farm, 
bearing fine buildings and at the time of his death, 
which took place February 24, 1891, he was un- 
doubtedly one of the wealthiest men in the town- 
shii). An aident Democrat in his jjolitical pre- 
ference, he was not ambitious to be the tool of any 
party and refused office of whatever nature. He 
belonged to the jNIasonic fraternity which was 
doubtle.-is of great assistance to him in his early 
pioneer life. An indefatigable worker and a pro- 



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,t> ressi ve man who ki'pt aliii'iist i>l' [\\^• limc.-i in lii> 
i-alliiiii', lif did imifli for the inipiiivciiiciit of llic 
liK-alitv and county ouU^ide of tiic lii'aiilif\in<,'- and 
cultivating of liis own estate. lie was known and 
iTspcctcd In all. His wife died in IMHl. Tlii'\- 
left a family of four sons, Frank. Henry A.. Fred 
and M.'ush.al. 

He of whom wc write enjo\'ed u'ood education.al 
advantaLres. On reacliiny manhood he was attracted 
liy the beauty and aniialiilils of .Miss Ella Davis, a 
daujiiiter of Benjamin and Mar\- \. (Raymond) 
Davis, natives of ^Iichiy:an. and persuaded her to 
become his wife. Their marriasre was solemnized 
November ;3, 1«77. Five children have <,^alhei'ed, 
about the hearth -stone and board and make the 
house merry witli tlu'ir t;ay b.-idinaue and fun. 
They are b\ name I'.lhel. Floia. \ ance. \'ern and 
Ilowai'd. 

Mr. Coffey ensjaued in lieneral farminii which lie 
linds more profitable than conlinin<i- himself en- 
tirely to one specialty, for if one line falls into 
arrears it is almost always made yood b\- another. 
Oui suliject behnijis to the Democrat ]iarty and is 
a member of the Knights of tlie Maccabees. He 
has been lu>n()re(l by election lo' several public 
ottlccs. being now Justice of the Peace and has 
held the ottice of Constable for some time. He is 
one of the representative men of this township 
and lieing young in years his fiiends may exi^ect 
large piouress in the fiituie. 



.,^^E0R(;K (. LK.MKX. One who h:is suffered 
with the irritation of a giriiu of du-l. a 
_A\ speck or a wandering hair, or any anno\- 
ance to the precious sense of sight, feeling what 
•• small things are Iwisterous there," must appre- 
ciate the utter sense of being shut otT from the 
world that one entirely deprived of sight must 
feel, and yet, it has frerpiently seemed as tliongli 
the deprivation of tliis faculty has turned the 
intellect in an introspective way that leads to a 
greater degree of proliciency in other directions. 



All know how skillful the blind are with t!ieir 
lingers .■mil how keen tin- sense of hearing is, how 
bright the play of intellect which often has a phil- 
osophical turn. It is a (piestion whether we 
>hoidd ever have had the great Oreek epic had 
Homer not been thus .alii icted, or that later exposi- 
tion of genius in which Milton wrought out his 
wondrous picture of fancy. The writer is not 
suii' that there is not a richer inner world when 
one"s mind is undistracted by the events which 
.-trike the sense of sight. 

Our subject, who is a patient and gentle sufferer 
from the great loss of the most important sense, is 
however, a farmer residing on section 9, Hartland 
Townshij), Livingston County. He was born in 
Livingston County. X. V., at a distance of only 
three miles from the town of Dansville, that is 
so noted as a sanitary resort. His natal day w;ls 
'Decembei- 12, 1H2.'). His father was (ieorge "VV. 
Lemen, also a native of New York and born Oct- 
ober fi. 17H7. He was a captain in the AVar of 
I.sri, and was i)romoted to the rank of colonel at 
the close of the war. He was twenty-one years of 
age when he enlisted and in 18;?() came to Mich- 
igan and settled in Li\ingsion County taking up 
two hundred acres of Oovernment laud. In 
.Inly, l.s;{7, the family came to this State, and 
the following year our subject's father returned to 
New York on business, and while there his decease 
took place. 

Our sid)ject's paternal grandfather was William 
Lemen. His place of nativity is not known to his 
Si'randson. liut he was a .Major in the Revolution- 
ary War and died at the age of eighty years. Our 
subject's mother was Margaret Hoyles. a native of 
the Km pi re State, but of Scotch ancestry. He of 
whom we write is the second son and fifth child in 
order of birth of ten ihildren. He w.as twelve 
\ cars of age when his parents came to Michigan. 
His (irst .school days were i)assed in his native Stjile, 
.and after coining to Michigan he pmsued his 
studies in the little log .school lK)Use in the district. 

After the death of our subject's father, he of 
whom we write with his brothei-s had charge of the 
farm and the maintenance of the remainder of the 
family. He remained with his mother until twenty 
ja^ars of .age, working out bv the month and help- 



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ing to clear the farm and build a log house 19x20 
feet in dimensions. In 184.T, the young man who 
W.1S amliitious and eager to know more of the 
world which knowledge books would unfold to 
him, returned to his native State in order to attend 
sehool. but here lie met with the sad misfortune of 
losing his eyesight, it being caused by overwork in 
the schoohooni. In 184.5 he returned to Michigan 
and was treated by Dr. Biglo, but receiving no 
benefit, in 184il he went to New York City and 
entered the blind institute where he remained until 
he graduated in all the departments. From there 
he went to the place of his liirtli. Dansville, N. Y., 
and taught music for four years. frt)m 1854 to 
1858. lie was gifted with a fine appreciation 
of music and a good voice which had been culti- 
vated to the highest extent. He also was fitted to 
teach instrumental music and theory, and this 
beautiful art has been to him tlie greatest comfort. 

Mr. Lemen was married in 1858, to Miss Ann 
Elizabeth Kershner. She was born in .Steuben 
County, N. Y., January 23, 1837, and is the 
youngest daughter of eleven children, her parents 
being John and ilary (I)riesbaucli) Kershner. The 
father was a native of Maryland and the mother of 
Pennsylvania, altlnnigh both, as their names would 
indicate, are of German ancestry. They were 
among the early settlers in Diinsville, N. Y. The 
father was a l)lacksmith by trade. lie passed 
away from this world at the age of sixty years, the 
mother at sixty-seven years of age. 

As soon as married, the original of our sketch 
returned at once to his adopted Stale and spent 
the following winter in Tuscola, where he was en- 
gaged in teaching music, giving lessons in voice 
culture and in instrumental music. lu.lune, 1859, 
he returned to New York, leaving his wife at his 
home in Michigan, but the following June he 
came after her and in 1862 he purchased the farm 
where he now lives. It comprises one hundred 
and ten acres of well-improved land. Mr. Lemen 
gave up teaching about eight years ago and now 
gives his undivided attenti<)n to the business of 
farming. He goes all over the |)lace without assist- 
ance, and cares for the slightest minutia of the 
various branches of farm work. ^Mi-. and Mrs. 
Lemen are tiie parents of two children, a son and 



a daughter. Gordon II., who was born April 17, 
1862, married (icrtrude Clark in 18K'.t. They have 
one daughter, Tena. ( )ur subject's daughter, Min 
uie L., is the wife of J. C. Cole, who is a resident 
in \'ernon Township. Shiawassee County, this 
State. The^' have one little daughter whose name 
is Crystal J. 

He of whom we wiite is a Democi'al in his poli- 
tical preference. He is well read in politics and 
does not follow the lead of any other person how- 
ever honorable their position, but judges, weighs 
and balances for himself. He, with his wife, is a 
member of the Congregational Church and has 
been leader of the choir for the Jlethodist Kpisco- 
|)al and Congregaticmal Churches for thirty years, 
furnishing all the music, not only at the regular 
services but on special occasions. Endowed ori- 
ginally with a strong will and purpose, and a 
bright mentality, under the chastening inlluence of 
his trouble our'subject has developed one of the 
most beautiful side> of his nature. He is a strong 
man in every way. yet a gentlenuan with the 
tenderness of a woman. 



'iMOTIIY SMITH. Prtmiinent in the social, 
v business and church circles of Howell Town- 
ship. IS the family of Mr. Timothy Smith 
whose attractive home and lieautiful farm is to be 
found on section 1 1, Howell Township, Livingston 
County. Here he has an estate of some one hun- 
dred acres which is in a high state of cultivation 
and exceedingly ]jroductive. 

This gentleman has the pleasvu-e of still residing 
in his native township, as he was liorn here .lune 17, 
1848. His parents, Henry and Lydia (Thomjison) 
Smith, were natives of England and the State of 
New York respectively. The father came to 
America in 1831 and married in Howell Township 
to which he had come ten years after reaching this 
country. He had purchased property here before 
coming to the State, and now moved on to his 
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wlioio our :<ul)ject iinw lives was llioii a pi-ifoit 
\vil<k'niejs.s. and tlif liiavc pioneer, who before com- 
iii;;; to this eountrv 1i;h1 known uothinj; of siieii a 
life. Iiuckled down to the work at once and >oon 
had a heautifnl farm I'loared and ini|n-oveil. 

To his original eighty aeres. Henry Smith aihleil 
liy imrchase from time to time, so that he tinally 
had a farm of two linudred and seventy aeres. 
lie died in Ai)ril. IM'Jl. at the a<i:e of seventy-four 
years, loavinsi four ehildren. namely: Timothy. 
Koliert R.. Mary and Sarah. Uoliert H. is now 
ni;irried to Miss Maiidana I. Hill, dauuhter of Knos 
W. and Harriet L. (Cai-penter) Hill, both nali\es of 
New York. This union took plaee in I.S71 and they 
have one child, Blanch A., who is still livinij. Mary 
i,~ now Jlrs. Goss of Portland, Mich., and Sarah mar- 
ried Mr. Bueknell of Howell Township. Henry 
Smith was a man t)f great energy and perseverance 
and had a liroad acquaintance throughout the 
eountv. His intogi'ity was iindoulited and lie was 
true in every relation as a man and a neighbor 
and became one of the most wealthy men in How- 
ell Township. He was an earnest Republican in 
his political views .is are also his sons, and both he 
and bis wife were devoted member.? of the Church 
of the Cnited Brethren. 

Upon the home farm Timothy Smith received the 
ordinary training which is granted to a farmer's 
boy and was educated in the district schools. l-'\)r 
twenty years he has had charge of the homestead and 
he is the only native born citizen wbo has ever 
held the ottice of Sujiervisor of Howell Township. 
Besides filling that oflice be has also olliciated as 
Highway Commissioner and Township Treasurer. 

Miss Elizalieth Blair of La|)eer, the daughter of 
.Mr. .lohn W. Blair became the wife of our suliject 
in 1H7.') and to them lias been granted one lovely 
daughter, Jessie E., who is still enjoying the advan- 
tages of school at Portland. This family takes an 
active interest in all matters that pi'rtain to the 
best welfare of the township and county and are 
nevei- backward in lending a hand to any enteri)ri.se 
which will promote the temporal etlncation or 
spiritual prosperity of their neighbors. They are 
earnest and devoted members of the .Methodist 
Episcopal Chnrch and are nincli relied uiHin for 
active service. The doctrines of the Rejiulilican 



party are tbose wliicli seem to .Mr. Smith to be the 
best ."idapted to securing the jirosperity of our 
country and ju.slice to the whole human race. lie 
therefore endorses them most earnestly and votes 
for their maintenance. He keeps graded sheep and 
breeds the I'crcheron and ll:imbietoiiian hor.ses. 
When the census of IK'Jd wa.s taken Mr. .Smith was 
the I'uumerator of Howell Township. 



LV.SSES J). WARD, it is of thrilling in- 
'' '" terest to one wlio.se heart is loyal to our 
conulrv's honor to hear an old soldier re- 
count the .scenes of eontlict-s, the wearistmie marches 
and the exciting epi.sfides of the Civil War. and it 
is also an education for we learn of such an one, 
not only history .'ind geography Imtalso the higher 
lessons of patriotism, endurance, self denial and -de- 
votion to duty. The j'ears are passing rapidly and 
before many decades have passed over our heads 
tiie active participants in those stirring scenes will 
have gone to their long liome ami it behooves us 
to gain from them what we can while they are with 
us. Among lho.se who can thus interest and in- 
struct is the gentleman wliose name ap|)ears at the 
bead of this paragraph and who is still one of the 
active busine.ss men of I.,ansing. 

This gentleman was born in the town>hip of 
Cato. Cayuga County. X. Y.. :May 2X. 1H2H. his 
parents lieing David and Sarah (Blackmarr) Ward. 
The grandfather, Joseph Blackmarr. took up si,\ 
hundred acres of land on a soldier's claim in an 
adjoining township. 1 )avid Ward grew to maturity 
and spent his ilays in his native home, where be 
was not only a farm owner but also a school teacher 
and school inspector. 

It is half a century since, at the age of thirteen, 
riysses Ward came with bis sister to Howell. Mich. 
He helped to break up the land whereon Howell 
now stands and bis sister. Mrs. Ro,<alieThonip.son. 
gave the land for the ei unity .seat, to which deed 
of sale our subject w.as called as a legal witne.s.*. 

Ill 1X12 be had a cousin come from New York 
to hunt and tiap and riv.s.ses took biin west over- 



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land to Cedar River where Fowlerville now stands, 
and they came down with tlioir boat to the junction 
of tlie Cedar and tlie"(;rand Rivers, and putting- 
np a slianty staid liere all winter on a place that 
is now within the city limits of Lansing. They 
did not see a white person all winter and as far as 
is known they are the lirst white men who lived 
for any length of time where Lansing now stands. 
The name of this cousin is Edwin Lamphere. In 
tiie spring the yonng men went down the river to 
I'ortland and were pleased to come again within 
the limits of civilization, and to find their bearings 
as they had lost track of the day of the week and 
the day of the month. 

The subject of this brief sketch lived in Howell 
until 1846, when his father died, leaving the mother 
with a family to take care of, and as Ulysses'was one 
of the oldest of her llock he dutifully returned to 
New York and went to work on the farm to helj) 
support the children. During the next year lu 
went over the Allegany JNIountains and was there 
employed in getting out timber. He was there for 
some two years and then went to farming for the 
father of the young lady whom he afterward made 
his wife. lie worked there until he reached the 
age of twenty-two when he was vinited in marriage 
with Miss Laura .leannette Town. 

The young couple lived on the same farm until 
18.56, when Mr. AVard sold that property and came 
to Lansing to engage in the Initclier business, but 
when the war broke out he enlisted in Company 
B, Second United States Sharpshooters and in No- 
vember, 1861, he was sent with his regiment to 
join the Army of the Potomac. His experiences 
were broad and varied as he took part in seventy- 
two engagements, which included all of the most 
)n'ominent battles of the war, such as Gettysburg, 
the Wilderness, Antietam and Spottsylvania, and 
he was also present at Lee's ^urrender and saw the 
white flag come in. He was on detached service 
all of the time with the wagon train, having charge 
of the quartermaster's department, and when his 
lirst term of service expired he became a veteran. 
He was finally mustered out of service at Detroit 
.July 17, 1865. Mr. AV'ard returned to Lansing 
sick and was unable to labor for two years. He 
then entered into business as a contractor making 



a specialty of moving buildings, and has been able 
to oversee his men most of the time since, but was 
not able to do any hard lal^or himself. He also 
moved and straightened many smoke st.acks and 
has uiiusiml skill in this kind of work. He takes 
heavy contiJicts Idr the Lansing Iron Works in 
various parts of the State, and also engages in 
pressing and shipping hay and straw. 

The pleasant home which is now occupied by 
Mr. Ward's family at No. 301 Claypool Street, was 
built by hiiii in 18!-(r) and it is situated upon land 
which he himself cleared from the original timber. 
He and his faithful wife have had the sorrow which 
parents feel when they lay away dear children in 
the grave. One son and one daughter have been 
thus taken from them and live remain to be the 
cheer and joy of their i)arents. They are as follows: 
Mary, who is the wife of Kennetii AVilliains, and 
now lives in \Sliasta County, Cal.; Lida, who is the 
wife of (ieorge Brandel, of Gratiot County, Mich.; 
.leannette, who is the f.iithful home-keeper; .Jessie, 
who is in the bank at South Haven, and Edna, who 
is teaching. i\lr. A\'ard is a devoted member of the 
(irand Army of the Reiniblic and has been twice 
elected to the positions of Alderman and Supervisor 
of his ward. 



i ISRAEL W. ELLSWOirril. The citizens of 
^Michigan who have come from our neighlioi- 
\ ing country of Canada have almost invariably 
brought with them such traits and habits of life as 
have rendered them of value in their new home. 
Their industry and frugality and their rugged 
perseverance have helped them to achieve such a 
degree of success as enhances the prosperity of 
their neighbors. Such an one we find in the 
man before us. 

Our subject was born November 21, 183',), in tlie 
town of Bastard, County of Leeds, Canada, and 
his parents Israel and Elizabeth (Butler) Ellsworth 
are also Canadians, l)ut of Vermont descent, as the 
grandfather Benjamin Ellsworth was liorn in the 
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wi'iit to (';iii;i(l;i. wlu-if lie liidiii^lil U|) :i tniiiily of 
four .sons. lie u;is Iwici' iii;iirit'(l. liis sccoiiil wiff 
l)eii)j>: a Mrs. liiillaril. lie moved to New York 
:il)out I^t.id, and with the Mormons removed first 
to Illinois and tliencc to Salt Lake City wliere he 
died. 

Israel Eliswortii (the elder) inoved to New York 
about the year IMS;"), and afterward returned to 
Canada. In the sprnii!; of 1H4.') he came to Mieli- 
iiian and made his liome in Hedford. "Wayne Coun- 
ty, and afterwards in Xovi. In 1847 lie eame to 
Colioetah. where he purchased and improved a 
farm, and here he and his good wife died in the 
lumie of his son, oui' subject. His death oeeured 
in 1H(;,'), and that of his wife in 18H(I, when she 
had reached the au'c of four-score years. Seven of 
their ten children grew to maturity and bore the 
followino names Amy, .Jane, Klizalieth, Adeline, 
Maria. Israel and Thursey. The father was an 
earnest Christian and brought up his family in the 
faith of the ^lethodist Kpiscopal Church. 

Farm ti:iiniug was given to \<iiuig i*;ilsw(iith in 
his boyhood, and a district school education was 
all the schooling which he receivcfl. Siiu-e he was 
eight years old he has earneil his own way in the 
world, and he paid for his own schooling and 
books by working out by the day and month- 
until lie reached the age of twenty-seven years. 
When a boy he worked for some time for a shilling 
a d.ay and helped to earn the money to buy a yoke 
of steers, which were tr.-idcd for forty acres of tim- 
ber land where he now resides. His home farm 
now com])iises eighty acres and it is in a line state 
of improvement and cnlti\ati(iii. 

rpon the 22d day of October. 1 SCI. the young 
num enlisted in ('onii)any .V. Tenth Michigan In- 
fantiy. but while encamjied ;il I'liut he was attack- 
ed with the measles and on .account of disability 
received his honov.able discharge, March 12. 18()2. 
His happy union with Olie A. Washburn took 
place .luly 2, ISdC. .Mrs. Ellsworth is a daughter 
of lien.iamiu and Nancy (.\cethorp) Washburn, 
who are natives of .Maineand Canada respectively. 
They eame to Ingham County. .Mich., in IKIO. 

The three children of our subject are IJenjamin 
I., Lvman K. and .Mary K. Mrs. Ellsworth is a 
devout nu'mber of the .Methoilist E|)iseopal Chuich. 



The \\'ashbnrn family is of Eiii;lish lineage and 
Robert Acethorp also came from Englaiiil and was 
a farmer who lived in Canadii. The maternal 
grandfather of our subject was John IJuller. a 
Hevolutionary soldier from Connecticut, who wa.s 
a cooper by trade and moved to Canada where he 
died. Mr. Ellsworth is greath' iiit<-iested In the 
education of his children and is giving to them all 
the best advantasjes which he is able to comm.-tiid. 



^^ 




ISS .1. .\I)ELINE IIIKI). Women farmers 
are now no longer a rarity in our country 
4 an<l although they are not as plentiful 
in the older settled regions as they are in 
the Western country, vet many of them have 
proved their efliciencv and their aliility to manage 
a large farm and to build up ;i business which is 
lioth pleasant and piolitable to the proprietor. 
This lady of whom we now write, whose excellent 
farm of two hundred acres fell to her upon the 
death of her father, resides upon section 1 I. of 
Brighton Townshi)). Livingston County, upon the 
very farm where she was Ixirn. 

The father of iMiss liiid was a pioneer in Liv- 
ingston County, coming hither in 18:5 1, and leav- 
ing behind him at his death the memory of a good 
ami faithful life, which is truly revereil by all who 
ever knew him. His daughter carries on the farm 
and manages affairs very satisfactorily, and she 
has with her .as a companion her widowed sister. 
.Mrs. Catharine Fonda. The home is a delightful 
one. as the house is situated amidst beautiful 
shade trees, which are relics of the primeval for- 
est, and the ladies devote much attention to the 
cultivation of the (lowers which adorn the lawn. 

TIk' parents of our subject were Melzar and 
Lora A. (Wentworth) I5ird, both born in the 
township of Wisner. Berkshire County. Mass. The 
father, wlio.se natal year was 180,"), removed to 
Xew York at the age t>f nine yeai-s and lived in 
Ontario Counly until 18:i;?. Fjion coming to 
Michigan he entered one liuiulreil ami twenty 
acres of Ian 1 1 on section II. Urighlon Township. 



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wlien this coimtrj was a wilderness and no roads 
and 110 conveniences existed. It was in 1X34 
when he brouoht his family to the lug house which 
he had built for them, removing them from Detroit 
to this point with ox-team, making of it a four 
days' ti'ip. The country was full of wild game in 
those days, hut Mr. Bird was no huntsman and did 
not care for tlie pleasures of the diase. He lived 
to clear and improve ids farm, and erected the first 
barn that was put up in the township. As he was 
so early a pioneer he took part in the organization 
of the town.ship and made many a trip to Ann 
Arbur in the interests of both himself and his 
neighbors, as there was no opportunity of purchas- 
ing anything short of that thriving village. He 
passed from earth March 31, 1836. 

In early life Melzar Bird learned the trade of a 
cooper, but after coming to IMichigan he worked at 
the carpenter's trade, .and erected one hundred and 
three buildings in this township and vicinity. For 
the first ten years every coffin which was needed 
within a radius of ten miles was made by him. He 
took boards fi'oni his l)arn wherewith to make the 
first cotlin at the time of the first death in tlie 
township. 

Before coming West Mr. Bird was united in 
marriage at Rome, N. Y., withLora A. Wentworth, 
their wedding da}' being October 26, 1829. She 
was the mother of the following children and 
passed from earth Ai)ril 23, 1869. Her children 
are: Frances A., wife of John Stevensou, of New 
Hudson; Catharine, widow of John Fonda; Julia 
Adeline; Gilbert, Oliver. Margaret, and Harriet, 
all of whom are deceased. Since the j^ear 1826 Mr. 
Bird has been a member of the Presbyterian 
Clinreh and throughout all those years the graces 
of his Christian character and the value of his in- 
tegrity and uprightness made him more and more 
valued b}' his neighbors and friends. He was a Re- 
publican in his political views and greatly inter- 
ested in the future of the party. 

The offices of the Supervisor and Justice of the 
Peace as well as many minor offices, were at diff- 
erent times placed in the hands of ^Ir. Bird and 
his duties executed with vigor and discretion. 
For six years he was Postmaster at Pleasant Yal- 
lev Postoftice. and his faithfulness and intelliofence 



caused him to stand very high in the community. 
His original purchase w.as one hundred and twenty 
acres, to which he afterward added eighty more 
and this is the property which is in the hands of 
Miss Bird. 

She of whom we write received her elementary 
education in the district school and has pleasant 
memories of the log school-house where her first 
studying was done. She afterward supplemented 
the culture there received by a course at the State 
Normal School, but has ever made her home uinm 
the farm which is now hers. Her father never 
sued another man nor w.<is sued by anyone during 
his life-time and he was an exemplary iiiau in 
every sense of the word. 



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AMEL WRKHIT. The owner of a farm 
ij located on section 2, has a family record 
of which he may well be i)roud. He is a 
"^ son of Walter Wright, a native of New 

York and a soldier in the War of 1812, whose call- 
ing in life was that of a farmer. Our sid)ject's 
grandsire was also Walter Wiight, who served as a 
soldier in the Revolutionary War, being in the 
Commissary Department. He was taken prisoner 
three times and was once confined on board a prison 
shii) in New York Harbor. He had large sums of 
Continental money, thus proving his faith in the 
Republic. He died at the age of ninety years, 
highly respected and honored both in and out of 
his family. The first members of the Wright fam- 
ily, which IS of English origin, to appear in Amer- 
ica were tiiree brothers. They settled in Rensselaer, 
N. Y. Our subject's grandfather married a High 
Dutch woman. The maternal parent of the orig- 
inal of our sketch was Hattie (Hubbard) Wright, 
a jiative of Connecticut. ITer father was Daniel 
Hubbard, a smal man uf.acturer located in Pom- 
pey Town.ship. Onondaga County,N. Y.,on a small 
farm where both he and his wife ended their days. 
Our subject's parents were married in New York 
State, made their home in ilanlius Township, 
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years, (liiriiisj: wliicli it ^V!U■i well (. Iciiivd iiiiil un- 
proved. In 18.")1 he witli liis f.-iinily removed to 
Mieliiijan and settled upon the fjirni wliere tliey 
now reside. It wns ;it lliat tune wild land and this 
part of the township was very sparsely settled. 
Their tirst home was very diminutive and was in 
the midst of Ihiekly-tiniliered land hut its owner 
was sueeessful and eonsidered a man of means. He 
here 0|>erated two hundred acres of land and con- 
tinued to improve it until his death, wiiieh oeenrred 
Aujiust 11, I8(J(). Tlie wife died in l«7ll. 

The original of our sketeii is one of ten chil- 
dren, all of whom are now living, the eldest lie- 
iiig at this time (DSDl) eighty j'ears of age, and 
the yoinigest aged fifty years. Tlie_\- find none 
of tiie old settlers now surviving who were here at 
the time of their parent's advent into the .State. 
Daniel Wright is the eighth child in order of l)irth 
his natal day being August 12. l«;51.and his place 
of nativity Onondaga County, N. Y. When his 
parents came West he was twenty years of age. 
Hefore reaching manhood he had received the dis- 
trict scliool advantages and after coining to .Michi- 
gan was an attendant at the log .schoolhonse in iiis 
<listrict. 

He of whom we write was twenty-one years of 
age when he began the work of earning his way 
or himself; he has alw.ays been a farmer, his father 
having presented him with his first possessions in 
the way of real estate. In 18.57 Mr. Wi-ight joined 
his fate with that of Miss .lane Messenger, a daugh- 
ter of Warren and .Jane (Xolile) Me.s.senger. liotii 
natives of Xew York State, who came to .Michigan 
at a very early day and settled in Oakland County 
near Wixon. where 5Ir. Mes.senger died. His widow 
and two children came to Iosco Township. Living- 
ston County aliout 18i")l. They were the parents 
of three children, two of whom are living. Mrs. 
Wright was born November (5. 1H38, in Oakland 
County. Mich., and received the ad\antages of a 
district-school education. 

Our subject and his young liride began their 
domestic life in an old frame iiouse said to iiavc 
iieen the first built in Fnadilla Township. There 
they lived for about foiu' years, after which they 
removed to the old homestead in order to take care 
of the i^arents. which they diil for the remain 



der of their lives, and tiiey have since nnide the 
place their home. They have never been Idessed 
with chihben but are great favorites with old and 
young, their home being a fav(jrite meeting place 
for tlu- people of the township. 

.Mr. Wright is the owner of four hinidred ami 
eighty acres of land and he also owns a farm in 
(Xsceola County, this .State, which comprised two 
two hundred acres, all of which is under the i)l(jw. 
Lpon the farm whei-e he resides there are six 
buildings, a comfortable and .attractive dwelling 
house, barns, shed. c(jrn-house, etc. Aside from 
the work that his father did our sultject has 
cleared two hundred acres himself. He here car- 
ries on general farming and has been a breeder 
of I'ercheron horses, raising some of the finest 
blooded stock. Two years ago lie received *4,0()() 
for some of that stock which he had bred. At the 
present time he has thirty head of these horses. 

Mr. Wright h.as always been very generous in his 
don.ations to church org.anizations, there being a 
fine church devoted to the ]\Iethodist Protestant 
denomination upon his farm, he having built it 
before a cl.ass had been organized and fiom the 
first it has been called Wright's Chapel. Kiich Sun- 
day it is supplied by some of the clergy or laity 
from the Protestant !Methodi.st Association. It is 
so deeded that it can never be incumbered with a 
mortgage .as it always to be known Wright's Chapel. 
Although he is not a member of any church he is a 
Trustee of the society convening in the above- 
mentioned place and both he and his wife take an 
active part in Sunday-school work. 

.Socially, our subject is a member of the Masonic 
order and also belongs to the Howell Commaml- 
ery No. 28. K. T. He is also a member of the 
Farmer's Alliance and has been President of the 
local assf)ciation, now being Lecturer. A strong 
Democrat in political preference, he is a represent- 
ative of the best class of that party in his district. 
For sixteen years he h.as been .Justice of the 
I\'ace, and his [)opularity is shown by the fact 
that he li.as received the largest m.ajority of any 
candidate in this township. He has frequently 
been a delegate to county and .State conventions 
and was the means of organizing the Prohibition 
jiartv in this district. Mr. Wright was the tii-st 



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agriculturist in tliis vicinity to import Percli- 
eron horses. He has devoted much time to breed? 
mg trotting horses, but foiuid that heavy draft 
hor.-5es were more profitable. Therefore he imported 
three head of J'ereherons from which he has made 
liandsomely. Mr. VVrigiit's taxes are represented 
as a third of those in the school district, lie lias 
been a memljer of the Scliool Board for jears. 

The church in whicli the community takes as 
much pride as does its builder and wliich is above 
referred to is a thing of beauty, being furnished 
thoroughly, inside and out. Its inner finish is of 
antique oak. It has a seating capacity of two hun- 
dred and when it was dedicated it was only neces- 
sary to raise 1300 to discharge all indebtedness. 
It is a monument that will I'edound greatly to the 
credit and honor of "Mv. Wright. 



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=^E0R(;E 15. WILKINSON. The word of 
Holy Writ is that "no man livcth to him- 
self," and this is true in a social and busi- 
ness sense as well as in the spiritual meaning which 
was first given to it. The man who leads a self- 
engrossed life, thinking only of his interests and 
confining his activities to selfish ends, not only 
cripples the community in which he lives but 
crii)i)les himself and retards his own progress. 
AVliile he who enters with vigor and activity into 
those organizations which tend to the uplifting of 
our social and financial interests, causes an advance 
all alone- the line, both is his own aggrandizement 
and the prosperity of his neighbors. For this 
reason men who have thought deeply on these 
siilijfcts have learned that organizntion is a necess- 
ity of present civilization. 

Mr. Wilkinson of wliom we write has been pro- 
miiHiit in church relations, in party matters and 
in the Agricultural Society, and lias thus by join- 
ing hands with others given an impetus to the re- 
ligions, social and industrial movements of Marion 
Township. Livingston County, where he resides on 
section 20. lie is not an American by birth, as he 
first saw the liiiht Feliruary 2."). is;!2. in Lincoln- 




shire, Knglaiid. His father, (ieorge Wilkinson, was 
a farmer who was born in the same shire, (Jctolier 
3, 1803, and although he received but a limited 
education, pursued a life of usefulness and integ- 
rity. 

Mary Ann Marshall, daughter of David ^Mar- 
shall, became the wife of George Wilkinson in 
1830. This lady was one of seven children and 
llu' eldest of her parents, being born August i), 
1 s 1 0. To her were born in her union with George 
Wilkinson eight daughters and five sons and to 
tlie eldest they gave the name of George B. 

The ordinary educational advantages of an Eng- 
lish hoy were given to j'oung (ieorge and he then 
took one term at Livingston Seminary, as his fatlier 
was earnestly desirous that his children should 
have better chances in life than he had been able 
j to command. When sixteen years old the boy 
began to work for himself and when only eighteen 
I he decided to leave his ancestral home and come 
j to America. Crossing the ocean he landed in New 
York, where he spent one year after which he 
determined to go farther West, and coming to 
Talmage Summit County, Ohio, spent two years 
there and then came to Livingston County, Mich., 
in 1853. Here he bought a fine tract of land, 
comprising eighty acres where he now resides, to 
which he added twenty acres, which are situated 
(m section 21, and forty acies which lie within the 
bounds of section 16. 

The prosperity which attended tlie laliors of the 
young man made him feel that he had indeed 
established himself in his new home and could now 
afford to take to himself a wife and the responsi- 
bilities of married life. He w.as married in 1863 
to Keziah Fletcher, daughter of AVilliam Fletcher 
of Milford Township, Oakland (nunty, this State. 
She was the third in a family of four children and 
was born September 1, 1842. 

To this happy home came five little ones and the 
fond parents had the anguish of laying away in 
the grave two of this number, Flora ]May and 
Frank F. But three of the number still remain on 
earth, Carrie A., who is now the wife of George H. 
JMyers, of Marion ; Esther II. is the wife of Isaac 
J. Sapp, of Owasso; and Frederick G. IMrs. Keziah 
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and NoveuilKT 28, IKHU. our sul)jeft wjis again 
united in niarnasrc clioosinsr as his companion 
Kuiily Twillcv. dauulitcr of Mr. .lames II. 'rwiliey. 
.Mrs. Wilkinson is amenilier of the Kii-st Hajjlist 
C'hureli of Howell. She is an active worker in the 
Sunday-school of llie Methodist Protestant Church 
of .Mai'ioii. and lakes much nileresl in all clnnch 
m.-ittcrs. 

.Mr. \\ilkinson is a ])romineiit incinlier of the 
.Methodist Protestant Church in wliicli he has for a 
lonsj- while served .as Cla.ss-I.eader and has been the 
Secretary of the County Asi-ricultural Society. 
The principles of the Democratic party embody 
the itolitical views of tiiis gentleman and he is a 
favorite among the Democracy of both t(jwnslii]) 
and county, and has lichl the olHce of County 
Coroner and all of the to«ii>hii) olliccs with the 
exception of Snperviscir. 

ox. S.V.Mr KL L. Kll.norU'XK. one of the 
oldest residents of this county who has foi 
many years lieen pr.acticing law at Lansing, 
came here in early life with his father, .Jo- 
seph II. Kilbonnie, and located in .'\leridiaii Town- 
sliip. eight miles east of Lansing in what was then 
an absolute forest. The father was lioin in C;iiiada 
near the St. Francis River. .May «. IHII!), and re- 
in.'iined there until 183!). Il(> married Miss .Susan- 
nah I luiilies. whose parents ciiiic from llcikshire 
County, Pa. Our subject was born not far from 
Toronto, Canada, .\))ril I;'). 18;!!). Hefore that cAcnt 
\\\< father, who was a Captain of rebel infantry in 
the Patriot War was taken pri.s<iner and held in 
Toronto until he with live others escaped, crossed 
the St. Clair l!i\er at I'oiut Sarnia. reaching De- 
troit where he obtained work as a blower and 
striker in a blacksmith sho|). Ilew.as in the em- 
plo\' of his wife's brother, another refuiice who 
had escaped with him. After they had accninii- 
lated some means they sent for their families, and 
going to Noiihville. Wayne County, liiiilt ;i store 
and l)lacksmith shop. 

In 184.'5 .lose|)h 1 1. Kilbouiiie removed to Ingham 
county and Imuuht a trad of Land which hail been 
occupied by ( hlcf ( )kenios and three hundred Pol- 



t-iwattoniie Indians, hi connection with his brother- 
in-law he built a sawmill and a large double log 
house and opened a store. They pnx'ceiled to clear 
up a farm and remained in that locality until 1849 
when on the location of the State capital at Lan- 
I sing he removed to that city and took charge of 
what was known as the Seymour property, build- 
ing a large .sawmill and attending to its operation. 
At the same time he sold large tracts of land and 
built the first woolen mills which were erected in 
this part of the State. 

The father of onr subject h.ad been a member of 
the Legislature from this district during. the session 
of 1847, at which the ca|iitol was removed to Lan- 
sing, lie was again a member of the Legislative 
body rluring its first .se.ssion at Lansing and re- 
mained there until the spring of 18.")1 when he 
sold out his city property and returned to the farm. 
.'Vbout this time he took a small company across 
the plains to California, acting as their captain 
and remained there until the fall of 1 808. when he 
ii'turned to his faiiii on which he still lives (1891) 
aged eighty-three. His family of five children are: 
William \. who has been in California since I8;").3; 
Caroline .letfers. (h'ceased:.Ioseph II.. .b.. who lives in 
Hig K.'ipids, where he was Postmaster during Cleve- 
l.andV administration; our subject: Kniily L. who 
for twenty years has been engage<l in te;ichingan<l 
is now the Principal of the Larch .Street S<-hool. 
Three children rlicd in early childhood. 

The father of this family has been a member of 
the .Mt'thodisI l^piscopal Church since he was eight- 
een years old and helped to organize it at Lansing 
and for several \ cars was a Trustee. In tho.se early 
days his big log house was used as headcpiarters for 
church services for a large extent of country. 

Samuel L. Kilbourue M'cured his first education 
.•it home, and when he began to go to .school he was 
already familiar with Webster's spelling book, a 
irrammar aiul an arithmetic. The only periodical 
literature wliicli then reachcil their home was a 
blanket sheet published at Philadelphia, entitled 
The Brother Jonathan. The father was Postmaster 
for a number of years and letter jHisljige was 
twenty-live cents. The amount of mail was small 
but money was still more scarce jind it was often 
hard work to get enough change to <r<'t out .a let- 



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ler. A¥ild game and ludians abounded and fever 
Mild auiie prevailed, tlie antidotes to tliat com- 
lilaiiit lieiug- ^loffattV pills and Plia'iiix bitters. 

Our sul)jeet attended school at Okeniosand Lan- 
sing and was a i)upil of the Rev. Richard Taylor. 
Later in 1854 he attended Alliion College, and three 
years after entered the Agricultural College at its 
opening. During his tirst year lie worked three 
iioiirs a day at ten cents an hour to pay his way; 
and by working extra hours he liad paid his ex- 
penses and at the close of the year had ^5 over, 
lie taught school for three months, keeping np 
with his class at college Imt finally lost his place in 
college because his connt>' was over represented 
there and the number must be cut down, lie then 
read law Ity himself and began to i)ractice a little 
in the Jiistice's court, and before he was twenty- 
one he joined the first class in the Law Depart- 
ment at Ann Arbor. After graduation he returned 
to Lansing and began to practice which he has car- 
ried on continuously since. 

Mr. Kilbourne has at different times received 
nominations and was uixni tiie ticket for Circuit 
Court Commissioner in the fall of 18(51, but al- 
though he made a splendid canvass he was defeated 
with the rest of his ticket. During the war lit 
heljied in conducting meetings to secure the en- 
listment of soldiers, making splendid war speeches 
all through this part of the State. He was prepared 
to go into the army himself along with a com|)any 
which he helped to enroll, but his brother Henry. 
wIki had agreed to remain at home and look after 
the family, took the war fever and enlisted in the 
First Michigan Sharpshooters so tliat Samuel was 
obliged to give up going. 

During the years of 18()()-61 Mr. Kilbourne was 
a regular contriliutor to several newspapers, to 
which he sent political articles, and also edited and 
published the Michigdn SMp Journal, a Democratic 
paper published at Lansing. While he was Deputy 
Clerk of the Supreme Court he had full charge of 
the office of that court. He has been a member of 
the City Board of Education. City Attorney and 
served as assistant to the County Prosecuting .\t- 
torney. In 1874 he was elected to the Jjegislature 
from this district on the Democratic ticket, altliougli 
the Republicans h.ad a general m.'ijority. During 



that sessicm he was one of the special committee 
and the author of tlie liill on the liquor traflic and 
reported by that committee which repealed the 
prohibitory law, putting in . its stead the present 
tax system. In May, 1891, he was appointed by 
Gov. Luce a member of the Advisoiy Board in the 
matter of pardons, whu^li office he still holds and 
has been for two years the President of that board. 

Upon the old homestead at Okemos our suliject 
still takes an interest in agricultural pui'suits and 
especially in the breeding of fine stock. He de- 
votes much attention to the raising of standard 
trotting and draft horses as well as to Ik)lstein 
cattle and fine-wool sheep. 

The marriage of ^Ir. Kilbourne in 1862 united 
him with IMiss Louisa F. lUircliard, whose father was 
an attorney from Rome, N. Y.,and became the first 
settler ,in Lansing, building the first house within 
the i)resent city limits. Tills gentleman dammed 
tlie river and liuilt a mill, liul w.as drowned before 
the completion of the mill. ^Irs. Kilbourne became 
the mother of three children, two of whom died 
before tlieir mother. She passed away in 1873. The 
remaining daugiiter, ilary L., is now the wife of 
.lames Harris, of tiiis city. Tiie .second marriage of 
our subject took i)lace November 4, 1874, and 
united him with Jliss Cornelia "W.Trua.x, of Brook- 
lyn. X. Y. He is a member of the Episcopal Church 
and for many years has been a A'estryman in tiiat 
body. He is identified with the ^Masonic order and 
has been Master of Lansing Lodge, Xo. 33, and 
a member of Capital Chapter, Xo. 9. 

Politically, Mr. Kilbourne is recognized ;is one 
of the leading Democrats at Lansing and also of 
the State of Michigan. He has always l)eeii iiillii- 
ential in formulating the policy of the party in 
Michigan. As a stump speaker he is strong, for- 
cible and logical, always inspiring enthusiasm and 
impressing his hearers with his belief in the truth 
he asserts. This has given him a broad acquain- 
tance throughout the State and a corresponding 
influence. He is a hard-working, iiainstaking law- 
yer and strong advocate, occupying an enviable 
position at the bar of the State. His many friends, 
both within the legal fraternity and socially, will 
be pleased to notice his i)ortrait in conuecticm with 
this biographical sketch. 



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VIJON (). IMIirrs. ,>np of the stimng 
liusiiu'ss iiK'ii t»f Howell, is ;i ineinljer i>f 
I the lliiii of I'iiipps A- Sniltli. who are eii- 
gagecl ill tiie liver\ and niiiiiiluis Inisiiio.ss. 
Mr. Plii])|)s liiin.-ielf makes a speeially of liiiyiiiii 
line horses and traiiiiiijf them for the 15oston 
iiiaiket whore he disposes of them. 

Our ^iilijcct was liorn in ( h-ovelaiid, Oakland 
(niiiiiy. Midi., on the ;i(illi of Mareli. 1H58. and 
he is a son of .Iose]ih and Melissa (Peek) Phi|)ps, 
the father lieiiig an Kiiiilishnian and the mother 
a New Yorker. .Joseph Pliipps eaine with his 
l)arents, Thomas and Ann. lo AmeiMca and al 
onee journeyed to Mielii<>aii. Here they settled in 
Oakland County. 'J'hoinas Pliipps was a meclianie 
li\' Iradc lull .after eoniiiit;' to this country devoted 
hini.self to ajjrieuUure and continiied through life 
upon his frirni in Miehigan. lie had a family of 
six chiiilri'ii. whom he trained to maturity in 
haliils of iiulustiN Mild thrift. After coming to 
this eouiilr\' he interested himself in the iiolitieal 
movenientsheri' .-ind wasalliid with the Deinoeratie 
party. 

.losepli Pliipps carried on farming in Oakland 
County for a number of years and then removed 
to Holly, the same county, where he eng.aged in the 
manufacture of brooms, and later made his home 
in Detroit where he enlarge<l his business and em- 
ployed a lainiber of men in his fai'toiy. Like his 
father he is a Denioerr.t in his political preferenees. 
Ilis taniily of eleven children who are all living 
bear tlic following names: Charles T.. William .1., 
Nelson .1., Belle E., P.yroii ().. Herbert A.. Ernest 
I.., Lewis M., Allie M., IJertha E. and Dexter L. 
Joseph Pliipps died in Detroit August 29, IHDl. 

The boyhood of our subject w.ns p.assed upon the 
f.arni and he received his education in the graded 
schools of Holly and followed farming until he 
reached the age of twenty-eight years. 

.Vfter his m.arriage. which occurred when he was 
t weiity-tlii( c years old, he worked fainis on shares 
for five years, after which he took charge of a 
meat market at Hartland. this county, for one 
year and then he came to Howell and engaged in 
the business which now engages his energies. He 
is unusually well adapted to his business as he is 
convers.-inl with the habit- and line points of .•! 



horse ami has handled horses more or less since he 
was eighteen years old. His love for this fine 
animal and his understanding of it. makes him 
thoroughly succe.ssful in its training. 

The niarriage of our subject lo .Miss IJertlm 
Allen, daughter of Emery Allen, of Hartland. this 
county, took place in 1«S2 and four children have 
been granted to them: P.ernice lO., Raymond C. 
Elva E. and Ira. Tlie*Deniocratic party to which 
Mr. l^liipps is attached, placed him for two ycai-s in 
the oftice of Deputy .SheritT of the county, a 
position which he filled with ability and where he 
gave great satisfaction to his constituents. Messi-s. 
Pliii)i)S it Smith keep in their stable .some fourteen 
horses and turn out as gooil (Mitlit^ for the citizens 
of Howell as can be found in the counlv. 



OllX MARSHALL. The owner of the fine 
farm located on .section 27, I'nadilla Town- 
ship. Livingston County, is he wlio.se name 
is at the head of this sketch. His father \^a.s 
(ieorge Marshall, a native of Scotland, and his 
mother, ^Margaret (Mongol) ^larshall.also a native 
of Scotland, the couple being married in the old 
country. They emigrated to America about 1842. 
and settled first in Canada, where they remained 
for two years, thence coming to Michigan in 1X44, 
settling at once on a farm in this towiislii]i. (Jeorire 
Marshall was a stone-cntter aiul builder. The fa- 
mous Trinity Church which has been a bone of 
contention between the original heirs and the trus- 
tees, was built partially under his foremanship. and 
after the completion of that edifice he did the 
pointing. He .a.ssisted in building a large church 
in Itiiffalo, N. Y.. and being an ex])ert in his busi- 
ness at a time when experts were scarce, he did 
much of the finest work. After coming to Michi- 
gan he returned lo New York in order to complete 
ilis work on Trinity Chiircli. 

Finally .settling perinancntly upon his farm, he 
continued to carry it on until his death which oc- 
curred in 1H(!2. The widow still >iii\ ives and lives 



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ill linadilla Township. They were parents of seven 
cliililrcii. only tw<.> are now livlnji. The i.>riginal <it' 
our ^sketch waf^ horn August 2!S. IH.'iH, in the city 
of (ila.sgow, Scotlanrt. on tlie Imnks of the Clyde. 
He was denied edneational advantages, lieing 
obliged to begin work when very young, having 
learned the stone-euttei''s trade when fourteen 
years <if age, and being only sixteen years old when 
coming to Michigan. In 1850 Mr. Marsiiall went 
South, being engaged in work on a large stone 
building that was to he used as a cotton factory. 
He remained South for one year, and then went to 
St. Louis, working at his tiade for one year. Since 
that time he lias devoted himsidf and his energies to 
the de\'elo|iineat of the resources in his line in the 
State of ^lichigan. 

Part of tbe farm on which <iur subject now lives 
is that which his father originally owned, he hav- 
ing purchased eighty acres of his father's pl:ice. 
His farm is finely improved and bears evidence of 
high cultivation. Our subject lias improved a 
farm which he owns in Slockbridge Townshii», Ing- 
ham County, but sold it to advantage. His mar. 
riage took place .Ian nary 1, 1855, his liride being 
Miss Betsey Dodd, a native of Kdinbiirgh, Scot- 
land. The}' arc the parents of four children, only 
three of whom are now living. They are Kittie, 
George and Caroline. Kittie is now Mrs. (). L. 
Smith, of Gregory; Caroline, is Mrs. David vSayles, 
an 1 lives in Tennessee. Mrs. ^larshall died in .Inly, 
1878. and he of whom we write was .again married 
November 17,1881, to .Mrs. Sloanburg. a widow 
who had no children., Siie also was a native of 
Scotland. Her parents were William and Christina 
(Piper) Craig. They were natives of Scotland, be- 
ing married in that country. They emigrated to 
Connecticut in 1882, .and removed to ^Michigan in 
1836, and settled on a farm in I'nadilla Township. 
on section 34. In 1850 they removed to Stock- 
bridge, where they both died, the father in 187(). 
the mother passing aw.ay September 28. 1891. Mr. 
and ^Irs. Craig were charter members of the First 
Presbyterian Church of I'nadilla. Mrs. Craig was 
the last surviving charter member. 

Mr. Marshall is now the owner of two hundred 
and seventeen and a half acres of fine land, a 
large jiart of it being under cultivation. He has 



done a great amount of clearing, and all the build- 
ing where he now lives, having a tine home, which 
is a model of rural neatness und taste. He also has 
good barns, and erected the residence and outbuild- 
ings where his son now lives. !Mr. ^Marshall still 
carries on the work of the farm for himself. His 
wife is associated with the Presbyterian Church, 
while he is liberal in his religious views. He used 
to be a (Granger, and has lieen a member of the 
School Board. He is a Republican in politics, .and 
for three years has done good service as Highway 
Commissioner. The gentleman of whom we write 
started out emiity-handed, and what he now has he 
has earned by the hardest work, having had but 
few advantages upon which other men dej)end. INIr. 
^Marshall carries on general fanning, uniting to the 
culture of the soil the raising and breeding of line 
stock. , 



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AMES MONROE. Among the quiet and 
unostentatious, yet thoroughly worth}' and 
efficient members of the business circles of 
Howell, Livingston Count}, we are gratified 
to name one who bears an honorable name, and 
who, although not claiming descent from the Pres- 
idential chair, tr.aces his lineage tci a hero in both 
the War of 1812 and the War of the Revolution. 
This citizen was Ixu'ii April 27, 1827, in the 
township of Richmond. ( )ntaiio County, N. Y.. and 
is a son of Lemuel and Martha (Rawling) Monroe, 
natives of the Eastern States. Lemuel Monroe was 
a lioot and shoemaker, who had served liiscountrv 
nobi}' in both the Revolutionary War and the con- 
llict of 1812. In his later days he came to Michi- 
gan and lived with a son Francis, until called 
hence by death after he had reached the very ven- 
erable age of ninety years. He had lieen the hus- 
band of three wives, and by them had eighteen 
children, .and our subject is the youngest of this 
[latriarchal flock. 

The mother of James ^Monroe died in New York 
in 1857. and he was reared upon a farm until he 
reached the age of twentv-four vears, but did not 



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li\i' ;it liiiiMc Mftfi' lie wns I'iiiflil yi'ars old. lie iii.-iik' 
lli^ lioiiu' with a I'miiiici' I'ni' niiic yciirs. unci tlicii :it 
till' iH,a' of seven tcfii lei'oived the clutlie?; wliicli 
were eoninionly i;iven to a hound lioy when lie left 
sorvic-e, an<l canic lu .M<ini(.i> Cuuiily. Midi, line 
he i>as.'ied four yi'ais and linn returned to New- 
York, where he worked u])(in a farm for .•^ome four 
years ionufi-. lie then K'arncd tlie trade of a ear- 
peuler, and did not return toMieliiiran until IH;")."). 
Si'ttliiiif in Howell, the yoiinir uian now devoted 
himself to his trade, and tcok u|i the liroader busi- 
ness of e(uilraetini;' and huildinif. lie pureiiased 
on Clinlon Street, where he now lives, two lots and 
a house and w;is married in I^(."i7 to Nancy Garnier. 
dauii'hter of .\nios and Saridi (Eaton) (iarnier. Mr. 
(iariner was a native of (;ernian\', and his wife was 
a \ernuinter. while his daughter was born at Dans- 
ville. LiviuiTstoii ('(uiiity, N. Y. lie was a mer- 
chant tailor, and carried on a large business at 
Dansville. They had one other daughter, ^laria, 
who is now Mrs. Leach, of louia, this State. The 
maternal grandfathei- of IMrs. Monroe was a Eliplia- 
letr Katon. a natixc of ^'ermont, who was engaged 
in the hotel business at Mt. IMoi-ris, N. Y.. and to 
him .and his wife IJet.sey ((ioodrich) Katon, were 
given ;i family of twelve children. 

Mr. and ^Irs. Monroe gave to each of their six 
ehddren an excellent and liberal education, and so 
brought them up that tlii'y have l)ecoine men and 
women of intelligence, u.sefulnessaud a iironouneed 
Christian character, and they :dl lielong to the 
Methodist or 15ai)tist Church. Tlu' oldest. Libby IJ., 
is Mrs. Charles Warren, of (iladwin Comity, this 
State, and has two children. Claud and ^'eroy. 
Dwight 1). has been luiited in marriage with Miss 
Millie Beach, .and they have a little child, Charles 
H.; he is a menilier of the mercantile linn of Mon- 
roe llros.. doing business in Howell; (ieorge I,, is 
his partner. ;iiid they are carrying a line and well 
selected slock of dry-goods ami groceries, boots 
and shoes; Ada M. married Arthur (iarland. a mer- 
chant tailor of Howell, for whom .\rtliiir A., the 
next brother, acts as clerk; Cora M, is :i teacher in 
the Inion schools of Howell, and has a p<jsition in 
the Eourtli AVard school. The political views of 
till' fathi'r of this prominent and highly respected 
family, bring him into sympat'-y and action with 



tlw Kepublican |)art\ . and lie is an intelligent ob- 
server of the great events which must concern every 
.Vmerican, and is deeply interested in the jirosper- 
it\ of our eountrv . 



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(J l*,II, 1,1AM 1.. KNAl'P. Olivii Wendell 
\jM' •'^''""^^^ ^■■'.^■* ll'='l t'""'*' '•- no better illus- 
\y \P tration <jf the great princiiiles of life than 
a wagon wheel. The hnli represents the great cen- 
trifugal force from which ladiate the spokes that 
make tlii' tire efTeetive in its round. Circle within 
circle. If there is anything in sissociation surely 
the lieaulifnl principles should be inculcated in the 
manufacturer as |>!irt of tiie inherent traits of his 
character and one can well believe tlmt he of 
whom we write has been open to these best in- 
lluences. Me is one of the largest manufacturers 
in the town of Howell. Livingston Count}', mak- 
ing various kinds of wagons and carriages, at the 
same time doing general lilacksmithing. Their 
place of business is located on (Jrand Hiver and 
their factory was established in IHtJ.'i 

He of whom we write was born in \Varsaw. Wy- 
oming County. X. Y.. .September 2 L 1H17. Thus 
it may be seen that he has attained the golden 
crest of the heights* from which one may look 
back upon the past which Is irradiated by the set- 
ting sun. Mr. Knapp is a son of .lohn l{. and 
Melinda ( Wilson) Knapp. natives of Canaan. N. 
Y.. anil .Middlebury. \t.. respectively. The former 
is a farmer, although he hail learned the trade in 
his voutli of a boot and shoe maker, but after go- 
ing to Warsaw. N, Y.. he turned his attention to 
agriculture. In IH;^(;he removed to Ohio where 
he occupied several prominent positions within 
the gift of the county. He was .histiee of the 
Teace for many years. His decca.sc occurred in 
1K(M, his wife preceding him by a numlier ofyears 
her decease having occurred in is 17. He was an 
old-line Democrat in his party following. He and 
his wife were in their church relations Baptist and 
Presbyterian respectively. Our subject's paternal 



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grandparcuts wi-rc \Villiain and Olive Annabel 
Knapp. Tlie<r were natives of \'ennont and were 
engaged in .farming. The former went to War- 
saw, N. Y., in IHIL Five years later he met his 
death by being killed liy the falling of a tree. His 
wife's death took plaee in 1833. She was throwr. 
out of a earriage, whieh was dragged by a run ■ 
awav team, her death oceurring shortly after. 
They had a family of eight children. The mother 
was a Baptist and of Knglish descent. 

The mother of our subject, Melinda (Wilson) 
Knapp, was the daughter of Jacob Wilson, a na- 
tive of .Scotland, who came to America in his 
young days and settling in A'ermont, later remov- 
ing to Western New York. In his later life he 
returned to Vermont where he continued to live 
until his death. He was the father of six children. 
.Mr. Kna|)p is one of :i family of ten cluldren 
whose names are as follows: Caroline, Jacob, (Jr- 
sou S., William L. Margaret E., Harriet C, John 
R., Russell A., Theodore B., and James A. But 
four of these children are now living — Jacob W., 
AVilliam L., oiu- suliject, John R. and James A. 

The original of this sketch began the w(.)rk of 
self-supi)ort when only thirteen years of age and 
for a period of six months he worked for $4 per 
month in tlie village of Canaudaigua, X. Y. In 
183ij he went to learn the trade of blacksmith and 
served for two years and then he went into partner- 
ship with his brother. Jacob ^\'., in the blacksmith 
business until 184(5. At the end of that time he 
sold t)ut his interest and engaged in trade in 
tiainesville, Wyoming County, X. Y.. where he 
carried on the business for one year. Thence he 
went to Castile and bought ovit a blacksmith slicrp 
where he was engaged for two years. Thence he 
went on a farm and enjoyed l)ucolic life for two 
years, at the end of that time transferring his lo- 
cation to another ])urchase which he conducted J"or 
one year and then sold out. A deliglitful visit 
was made in low-a after which he returned to New 
York, settling in Warsaw and engaged in his trade 
for four years. 

Agricultural life seems to have been more jjlea.s- 
ing to Mr. Knap)) than any other, fvv he again 
went on a farm, which, however, at the expiration 
of two years, he sold. Again in Warsaw, in April, 



1861, his patriotic zeal aroused bj^ the firing upon 
Ft. Sumter, he immediately offered his services to his 
country, l)eing the third one to enlist in Warsaw. 
In c(mipany with Messr.s. .leukins, Dudley, Bentley 
and Bailey, he raised Company H., Ninth New York 
Cavalry. After enlisting they were organized and 
went in camp at Westfield. Thence they went 
to .Vlbany and were there mustered into service. 
The Isl of J.)ecember, 1861, found the regiment 
to which our subject belonged in Washington, D. 
C., and already he had been promoted to the post 
of Second-Lieutenant. On the first of Jlarch they 
started for Richmond and got as far as Bailey 
Crossroads but finding no enemy returned to camj) 
and soon after were ordered to report at Alexan- 
dria, Va. They took the boat down the river the 
1st of Ai)ril and on the 5th landed at Fortress 
Monroe; The second battle of Bull Run in which 
one and one-half days were spent in hard fighting, 
is a memorable event in the mind of our subject. 
He was also present at skirmishes at Big Bethel and 
Rappahannock. At this time he was on the stalf of 
(ien. Sigel. After being in service for eighteen 
months he was discharged, as for some time he had 
been sick with that common army trouble, dysen- 
tary. He was an etticient officer and received an 
honorable discharge. His resignation was accepted 
February 10, 1863, and since that time he has 
never seen what may be called a really well day. 
Af tei- his discharge Mr. Knapp returned to War • 
saw and worked at his trade until 1864, when he 
removed to Dexter, AVashtenaw County, Alicli., 
and was there engaged in the hardware business. 
He continued to be thus employed until ISCtn, 
when he sold out and removed to Howell where 
he built his present shops. He has employed as 
many as fifteen men and has enjoyed the greater 
l)art of the ijatnuiage in his line in the city for the 
last twenty-five years. For one year he served on 
the City Council. 

In 1841 Mv. Knap)) was united in marriage to 
IMiss Betsey A. Brockway of Warsaw, N. Y. One 
son, Theodore B., was the outcome of this union. 
Mrs. Betsey Knap]) died in Ai)ril, 1846. He was 
again married, his second wife being Elizabeth R. 
(Ireen. Their nuptials were solemnized Sei^tem- 
ber 9, 1847. She was a native of Portage, Wyom- 



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iiiji' ( <iuiil\ . X. ^'.. Mini i> Ilic iiKilliiT (if li\ (' cliil- 
(Iivii — Kloii'iicc. W'illiiun !>.. .ludsoii \V.. Alvn W. 
.■111(1 Kli/.alictli l\. 'riu'odoif U. inairii'il Iviiiily Iv 
Kcilli .iinl i> llic r.-itliiT of two cliildrcn — l">ti'll:i 
;iii(l Walter. I'loiciicc iiiaiTii'd R. II. Htiiiisay and 
is tlio iiiotlHT of two cliildivii — .\iiiiic and Leonard: 
AVilliain. who mairivd Maiiyic I'.iiriows and two 
fliildicii aiv tlu' outiMHiii' of tlii> union — \Valli'i- 
and Mainio; .Tudson W. married Annie iMwin; Alva 
\V. i> tlie hushand of Ida Se^l.T: Kiizalietli is llic 
wife of (li.'irles (ioodnow and is tlie nioliier of 
tliiee eliildreii wliose names are Don. Nina and 
Hlanelie; Kstella married .Miller lieurnian; one son, 
Max. has eonie to them to enliven their honio; 
Walter W. married (iraee Fishrieek; they also have 
one ilauichter. .Iiilia. lie of whom we write is a 
Demoeiaf in his jiolitieal jnedelietion. lie is a 
Mason and also a memlier of Odell Tost. No. 120 
O. A. R., and has held all the ollices exceptins^ that 
of Senior Warden. He is a memlier of the r.ajitist 
C'hureh and havinir lieen eleeted Deaeon twenty 
yeai's ago has ever sinee acted in that ea|iaeity. 



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^J/ ON. DAMKL W. DIN rriv'lF. It must l)f 
^! a pleasinii Ihoualit, that after haviiisr sup- 
plied hundreds of human beings with the 
means of supporting life by hard labor and 
much planning, that one's elTorts have been aji- 
preciated. so that in the afternoon one can jiiit 
aside the cares of the active conllict and retire 
from the immediate oversight of ones interests, en- 
joying the fruit of early labor ami the conseioii.^- 
nes.s that (mes life li;is not liei'ii lived in v;iin — 
that ill supplying the physical wants no opportun- 
ity has been neglected to elevate the higher nature. 
There is .always that beneficent assurance as 
^[eredith expresses it. that "no life can be pure in 
its purpose or strong in its strife ami all life not 
be purer and stronger thereby." 

:Mr. Dintuiff is a native of Yates ( .(iinl\. N. V 
and a .son of Jacob and H.ac-hel (Leddick) DintnrtT. 
natives of Pennsylvania. The former was an ex- 
tensive farmer in Yates County. N. Y.. where he 



l)as.sed the greater portion of his life and finally 
died. He held various oflices in the township and 
stood high in the eonlidenee and esteem of the 
people. Polilie.'illy .lacob Din I in fl wa,~ a K'e- 
piiblicaii. but at Ih.al time one had not so uiiieli 
lei>ure to atti'ud to the coiruptini;- iiilluences of 
political life as now. 

'I'lie original of our sketch was one of twelve 
children. It was fortunate that his father was a 
fanner and raised the products for family eonsunip- 
tioii upon his own place, otherwise some of the 
little ones might have gone hungry. The advant- 
ages of :iii .ac'idemic education were enjoyed by 
our subject and the best of iiilluences were felt in 
the home circle, where he remained iiiilil twent\- 
three j'ears of age, at which time he made a radical 
changes to what was then considered the far West, 
but to-day being only a twenty-four hours' journey 
or but little more from Michigan to any place. He 
located in W.-islitenaw County, taking up a farm 
in I'ittsfield Township. His place embraced two 
hundred acres of line land, but for some reason, 
unknown to the writer, it did no* exactly suit its 
purchaser, so at the end of a 3'ear he sold it and 
removing to Handy Township, Livingston County, 
imrchased a farm on section 12. This first pur- 
chase comprised eighty acres. Later he added 
one hundred .lercs more and in time forty acres 
more w.as added to his estate. This he partly im- 
proved. There is upon the place a good fariii- 
lion.se, being ctnnniodions and comfortable .a.s a 
dwelling. There are also excellent barns uiion the 
place. His general attention has been paid to the 
prod net ivene.ss of the ground and it has been made 
to resemble in the exipiisite neatness of its wood 
lol> the richness of verdure of if.s [lasturage and 
lield.-. one of the model larms of old estates. 

Mr. DinturlT was a member of the .State legislature 
f(jr this county in \X1'2. having held the position 
for two years. It w.as during his term vf ollice 
that the'laws were passed for the iiicoi'])oration of 
l-'owlerville ami he with other members of the 
IIon.se seciiii'd Hie pas.sage of a bill, annulling the 
railroad lioiid> of this county that had not pa.-^sed 
the third hands. Indeed many of the revi.sed laws 
that look to the bettering of the (leople in this 
locatitv are due to ilie foresight and judgment of 



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our subject. By inheritance and conviction he of 
whom we write is an adherent of the Republican 
platform, having great confidence that its princi- 
ples, in spite of the machinations of unscrupulous 
men, will survive the blasts of critical opinion and 
adverse parties. Socially a jMason.he has attained 
to a high degree. 

Our subject's marriage took place. November '.). 
1854, at which time he was united to Miss Mary 
M. MciNLaster, of Potter, N. Y. .She is a daughter 
of David J. and Laura (]\Iansfleld) McMa.ster, 
natives of New Yt)rk State. Having no children 
of his own Mr. Dinturff has been the foster father 
of one young girl who has taken the place of a 
daughter to him, Ella A. Hatch by name. She is 
a talented and attractive young lady who is a 
graduate of the Fowlerville High School. In 1874 
oin- subject left his farming interest and came to 
Fowlerville, purchasing a fine residence on the 
corner of Grand River and Ilibbard streets. Re- 
presenting the best class of jieople in this district, 
his home is the meeting-place for the wit and cul- 
ture of the viciriity. Since giving up the active 
interest in his agricultural business, the original of 
our sketch has been engaged in the mercantile 
business in Fowlerville for three years. He with 
his wife is an attendant at the Methodist Eiiiscoiial 
Church, and has been a liberal contributor to the 
supi)oi't of the same. He is one of the solid and 
substantial men of this county. A man of high 
character, he iirides himself that his word is as 
good as his bond. 



ILj^IRAM HAYNES. The narrative that relates 
llTltj the life history of our subject is chiefly con- 
•k\^ nected with rural residence and agricul- 
i^Sy) tural occupation. It began in a modest 
little country home in New York State which was 
made by his parents — Reuben and Maria (Ilance) 
Haynes, the former a native of one of the Eastern 
States and a resident of New York foi- a number of 
.vears; there he died. Mrs. Haynes' father was also 
a rendent of New York. Our su)>ject was one of 



five children. He was born Sept. 27, 1825, and at 
the age of twelve years he came to Michigan and 
settled near Adrian, Lenawee County, and six 
years later came to Ingham County and has ever 
since made his home in this State with the exce[)- 
tion of four years spent in AVisconsin. 

When a young man our suljject was engaged in 
work on a farm by the month. His first venture 
in real estate was in Wisconsin, where he pur- 
chased a farm. This he traded for seventy acres of 
land and took up seventy acres more from the 
(iovernment and has since added eighty acres to 
his purchase, now aggregating two hundred and 
twenty acres in all. At one time his farm com- 
prised three hundred acres. The tract of which he 
is now owner has been cleared and broken and 
good buildings have been erected thereon. 

At the age of twentj'-Hve our subject was mar- 
ried in Ingham County to Miss Sarah Worden, an 
early settler of Oakland County where he died. 
The union of our subject and his wife has been 
blest by the advent of nine children. They are 
Morris, Antony, Louisa, Lewis, Lydia 1\I., John and 
two children wlio died in infancy. The farm 
whereon he now resides has been his home for 
thirty-two years and when he first came heic it 
was as wild as natiu'e would allow. There were 
many denizens of the forest and our subject, hav- 
ing been a great hunter, has killed many a deer 
and wild turkey. 

Diu'ing the war he of whom we write was draft- 
ed into service, but hired a substitute and thus 
escaped the experience that has saddened the life 
of many a man. He is a farmer who has eagerly 
emljraced every opportunity tending to improve- 
ment in the science of agriculture. Although like 
most men, he is interested in politics, he is not 
wedded to party, casting his vote for the man he 
thinks best qualified for the position regardless of 
party. Honorable and respected, the confidence 
that his townsmen have reposed in him has been 
shown by his election to a number of offices. He 
has been Township Cleik of Wisconsin and Director 
of his school district for a number of years, and 
has been District Treasurer for six years and is at 
present the incumbent of that office. Much credit 
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of liis calling, as he began without anvtliinu; ami his 
property, which is free of incnnihiaiicc, lias been 
earned liy hardest lal)or. Our sulijcct <lrove liie 
second Irniii tlml c\-er went tlirniiuh W illinnisloii. 
it licinii an ox-team and at the time tliere was no 
|ii)|)ul;itiiin at all where the present thriviiiij little 
city ot W'iliiaMislDn is Found. The trip to niiil in 
tiiose days occupied a week anil tin' incidents anil 
hardships of pioneer life are not unknown to him. 



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SO- 






jOSKI'll 1!IT{(;KSS. The -enllciuan. who 
resi.leson the farm on section 1. llMrll:inil 
Townsiiip. Livinii'ston County, is one of the 

earl\- settlers of ]Michigan, coming here in 

183(; with his pan-nts. The country was little 
more .than a wilderness at that time, and wild 
animals and Indians were much more familiar 
sights tli;in the face of a white man or woman. A 
contemporary tells us of an experience that he had 
while out at woi'k in the clearing burning logs. 
As night came on. the wolves prowled out from 
the' forests, and made a howling, snapping circle 
about the young man. They were only deterred 
from pouncing on him by his throwing fiery brands 
from the great heap of burning logs, into their 
midst. The early settlers were ever on the alert 
for enemies of this nature and doubtless this fact 
developed in them a prudence, and yet (piiekne.ss 
to take advantage of favorable moments that was 
no small cause of their siicces.*. 

Our subject is a native of Cayuga County. X. V.. 
born March 26, 1832. He was a sou of Scth IJurge.ss, 
a native of the same .State, who with his family came 
to Michigan and settled in Independence Town- 
ship. Oakland County in 1836. Their home liere 
was a little log hut 12x14 feet in dimensions. 
Here they lived for two years, at the eii<l of which 
time they realized the dignity .-lud elegance of a 
double log house. T'hey remained in Oakland 
County until 18o6 when they moved to Livingston 
County and here they have lived ever since. Seth 
Burge.ss, our subject's father, still survives at the 
patriarchial age of ninety-four years. lie enjoys 



the distinction of being the oldest man in the 
county. Our subject's mateinal grancifalhei' w:is 
.loseph Whipple, a native of New Il;impshiie. who 
also I'migrated to .Michigan at an early day. com- 
ing here in 1832 at which time he located foit\- 
acres of (lovcrnment land in Independence Town- 
ship. O.tkl.inil County. He was a cooper by traile 
and here found plenty of work among the early 
settlers, being himself one of the very lirst to 
locate in Oakland County, where he re-sided until 
his death wliicli took place in J)cceinl)er. 1862. 

( )in' subject's mother was before her marriage, a 
Mi.ss Fannie \\'hipple, a most honorable name in 
the early history of .Michigan and one having 
some brilliant representatives who are living at 
the present time. .She was a native of New Ilam|>- 
shire. and died in Oakl.'ind County on the old 
home |)lace that her father had taken up from the 
(Jovernment. She was the mother of seven chil- 
dren, there being four sons and three daughtei-s, 
wlio.se names are as follows: Mary Follett, Chester 
()., .Vmanda. Simeon 1). \V., .M;utin li.. Joseph W. 
and .Martha. The eldest daughter died while in 
Los Angeles, Cal. Chester resides in Howell. Liv- 
ingston County, .\manda is the wife of William 
Ilanimond, and resides in Clarkston. (l:dvi;ind 
County, .Mich. .Simeon lives in Flint. .Maitin 
lives in Holly, Oakland County, and is the owner 
of one hundred and sixty acres of line land which 
he has under cultivation. ^lartlia is the wife of 
.Sanford llilderbrant. and is a resident of Ilarlland 
Township. ( hir subject is the. sixth child in order 
of birth, and tlie fourth sou. He was a wee 
toddler when his pnrents came to this State, not 
old enough to realize anything but the fun and 
novelty of their situation. On the way hither his 
father carried him on his back eighteen miles, and 
his earliest recollection is of their home in the little 
log house that his grandfather had built in In-- 
dependence Township. Oakland Connly. They 
had not :ni over supply of worldly |iosse.ssioiis oi- 
filthy lucre, and were obliged to pawn their goods 
to get through, but the little log hou.se. though 
tilled alnuist to overtU)wing with the grown people 
and children, was the abiding pl.aee of great hearl.s 
that were \indauuted by such obstacles .is they en- 
countered, anil was the scene of the warmest affec- 



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tion and true content, and altliongli the first 
winter was niemorahle because of its severity and 
the fact that so niau\' were crowded into such a 
small space, it wa»s brightened hy an immense fire- 
place, which, however, had b<it a stick chimney. 

Tiie father <if our suliject set aliout clearing 
up the farm and as the openings widened and 
the ground was enriched with the charred em- 
l)ers of stumps and logs, he set out a line 
orchard that afterward yielded a rich harvest, 
although at that time fruit was a luxury tliat couhl 
be enjoyed by l)ut few. Both the maternal grand- 
parents and our subject's mother jiassed away on 
111 is place. j\Ir. Burgess continued to reside with 
his father until he was twent3'-one years of age, at 
which time he determined to set out in the world 
for himself. He had at that time a yoke of steers 
and twelve shillings in monej'. The proud posses- 
sor of these riches, he went to Hamburg. His first 
investment was in fort^' acres of land, whicli he 
sold and upon which he made 1150. He then 
went back and bought forty acres of the old home- 
stead and remained there for about three years, j 
during which time he was engaged in improving 
the place. In 1855 he came to Ilartland Township, 
and located on section 34, where he purchased a 
farm of one hundred and sixty acres, remaining 
there one 3'ear. After that he made several trades, 
owning at different times here three farms, placing 
improvements on each and building good houses. 
Mr. Burgess located where he now resides in 1869. 
Here he has a farm .of one hundred and twenty- 
seven acres, most of which is under cultivation. 
He erected his present resident in 1877, at a cost 
of ^2,300. It is a fine two-story frame dwelling, 
substantial and attractive in build and style. He 
has built good and commodious barns and out- 
houses on his place and in fact has a first class farm 
that is free of all mcumbr.ance. 

On July 5, 1856, our sultject was united in mar- 
ried in Independent Township, Oakland County, 
to Miss Mary Jacobs, a native of this State, having 
been born in Genoa Township, Livingston County, 
December 28, 1839, where she was reared and edu- 
cated. They have one son whose name is Melvin 
J. He was born October 10, 1859, and resides 
with bis parents at home, assisting his father with 



conducting the work of the farm. He of whom 
we write is a Democrat in his political following. 
He has been Highway Commissioner and is very 
well known in this coinity, being a genial. affal)le 
man. whose interests and sympathies are with his 
neighbors and fellow men. Our subject is the 
<)W'ner of some fine stock of registered Jerseys, and 
has purchased horses in Ohio that are of purest 
breeding. He matches teams and sells them in 
Detroit. He has done a general business in the 
county and township in threshing, having for 
\ears had almost a monopoly of that industry, and 
having found it to he quite jirofitaljle. He has 
been tlic owiu'r of three new threshing machines 
that were of the latest and most approved style. 
Our subject was drafted in the late war. but 
furnished a subsitute at the expenses of -^1, 01 111 
and also heli)ed clear the town of every call. 




^UIAULE.S SULLIVAN, a representative 
farmer and stock-raiser, residing on sectiDn 
'^' 23, Locke Township, Ingham County, was 
born July 6, 1846, in Ashtabula County, Ohio. 
His father, James Sullivan, is still living, <and is a 
native of New York, and the mother Nancy A. 
(Crowell) Sullivan, was born in New England and 
has now passed from earth. 

When only two years of age oiu' subject migrat- 
ed with his parents to Ionia C'ount^'.^Iich., whence 
they came a little later to Ingham Ctinnty and 
made their home upon the farm where Charles 
Sullivan now resides. The father is now in his 
seventy-third year and greatly enjoys seeing the 
improvements which have been made throughout 
all this region, since the early pioneer days when 
he underwent hardships in the primeval forests. 
Of his six children five are living, namely: Erne- 
line, wife of Gardner Rice; Charl(*s; Ali>honzo. 
Benjamin, and Eva, wife of John A. Cox. The 
son who has departed this life was AVilliam who 
died while in the service of his country. The 
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CliiirifS Siilli\:iii liMil lii> cii-ly ti':iiiiiM;:' fiii' life 
ill llu' woodri of Iiiuliaiii t'tmiitv and liis I'din'jitinn 
was oblaiiu'd in IIr' pnlilic schools. Ik' has hi'on a 
thorough and systematic reader throu<>fhout life 
and lias larjicly broadened his view of men and 
things, througli access to l)ooivs and papeis. Hi- 
marriage oeciirred .lanuary 20. 1H(!7. iiisln-ide lieinii' 
Kliza Chamliers, daiighliM- i>( ••eorge Chanilieis. 
Kiiglish jjeople wiio came to this State before the 
l>irth of their daugiiter. .^Ir. Siiiliwiii owns a line 
farm of one liiindred and forty acres and his pro- 
perty lias been largely gained through his own 
industry and good management. 

The Methodist Ki)isco|ml Church i> the ri'ligiou> 
body with which Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan aieactive- 
1\' connected, and the political views of this gentle- 
man ally him with the l{ei)ubiicaii jiarty. lii- 
mother died February 21, 18)Sl, and his father who 
is a septuagenarian, is one of the oldest pioneers of 
Locke Townshi]). The home and the farm of Mr. 
Sullivan are among the liiust in this vicinity and 
it is the center of much hospitality and social life. 



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^^ LKX.VNDKU MOMiOi;. .Viiioiig the solid 
i Wfu { business men of Leroy Township, Ingham 
i t'ounty. the judgment of no one is more 
respected and sought tiian that of him 
whose name is at the head of this sketch. Far- 
sighted, discreet, iirudent. and with high executive 
ability, he is well qnalilied to take the lead in niat- 
teis of tinancc or local government among his co- 
laborers. He is a native of New York State, having 
been born in ( )ntaiio Couuty, .July 2H. 1X2"). He 
is a son of Lemuel and .Martha ( Kolin ) Monroe. 
His father was a Revolutionar\' soldier, being about 
sixteen years of age when he joineil the army. He 
was also in the War of 1HI2. ;ind one of his sons. 
Archibald .Monroe, a half-lirolher of our subject, 
gave his life a sacrilice to the freedom of his coun- 
try in the battle of (^ueenstown Heights in which 
the father also fought. Many of the exclusive 
four hundred of Mew York who make much of 
their ancestrv :ts is now the fashion, ha\i' not ^o 



good a claim to the respect of loyal .Vmericjins a.s 
h;is he of whom we write, his father being a twice 
loyal servitor of the Continental army. On the 
paternal side <jf his house .Mr. .M<uiroe is Scotch. 

Our subject's sire was three times married and 
he w:is the father of a large family of children, of 
whoiii live only now survive. They are: Francis, 
Lhiiira, .\bigail, James and .Mexander. He of 
"horn we write was reared to manhood in his na- 
ti\'e county and State. His education was of the 
most desultory character, having early to give his 
time and attention to the work of the farm. When 
only ten years of age he was lioiind out to Judge 
Smith, of Ontario County, X. V.. .and remained 
with him until he reached years of majority. The 
slight advantages that he had in an educational 
way, were supplemented by study in the winter 
evenings by the light of the open tireplace. 

.\boiit 1817 the original of our sketch came to 
Livingston County, .Mich., and resided there a 
number of years. He then cleared a farm, which 
he imin-oved tosonie extent but gave up in order to 
renio\ e to Ingham County and in 185!) he settled 
u|)oii the place where he at present resides, having 
trausfornied it from its original wild state to that 
of the most finished agricultural work. He was 
married October 2."), 1H;')(I. his bride being Charlotte 
Smith. She bore him two children — Selden and 
Dwight. both of whom are now deceased. Mr.-. 
Charlotte .Monroe departed this life April 7. IS'.M). 
For so many years the .sympathetic and tender 
companion of her hu-sband's career, a great voi<l has 
been left in his life by her decease. 

Mr. Monroe is the ])roprietor and owner of one 
hundred acres of line laud that is mostly under 
cultivaliou. He has served as Township Com mi.s- 
sioner. lilling the ollice to the satisf.action of 
his constituents. .\ Uepnblican in his political 
convietion. our siiliject has the greatest faith in 
the future prosperity of the country under (he 
exi'cutioii of the laws as enacted by his party. 
He is a pi'ogre.ssive and public-spirited man. ready 
and anxious t(j do all tli.-it is for the advantage of 
iiidi\idiial or general pros|)erity in Ins district. 
Liberal in his religious views, our subject's wife 
was during her life a member of the Methodi.-I 
Protestant Church. .Mr. Monroe is a line t\pe of 



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the Wolverine pioneer and is greatly respected by 
all who know him. AVe take great pleasure in pre- 
senting him in this A mum to the notice of many 
who know and highly regard him. 



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1^. R. WILLIAM DIXN COOPER. This 
prominent professional man of Lansing, 
Ingham County, having his office at No. 
218 South Wasliington Street, is a gradu- 
ate of the Homeopathic Department of the Uni- 
versity of Michigan. He took his diploma in the 
Class of '83 and for awhile followed general prac- 
tice, hut now gives iiis special attention to surgery, 
particularly in tlie line of the treatment of can- 
cers, wliich he treats both surgically and hy medi- 
cinal remedies as the case may demand. He has 
associated with liini Air. .1. F. Cooley. 

Dr. Cooper was horn in Louisville, Ky., Novem- 
lier 9, 18o9, and is the son of P>lijah N. and Ella 
(Owen) Cooper. Wlien young the parents came 
to Hillsdale, this Stale, and his father, who was a 
pliysician and surgeon located successively in 
various parts of the State. The young man de- 
cided to folk)w his father's profession and read 
medicine with him, taking his lectures at the Uni- 
versity of Michigan from winch he was graduated 
as we have before said. 

The young doctor located first for general prac- 
tice at A\'ayne, tliis Slate, and tt)tik such cases as 
came to him, yet all the time i)ursuing his special 
studies in surgery and perfecting himself in that 
branch of the healing art, following up his re- 
searches which liis special studies at llie university 
had opened u)) to him. Immediately after his 
graduation he had served as assistant to the Chair 
of Obstetrics and (iynecoU)g\- and after that went 
to Wa\ne. His exceptional advantages liad pre- 
l)ared him for Ids life work and two years later he 
removed to Lansing and opened his office here. 
Before settling down to work lie took a vacation 
and a trip to the Soutii wiiicli refreshed and re-in- 
vigcuated the young student and prepared liim for 
the hard work to wliicii he had settled for life. He 



is having excellent success with his special cases 
and is building up a growing iiractice. His stand- 
ing in the profession is evinced by las meml)ershii) 
in various societies of repute, as he lielongs to the 
International Hahnemann Society and the Ameri- 
can Institute of Ilomeopatliy as well as the State 
Society. 

Dr. E. N. Cooi)cr, tlie father of our sulijecl, was 
born near Dayton, Ohio, and read medicine at 
Jackson, Mich., taking his degree in Ann Arbor. 
He pursued his practice through life and up to the 
date of liis deatli. which took place in Jackson, in 
1880. Tlie mother of our subject died wlien lie 
was rpiite young, and he has only one sister — Kate 
— wife of Ula Mead, of Battle Creek. Dr. Cooper 
stands higli in the social circles of Lansing, and it 
is the hope of his friends that before long he will 
establish a home here by choosing a comiianion 
whose amiable traits and high character will match 
his own and whose influence will add still more to 
the high reputation which he bears among his fel- 
low-citizens. 



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' ()IIN W. SM.M.LEY. Among the re|iie- 
sentatixe and successful farmers of Handy 
Township, Livingston County, the name of 
John AV. Smalley may well appear, as his 
small and well cultivated farm of fifty acres on 
section 21, bears every mark of the hand of a pro- 
gressive and systematic farmer. Air. Smalley is a 
AA'olverine by liirth, having entered this life in 
Lodi, AV'ashtenaw County, in 1836. His parents 
grew up and were married in the Empire State, 
and came to Michigan in the year of 1835, settling 
in AVashtenaw County. The father, David Smalley 
here engaged in farming and having a fine tract 
of one luiiidred and forty acres carried it on suc- 
cessfully until death ended his labors. He was an 
influential man in his township and filled the of- 
fices of Supervisor and Treasurer therein witli 
o^reat credit to himself and profit to the citizens of 
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ia:liilcii liMMK'ut' l!cli('<'<';i Mel )liu:ll. \v;is lioril ill 
Now York niul hcc-inic the nintlicr uf four cliildreii. 
(ieorjic .luhn. ,M!ii\ iiinl .IniiU's. She is still liviiiij 
in Waslitcn.-iw Cumily. 

Tiic fatiiiT of our suhjoct was no politician, yot 
was (U'i'i>ly interi'sti'd in jniblic att'aiis ami volt'd 
the Deniofratie ticket, lie was a sincere and earn- 
est Christian and a lieliever in the doctrines of the 
Seventh Day IJaptists. His farinini;' operations 
weri' unusually successful anil he liecaine a man of 
wealth, lie accomplished much sci'ious ))ioneer 
work and cleared :nid improved a lai'a'e tract of 
land. His father. Henry Smalley was a New .ler- 
sey man who came Wi'st with hi.s .son David and 
remained with him the remainder of his life. He 
was keenly interested in politics and was a worker 
for the Democratic party. His death took place 
on election day and his last words were "how <joes 
the ('lection.-"' He had been a Revolutionai-y sol- 
dier an<l felt a keen interest in the welfare of the 
country he had helped to free from the liriti.sli 
rule. 

The boyhood of .lohn W. .Smalley was passed 
u]K)n the farm in Washtenaw County until he 
i-eached the aire of lifteen years, and he there took 
hi.s schooling. He then with his brother John 
took cliar£i:e of the old homestead and they worked 
it toiiether for six years, after whicli he came to 
Ihnuly Township and settled upon eisjhty acres of 
laud where he now lives. This was in IHoT, and 
since that time he h;is dispo.sed of some thirty 
acres of that land. He has cleared off his farm 
and ])l!iced upon it jjood substantial buildini>s and 
other lirst class imi)rovements. 

I'pon .Mr. Smalley's farm oui' may always find 
an excellent ijrade of cattle and horses. He pays 
esjiecial attention to .lersey cattle and his sheep 
and h(iL;s are well-kept and of jjood breeils. \:\y'\- 
ous townslii|) otiices have been ifiven int<j his 
hands and he has executed the duties pertainiiiij 
to thini with judifment and success, so that the 
residents of the townshi|) feel i^reat confidence in 
his practical ability. 

Nothinii: in the life of Mr. .Smalley is more 
worthy of note than his marriMire in 1 Hot), as he 
was then united with Miss Maryaret Boy land, a 
native of tlu' Ki'Vstone St.ate. tuid the dautjhter of 



.l;icob Uoyland. To her were };r!iiited thice chil- 
dren, and two of them are still livinj;. The oldest 
son, David U'. is unmarried but William II.. was 
some years ago united with Miss Katie Ilaveland 
of Io.seo Township and li.as two cliai'min^ children 
(luy and Myra. Mrs. .Marfjaret Smalley pa.s.sed 
from earlh in 1«8;3 and Mr. Smalley was a second 
time mairied. The |iresent Mrs. Smalley bore the 
maiden name of Kmma Zimmerman and she was a 
resident of Washtenaw County, Micli., and a 
dauirhter of Frederick Zimmerman. f(n- wlnun she 
has named her only child. Frederick. He of whom 
we write is interested in all movements pertaining 
to the welfare of the farmin": commnnity and is 
an active member of the (i range. The DeuHjcratic 
p.'irty in it* declarations has embodied the political 
principles in which ^Ir. Smalley believes, and In- 
casts his \ote for the candidates of that bodv. 



L<^^II()M.VS WOll.D.S. Among the .self-made 
/v^Y men of Livingston County none deserve 
^1^^' greater credit than the subject of this 
notice, who is in possession of a eoniforUible 
amonnt of this world's goods, obtained by hard 
labor and good management. .\t the beginning, 
when he started out in life for himself, lie made it 
a rule to live within his income, and this resolve, 
closely followed, has given him an independence 
than which there is no more plea.sant feeling in 
the world. In possession of a tine home and a 
si)lendid family, together with the respect of his 
fellow-men, he surely has much to make life desir- 
able. His occupation through life has been prin- 
cipally agriculture, and he ha.s made his own w:iy 
in the world since he wiis ten years old. 

The parents of our subject, Robert and Kliza- 
beth Woulds, were natives of Linctilnsliire, Kng- 
land. where their son Thomas was born Xovemlier 
1 1. I82(). He was reared on his father's farm, and 
as the nearest school was three miles distant, his 
educational advantages were limited, and he is 
mainly self-educated. For a .short time he lived 
with an uncle, and at the aire of thirteen he 



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worked out on a farm for X! per yuar. WIkii 
he was of age he entered Ihi' raUroad euiiih)y. 
and worked on a railroad for nearly two \ears, 
thus being enabled to save some mone^-. In the 
fall of 1852 he embarked for the United States, 
and after a monotonous voyage of six weeks he 
arrived at the harlior of New York. 

Thence Mr. Woulds jiroeeeded to Pennsylvania, 
where he worked on a farm in AVayne County. 
The year 18.")4 marked his arrival in Michigan, 
when going to Pontiac he purchased a team and 
went to Milford. lie remained for a time, work- 
ing for Gov. Bingham on a farm m (ireen Oak 
Township, this county. On .Tune 28, IS.'Jf, lie 
Ixiught a farm in Brighton Townshi]), on section 
Uj, and removing thereto he commenced the work 
of improvement. In 1850 he purchased two hun- 
dred and forty acres where he now lives, and has 
since devoted his attention assiduously to clear- 
ing and improving the place, embellishing it with 
a sulistantial set of farm buildings, and making it 
out- of the finest estates in the townshii). 

In tlic fall of 18o2, abovit four weeks before lie 
set s.ail for America, Mr. Woulds was married to 
Hannah Abbott, who, like himself, was a native of 
England. Their married life has been congenial, 
aixl they have estalilished a solid reputation 
among their neighbors for their sincere hospitality 
and kindly manners. Politically, Mr. Woulds is a 
Democrat, although he is by no means an otHce 
seeker, preferring the quiet of home life to the ex- 
citement of official duties. lie now owns one 
hundred and sixty acres of land, well cultivated, 
and, with its various buildings, ccmiprising one of 
the best homesteads in the community. 



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UGUSTUS A. IIOWAIM). Tlie m.ain lea- 
tures of oiu' subject's life are those of 

' many ant)ther, having had but few oppor- 
(^ tunities as a boy. His educational advan- 

tages, though consisting of but three months in 
each year and such odd times as he could be spared 
from the duties of a farm, were improved as far as 




possible and in later years, possessed of a strong 
individuality and perseverance, he, liy reading and 
investigation, so broadened and enlarged his earlier 
studies as to become an intelligent student of the 
topics of tlie day as well as a wide-awake business 
man . 

Augustus A. Howard, who has one of the largest 
and most pojiidar grocery and crockery houses in 
the city of Mason, Ingham County, was Ijorn in 
Perrysburg, Ohio, January 3(t, 1826, in the early 
days of the j)ioneers of the Maumee A'alley. He 
is the eldest son of Robert A. and Priscilla ( Nelsen ) 
Howard, who were natives of New York, emigrat- 
ing to the Buckeye State as early as 1822. Their 
son was reared on a f.arm acquiring the sturdy 
characteristics of the early settlers, and here, also, 
in the immediate neighborhood she who was des- 
tined in later years to share with him the burdens 
and cares of life was reared. As children and 
young people they were schoolmates and, when 
growing to manhood and womanhood, recognized 
in each other an affinity and concluded to make 
the journey of life together. They were married 
December 31, 1849,, at which time the groom was 
about twenty-four years of age. The bride, Sarah 
Anna Graham, was the daughter of Thomas and 
Anna (Norton) (iraliam. and was born in the State 
of New Y'ork March 23, 1826. Her mother was a 
native of Canada, her father's early history being 
surrounded with a halo of mystei-y and ronianee or 
even tragedy. As near as his memory would \tev- 
mit, at about eight or nine years of age while with 
his younger sister, standing on the dock at his na- 
tive home either in England or Scotland, he was 
induced by the Captain to go on board a vessel 
lying near at hand. The vessel was soon ]iut to 
sea bearing the stolen child whose only farewell 
was the tears of an astonished and frightened sister 
remaining on the dock. As the Captain always 
treated him very kindly, requiring no work from 
him and favoring him \\ith undue attention it was 
the conclusion of his later years that the abduction 
was the plan of a step-mother to favor the jiro])- 
erty interests of her own children. 

jMissed by his father, the latter wrote toa lirother 
residing on an island, tlie name of which has been 
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and SOI' to his safe lotuni limiic. lli' was ruimil, 
plact'd in care of a fiieiully caiitaiii lioinoward 
liuuiid. TIk" boat was (.■apturccl liy the Algerians 
Mild all on liiiaicl taken prisoners, hut before reacb- 
iiiy land they were ship-wrecked. Tlie i.'id was 
picked up, taken in ciiar<j:e Iiy an Kiiizlish lady on 
lier way to Aiiierica and soon lamled in New York. 

After Mr. Howard's inarriaL;e he remained at tlie 
(ihl homestead assistini;' at tlie farm for about two 
years and then laiinchi'd Into the mercMiilile Imsi- 
iiess at Bryan. ()hio, openiii<j; a dr\'-ii;oods store in 
liartnershi]) with a brother. lie was thus occui>ied 
for about three years, but through the disastrous 
iiilluence of what is known as "wildcat specula- 
tion" they lost their stock. He afterward removed 
to lUitler. Ind.. in wliii-h |ilace he was enjjaged in 
various branches of mercantile Imsiness for about 
eisjlit years, sometimes on sjilary and sometimes in 
in business for himself. 

In 1867 our subject removed from Butler to 
]\Iason, this St;ite, where he bec.'ime enu:;iaed in 
general luerchanilise with .1. L. Isheiwood. which 
firm continued for some three \-e;irs. ,\t tlii' ex- 
[liration of tiiat time they sohl oul their slock and 
good-will to Horatio I'ralt :ind .Mr. Howard re- 
mained with him two years. The four succeeding 
years he s])ent in the West, nineteen months as 
sul)-agent at Ft. Knndall, Dak., serving under his 
brother who was the I'nited States Indian .Vgent 
to the Spotted Tail .Sioux; eighteen months on the 
Xortli Platte, in the vicinity of Ft. Laramie, dur- 
ing the .Sitting Bull war and massacre of (ien. 
Custer and his command, and the balance of the 
time assisting in the removal of the Poiica Indiaus 
froin Dakota to Indian Territory. 

On his return to the Cenlral .States oiw subject 
again came to Mason and launched into mercantile 
business associated with X. A. Dunning, .\fter 
dissolving this partnership he and Ins son opened 
their present business house under the linn n:ime 
of Howard iV- Son, in .\pril. IH.so. To Mr.aiid .Mr.s. 
Howard were bfjrn three children, two of whom 
are now living. A son, W. E.. was born .\pril 1 1. 
lM.'»2.and is now equal p.artnei' in the business lieie 
carried on. He is married, liis wife Laving been 
in her maiden days Alice .1. Wlieeloek, born at l)e 
Pevster. X. V.. in IH.jI. Their marriage w:is cele- 



brated at Parma. .Mich., in April. IMhO; ilic\ have 
two children — >L P.erllia and Frances A. .Mr. 
Howard's youngest child is .Mary Priscilla. born in 
1«G0 at Butler, Ind. She was educated at .Ma.son 
and after completing the regular coui-se spent four 
years in teaching. She wjls married .March ;>. 1«K;"», 
to Dr. s. II. Culver, a graduate of the Regular 
I)ei)artmeiit of the I'niversity of Michigan, and 
who has acquired a large practice at Ma.son. 

The original of our sketch is a Republican of 
the Whig style, and the confidence which his fel- 
low-townsmen repose in his integrity and honor is 
shown lp\ tli<' fact that he lias been the Incumbent 
of most important positions in the city, as City 
Collector and Treasurer. He, with his wife and 
daughter, are members of tli» Piesbyteriau Church. 
his own and his wife's membership dating from 
IX.")7. For yeai-s he h.as been i)rominent in church 
work, having been KIder since 18(i(i, and is now 
Senior l-",ldcr in the church at .Mason. 



\MI Fl. SK.VDAN. It is gratifying to till' 
^^2 historian to recount the experiences of the 




early pioneers in the Wolverine .State, 
and especially to tell the story of 
those who are still remaining in our midst, 
whose life work has extended over most of what 
has p.-i-M'd in the |)resenl century. Tlie.se pliuii 
and simple annals do not sound the trumpet to 
announce great and world-famous deeds but they 
recount the story of <|uiet. unostentatious lives 
which ha\e been made emphatic iiy truth and jus- 
tice, industry and uprightness. 

The pioneer whose name appears at the head of 
this sketch, and who resides on .section 1."?. Ingham 
Township, Ingham County, was born in Newberg. 
Orange County, X. 'i'.. Xovember 28, 1808. His 
honored ]>arents, John and Christian (.layne )Ska- 
dan, natives of Xew York and Rhode Islaiul, 
respectively, were married at Floriil.M. ( Irange 
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County, where they settled in Sennett Township, 
not far from Aiihiini. Ik'rc tlio father passed away 
at the age of twenty-tive years, on ilarch 9, 1H24, 
an<l his widow remained upon the lioniestead until 
she reached the very advanced age of ninety-one 
years, when her spirit took its flight to its heavenly 
home, July 4, 1,S68. liesjdes his work as a farmer, 
John Skadan had followed the vocation of a wheel- 
right. In iiolilies he followed the doctrines of De 
AVitt Clinton, whose career as (iovernor of the 
Empire State he watched with great pride. 

Thirteen children were the number that gathered 
about the hearthstone in this New York home, and 
they l>ore the names of Dency, Robert, William, 
Mary A., Jane, Fannie. Sannu'l. Jane, Eliza, Cath- 
erine, Charles, Joiin .and Ivlmund. Our subject 
and his sisters Jane (the younger), and Catherine 
are the only survivors of this numerous flock. 
Until he reached the age of fourteen the Iwy re- 
mained in Newliergand then went with his parents 
to Sennett, Cayuga County, where he was reared 
upon the farm and received a sound common- 
school education. He remained at home until he 
reached the age of twenty-tive years, when he mar- 
ried and made a home foi- himself upon the farm 
near liis parents, until the spring of 1837. when he 
removed to Cosliocton County, Ohio, and there he 
lived until ()ctober, 184(1, when he removed to 
Michigan. 

Tiie first home wliich Mr. Skadan made for liim- 
self in tills State was situated one-half mile soutli 
of the village of Dansville, Inghiim County, and 
there he iiartiall_\' cleared up a small farm which in 
1844 he exchanged for the projierty where he now 
resides, and which has been his home since that 
time with tlie exception of four years, which lie 
spent in jNIason, the county seat, at the time when 
he lilled the otHce of County Treasurer. His first 
purchase comprised one hundred and twenty acres 
and he now has one hundred and seventy. He 
found this land a wilderness and he cleared about 
one- half of it in his early life here. He now has 
one liundred and forty .acres cleared and improved 
and has been a successful and judicious farmei'. 
His fine farm and good improvements testify to his 
.skill and industry. He began life with notliing 
and his flfty-one _ye.ars of service upon the same 



farm have left their mark upon both the community 
and liis own surroundings. 

Our subject h.as been for many years a leading 
man in his township, being unusually w-ell-read and 
well-informed and being known far and wide as a 
judicious and thoughtful man. He is a leader in 
his party and cast his first Presidential vote for 
Andrew Jackson, which he has followed up by 
a straight Democratic vote ever since. At an early 
d.ay he served .as Constable in New York, and has 
Iieen in oliice most of the time since he came to 
c;uiie to Michigan. For twenty-five years he has 
been tlie Township Su|jervisor, and in 1848 he was 
elected Treasurer of Ingham County, and after a 
service of two years was re-elected in 1850. He 
served for four years as Coroner of Ingham County, 
and almost every township ofHce has been his He 
w.as President of the Ingham County Vive Insurance 
Compan\- for ten years and is still one of its mem- 
bers. He is prominently identified with the order 
of Free and Accepted Masons in which he has taken 
the Master's degree. 

Miss Irena Sheldon a native of Sennett, Cayuga 
County, N. Y., liecame INIrs. Samuel Skadan, Janu- 
ary 9. 1832, in her native town. She was born 
Decemlier IT), 1808, and was a daugliter of Daniel 
and Racliel (Sheldon) Sheldon, both natives of 
New England, who were amcmg the first settlers of 
Sennett Township, Cayuga County. To ^Nlr. and 
Mrs. .Skadan w-ere born three ciiildren. Juliette. Lou- 
isa J. and Hiram N. The mother of these children 
passed from earth March 8, 1848, and not a member 
of lier father's family is now living. 

Mr. Skadan was a second time married, Sep- 
tember 28, 1848, to Miss Emeline Sherman, of Ing- 
ham Township, this county. She w.as a native of 
Cayuga County. N. Y., and was born September 2fi, 
1838, being a daughter of Josiah .and Ruth (Carr) 
Sherman, lioth natives of New York. One child 
only blessed this union — lohn AV.,and Mrs Skadan 
passed from eaith ^March 4, 1850. Mercy C. At- 
wood was the maiden name of tlie present iSIrs. 
Skadan. Her union with our snViject was solemn- 
ized April 14. 1 85.5. in Ingham Township. She also 
is a native of Cavuga County, wliere she w.as lioin 
May 3. 1824, and is a daughter of Zenos and Ihil- 
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|)articul;ii-> in the life skchlinr M. M. Anvmicl. 
wliicli i> Ii> lie found I'lscwlicic In tliis voliinn-. 
Tlii- union ha-; liccn lili'sscd liy llic liictli of llircc 
chililicn. I'lii\(l (.'. Samuel !•'. ami .U'unic I 







II.I.IAAI !•■. IIANSKN. 'I'lic oit.v of Lan- 
\ / \<l ^'"Ji '^ "^'" lirovided with |)liaini:K'iiT;. 

yV/ lansiinii; in cliaractor from tlie rlnsty, mys- 
tj'i-ioiis lookiniT I'ottics tiiat aif airaycd alony the 
slii'lvos and ai\f the small inti'riois a closi' and 
IvisU'iii o<lor, to the handsome stores with iireat 
plale "lass windows in which are dis]ila\e(i in 
a most faseinatini;' older the ehoieest produets. not 
only of the elieniist and iiharmacist, hut of the 
mauufaeturei- and fiom the sea-lieautiful sponiies, 
liiu>hes. deli(atel\- pi'ifunied jiowder. toilet articles 
of all desei-iptions att/act the attention and iinite 
Ihc purchafei-. Then tlieic is the soda water foun- 
tain — that e\cr present and necessary acccssoi-y to 
a diutriris' 's outfit, and behind, stowed away in 
mysterious eoruers as well as displayed in faseinat- 
ina' eut-i;iass iKjttles are cordials and simph's and 
compounds from which the most skilled medical 
priictitioneiian have his picscriptions filled. Sneli 
a place is the estalilishnient of the iientlenian whose 
name is at the head of this sketch, and whose pt)r- 
Ir.ait appears on the opposite pajie. 

Mr. Hansen is a (ierinan hy liirtli and ancestry. 
haxini; lieen liorn in the city of lianovei-. (Jer- 
niany. April II. l.sCll. His fathci- was William 
Hansen, a native of the same place, and his pater- 
nal iiiandfather was (iottlieli AV. Hansen, who was 
horn in Schleswig:, and held the ollit'e of JIayi>r of 
his city in (iermany. under Frederick William dnr- 
niii the War of 1«12. He was in the battle of 
Waterloo and did .good service. Foi' twenty-ei<>ht 
years he was connected with the ' military service 
ill ( Jei n:any. Kiglit years prit^ir to his decease he 
retired from active service !ind was the recipient of 
a pension. His death t(jok place at his liead(|uar- 
ters in Hauover. His family was of Danish de- 
scent. 

( )ur subject 's father was :\ viil-cloth manufact- 



urer in the city of Hanovei'. I.atei-. in IHTH. he 
org.anizcd a larj^e company for the niannfacture 
of .Niil-clotli by machinery. The lirni was cliartercd 
under the n.-ime of the Hanover Sjiil A- Sock .Man- 
ufacturing Company, and of this he w;is Secretary 
until about 1«77, at which time he sold his inter- 
est. His de.ath occurred in 1MM2. when he was 
sixty-four years of age. Personally, lie was of 
niagniticent pliysiqne. iieing linel\- ])roporti()ued 
and musculai-, although light and active. lie was 
a graduate of the Royal ( Jymnasiurn. and a man of 
superior intelligence and education. .Vfter U'aving 
the gymiiasinm he entered the liusine.-^s College. 
For the greater [lortion of his life he was identilied 
with the Lutheran Church work. 

Oui- suliject's mother was before her iriarriage 
.Miss .\delheid Halm. an<l was Ijorii in Claustalial 
in the Hartz Mountains. .She was a daughtei- of 
Col. .1. A\". II.Mlin. a nalixc of the s.iine i)laee. He 
was an assistant superintendent of the Claustalial 
mines and was a practical miner, having also been 
a gr.iduatc of the Claustalial .\cadeiny of Mining. 
He ranked jis Colonel in the military department. 
When Hanover was taken by tin- (Jernians. in 
IHdi), Col. ilalin w.as put on a pension. He died 
in Hanover, having serve(l in tlietu-rman .\rm\ 
as a Captain. 

Three children were born to the |)arents of our 
subject. .Mbert is a Lieutenant in the (Jernian 
Na\y. now stationed at Keilil: ( Iscar. a twin brother 
of our suliject. is a graduate of the ( W)ltiii|aeii 
Academy. He is now an actor, devoting himself 
to the delineation of tragedy and li.as ac<iuired a 
high reputation in the eliOi-en art. ( )nr sulijeet. 
the youngest child, was reared in Hanover and 
graduated from the Royal (iymnasium. in 1H7'.>. 
when nineteen years of age. He then o|)eiied a 
drug liuse in Hanover, and was engaged in the 
business there for four years. In 1MH2. he entere<l 
the Universitv at lleidleluirg. aiid was a student 
there for one year, enjoying .all the adv.antages of- 
fered in that historic ohl university city. 

In iss:!. .Mr. Hansen left his native land ;ind 
came to America, setting sail from Rreinen, No- 
vemlier '22. on the steamer "Sailer." There was a 
stormy trip which lasted twelve days, anil the )>ort 
of New '^'ork was hailed with ple;isure. .Vfter 



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landing in tliis country, our subject made a trip 
lliiduoli New York and tlien came on to Lansing, 
wiiere he was in the employ of Dr. Ilalin, 
an uncle on the maternal .side. He continued with 
him in the drug business for one year and the next 
year was with Northrop & Rol)ertson, of North 
Lansing. In 188.5 he was registered as a pharma- 
cist, after which lie went back to jSIr. Ilahn, re- 
maining with him for one year, the following 
year lieing again in tlie employ of Northrop A Rob- 
ertson. 

In ]\Iay, 1887, Mr. Hansen went to l-jin'0})e, set- 
ting out on his trans- Atlantic trip from (^ueliec. 
taking the Allen line of steamers to Liverpool. 
After a leisurely liip through England he ci-ossed 
ihrough llolhnid and lielgium. then proceeded 
through l*'rance, after wliicli he went to his jiome 
in (ieimany and there remained for two months. 
He tlien went to ^Moscow, liussia, wnere his l)rother 
had a fouiteen days' engagement in the theatre. 
Tlience he went to St. Petersburg with him, and 
from there he returned to Germany and remained 
one month, returning to Americ.-i through Austria, 
Bohemia, through Switzerland to the borders of 
Italy, and .September '22. 18X7, left Bremen for 
Baltimore, and on his way to Lansing took in 
AVashington and cities in Jlarvland, ^'irginia, 
Ohio and Michigan. Air. llen.-icn speaks (icrman, 
English and French tluently and is thoroughly 
conversant with the manners and customs of these 
various peoi>les at the present day. 

After he returned from Europe our subject 
served as a clerk in the drug store for a short tinu', 
but in Alay, ISHil. purchased the stock of drugs 
from Dr. Ilalin and continues to be his successor. 
He ha^ retitted tlie store and increased the stock 
and at the present tinu' is the proprietor of <me 
of the finest i)harmacies in the city. As wouhl be 
expected. Mr. Hansen's sym|)athies and interests 
are closely connected with the Michigan Siaals Zei- 
tung, being a stockholder in tlie concern. He is a 
member of the comitany owning the patent 
Wright on the Rochester Automatic Lighting 
Company. 

Socially oiu' subject is connected with several 
societies. He is a mentber of the Independent Or- 
der of Oild Fellows, the Knights of Pvthias, and 



the Knights of Honor, and is also an active mem- 
ber of the German Arbieter Society. In his polit- 
cal following lie is a Democrat. Although a young 
man and a foreigner, Mr. Hensen h.as already made 
himself felt in the community as being a person of 
sterling worth and high intellectuai attainments. 
He is popular and much liked by all who have 
the pleasure of knowing hiui. His place of busi- 
ness Is known as the Lion Pharmacy, so called be- 
cause of his sign which is a large lion ram|)aut. 



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^ AMES R. DART, the former popular and 
eflicient Sheriff of Ingham County, Alich., 
and a resident of Webberville, is a native of 
St. Lawrence County, N. Y., where he was 
born March i>, \KW>. His i)arents, Alfred and Jane 
(Wright) Dart, were both natives of New York and 
his grandfather Dart was a soldier in the War of 
1812. Our subject was reaied in his native county 
until he reached the age of eighteen and received 
a good edvication which has aided him to lie well- 
informed ujion all general topics. Most of his 
youth w.as spent upon the farm although he was 
engaged at various times in clerking in a store. At 
the age of eighteen he learned the millwright trade 
in AIcKean Count\', I'a., and followed that business 
for several years, after which he took u\) lumbering 
for fpiite awhile. 

In IXaO the young man came to Ingham County, 
Mich., and for seven years f((llowed the lumber 
business in Lansing, after which he located in 
AYeberville and was there elected Slicriff of Ingham 
County in the f.all of 1877. He tilled this othce 
for two terms with credit to himself and his con- 
stituents and then returned from the county seat 
to Webberville in 18M1 and has since madc^ that his 
home. He is now engaged in the man ti fact ui'e of 
lumber and staves and for awhile was in the mer- 
cantile business. 

The marriage of our subject, which occiured 
August 11,18.55, l)rouglit to his home ()rj)liaP. 
Fisher, who w.as born < )ctober 1(1, 1K3!), in AIcKean 
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(1'";UT) I''i>lH'r. Hit |i:nriits were fjdin Nrriimiil 
and Massacliiisctts. ivsjieo lively, and her aiand- 
fatluT Fisher was one of tlii^ iieroes of 1H12. IJe- 
foie lier iiiariiam' slie had spent consichT.alih' time 
ia teaching. To her have lieeii horn four chiidien: 
Nelli<> M.. deceased: (ierliude 15.. wife of Dr. A. 1!. 
(_'ani|iliell. of .Mason. Micli.; K'ollin ('.and Alfred R. 
Mr. Dait is idenlilied with the l)ide|)endent Or- 
der of ( )dd Fellows and the .Masonic society at 
Lansini:. .and Knit;hts TenipLar, and also with the 
Kniiilits of Honor at Howell. In his political 
\'icws and actions he .alllliales with the IJcpnhlican 
party and is a wide awake and puMit--spiritcd man. 
His excellent farin of one hnndiod .acres is well 
cultivated and in a very productive condition. Foi' 
nine years out of the last ten he has served as I'le.s- 
ident of the N'iilaiic Council of Wehhervillc and is 
also :i member of the .School Hoard. He has fre- 
([Uenlly been a delesiale from i.eroy 'I'ownship to 
the State and county conventions of the Uepuhli- 
can party and is a leader of thoutrht and .action in 
that pirty as well as in social life. 









"'"JOSEPH .\. UISSKLI u> of the old set- 

I tiers and substantial f.armers of Cohoetali 
^^ I Township, Li vinii'ston County, was born in 
'^^fJ the town of AVestmoreland. Oneida County, 
X. Y., October '22. IS-2".I. His worthy parent*; were 
.lolin and .Icruslia (.Vdanis) Russell. The i^rand- 
father, Nathaniel Russell, was a farnu'r and a 
native of Maine, who reared live sons and six 
daughters, of whom three became i)ioneer .settlers 
In New ^'orU. Ouv subject's father was liorn in 
()xford Cinmtv. Me., anil became ,m w.asron-nialver. 
\Vhile still a younji' man lie came to Troy. N. Y., 
where he married, after which he made his home 
in ( »ncida Ciunity. whence he icniox ed to Hridije- 
l)ort, Madisiui County, and eanu' to Miehiii'an in 
.Inly. IHIl. 

.lolin Russell rentecl .a farm in Cnlioctah Tow'n- 
shi]) for four years and later pureha.sed one hund- 
red a(a'es on section 27, and proceeded to improve 
it. In the coiuse of his life he inia-eased his es- 



tate live UAi\ and at the time of his death left a 
farm of one hundieil .acres. IJutli he and his ;;ood 
wife were active members in the Metliodisl Lpis- 
coi)al Clnircii and in his political views lie was in 
accord with the Democratic party. He dicil in 
.lune. 1H()(>, being then sixty years old. ( )idy two 
children were born to tills worthy couple, and the 
oidy brother of our .subject whose name was .lud- 
son. died at the age of twenty-two. The mother 
of our sul)ject w.as lK)rn in Madison County, N. 
Y.. and was the daughter of Jo.seph .and .Mary 
(Trusdell) .\<lams. natives of New York, who had 
a f.amily of seven children. 

The district .school furnished all the education 
which wn,s offered to .lo.sepli Rus.sell, and altlioujjh 
he had not a liberal schooling lie has made such 
use of the avenues of infcn'matifni open to all that 
he is well-informed on general topics. lie has had 
his way to ntake in life since lie was fifteen yeai-s 
old. when he began woi'king in the flslieries at Sagi- 
naw, beginning work at eigliteen dcjllars i)er 
month. He a,ssisted in clearing and purchasing 
the farm which his father bought and he now owns 
li\e hundred and fifty .'leres, most of which is the 
re-iult of his own and his father's uuHagging in- 
ilusliy. He IS identified with the order of M.asonrv 
in which he is a prominent member. 

.loseph Ru.s.si'll was married in October, 1H.")7. to 
Harriet Fisher, who was born in Lyons, Oakland 
Co\inly. Mich.. December Iti. lM38,andisa daugh- 
ter of Michael and Polly (liuel) Fisher, of Howell. 
Nine children were l)orn to this wortiiy pair, 
namely: .Vlbert, who died in infancy; Hiirr. who 
died at the age of two years; Jennie, who die<l at 
'.he age of ten months; Frank II.; Lenna A., who 
died when eighteen years old; ^loilie E. and Mag- 
gie 15. (twins); Joanna, who died in infancy; 
Wheeler .V. and Minnie O. MoUie is now the wife 
of F'red Chase. For many years our subject 
has l)een Class-Leader in the Methodist E|)isco));il 
Church and his wife is al.so an active worker 
therein. 

Air. and .Mrs. Fisher, the jjarents of Mis. Rii.s- 
sell, came to Michigan from New York about lM3i> 

and made their (ii-st 1 le in Oakland County, but 

came to Cohoctah in IH l.'i. where the\ resided until 
the death of .Mr. Fisher. Tlie\ hail four sons and 



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f(.)iii' daughters. Henry and Joseph served in the 
army diuino- the Civil "War and the latter w.as 
taken prisoner and was never heard of again. Mr. 
Russell is a liberal and l)road-min<le(l mnn. a good 
citizen and neiglihoi-. and lie inlierits his best 
qualitie- from a gnod uhl family. 




YRON B. CAUPKNTEK, one of the old 
settlers of Lansing, Ingham Covinty, eame 
to this city in IS.") I. He was horn in Cat- 
taraugus County. N. Y.. Feliruary 2, 1832. 
and is a sou of Seymour and .lane (lirown) Car- 
penter, the father being a native of Xew Hampshire 
and the mother of Vermont. Later they removed 
to Orleans County where they lived until they 
came AVest, following their son here in 1855. They 
bought property six miles south of Lansing, whieh 
they cleared and cultivated and here made their 
home until their death, the father at the age of 
eighty -eight and the mother at the age of eighty. 
They left a family of four sons and two daughters, • 
namely: our subject, Henry B., Dudley (x., James 
P., Olivia J., and Mrs. M. McLaren, of Muskegon. 
Our subject finished his school days in Orleans 
County, N. Y., at the public school and Alliion 
Academy. After coining AYest lie carried on a farm 
for three j'ears then returned to New York and stud- 
ied theology with the Rev. W. !;. Cook, of Chuich- 
ville, and was fellowshiped at the Chautauqua 
Association in 1860. He cast his vote for Abraham 
Lincoln for President of the United States andtlie 
next day removed to Blooinfleld where he took 
ciiarge of his first parish and remained until 1862, 
when he returned to Lansing and L-hortly after 
settled at Concord, Jackson County, this State, 
where he remained tor two years, and then went to 
Barry County, where for two years he was engaged 
in mi.ssionary work. After this he again sought 
secular employment going into the abstract oHiee 
and tlie office of Registrar of Deeds at Il.astings. 

Eight months later Mr. Carpenter returned to 
Lansing .and entered the Auditor (ieneral's office 



where he remained as clerk until December 31, 
1890, notwithstanding all the changes of adminis- 
Iration. He has never completely severed ins 
connection with the ministry but now only attends 
funerals and discharges ministerial duties on 
special occasi(nis. ^Vhen he first came here he found 
that tiiere were no religious services being carried 
on and he did two years' free work and re-organ- 
ized the society of which he has Iteen a Trustee 
ever since, and President of the Board mo.st of the 
time. 

For six years he has been an ^Vlderman and foi' 
four years a member of the Board of Education. 
He belongs to the Masonic order and was at one 
time a member of the Odd Fellows order, and now 
belongs to the Industrial society. Upon March 29, 
1857 he was united in marriage with ^liss Mary 
T. Cook, daughter of the Rev. W. B. Cook of 
Churchville, >>'. Y., and they have three children, 
AViliiani S..(;race L., and ^1. Harr\-. 



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rCII SWARTIIOIT is .me of the most 

y successful farmers in Meridian Township, 

Ingham County, He owns a very attiac- 

•^ five and productive tract on sections 1 and 
2, of the above mentioned township. The family 
of whicli Mr. Swarthout is a worthy re|)resentative 
is of Dulcli descent, his great-grandfather having 
come from Holland in an early day. The subject 
c>f our sketch was l)orn in Ovid, Seneca County, 
X. Y., April 11, 1829. His f.ather, William 
.Swarthout. was a native of Orange County. N. V., 
in which place he was born in 179(), 

When Hugh Swarthout was six years old his 
father moved into Clinton County, this State, and 
settled in A'iclor Township in 18.37. At that time 
there were only two other houses in the county, 
the families being tho.'ie of Scott and Coni|)au. 
the first named gentleman owning the land 
whereon DeAYitt is now located. He did not live 
here long, but moved into another townshii). In 
1838 he bought a three hundred and twenty acre 
tract of land of AYilliani Thompson, a brother-in- 



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l:iw of i'x-( ;u\('rn(ir Maiv.v. of New YorU. riiiil m 
foniicr ii('ii,''lili<ii' of uui- siilijccl's fiillicr in tin- 
Kiniiiri' State. Tliis tiact was ck'aii'd up. and i-^ 
now Olio of IIk- most valualilc farms in Clinton 
County. 'I'lif ol<l ^cnllcin.'iu died in his cii^lilN. 
M'l-ond year. Tlic maiden nanie of liis wife and 
of oui- suliject's niotliei- was IJetsy Willett. wlio 
was liorn in l'enns\ l\-!niia in 1 7'.ts. Nlie died in 
Clinton County, this State, in lf(7f. 

The (iist twenty-three years of our subject's life 
were spent at home In dointi farm woi'k. His ed- 
ueation was i;ained in the distriet schools of the 
vicinity, save one winter, which was sjieiit in the 
Owosso school. After his twenty-third year he 
li()iiii;lit a farm of one hundred an4 sixtv acres in 
Victor Townslii|i. where he spent fifteen vears. 
and then purchased the adj<iiniim' tract in Shia- 
wassee County, comprising one hundred and 
twenty-three acres, wlierc he remained until issi. 
Mr. Swartlioiit was married .hinuarv I. 1H.")2, to 
.Miss Maria .lohnson. of Shiawa.ssee County. Slic 
was a teacher l)efore her m:irriai;e, and her experi- 
ence ill this direction, covcrintj several years, was 
most hajipy. She not only iiained the love of her 
pupil>. l)ut was a line disciplinarian, and had the 
faculty of ai'ousiiiii' the jierct'ptioiis of her pupils. 
Four children were horn to our suliject and his 
wife. Tlicy are Sarah, who was horn M.arch l(!. 
IH;")!; she isstdl at home: ( arrie. liorn M:ircli '2'.K 
1K().'5. was a student at the Lansin"' lliyli School 
for <uie year, and is now eni;aued .as a clerk in a 
store in Laiuiisliuri;'; William I!., liorn No\ ember 
2'.t, IXtJ;'). inanii'il Clara North, a dauifliter of the 
Rev. .Vrthur .North; he is a farmer and merchant in 
S'uith Dakota; lielle. iiorn .Vpril 27. I.S()7, i.s still 
at home; she received her education at Lainsjsbiirjr 
and at the State Normal at '^'psilanti. Mrs. 
Swarlhout died in lS7(t. .'iiid her family will never 
eea-se to feel the void left by her decease. The 
family are all iiieniber.s of the Metlujdist Episcopal 
( hurcli. anil are attendants at Okenios. 

Politically, Mr. Swartlioiit is a Hepiiblican. He 
is not, however, so wedded U) piirXy but. that he 
believes the "best man " is the one for local otilce. 
AVIiile livinsj; in Clinton County he was Iliijrhway 
Coinniissioiier of his township, and Director of his 
school distriet for twenty years. Our subject's 



liiaiidfatlier, lialpli Sw;iiihout. w.-is a native of 
Oraiiiic ( oiiiiiy. .N. V. When he was eifjhteen 
years old he entered the Continental .\riiiy diiriiifi 
the l{i'\'olulion. and was eiiifajjed in a military wav 
for two years. He ser\ ed as teamster in Washing- 
Ion '> army, and one winter he took several of the 
(Jeneial's horses to his New York home and cared 
for them until the next spi-iiiijf. The jjeiitlenian of 
whom we write is a farmer of more than aveia<;e 
intelliui'uce, and his family is numbered amonir 
the best in Meridian. 



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KOF. W ll.l.lA.M F. Dl K.VND was born in 
lieacon l-'ails, Conn., .March ;'). IMoSt. His 
fatlier, ^Villiam L. Diirand, was a native of 
Derby, Conn., and was liorn in 1H14, His 
mother's maiden name was .Miss Kiith Coe, a native 
of Bethany, Conn,, and there born in IHU;. I'rof. 
Diirand belonijs to a faniil\- wlio.se ealliiiir li.as been 
for many years that of an a^jricultiirist. his father 
h:i\ ing been a fanner, as was also his grandfather, 
D.-ivid Diirand. One who has been to France will 
not fail to recognize the French origin of the fam- 
ily from its name, which is very frecpienlly met 
with in that country, and, indeed, some live <u' six 
generations ago a luiniber of the Diirand family 
came from -La ISellc Fiance," one branch .settling 
in (diinectieiit. from which sprang the subject of 
our sketch. 

The original of oui' skelc-h renioxcd to Derby, 
Conn., when one year ol<l and there lived until he 
was seventeen years of age. attending the distriet 
school until he was fourteen yeai-s of age and then 
entering the Hirniingliain High School, where he 
remained three years, ,\fter that he entered the 
Fnited States Naval Aeademv at Annapolis, Md., 
eiiterinir the .\cadeiiiy after a rigid examin.ation. 
Uemaiiiing in this institution for four years, he 
graduated with the cla.ss of lt<8(>. No. 2 in hiselass. 
and almost immediately afterward went on a three 
years' cruise in the Ni>rtli Atlantic and Central 
American v.'aters, at the end of which time he was 



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ordered to duty in the P'nsrineering Bureau of tlie 
Navy Department, where he spent tliree months. 
After completing the requirements of the com- 
mission above mentioned, our subject was ordered 
to Lafayette College, Pa., on special duty as Assis- 
tant Professor of Matliematics and Steam Engineer- 
ing. He was retained in this capacity for a period 
of two years. Wliile at this institute he took the 
degree of Doctor of Philosophy, having pursued a 
course of study while in the discharge of his pro- 
fessional duties. The subject of his thesis was 
"(irai)liical Methods of Treating the Mathematical 
Tlieorj- of Light." He was soon after ordered to 
special duty at the IMorgan Iron Works for con- 
structing engines for naval ships. This experience 
lasted for three montlis, at the end of which time 
he was again oi'dercd to sea on a cruise of a year's 
duration. 

At the termination of tlie last-mentioned cruise 
Prof. Duraud was ordered to special duty at the 
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, of Worcester, 
;\Iass., tliere lieing Assistant Professor of Mechanics 
and Kngincering. He was at Worcester for three 
muntlis and was tlien offei-ed the position of Pro- 
fessor of Mechanics and Su|>erintendent of Shops 
in the Michigan Agricultural College, located at 
Lansing. This he .accepted and resigned his posi- 
tion in the Navy. 

Our subject was very ha])pily married October 
23, 1883, to Miss Charlotte Kneen, of Shelton, 
Conn., a daughter uf Thomas Kneen, a manufac- 
turer in that i)lace. l-'roui this union one child has 
liei'U liorn, William I.. Duiand, .Ir.. a liright lad now 
six years old. Prof, i^uiand has been connected 
with the Michigan Agricultural College for four 
years. During this time his department has attained 
an enviable position. Tlie prosperity of the de- 
partment is all that could be desired and it is now 
the cause of deep regret among the students and 
friends of the college that the institution is to lose 
his further service. He has but lately resigned in 
order to accept a more desirable position at Cornell 
I'niversity, Ithaca, N. Y., as Professor of Marine 
Eiiiiineering and Naval Arcliiteeture,and will take 
up his new duties during the cdiiiing fall. 

A thoroughly i)ractical man. an enthusiastic 
teacher and worker, a perfect gentleman in all his 



relations, it is not surprising that Prof. Durand has 
become so popular with the students and graduates 
of the college. He has contributed frequently to 
the best class of teclinical and scientific journals, 
and as he possesses superior talents in his chosen 
lield of labor, there is no doubt that the scientific 
world will hear more of him in the future. He has 
the best wishes of his friends and students in going 
t<j the new position which he has accepted. 

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EPHIJAI^L .1. HARDY. The Green Mountain 
State has always been noted for turning out 
' splendid siiecimens of men, men whose 

hardy, physical characteristics correspond to their 
sterhng worth, })atient industry and keen insight 
into business. Such men have proved of greatest 
value in the enterprises of the newer States, where 
they were sorely needed, and where their work and 
their characters have ]uished forward wcmderfiilly 
the development of these more modern cniiiiiioii- 
wcalths. 

Among these sons of Vermont we may men I ion 
Mr. Hardy, whose beautiful home is located on sec- 
tions 23 and 26, Osceola Townshij), Livingston 
County, and whose birth took place in Sudbury, 
Rutland County, Vt., April 2, 1817. His father, y 
Ephraim lliirdj', was born in Massachusetts, whertv^ 
he was a farmer by occupation, but removed when 
a young man to Vermont and was there united in 
marriage, in 1807, with Clarissa Jennings, a native 
of Rutland County. This lady had been left an 
orphan when a little child and had her training 
and education under the kind hand of an uncle, 
Ira Jennings. The first married home of this 
coujile was in Sudbury Township, Rutland County, 
and tliere they remained until 1835, when they 
made ^lichigan their final home, locating in Oce- 
ola Township, this county. In 1838 the father 
passed from earth upon the place where our suli- 
ject now resides. He was a strong anti-Mason 
after the scandal connected with the disappearance 
of ^Ir. ^lorgan. Two daughters and four sons 
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Milijcct i.- Ilic (iiil\- i>H(' iidw li\ in;^. .•mil ;ill liiilone 
:uv Imrii'd in the Ocooln ci'iin-lcrx . Tlic I'.-iiiiilv is 
of Kiiijlisli ik'.sft'iit. 

Having been reared in lii> l.itlici's liuinc lir ic- 
I'l'ivi'd liiti early education in Sndhuiv I'ow nsliip, 
Rutland County, \'t,, and remained at home unlil 
eighteen years of age. assisting in <'learing up Ihe 
l)laee. He eanie with his father to Michigan in 
188") and lieliied to eut the logs and erect them 
into a log house for Ihe family. Tliis residence, 
which measuied only l)Sx21 feet on the ground, 
was considered a valualile acciuisition to the town- 
ship, iis tliere were then hut three families residing 
within its hounds. 

Mr. Hardy has been three times married, his lirst 
union being with Harriet Haines and the day of 
their- marriage being December 22, 1H41. She was 
the mother of seven children, of whom only two 
.ire now living, the eldest being K|)hraiin Wilson, 
who was born in Oceola Tow-nshi]), February 2(1, 
1M4)S, and is now in partnershij) with his father 
upon the farm and serving as Sui)ervisoi- of the 
Townshiji. He mariieil in Maich. 1 .S70, .Mta Crit- 
tenden and their four children are: Royal C., How- 
ard !•;., Lena B. and Velna A.; the other child of 
this marriage is Clarissa, now the wife of Daniel 
Kelley, residing in Livingston Count \. Her 
mother passed from earth in IH.j'.l. 

The sccoikI m.irriage of our subject was with K'e- 
becca Haines, the widow of Mr. Hardy's brother. 
She died .Tanuary 25. 1870. and Mr. Hardy was 
again married in 1878 lo Mrs. l-",slher I'. Murray. 
widow of .lames P. Murra\. Her married life ex- 
tended over ten years, as she died March I I. I8,SH. 
After Mr. Hardy's first mairiage he made his home 
in a little log house which stood acro.ss the road 
from his jnesent lesidence. At one time he owned 
ne.'iily seven hundred acres of l;inil in Oceola 
Township, but he has divided \ip much t)f it among 
his children. He and his son now have four hun- 
dred and forty-two acres <vf linely improved land, 
eomiirising a stock-farm which is known as the Fair- 
view Stock Farm. Ipon this jilace there are eleven 
h.'iy and grain barns, besides tool-hoii.ses, stock 
barns and all things necessary to making up :i lirst- 
class farm. 

It w:is in 1838 that Mr. Hardy began dealing In 



and feedini; line wool siieep, beginning with a herd 
of the best gi.ide of sliee|) olttainahle at that time. 
With very little exception he has bred notliingbut 
the Spanish .Merinoes and some times has as nian\' 
as seven hundred in his Hock. Premiums have of- 
ten been awarded to his sheep wherever tliey are 
exhibited. Li 1871 he beuaii dealing in Shorthorn 
c:i1tle and h.'is some very line s|)ecimcns upon his 
place. 

Since 18;') 1 this gentleman has been a stanch 
Republican and has held oJlices in both township 
and c<»unl\-. In 18G1 he was appointed Postma.s- 
ter at Oceola Center, which olHce he held for 
twenty -six and one-half year.s. For many yeai-s lie 
wjis Ctmimi.ssioner of Highways and jussistedin lav- 
ing out most of tiie roads in this township. He 
was one of the original Board of Directors of the 
Livingston County Agricultural Society, and for 
many years was President of the same. He was 

.•>ls< e of theorgjinizersof the Livingston County 

Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and for eight 
years was its President. His long residence in the 
county h:is brought him prominently into connec- 
tion with cver\- movement which has proved of 
\:iltie to the people of this region, and as his 
father's house was one of the first erected in the 
township, his .acrpiaintance with the people is a broad 
one and has existed for main veai-s. 



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ANIKI. i;. Mli;i;.MAN. .M. 1). is one of Ihe 
prominent physicians and surgeons of 
(giJ^ Lansing. Ingham Conntv. where he has 
practiced since .\pril If). I8M(). nnd is now 
one of Ihi' mosi popni.'ir practitioners in the citv. 
Having all he could do with otlice practice in the 
beginning of 188;i. he cea.sed riding and nowfal- 
tends only to tlio-se patients who come to liini. His 
oHice is located in the |(riiicipal [larl of the business 
poi'tioii of the city, at 1(1.') Ottawa Street, where he 
has been for nine years. His residence is located 
.■It 312 Seymour Street, and is :i place wcrthy ofits 
location, which is in the liiust i)art of the citv. Dr. 
Sherman was born in ^\'.•lylle Coiiutj', N. V.. Jul\- 



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28, 184;5, and is a sou of (i illicit and Hannah M. 
(Rowley) Sherman. When tlieirson was but seven 
years old, the parents removed to N'ohle County, 
Indiana. The fatlier was a farmer and millwright 
I )y trade and was so occupied in Indiana. Our 
subject there received his literary education, and 
when a mere l)oy in years, enlisted in the Fiist 
Illinois Artillery in the "War of the Rebellion. His 
enlistment was made November 8, 1861, at Ft. Holt. 
Ky.,and he was sent to join the army of the Cuml)er- 
land, which was at that time stationed at Ft. Henry, 
where he, with his regiment was engaged in battle, 
also at Ft. Donaldson, and was surrounded by tlie 
terrible carnage of battle at Shiloli, Corinth, Vicks- 
burg and Atlanta, names that are all synonymous 
with that wliicii is most terrible in warfare. He 
was also present at the seige of Atlanta. 

Discharged at the expiration of his time, having 
served for three 3'ears, Mr. Sherman returned to 
Noble County, where liis parents still lived, and 
engaged in farming. In 1867 the parents accom- 
panied our subject to Lawrence County, Mo., where 
the young man engaged in milling. Here the 
mother died. The father still lives, his residence 
being in Coldwater, Mich. He has attained the 
almost patriarch ial age of seventh-eight years. 
Ovir subject successfully pursued the calling of mill- 
ing luitil 1871. when he sold outand went to Cold- 
water. Mich., \\liere he engaged m the grocery 
business for one year. In 1873, lie liuilt what is 
known as the Brutus House, midway between 
Petoskey and Sheboygan, and established the post- 
ottice at Brutus, being apjjointed the first Post- 
master of that place, his installation taking place 
under President Hayes, and this position he con- 
tinued to hold as long as he remained there. He 
also liuilt the mill at Constantine in 1876 for Lantz 
Brown. 

Dr. Sherman had early acquii-ed a predilection 
for the profession of medicine and during the 
years in which he was actively engaged in business 
life, he did not lose sight of his resolution to some 
da^' be a physician and was constantly engaged in 
the reading of medical works, so that he had a veiy 
good knowledge of his profession, even before tak- 
ing the college course. He went to Cliicago to l)c- 
gin his practice, opening an ortice at 170 State 



Street, shortl\ afterward commencing to attend 
lectures at the Bennett Medical College. He })ur- 
sued his course to such purpose thai he graduated 
with honors in the class of 1880, and then returned 
to this cit\' to pursue the practice of his profession. 
Oiii' subject was first married in Noble County. 
Ind. to Sarah Koontz, of Kendallville, Ind. At lier 
death she left three children to mourn their mother- 
less state. .lulia is now the wife of (ieorge Barnes. 
Gilbert L. is a student at Worcester, Ohio, where 
he is preparing for the ministry. Franklin .1. is 
occupied as a clerk in a grocery. Dr. Sliennan wa» 
a second time married, his bride being Emily .1. 
Currier, of Coldwater. With her he lived most 
hap|)iiy, she adding to his domestic life all that he 
finds wanting in his professional career. Socially 
our suiiject has many demands upon his time. He 
is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
lows, belongs to the Grand Army of the Reiiublic, 
and is a Knight of Labor, in wliicli he was a Mas- 
ter Workman. In the first named order he was the 
first Noble (irand of Bronson and also Petoskey 
Lodge. He is now connected with the State Eclec- 
tic jNIedical Society, and is a broad and progrcs.sive 
man in his theories reg;irdiiig the liealing art. 



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,|r""\i UFUS .1. NEAL, a farmer of Leroy Town- 
V^ ship, Ingham County, is a native of Oiion- 
A \V daga County, N. Y.,aud was born Feliiuar\- 
\;^ 13, 182.T. He IS a son of James and Fannie 
(Cogswell) Neal, and was reared to manhood in his 
native county, and early engaged in farming. A 
cimimon-schocjl education was all that was granted 
him and he is mainl\' self educated. His first mar- 
riage took ])lace October 17, 1814, in New York, 
his liride lieing Dorpha Brownell. Four of liis 
children are now living, namely: Rufus M.; Mary, 
Mrs. Goi'sline; Augusta, deceased; Betsey, wife of 
Hiram Rix, Jr.; and Frances, Mrs. Crandall. After 
the death of tlieir mother our subject was married, 
January 2, 1881. to Mrs. Eliza Wade, of Gratiot 
C(_)unty. tills State. 

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PORTRAIT AND HIOGRAPIIIC'AJ. ALBUJr. 



Midi.. Mini tlinc .-cllU'd in Lcniy 'l'uwiislii|). He 
fiili>lt'(l .Vuyust 20, 1,S()2. in (■()ni|)iin_v K. Scvontli 
Miclii^rjui (':i\;iliv. In'iny- iiiuler liii' conmiMnd uf 
(icn. ('ii>tcr. He Miw tin' r-UKiIa' of IimIIIc in llic 
cuMllicts (pf < icit Nslmisi'. the WiliK'rni'ss. .S])(>Hn\|- 
\!iiii;i Couil lliiiiso. Ilar|H'r'.> I'Viiv and Five I'uint.s, 
ami wa- pifsenl :it tlic siii-rendcr of (ii'u. \a'V.. 
.\fU'r ivi'i'ivinii' liis lioiioialilc d,iM'liarLre Defi'niliiT 
1,'). 1H(!.'), hf returned to Midi <>an and soon scl- 
llcd on llif farm 11)1011 uliidi lie now lives in I,i'i-o\- 
Towiishii). wliuru 111,' own.s oii;lit\- acri's of land. 

This i)iil>lic-s|)iiited siViilU'inan lias served as 
rica>iiri'r of 1-croy To\viislii|i for two years and is 
a lvt'|>iililican in |)olitics. His war record entitles 
liiin to recei\ea pension and the (lovernniunt pays 
liiiii ><M iier month. .Vfter Lee's surrender lie wa.s 
one of those who were sent to the Rocky Mountain 
resjitui and did some desperate fighting with the 
Indians in Colorado. Ilis record, both civil and 
military is, replete with honor, and his success is 
well deserved. 



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VT OlIN IIIMMHI.BEROEU is a farmer and 
stock-rai.ser residing on section o, Delhi 
Township, Ingham County, where he owns 
one hundred acres of good land, lie works 
altogether about two hundred acres, part of wliich 
is ill another township. Mr. Hiniinelberger was 
Ihiih in I'enn.sylvania, February 1, 1K.')0. He is a 
son of Moses and Rebecca (Clajip) llimmellierger, 
natives of Rerks County, I'a. When our subject 
was about five years old bis parents removed to 
Champaign County, Ohio, and there lived for 
about four years. Thence they removed to San- 
dusky County, same State, and then removed to 
Michigan in 1866, purchasing the land whereon 
t>ur subject now lives. He was tlun about sixteen 
years of age. 

Ml. Ilimmelberger was debarred the privileges 
of Si-hool advantages after coming to Michigan, 
but had already laid the foundation of a good ed- 
ucation, to which he has added by .systematic read- 



ing since, lie «, as married December 2.".. 1x71. lo 
.Miss .M.aria \\ie<r|iian, .a daughter of lh'iir\ and 
Margaret (Dielil) Wiegmaii. natives of ( lerniany. 
Onr subject's wife was born .lanuary 2;'), IHfiO, in 
Sandusky, Ohio. Her parents, who reside near her 
came to .Michigan in 1S(!4. They now live on 
sections it and 4, where the father pnrcha.sed one 
hundred and sixty acres of land. 

.U'ter .Mr. Ilimmelberger 's marriage the couple 
li\ed in .Vlaiedon Township, some sixteen years 
.•ind there his children, five in number, were all 
born. They are by name Emanuel .)., born .Lan- 
uary 21. 1.S72; William \.. Xovember 12. 1H7.'); 
Mary A.. February 2;'), IMHd; Bertha A.. .lanuary 
27. 18«:j, and Levi R.. .lanuary i;», IHHK. Our 
subject has thus far given his children good edu- 
cational advantages and intends to give to each as 
much as he or she will take. 

The original of our .sketch is a Democrat in his 
political following. lie cast his first vote for Hor- 
ace (Ireeley. He has l>een Highway Commissioner 
and Treasurei' in Alaiedou Township for a number 
of years, and in his present location, he has l)een 
Supervisor, (irst by apjiointment and then by elec- 
tion. 

.Mr. Ilimmelberger's land is all in a state of ex- 
cellent I'ultivation. He is an active, wide-awake 
citizen and both he and his wife are members of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is a 
.Steward. He takes an active interest in the 
development of the best features of the cominu- 
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,ff^M':V. \\ IM-lKl.l) .s. SLY is the founder 
and general manager of the Rocky Beach 
Benevolent .\.s.sociation. which institution 
'^, was organized for the purpose of rescuing 
and i)lacing <u'phaned and indigent children in 
inivate homes. This .society was incori)orated 
under the laws of the .Stflte of Michigan in l«8H, 
with our subject, a resident of Lansing, Mich., a.s 
rresideiit. Dr. Slenon, of .lackson, wa.s \'ice- 
Fresidenl. and W. S. Moore, a bo of .lackson. sec- 
ond \iee-l'resident. Its .Secretary, .Mi. .1. W . 



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Graham, is also a resident of this city. Its Treas- 
urer, Mr. E. B. Carrier, too lives in Lansing. 

The Association of which our suhjcet is Presi- 
dent is supported by free-will offerings, the chil- 
dren being maintained in private homes in Lansing 
until i)crmanent homes are secured for them, 
liuildings are being erected at the present time on 
ground deeded tlie Association, and which are lo- 
cated on the south shore of Little Traverse Bay. 
C'hildren fourteen 3'ears old or under are taken un- 
der the care of the Association, and so large has the 
work become that they now have thirt_y or forty 
aijplications for children in excess of those that 
are on hand. There is a local Superintendent and 
Advisory Board in every rural school district and 
in every ward of large cities and in each town 
and village avIio receive or collect supplies and 
money and ascertain wliat homes or families de- 
sire to adopt children, the report being made to 
the General Manager. The institution is design- 
edly religious but not sectarian. 

The Benevolent Association has received the 
greatest encouragement in having offers of homes 
froui the best and most moral class of people. Es- 
jx'cial attention is given to the class of applicants 
and to the homes in which tiie children are placed. 
The scope of the work is not limited to the State, 
the Association having offerings and applications 
from almost every State and Territory in the Un- 
ion and also from Canada and Mexico. 

The organ of the association is The Orphan's 
Voire. It is a folio magazine published monthly 
and has at the present time a circulation of ten 
thousand. It is edited by the Rev. AV. S. Sly, whose 
heart is thoroughly in his work. Mr. Sly was born 
in Lockport, 111., August 21, 1«48. lie is the son 
of Senator Sly. He received his education at the 
^Northwestern University and studied at the Gar- 
rett Biblical Institute. He was ordained in l.sfilt. 
his lirst charge being at Kinmundy. He also 
served as pastor at Alton. .lackson and Lansing. 
His .attention is now exclusively occupied in 
evangelistic work and in the orphan's mission. 

Oursuliject enlisted when fifteen years of age 
in Company H, One Hundred and Thirtj'-second 
Illinois Infantry. He was sent to the front and 
joined the Army of the Cumberland, being .as- 



signed to garrison duty in Tennessee. He re- 
mained with the army until the close of the war. 
]Mr. Sly married Jliss Maggie W. Woolworth, an 
orjJian child, who was adojjted from the Ameri- 
can Female (Uiardian Society of Xew York City 
by Mr. suid Mrs. Paris Woolworth of Plainfield, 
111. She was reared by them as their own and 
from liei- our subject received the first stimulus to 
the work in which he is now- eng,aged, and she has 
been his able .assist,ant. They have one daughter, 
Fanny W., who is now twelve years old. 



Vf/AMKS LASllKR. Among the enterprising 
young farmers of Howell Township, Liv- 
,f^ ingstou County, we are pleased to present 
l^^^ a brief record of the life of James Lasher, 
who is a native of the Empire State, as he was born 
July 10, 1850, in Rensselaer County. His immedi- 
ate progenitors were John and Maria (LaGrange) 
Lasher, both of them New Yorkers. 

The father of oiu- subject was a farmer in the 
East and after he came to Michigan in 1858 made 
his home upon the farm where his son now i-esides 
and during his lifetime worked it on shares. He 
passed away January 5, 1861, and his bereaved 
helpmate survived him many years, passing to her 
reward January 24, 1890. 

The paternal grandparent of J.ames Lasher liore 
the name of John and was a farmer by occupation 
in New York, where he passed his whole life. He 
had a numerous family whom he trained up to 
habits of industry, and into who.se minds he instilled 
the i)rinciples of integrity .and devotion to duty 
which had guided him through life. The maternal 
grandfather, James La(4range, was also a New 
York farmer and like the ancestor on the other 
side, had a large and flourishing family. Of the 
eight clnldren win) were granted to the parents of 
our subject, five are now living, namely: Charles, 
Mary, (Mrs. Fields), Elizabeth (Mrs. Holt), Lottie 
(Mrs. Reynolds), and our subject. The declarations 
of the Reijublican \yMX\ embody the politlical views 
of Mr. John Lasher, and in the progress of his party 



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III' WMS triilv inti'ro>ti'(l ;illliu\iuli lie ili'volcd littli' 
tiiin' to piililio affairs. He was, liowcver, active in 
I'liiirch work. Iieinji; SiiperintoiKlent of tlic Siiiidav- 
sfhool and ('laAs-I>eadcr in the Metiiodi.st Ei)i.sc-<>- 
pal C'lnireii of wliicli lie and his wife were nieinl)ers. 

Tiie free and liappy life of a farmer's boy was 
tfrantcd to James Lasher in liis eaily years, and he 
received thorouirh drill in the duties whieh belonged 
to that walk of life. His education was obtained 
in the district schools of Howell Township, and he 
availed himself well of the opportunities thei'c 
afforded and thus secured a good common sense 
foundation for future usefulness. He remained at 
home until after his father's death and was married 
in 1881 to Miss C'elicia Hand, daughter of .lerome 
AV. and IChiia (Coonradt) Hand, both of whom were 
natives of Xew' York. Further details in regard 
to the family history of Mrs. Lashei''s ))arenls will 
be found in the sketch of Jerome W. Hanil upon 
another page of this volume. 

Three lovely eliildren have blessed this union, 
Orel. Claud and Neva. A line fai'm of one hun- 
dred and forty acres employs the efforts and enter- 
prise of ^Ir. Lasher, and he devotes much attention 
to line grade cattle, especially horses and sheeji. 
He liMsa line orchard, and excellent buildings adorn 
his farm. He is consideri'd a leading member of 
the Republican [larty in his neighborhood and is 
in evei-y way looked upon ;is one of the |)roniinent 
farmers of Howell To\vii>liip. 



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HENRY MOOHKS is one of the proniiiienl 
older I'esidents of the city of Lansing, 
having located here in Jul\. 18().'). His 
parents, Robert I'.axter and Caroline ( Rail) 
Moores, were natives of Newark, N. J., where they 
were married in 1831, and two years later removed 
to a farm near Cioton. Lii'king County, ()hio, 
where the subject of this sketch was born .\pril '2, 
1846, anil was the youngest of seven children. 
His f.'itlier died in 1818. but the mother lived to 
enjoy her children's society until Janu:iiy 1. 18111. 
dying at the age of eightj-seven yea is. 



\\licii but sixteen years old Henry commenced 
work for himself by hiring out a.s a farm hand. 
This he continued for four yeai-s. when he came lo 
Alichigan to take advantage of the course of study 
offered l)v the Agricultural College. At tlie close 
of his Sophomore year he left c()lloge, and engaged 
in market gardening on a piece of land in the 
eastern i)art of the city. Two years later, in 1871. 
deciding that gardening was not his forti'. he en- 
gaged with Charles W. Butler in the real estate 
business. He soon, however, branched off for 
himself, and selecting pine timber as offering the 
best returns for labor and capital in\ested, he soon 
became one of the best known |)ine dealers of the 
State. In 1881 he established the village of 
Moorestown in Mi-ssaukee County, this State. He 
built a railroad lifteen miles in length, and engaged 
extensively in logging his timber in that region, 
floating his logs down the river and having them 
manufactured into lumber .-it Muskegon. He sold 
out his logging oi)erations in 188.T in order to give 
his .attention to his increasing interests in the city. 
Jlr. Moores was one of the original five stock- 
holders of the Lansing Wheelliarrow Company, 
and at the do.se of its second year became its pres- 
ident, which position he still holds. This is one 
of the strong and successful institutions of tlie 
city, and owes much of its success to his guiding 
hand. He has done much toward the upl)uilding 
of the city, having built many tasty homes in 
various locations during the last eight veal's, his 
houses being noted for the best (piality of material 
and completeness of detail in their interior ar- 
rangements. The home occiH)ied by himself, at 
the corner of .Vllegaii and Townsend Streets, was 
built in 188(i. and is still admitted to be the 
handsomest wooden residence in the city. He is a 
member of the I'lymouth Congregational Church, 
which he served for many years as Chairman of 
Its Hoard of Trustees, and is one of its liest known 
and active supiiorters. 

Mr. Moores" first marriage took place al ( on- 
cord. Mich.. December 17. 187:1. lo Sarah Lois 
Stevens, who diid in March, 188(), leaving one 
daughter — Miss Josephine F. In April. 1877. he 
iiiarric<l his present wife. Mr-. S. I'rances (iood- 
man. at O.ak Park. 111. since 1887 his attention 



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has been given largely to the yellow pine lands of 
the South, selecting soutlieastern Mississippi as liis 
Held of operations. He has become interested in 
many tliousand acres, and is enthusiastic as to tlic 
outcome of investments made in that State. 



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JKRCE SLICK Kl!. It lias often been noted 
tliat the cliihlrcu of our (ierman-Ameri- 
can citizens have more tlian ordinary 
qualities of industry, enterprise and ability 
to succeed in life, and this is no doubt due to the 
fact that traits iulierited through generations of 
(|uiet, persistent energy have been broadened and 
awakened l>v tlie lireadtii and fullness and stir of 
American life. Whatever the tlieory, the fact 
remains that we find in this class some of om- most 
wortliy and desirable citizens. 

Tlie city of Detroit was the birtli|ilaee of our 
subject August 10, 1861, and his parents Lewis and 
Theresa (Trollman) Slicker were natives of Ba- 
varia, (rermany, wliere the father was a tailor by 
trade. He came to the United States about the 
year 1859, and made his permanent liome in 
Detroit, where he still resides and is active in liis 
trade. To this couple had l)een liorn six children, 
namely: Pierce, Charles, Therese, Charles, Mary 
and ]Merry. The first Charles and the daughter 
Mary have both passed across the dark river, and 
their mother was called from earth in 1872, lieing 
only thirty-six years old. She was long mourned 
by tliose wlio knew her and will be remembered as 
a devout member of the Roman Catholic Church. 
He of whom we write was trained to manhood 
ill Detroit and tliere received liis education in the 
St. .loseph Scliool. At the age of sixteen he came 
to Tyrone and bound himself out as a farm hand 
to work for a farmer until lie reached his majority, 
for ^250. After coinjileting this term of service 
he worked liy the month until the time of his 
marriage, which took i)lace December 11, 1885. 
His bride. Miss Tessie Cran.'fton was a native of 
Tyrone Township, and a daughter of David and 



Sarah (Beebe) C'ranston who lietween the years of 
1845 and 1850 came from Xew York to Oliio, and 
later removed to Michigan, wliere they settled upon 
two hundred and forty acres of rich land. Two 
only of their four children are now living, iiaiiieh'; 
Elmer and Tessie. 

After his marriage ^Ir. Slieker iente<l hisniother- 
in-law's farm of two hundred and forty acres 
which he and his wife now own; it is one of 
the tinest farms to be found in the township. In 
his political views our subject is in .sympathy with 
the Democratic jjarty and is interested in national 
movements, but is not in any sense a seeker for 
oflice. He is a progressive and prosperous farmer, 
and both he and his wife are higlily honored and 
respected throughout the community in which they 
live. 






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OIIN 1'. \AXSVCKLK. The members of the 
family of wliicli our suliject is a representa- 
tive have, for the most part, been tillers of 
the soil, and have made a success of the 
branch of business to which the_v have devoted 
themselves. Our subject's father was Joseph Yan- 
s^'ckle, a son of Rynere Yansyckle, a native of 
New Jersey, where he spent his life and passed 
away from this world at the age of eighty-five 
years. He was })y birth and constant emjjloyment 
a farmer, and his father was one of the first settlers 
in New York. Joseph Yansyckle was born in 
New Jersey' in 1797. He there lived and was mar- 
ried to Lydia Kenney, wlio was born March 2, 
1800, and whose decease occurred in 1889. She 
was a daughter of William Kenney, a native of 
New York, who was of Scotch ancestry. 

To Josepli \'ansyckle and wife were liorn ten 
children, five sons and five daughters. In 1835 
Mr. ^^ansyckle came to Oakland County, and 
settled in Independence Township, whicli received 
its name from the gentleman just mentioned. He 
settled on a lariii of one hundred and sixty acres, 
which he took up from the (Tovernment, and here 
lie lived and died in 1860. He and his wife were 
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tli.-it t-iiiiiilv. Mini at till' lime cif lln'ii- cuiniiiij: luMf 
iiiu' could Inncl iioitli fur many miles willioiit 
liiidiiii;' ;iiiy si'llli'iiii'iit. Tlioro weio :il tlii' lime 
plenty nl uiihcs niiil lie.us. anil deer were nnmer- 
iius. wliii li \v:i> t'lirlnnate. as the lar<ler niiiilit often 
have lieen empty had i\lr. \'aiisyel<le not been so 
Siood a hnnler and iranie so easy to obtain. 

.lohii 1*. \'ansyekle was born June 1'.), 182'.(, in 
Warren County, X. .1.. and when five years of ai>;e 
canu with his parents to ()akland County and re- 
mained with them, assistintr witli the pioneer work 
until he was of aiie, when he learned the carpen- 
ter's trade. In liS,')l he w.'is married in Oakland 
County to ^liss Klizabeth (^nliek, a daiiifhter of 
llenr\' ( inlick, a native of New .lersey, and an 
c.'irly sett lei' in ()akland County, where he spent 
the remainder of his life, his decease ocein-riiiii; in 
\H(V2. lie and his wife reared a family of ten 
children, livi' sons and live daiisjhters. lie was 
alw.ays a farmer, and in his reliiiions relations a 
member of the .Methodist Kpiscopal Church, 

Our subject and his wifeare the p.'ireuts of the 
foll(iwini;children: .loseph II., .Martha I... James 
T., Melvina 1). and Harry .M. .VU are livinji' ex- 
ceptinsi' the last named. He of whom we write 
owns eii>hty-tive acres of land in Oakland County, 
This he resided nixin until IHdl, when he went to 
.loluistown, r.arry County, .and there lived until 
18i)(), cominsi' at that time to Inji'ham County where 
lie settled on ;i farm of (UU' huinlred and sixty 
acres, which he cleared and broke. This he sold 
and then bought two hundred aere.s where he now 
resides. His farm bears a i^ood class of buildinsi's. 
his residence .all th.'it a home should be. .and his 
b.'irns and granaries larjie and roomy. He has 
Ijiven eiji'hty acres of his oriirinal purchase to 
his son. which leaves him one hundred ."ind twenty 
acres. 

Mrs. Klizabeth Vansycklc died August, lf<Sl(. 
and feeling' the need of a comi)aiiion to help him 
gather up the broken threads of life, he was mar- 
ried to Kosetta I)e Mond. a daughter of Ilarriscm 
l)e Mond. a native of New York, who is an early 
settler in Oakland County, coming here in IMIo 
where he pa.ssed his life, his dece.ase taking place 
Octolier (), IKHlt. Mr. I)e Afond was a mason by 
trade and the f.-ither of a Large famih'. ()ui' sub- 



ject h.as been the .aichileet of hi> own fortune and 
has accumul;ited a handsome properly. He is .a 
Prohibitionist, hoping to see the principles of that 
party become lho.se that are generally acce])te(l. 
He has been Highway Commissioner six veai> in 
succession. 



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FliANK I.. IIVNK. Then- is perhaps no 
family in lirighlon Township. Livingston 
County, more [irogressive and prosperous 
and more r.apiilly .accumnlatiug a handsome prop- 
ei'ty tli.'in th.'it which is representerl by the nainent 
the head of this sketch. This active young farmer 
and stock-raiser was born <hi the farm where 
he now makes his home, on the 21>t of .August 
1H.')(;. He is the son of Charles T. Hyne. and a 
yoiniger brother of William !•". Hyne. of whom 
extended mention is made elsewhere in this vol- 
ume, .and in who.se sketch more is told of the father 
than can be given within the space of this brief nar- 
rative. The district school furnished the early edu- 
cation of this young man. and he aftei'ward took 
a cour.sc of study in the Commercial College at 
Detroit, being there during the years I87;> and 
1«7(). 

It was about the year is7;i when the young man 
began business on his own account, and since that 
day he has gradually increased his operations until 
he now carries on an extensive farming business. 
He has a large Ir.'iile in live stock, anil for a num- 
ber of years bought and shipped to a considerable 
extent. Ho rai.ses .and handles Shorthorn cattle, 
which he registers, and h.as a very fine hertl. 

'I'lie young man's efforts have not been entirely 
conlined to business o|)erations, as he lias taken 
time to woo and win for his wife a lady who is 
fully his equal in character and .ability. I'poii the 
2nd of .Vpril, 1M!)1. he was wedded to .\li-s. Lizzie 
(Williams) Sullivan, of Detroit, the widow of 
Charles Sulliv.an. and daughter of l-Mwiu Will- 
iams, who died ill IHHH after having been in busi- 
ness in Detroit for more than forty years. 

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fired and ninety acres of choice land, and besides 
till.-; jn'operty he is a stoclchokler with liis two older 
brothers, William and Frederick, in a grist mill ;it 
Brigliton. He is a man who makes money natu- 
rally and easily, yet without infringing upon the 
rights of others, as his unusual ability and judg- 
ment, which is conceded to be of a high order, en- 
ables him to plan wisely and to successfully carry 
out his enterprises. His political inclinations aii- 
in fayor of the Democratic platform, although he 
pays only the ordinary attention to |(olitics, as he 
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^'L^ f>KATI() :\I. LITCHFIELD. The military 
l) record of the gentleman whose sketch in a 
biographical way, it is our pleasant pri\i- 
lege to here giye, is one of which any- man 
might well be proud, for it is that of a man who 
gave his services freely and gladly to his State, 
expecting nothing in return. He fought for his 
country, not for the glory, and therein lies the 
secret of the great military success of Northern 
arms. Mr. Litchfield was with the Army of the 
Potomac and belonged to ILincock's Corps. He is 
now a resident of J^eroy Town.ship, being owner 
;jf a fine farm on section 20, Leroy Townshii), 
Ingham County. 

He of whom we write is a native of Norfolk 
County, Ontario, Canada, and was born Decem- 
ber 25, 1842. He is a son of Julius and Ade- 
line (Stearns) Litchfield, natives of New York 
State. Ten years of his boyhood were passed 
in Canada and then with iiis parents he came 
to Michigan, his father locating in Monroe City 
where they resided for some time, being engaged 
in farming. Tiie original of our sketch was 
denied the privileges of higher educati(m but 
early assimilated in the district schools of the 
lirimitlve days all that was required for a practical 
business life. In August, 1862, Mr. Litchfield en- 
listed in the War of the Rebellion, joining Com- 
jiany II, of the Twenty-sixth JMicliigan Infantr\' 



and with this regiment was assigned to duty in 
tlie Army of the Potomac and had the good 
fortune to be in Hancock's corps. He engaged in 
the battle of Spottsylvania, in the battle of the 
\\'ilderness, also at Cold Harbor and Pine Kun. 
He was also in the battle of live Points and was 
])resent at Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Be- 
sides these engagements that are of world-wide 
fame and which rank among the most celebrated 
battles that the world has ever seen, he took |iart 
in many minor engagements, and was finally hon- 
orably discharged in thesummei' of 186;"). 

After leaving the service ISIr. Litchfield spent 
some time in Iowa and also in Missouri, after 
which he came Inack to Michigan and was soon 
after united in marriage to Miss Teresa Brown, a 
daughter of Mateson and Olive Brown. He soon 
after purchased the farm whereon he now lives. 
Although not an extensive tract it is fertile and 
yields abundantly. Socially oiu- subject keeps up 
his war associations by membersiiip with Williams- 
ton Post, No. 103, G. A. R. He has served as A'ice 
Commander of this society. In politics he is an 
adherent and believer in the principles as held by 
the Republican party. Personally he is a progres- 
sive man, with original tendencies. Both he and 
his wife are regarded in the township in which 
they live as great additions to the social si)irit of 
the place. 



^^^ETII C. STOW. i\Iore lasting than specu- 
^i^>^ lative interests and without their deleteri- 
^\Jf \ ous effect upon the moral nature, agricul- 
ture offers a safe livelihood to any indus- 
trious man. Unless superior judgment and man- 
agement is brought to bear in this as in other 
callings, there is seldom a brilliant success, for the 
ground will not yield any more by brute force 
than will human nat\irc be productive by force. 
Our subject belongs to one nf the favored cla,ss, 
who is not only sure of his living, but also a suc- 
cessful financier. He has attained an enviable 
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'r()wii^lii|p. wIktc 111' iii:iki's lii.s residence iiii section 
27. lie \v:is hoiii in Li\ iii<istiin (Oimty. tliis 
State. Octulier 17. IHll. 

Mr. Stow IS ;i Mill of Aslc ;iiiil I.iimiim (Stow) 
Stow. His pMient.s weie natives of \'eiu)ont. They 
emiiiiateil to Livini^^ston (ountx at an early <lay 
and llici'e tliey spent some time. Tlie father of 
our snhject (lied a numliei()f years aj>:o; tiie mother 
still snivives. makinir her home in I.ivinjfston 
(dimly where slie has spent llie greater (Mirtion of 
her life. The senior Mr. Stow oeenpied a nnmliei' 
of township ollices. lie of whom we write is one 
of tour cliildren lioi'ii to his |)arents, Isaac, Anson. 
Setli C. and Olive. Tlie last named is the wife of 
James (Jray. Onr snl)ject was reared to manhood 
in Ills native eonnty and experienced many of the 
hardshi])s as well as interesting adventures of pi- 
oneer life. His whole career lias been identified 
with agrieultnral interests, lieing drilled to that 
work from earliest boyhood. In the inteivals of 
fai'ni labor he received a fair common-school edn- 
cation. one tli:it tilted liiiii for the oi'dinai'v he- 
mands of business life. 

July I, 18t)3 the oiiginal of onr sketch was 
united in marriage while still in Livingston County 
to ^liss Nancy .Jones, a sister of .Mrs. J. .M. Chris- 
tian, of whom a sketch appears in another part 
of this work. The wife has made the life of 
her husband rounded and eomjilete. She is the 
mother of live children, whose names are, George, 
KImer. Bert, Lila and \'ernon. He of whom we write 
is the owner of two Imndred and forty acres of 
land which is in a state of excellent cultivation 
and the farm ranks among the best in Leroy 
Township. 

As was the ea.se in early days, the parents of oiu- 
.subject could give their son but small pecuniary 
help and what he has accumulated has been made 
by hi^ own effort. Mr. Stow is now serving his 
fourth year as Highway Commi.ssioner of Leroy 
Township and h.as also held. several other positions 
especially lho.se most important in a township con- 
nected with the schools. He is a member of the 
Patrons of Industry and with his wife has identi- 
fied himself with the Methodist Protestant Church 
in which lie is now serving as Steward and also 
Trustee. It is an old and well known saying that 



an honest man is the n<iblesl work of (iml .ind 
sui'cly our subject comes uiuler this head. He is 
noted for his thrift and indiistr\ .'ind the beauty 
an<l harmony of his public life is only .'i relleclion 
of the kindness and loving gentleni'ss that is 
found ill his faniih. 



IVII.I.IAM II. ( I.AIJK of Mason City, Ingham 
'' '* County, was born in i;ili;i. ( ienesee County, 
yV N. v., February 2(;, IH.U. He is a son of 
Abijah and Pluebe .\nn (Driggs) Clark, both natives 
of (ienesee County, where the family h.as resided 
for generations and indeeil foi- one hundred years. 
(Jur subject was brought up on a farm and at the 
age of fifteen began his apprenticeship as a jirinter, 
and completed this training on the Detioit Fi'i-i- 
/'/y.s.s as he came West in ln.jd. Five yeai's aftei- 
he bought a newspaper in Wilmington. Will 
County. 111., and conducted it until .IHat) when he 
removed to Vorkville, Kendall Coiinly. III., where 
lie remained until IHfil. He had studied law .and 
been .admitted to the b:ir while in Wiliuiingtoii 
about the yeir ixr)7. 

At the breaking out of the war this young man 
sold out Ids paper and entered the Thirty-sixth 
Illinois Infantry receiving a commission .is Second 
Lieutenant. His first heavy battle was at Pea 
Kiilge and later he was transferred to the vicinity 
of Shiloh after the battle had been fought at that 
place and was with the army that drove Beaure- 
gard out of Ctirinth. While at Hieiizi he was pro- 
moted to the rank of First iJeutenanl for meritori- 
ous service on the Held of Pea Hiilge. 

This regiment was transferred to Cincinnati ancl 
later to Louisville and they were in the battle of 
Perryville in .Sheridan's Division under Gen. Biiell, 
and here our subject wa.s wounded in the left arm 
so that he was di.sabled for two months. He took 
part in the liattle of Stone River at Murfree.slioro 
ami w.as again wounded, but being the only t llicer 
in the com|)any remained iir charge and his I'cgi- 
inent in this battle lost about two-(ifthsof Its num- 
ber. He was now |iromoteil to the rank of Hegi- 



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ineiit;il Adjulaiil. In tlic liattle of Cliickamauga 
Ills liorse was shot fidiii iiiider liiiii aiul lie never 
received pa.y for tliis loss iiiilil twentv-soven years 
afterward. At C'liattaiioosia lie received a Captain's 
c-oniniission for meritorious service during the pre- 
ceding battles. After the battle of Missionary 
Ridge he was wounded by a bayonet in the right 
leg and soon afterward lesigned on aceonjit t)f 
disaliility. 

I'.efore going into the army ;Mr. Clark had been 
married and by this union there were two children. 
William L., who edits the Ingham County Dcmo- 
fi-iil and Lillian P., who married and died leaving 
one child. The mother of this son and daughter 
was called from earth and in 18()-1 our subject was 
again married and he now located in Mason City 
where he carried on the livery business for some 
time and is now proprietor of the Clark House. 
By the second marriage he has three .sons, Charles 
S., Fred .1. and George (). 

The first iMrs. Clark bore the maiden name of 
Julia \. Mead and was a daughter of Andrew J. 
and I'arnell (Wait) Mead. The present Mrs. Clark 
was known in liei- maidenhood as Kate M. Marsh 
and is a daughter of .Spencer Mar.sh. Mr. Clark's 
parents lirought him to Michigan when he was 
only four years old and he remembers the soldiers 
who took part in the boundary war between ;\Iich- 
igan and Ohio. His paternal giandfatlier. William 
Lee Clark, was killed at the siege of ISnftalo in the 
War of 1H12. 




^/ - IRAM RIX, .li!. Anion" the [jrominent 
and influential citizens of Ingham County, 
we are pleased to include the biographical 
.sketch of this estimable resident of Leroy 
Township. lie is a sou of Iliiam and Emily 
(Osborn) Rix. and was liorn in the township of 
.Sharon, AV^ashtenaw County, October 17, 1844. At 
the age of five years he was brought by his parents 
to their farm in Leroy, Ingham County. 

All the early associations of him of whom we 
write are connected with the district in which he 



is now a resident. He was here reared to manhood, 

and the details of iin|irovement and the gradual 
evolution from the original wild state of the land 
to its present prosperous air of rural life, is as fam- 
iliar to our subject as is his own daily life. His 
educational advantages like those of most jiioneer 
youths were limited, but he acquired enough to 
give him an impetus to go on liy himself. In Oct- 
ober, 18(!2, at the age of eighteen he responded to 
the call of his country for troops and enlisted in the 
War of the Rebellion, joining Company I), of the 
Sixth IMichigan Cavalry. Active field service com- 
menced with him at Gettysburg, and within a few 
days every commissioned officer of liis company 
was either killed or wounded, many of his comrades 
in the ranks had fallen and he was a prisoner, 
catiturcil in the cavalry tight at Boonesboro, Md. 
July 8, 18();5. He was sent to Libby Prison, and 
from there to Belle Island, where he was held until 
Scplembci- .'id, l«(;:i. when he was released on jiarole, 
sick with typhoid fexer. Recovering his health lie 
returned to his command and served under Custer 
and Sheridan until the close of the war. participat- 
ing in all the battles of the famous Shenandoah 
cam])aign in 18(;4, then the battle of Five Forks, 
and from there to Aliponiattox wlicre Lee sur- 
rendered. 

After the clo.se of the war the brigade to which 
he belonged was sent West into the vicinity of Ft. 
Laramie to a.ssist in quelling the hostile Indians. 
After a stay of several months he was honorably 
discharged in November, 1865, and returned to his 
old home to resume the oecujiation of farming. 
He is now the owner of one hundred and sixty 
acres of good land, which he purchased in its ori- 
ginal wild state, cleared and brought it to a high 
state of cultivation, and has erected some admir- 
able buildings, the residence being jiarticularly at- 
tractive, and a model country house in which com- 
fort is the chief con.sideration. 

August 27. 1x71. he was married to Aliss Bettie 
Neal, daughter of Riifus J. Xeal, also a resident of 
Leroy Township. Mrs. Rix was of great assistance 
to her husband duriiiii their early struggles for a 
competence and an inspiration to accomplish the 
hard and uninteresting work incident to farm life. 
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ilri'ii whose n.-uiics ;irc as follows: Milton, George, 
Waller. Carl. Kditli. Floyd. Cliffonl, < ioitiudc, and 
l.nllii'i'. .Milton, llic eldest, is le.Minini; the mach- 
inist's trade at the M ichiiran Central Railroad shops 
in .laekson, Mieh. 

Mr. Hix proves that he is a man of stei'liny (ilire 
and not to he daunted hy disfouraffeineiits from 
the taet that althouiih he has not been exempt from 
liaeksets more th.an other men. he has iievei' allow- 
ed himself to lie <iespondent, tjikint;- np the work 
that is nearest at hand and doiii<; it with his whole 
heart. Herein lies the secret of his siieeess. For 
two yea IS he served as Clerk of Leioy Township, and 
vva^s Supervisor one year. In IMilO he was candi- 
date for ijepresentative to the Stjite Ix'uislatnre 
ficini the second distl'ict of Inu'ham County, lint 
was defeated liy lion. C. ('. Fitch, of ^Mason. 

()ursul)ject is proijjressive in all his tendencies. 
The pulilic lienelit is more to him than private 
enterprise, lie is strictly conseientionsand cannot 
lie swerved from the line of duty as lie sees it liy 
any consi<leiatioiis of self-interest, lie and his 
wife ;ii'e reiiresentatives of the liest sociid element 
in this community, lie is present commander of 
F. rnrrell Post. No. !i;^. ( J. A. 1{. at Webberville. 










KOHCiF HILL FFH(;rS()N. M. 1). .New- 
--- , comers in any ttourishini;; city have to run 
the risk of I leinii' overlooked ''.v pefiple who 
do not kn<iw them. ;iiid of being overshadowed li,\ 
the already established reputation of older residents 
who are in the.same line of business or i)rofessioiial 
work with them.selves. .V young physician, newly 
established in :i city liiids this particularly trui'. 
but if he po.ssesses exceptional elmracter. ability 
and skill, he will overcome these disadvantages and 
soon be brought to the front. 

Such exee]itioiial characteiisticsniay be adjudged 
to Dr. Ferguson, whose portrait appears upon the 
opposite ])age. Although comparatively a new- 
comer in Lansing. Ingham County, lie is ali'eady 
enjoying a popular practice as a physician and sur- 
geon, lie was born in (Jraiit Township. ( )ce:iiia 



Cfiunty. this St.-ite. .Iaiiuai\ 27. IHIw. His father. 
Nini.an l-'eri;uson. was a native of Holt, in this 
<'ount\-. His grandfather, who also bore the name 
of Ninian, was a native of Canada and followed 
the pursuit of a contractor and builder. He early 
settled in Holt, where he carried on his work, liut 
enlisted under the Hag of the Inion and served 
during the Civil \Var for two years. He was killed 
by .a railroail tiain at Leslie, Mich., on his way 
home. The Ferguson f;imily is of Scottish descent 
and traces its line.age back to the nobility of Scot- 
land. 

'I'he mechanical :ibility of the fatliei- init him in 
the engineeiing and mechanical department of the 
arm\ while he was in the I'nited States service, in 
which he enlisted when he was about eighteen 
years old. remaining therein until the close of the 
war. He then bought a farm in Oceana Township, 
( )eeau!i County, and after two years removed to 
Slie|b\-. in the same county, where he managed a 
furniture store. Later he went to White Hall .as a 
millwright and afterward engaged in the manu- 
facture of shingles and lumber on contract for four 
years. ,\fter that he removed to Gobleville, \'an 
Uureii County, wheie he carried on his business a.s 
a contriictor and builder until IMilO. At that time 
he removed to South Chicago, where he still pur- 
sues the same business. His wife bore the maiden 
name of Isabellc Thr.asher and was born in Fs.sex, 
Ohio, being a daughter of William T. Thrasher, of 
.Mbion. who is a bl.acksmitli and carriage-maker, 
lioth parents were devoted members of the Meth- 
odist Fpiscoiial Church. 

()iii- subject is the eldest in .a family of three 
boys, and was reared to manhood in Oceana anil 
Nan I'.iiien Counties, attending the city si-hools at 
White Hall, and being graduated when eighteen 
\ eai-s of age. He learned the carpenter's trade 
when a boy and also learned decorati^ig and arcli- 
iteeture. lb' followed ctmtracting and building at 
(ioblesviile until 1H87 when he entered the I'ni- 
versity of Michigan, studying in the department of 
medicine and was graduated in |K!Ml, with the de. 
gree of Doctor of Medicine. He cai'ried on 
researches in seven special courses while there, ])ay- 
iiig particular attention to gynecology an<l electro- 
therapeutics. 



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The Doctor located in Mason, Mich., and after 
ten iiiontlis' praftiff there removed. May i'>. l.Sill. 
to i^ansiiig, where he houjiht out Dr. F. (). llud- 
nutts and has worked iij) for himself a line practice 
in surgery, of whieli he makes a specialty, lie de- 
votes one day in the week to his old patients in 
^lason wlio still cling to hun, and from wlnmi he 
at times lias calls every day in the week. He is ; 
proiuinenlly identified with the Knights of Pythias : 
and the Free and Accepted Masiins. and is well 
known among the Alumni of tlie I'niversity of 
Michigan. As a vocalist he is well known through- ' 
out this iiart of the State, having a fine voice and 
singing .as first tenor. With two lirothers and a 
Mr. Walker he helped to form a male quartette 
which did excellent service for three months, dur- 
ing the campaign of 188H for the Prohibition party, 
to which he is ardently attached. 

The Doctor has recently invented a gasoline 
heating stove and has apjjlied for a patent. It is 
considered by cajiable judges to be far superior to 
any moveable stove ever invented for heating 
purposes, as it can he easily moved from one room 
to another. Dr. Fergus(m is meeting with large 
sales, having sold one hundred and j^seventeen 
stoves in the short space of four hours. 



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OHX CLEAR, The gentleman whose name 
appears above and who is one of the firm 'A 
Wells i.\! Clear, wholesale dealers in oils, coal 

and ice, is one of tlie early residents of the 

city of Lansing. He has been here since 1866. He 
was born in Sandusky, Ohio, July 1. 18.54. He re- 
mained there but a short time, his fanuly moving 
to South Bend, Ind., which was his home for a few' 
years. He came to this city when twelve years 
old and soon afterward went into the grocery busi- 
ness with John Whitely. He was so engaged for 
some time and there acquired the elements of his 
business education. 

Our subject started a dray of which he was him- 
self the proprietor, and drove the wagon for the 
United States Flxpress Company. He still con- 



tinues to have charge of the last-named business in 
connection with his other interests, and now has 
all the work for the Detroit, J^ansing i\f Xtjrthern 
Railroad, which alone requires four teams. Mr. 
Clear went into partneiship with Mr. Wells in the 
oil Inisiness in 1886. They have built a station 
hero and also at Saginaw and now have a large 
jobbing trade. They receive their oil liy cai- load 
lots. They also deal in coal, ice and wood and 
give emidoyment to ab(jut nine men. 

Our subject has not been greatly interested in 
politics, but usually gives his vote and the weight 
of his intluence to the Republican i)arty. His wife, 
who is a most estimable lady, was in her maiden- 
hood Miss Fanny Hoffman, of this city. She is 
the mother of four cinldren, whose names are John, 
Tina, Florence and Beatrice. They are lirigiit and 
amiable young people who (iiomise to be a so\irce 
of great comfort to their |)arents. 









/AMES M. SHEARER is a retired farmer liv- 
ing on section 14, Lansing Township, where 
he is the owner of a beautiful tract of land. 
^/' He and his step-son, B. B. Baker, have one 
hundred and forty-six acres within one mile of the 
city limits of Lansing. Mr. Shearer is a son of 
•hames and Hannah (Caldwell) Shearer, natives of 
Franklin County, Mass., where the subject of this 
sketch was born April 20, 181.5. He was reared 
on a farm and worked for liis father until he was 
twenty-one years of age. His father was a farmer 
and a drover, dealing in cattle and other stock. 

Our stdiject assisted his fatlier on the road when 
a boy. He remained in the old Bay State until 
twenty-nine years of age and was then appointerl 
Steward of the Insane Asylum at Brattleboro, \'t.. 
in which capacity he served for five years. It was 
while having cliai'ge of this institution that he 
formed the acquaintance of Mrs. Deborah Baker, 
who was the matron of the institution. They were 
married September 4, 1849. She was the daughter 
of Reuben and Abigail (Brooks) Bigelow, and is 
a native of Bennington, Vt., born April 12, 1803. 



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SIh' tir>l iiiMiiicd l'',/.i;i l>;ikci- in IH.'U; In- died 
in IX.'J!). U';i\ inn iici- a widow willi I'onr cliildrcn, 
wiiosu iiaiiu's arc Kzia. licnjaniin, lleiirv 15. and 
Charles. Tlic oldest died while i)i niilitarv service, 
lienjaniin 15., wiio was born in ln:3"), resides with 
the lainily of Mr. Sliearer and conducts the I'arni; 
he is married to Mary Wilcv and is the father of 
three children — Mamie, IJeithaand Helen. Henry 
15. was l>orn in IH;57 and now resides in Lansing. 
After tln' niarriiige of Mr. and Jlrs. Shearer they 
came to Ingham County and in 1K51 removed to 
.Mason and liecanie proprietors of an liotel, remain- 
ing there foi' three veal's. At the end of that time 
he moved to Lansing and has ever since lived in 
the lownship. lie has always taken great inter- 
(•■-l in political and social m;itters and is a strong 
Democrat. He has lieen Supervisor of the town- 
sliip for ten years and has also held other town 
otlices. He was .Sheriff in Massacluisetts when only 
twenty-one years of age. Mr. Sliearer is a meni- 
lier of the Masonic order and he and his wife are 
I loth united with the Congregational Church. They 
are both advanced in life, but are still young in 
their sympathies and feelings. 



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ft? S. .\15KLS. thel)e|iuty I'liited Slates Mar- 
shal who makes his home at L.ansing, wa.s 
y born in Seneca County, X. Y., December 
IH, 1843 and is a .son of .1. M. and Klizabetii 
(Avery) .Vbels. The father w;is formerly a boot 
and shoe man and later a liimlier manufacturer. 
Our subject received his education in New York, 
completing his studies at (ieneva. and subsequent- 
ly engaged in .selling dry goods in New York, Chi- 
cago and Toledo. In IHTT) betook up detective 
work on special service in Toledo and afterward 
in Lansing. In 1H77 he o])ened an office as a de- 
tective in an independent way and was also for a 
time in the employ of the city, as I'olicc Detec- 
tive. 

Mr. Abels was a|)poiiited Deputy I'liited SimIis 
.Mar>hal about eiiilit \ ears ago anil is at present 



employed iis detective for the Michigan Central 
railroad, so that he is on the road a good deal of 
the time. He has had many hard struggles in 
working up the eases of desperate charactci-s, and 
has had great success in biinging to light ciL'-es 
which others h;id failed to coini>lete and has never 
been unsuccessful in his effort.s. He has a good 
reputation both personally and in his line of work. 
He married Miss Asenalh R. Wail, a \erinonl larly 
whose father came to Delhi in this county in 1«()7. 



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^^^^A\ II) 1). lilRD. .V worthy representative 
j J) of the agricultural fraternity, Mr. Bird 
(i^^' lifts retired from active business life and 
is now enjoying a well earned resjiite from 
severe labor, having a ple.a.sant residence in Will- 
iamsville, I'liadilla Township, Livingston County. 
He is a sou of Kurman 15ird, a native of Warren 
County, N. .1., and a fanner. His grandfather was 
Kdward I5ird, who was of Knglish descent and a 
iiiMii of .some note in his day. being a member of 
the Legislature and .lustice of the IVace. He was 
a farmer by occupation residing in ^Varren County, 
and with his wife, wlio.se maiden name was Susanna 
Kurman, lived to a good old age. His mother was 
Mary Ann (Davis) I5ird, also a native of New 
.lersey. Her father, David Davis, was a soldier in 
the Revolutionary AVar. .Mr. and Mrs. I5ird. Sr., 
were married in their native State and there re- 
sided until they came to the Wolverine State in 
1H83, first settling at .Vnii Arbor on a farm. There 
w.i-s but a small settlement there at that time, a log 
house serving .as a tavern. The farm com]irised 
eighty acres of land and was about one mile fnun 
the village. 

The energies of our subject's father bent to ihe 
improvement of his jjlace and before his deccLse he 
erected a good frame dwelling house and line 
barns. Both parents pas.sed aw.ay from the scene 
of their most active labor. Of ten children born 
to his parents our subject is the (mly one now liv- 
ing. His early training in a religious w.ay was in 
the I'resbvterian Church. Our subject's father was 



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a Deacon in that body before coming to Michigan. 
His decease toolv place in 1839. at the age of sixty- 
five years. Ilis wife died in lH.')6at the age of 
seventy-two years. Politicalh' the fatiier vv.as a 
Jacksonian Democrat. ^Irs. Bird was an nnassnni- 
ing Christian woman whose real wortli was known 
only to her intimate friends, so quietly did she 
perform hei- many deeds of kindness. The poor 
and needy found in her a helper, and she was a 
warm friend of missions ever willing to deny 
herself for others, as the following incident will 
show. Her means were very limited: there fell to 
her at one time the .small amount of $.'300. In- 
stead of using it for her own c(mifort she gave 
$200 to the cause of mis.sions and loaned the re- 
mainder to a feeble church to liuild a house of 
worship, reserving nothing for herself. ^Irs. Bird 
was the <inlv daughter of David Davis. She had 
two brothers. Samuel and Chambers, who were far- 
mers liy occupation and resided in Warren County, 
N. J. 

The brothers and .sisters of our subject weie as 
follows; Betsey, Sloan, Samnel. Elijah, Mary, Kd- 
ward. .lohn, .Joseph and Susanna, all except the 
latter marrying and settling in Southei-n ^Michigan. 
Joseph the youngest came to his death in the gold 
mines of California; he left a wife and one child. 
John lived and died on the old homestead where 
his wife and family still reside. 

The original of our sketch first saw the liglit of 
day >Larch 1, 1813, in Warren County, X. J. On 
coming to .Michigan lie was t\ventv vears of age 
and had received his education in tlie Kast. Iia\-ing 
had the advantages offered in a district school. 
He was reared on a farm and was early familiarized 
with agricultural duties. He remained at home 
with his father until coining to Livingston County, 
giving him his services until he reached his major- 
ity and working for wages after that time. 

Mr. Bird came to this county and located on a 
farm of one hundred and seventy-two acres in 
Undilla Township, on section 3(1. The land is what 
is known as oak openings and it was patented to 
him directly from tlie Coverninent. There were at 
the time more Indians than white men, tieighbors of 
the latter sort being very few. He was obliged to 
borrow money to pay for part of liis land and 



bought two yoke of oxen on credit. I'.uilding a 
log house he began the work of clearing, which 
went on slowly a> he had no help and had to de- 
pend upon himself entirely'. 

Our suliject's marriage took place March (!, 18311, 
at which time he was united in marriage t() 
Miss Agnes Piper, a daughter of William and Ag- 
nes Piper, natives of Scotland and early settlers 
in Unadilla Township. Mrs. Bird was born Se|)- 
teinber 12, 1816 in .Scotland. She died December 
1, 1880. This worthy couple have been the par- 
ents of .six children, three of whom are now living. 
They are William P., ~Slaiy E. and Almira K. 
William was born .Vugust 24, 1840; his first wife 
w.as Klgiva liarton, a native of Maine; at her 
death she left four children, the eldest of whom, a 
nol)le boy nineteen years of age, was drowned 
wliile bathing in the lake at AVilliamsville. The 
maiden name of his second wife was Klla Lake. 
He lives near Ann Arlx)r and has five children, 
three of whom are by his former marriage. IMaiy 
K. was liorn March 26, 1845; she is now the wife 
of F. K. Ives and lives in this township; she is the 
mother of two I'hildreii. Almira li., born .lan- 
uary Lj, 1848, is the wife of A. 15. Dunning and 
lives in Sturgis. ]Mr. Dunning is a prominent law- 
\cr in that city. lie and his wife are the parents 
of two children. 



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:\I. BI(;f:L()W. a miller of Williamstown 
Township, Ingham County, is a son of J. R. 
Bigelow and grandfather of Abel Bigelow, 
a native of M.assachusetts. The grandfather 
married Maria Hunt by whom he had three sons 
and five daughters, and in 182.5 he came to Michi- 
gan and settled on a farm in AVest Bloomfield. 
Oakland County, where he spent the remainder of 
his days, dying about the year 1848. He put up 
the first brick-kiln in Oakland County and erected 
the first brick house in the township. 

J. R. Bigelow came to Michigan in 1825 at the 
age of eighteen and after several years in the em- 
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bought furs from 111,. IikUmms. 1„. Ii,.|i„.,l i,, i,|,i|,| 
Ihe (irsL r:\ilw;iy IVmii Detroit to I'.intiric :m(l i-uu- 
struclcd III,- lirsl turul:il.lc nt Uoynl Oaks. II,. 
tlu.n rcturiicl to New VorU. wlii.r,. he was iiiairici 
to Susan .M,inta,<,nn. wlio Iu'cmiiic tlu. iiiollu'r of lli,. 
followiiii.- •■liililrcn: Marv. .1. A.. Autcusla. II. .\1.. 
.!.(».. -111(1 Ainaiida. In l.s7| .M , . Kiuvjow lirouoju 
his family to Williamstoii. this county, and died 
in Fchruary. 1^<7(;, while his wife survived iinlil 
Deeeiiilier I. I.S,S2. 

Our siil)jeet was liorn in West Itloomlield Town- 
shij). Oakhmd County. iNfich.. Oetoher 7. LSI 1. At 
theageof seventt'eii h,. enlisted in ('om|iaii\- A. Fifth 
Michigan Cavalry, and served until .Inly H, IXG.-), 
taking iiart in the following liattles, (lettv-sburg. 
Hooneshoro. Ihigerstown. \\'illiainsiJorl, Falling 
Water and South .Alountain. At the close of the 
war he learned the carpenter's trade and worked at 
it until 187;'), after which he lioiight a farm in 
Willianiston Township. Ingham Couiit\-. 

Susan A.Drake, daughter of Joliiam Drake, a 
sailor and fanner, became Mr.s. II. :\I. Higelow, 
February V.i, 1866, and to her has been born one 
son, Carl 11., who is now in the nulling business 
with his father. Mr. liigclow .sole! his farm in l.s,s7 
and came to Williamston and engaged in niilliiii;. 
in addition to which he does <jiiite an extensive 
sawmill business, in b,ith of which he has been 
very successful. He is prominently identiHed with 
the Royal Arch .Masons, the Odd Fellows and the 
(iraiul .Vriiiy. His politics are of the Republican 
stamp, ..iiid he was President of Ih,. vill:ig(. in |m;)II. 



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lifOIIN M. CROSS.M.VX. a relired nieichant 
and a gentleman of broad ••ind comprehen- 
sive experience and ob.servation, is a si 1 

P^ben Crossman, who was a native of New 
York. His first wife, Lois Hobart, w;is the mother 
of two (laughters and one son. .Vflcr her dcadi 
he married .Maria White, wdio bore to him ( li:irles 
1)., .lohn M., and .Sarah .lame.s. She w.as a daiii^li- 
ter of Willi:im While, .i nativ,. of New York. 



••'H.l an early .settler in Livingston ( ountv. .Mi,-h.. 
who died in 18.5(1. li\s wife surviv.-,| him until 
1887. .Mr. White w:isa soldier in the War of IK12. 

i:b,.n ( ro.s.sm;,,! locale<i in Ingham Township. 
Ingham County, about the year I 8 Id. and h,. is still 
'ultivating that estate. He is a Democrat in his 
political view.s. but his son is ardently .■ilt;u-lied to 
the Republican party. 

He of whom we write had his hirlh in Ingham 
Township, this county, January 1."), \H:,i). He 
l.-il'ored up,, 11 111,. f:iini at lioiii,. imlil he reached 
the age of lifteen, when he began working for 
wages, and te.aeliing winters, and by .scrupulous 
economy he managed to carry himself through a 
course in the State Normal .School, and gradu.-ii,,! 
in 1874. After his graduation he was appointed 
Postmaster at Williamston. and al th.. saiiu- time 
inv.'stcd a limited capital in the mercantile busi- 
ness. In this way he was very successful, and at 
the ,11,1 of ten years U\> business was valued at 
^40,(100. 

The young nierehant n,>w formed .-i p;iiineiship 
with Mr. Samuel Toms, with whom he ,.oiilinued 
for three years, after which he sold his share of 
the business to Mr. Kdgar Weber, and has since 
led a r,. tired life. He still retains ; meyed in- 
terest in the mercantile business, although he has 
put most <)f his property into bonds and mort- 
gages, and has besides this several vdlage lot.s and 
a luind.sfune residence on Putnam Street. 

The marriage of our subject in 1876 broui.dit to 
his home a sympathetic and a helpful c<mipanion 
ill the per.son of .\dilie Strang, a (laughter of \\'al- 
ler C. Strang, a New Yorker, who was a jiioneerof 
this ,.(iuiit\-. Ill ilie y,.Mr |s,s;( .\||-. ( ro.s.sman. in 
pursuit of knowledge, took a tiip to Kurope. He 
learned the French language and traveled all over 
the ( onliiieiit. He visited (iieece, Kgypt. Habv- 
lon anil the llol\ Land. He returned in the fall 
of the same year, bringing with him a large num- 
ber of pliologr..|pli> of prominent cities and build- 
ings. ,V few weeks after his return he started upon 
his second trip which l.-islcd more th:iii a \e;ir; was 
al l';iiis during the eontiiiu.-iiiee of the World's 
Fair. He visited -lacobs Well and the Well of 
.Joseph, in Cairo. Fgypl. He .saw th,. ci.ater of 
Ml. \'t.sii\ius. ami on the Itli of .lul\. 188!). as- 



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scended Mt. Blanc. He visited the sites of the [ 
seven churches of Asia, to wliich St. John sent, his 
messages in the Book of Revelations, and he fol- 
lowed tlie steps of our Saviour in the Garden of 
(iethsemane. and upon the sacred mount of cru- 
cifixion. 

During Mr. C'rossman's first tour in Europe, lie 
traveled some fifty thousand miles, and his second 
tour carried him over about twenty thousand miles. 
He l)rought over a large addition to his library, 
and among them many volumes of French litera- 
ture. Besides his journeyings abroad, he has trav- 
eled in many parts of our own country and in 
1885 visited the Ex|)osition at New Orleans. 



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xREDKHR'K STEIXAC'ivER. Among the 
(sjt enterprising (iernian- American citizens of 
t'ohoctahTownsJiip.IJvingston County, few. 
if any, are more aiii)r('ciated as factors who have 
added to tiie value of life iu tliis district tlian he 
wliose name is at tlie head of tiiis sketcli., He was 
liorn .luly 28, 1848. in Hesse-Darinstadt, Germany, 
and is a son of Frederick and Barbara (Baker) 
Stcinacker. natives of the F.atherland. The fatlier 
of our suliject employed as tlie means of mak- 
ing his livelihood the historic trade of a weaver. 
He was one of a family of four cliihiren, compris- 
inu' three sous and one daughter, and was tlie only 
one who came to the United States. His voyage 
hitlier being made in tiie summer of 1857. 

The time occupied in crossing the ocean when 
our subject came hither, was seven weeks and tliiee 
days, and on landing lie came direct to Genoa, 
Livingston County, this State, where he at once 
began farming. He is now the owner of eighty 
acres of land, which is under an excellent state of 
cultivation. Our subject's maternal parent was 
the daughter of Andrew Baker, who came to 
Michigan about 1852-53. He of whom we wiite 
was reared on a farm, and on coming to the United 
States began to earn his own way, working for the 
small sum of *2 per month. That he was f.aitliful 
and trustworthy is shown by the fact that he re- 



amined with one employer, Lewis Myers, for four- 
teen years and eight months, during which time he 
received a remuneration of 1245 a year for his 
services. In 1875 he purchased the eighty acres 
on section 2(1. Cohoctah Township. This he has 
cleared and improved, making of it his present 
highly cultivated estate. 

November 28, 1879, Mr. Steinacker was married 
to Elizabeth Dykes, who was born November 9, 
1855, in Genoa Township. She was a daughter of 
Joseph and Jane (O'Neill) Dykes, the former a 
farmer who came from New York about 1842. Our 
subject has become the father of three children, 
whose names are Olive B., Carl F. and Howard J. 

Our subject and his wife are members of the 
Baptist Church, in which they hold a highly re- 
spected place. Mrs. Steinacker's father was by 
trade a shoemaker. ( )n coming to the State of 
Michigan lie purchased one liundred and sixty 
acres of land in (ienoa Township. He was the 
father of nine children, six of whom grew to ma- 
turity. They are Alice, Walker, Sarah, who is Mrs. 
Cook; Arminta, who died at the age of twenty- 
three; .loel, George, whose decease took place wli«n 
he was twenty-six years of age, and Oscar. Jo- 
seph Dykes was born in (4enoa, Livingston County, 
N. Y., and died September 19, 1875, at the age of 
seventj'-eiglit years. For twenty years before his 
decease he had lieen blind. His wife still survives 
him; she is seventy-eight years of age, and is a de- 
voted member of the Baptist Church. 



»^^ TEPHEN SMITH is a general farmer on 
section 1, ^leridian Townsliip, Ingham 
Cc)untv. He has a place of eighty-four 
acres which is under good cultivation. Mr. 
Smith was born in Lodi, Seneca County, N. Y., De- 
cember 2, 1819. He is a son of .Lames Smith, who 
was born in Norway Township, Orange County, 
N. Y. in 17'.i8 and died in 18(i(i. 'Sir. Smith spent 
seventeen years in Seneca County on a farm and 
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Kl.-) 



lion. I lis t'atlicr llicii (•.■line to .Michiu.Mii riiul set- 
tli'd lU'iir Ann Ailidr. lie remained tiicic two years 
on a farm, wliieli lie linally sold :incl lionL.>'lil where 
our subje<'t now lives. 

Mr. Smitii settled in Hath, in .Inne, IM.iT. wlien 
there w.as only one man besides hinisell' there, lie 
|)lo\ve<l the tirst land in l!;ith. It was the time 
when the Indians and wild animals were almost the 
only oeeu|)ants of the eountry and the Indians 



youth is more egotistical and l)ip:<)t<>(l than a<;e, 
and could .some of the young i)liysieiaiis who are 
bristling with their knowledge of recent .scientitit 
discovciies that have broadened the .scope of the 
medical work, realize, as does our subject, that there 
are tields une.\|)lored they would be |e>s full of 
their own iinpoi'lanee. 

Dr. .Miller w;is boin in .Mlegheny County, I'a., 
.Inly 2;"). 1S2(!. lie is a son of .lames and .Susan 
watched him in amazement, as witli his oxen he i (Shaffer) .Miller. In hi> l.ovli t he received the 



plowed the ground with a Xo. 7 \Vood's |)atent 
plow, which, drawn by thiee or live yoke of oxen, 
was heavy enough to cut a three-inch roof off. 
They threshed their wheat in the most |)riinitive 
way and .sold all they could spaie for seed, one 
man coming twenty-live miles thiough the woods 
to get what seed they could spaie him. 

The farms together .aggregated >ix liundred 
acres, and it was cultivated together vmtil some 
time after the marri.age of the boys. Stei)hen Smitli 
has lived here ever since, He w.as married foi'ty- 
five years ago to Mi.ss Etnily Cushman of DeW'itt. 
The following children were the result of this 
union: they are Ciilbert, Laura, Wealthy, Rozella, 
Lenora, Stephen M., Edgar and B. S. Oui' sul)ject 
is a member of the Free Will B.aptist Chiucli and 
was .so connected in Bath for about forty years, 
lie is a charter member of the Okemos ^[a.sonic 
Lodge. He has been a Democrat all his life. Ib- 
is .lustice of the Peace and has been a Highway 
Commissioner, liaviug held besides various town- 
ship ollices. 



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|?^R. WILLL\M MILLKR. Our subject is one 
I; 1 of the oldest jiliysiciaiis who still does ollice 
}< work ill this cit,\ . Indeed he iiuiy be called 
a pioneer in the profession, not only in the city 
but in the St!ite and although he li.-is climbed the 
ridge of life, and from the eminence at which he 
sl.'inds can look back promlly over ;i past siieiit in 
usefulness, in adherence tii the prevailing methods 
and theories, he is not. and never will be \\\ a st.aiid 
still in the progress of his profe.ssion. Indeed 



advantages of a good education and on (inishinir 
.school entered the ollice of Dr. Mowery, of Pitt.s- 
burg, I'a.. in order to read medicine. He remained 
with him until he reached his majority, after which 
the old doctor gave up his practice to Dr. Jliller. 
He, however, went to Cincinnati soon after and 
ti)ok a course of lectures. He came to this State 
and settled in Lansing. Ingham County, in l«6."i, 
and has been here permjinently ever since. A\'hile 
the Homeopathic College w,as located in this eity, 
our subject attended the lectures and become con- 
versant with every new theory in regard to the 
treatment of disease. 

Ever since coming to Lansing our subject has 
remained at liis original location, having built 
therein IrtGl.and since that time he has alwavs 
enjoyed a large aufl interesting practice. For the 
past six months he has refused w(u-k. devoting 
himself to the treatment of chronic diseases and 
the manufacture of his well known remedies that 
have made a reputation for being most effective. 
He h;i^ li;id liea\v sales of these besides the work 
of his ollice [iractice. He has. besides, a general 
oversight of the agent,s who have been sent out 
through the eountry for the sale of his remedies. 
Dr. Miller has never interested himself in any busi- 
ness not rel.ating to his i)ra<-tice. having given his 
uiiilivide<l attention to this. He is a member of 
the Independent ( )rder of ( (dd Fellows, and 1k'- 
loiiged to the Corintlii:in Loflge No, 10. havinir .-ls- 
sociated hinhi.elf with this body while in Baltimore, 
bill after coming to this St.ate. he withdrew his 
iiiembersliip there and assisted in establishing a 
chapter of the lodge in Lansing, 

The original of our sketch allied liiiii.-elf at an 
early age in matrimony to Jliss Charlotte Mc- 
Cread\'. of |,awreiu<' Coiint\-, Pa., in 18,50. Her 



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decease took place July 16, 1890, after years spent 
witli our subject in cung'enial conipanionshi]). Thf 
couple were cliiklless and the Doctor was left alone 
witiiout the comfort or solace of any near relative. 
Mrs. Miller was horn in Lawrence County, Pa., 
May 10, 182.5. From youth she was a member of 
the Presbyterian Climch. After her marriage with 
(Hir subject she familiarized herself with diseases 
and the jjliarnijicopia that applied to them, and was 
not only of great assistance to her husband but 
also practiced independently until she w.as at- 
tacked with the fatal disease that caused her death. 
Cancer of the face was the malady witli which she 
was afflicted. I'he Doctor was again married July 
30, 1891, to Mrs. Elizabeth Cynthia (Miller) Van 
Tuyl, the great platform speaker who spoke t<> ten 
thousand people on labor day in Detroit and who 
is proving to be a true heli^mate in every particular. 
Before the war the Doctor had a large practice in 
Xew Orleans where he gained a large fund of use- 
ful knowledge in hospital work. (_)ur suliject's 
reputation is not confined to his immediate lo- 
cality, He is well known throughout the country 
and his remedies are of the greatest benefit to 
who have used them. 



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.-^^^HOiMA.S RUNS, .hi., a well-known farmer re- 
siding on section 3, Marion Township, Liv- 
ingston County, is a son of Thomas Ross, 
Sr.. who was born in New York, (Jctober ,5, 1810, 
and there became a farmer. He married .lane \'an- 
Winkle, daughter of Peter Van Winkle ()f New 
York, vviio had four sons and four daughters and 
.lane was the youngest of that family, being born 
in 1823. 

The i)arents of our subject had a family of four 
daughters and three sons and our subject is the 
first-born, his natal day lieing August 14, 1847. 
They came to Michigan at an early day .and bought, 
three hundred and thirty-three acres of new land, 
which had never been disturbed nor upon which 
had a tree been felled. 

The father afterward sold one hundred acres 



retaining the balance. He is still living and makes 
his home with his son, Thomas. He has been and 
is still a great reader of historical and geographi- 
cal works, and is well informed. In the early days 
when the country was full of wild game ami llie 
streams abovuided with fish he was a great liinits- 
nian and lisherman. In his political views he is a 
Democrat and at one time filled the office of High- 
way C'ommissioner. 

Thomas Ross, our subject, received a good com- 
mon-school education and was thus prei)ared to 
carry on the business of life. Ujjon his farm of 
two hundred and thirty-three acres he raises large 
crops of beans and has from fifteen tQ twenty acres 
of land planted to cucumbers. He is a Democrat 
politically and a worker for the party, and lias 
filled the offices of Highway Commissioner, Justices 
and Supervisor, having been four terms in the later 
position. On his one hundred and sixty acres of 
improved land he has a pleasant house and excel- 
lent barns and his ability as a farmer and genial 
nature makes him a favorite in the community. 



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^^^EOIKiE BARNES is the editor of the Llr- 
III , — , hHjKton County Republican, which is ])uli- 
'xi>l; lished in Howell. He was born in Buck- 
inghamshire, England, December 11, 184G. At 
the age of three years he was brought by his par- 
ents to America. Some little time was spent at 
Sandstone, .T.ackson County, Mich., and then the 
family removed to the northern wilds of Gratiot 
County. Mr. Barnes endured all the boy hard- 
ships of pioneer life and can tell real bear and wolf 
stories to his children. He acquired a district 
school education and began to teach during the 
winter months. 

Our sul)ject enlisted in the army October 3, 
1864, and gave thirteen months of active service 
in Company H, Twenty-third JMichigan Infantry. 
He participated in Sherman's famous march to the 
sea, and was discharged at the close of the war. 
He taught in the village school at Ithaca, Gratiot 
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lie entered the Stnte N'oriuiil Schot)!. wliere lie \v:is 
Uiadimtefl ill 1H7.'5. aiul tlieii liec;iiiie :i student in 
llie I ni\i'r>ily i>f Mieliiiinii. tnkinsi: his di|)l()iii;i in 
1S77. 

.Iiil_\ r.». 1S77. our suhjcct \v;i~ iiiMiricd to Miss 
Aujfusta 1). .h)hiis(in. ;i U'Mchir in llie .hiei<s(in 
I'liioii Sehdol. The lirst year iif his married life 
was sjient at Alinont, (iratiot County, where hi> 
had eiiarge of the schools, heiiiii assiste(| liy jiis 
wife and one [iriniary teacher. Tiie next year 
found iiiin in charge of the schools at Stanton 
with six assistants, Mrs. iSarnes anionsr the nunilier. 
After two years he came to Howell and assumed 
charue of the I'nion scIhmiIs. there heinu ten de- 
partments here at that time, lie filled the posi- 
tion successfully for eiglit years when he was in- 
duced to go to Lansing and take charge of the 
school for the lilind. The people of Howell e.x- 
l)ressed the greatest regret at |)arting with him and 
the High .School ^Vlunini lu'csented him with an 
elegant gold watch, siiitahly engraved, which he 
still carries, lie found the woi'k :il llie school 
forthe blind di.stasteful and .luly 111, lM>s',t, bought 
the LiclmiMoii Cimiil)/ Hiquihliciii). where he is still 
occupying the editorial chair. 



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UILMA.M \ AX r-IRKN. In itcd States Mar- 
shal and a prominent politici.-in at Lansing, 
^5^' was born of Kiistern p.-irentage and had liis 
early training and education in Michiiiaii. He was 
l)orii in 1K42 and came to Detroit when .-i boy. On 
the CiiiiiiiK'i'rifil Adccrlinpr he leariie(l the iirinter's 
trade in the d;iys when that papei w;i> known as 
the .[(In^rtiscr ami Trihuiu', and lie then became 
foreman of the Detroit Tribune until IK71. 

In .lanuary. 1.S71. Mr. \'an I'.uren came to Lan- 
sing as foreman for W. .S. (ieorge A- Co., State 
Printers, and served both in this c;ii)acity and as 
Superintendent of the liook-rooni and nuehanical 
department. He w;is then busines.-- manager for 
two years and in .iMiiuary. 1K8I. he bought a one- 
third interest in the business and bec;imc manager 
and [i.-irtner until lMH(i. when the pl.'inl w:is sold. 



This lirni had in the meanwhile been pulili.shing 
the Lansing lif^tiiltliriiii. of which our subject li:id 
general manageineiit, and in 1MH| he became the 
a.ssoeiate editor of this paper. 'I'he l>ansing Kiirni- 
tiire Company was organized by .Mr. \'i\\\ I'liireii 
and .Mr. \\. .M. lluck in IMHC and after having had 
it in operation two months, llicy .sold the outfit 
Mild our subject liecame an incorporator of the City 
•National Hank, of which he is a director and one 
of the largest stock holders. About this time he 
made a trip across the continent which he greatly 
enjoyed. In IM'.KI he was, on the 2".nh of .March, 
ajijiointed I'nited States Marshal for the Kastein 
District of .Michigan, a district which includes 
about half of the .State, and has head(iuarters at 
Detroit. Previous to this time he had tilled various 
offices, having been Supervisor for one year. Mayor 
of the city for two terms and Alderman of the 
Second Ward for two years. 

The refined and cultured lady who preside.- over 
the home of our subject became his wife in Detroit 
in imi7. Her maiden naiiic was .luli.M (I. ()"Calla- 
ghan. She is a daughter of the Hon. .1. ( )'('alla- 
ghaii, a wholesale and retail grocer on AVoodw.ai'd 
.V venue. .She is a lady of unusual ability and in- 
telligence and was a teacher in Detroit before her 
marriage. Four children have bles.se.d this home, 
namely: \Villiam. (ierald R.. (u'orge II., and Julia 
(i. .Mr. \an liuren is a memlier of the Knighl.- 
Teniplar. of the Royal Arch Masons, and llie Royal 
.Vic.-iiinni. .-Hid is a stanch Republican, being a mem- 
lier of liolli coiintv and Stale conventions. 




.1. IKX.LK, an old .settler of Ingiiam 
( niinly and now retired from active life. 
lias twenty acres of land on (Jrand River 
outside the corporation of Lansing. He was 
horn in lloosic. Rens.sel:ier County. N. Y.. October 
f I. isii; and is a son of Kiias and a grandson of 
l.saac lloglc. The mother's maiden name wa.- 
Roxie Rider, and she was a daughter of D;iniel 
Rider, a b'evolulion.ary >oIdier of Connecticut and 
a pensioner lo the age of ninety-three yeai-s. 



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Our subject is the second in a family of eiarlit 
children and iinide liis Ikhih' in Ihiosic. until hi' 
readied the aye of eight years and there attended 
the district school. In 1824 he came u)) tlie Ki'ie 
Canal and there went to work in ^Madison County 
on a farm. At the age of fourteen he was appren- 
ticed to the trade of comh-niaking at Morrisville 
and two and one-half years later went to Eaton, 
N. Y., where he was engaged in farming for two 
years. 

In 1H8() the young man decided to come West 
and arrived in Detroit in June, coming on foot 
thence to Saline, a distance of forty miles in one 
dav. \l different times he worked at York, Grand 
Rapids and Portland, and was married in Clinton 
County, at Wacousta, ,Iuly 2, 1840 to Miss Electa 
Sanborn a New York lady. 

Immediately after marriage this young couple 
settled on a farm of sixty-two acres in Eagle 
Township, Clinton County, and began their tii'st 
home in a log house. To this small jn'operty they 
added from time to time until the\- acquired four 
hundred acres and there lived until 1847 when 
they placed the farm in the h.ands oi a tenant and 
removed to Lansing. Here Mr. Hogle built a hand- 
some residence and helped to raise the old capital 
))uilding. He afterward returned to the farm and 
there remained until 18(i!) at which time he gave 
his son one hundred and five acres, and selling the 
remainder of the property, made his permanent 
home in Lansing. To jilease his wife and son he 
removed to \'irginia. Imt tlicir residence there was 
not satisfactoiv and entailed the loss of some 
$!2,(t()(l. They therefore returned to Lansing and 
again bought property in Ingham Coiint3'. 

The first marriage of Mr. Hogle gave him tiiic 
son who grew to maturity-Loran P., and a daugh- 
ter, Mildred, who died at the age of three vears. 
His second marriage which took place in Grand 
Ledge, Ionia County, October 8, 188."), united him 
with Mrs. Sarah E. (Spear) Lewis, daughter of Gil- 
bert Sjjcar of St. Andrews. -N. B. Mr. Spear w.as 
a ship builder and merchant iii Maine and Mass.a- 
chusetts and now resides at Kittery Point, Me., 
having reached his eighty-second year. Mrs. 
Hogle their oldest child was born in INLaine, Janii- 
aiy 31, 183;'), and in 18.'j7 was married to Mr. 



George A. Lewis of New Brunswick, with whom 
she removed to Anoka, IMinn.. and afterward to 
Grand Ledge, Mich. He died in 187t! and his loss 
was deeply felt in (irand Ledge where he w.as a 
pidniiiient iiierch;int. Her two children by that 
m;iiii;ige arc Charles .V. and (i. Burt Lewis. 




US. LOITSA CASE. The maiden name 
of Mr.s. Louisa Case of Okemos, Ingham 
i^ C(;unty, was Seeley. She is the daughter 
'' of .Tesse Seeley. a farmer living at White 

Lake, Oakland County. She was married to P.artial 
French, a carpenter by trade with whom she lived 
very hai)pily until his death, which occurred at 
Fentonville, in 185,'). In 18(50 she contracted a 
second marriage, her husband being Albert Case. 
Mr. Case was born in 1818, proltably in the State 
of Ohio. His father died when he was four years 
old and he lived with an uncle and graiidijarents 
until the age of twenty-oni^ 

During the early years of his life Albert Case 
conducted a dairy farm in Ohio. On reaching his 
majftrity he was married to Miss Mehitable Sprague 
of Ohio who died in 1858, leaving a family of 
seven children. He moved to Alichigan in 18.50 
and purchased a farm near Wiliiamston, Mich. 
This w;is soon disposed of and another was pur- 
chased at Pine Lake, Medina Township, the one on 
which the Pine Lake school building now stands. 

Three children were born of the union of Mr, 
and Mrs. Case. They are Charles, who was born 
in 18(52 and is a druggist in Bucoda. Wash.; 
he married Miss Ida Smith, a daughter of I). ^^ 
Smith of Pine Lake, and is the father of one child. 
Fred Case, who was born in 1864 is engaged in the 
lumber liusiness in Wisconsin. Minnie at the age 
of sixteen marriecl \'eriial Proctor of Meridian 
Townsliii). 

In politics Mr. Case was a Democrat. He w.as a 
member of the Presbyterian Church of Okemos and 
a man who was honored and respected by a large 
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l.s'.lii. Mi-s. ( asc is tlic iiiollifi' of two iliilflivii \<y 
lior loiiiuM- ni:iiii:nTe. Tliev .'iri' Aiiicliii who dicil 
ill infinicv and Ivlwiii Frciirli, a Dctioil medical 
rolletre jrnidualc. wlio is now a siicccssl'nl iiliysician 
in llie West. 

Mrs. Case is llie inviier of ;i farm near I'iiic Lake, 
hut li:is lieen li\inij in ( )kemos for the past six 
years. She is a lady of I'elinement and aliilitv. 
Durinsi' tlie existence of llie I'resliyleriaii Cliurch in 
this cit\ she was a consistent inenilK'r and still 
holds to the doctrines of that ImmU. 







HILO L. DAXIKI.S is one of the busy men 
, of l^ansing who while inishing with great 
earnestness and enterprise his business in 
the druu' and real estate lines, also has 
lime to take his recreation by raisinsj a line <jrade 
of lionses. lie has .some good specimens of stiind- 
ard bred horses upon his place and also a line herd 
of Holstein cattle. 

This gentleman was born in l",rie County. Ohio, 
not far from Norwalk Deeetnber l/i, 1X>{7. His father. 
Titus Daniels, was a native of Chenango County, 
N. \. and was of English descent. The father was 
married first in New York and came to Ohio at a 
very early day, .settling in Berlin Township. Erie 
County, in 1S14 or 1815. The deed for the farm 
bearing the date of 1818 is now in the hands of 
our subject. He was teaming between .Mban^- and 
Huffalo during the AVar of 1812. Like his son 
he was deeply interested in breeding tine horses- 
He owned some fine specimens, paying enormous 
prices, as prices went in those days. He jiaid ^I.OOO 
for "Bacchus'" and threshed wheat with a llail 
to earn the money to p.ay for it. In thoM' da\s he 
owned thirteen hundred acres of land and hi' always 
invested largely in .acreage. His second marriage 
tfiok jilace in Ohio and he was then united to Sabra 
.Sliernian. 

In his early life Titus Daniels was an active Re- 
])ublicaii and for a term of years served as a Justice 
i>f the Peace. He was a liberal doufir 1o church 
and benevolent purposes. lie pa.ssed away in Ohio 



ill Imh;!. having reached the age of eighty-three 
,\e:irs. His good wife. S;ilira .Sherman, daughter of 
Pliilo Sherman, was born in Connecticut. Her father 
settled in Wakeinan, Huron County, Ohio, and died 
at the JKjme of our subject's father when he iiad 
reached the age of eighty-.seven yeai-s. His daiigli- 
tci-, the mother of oursuliject, wasa devout .and con- 
scientious niember of the ^lethodist Episcopal 
Church, and having trained her four children in 
the faith and practice of the Christian religion, she 
jiassed away at the age of .seventy-two years. 

lie of whom we write was the oldest of the fam- 
ily anil having been reared upon a farm, and hav- 
ing availed himself thoroughly of the advantages 
to be obtained in the district schools, he entered 
Oberlin College at the age of sixteen and after 
three years of study there began business for him- 
self, (ioing to Milan, Ohio, he engaged in the liv- 
ci\ business until about the year 18;')9, when he 
came into possession of one hundred and thirty 
acres in N'erinillion Township, Erie County, Ohio. 
Two years later he came to Lansing (traveling in 
his own c<in veyance). and Imying a livery estali- 
li>liiiient on Washtenaw Str(!et, carried it on for 
some four \ears. He also devoted considerable 
time and enterprise to purchasing horses for the 
( iovernment. 

In IKG;') Mr. Daniels beg:ui the business of Imild- 
ing, and hohling real e.'^tate. and also dealing in 
pine and timber lands and carried on this line of 
effort up to the time when he started in business 
at his i)resent stand in 1HH2. He h.as liuill four 
brick stoies, putting u|) the first one in IHTT? and 
following in 1878 and 18Hit with others, and he 
also has a handsoine residence on (Jrand Street, be- 
sides a numlter of town lots and some lands in 
Northern Michigan where heh.asa farm. Between 
the city of Lansing and the Agricultural College, 
lies a tract of one hundred acres which belongs to 
this gentleman and which he is carrying on him- 
self. He and his brother Linus L. still own the old 
homestead in Ohio which comprises oiw hiimbeil 
acre.*. 

In !«(!« he began in the ice trade, buying out 
.Mr. Moses R. Taylor, who was the first man that 
engaged in this line of business and he still has ice 
liouseson theOrand River. He has eight buildings 



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which have a capacity of five thousand tons; they 
are on Wasliington Avenue, Main and Lay Streetsi. 
In this branch uf l)u.-iinoss he is in partnership witli 
Mr. Thomas Ellis and they arc Uic most extensive 
ice dealers in the city. 

Among- the fine animals which Mr. Daniels has 
upon his place we may well take note of some by 
name: -'Wilkes" and "Chance" which were sired by 
Fisk's '-Belmont," two that were sired by "Pascas" 
and he by "Almont"; eioht mares that were sired by 
"Goodfellow"; "GoodfcUow" was sired by George 
Peabody, and he by "Ilambletonian Ten." ]\[r. 
Daniels owns "Goodfellow". He has eightcoltsand 
seven fillies by"Easton" by "Harabletonian A¥ilkes" 
He has also a fine stallion ''Easton" and plenty of 
voung fine horses. He is 1)reeding Holstein cattle, 
and has a herd of twenty-three thoroughbreds. He 
took the prenihini nil both cnttle and horses nt the 
State fair. 

Mr. Daniels was iii.-uried in New Buffalo in 1859 
and he took as his bride jMiss Elmina Fisher, who 
was born in Albany. X. Y., and is a daughter of 
Lewis Fisher who was an early settler in Ohio wliere 
he carried on the cari)eiiler's trade at Berlin. Prev- 
ious to her niarri.age Mrs. Daniels was a successful 
teacher and is a lady of mure than ordinary culture 
and ability. The political views of Mr. Daniels 
bring him into harmony with the movements of 
the Kejmblicaii party and he isstanch in his loyalty 
to that body. He is one of the prominent mem- 
bers of the Driving Park Association. 



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//^y F. BARNES. The men who were at the 
l( I ''^"'^ "'' '"'itters ill the founding of a city 
^^^f^ and started it on its iqiward course with 
energy and enterprise, turning its young forma- 
tive activities in the right direction, and wisely 
and broadly laying the foundations for future 
jirosperity. wealth and usefulness, are worthy 
of high praise, and should receive the intelligent 
a[)preciation of their fellow-citizens. Such men 
there were here in the early days of Lansing, and 
among them there were none who did more for 



its prosperity than the father and son, O. M., and 
(). V. P.arnes. 

Our subject, who is best known as the President 
of the Central Michigan Savings Bank, is also 
President of the I>.ansing Iron and Engine 
Works, and holds the same position in regard to 
the Lansing !>umber Company, the Lansing Elec- 
tric Light Company, and the Lansing Wheel Com- 
pany. He is, as will easily be seen, one of the 
prominent men of the city, and is the son of Mr. 
(). M. Barnes, whose great wealth and enterpri.se 
have done much for the progress of l^ansing, and 
who is connected with a great many different cor- 
[lorations. 

Mr. Barnes was l)oin at Mason. Mich.. Novemlier 
7, 18.56, and was graduated from the High School 
at Mason. In 1876 he entered the classical de- 
]3artmcnt of the I'niversity of Michigan, taking 
his diploma of A. B., with the Class of '80. He 
then came to Lansing and engaged in the iron 
works, which were reorganized that year as a pri- 
vate company, entering into partnership under the 
liini iiaiiie of .larvis, Barnes & Co. This connec- 
tion lasted until 1885, when the business was re-in- 
corporated as the Lansing Iron and Engine Works. 
Mr. Barnes became the president of this new com- 
pany, which has grown from the employment of 
five or six hands, till he now has now in his einjiloy 
one hundred and fifty men. A sketch of ^Nlr. .1. 
E. Roe, to be found elsewhere in this Alhi m, gives 
fuller details in regard to this fine enterprise. 

In 1886 our subject became one of the incorpo- 
rators of the Lansing Wheel Works, and iiecame 
its President in 18S7. For further details in re- 
gard to this enterprise our reader is asked to con- 
sult the sketch of Mv. Prudden, which appears else- 
where in this Ai.ium. Besides his connection with 
the othei' companies which were mentioned at the 
opening of this sketch our subject was one of the 
incorporators of the Lansing Lumber Company 
and is interested not only in the retail yards here, 
but in the wholesale business in Claire County, 
and also in Dodge, where the lumiier and shingles 
are manufaetiii-ed. He also is prominently inter- 
ested in the real estate business in Lansing and 
does much to build up the city in this respect. 

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iiinniiMl ill \SX-2 .-it llustoii. Mass.. tu Miss Maiy 
Woodward. :\ native of that i-ity. .•iiid a lad\' of 
iiioic tliaii ordinary cnlluro and fliaractci-. She is 
llic niotlifi- of three children — (h-jando .M.. .If.. 
I^Mia and Mildivd. ami their liajipy iionie is the 
center of a most eharniini.'^ social life, as .Mr. and 
.Mrs. llaT'iies are wellloKnvn for Iheir hos|iit:iiil \ 
and the dcliu'htfnl ciiterlainnicnt wiiich thev .alTord 
their gupst.s. 

Outeide of liusines> and home life .Mr. liaiiies 
is prominently i(hMitilled with sever.al of the social 
orders and is an etlicient public ollicer. He lielonjjs 
to the Knights 'rein|)lar. to the Kniiihts of I'ytliias 
and the Elks, lie is a meinher of the School 
Board, and .served two terms as Mayor in 1M82- 
M. His political attiliation.-- are with the Demo- 
cratic party, and upon that ticket he was nomi- 
nated in 18><H and 1890 fur Congress, representing 
the Sixth District of Michigan. He declined the 
latter nomination as he prefers to devote himself 
to his r!ii)idly-growing ;ind engrossing husiness. 
liut he is a man of givat popularity, .-iiid m:iy 
trul\' lie called a |)ulilic-spirited .Hnd eiilci prising 
citizen. 



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^,()HMAN K. Fl'LLKli. ■{'he huildiiig fra- 
)/; ternity of Lansing count among tiieir mem- 
bers a large nuinlier of enterprising and 
successful gentlemen whose work in this city, the 
city of their choice, has added greatly to its 
beauty and attractiveness and has brought hither 
home-seekers who desire tasteful and commodious 
residences. Among tlio.se who have thus aided 
effectually in the uplmilding of Lansing w-e aie 
pleased to mention the gentleman whose name .ap- 
pears at the head of this brief biography. 

Mr. Fuller is a native of Leoni..Iackson Cotiiity. 
this State, where he was born .\ugiist 2!>, 18;^. 
His father, Ccorge B. Fuller, and his grandfaliier 
were both natives of Dutchess County. N. Y., the 
former being born in 1811. The grandfather w.as 
a prominent man and for many years was .Slieriff 
of Diitchess Count\'. The father owned a line 



farm in that eouiilv. but in IH;i). wiiile .still a sin- 
irle man lie e.iiiie to Michigan, lie wjis married iii 
-Viiri .\rborand after that reiiioved to Leoiii where 
he followed farming. 

In 1811 (he father of our subject came to Will- 
ianistoii, which then bore the name of I'helpstown, 
and bought land .-i mile and one-half north of the 
village. Three hundred .and twenty acres was in 
this tract and it was long known as the old Fuller 
I'"arm. Since those days he let the place to his 
.sons and befoi-e his death he removed to William- 
ston. He was one of the organizer and Direelfirs 
of the Ingham {'<»unty Mutual Fire Insurance 
Company and also of the Central ^lichigan .\gri- 
ciiltur.il Society and wa.s prominent in both. He 
w.isalso a member of the Slftte.Vgricultural .Society 
and devoted himself largely to raising line stock 
and a superior grade of grain. He tilled the ollicc 
satisfactorily of County Su|ieriiitendent of the 
Poor. His death occurred December 21, 18H3. In 
politics he was .a Douglas Democrat and in relig- 
ion found his home among the .Methodist K])i.seo- 
pal people. 

Deborah ( . Bunker was tlu' maiden name of the 
mother of oursubjeet. who was Ivoin in ( ohimbi.a 
County, N. Y.. in 181(1. The grandfather Bunker 
was born in the K:ist and was captain of a ve.s.sel. 
He finally came West .and died in .Jackson County. 
He was a (Quaker and of French descent. His 
daughter, the mother of our subject, |)as,sed from 
life in .March, 187:{. 

The subject of our sketch was next to the eldest 
in a f.ainily of nine children and was reared upon 
a farm until he reached the age of seven years 
when the family renn>ved from Jackson County 
to Willi.amston. They traveled by ox-team and 
hail to ml their way for the last eleven miles and 
he remembers distinctly the old log schoolhou.se and 
the log house and how freely the snakes used to 
crawl about on the logs. Deer and Indians then 
abounded, as the .Six Nations then made their home 
there, and he used in his boyhood to go out to 
caiiiii with the Indians and helj) them in killing 
bears. 

The Ihjv early set to work upon a farm and used 
to drive iin ox-leam, going to Detroit for wheat 
anil lloui. The lotr .sclioolhouses were his only 



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academies of learning and he remained at borne 

with lii.s i^arfnts until he rt'achcd the age of twenty, 
when he was apprenticed tu the carpenter's trade 
at ^lastm, under Matthew Polder, doing his Hist 
work ou the old court-house. In IS.'iS he can e t(i 
Lansing- and woiked at his trade until the war 
broke out. 

Tlie marriage of onr subject with Miss Mary N. 
Rhodes. wlu> was l:iorn in LaA'ail, St. Lawrence 
County, N. v., in 18;3H, was solemnized October 
l.s. |,s.-),s. Tliis lady is a daughter of I'liilip 
J{hodes, wliose father, William, was a farmer in St. 
Lawrence County, and a soldier in the War of 
11^12. Philip Rhodes was a shoemaker and a 
fanner who came to Michigan for his health in 
18.')2 and locating in iMason began the manufact- 
ure of shoes. There he continued until his death, 
in 1862. His wife bore the maiden name of I'r- 
sula A. Howard and w.as born in N'ermont. a 
daughter of Cal\in Howard, a fanner of Kngiish 
descent who came -to live near Ogdensbnrg, St. 
Lawrence County, X. Y. She was the youngest 
of nine cliihh-en and was a iironiinent meml)er of 
tiie Baptist Cluirch, in which she found a broad 
field of activity. The wife of our snbje(^t was 
next to the eldest among tlie seven children of her 
jiarents and when thirteen years of age came fron 
Xew Yc>rk to Michigan, traveling by steamer to 
Detroit, thence by rail to Jackson and staging it 
to Mason. After pursuing her studies in the pub- 
lic school she began teacliing at the age of eight- 
een and fontinued in that line of work until her 
marriage. 

Li August, 1861, Dorman K. Fuller enlisted in 
Comi)anv E, Eighth Michigan Infantry, and lieing 
mustered in at Grand Rapids was sent South. 
Duiiiig the exi)edition to Ft. Royal he was taken 
sick and was carried to Beaufort, then to Annapo- 
lis and back to Beaufort, and was then returned 
home by way of New York. The surgeon of his 
regiment. Dr. II. B. Shank, said that he could not 
live to get home and asked for a furlough for him. 
He received his honoralile discharge at Hilton 
Head in November, 1862, by reason of pliysical 
disability and was sick for three or four years. After 
recovering his health he went back to his trade. 

This enterprising young man w.as not content to 



remain in a subordinate position but put himself 
in training for better work, becoming superintend- 
ent for different contractors. He superintended 
the erection of the O. M. Barnes building and the 
linishing off of the High School building and then 
b(gan for himself as a general contractor and 
formed a partnership with Charles E. Wheeler un- 
der the llrm name of Fuller it Wheeler, wliicli 
lasted for thirteen years. The lirm undertook ex- 
tensive and superior work and put up among 
others eight different buildings for the State Agri- 
cultural College. In 1887 this j)artnershii) was 
dissolved and since then Mr. Fuller has carried on 
the business alone and generall\' has three or four 
liuildings "in the works." He has just completed 
the Society Building of tlie Phi Alpha Pi at Olivet, 
Mich. 

The residence of our subject is at the corner of 
Walnut and Lenawee Streets and he has put ujion 
this property handsome improvements and made 
it very attractive. Besides this he owns a numlier 
of building lots in the city. He was a charter 
member of the first Fire Department of Lansing 
and for fourteen years was Alderman of the Third 
Ward. He was Supervisor also for seven years 
and is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of 
Mt. Hope Cemetery. His interest in education lias 
[ilaced him upon the School Board where he has 
helped forward materially the ])rogress of the 
schools of Lansing. In every way he has favored 
and promoted movements for the improvement of 
the social, educational and business interests of 
this city. His three children are Ada ISL, now 
Mrs. C. H. Crane of Lansing; Charles ^L, Superin- 
tendent of the steel department of the Bement 
Works, and Fred G.. who is at home. He has 
held various otlices in the social orders to which 
he belongs which are numerous and representa- 
tive. 

Both Mr. anil Mrs. Fuller are devoted members 
of the Plymouth Congregational Church,* and Mrs. 
Fuller is especially active in the Ladies' Societ}^ 
and has been Vice-President of the Missionary So- 
ciety. ;Mr. Fuller is a -'Black Republican" in his 
political sympathies and has been delegate to 
county and State conventions. He has also tilled 
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City Central Committees, lie is :ui entiiiisiM.stic- 
momlier of llie Foster I'osl. (i. \. \i. aiifl 
hotli lie and his wife are ideiltilieil witli the 
Katitern .Star. lie is also a ineniliei- of the 
Free aiul Aeeepteil Masoii>. the Hoyal .\reli .Ma- 
sons, the Knitclits Temijlar and the Knii;ht.s of the 
.Maccabees. 



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%EAC()N' ClIAHLKS S. FOOTK i> a piipini- 
nenl and succes>tul farniei' of liiiyhtnii 
Township. Liviiiiislon County, and a man 
who deserves the ureatest credit for havinji made 
his own way throuuh life eiitirel\' unaided, lie is 
now the owner of a fine farm eomprisinii; two hun- 
dred acies of the most fertile land in the county 
and located on section 2;"), Uri^ihton Township. 
Liviuii-ston Count\'. lie has thereon a beautiful 
home, the dwelling beiug not only commodious 
and comfortable, but havinu all the artistic fea- 
tures that make it exteriorly as well as interiorly 
the most attractive pl.ace in the neigh borhood; the 
l)lace boasts the most modern iniprox cineMl^. lli> 
barns, the farmer's pride, are large and show care- 
ful attention. Mr. Foote has been the ari-hitect of 
his own fortunes and is very familiar with what 
pioneer life is, l)eing a native of this State, having 
been liorn in Lyon Township. ()akland County, 
February 21. 1.S30. 

Our subject's father was Linns Foote. who wasa 
native of Cayuga County. N. V. lie came to 
ilichigan in lx;52and lorated in Lyon Township. 
Oakland County, when there were only two cab- 
ins in that locality. On making his advent here, 
he wended his yy:\\ along an Indian trail and lo- 
cal eil his land. As soon as he had taken up the 
tract from the (Government, he ei'ccted a log cabin 
whieh was eight feet high in front and six feet in 
the rear; this he roofed over with bark, and it 
boasted neither windows nor but few other con- 
veniences, showing thai indeed, "man wants but 
little here below'." 

On first coming here our subject's father found 
no difficulty in keeping the larder supplied at lejist 
with animal fooii. Deer, bears, wdd turkevs. etc.. 



were within constant reaeh of his rille. Neither 
were wolves scarce at thai lime and many were 
the precautions taken to guard against the en- 
croachments of tlie.se most vicious enemies. They 
had many frien<Is among the i-ed men who often 
visited our subject's fathei- in after years. The 
nearest mill was located at .\nn Aibor. and Ihillier 
he went on horseback with his supply of corn 
buckwheat, etc.. to be converted into Hour an<I 
meal. 

In April, IMI'.i. Linus Foote sold lii> land in 
Lyon Town.-«hip which was then partly improved, 
and ])nrclia.sed eighty acres on section 2.j. lirigh- 
ton Township. Livingston County. Here he also 
came as a pioneer there being at that time very 
few settlers at that place. He died in IHtViat the 
age of fifty-two years, after a life spent in h.'U'd 
work and struggles to make a living in the new 
eouiitiN. He was much resjiected .and liked by 
his associates and while in Lyon Township he was 
.awarded the otliee of .Suiiervisor, which position he 
held foi- two years, and was also Treasurer for sev- 
eral years. He wjis a member in good standing 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

f)ur subject's mother was before her niarri,age_ 
-Mary Smith, a native of New "Vork State. She 
survived her husband by a number of years, her 
decease taking placi in 1«H1. she being at that 
time seventy-live years of age. She w.-is the mother 
of three children, two of whom are still living. 
The youngest sou, Adellx'rt, enli-sted and went to 
the army, where he died from the effects of a bul- 
let wound received at the battle of Frcderieks- 
liuru. 

Our >ubject was born in the log house that Ins 
father lirst erected on coming to this State. .\s 
nia\ be im:itjiiu<l. lln'ie were not many eihica- 
lional advantage.- attainable in his boyhood da\s; 
he attended. liowe\ ei'. the district school for about 
three months in ihe year. The i)lace in which the 
sehool wa.- kept was a log house with none of the 
.•ippliances which make teaching and learning so 
faseinating at the present time. After his father's 
death our subject took charge of the farm and paid 
off (luite a large indebtedness. Since thai time he 
has adfleil to the place until it reacheil it- proelit 
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Till' (iiiiriiml <'t' tliis skcti-li was married October 
27, is."i',l. til Mi>s I'llizMlu'lli FulliT. wlio t'niiif with 
iior piironts to MirliigMii in an early day from 
New York. Tlioy arc tlie jiarcnt^of two iliildreii 
«lio-;i' iianu's arc as follows: llcrlicrt K. and Car- 
rie. The son is inarrioil an(i assi.sts his father in 
condiictina the work of the f.-irni. ("airie is a tal- 
cntc<l and cilurati^d youni;' l.ady now at home. 
On i'oni|ilctini>' licr school course .at home she 
attencJed the State Normal at Ypsilanti. Mr. Foote 
is in his |ioliIical pieferenccs a Democrat, although 
he takes no active inteiest in i)olitics. lU)th he 
and his wife arc memhers of the IJaptist C'luurh. 
he ha\in>i' lieen a Deacon in the churi-h for a num- 
lier of years. Socially, both >[r. and Jlrs. Foote 
stan<l hi<;h in the community, liein"- reco<rnized as 
leadiiii;' spirits in all thai |ierl:iins to the elevation 
of the social tone. 



IRAM A. NTCTTOT.S. Nothina is of deejier 
interest to a student of human nature and 
human e\-ents than to trace the career of 
one who has fouiiht his way u]) to a posi- 
tion of prominence and tinaneial success by dint 
of his own (iluck. push and persexerance and wlio 
has, notwithstandiuii- the slruuuiesand temptations 
of his earlier years, maintained a well-earnetl repu- 
tation for probity and for a just consideration 
for tlie rights of others, .Such a study do we find 
in the life of him wliose name appears at the head 
of this paragraph. 

The splendid farm of .Mr, Nichols, which is sit- 
uated on section .'i,'). Brighton Township, Living- 
ston ( Dunty. is well worthy of a visit from anyone 
who admires a linely tilled farm. This gentleman 
is a native ()f Farmington Township. Oakland 
County, ilich., and was liorn Ajiril 27. 18;i5, His 
father, Truman Nichols, of New '^'ork birth and of 
Scotch extraction, was born in liSll and grew up 
to farming pursuits, 

Truman Nichols was married to Jliss Hannah 
Alien. .Vugust 2;i, 1S;U, and aliout two weeks latei- 
tlie lu'ave young couple started to make a new 



homc in Ihc then Tciiitory of Michigan. lie 
finind a suitable location in i'";u'Miington Town- 
ship. Oakland County, and took up a Irai't from 
the (iovernment land, whith ui due time he devel- 
oped into a line farm. They were genuine pio- 
neers and I'udured bravely the vicis.situdes inci- 
dent to such a life in the wilds of Michigan. Itoth 
he and his good wife were most conscientious aniJ 
devoted in their religious life and were active 
members in the llaplist Church. She is still living 
but was licrcaveil of lier husband ()ctolicr 7. 1S77. 
Of theii' live children three are still living. 

He of whom we write was the secou<l son in 
this interesting fanuly and upon the f;uin and in 
the pioneer log schoolliouse he spent Ins boyhood. 
When he first liegan to go to school the school- 
house was two miles distant from his home ami 
the ambitious little fellow trudged faithfully 
through the woods eager to gain an education. 
\Vhen old enough to work he began to assist his 
father in the clearing away of the forest and the 
cultivation of the farm. 

Hiram Nichols liegan life tor himself in \X.y.K 
after ha\'ing been united in marriage with the 
lady of his choice. Miss F'rances Parshall. a native 
of this county, and a daughter of l.ulhcr and 
Kmma (Roberts) I'.arshall. both of New York, who 
came to the Wolverine State at a very early day. 
^Ir. I'arshall was a man of unusual beaut\- of char- 
acter and benevolence, prominent in the Baptist 
Church, and was the one who was chiefly instru- 
nu'utal in establishing the neat ediliee belonging 
to that denonnnation which stands near the Innne 
of our subject. He passed away from this world 
in \X7*K having reached the age of tifty-nine years 
and his devoted wife followed him two years later, 
leaving four children to mourn her loss. 

It was in l.S.")!) that our subject removed from 
Oakland County to the neighborhood where he 
now n^sides and two years latei- he pmchased the 
farm which is now his and to which he has added 
notabh" improvements. He has two hundred and 
ninety-three acres of choice land and upon it he has 
placed not onlv a beautifid home liut excellent 
and substantial barns, and he carries on the busi- 
ness of geneial f.arming and stock-raising. Two 
children. .Vlbcit 1.. and Artinn 1!.. have biightcncd 










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this liimic Mild to liotli (if tlifiii llic |i;iie.its have 
extended execlleul edueatioiial adv:iiit:ii;es which 
they have easterly eiiiliraced. The faiuily is i>i(iiii- 
iiieiilly icU'iitilied witli tlie Baptist ('liiiich in the 
iieii;hl»)i-ho<)d, and Mr. Nieiiols is exeeechnsjly in. 
llueiitial in tlie ranks of the Reinihiican partx' 
whieh eiiiliddies in its declarations tlie piiiieiples 
whieii lie ('(insiders the safest guide for mii' iim- 
tioii 's future. 




ON. FKKKIS S. FirClI. St:ite Superin- 
Jjj*, teiident of I'ulilic Instruction .•iiid editor 
and pnlilislier of tiie ()ai<land Couiily /'n.-il. 
makes his home at I'ontiae, Mieh. He was 
horn in the townslii|i of Hunker Hill, Ingham 
t'ounty. Mich., Feliruaiy I. IH.').'5, at a place now 
known as Fitehhurg from tiie fact that his father, 
Ferris S. Fiteli. Sr.. was tlie (irst in this section to 
make a farm in the iiiiliroken wilderness. His 
mother was Kniina .1. ISaiiey, and lioth liis parents 
were natives of New York State, wliere they were 
married, and from wliicli they removed to Mich- 
igan ill IKJH. The father was a member of tlie 
Michigan l.,egislature in IHoS. atid at ditTerent 
times was named prominently as a candidate for 
(iovernor, in Democratic conventions. He was a 
man of active life, yet of literary tastes, and was 
111 religion an Kjiiscopalian. 

Tlie sulijeet of this sketch lalxired industriously 
upon the farm until at the age of sixteen years he 
entered tiie Normal School at Ypsilanti. He grad- 
uated from theclassicalcour.se in 1H7;3 and entered 
the literary department of the University of Alicli- 
igan tlie same year. From that institution lie grad- 
uated in llic Class of 1H77 with tiie degree of 
Baclielor of Arts. In holli ><()rinal School and 
I'niversity lie was distinguished for independent 
original selioiarsliip. and for hi- aliilily as a writer 
and speaker. In tlie Norin.al he acted as a.ssistant 
instructor in l>atin during liis .senior year. 

After graduating from the University Mr. Fitch 
accepted the {'hair in l^atin and (Jreek in Smitli.son 
College. Ind. Soon after lieginning liis work there 
he became actixc President of tlie college and 



tliorougiily ref(Mined it« governinentand systenmf 
instruction. In l»7« he accejitiMl the principal- 
ship of the P(jntiac High .School at a very eiilical 
lime. From the first lie was master of the situa- 
tion and soon restored harmony to the institution. 
Here he .served for tliree and one-half years, when 
he was made Superintendent of the City S-lmols. 
Ilccontinued to hold this position until .lune. IMilll. 
when he resigned, against the expressed wishes of 
theentire Board, to enter the field of journalism as 
editor and manager of the Otikhinil ('niinlii J'ust. 

Though naturally of a practical and conserva- 
tive mind our subject is a progressive educator, 
and the inveterate foe of the pouring in process, 
and of cramming the young mind. He is the peer 
of any man in the .State in the study of intellectual 
themes a.s well as the .science of political econ- 
omy and civil administration. His nomination in 
the fall of 1«9() to the ofiice of .State .Superintendent 
of I'ublie Instruction was entirely nnsonght and 
uiiexi)ected. but was the unanimous and sponta- 
neous action of one of the most representative con- 
ventions ever a.s.semliled in .Michigan. The nomi- 
nation was made by Hon. C. \\. AV'liitman. Regent 
of the State University, and was enthusia.stically 
received by educators of all parlies tlirouglioiil the 
.State. His election w.as considered an indication of 
a healthful condition in educational circles and 
prophecy of still greater progress for the fiHuic. 
.Mr. Fitch was married August I. \hh\. to Leitie 
M.. daughter of Oeorge 1). and .Mary .\. ( I'ark | 
Huiniihrey. One child li:is blest this union — Con- 
stance, who was born March .">. IH.sjs. 

.V ijortrait of the lion. .Mr. I'itcli is presented to 
the readers of this volume. 



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^■'OHN l!V.\N is the publisher and proprie- 
t(jr of the Liriiiijutiiii C'oinitii iJi-iii'H-rnl, 
which is published at Howell. He was born 
in Hamburg Town.sliip. Livingston County, 
this State, in IMfiK.and is a son of .?ohn and Klizji- 
beth (Connor) I{yan. who .settled in Hamburg in 
1HH2, and were among the earliest settlei> of this 
count V. t.'ikinir up < oivernnieiil I.-iihI. of whieli our 



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subject's father owned three hundred acres. The 
family occupied the log house which was erected 
on the jilaee for several years. The^' later added 
many improvements to the place and our sul)ject's 
father resided there until his decease, in 1H83, 
heiny then seventy-three years of. age. He was ;i 
Democrat in politics and a memher of the Catho- 
lic Church. 

Our subject is tiie eldest of las parents' family. 
The others are: Edward. .lames and ]\Iary (Mrs. 
Mrs. M. D. Sullivan). .John Ryan remained on 
the home farm until the winter of 1885. He had 
been educated in the common and High Schools 
of Washtenaw County, this State. In the fall of 
1884 he was elected County Clerk and assumed 
the rights of his office January 1, 188.">, holding it 
for two terms, during which time he read law and 
was .admitted to the bar in .January, 1880. 

Our subject began the practice of his profession 
at Howell. About the same time the paper of 
which he is now the proprietor was offered for 
.sale, and he purchased it in February, 1890, and 
has since run it, employing three men and a boy 
in the office. It is a weekly journal, having two 
thousand subscribers, and is printed on a Taylor 
power press which is run by steam. He also does 
a large amount of advertising and job work. Mr. 
Ryan is the owner of considerable land in the 
State and also of the old homestead. He is a stock- 
holder in the First State and Savings Bank of 
Howell, and one of its Directors. For two years 
he wa» Township Clerk of Hamburg, and lield the 
office of Supervisor for two years. He is one of 
the prominent and rising yo>ing men of tiiis lo- 
cality. 



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M. POTTKR is the editor of the Al/iaiir,' 
Sciiliiiel of Lansing, Ingham County, the 
,^. State organ of the Farmers' Alliance and 
^!^fJ the Industrial Union of Michigan. He was 
born in Cheshire, BerksJiire Count}-, JMass,, Ajjril 
11, 1839, and is a son of Capt. Daniel B. Potter, 
who traces his ancestry back to Robei-t Potter, an 



Englishman, who settled in Warwick, R. T. The 

grandfather was a soldier in the War of 1812 and 
a farmer and wagon manufacturer at Cheshire. In 
this business the father was also engaged and was 
a Captain in the State Militia. The mother, Dolly 
W. Hall, was a daughter of Simeon Hall. She be- 
came a widow in 1844 and herself p.assed away iu 
18.51. 

Our subject belongs to a family of three sons and 
three daughters, and until he was seventeen years 
of age attended Ft. Edward Institute and came to 
Micliigan in 185(5, settling in Rome where he at- 
tended the Dickenson Institute. In the spring of 
1857 he went to Elgin. III., as a clerk, and in A\i- 
gust, 1861, he enlisted in Company A. Tliirty-sixth 
Illinois Infantry. He was taken sick in camp and 
laid aside for over a year with diphtheretic fevei' 
and the doctor said he would not live, and so the 
Captain never reported him as an enlisted man. 
^Vfter his recovery he took a position as clerk in 
Chicago in the dry goods house of Potter Palmer, 
but as his health was not flrmlj' established, he 
found it necessary to resign and come to Michigan 
where he was afterward employed in a store at 
Rome. 

In 1864, ^Ir. Potter was married to Miss Eliza- 
beth ^'. Briggs of Adams, Mass., and located upon 
a farm in Armada, Macomb County, and in 1868 
took up the business of general merchandise in that 
place, being a member of the firm of Potter ik Mc- 
Cluskey, but two years later sold out and took the 
position of a clerk. In 1872 he ran for State Leg- 
islature on the Democratic ticket, and three years 
later he became the assistant of the State Superin- 
tendent of public schools and for a few years sub- 
sequent to this he followed the business of a trav- 
eling salesman. 

In 1879 Mr. Potter established the Lansing 
Sentiiifl as a Greenljack paper, the name of which 
he has now changed to the AUiance Sfntini'l. He 
is State organizer for the Farmers' Alliance and 
State Lecturer and organizer for the Citizens' Al- 
liance and was City Assessor for two years. He 
has twice been nominated to Congress by the 
smaller parties, but of course has not received an 
election as their strength was not sufficient. His 
five children are: John B., Anna E., Daniel B., 



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• luliu M. and (iraii'. Tlio eldest son is an artist 
and the second an enijraver. while Anna is the 
State Sccretniv of the Farniei-s' Alliance, lie is a 
Spiritualist in his helicf and a meniher of the Ma- 
sonic order, the Maccabees^ and the Knialils of 
Labor. 



<^ Ji;irj.ARI) C. HROWN. M. I). One of the 
\/'\Jl/ P''""ii"t'nt y<>ung physicians, who luis 

yN^ already made himself a name and fame in 
the pretty village of 15rii>iiton. Lixinjjston County, 
this .State, lias taken kindly to tlie social condi- 
tions in the Wolverine .Stati-. .Mlthouiili he is a 
native of New York, having been liorn in .Scho- 
harie County, July 25, IH/iT. lie is at that age 
that is vivified and intensified by enthusi.osm for 
his ado])ted career and having had the lu'st opjjor- 
tunities for study, he is well prepared, not only to 
practice in the ordinary course of his i)rofcssion, 
liul to make oiigiiial research and discoveries. 
Were there not a chance of progressing in his 
chosen course, our subject is of a nature to " throw 
l)iiysic to the dogs."' 

He of whom we write is a worthy rei)re.senta- 
tive of a prominent family in the Kast, one that 
has tiiken a distinctive stand in all mattei-s of 
of progress and governmental atlvanceinent. Me 
is a son of Rev. lleniy Urown, a native of Otsego 
County. X, Y.. wiio li;i> been a ininistei- in the 
Christian Ciiurch nearly liis whole life, lie began 
pre.acliing tlie (Jospel wlien oidy seventeen years 
of age, hut was not es])ecially ('(lucated foi- the suc- 
cessful pursuit of his chosen profession until after 
his marriage, lie has pleached for over forty years 
and is still actively engaged in tlic work. 

The mother of our subjecl liore the maiden name 
of Nancy Mcllench. She, also, was a native of 
New ^oik. and there died in IHtJ.S. having been 
duiing iier life-time both a hel]> and inspiration to 
her husband in the liigher jiursuit of his chosen 
calling. .She was. ;ind has been during the greater 
portion of her life, a nienilicr of the Chii.-lian 
( lnuch. 

Dr. lirown is tlie eldest of three sons born to hi- 



pareiits. The s.^coiid son. Rev. James Irving Hrown. 
is a minister in the Christian Church, having 
begun his ministerial work at the age of nineteen 
.vears. Ih- is a graduate of Starkey College, and 
is now eng.agcd in ministerial work in the Stjite of 
Minnesota. The third son isal.soa pre.icher. Rev. 
William T. Hrown felt the call to ( Jo.spel work, 
like other members of his family at a very earl v 
age, being but sixteen years old when he began 
preaching, lie is now i)astor of the Christian 
( liiirch at New Bedford, Ma.«'s., the largest and 
most important religions body in that New 
Kngl:ind city. Since beginning his work he has 
enjoyed the be.st educational advantages, first 
graduating from Starkey College, then from Inion 
College, of .Schenectady. N. Y.. then from Yale 
rniversity. 

The original of our skrtch received the ru<Ii- 
ments of his education in the village and High 
Schools of his native place. In 1 876 he commenced 
reading medicine under Dr. I). M. Leonard, of 
Hroimie Center, .Schoh.aiie County. N. Y. After 
taking (piite an extended course under this dis- 
tinguished physician, in 1879 he entered the medi- 
cal department of the Iniversity of New York 
City, and graduated in 1S81. While studving in 
New York, he enjoyed the advantage of beiiiLr an 
attendant at the clinics in IJelleviie Hospital. 

Immediately after finishing his medical course 
in New York our subject came to Rrighton and 
associated himself with Dr. .Mt-IIench. one of the 
oldest and best known physicians in this jiortion 
of the .Slate, and a relative of him of whom we 
write. One year later. Dr. Hrown removecl his lo- 
cation to South Lyon, where he continued jiracticc 
until 1H««. In 1HH:i he returned to New Vork 
City for the purpose of taking a general eoui-se of 
lectures in surgery and general disea.ses. after 
which he re-located at Rrighton. where he now en- 
joys :i tine practice. 

Oenerously gifted mentally, and with a bright 
prospect before him in a professional wav. life was 
not complete until the domestic altar hail been 
erected, and this was ])laced and the household 
gods so stationed that they smiled serenely on the 
couple in 1H,S2. at which time Mr. Rrowii was 
united in marriage to Miss Louisa Recker. a native 



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of Bricrlitoii, whose jmvental home is still in this 
l)l:ic('. Thu.-: tlio ciivle of life willi its radiating 
inlt'iests, was foinpleti'fl. One eliilil has enriched 
and blessed the union of onr subject and his de- 
voted and attiaotiva' youno' wife. He lias been 
named William Irving'. 

Oiii' snl>jeet is in his ixilitieni predilection a l\e- 
pubiican. "Wiiilc at Lyons, he was honored by tlie 
ollice of llcaltli Ollicei- and Miiiic discharging the 
duties incident to tiiis position, distinguished him- 
self liy the application of liis knowledge of .sani- 
tary laws and regulations. Socially lie is a mem- 
ber of the ^Lasonic fraternity, and is Past (i rand 
Master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
He also belongs to the Knights of the ^laccabees, 
and is local medical examiner for the last named 
society. Both he and his wife are devoted and 
earnest menibeis of the Christian Cliurch. Tlu^v 
are 3roung people from whom emanates a spirit of 
progress and purity of inn pose, and hence exert 
tlie best iiitliiciice in tlieir chosen held of labor. 



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<^LFRE1) M. (iHECORY, the former popular 
' ©/lJI and etticicnt Supervisor of Locke 'J'own- 

i/f lAi ship, Ingliaiii County, is one of tlie most 
^^ jirominent and thrifty citizens of this 

county, and is a native of Oakland County, this 
State, where he was born April 27, 1845. He is 
the son fif Almond and Flora E. Cregory, natives 
of New York and Connecticut resjiectively, who 
migrated to Oakland County at an early day and 
there reare<l to manhood tlii> son. He received a 
common-school educati(m and in due time w.as 
united in marriage with Fannie, daughter of Frank- 
lin O. Jones, of (Oakland County. 

Six children were born to our subject and his 
worthy wife and live are now living, namely: 
Charles, Norton. Flora. Benjamin. Kenrick and 
Rucl (deceased), in 1><73 Mr. (iregory came to 
Ingham County and settled on the farm wliicli has 
since been his home. He now owns one liiindred 
and sixty acres of excellent land which he has 
gained by his own etTorts and enterprise. He 



taught the district school for eleven terms and was 
a poijular teacher. In politics he is a Democrat- 
and he was elected Supervisor of his tt>wnship in 
1881. after which lie served for eight successive 
years with credit to himself and benefit to the com- 
inunity. 



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'^()SP:PII SIBLEY, a pioneer f.armer of Onon- 
daga To\vnslii|), Ingham County, was lioi-n 
in Rush, Monroe County, N. Y., December 
13, 1817, and is the son of Elisha and Anna 
(Bills) Sibley, both natives of New England, wiio 
settled in the above named county soon after 
their marriage and there remained throughout life. 
The father held some township offices and was a 
soldier in the War of 1812. They were the parents 
of thirteen children of whom our subject was the 
tenth. 

John Sililey was reared in Hush, Monroe County, 
and received his education in the district schools 
and at Rochester, N. Y. He remained on the old 
homstead until he reached the age of twenty-one 
and came to Michigan in 1838, entering into part- 
nership with his brother, Martin K.. and buying 
one hundred and sixty acres of land where our 
subjeei, now lives. 

Mr. Sibley cleared his farm and has lived up- 
on it for fifty-three years, and h.as nearly all of 
his one hundred and sixty-five acres under cultiva- 
tion. He has done most of the work ujion his jilace 
besides teaching school considerably in his younger 
years. He was a Republican until recently but 
now lielongs to the Farmers' Alliance. 

I'lion New Year's Day, 1841. our subject was 
married to Miss Charlotte Whitman, of Springport, 
Jackson County. She was born in Canada, Octo- 
ber fi, 1815, and is a daughter of Josiah and Char- 
lotte (Austin) Whitman, iiitmeers of Jackson 
County. To this worthy couple seven children 
have been born, namely: Carrie ()., Charles II., 
Alva, Homer W., Hubert .1.. Emma and Elsie L., 
and three of these have passed to the other world. 
The son, Charles, lives at home with his father and 
is Supervisor of Onondaga Township; he married 



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Mis-i MriiiiiM llrooU. (if Alliimi. and lias tliicc cliil- 
ilri'ii. Kiaiik, ( ifoitji' and ISestiii". Iloiiici- W. Ls a 
stoiH'cuUfr at Clinliiii. Mich.. aii<l inari'icd Miss 
lOlia I'icison. liiilicil .1.. a lariiicr. niarrii'd Miss 
Minnie (iiilnian and lias li\i' children, Kverett C, 
Kditli M.. (i race. Scut 1 and ('ly(h'. Kniiiia is the 
wile (if 'riioinas li. Wheeler, (if Leslie, this State. 
The (ildesl dauffhter. Carrie, who is now deceased, 
■was the wife of Alva .\iistiii. of Jackson, and left 
one child. Adellicrt. 



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^1 Osill .V K. KIU'KI.AM). Anion;- the prom- 
inent, inlhieiitial and wealthy asiiiculturisls 
and representative pioneers of lugliain 

County, none is more worthy of our notice 

than the well-known and etKeient Supervisor and 
Treasurer of Leroy Township. Seneca County, 
N. Y., is his native home and he was hoin .Tanuary 
1.'), 1821, heiiiaa son of Henjainin Kirkland. a native 
of Coniieeticiil. and Nancy Kni<>lit, who was born 
in New York, and whose lirother was ;i soldier in 
the War of 1H12. 

His father's farm in New \n\k was the scene of 
.loshua Kirkland's boyhood days, and his education 
was largely taken in the district schools, which 
<ra\c liini a t;dod foundation for future studies, 
which he has taken by himself. His father pursued 
the trade of a tailor as well as earrviiiii; on a farm. 
Tlic luariiauc of .hisliiiM Kirkland with Kehecca 
Morehouse, wliich event took place September 2!(, 
IH1;L bi(iui;ht him three children, of whom his son 
Charles of (Jiaiid Ledge, is the only one lixiiii;-. 
After the death of .Mrs. Rebecca Kirkland our sub- 
ject was a second time united in inarriage with 
Mrs. Nancy Hrown. the widow of I'ri.-ih llrowii. of 
Livinsrston County. Uy this marriage which took 
place in IH.V2 two children were born, one of 
whom. KImer. is living .■ind makes Ins home in Le- 
roy Townshi]). He married a third wife in 1872. 
They lived tf)gether four years. She left home 
••ind our subject obt;iiiic(l a bill from her. Tlic 
present Mrs. Kirkland bore the name t>f Nina R. 
Latlirop and she became Mrs. Kirkland in 1H77, 
and is the mother of one dauijhter. Coruelia. 



Our subject emigrated to Michigan in l«l I. mak- 
ing his home in Livingston Count\ until Ik.-,-j. at 
which time he eaine to Ingham County and during 
the tiist year operated a steam sawmill, one of the 
first in this region. He traded this mill, which was 
known as the Podiink Mill, for the farm on which 
he now lives, which was tlii'ii an unbroken forest. 
For nearly a year the family resided in a log cabin 
and they then built a better home. This ^.'cntle- 
uiau h.is seen much pioneer work and lijis eiidiire(| 
many privations and hardships. He now owns 
three hundred and lifteen acres of land in Wlieat- 
lield and Leroy Townships. IJy his own hard work 
:ind eiiteri)rise he has ac(iuired this handsome prop- 
I'lty and at the same time he li.as helped forward in 
every way po.ssible any movement which had for 
its aim the elevation of scK'iety .-ind the general 
prosperity of the community. 

.Mr. Kirkland was formerly a member of the M.-i- 
sonie order but is not active now in that order. 
For several yi'ars he .served as Treasurer of Leroy 
Township, in which office he was unusually ellieient. 
lloth he and his wife are now enjoying the fruit> 
of a life well spent and thi' respect an<I esteem 
which is their just and natural meed. 

IIARLKS H. SIHLKY. The farming com- 
munity of any eount\ forms it.s bone and 
^^1^' sinew, and upon the character of that p:irt 
of its citizens must depend much of tlie future 
history of that sec-tioii. Thrift, industr\' and integ- 
lity must :ibouiid or misfortune and hard times will 
come, iK> matter what the Mnancial condition of the 
country or the wealth underlying the sod. Ingham 
County has been hles.sed in a constituency of iiolile 
upright, industrious farinei-s who have developed 
its resources and brought it to a sl.andinu' with the 
other counties of the State. 

Mr. Sibley, who has a due farm in t )iioMd:ig:i 
Township, was bom upon tlii' spot where lu' now 
lives, August \A. l8-!4. his parenl.s being .lo.seph 
aiid Charlotte (Whitman) Sibley, a sketch of whom 
will be found elsewhere in this volume. Charles 
is their second child and received hisearlv training 



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upon the farm and was educated in the district 
.schools during his earlier years and afterward at- 
tended .school at Eaton Rapids and studied in the 
union schools of Lansing. He remained at home 
until about twenty-four years of age and then went 
to (irand Rapids, where he worked for three years 
for tlie (xauoe tt Goodrich Trasportation Company 
after which he spent four years with the Phienix 
Furniture Company in the same city. 

In 1»17 Mr. Sibley returned to the farm and has 
since given his undivided attention to farming. 
He rents his fatlier's farm and carries it on. It 
was while he was living in Grand Rapids that he 
entered into a matrimonial alliance, choosing as his 
life partner Miss Emma Garrett, of Albion, Mich., 
and they were married in April, 1873. She is a 
native of Buffalo, N. Y., and is now the mother of 
three promising diildrcn: Franc, George L. and 
Bessie E. 

The Democratic party formerly commanded tlie 
vote and influence of our sul)ject, but he is now 
casting his ballot with the Industrial party. In 
IS'.M) lie received the electi<.)n to tlie office of Super- 
visor of Onondaga Townsliip. and being re-elected 
in the spring of 1H!)1, he is now serving his second 
term. Anytliing which pertains to the interests of 
agriculture is of imi)()rtance in his eyes and he is a 
member of the Farmers' Alliance and is one of 
its trusted coun.selors. 



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iilCHAIU) SEATON. The gentleman whose 
1, name is at the head of tliis sketch is a ty))i- 
\V cal American, having risen from an humble 
position in which poverty was his main in- 
heritance, to his jjresent statitin in life in which he 
enjoys a pleasing degree of affluence. His success 
has, however, not made him indifferent to the sor- 
rows and needs of the great majority. His heart 
is oi)eu to all and if he cannot give a bit of com- 
fort of the substantial nature he at least always 
be>to\vs a kind and encouraging word upon the 
distressed one. 

IJichard .Scaton is the son of Joseph and F>liza- 
beth (Morton) Seaton, natives respectively of Lin- 



colnshire and Nottinghamshire, England. Our 
subject's father was born in Faldwinsworth Town. 
He was a farmer and the parent of nine children, 
Ave of whom were boys. They were: John, Will- 
iam, Joseph, Ricliard and Robert. The four girls 
were Ann, I-^lizabeth, Rebecca and Margaret. John, 
Jo.seph and Richard came to the United States and 
finally settled in Michigan. Joseph, however, died 
in Illinois. 

Our subject was born August 9, 182(', in Middle- 
raison, Lincolnshire, England. He was raised a 
farmer and to the thrifty wa3s common among 
the FjUglish yeomanry. He was deprived of edu- 
cational advantages, but his native wit and bright- 
ness did much for the youth. Our subject came 
to America on a sailing vessel and was on the 
ocean for six weeks and one d.ay; he landed in 
Canada and came from (Quebec to Pontiac, reach- 
ing that point June 12, 1845, with no friends 
and ^15 in debt. A brother worked in Pontiac 
for nine years at anything he could get to do. 
Oui- subject's Hrst half month's work received 
the remuneration of $o, which represented a 
fortnight's labor in the flelds during the haying 
season. In 1854 he came to the place where he 
now resides, locating on section 11. There he pur- 
chased eighty acres and has since added forty more. 
Since that time he has steadily advanced in finan- 
cial position and his place has been made very 
valuable by the improvements that he has put 
upon it. His residence is a fine brick house that is 
tasteful in design and roomy in size. It is entirely 
unincumliered nor does our subject owe a dollar to 
anyone. He has moreover the i)leasant assurance 
that there is money enough laid up for a rainy day 
or for the comfortable enjoyment of old age. 

.May 12, 1844, ^Ir. Seaton was married to Emily 
West, a daughter of Robert and Susan 'West of 
Middleraison. Lincolnshire, F^ngland. Seven chil- 
dren were the outcome of this union. They are as 
follows: Robert, who died at the age of twenty- 
seven; Joseph; Emily, now ISIrs. Palmer; Elizabeth, 
who is the wife of J. T. Harri.son; Alice, who mar- 
lied .John Hrislol; Francos, the wife of Clarence 
Hiistol. and John Franklin. 

The original of our sketch with his wife is a 
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forty-five yeiirs lliey liiive lu-en ai'tivcly con nwterl 
with the intei'et<ls of that liody and liave ever heen 
liberal supporters of the (ioi«pel work. A Denioerat 
in polities, our siihjeet is iKjt, however, so rabid 
Imt wiiat lie eaii see good in all men and parties, 
lie is an honored and respeeted citizen and a kind 
t'rifiid to the pool and needy. His wife is a noble. 
tiiK'-liearted woinaii whose brijiht cheerfulness is a 
tonic to the despondent or sorrowing. She lia.s 
been the affectionate heljiniate of her husband in 
his career and is deserving of I lie greatest consid- 
eration 1)\' .'ill. 



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\f(_^ ON. l-HANK (;. UorNS\ILLK. He whose 

y name adorns this |>age is a worthy rejire- 

sentative of an honorable and talented 

f^i family. The same traits which made his 
father successful in the various interests in which 
he was engaged is discovered in the son in an aug- 
mented degree. Naturally of a daring, speculative 
nature, his dealings in this direction have been 
modified and toned by a well-lialanccd jiidgincnt 
and a trained conservatism. He is at iireseiit Presi- 
dent of the t'ity Council, to which he generously 
gives a large ])ortioii of his time troiii his varied 
interests in a commercial way. lieiiig a dealer in 
lumber, grain, wool and produce. ;iiid one of the 
most active and energetic business nieii in {'"owler- 
ville. Livingston County. 

.\ native of JJvingston County. Midi., he of 
whom we write was born in I'liadilla Towiisjiip. 
Feliruary IH, 1,S4K. He is a son of William K. and 
Svlvia M. (Torrey) Rounsville. natives of Tomp- 
kins and Tioga Countio. N. Y.. respectixcly. The 
father was an artist. He came to Michigan about 
lH4r), and settled in I'liadilla Township, where he 
was engaged in farniing. Like most iiieii who 
have the artistic instinct, tluie was something of 
the Hohemian about him. ••lud he was not coiileiil 
to settle down in one jilace withonl !i>suring liiiii- 
.self in a personal way of its sujierior advantages 
He sotm went to AVisconsin. thence iiroceeded to 
Alinnesota, where he wjis engaged in stock-raising. 
an<l ill IKti.! returned to Michigan and relocated in 



Inadilla Township. During the Last years of his 
life he niaile his home in Fowlerville. pa.*sing;iwav 
into the hereafter in December, |K(!L His wife 
survived him .some two years, her decease occur- 
ring in .May. !«(;!!. Our subjec's father was Clerk 
of I'liaddla Township f(ji- two terms. He was a 
Rejiublican and an earnest, progressive man. Wis 
paternal grandparents weie Uenjamin and .Anna 
((Jifford) Rounsville. natives of ,Ma.-<sachuselts. 
Tliey were there engaged in farming, although 
they spent their latter yeai-s in New York. He w.i.- 
the father of live children — Robert. \Villiam. Hen- 
jainiii, Meli.s.sa and Cynthia. The two Indies are 
now residents of Minnesota. 

Our subject's matei'u.-il grandparents were Seth 
li. and Elizabeth (.Stedman) Torrey. native.^ of 
New York. The former wa.s a contractor and 
builder and came to Michigan alniut l«4(). He 
settled at I'nadilla, this county, where he followed 
his trade and was also a farmer; he died in 1869. 
His wife still survives and makes her home in 
Oce(jla County, this Stale. During Mr. Torrey 's 
lifetime he was Township Clerk and Road Com 
missioucr. He had a family of live children. 
They aie: Sylvia JL; Ann E., who is now Mi-s. 
(ilinn; (ieorge S.; Margaret .S., who died at ten 
years of age; Elinor S„ now Mi's. Patterson; Sarah 
E.. who is Airs. Howell. The two hitter live in 
Ingham County, this Stiite. .V Deinwrat jioliti- 
cally. socially Mr. Torrey was a Ma.-on. His pa r- 
ent.s were \Villiani and Mehitable ( lialdwin) Tor- 
rey, natives of Connecticut. The former died in 
Tioga County. N. Y.. leaving seven children — 
NVilliain, Samuel. .lohn. Saiali. Klioda. lietsev and 
Ilattie. 

The lvouii>\ ille f.amily are of French origin, .is 
may lie cimjectured by the name, and in the his- 
tory of that country they take a high stand as pa- 
triots and law makers. The Torrey family is of 
Scotch origin. ( >ur subject treasures a souvenir of 
his ancestors, the Rounsvilles, that is in the form of 
a bookmark of an arm rocking chair. The lirst 
representative of the Rounsville family in .\mer- 
ica came over in the "Maytlower." He of whom 
we write is (me of five children, four of whom are 
now living. Tliev are: Frank (;.. Charles H., 
(ieorire W. ••ind I'red N. Charles H. is a farmer in 



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Dellii Township, Ingham County; George W. is a 
wholesale butcher in Lansing, and Fred X. is also 
a Ituteher at the same plaee. 

The original of our sketch received the educa- 
tional advantages offered in the district schools 
and in the High Schools of Ovid, Clinton County. 
After tinishing his course he taught for three 
winters in Livingston County. He made his home 
under the jjarental roof until he was twenty years 
of age, lieing engaged in teaching and farming. 
His home i)lace is witliiii liie present limits of 
Fowlerville. In 1878 he imrchased eighty acres, 
and during the last thirteen years has given his 
attention as above stated, being the middleman be- 
tween the producers of Michigan and the large 
buyers of lumber, cereals, wool and produce in 
the metropolitan markets. 

■ Mr. Rounsville is a man of marked executive 
aljility, which is recognized by his co-laborers. He 
was elected to represent his home county in the 
Legislature of 1887-88. He has been Supervisor 
for two tei-ms and also School hisijector. For 
years lie has been connected with the City Council 
and during the last five terms lias figured as the 
President of tlie city. He has also l)een Clerk of 
the Council scveial times, and during his legisla- 
tive term he secured the passage of several measures 
that have been greatly to the advantage of this 
locality. 

Life being not complete without a home and the 
close ties of the domestic relation, our subject 
was married, November '2H. 1^(7"2, to Mrs. Helen 
M. .Jones, of Fowlerville. She was a daughter of 
Nelson A. and Ann E. (Torrey) Glenn, natives of 
New York, and born in Seneca and 'Hoga Coun- 
ties respectively. The father was a farmer and 
came to Michigan in 1834, settling in Uexter. 
A\'ashtenaw County. His father was Robert, and 
he was one of the first settlers in Unadilla and 
the lirst to build a house in Flast Unadilla, lie him- 
self platting the village, lie was the proprietor 
and owner of a sawmill and gristmiil. and one of 
the |)romoters of the interests of the county. He 
(lied in Unadilla. His son, Xel.son A., lived in j 
this township, where he engaged in farming a 
number of years before his death. He was a !Ma- 
.son and an Odd Fellow; lii> decease occurred De- 



cember 1, 1870. He was the father of two chil- 
dren — Helen JNL, Mrs. Roun,sville. and (ieorge H. 

He of whom we write is an adherent of Demo- 
cratic principles as a rule. Socially he is a meiuber 
of both the Masonic fraternity and of the Odd 
Fellows. He is now Master for the tifth time of 
the Blue Lodge and is .also a memljer t)f the 
Royal Arcanum. 31r. Rounsville has a tine home 
and beautiful surroundings. His wife was a most 
estimalile and charming woman, seconding the ef- 
forts of her husband most admirably in all pro- 
gressive directions. They had a family of four chil- 
dren — Clyde died in infancy; Rose E. pas.se d away 
when eight years of age, and but two are now liv- 
ing — Claude (i. .and Anna. Mrs. Rounsville died 
December 9, 1888. 







likM R>i- -lEAHMA ANN SNYDER, The pio- 
neer women of Michigan pas.sed through 
wonderful exi)eriences, and it is well 
worth the while of the young peojile of 
to-day to sit at their feet and learn of them les- 
sons of industry, courage, per.severance and reso- 
lute detei'ini nation, for they exercised all these 
traits in their early occupancy of our State, and 
they have come out of the contlict wortli\' to bear 
the cross of the Legion of Honor. 

]\Irs. Snyder, who is now a lady of sixty-.seven 
years, had her biitli in 1824. in Wayne County, 
N. 1'., and there she was married at the age of 
nineteen. Her present home is in Conway Town- 
shi]), Livingston County, where she carries vn a 
farm <)f some eighty acres. Her father, Isaac 
Dickson, was a native of Pennsylvania, and his 
wife, Betse}' (Nicliloy) Dickson, bore to him nine 
children, five daughters and four sons, of whom 
Mrs. Snyder is the third child and second daugh- 
ter. Jacob Nicliloy, the maternal grandfather, 
had a family of nine children. 

The maiden name of Mrs. Snyder was .lemima 
l)icks<ui. and it was in 1843 that she was united 
with yiv. Henry Snyder, by whom >he liecaine the 
mother of two daughters and three sons, namely: 
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JMniin; Alice, deceased; Ira. wIk. married Sarali 
l.eedle. and iia^i two c-liildreii: .lolm 11.. who mar- 
ried Melviiia \Vilt.sie; Owen, who jnarried Id.-i 
IJarker. and ha> one eliihl. 

rpon lier well-cultivated farm .Mr.s. Snyder i.-; 
ciurvin": on a <,'eneral farininir liiisiiie.s.s. and she 
lias .seen this country ,ii:row up from a wilderness 
to its prese_ut prosperous and populous condition. 
When slie first came here there was no l.-uid cle.ared 
except that which is now occupied hy .Mr. S.-ihin. 
They liuilt a loj^ house l(ix20 feet in dimensions, 
anil liy haid toil she and her husliand iiained a 
comfortahle competency. Her lie.-iuliful home was 
liuilt .some twenty-three years ago, and she has 
tlii'ee sjood Itarns which were erected previ<jns to 
that time. Henry Snyder was a hard working 
man. and in his political views a Democrat. His 
son> .-ire stanch I'roliihilionists, who sympathize 
with the Farmers' ^Mutual Benefit Association. 
.Mr. Snyder dejjarted this life in 1884. Icavinj^ his 
widow and children to mourn his irreparahle loss. 



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^rr^\FA)liV,E L. ADA.MS. A jonmali.M and one 
'fj g— . who is the niolder of pulilic opinion to .a 

Vti^l larire extent has it in his power to wield an 
immense inlhience forjjood. Infortunately at the 
])resent day sensationalism is found to pay liettcr 
than literary merit, consecpiently our journals arc 
filled with items that miijlit well cause parents to 
liestitate to place tlie journal in tin' h.'iiids of their 
children. J.tickily this son.-iational style is more 
prevalent in the very large cities than in smaller 
towns and the minds and morals of the ina.^ses are 
left untainted. He who.'^e name is at the head of 
this sketch is one who feels the lesiionsiliilitv of 
his position as proprietor of the Kowlcrville 
Kevieir. considering that his work is as much an 
educational one as that of the |)reacher or 
preacher. 

Mr. .Vdams is a native of Oakland Count)', this 
Stale, and w.as kejil at home on the farm until 
lie reached the age of nine yeaiv and tlu'ii 
went to Niw Ihulson in ( )!iklaiid Countv, where 



he remained for live yeai-s, thence he came to 

Mount .Morri.-. \\ fourteen years of agi ■ miI.- 

ject hegaii the practical liusine.ss of life for himself 
He was in a drug store at .Mt. .Morns for one 
year anri then went to Kvart. Oce<»ia (ounlv. 
this Slate, there engaging in carpenter's work and 
followed that line until IH7I. .Vt lliat .same place 
he liegan to learn the printers trjide. giving up 
part of one year to it. AViien Willard H. He.s.* 
came to Kowlcrville he with our suhjecl hegaii the 
pnlilicati<»n of the Fowlervillc /("ec/V-d-. The .senior 
memlier was a practical printer and and a veteran 
ill newspaper work. They conducted their liusi- 
ness under the linn name of Hes-; A- .\dams. our 
sulije<-t continuing to learn the trade inulcr hi> 
partner. He .-old out his interest in the stock in 
1H7«. 

After disposing of his paper the original of our 
sketch estahlished him.self in the grocery luisine.s's 
hut continued in that only eight months, afterward 
emharking in the hardware Itnsine.-s with Mr. 
Kelso in Webberville. He remained ihus connected 
until .lanuary 1, 1879. when he sold out aiwl re- 
liinieil to Kowlei'villc. He then purchasecl the 
paper thai lie w.as instrumental in estalilishing. It 
had hecome defunct and the work of revivifying 
it was e(|ual to estalilishing a new organ. He has. 
In^werer. heen very successful in the work and has 
ct)ntinued the piililication of the sheet until the 
present time. It is inde|)endcnt in politics, .\side 
from his own work Im' keeps two printei-s con- 
slantly employed in the otiice lieside.s those outside 
g.athering the news. 

.Ml. .\il.Mms e>talili>lied the ilomcstic relation 
Octolier 1. 1x71. at which he united his f.ale with 
that of .Miss Carrie Tanner of this place. .Mi>. 
Adams is a most estimahle l;idy of marked intel- 
lectual aliility and having great retinement. .Mr. 
.Vdams is a Ma.son and an Od<i Fellow. He .al.-o 
tielongs to the .Ancient Order cjf rnileij Workmen, 
to the (iood Templars and is a memlier of the 
Farmers .Vlliance. Outside of his jourmdistic 
work the iientleman of whom we write hasama.s-ed 
a verv comfoitalile competency in llie manufacliiie 
of the .Vdams Hand Cylindi'r l'res,s, in nhieli lie 
h;is a one-half interest, being the patentee of the 
pre.s.ses that are manufactured in this village. Our 



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subject has strugalcil liard for the position that he 
has gained in joiiriialistif work. Years of patience 
were required liefore he cuuld attain the footing 
desired, and his mark is yet above liim as is that 
of all good and progressive men everywheie. He 
with his wife is a member of the Methodist P>pis- 
copal Church and has held every official position 
in the body to which he belongs. He is now Class- 
Leader, Steward, Trustee and Treasurer. He is the 
chorister in the (liurcli and is Sunday-school 
Superintendent at the (iriswold schoolhouse south 
of the village. He is a man who does not spare 
himself, if by throwing himself into the breach he 
can help along a fellow-being. 



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lowing tlie serene and |)eaceful calling of 
*^ W an agriculturist, our subject is a memlier of a 
j)j family that has traveled extensively, gain- 
ing by personal experience and observation knowl- 
edge of countries and peoples. Our subject's 
father was Ebenezer Shaw, a native of Massachu- 
setts, who in an early day went to Canada. He 
was in the War of lf<12 and on going to the Brit- 
ish Honiinion was there married to a Miss Stephens. 
That union was hlest by the advent of two sons 
and three daughters, whose names are .lames, Bet- 
sey, Huldah, Susan and Hoseell. After a short 
residence in Canada tliey i)roceeded to Grand 
Island where the father died, the ])lace of liis de- 
cease, being only about six miles from Niagara 
Falls. 

Our subject was liorn .Inly 2(1, 1823, in Branford, 
Canada, and at the age of fourteen he started out 
in life for himself. For five years he worked by 
the month on the Erie Canal and then engaged .as 
an employe on a farm, following that work until 
he was twenty-six years of age, at wliicli time he 
was married to Ruby Kent, a daughter of .Tosephus 
Kent, a resident of New York. In 184.5 our snh- 
ject came to Michigan and settled in Williamston 
Townshi]j on a farm of fifty acres. This he sold 
and then bought eighty acres where he now resides. 

The tr.act which oursuliject imrciiased and which 



is mentioned above, was virgin soil and was cleared 
and lirokon by him. he putting up the buildings as 
time and fortune permitted. Wholly without re- 
sources, his energy and iudustr.y have made him a 
success, so that now he has accumulated a com- 
fortable property. To our subject and his wife 
werelioni \\\v children. They are, James, W^illiam, 
Ruby, Etta and Susan. Mrs. Ruby Shaw was taken 
away about 1859, and he married, in Septemljer, 
1861, Miss Fanny Ilicock, a daughter of Zachariah 
llieock, a native of New York, and an early settler 
in Ingham County, where he died about 1871. 
This wife did not long survive and Mr. Shaw was 
again married, his choice being Jliss JMary Lamb, a 
daughter of James Lamb, a native of New York, 
wlio emigrated in an early day to Ohio, settling in 
Lorain County and later in AYood County, finally 
locating in Ingham County nearthe city of M.ason 
where he died; the mother still survives and at 
seventy-eight years of age possesses her faculties to 
a remarkable degree. 

Mr. Shaw is a member of the Farmers' Alliance. 
He was drafted in the late war, l)ut feeling that he 
was needed at home, he hired a substitute. A Demo- 
crat in his iiolitical principles, he is and always has 
been loyal to his jiarty. He is a member of the 
Industrial I'liiou. To Mr. Shaw and his third wife 
have lieeii lioin the following children: Florence 
M.. Fred H.. Iva B., Frank J. and Bertha B. \]\ 
are still at home witli the exception of Frank J., 
who died when about two years of age. 



'OEL C. ClIOATE. The thought that we 
are now as niucli in eternity as we ever shall 
l)e is one that must be strengthening to 
those wliose feet are nearing the brink of 
the river, where farewells will be said to the friends 
on this side in order to give a fond greeting to 
those on the other. There is but one life, but it 
changes its phase and form to suit its new condi- 
tions and wlien one has reached fourscoreaiid four 
years, almost can one feel the stirring of tiie new 
impulse and life under the old form. 

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i-iiiiH' in witli till* jiil)ili'i' that was felt liy the eai'lv 
settlers when Micliiiran was admitted as a Stale. 
lie is now an exten.sive farmer on seetion ;^. 
Handy Townshii). I.ivinu'ston County, liavinj; lu- 
caterl the same land in lH;!(i, wliieli was i)atented 
to him directly from the (iovernment. Two years 
later he came to make his residence here. It \va~ 
heavy timber iand and the lii-st shelter that their 
foresight afforded was a log house which answered 
ever3- purpo.se in the crudity of the woods and the 
time and there they lived for al)oul lifteen years. 
whiMi the fir.st house was replac'ed liy a sulistantial 
frame dwelling and later. in IsTtJ.hc luiilt his present 
tine home. 

Mr. Choate is a native of \'eriiiont. there horn 
December 13, 1807. His i)arents were William and 
Polly (C'onkey) Choiite. natives of Connecticut. 
The former was a "farnTer by calling but by trade 
was a boot and shoe m.aker. When only eight years 
of .age the lad .Joel was motherless, and in ]837 
his father came to ^Michigan and not a great while 
after died in .I.ack.son County. There was a family 
of twelve children, only two of whom .are ik)w liv- 
ing — our subject and Stephen 1'. who lives at Three 
Hi vers, this Slate; he is by profession a physician 
and surgeon now retired from active busine.ss. The 
gran<lfather was William Choale, a native of Con- 
necticut. While a lad our subjecl'attended school 
in ^'ermont and after going to >>'ew York he m.ade 
his home with his lirothei's. working on the farm 
and attending school at Middlebiirv. (Jeuesee 
County, N. Y. He remained with them until 
twenty-one years of age and then set out for him- 
self until he came West in !>;.')(). lie paid ten shil- 
lings an acre for his tiist real-estate investment in 
this State and for a time made his home with his 
brother. Hazel. .Vfter working iiut lor one year 
lie cainc to his farm when he began the work of 
clearing the limber and from that time to this has 
not ceased to make iniprovcments upon the place. 
In a business way he is a self-made man, having 
acquired his pre.-^ent handsome iirojierty liy his own 
unaided effort.^, lie has been engaged in raising 
cattle, .-hee]i and hogs and in breeding tine horses. 

.Mr. Choate has been awarded various townshi|i 
otiices and has tjieally helped the county by his 
enterprise and proirressixe ideas. He has never 



been able to sum up courage to leave the bachelors 
in order to become a Benedict, and although he liius 
a beautiful home it i> pivsideil ovei- by a house- 
keeper. .Mr>. 1). Hall, a daughter of .V-'^aand .Sophia 
Mastic. Mrs. Hall is a widow and the mother of 
two children. Mrs. H.-iU's mother kept liou.se for 
.Ml-. Choate for tliirt\-,-ix years after her liusbanirs 
death. 

The original of oui- sketch is a man who can be 
depended U|)on to contribute liberally of hi> time 
and money in any measure or enterprise that prom- 
ises to be for the advantage and benelit of the lo- 
cality in which he lives. He is one of the pioneers 
and the only one now living upon land taken up 
at Ihat time in this township. On fii-st coming 
here the nearest market was at Dexter, a di-stance 
of thirty miles fnmi his home and the nearest mill 
was at Piiukney, sixteen miles away and over 
rough, unworked roads and through heaviest tim- 
ber. He is to-day oneof the wealthy and represen- 
tative farmers of this township. ■ 



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ICII.UJl) T. lilJKitJS. The subject of tlil.- 
sketch IS well known for his honest\' and 
integrity and enjoys the coutideiice of the 
liusines.s community and the res|)ect .-iikI 
liking' of a broad and inllueiiti.al acipiaint.Miice. 
lie is a representative pioneer of Locke Township 
Ingham County, and a native of Canada, where he 
was born .\pril II. 1h;52. beintr a son of .Stanley 
and .^nn liriggs, both of whom were natives of 
Irelanil. In the fall of \XA() he came with his 
jiareiils to ( liiiton Count\ . this State, and in 1817 
he aided liis father in bnildino: the lii>I frame 
house ill Lansing and liel]ied a .Mr. Lovejoy a 
butcher lo kill and dress the first beef creature that 
was slaughtered in Lansing. 

The father of our subject wa.- one of the pio- 
neer merchants of Lansing. His children who.-,nr- 
vive are: Cliathering, .lames. Mary (Mi>. Hunt). 
Richard T., and Klizabeth (Mrs. Wliiteley). It 
was in 18 |H when the family removed to Ingham 
County and Richard had . already been in his fa- 
ther's emplov for a number of years at Lansing, 



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His school advantajjfes had been exceedingly limit- 
ed and his education has liceii almost entirely the 
result of his extensive course of readiuu; which has 
made him the intelligeiit u'eiitleuian which lie is 
t^)day. 

I'poii Feliruary 8. I8;j3, this young man was 
united in marriage with Aurilla Hunt a native of 
( )akland County, and daughter of Levi and .Au- 
rora Hunt, pioneers of that county. Her fatlier 
was one of the fh'sl navigators between Deti'oitand 
Saginaw and saih'd with Captain Ward on the Lakes. 
iSix children blessed tlieir home and of this num- 
ber five are now living, namely: Edwin, Nora 
(Mrs. Frank ^Maxwell). Dick. Anna. Minnie (de- 
ceased), and M\itle. 

In 18»(; ]\Ii-. Ihiggs settled upon the farm where 
he now lives, .and at that time there had not been 
a tree cut upon the i)lace. He erected a log caliin 
1 1x16 feet in dimensions, and it was a number of 
years before he erected the attractive home wliich 
now stands upon the farm. He farmed with ox- 
teams in those early days and there were no roads 
through this part of the county. He owns ninety- 
six .acres of land which he has brought from the 
condition of a wilderness to that of a richly culti- 
vated farm. He is identified with the Farmers" 
.Vlliance and in his |)olitical views he is in sym- 
pathy with the Democratic party. The rei)utation 
of a tirst-class huntsman and good shot was his in 
the early d.ays and even now he delights in going 
hunting. For the first three years of his residence 
here he furnished with his rifle all the meat which 
was brought to the famih' lardei'. 



MOKYDIUFFK. There is a saying that life 
at twenty is a tiagedy. at forty a comedy 
^ and at sixty a roaring farce, whieh means 
that as the years |)ass one learns that the few years 
spent here are. after all, liut an incident in the 
great eternity and each little phase of the career, 
imi)ortant as it may seem at the time, loses to a 
great extent its significance and individuality and 
become a jiart simply of "when I was a boy" or 



"when I was a young man." He of whom we 
write has already passed tlie septugenarian's mile 
|)ost. having been born March 27, 182(1. in Pal- 
myra Township, Wayne County, N. V. He is now 
a resi<k"nt on section 1. Hand\- Township, I,iving.s- 
ton County, having come to Michigan and settleil 
in his present location in 1K()7. Heie lie is the 
prt)i)rictoi- of a fine farm of one hundred and eighty 
acres. 

Our subject is a son of Stephen and Mary (Allen) 
Durfee. natives of Rhode Island and New York 
respectively. The former was employed as a farmer 
in that State and continued in the calling until his 
decease. He was a Whig in his political prefeience 
and lielongs to that (piaint religious body com- 
numly called (juakeis, more pleasantly Friends, who 
have given some of the noblest characters to the 
world — peoi)le whose lives are models of purit^y 
and cleanliness. .Stephen and Mary Durfee were 
the parents of twelve children, only three of whom 
are now living. The eldest. Cliloa, is Mrs. Under- 
wood; Anna D. is Mrs. Wicks; then comes our 
suliject. 

Mr. Durfee 's grandsire *as Gideon Durfee, a 
native of Rhode Island, who later moved to New 
York Mliere he ])assed the remainder of his life. 
He had a large famil\-. comprising twelve children. 
He was a Federalist in jiarty inclination and gave 
the whole of his warm Irish nature to any cause 
that he espoused. The original of our sketch was 
reared on the home farm and remained with his 
parents until he was twenty-six years of age and 
then came to Michigan and settled in Wayne 
County in the township of Lavouia in 184H. On 
coming to this State he purchased one hundred 
acres of land and was engaged in cultivating the 
same for twenty years. During that time he held 
various otlices in the township, es|)ecially those 
concerning educational matters. 

At the expiration of the time above mentioned 
Mr. Durfee traded his farm in Wayne County for 
his present farm in Handy Township, Livingston 
County. He was united in matrimony in 1841 to 
Miss Eliza .1. Carr, who died leaving him one son, 
whose name is Edgar, now of Fentonville, Mich. 
This young man married Elizabeth Bennett, who is 
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— KInici-. Kvcrctti'. .lcssi> mikI Kliiian. liy tin- >t'c- 
oiul m.-in-iMirc lie was iiiiili'ii to Allif .IdIiiisoii and 
is till' |iai('iit of tliivi' cliildii'ii liy tliis iininn — 
Clari'iico, ('laiidf aii<l Freddie. 

After liviiiL;- some linieaitme oui- siihjeel married 
his wife's sister. ('oi(leli;i (arr. Sjie was a iiativi- 
of Palmyra Towiisliii). Wayne County, N. V. Her 
parents were David and Relieoea (KVans) Carr, 
natives of New .lersey. The lather was a farmer 
and eame to Mieliipiii in IMll. Ileseltled in Shia- 
wassee t'onnt\' and was there entjai;e<l iji farmin<;, 
remainina' until his deeease. They hud a family of 
thiite<'n children, of whom six only are now livinir. 
Tht'V are .lames E., Mrs. Durfee, David A., Relieeea 
M., Caroline A., who is .Mrs. Harder and Emily. 

Xine children grace the \inion of our subject ami 
his present wife. They are ICliza .1., Henr\' H.. 
.Stephen, Clarence, Helen '\'. Alfred. Kliza married 
Mr. Hiin'he.'! and is the motherof ouechild — Inis C: 
Henry H. married Saville Allen and is the p.arenl 
of three children — Daisy, Ue.ssie and Onil: he is a 
successfnl farmer in this county. Stephen mariied 
Ettie \). Pitts; their union has been lilest liy the 
advent of three children — -Archie A., Elrov II. and 
Ethel H., the last named being twins. Clarence .M. 
married Carrie Atkins; they have four childi-en — 
Mabel, Erma, Emory and Percival; two of these 
children are by a former marriage of .Mr-s. l)ui-- 
fee with (reorge Iluck. Helen \ . now .Mrs. Eugene 
Clieeney; slie also is the mother of four children — 
I'earl. Blanche, Vern an<l Ei'ster II.. who is de- 
ceased. Alfred. William. Edith and .\nnie are the 
remaining members of the family. 

He of wlnmi we write has souglit to give his 
children every advantage in an educational way 
possible to their condition and location. They 
have all had the advantages of a lilieral education 
and are intelligent, and refined men and women 
who take a prominent jiosition in society wherever 
found. .Ste))lien is principal of the High School 
.'It \'ei-nou, Shiawassee County, this State; Alfred 
is engaged in teaching in a High .School in Col- 
orado; Helen has be(>n a teacher as have al.so Edith 
and Annie. They arc .-ill gi;idu:iles from tlu' Hiuh 
.School. 

Mr. Dnifee is a Republican in his political senti- 
ments. For nian\' vears hi' has been a member of 



tlie (kill Felli>\v> anil bclonas to the Farmei-s' .\lli- 
ance of lliis .section. He is a man who ranks ••iniong 
tiie first of the agricidturisls in this reirion. .Mr. 
Durfee's father is the liist man that ever raised a 
building in Palmyra. N. V. without di.stribuling 
whisky, lie inaugurated his temperance princi- 
ples by giving a line supper instead of tiie intoxi- 
cants. Our subject's gre.al-grandfather came from 
Ireland in 17;1() and settled in Rhode Maud. 



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TX.WII) .MOODV. Til.' liritisii-Ameriean 
I J citizens of .Michigan arc a line cla.ss of 
Qyt^ Sturdy, stalwart nn-n of pluck and pi-inci- 
|)le. who jiave made their mark and a good 
one, and have been helpful in the development ami 
progress of the Wolverine State. Among them we 
seldom find any man who falls below the average 
in ability or enterprise, and among those who are 
fill- above this middle line we find the gentleman 
who.se name ap]jears at the head of this writing, 
:ind wlio.se home is sit\iated upon a farm of one 
hinidred and thirty acres on sections 1 and 2 of 
Howell Township. 

Our subject wjus born in the city of York, Eng- 
land, February 8, 181(), )iis honored iiai'ent.s being 
.lames and .Mary (C.artei-) Moody. The father was 
born in the city of Durham and the mother was a 
Voikshirc l;i>>. In his younger days .lames Moody 
was engaged in tr.-iveling in various parts of Eng- 
l.'ind and Scotl.aud, but he decided to emigrate to 
the New AVorld and in 182;^ came to .\nu>rica and 
settling in the township of .Schuyler, Oneida 
County, N. V., he engaged in farming. There lie 
continued until death called him hence, leaving a 
family of three children, of whom ovu- subject is 
the only one now surviving. The father of .lames 
Moody was a Scotchman who emigrated to Eng- 
land and made that his honn-. and he in turn wiis 
the Min of a David Moody from whom our subject 
gets his nanu'. 

David Moody, the younger, was brought np like 
other farmer boys with plenty of liard work and 
outdoor exercise, and .after .stu<lyingin the di>tnct 
schools of ( )neida ( ountx . N. Y.. he made his home 



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with his father iiiilil tlmt jjarent's death. He then 
foiitimu'd t(i cnny on tin- farm until 1S()K when he 
came We.'st, and inirchasiny two hundred and forty 
acres of land where he now live^. built a beautiful 
home and a line set of barns and settled diiwn to 
do general farmini;'. Before coming here he had 
held the otlice of Assessor in Oneida County for 
nine years. 

The marriage of Mr. Moody wliieh took place in 
1839 united liim with Miss IJetsey (4eer, daugluer 
of Dyer and Sarah (Briggs) (ieer. To this home 
came one child, .lames, who has married Esther 
Bentley and has one daughter, Mary B. They make 
tlieir home in t'ohoclali Township. Mrs. Betsey 
bloody p.assed from this life in 18.52 and the sec- 
ond ;\Irs. JMoody was married to our subject in 
1868. Her maiden name was Amanda F. Huston 
and she is a daughter of .lolinand Laura (Bentley) 
Huston of Canton, Wayne County, Mich. 

Both]\Ir. and ]Mrs. Moody are earnest and active 
members f)f the Methodist Kiiiscoi)al Church, and 
he has been a Steward of the church and is now a 
Trustee, and lias taught in the Bible class for some 
twenty years. He is an ardent Prohibitionist in his 
political views and an earnest worker for temjier- 
ance in every line. Sarah A., the daughter of our 
subject, received her education in Howell Townshij) 
and has taught music for some time. Mr. Moody 
is considered one of tlie most prosperous farmers of 
Howell Township, and is universally respected for 
his sterling qualities and true neighborly kindness. 
The father of our subject often heard the celebrated 
Pitts, Fox and Sheridan in the House of Commons 
in their alile and eloiiuent oratory. 



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BEL S. AUSTIN, M. I). The profession 
which represents the benehcent healing 
li) art has many noble members whose lives 
■((^J are filled with acts of goodness, .and whose 

most strenuous elfort is to attain that skill which 
is necessary in saving life and restoring health. 
Such a life work raises a man aliove the sordid 
motives which actuate many of mankind, and gives 
to life a meaning, whirli more mercenary callings 



cannot grant. We are therefore always gratified 
to be able to introduce to our readers the phys- 
icians who liave won for themselves a high |)lace 
in the in'ofession in Livingston County. 

I)]-. Austin, of Fowlerville. is one of tlie most 
prominent physicians and surgeons in the .State, 
liaving had an extensive practice. He was born 
in Potsdam, St. I^awrence County, N. Y., February 
26, 18;"!;'). His father, Oliver Austin, was a native 
of ^'erm(mt and his mother Harriet Sealey, was 
lioni ill London, England. Oliver Austin was an 
extensive fanner in his early days and is now liv- 
ing on the old homestead, having retired from 
active life. He is a son of Phineas and Disa Aus- 
tin, who were Vermonters by birth and moved to 
St. Lawrence County, N. Y.. in their early days. 
There they engaged in farming and late in life 
remo\ed to Potsdam village, where they sjient 
their later years. Four of their five childi-en are 
still living, namely: Phineas, Jr.: Oliver, Lucy, 
and ^Melissa. The son who died bore the name of 
.loseph. 

Harriet Sealey. who became the mother of our 
subject, came to America when a child of seven 
years, and passed her girlhood in the Eastern 
States. After her marriage with Oliver Austin she 
became the mother of a numerous household, and 
ten of her .seventeen children are now living, 
namely: Dr. Abel S., of Fowlerville, Dr. George 
0.,of Morrice, Shiawassee County; the Rev. Charles 
W.. pastor of the Dansville Methodist Episcopal 
Church; Emma. Mrs. Swift; Ilattie, Mrs. Collins; 
Helen, the wife of the Rev. ]Mr. Bramley, who was 
formerly the Presiding Elder of the Bl.ack River 
Conference in New Y'ork; Alice, Mrs. (iarlick; 
Francene, JL's. Nels<in; Dr. Edwin II.. of Gaines, 
(iene.see County, Mich., and Edward ,J., who re- 
sides on the old homestead. The latter two arc 
twins. The father w.as formerly a Wliig in his 
political views but later joined the ranks of the 
Republican party. In their church relations this 
family are earnest and active members of the 
^Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Having spent his younger days up<m the home 
farm, yming Austin studied at the Academy at 
Potsdam and came West in the fall of 18ij6 set- 
tling at A\'aukeshaw, Wis., where he taught school 



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si I 



for tliiec yeai>. |mttinu' in all Ins sp.Mic lime in tin 
study of nifdiciiu'. His lirsi invci'pUir was Dr. C 
A. Leustroiu of Waukesliaw aii<l lii' atl>'ii(U'<l 1('( 1- 
ures (Uiiiiiu' tlu' fall of IfS.V.l ami ilurin<> llic s|iiiii<> 
of IHBOat Aim Arbor. .Mifli. Hi' hcijaii his first 
|)i;u'tice at .Krtfoiitiiic. in (Jeiiesee County. Mich., 
.■mil took his st'coiid course of Icclnrcs in IHt;.) at 
the Cleveland medical college. After receiving 
his diploma he was appointed as a.ssistant surgeon 
in the rnited States army and was witli the Arui\ 
of the Cunilierland until near the close of the war. 
at which time he was taken sick and resigned. 

Returning to Argentine the young physici:m 
rem.'iined there until his health was tinally estab- 
lished and he then went to r>vroii, Shiawassee 
County. Mich., and engaged in active practici'. 
While there he built vi|i a large practice and had 
an extensive ride. In 187;5 he sold out his busi- 
ness in Byron and coming to l-owler\ ille est;ili- 
lished himself here in his profession. He has farm- 
ing interests in this county and owns a f.arm of 
one hundred and thirteen acres, three miles south- 
east of the village. He has also interested himself 
in fine stock, and now owns the celebrated stallion 
"Nestor" who hiis a record of 2:2()]. He was 
foaled June 9. 1881), and the doctor is now raising 
some of his colts. No horse in the county h.asever 
had so fine a record as •' Nestor."' 

Dr. Austin has one of the most beautiful homes 
in Fowlerville and over it ]iresides with gracious 
dignity the lady who became his wife in lxi!l. 
Her maiden name was iMiima Caiile ami her |)arent.s 
were |)a\id and Sarah (Calhoun) Cable of Detroit. 
who h;id their nativity in New York. When thiy 
tii'st came West they made their home at Hedford, 
Wayne County, where INIr. Cable was the first 
merchant in the plsice. His last days were spent 
in tliat village, and his wife died at ^lorenci. Mich. 
The doctor and his wife have two children, .\rlliur 
and Kva. .\rthur is now ji physician and read 
medicine first with his father and then with Dr. 'I . 
A. 3Ic(iraw of Detrt)it. the leadingsiirgeon of Mich- 
igan. The young man received his diploma at 
Detroit in the medical college. Dui-ing his studies 
in the college at Detroit, he assisted in St. Mary's 
Ilosintal for one year. After graduating he com- 
menci'd the luactice of medicine with his father in 



I'owlervdie whei-e he I'cmained four years, thin 
locating in (Jreenville. Monlealiii ( ounty. and 
after one yeai' there returned to l''owlerville and 
formed a partnership with his father. He belongs 
to the Michigan Medical Society ami being now in 
])artnership with his father is building up a tine 
reputation, as one of thi' .'dilest young piiy.sifians 
of .Michiiran. 'I'he daughter. Kva, is now Mrs. I'. 
I>. Warren, wife of the Casliier of the City National 
r>;mk .-it ( ircenville. Montcalm County. Her liu.«- 
liand is the son of the Rev. Mr. Warren of Howell. 
.Mich., and his brother. Fred Warren, is a proinin- 
I'Ut attorney in Detroit. 

Di. Abel S. .\uslin is now the president of the 
Howell Hoard of I'ension Kxaminers and he has 
held several otiices of responsibility in I-'owlerville. 
His ])olitical views have brought him into sym- 
pathy with the nioveinentsof the Republican parly 
and lu' is identified with the Masonic order and 
with the I'liited Workmen. 



DWARD HADSAI.I,. One of the sturdy 
representatives of the agricultural coiii- 
S munity, our sul)ject was born in the town- 
ship of Exeter. Luzerne County. I'a.. .lanu.-uy it!. 
IHl.'i. He is the son of .lames and Klizabeth 
(Smith) Hadsall. Our subject's grandsire. Kd ward 
Hadsall. was born in Connecticut and was reared a 
farmer. He moved to lVnns\ Ivaiiia. llience to 
Zanesville. ( »hio. anrl from there to SteulK-nville. 
finally dying in Wheeling, W. Va. He reared a 
larsje family, all of whom who grew to maturity, 
lived to reflect credit upon the name. 

Our subject's father, who was a farmer, lived 
and died in I'ennsylvania. He was the parent of 
twel\c children, h.-iving six sons and six daugh- 
ters. |"our of the .sons served in the late War t»f 
the Reliellion. they being .lames. (Jordon. Horatio 
and he of whom we write. The first enlisted from 
Illinois. Horatio from IVimsylvania and our sub- 
ject from .Michigan. Our subject was reared on a 
farm and enjoyed the advantages of a common- 
school educatii>ii. His inarria-rc took place .\ug- 



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ust 26, 1832, at which time he was united to Miss 
.laiu' Oyniond, who was Imhii in IViiii.svlvaiiia 
Septcmlicr 21. 1><12. She is a dauyliler of .lohn 
and Maiv (Lawson) D\nK)nd, fanners, wlio reared 
ten children, live sons and five daugliters, all of 
wlioni lived to re.ach years of maturity. ]\Irs. Ilad- 
.sall's family is of (iernian origin. 

After our subject's marriage he bouglit a farm 
ill Pennsylvania. In 1850 lie moved to Mieliigan 
and settled on forty acres on .section 12, of Cohoct- 
ah Township, where he jiresides at the present time. 
This he has cleared and improved and altliougli it 
is a small tract he has cared for it to such purjiose 
and fed it .so well that it in return feeds liim hand- 
somely, for soil is like Ininian nature, it will give 
only in jnoiiortioii as it receives. 

Of the nine children liorii to our subject he 
reared eight, viz: ^Milton, ^lary K., Perry, James. 
Nancy, Evert E., Decker L. and Ellen. ^Nlary is 
the wife of >\'. \\:u-d; Nancy is the widow of Rich- 
ard Wriggelsworth and Ellen is the wife of Samuel 
Sliver. ^Vniong the oldei residents of the township 
our siiliject and his wife receive the veneivation 
and respect on all sides due their years as well as 
the (jualities which commend them to all with 
whom they are a.ssociated. 

Our subject's war record dates from Seiitember 
;"). 18().'?, at which time he enlisted in C'oni|)any II, 
Tenth Michigan Cavalry. He .served two years 
and was captured September 10, 1864, and on 
being .sent to Libby Prison w.as there confined until 
his release, February 28, 18().'). He then received 
a furlough and came home on .account of sickness 
contracted in jirison. He reached home in June, 
mfi;"). and received .■in honoi:ible discharge in the 
city of Detroit. 







RTIIUR D. PROSSER, attorney-at-law 
and Prosecuting .Vttorney for Ingham 
!ii County, also City .\ttorney for Mason, 
i(^i was born at Clarkson, Monroe Couiitv, N. 

Y., Feliruary 28, 1803. He is a son of Cicero J. 
and Elenore (Nixon) Prosser, natives both of the 
Emiiire State, although the father was of (iernian- 



Yankee extraction, and the mother of New York. 
There have been members on both sides of the 
family that have ligured conspicuously in Colonial 
history, the families being old ones, and holding 
loyalty to country and State to be i>araniount to 
everything excepting domestic harmony. Two 
great-uncles of our subject on the iiaternal side 
fought in the War of 1812. and distinguished 
themselves for their biavery and devotion. Our 
subject's grandmother on the paternal side was 
a second cousin to the ^'anAVart who helited to 
cajiture the English spy Andre. His grandparents 
on the paternal side were from Albany County, 
although formerly natives of Connecticut. 

The father of the original of our sketch, whose 
decea.se occurred aliout three years ago, was a 
farmer by calling, and he of whom we write was 
l)orn and reared ui)on a farm. The foundation of 
oui- subject's education was received in the com- 
iiioii schools of the district in which he lived. 
After he had Hnished his course there he attended 
the normal school at P.rockport. N. Y., where he 
graduated in 1«>(1. and the following year was en- 
gaged in the same school in teaching matheuiatics. 
He was then employed as Superintendent oi the 
graded schools at Panna, N. Y.. and pi\)yed that 
in executive work he had exceptional tact and 
ability. Prcigressive in all his ideas, Mr. Prosser 
kept jibreast of the times in all advancements and 
iin|)rt)vements in educational ideas. While en- 
gaged in teaching he began the study of law under 
A. P. Butts, of Brockport, and Geo. Raines in 
Rochester. N. Y.. and reading most diligentl\' 
under the able tutorship of the honoralile gentle- 
men above named, he was able to apply for ad- 
mittance to the bar of New York in 1887, and was 
admitted that .same year. He .soon after removed 
to St. .lohns, Mich., where he wiis also admitted to 
the bar. 

On .lune lil, 18H9, his marri.age with Miss Jessie 
Broughton, was solemnized at St. Johns, the home 
of the bride's parents. Immediately after his mar- 
riage he removed to Mason, 'and in 1890 was 
elected Prosecuting Attorney for the county. He 
had an excellent practice at this place, but the 
work of Prosecuting Attorney' calls for a very 
ureat portion of his time, there being about ti\e 



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liimdrcd (•.•i>e!S repuitcd (liiriniir the year, aiid llii.s 
Icavis hiiii Imt a inodifiiin of time to devote to 
the sjeneral working up of his profession. 

He of whom we write is tiie tliird in a family of 
live. His motlier is still living- in Hroekport. X. 
Y. .Airs. Prosser. our suhjeel's wife, was horn at 
Coldwater. .Mich., October 13, 1868. She is an ae- 
conipli.-hed and elmrming woman, and will no 
doulit he a great help to her intelleetual and .•inil>i- 
tious young husband in attaining the |Mi>itiiin f<ir 
wiiich he has set his aim. 



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ILLIAM W. OSHOWN. The gentleman 
who.se biography is here brietl}- jjre.sented. 
is a very pojjular [n-aetitioner of the 
legal profession, and with his partner, Frank .M. 
Fogg, handles a great deal of real estate. Mr. O.s- 
liorn has been a resident of tlie city of Lansing, 
Ingham Cotmty. for nearly twenty years, having 
eome here in liST'i. He was born in (Jenesee 
County. N. V.. in the town of Batavia, May Hi. 
1827, and is a .sm of Hiehard Osl)orn. a native of 
Lanesboro, Mass. The paternal grandfathei' was 
an emigrant from the northern part of England. 
Tlii> latter-named gentleman. Nathan Osborn.eame 
III America and settled in l>anesboro. There his 
son Richard remained at home until he had reached 
his majority. He united with liis agricultui-al bus- 
iness the trade of a stone-cutter and with these 
two occu])ations made a very good living. He 
served with the War of I. si 2 and g«iing to (ieiie- 
si-e County. X. V.. was married to .Miss Lydia 
liristow ill isi 1. witli her living foi' sixty years. 

Our subject's paicnts had ten children who 
grew to maturity. The father wm,- the owner 
of a stone (piarry on the old l,ewi>tiin Uoad. 
one and a (piaiter miles from the arsenal. Ivich- 
ard ( )slioru came to Michigan while it w.as yet 
a territory (1835) and settled in Woodstock. Lena- 
wee County, and there resided as a farmer until 
his death, which took place in 1884. Dui'ing his 
residence there he was an incumlient of several 
otlice positii)ii<. The mother dieil in |.S(!8. She 



was ;i member of the Methodist Episcopal (lunch 
and a generous supjiorter of the same. On .lidy 
22. 1877. our subject's father attended a picnic on 
the banks of Kound Lake and when seated at the 
t:ibh' to I'll joy tlie collation, live generations were 
piiMiit. I'here was his grand-daughter. Mrs. Mary 
Hailey and her grand-daughter. :Miss Ethel AL 
■Stewait. and at a family reunion just lK*fore that 
time all the members of the family were uucsts of 
his and took dinner with him. There were sixty 
in all who were his direct descendant*. 

Richard ()sb(jrn came to Michigan in 183;j. bring- 
ing with liim six sons and three daughters. In the 
lives of these children and their families there was 
not a break for forty years and live of the sons 
are living to-day. Of these Dr. Milton OslKjrn is a 
prominent ])hysieian in Calhoun County. He has 
reeentl\- died leaving KichardT.. .loseph R. Homer. 
William W.. and Erasmus. Eunice C. is the 
wife of (leorge Iligdon. of Leslie: Lydia \. is the 
wife of Isaac N. Hathaway, of Addison: .lulia A. 
IS Mrs. C. 1). Denio, of (irand Rapids. 

Our subject received his education for the most 
l)art in Lenawee County, linishing in the city of 
.lackson. where he was a graduate of the academy. 
.Vfter that time he read law with R. C. Raker of 
.lackson and then with Messrs. Sumner A- Kimball 
of .lackson, was admitted to practice from their 
otiiee. there locating and later jiraclicing in Lena- 
wee ('ount\' in the town of Hudson initil he <-ame 
to L.-insins'. 



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m^m 



EOHOE L. HILL. The highly eultivateil 
agricidtural and fruit-raising region of" the 
.lerseys" and the Empire State has trained 
many an able youth who has there grown to man- 
hood and coming West has transferred his knowl- 
edge and ability to the Western .States. Michigan ha.s 
profited largely by this emigration and within the 
bounds of Livingston Cfinnty we find many who 
came from that Eastern region and who brought 
with them a love of this brani'h of business which ha> 
made of the Wolverine Slate one of the ricliot 
irardens of the A\'est. 



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Our subject, residing on section 14, Hamburg 
Town>hi|), carries on general farming and fruit- 
laising; he is a son of Sylvanus L. Hull, a farmer, 
born in Moriis ( nunty. X..)..in 1796 and who after 
receiving a common-school education and growing 
to manhood went to ^Monroe County, X. Y., and 
for a short time was employed there and then 
undertook farming in that locality. Later he went 
to Niagara t'onnty for a few years and then com- 
ing to Michigan in 1.S33 settled in Ypsilanti and 
soon aftei' bought, in Saline, W.ashtenaw County, a 
farm oi one hundred and sixty acres, only twelve 
of whicli wei'c im|iro\ed. lie comiileted-the clear- 
ing of tlie laud, set out some good orchards and 
built a [ilain house in which he resided until 1H6;?. 
He then sold tlie farm and removed to Ann Arbor 
where he remained until his death in 186."). 

Phelie L. Owen became the wife of Sylvanus L. 
Hull in l«2(l. She was born in Penfield, Monroe 
County, X. Y., in ISOn and was the eldest of three 
children. Tf) her were born three children, two of 
wliom are now living, and our subject was the eld- 
est, being born .\pril 7, 1827. Tlie mother died 
in 1832 and in 1833 Sylvanus Hull married Mary 
Bartlett, daughter of ;\Ioses Bartlett. She was born 
in 1800 in New York and was the eldest of eight 
children. Before her marriage she had been for a 
number of years a teacher and in every way she 
strove to give her two sons an excellent education. 

Having received good schooling George Hull at 
twenty-one was jn-e|)ared to undertake work for 
himself, and buying one hundred and seven acres 
in Saline Township, Washtenaw County, he worked 
on his farm in summer and taught during the win- 
ter. In 1863 he sold this property and liought two 
hundred acres in Suiierior Township, AV.ashtenaw 
County, and after a few years removed to Ann 
Arbor where he engaged in the groeeiy business 
for some four years. Selling out there he came to 
Hamburg Township and lioaght two hundred and 
eighty-eight acres on section 7, remaining thci-e 
from 1870 to 1883, when he sold this place and 
came to his present home at Pleasint Lake, where 
he purchased eighty-three acres. 

The marriage of our subject took place Novem- 
ber 11. 1851, his biide being Isabella, daughter of 
the Rev. Alexander and .Mary (Cameron) McFar- 



lane. who were from New York and had four chil- 
dren, only two of whom are luiw living. Isaliella 
was second in order of birth and w.as born in Cum- 
berland County. N..T.. August 20. 1827. Her edu- 
cation was thorough and liberal and she completed 
her course in the seminary for young ladies at 
Schenectady. N. V. Her father, the Rev. Alex.an- 
der IMcFarlanc. was a Presliyterian minister and 
Professor of Mathematics m Dickinson College, 
Carlisle, P.'i. He was a man of thorough education, 
being a graduate of Union College and of the 
Theological Deijartment of Princeton, were he was 
graduated in 1819. He and his wife were on their 
way to Indiana at the time of his death, which oc- 
curred in 1838 in Clinton, Washtenaw County. 
His widowand 111- brother and sister bought a large 
farm near Hridgewater in that county and re- 
mained there. Mrs. McFarlane lived upon it until 
1839, when tlie daughter. Isabella, now Mrs. Hull, 
returned Last to attend school at Schenectady. 

The Congregational Church is the Christian 
body with which Mr. and Mrs. Hull are connected, 
and it in they wield a genuine influence for good 
and are active and devoted workeis. ]\Ir. Hull is not 
only Superintendent of the Sunday-sciiool luil is 
also Deacon and Trustee in the church. In the 
ranks of the Republican party he has ever been a 
worker and has been .Justice of the Peace for a 
numl)er t)f years, having been in addition to this 
School Insjiector at S.aline. 

In this liajipy family there are .seven ciiildreu 
and if ever parents had a right to be proud of their 
offspring we may be sure that these parents who 
ha\e so carefully trained and reared their children 
may indulge in grateful satisfaction. Their t wo eld- 
est. Mary Kva and Flora Iva are twins. The former 
is the wife of Edwin T. Edmunds, a machinist, 
who has a delightful home in Ann Arlior, the Athens 
of the West. Flora is the wife of Dr. Thomas E. 
Taylor, of Denver, Colo., a graduate of the Liter- 
ary and Medical Departments of the I'nivcrsity of 
Michigan, and they are the parents of two daugh- 
ters and one .son. Lawrence C, after being gradu- 
ated from the ]\Iichig.an Cniversity, in 1877, began 
teaching in the public schools of the State having 
taught in Rattle Creek, Coldwater, and Orchard 
Lake, and for five \ears was Princiiial of the High 



PORTRAIT AiNJJ BIOGKAI'IIICAI. A1,1U .M. 



MJ.". 



Sfhool :il DcHoit. I If is I'rofessor of l-:itiii and 
(ireck in tlic Lawreufevillo School, (Jr-oh Founda- 
tion. I-awrcnc-eville, N. .1. lie married Missis Kli/.a 
i)ailin<>-. of J,a Porte. Iii(l..a lady of tliorou<rli cnllnrc 
and irradnatp of the Mifhi-ian University, (harks 
i-;. married Louisa Hishop and li\es in Ilanihura, 
where he owns a nice farm on the banks of a hcjiu- 
liful lake, heiiio; the only farmer amoni;- the four 
hoys. He and his estimable wife always take 
an active interest in all that is for the lietterTneiit 
of the conummity in which tiiey live. Isabella 
II. is a teacher in Detroit: (k'orffe Malcolm is a 
|)hysician at Ypsilanti. and Alexander .Mcl^'arlane 
Hull reside.s at Denver. Isabella and (Jeorije. as 
well as Lawrence, were graduated at the Michiii:an 
rniversity, and every member of the family ha.-s 
received excellent educational advantajres. In 1 ?<« t 
'Sir. Hull besian to engage in the raising of fiuil. 
setting out at fir.st some .seventeen hundred peach 
trees, and he has now in addition one hundred 
and twenty-live plum trees, as many cherries .and 
some fifty pear trees. This admir.able family have 
been widely influential in shajjing the .social .and 
educaticmal progress of Hamburg Townshi]) .iiicl 
theii- inlluenre is far-re.aching and helpful in ex i'r\ 
wa\ . 



ASANDKH il.VHT. One of the farmers, 
whose place, by virtue of its well tilled 
acres, its neat liuildings and general a|)pt'ar- 
ance of prosperity, proclaims him to be a man who 
is not satisfied with mere existence, but to have 
ambitions leachinu' out for a highi'r sl.ale of pi'rfec- 
tion.is he whose name is at the iiead of this sketch. 
He is a native of the iMnpiie State, being boi-n in 
(ireene Township. Sussex County. Decemlici- 2ii. 
IS.So. He is a .son of Oeorge and Sarah (Ililliard) 
Hart. His paternal grandsire was a native of New 
.lersey, where he was engaged in tilling the .soil for 
a number of years. Mis wife was Polly McCouan 
in her maiden days, and a capable woman, who was 
noted for her skill as a housewife and caretaker. 
Tlie\- were the parents of nine children. comprising 



four boys and live girls. Our subject's father wa.s 
born in New .lersey and was also reared a farmer. 
He and his wife were members of the .Methodi.st 
Ivpiscopal Church, and lived and died in New .lei-sey. 
Tliuy were the jjarents of nine children. 

The .sons of the family, of which our subject was 
<me. were Stephen and Casander. Six girls 
grew to maturity. The eldest sister, Klizabeth 
Hart, came to Livingston County, Midi.; Maiy A. 
resides in New ,]ei-sey; Uhoda died while a young 
lady; I,ydia i)assed away in childhood; Clari.ssa is 
now Mrs. Poole and resides in Oenoa, this .State; 
.Matilda married a .Mr. Smith and pa.ssed away from 
thi> life in Iosco County, this .State; Caroline is 
•Mrs. Wooden, of Iosco County. Our subject's 
mother was the daughter of William and Rhoda 
Ililliard. farmers of N'ew .ler.sey. 

The oiiginal of our sketch w.as reared on a farm. 
He received a common-.schooI education and was 
early fitted for the ordinary emergencies of life. 
AVhen only six years of age he was bereft of his 
father, and at fourteen years of age lost his mother. 
For a time thereafter he lived with A. C. Harris 
.uhI three years after he was engaged in working 
out by the month. Thus he managed to get along 
until he was nineteen years of age, w-hen he came 
to ^Michigan and settled in the township of Iosco, 
Livingston County, and worked his sister's farm. 
Wearied of a life of single lile.ssedne.ss, in ISor* he 
took unto hiin>eH' a wife. His nuptials were sol- 
emnized .lanuary 1, of that year, his biide being, 
prior to her marriage. Mi.ss Klizaiieth Poole, who 
was a native of Warren County. N. .1.. and the 
daughter of William and Mary {(iulick) Poole, who 
were originally farmers in New .lersey. 

Soon after his marriage .Mr. Ilait purchased forty 
acres of l.-uid in .Marion Township, which he cleared 
and improved. In \HiU) he bettered himself by 
trading this land for ninety acres of land in the 
to\vnship of Argentine, (iene.see County. The fol- 
lowing vear. however, he again traded for eighty 
acres in .Marion Township, Livingston Ctiuuty. 
adding forty acres to this, which in tinte he cleared 
and imjiroved. erecting a good cla.ss of luu'ldings 
thereon. In the sjjring of 1><H1 he pureh.a.--ed and 
located on one hundred and eighty aerej? on sec- 
tion .'?(>. Colioctah TowTiship. and here he has re- 



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sided since that time. (Jf this lie has cleared fifteen 
acres and has so carefully huslianded his resources 
that at the present time he enjoys an assured finan- 
cial position. When twenty-one years of age oiu- 
subject started out with §600 and soon after he mar- 
ried. His resources were not large with which to 
maintain a wife besides himself, but lie had an abid- 
ing faith in his own strength of purpose and in his 
biceps. Three children grew up about them, all 
of whom are now men and women, grown and 
themselves the heads of families, except Delia L. 
The eldest is Irvin W.; Leonora, now the wife of 
(leorgc Howe; and Delhi L. 

Mrs. Hart's parents were natives of Morris and 
AVarren Counties, N. .T., respectively. They were 
farmers by calling and their social ties were closely 
connected with their church relations, they being 
identified with the Methodist Episcopal denomina- 
tion. William Poole was the son of Ezra Poole, 
who served in the War of is 12. His wife was 
Mahala Brown, a native of Xew York, and for 
years was a hotel-k(!eper at Schooley's Mountain. 
They were the parents of six sons and six daugh- 
ters, all of whom became the heads of families, with 
the exception of mw. They are of English origin 
and characterized by the traits which make the peo- 
ple of that nationality distinguished wherever they 
go. 'Sir. Poole was twice married. His first wife 
had two children, Adam F. and Elizabeth. She died 
in 1830. The second wife w.as Elizabeth Van Sickle, 
who bore him three sons and five daughters, all of 
whom grew to ni.-iiiliood and womanhood. 



■^fJAMES TOBIAS. Happy is the man who 
h.is lived a long life that has been character- 
ized by u})rightness of jinrpose, integrity of 
principle a-.id whose high mental and mor.al 
standing is gratefully lecognized by his fellow- 
men. Such a man is .Tames Tobias and this Aluim 
would fail of its purpose of recording lives that 
have been useful and worthy of note were it to 
omit mention fif his successful career. Ingham 
County proudly chiiiiis him as tme of her best and 
most enterprising citizens, and he is the fortunate 



owner of two hundred acres on section 20. Lansing 
Township. By a proper rotation of crops the land 
has been brought to a high degree of cultivation, 
while various buildings have been erected such as 
best subserve the purposes of agriculture. 

Tlie parents of Mr. Tobias were .lulius and Laura 
Tobias, natives of the State of Ohio. Their son, 
James, was born in iledina County, that State, 
October 2;"), 1832, and at the early age of three 
years he was orphaned by the death of his mother. 
At the death of his mother, he was given to Mrs. 
Simon Van ( )sdall who was always devoted and 
kind to liim. He attended school, acquiring a 
common-school education and during the intervals 
of study assisted his father on the farm. At the 
age of sixteen yeai's he was apprenticed to learn 
the trade of a blacksmith and after the term of his 
apprenticcshi]) had expired he followed his trade 
until 18t;(l. 

On December ij, 18.3y, Mr. Toliias and Miss .lane 
liiichanan were united in marriage; the bride was 
a daug iter of .lolin Buchanan of Ashland Count}', 
Ohio. She died in 1872. leaving three children, 
who are still living: .lohn .1. married Jlattie Foster 
and resides in Williamston, Mich. Kachel Adella 
became the wife of Adelbert Moore and also makes 
her home in Williamston; Ida M. is single and is a 
teachei' by profession, although at present she is an 
art student. After remaining a widower until 
1880, Mr. Tobias was happily wedded on .lune 28 
to his present wife, whose maiden name was Esthei- 
J. Mead. She was a widow of Austin Barker. Her 
father was a native of the State of New York. 
This estimable lady presides with dignity over the 
elegant home of her husband and by her gracious 
wavs wins friends of all who meet her. 

The career of Mr. Tobias is certainly wortliy of 
emulation, as he started in life without a dollar and 
I y persistent industry has attained to a comfort- 
able competency. His farm being only one and 
une-lialf mile from the city limits of Lansing is 
vciy valuable property, furnishing at the same 
time all the advantages of city life and the com- 
forts of a rural abode. In political matters he ad- 
heres to the principles of the Democrat party and 
ranks high in the councils of his party. He has 
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.skiiu'r. .'111(1 .lustici' of tlii' Poaw. Sofiiilly lie 
Ih'Ioiijjs ti) tlic Royal Arcaiiiiiii. and Lodse No. ;$.'5, 
v. \- \. .M.. of Laiisiiiu'. ainl ( apital Coiiiicil. No. 
■)(i. R. A. M. 

Since llie aluivc ski'tcli was wiiUeii. a tciiiliic 
accident has resulted in the death of Mr. Tohias. 
lieluiiiinii from tiie city with his team in October. 
I sill, he was struck hy an cxi)ress train on the 
Michiii'Mii Central while cro.ssinsj the track. Ills 
lie.'id was seriously injured and one fool so l)adly 
maniiled that ani|iutation was deemed necessary. 
His death occuri'cd :iliout four hours after the .'icci- 
dcnt. 



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llAKLKs i:. I'L.VCKW AV. It is a truk-iii 
that "the [len is iiii<rhtier than the sword,,' 
liut one that we see exemiilified not only in 
history hut in daily life. The potency of pen and 
ink. with brains to back these agents, is so power- 
ful a factor that it is useless to oppose any ordinary 
t.ictics to them. He who is the subject of this 
sketch is not only tlie editor and proprietor of a 
briirjit and spicy paper, but an earnest and success- 
ful business man. and one who is very [lopular with 
all witli whom he has associations. Whenever ;i 
measure that appeals to the men who have the in- 
terests of the city most at heart is brouaiit to oui 
subject's attention, his trenchant jien and clear, 
concise style are the surest mediums for coincrl- 
ing popular opinion. 

riie p.aper of which .Mr. I'huow^ay is the I'ditor 
is known as the Rrighton Weekh/ Arr/us, and very 
a|)propriately; its [)ro]irietor and editor is a native 
of this State and naturally his affection and interest 
are here centered. He was born in Ilaniburir Town- 
ship. I^ivingston County. October 1.'?, IMdO. and is 
a son of .loseiili K. Placeway, a native of New 
York, who came to Michigan with his parents in 
1h;^1. Our subject's grandfather wa.s a native of 
of the State of MassachiLsetts, while his great- 
grand fat I icr. AVilliani Placeway, was a native 'of 
Nova .Scotia, and engaged in trade in IJostoii. Ma.ss. 
His great-great-grandfather. William Placeway, was 
also a native of Nova .Scotia, where he was .-i tailor 



by trade, ;iiid his ancestors, prior to this came from 
Kngl.'ind. Some of our subject's aiice.stoi-s were 
soldiers in the Revolutionary War, .ind the Place, 
ways were noted patriot.s in the early days of 
the Republic, His grandfather. .lo.seph Placeway. 
emigrated to this Statu and .settled in (ienoa 
'I'ownship, Livingston County, about the year 
of \KU. and at that lime entered a tract of 
land wliicli he cleared and improved. He siibse- 
(piently removed to Rrigliton where he died in 
1»")!). He was the father of five children, three 
sons and two daughters, all living with the exceji- 
tion of one son. 

Joseph Placeway, the father of the original of 
our sketch, was reared to manhood in this locality. 
He is now engaged in agricultural business in 
I5right(m. He married Kmily .1. Smith, who w.is 
born in (ireen Oak Township, thiseouiily. Sheisa 
devoted Christian and for many years has been 
i-oniiected with the ^lethodist Episcopal Chureli. 
.lo.seiih Placeway and two of his brothers served in 
the l.ate AVar of the Rebellion, the former being a 
member of the Third .Michigan Cavalry and served 
over three years. 

Our subject is the eldestof three children and was 
reared on the home farm. A progressive youth, he 
early graduated at the Hrighlon school in 1H7L He 
afterward attended the university at .\nn Arbor, 
and after finishing his course at that noted iiislilu- 
tion of learn insi, he entered the ofllce of the Brigh- 
ton C'llizf'ii. then imblished by (ieorge .Vxtell, as an 
ajiprenlice. He remained in that oltice for about 
two years and then entered the otlice of the .\iiii 
.\rbor Courier with which he was connected for 
one year, and in IH7H he branched out foi- him.self 
and established the .South Lyon Ili-mlil. the lirst 
paper ever published in that town. In a short 
time, however, he sold out and established the 
Pinckney Gozelte^oi Pinckney. Livingston County, 
this State. Six months later he removed his oflice 
to Hriglitoii. and adding new pre-sses to Jiis stock, 
he started the Brighton M'ci'khj Aiynit in IHXO. 
His first attempt here was a modest sheet in five 
eoliiinu folio form. This he has since enlarged 
until it is a live-column (piarto. The paper h.ns 
always been conducted on indepeiulent principles 
as far as' politics are concerned. Since coming 



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here Mr. Placewav bas added new material to liis 
office until it !.•< now an exceedingly well equipped 
country office, and is as progressive and brijfht as 
one ever finds. 

The gentleman of whom it is our pleasure and 
]jrivilege to here giv.e a short Ijiijgraphical sketch, 
was married October lit. 188f,toMiss Alta E. Case, 
a native of Brighton and a daughter of Ira W. Case, 
one of the oldest merchants in the county. Mr. 
and Mrs. Place way are the paientsof two children, 
William C. and Edna S., wlio are bright and in- 
teresting children. He of whom we write is a Re- 
])ul)licau in his political predilection, and has held 
various offices in the gift of the town. He has 
l)een Village Clerk for three years and Township 
Clerk for four years, also School Inspector for four 
years. He is now an incumbent of the office of 
Town Clerk. Tiie citizens in electing him delegate 
to cminty and State conventions, have felt that 
tliey were sending one of tiieir liest representatives. 
Socially our siiliject belongs to the Knights of 
Macaliees, and is also a Son of \'eterans. He is by 
profession an auctioneer and acts in this capacity 
whenever called upon, having been thus employed 
for ten years. He is also largely interested in the 
real-estate business. He himself owns eighty acres 
of good land in this county and eighty acres in 
Leroy Township. Ingham County. He is a good 
salesman and is largely employed as an agent by 
various j)ro|»erly owners. 




\tSk-, E ELBERT A. REYNOLDS. Among llie 
pushing, energetic, successful business men 
of Lyons, Ionia County, is the subject of 
this biographical notice. Mr. Reynolds 
came to Lyons with his family in 1881 on account 
of its excellent railroad facilities, he ])eing at that 
time engaged as a traveling salesman in Michigan. 
In the summer of 1882. the (Jrand River Echo, jmb- 
lislied at Lyons, susjjended publication, and in 
Sept'inlier. of the same year, the ^luir VIdette met 
a like fate. Mr. Reynolds, in comi)any with \V. 
I). Pennington, Jr.. bought the two plants, put in 



a quantity of new material and the necessary 

energy, launching the Lyons Herahl in Octo- 
lier. of the same year. From that time the bu.siuess 
has continued to grow until at this writing Mr. 
Reynolds is sole owner of one of the best newspa- 
pers and job printing offices in Central ^Michigan, 
from which is issued the Patrons' Gaid(\ The cur- 
rent issue of this paper is a little over ninety-three 
thou.sand copies, while it carries a pay-roll of over 
twenty men and women. 

Personally, Mr. Reynolds is conservative, pru- 
dent and sagacious; editorially he is fearless, non- 
partisan, and the terror of tricksters. i)olitical or 
social rings. Born in Isabella County in 1854, he 
modestly claims the distinction of being the first 
child born of white parents' in that then Indian 
reservation, and his education was such aj? could 
be obtained among the Aborigines. Young Rey- 
nolds spent his time in driving the cows to pasture 
and watching the hopper in his father's gristmill; 
iiatiiialiy inclined to literary pursuits he also de- 
voted considerable attention to the study of his- 
tory. Dooks of travel and current newspaper 
literature. I'pon the deatli of his father in 1H7(I. 
he went to Maple Rapids, where he finished his 
trade as a miller, iiut was so(m taken with a jiro- 
tracted illness that kept his lungs in a very delicate 
condition and almost undermined his entire con- 
stitution. 

Turning his attention to the classics Mr. Rey- 
nolds soon fitted himself for teaching, which voca- 
tion he followed for eight winters, devoting his 
time during the summer months to the subduing 
of a small farm in Clinton County, .and incidentally 
becoming strong and healthy. During the years 
spent on the farm lie gave to the literary world 
some very choice productions, which have won for 
him a reputation as a writer, in which his friends 
lake a very commendable pride. The last eight 
years of his life have found his leisure hours em- 
l)loved in securing the data for what will be tlie 
crowning effort of his literary career. 

yiv. Reynolds is the only son of John and Cath- 
erine Reynolds, of old Puritan stock; the former 
died in l«70.aiid the wife survived but two years. 
The other members of the family are: ]Mrs. Delia 
Davis, Mrs. Harriet Mulliuf^ and Mrs. Katie Helm. 



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Ml-. Reynolds w;is united in niMiri.'liic in I.s7i wiili 
.Mis.-i Scriuili \'incent. and twDsuns — Kirlu'it A. :iiid 
Loval \V.. liave fome to bless tlie union. 

Since the aliove sketch was written Mr. Revnohls 
has removed his printinir business to the State 
Capital. Lansing, where in addition to his other 
business he has launched tlii' MHiiijan Slalt'smnn \i\ 
the interest of the new political party known as 
tlie Peoples" party. His residence, otlice building 
and other property interests lie still retains in 
l.v<in.-. 






y^^OAII F. TRIPP. A representative of one 
|| jji of the old and highly respected families 
,'l^ L^ who for years figured conspicuously in the 
history of one of the Eastern States, is he who.se 
name is at tlie head of this sketch. He was ln)rn 
.lanuai'v 31. 1837. in the town of Pike. Wyoming 
County, N. V. He is the sou of Stephen and Sarah 
(Woodard) Trijip. His paternal grandsire was 
(iideon Tripp who was the son of (iideon Tripp, 
a native of Rhode Island and there was married to 
.\ma Sliipey, after which they removed to Nassau, 
Rensselaer County, N. Y. There lie engaged in 
farming and milling and was prosperous in busi- 
ness. a.s indeed it was expedient that he should be 
as he had a large family to care for. He held the 
position of .Iiistice of the I'eace for many years. 
Our svil)ject's grandfather was born in Reii.sselaer 
County and was reared to the calling of a farmer: 
he also ran a sawmill. He was married to Sai-.ah 
Mead, who bore him the following cliilrlreu: K/.i:i. 
Stephen. ( iideon. (iforge, Malachi. Phebeand Llizn- 
lietli. Ill those early days society hinged very iiiueli. 
as indeed it does still to a large degree, on chunli 
relations, and the Tripp family belonged to the 
Hajitist persuasion. 

The decease of our subject's grandfathei- occur- 
red in New York, and his widow married Silas .Me- 
Witliey. They l)Oth died in Lapeer, this State. 
The immediate ])rogenitor of him of whom we 
write w.as born August 2H. 1 7!l(i in Rensselaer 
Countv. N. Y. He was a farmer by caliing and 
removed to Wvoming County where lie lived for 



a year. In .lune IH.'iT. he came to .Michigan .-ind 
settleil in Lapeer County, where he entt-red eighty 
acres (»f lanil which he practically improved. He 
later traded it for one hundred and sixty acres 
which he im|>ro\'ed and gave to his son.s. There 
were live children — liilia A.. Harris N.. Harriet \\., 
Loui.sa and .Noah F. He came to Deer Creek, 
Livingston County, with our subject, where lie 
died October 1, 1»«2. His wife died .lanuary 7, 
I8H;'), while in her ninetieth year. 'I'hev were 
liaptists ill their church relations and our subject's 
father was a Demcjcrat of the old .stamp. 

The mother of our subject was a native of Ren- 
sselaer County, N. Y., a daughter of Abijnh Wood- 
ard. also a native of New York and who.served in the 
Uevolutionary War. being jiresent at the surrender 
of Cornwallis at Yorktown. He was a shoemaker by 
trade but proved conclusively that a shoemaker 
need not always stick to his last, for lie made a 
brave and valiant soldier. He of whom we write 
was raised on the farm. He received a district 
school education after coming to Michigan. He 
lived with his father until that parent was to 
;iged to attend to business and then Noah F. 
Tripp took charge of the parents and a.ssjsted 
in the clearing of the homestead. In the fall of 
1X()-1 he came to Deer Creek and bought one hun- 
dred and twenty .acres on .section 9. to which he 
afterward ailded forty acres <jii .section i). 

In I8H2 Mr. Trip]) located where he now resides 
on section .'). His farm compri.ses one hundred 
and twenty acres of well develojied ajid improved 
land. It boasts of good buildings and a comfor- 
table lesidencc. Politically Mr. Tripp is a Democrat. 
He is deservedly pojiular in the U>cality in which 
he lives and is now serving his third term as .Iiis- 
tice of the Peace. .Socially he is a Mason. 

( )ur subject's marriage took place October III, 
l«l)-l. at which time he was united to Miss Leinira 
Cariiss. who was born in the township of Coin- 
iiierce. O.akland County, this Slate. .Septeinlior !». 
\X\:\. She is a ilaiighter of Henry and Maria 
((Jreen) Caruss. :i farmer and blacksmith. Henry 
Caruss w.as born in Hloomlield Township. ( liitario 
Coiintv. N. Y.. May l.'>. l«lt.3; he w.os lirst married 
to Mi.ss Temperance Risliop, they were the pareiit.> 
of live childieii. She died September i\. I83!l. 



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He was a second time married to Miss Sallie Green, 
mother uf !Mrs. Tri)))) who is one of two chil- 
dren born to hor parents, the other child being a 
brother, by name O^car II. She died December 13, 
1H64. Mr. C'arn.ss was again married to Mrs. 
Palmer who still snrvives him, he having' died 
January 14, 1878, at the age of 7;j. Mr. and Mrs. 
Tri|)p are the ](arent> of four children whose 
names are as follows: llattie E., who was born 
February 1,). 18()6, Minnie M., March 23, 1867, 
and Nettie B., November 24, 1870. She is the 
wife of Allen Struble, and Myrtle A., born .Jan- 
uary 8, 1873. Oin- subject and his wife are highly 
re^<pected in the community in which they reside. 
They a^)preciate the advantages that education 
give> to the men of to-day and have made every 
exertion tliat tlieir cliildren might be cultui'ed. 
educated and retincd. 



♦^E*^* 



KAN(iE KKLL0(;G VAN AMBURG. In 

Ijiblieal days, as the gray hairs appeared on 
the reverend head and in the flowing lieard 
and the shoulders were bent with the weight of 
years, the men took their place among the elders 
at tlie gate and there they received the deference 
and honor from great and small, rich and poor, 
due tlieir wisdom and experience. Were the custom 
prevalent today in America, he of whom we write 
would have one of the most honored places, for he 
is almost ninety years of age, well known and hon- 
ored of all who are associated with liim and having 
a place in the affections of the people liecau.'<e of 
his gentle, courteous, yet manly bearing, pure prin- 
ciples and simplicity of puriiose. 

Jlr. Van Amburg has lived at his present farm, 
which is located on section 22, Brighton Township 
for the past thirty-Hve years, and has been a res- 
ident of Michigan for sixty-six years. He is a nat- 
ive of the town of Milton. Saratoga County. N. Y., 
and was ln)rn December Hi, 1803. He was reared 
on a farm and his educational advantages were 
decidedly poor being limited to a few months school- 
ing, as he could be spared in the winter. He is 



truly a self made man, having had but few oppor- 
tunities during early life to advance in an intellec- 
tual way. When a l)oy he studied Adams' Arith 
metic many a time far into the night. In' the light 
of the old fashioned fireplace, and became quite 
well versed in mathematics, having niastere<l the 
elementary branches. 

I'.y liis industrious habits and earnest efforts our 
subject obtained sufficient learning to enalile him 
to become a teacher. His parents were poor and 
he was forced, at an early age to rely upon himself 
for su|)port. He began working out by the month 
; when twelve years old and was thus engaged for 
eight months, receiving *4 per month foi- his ser- 
vices. The next year he was advanced to a salary 
of ^0 per moiitli. and at the end of four seasons, 
the highest wages he was paid was ¥6 a month. 
However it did not take so much to live then a> 
now, and doubtless the young man made ¥G a month 
go as far as many young men (jf today do ten times 
that amount. 

in IKIU. Mr. W'lu Amiiurg accompanied his fatliei' 
and family to .lefferson CV)unty, N. Y., where he 
was employed for three \ears by a syndicate of 
Frencli gentlemen who owned a large tract of land. 
Chief among these was Mr. .lames Lee Ray, 
to whom our subject looked for instructions, and 
when sent on errands, or told to do anything, he 
was expected to drop everything and go without a 
moment's delay. Thus he early learned unquestion- 
ing ol)edience. I'pon one occasion he was called 
upon to deliver a letter at a distance of ten miles, 
and this befoie breakfast. He made frequent trips 
to Joseph Bonaiiarte, a lirother of the illustrious 
Napoleon Bonaparte who had emigrated to Amer- 
ica, and located in the wilds of western New York 
on a large plantation, twenty-five miles distant 
from where our subject was employed. I'pon one 
occasion, young Van Amburg was directed to 
make a journey to the hermitage of Josej)!! Bona- 
jiarte, with horse and wagon. He started at eleven 
o'clock in the morning without his dinner, and 
and when within about five miles of his destination 
' darkness came ui)(m him and he was unable to find 
i his wa\- through the forest. There w.as a drizzling 
rain and the night was intensely dark. All he 
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could, so, tying his horse to ;i spiucc tree they shcl- 
ti'rod theinsolves as well as iiiitrht lie until the 
nioniiuii-. The forests in those (la\s alirjuiided wilh 
wild l)ea>ts liiit roilmiately lie was mil molested. 
Tlie next inurniiiu. soon after dayliiilit. he lU-liver -d 
his messatte to ISouaparte. 

The vigorous work of cliopiihig wood was re- 
served for the winter season, and his ax ranir out 
through the frosty air from dawn until nightfall, 
.as long as the work heated, and then he was obliged 
to em|iloy himself otiu'rwise. For some tinu' our 
suliject found employment with a party of snrvev- 
ors. and while with them, he gained a good keow- 
ledge of the surrounding eounlr\ as well as of the 
science of surveying. In Fcliruary. \X'2i), the ori- 
gin.'il of our sketch, with his brother, started for 
.Michigan on foot. They traversed the entire dis- 
tance in this way, stopi)ing at Palmyra, Wavm' 
County, X. Y., for a rest of three days. They 
journeyed to Farmington. Oakl.and County, where 
they stojipcd and found employment. The conn- 
try in that section was then a i)crfcct wilderness, 
and abounded in wild game, such a.s deer, wolves 
and bear. Indians, t(;o, were not strangers to the 
few white inhabitants who had wandered into the 
country. 

Mr. \'aii Amiiurg and his brother tiH)k a contract 
to clear five aei'es and to erect a log house for a 
man but the brother becoming .sick was unable to 
complete the tas-k. Our subject worked four d.ays 
to pay for an ax, and then worked five days to pay 
his board while paying for the ax. He engaged to 
clear twelve acres of land, which task he partially 
completed, and for which he received suflicient 
money to enable him to enter eighty .acres of (iov- 
ernment land in the town of Novi, ( )akland County. 
This he [jartially cleared and improved, and subse- 
(|uently sold, purchasing one hundred and sixty 
acres four miles further west, and he bent his ener- 
gies and efforts to clearing and improving his last 
acquired tract. 

The gentleman of whom we write hail a family 
by this time, and as he was so far from any school 
privileges, or other a<Ivantages that he felt his chil- 
dren should enjoy, he concludecl to excliange a 
part of his tract for :i fai m on the State road. This 
he succeeded in domu. •■onl soon niovecl out into a 



more civilized conimunilw In 1K.")7. he trailed 
ninety acres of land in Oakland County for three 
hundied and twenty acres in lirighton Township, 
Livingston County, and here he luts since lived 
locating on this place. Four years later he ex- 
ih.angcd a portion of it for his present farm, which 
lies just across the road from the first tract. 

He of whom we write, was married March l.'i. 
. lH-2!t, to .Mi.-s .Mary Ann Taft, a daughter of Pilch 
Taft. who came to the Wolverine .State from New 
York early in the '20s. Mrs. Mary \an .Vmlnng 
died December 29, 1850, leaving seven children, 
namely: Louise M., Orson T., Harriet A., William 
II., .Io.se|ih P.. Henry \V. and Daniel O. They are 
all married and have families of their own with 
the exeejjtion of William. .Vugust 3, KSCil, .Mr. 
Van .Vmburg again married, this time being united 
to Amanda M. Ihown. Two children are the fruit of 
this union. .Vlbert A. and Charles W.. both of whom 
.•ire living. 

Our subject was originally an old-line Whig but 
on the re-construction of the p.-trty he has tr.'in.s- 
ferred his allegiance to the Uepublican |)artv and 
lias voted with this political body ever since. He 
is a strong temperance man. For nearly fifty years 
he worshipped with the Methodist Kjiiscojial body, 
but about sixteen years ago he witluliew from this 
denomination and joined the \Vc~lcvaii Church. 
He has always been a conscientious man and a zeal- 
ous Christian. 

.VImost four-score and ten year> of a;ie our 
subject I'etains his faculties well. He remembers 
when a boy nine years old seeing the marching 
of the troops iluring the War of |S12.andcan 
relate with marked vividiie>>. incidents of his boy 
hood day.-. He was Lieulenant for a time of a Com- 
pany of Michigan Hillemen. He has never iiii.s<'d 
as an as|)iiant for otiicc. but during his pioneer 
days he held the ollice of .Iiisticc of the Peace, and 
other minor postj*. !\Ir. \aii .Vmburg ha- .it limo 
owned considci-.-ible land, but of late years ha.- .-old 
it oflf until he now h.as eighty acres, upon which is 
luiilt a comfortJible home. He i> a man of marked 
refinement and intelligence, with a mo.-t plea.siiig 
presence, and has the rarest of ".d ft s. being an I'litcr- 
taining conversationalist. On the eininemc upon 
which he now stands, he can look back over nearly 



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a century of national progress, and the faetthat 
it now ranks so high among tlie nations, wliereas 
at tlie beginning of his careei-, it hold so modest 
a place, is gratifying to him as a loyal American 
citizen. 



\|'()SEPH .JEWETT. Our subject, who is a 
farmer, is the owner of forty acres of land 
on section 20, of A'evay Township, Ingham 
County, and this he cultivates to such good 
l)urp()se that it yields him a very comfortable in- 
come. Mr. Jewett was born in Washtenaw County, 
Ijima Township, this State, September 15, 1842. 
He is the son of .Joseph P. and ^liranda (Freei) 
.lewett. The father was liorn in 1807 in Xcw 
Hampshire and the mother in New Voi'k, jNIay 8, 
1811. Tlie parents were married in the l<>ast a)Kl 
three children have conic to them prior to their 
settling in Michigan. They settled here while it 
was a territory, locating in Washtenaw County. 

( )ur suliject is the sixth in a family of eleven 
children, nine of whom are still living, and are 
taking responsible positions in society as honorable 
and upright men and women. Mr. .lewett's boy- 
hood days were spent on a farm, and during this 
period he received a good common school educa- 
tion, and enjoyed the additional advantage of two 
winters in a select school at Lime Center, ^\'.•lsll- 
teuaw County. .Vt that time, the AVar of the 
Rebellion broke out and in the late fall of IKtiJ. 
November .), he responded to the call for volun- 
teers and enlisted in the first .Michigan Lancers, 
joining Company I), and . was aftfrward trans- 
ferred to Company (i. lie was, llowev^r, dis- 
charged on March 21, 18(;2, l)ocause the Govern- 
ment found that lancers i-oiild not be used in the 
mode of warfare which tliey carried on. He next 
enlisted in the First Michigan Light Artillery. 
Septemlier 7, 18()4. joining Comi)any K. He was 
in tlie liattle of Nashville and was then detailed to 
transport troops from .lackson, Mich., to the front. 
He w.as at the siege of Petersburg, and made eight 
trips to Nashville, two to Petersburg, and two to 
Hart's Island. Although he was never commis- 



sioned an officer, receiving the pay of a private only, 
lie did an officer's work. He received an honorable 
discharge May 6, 18(;;"). While on duty he was in 
a railroad collision and was rendered unconscious, 
being hurt in the hip and the small of the back, 
and although he has been to a great extent inca- 
jiacitated for active work, he receives only the 
small Slim (.)f *8 per iniinth pension for the 
chances that he ran during the war. 

On his discharge from the army, Mr. Jewett hav- 
ing saved some money, j)iu'chased forty acres of 
land in ,\nrelius Township. He was married l"'eb- 
rnary It, 1867, to Miss ^lary A. Claflin, a daughter 
of William and Martha Claflin. There are three 
(children by this marriage; Arthur W., who was born 
.luly 20, 1869, in Vevay Township; Mattie B., 
whose natal day was April 25, 1874, and Alton L., 
boni Septemljer 16. 1879. The eldest son is a 
well-educated, intelligent young man with good 
business qualiflcations. He married Lulu Lyon 
and has settled upon his own little farm of forty 
acres, which it is evident, however, will soon be a 
larger tract, for he is energetic and ambitious, and 
a good farmer. One cliild has blessed the union 
of these yc)ung people. On October 15, 1891, he 
received the appointinent as chairman of the Com- 
mittee on grains and grasses for the World's Co- 
luml)ian Exposition, to be held in Chicago in 1898 
The daughter, Mattie !>.. lives at home and attends 
a High School in Mason. She is fitting herself for 
M teacher. The youngest child, Alton L., is a 
blight, active boy, advanced in his books, and hav- 
ing a sjiecial tact and. talent in mathematics. Mrs 
Mary .\. .lewett passed away from this life Ajn-i 
1. 1883. She is interred in the cemetery at M.a.son. 

The original of our sketch was again married 
Ajiril 8, 1884, his bride being Miss Eliza A. Carson, 
of Cliicago. She is a daughter of Robert and 
Abigail (Gould) Carson. The father and mother 
are natives of New York State. Politically, he of 
whom we write, votes with the Re]niblican part)-. 
He has been .Justice of the Peace for four years 
and is now serving another term. He has lieen 
both Director and Moderator of the School Board, 
and has held (itiier minor otlices. 

One brother of our subject, Lester E. Jewett, 
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six cnsaifeiin'nls. He oiiiiumI |>i<>in(>ti(.ii and w:i> 
so rocomnieii(li'(l. Imt on avcoiiiit of a (k'ticieiu'v in 
his speec'ii. hi' was not eliirilili' to Uio position 
ivfoiiiinenflt'(i. lie was. liowever. jjiven a inidal 
for meritorious si'rvicrs. He is now a faniior in 
Anreliiis. and is tlie father of tiirei' ciiildren. Our 
suliject's oldest lirotiier, J. P. .lewett, was also in 
the army and served three years. He was slitrhtiy 
wounded li\lipinn iiit iiyaspent ball, in tlie l)reast. 
Tlie liall liuried itself in the flesh and had to lie 
extracted, lie, at jiiesent, lives in Haldwin, Lake 
Coniity. Mich., where ho is en<i;aji:ed in ajiricultninl 
|)iiisuit-. and is the father of two ehildren. 




Ll.KN A. DORRAXCH. an enterprising 
and successful fanner who is the owner 
lii and proprietor of a line lr:ict located on 
*^' secti<ni !). Howell Township, I>ivingston 

County, came to this .State in the fall of 1842 with 
ills p.arents. who settled on section 21. of the same 
township. Tiiere he purch.ased seventy aci'cs 
wliicli he li\-ed on for two years, after which he 
nioxi'd upon a farm i>f eiahty acres just O|)i)osite 
where he now live>. Here our suliject's father 
died in Decemiier. lH(i;3. He w.as a hard-workinu 
man and an ex<'ellent manager, having accumu- 
lated a large and valnalile pro]ieity liefore his de- 
cease. 

Our subject was born in Ontario County. IJristol 
Townshi]). N. V. and there received his education 
in the district seliool, tini>hing his course after 
coming to Howell. He lived .at Inune with his 
parents until twenty-two years of age. They 
were Augustus I), .-ind S;irah I,. (.Marble) Doi- 
rance. natives of Connecticut and Massachusetts 
respectively. His paternal grandparents wei-o 
Alexander and Rebecca Dorrance. natives of Con- 
necticut. They had a family of four children. 
Politically the grandsire was an old-line "Whig and 
like most men in those stirring day>of change and 
reconstruction wa~ much interested in ])olitics. He 
and his wife li\ed and dierl in Connecticut. 

Augustus I).. oui- suliject's father, was educated 



in ( oiinecticiit and when eiglitcen yeni-s of afje 1*- 
gan his career by teaching school in .Ma.ssaclui.-it-iti*. 
He made this his profession, eontinninii in the 
work until thirty-three years old. anil then iH-ciinse 
of the failure of his health he went u|ion a farm 
and enjoyed a bucolic life until he came West, and 
when he held tirst the ollice of Constable in Howell 
Township. He entered the marital relation while 
in Massaclni.'^etts, his marriage being celebnited 
about 1H17. His bride was Sarah L., the daughter 
of Charles and Phebc (Cudworth) JIarbie, natives 
of Ala.ssachusett.-. the former lieing by trade a boo! 
and shoe m.aker. Their first home was in Crystal 
Township. Ontario County. X. \.. where his wife 
died. .Vfter that ,sid event he cinie to ^liehigan 
and lived with his father until the death of the 
latter, who was a man of the .strongest Democratic 
principles. He had served in the AVar of I HI 2. 

The oriijinal of our sketch married .Miss Lydia 
I.M Rowe, .I:niuaiy I. IfSlWl. The lady is a daugh- 
ter of .John IS. and Kliza (Clark) l,a Rowe. natives 
of X'ew York. They were farmers and came to 
M ichigan at an e;irly dav. settling in Handy, this 
county in IH.'ili. Thei-e they took up land which 
he later sold and returned to his old home in the 
Ka.st. In If-it2 lie came back to >Mchigan and .set- 
tled in Howell r<iwnship where he iiurch.a.^ed a 
faini and bent his ctTorts to imjiroving the same. 
He li\ed upon this pl.icc until his death which oe- 
curred in IH!MI. The mother still lives upon the 
old homestead. Of ten ehildren who have lieen 
born to her eight are now living. Mr. I.a Rowe 
was a liepublican in parly preference and a mem- 
ber of the Methodist ICpiscopal Clinrcli. being lhu> 
connected for thiity-tive yeai-s. 

.Vfter marriage Mr. Dorrance pnicji.-ised foi'ty 
acres of timber land where he now lives. Later he 
added twenty acres to bis original pniclia.-ie. Me 
lirst erected a frame house. I«x2l feel in rlimeii- 
sifins. This was the home of the f:imily for some 
lime. .\ft 'r h:i\ing .secured a home he bent his 
energies to clearing up the land. The house ha* 
since been eiiLarged and beautilied, provided with 
m.-my comforts .and conveniences, so that it n<»w is 
a most attractive, .as well as home-like farm resili- 
ence. ^Ir. Dorrance has planted two and a half 
aci-es in fruit tree* .•md this is now an orchard lli;it 



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|)r()(luei'> ;iliuM(l;iiillv ol' llic lincst varieties of fruit 
tliut are trruwii in this lalitiidc lie also lias a 
lai'ue vant'tv of small fruit ami this Inaiich of 
airrieiiltuie he liiids to he very reiminerative. The 
|)lace is well kept up. feuees are in perfect order, 
hams and ni'auai'ies are i>-ood and substantial, while 
the sheds for the stock are conifoitable .and well- 
arnuiii'cd. In faft the place is one of the fine 
farms of this k)cality. Our subject has a family of 
two children, also an adopted dauji'hter. .lohn A., 
a,ii('(l twenty-seven, lives at home, and is a bright 
and progressive young man, who acipiired his edu- 
cation in Howell Tovvnshi]). The others are 
Clarence A. and ( lara li. 

The original of uui- sketch favors the platform 
of the Rej)ublican party and is lov.al in his ft>llo\v- 
ing of th.at political l)ody. In his church associa- 
tions lie belongs to tlie I'nited ISrethren pcrsu.asion 
and has been a Cl.ass-Leader in that bofiy for the 
past thirty years, lie is one iif the prominent 
farmers of the township. Mis. Dorrance enjoys 
the distinction of being the lirst wliitc child born 
in the township of Howell, her natal da\ lieing 
.Vngusl 21), 1H2^1. She is an estimable lady, whose 
interests are closely united with those of her hiis- 
b;ind. .Ml'. I )on;nicc breeds horses, cattle and sheep 
of graded stock and is the owner of some of the 
linest animals in this couiit\ . 



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RAN(4E BAN(;s. .VII honor shcndd be ren- 
dei'ed to those honoialile members of society 
who, by hard work and determined acti\'- 
ily coupled with an unfailing energy, have devel- 
oped the resonrces of ;i «iew country, and doulile 
honor should be paid them uhen U> their record 
of industry we can .•iild the story of their true in- 
tegrity, pure li\es ;iiid benelicent kindness to 
others. .V high aim .-ind a true life have tlieir etfect 
upon the coinnHinit\- just as surely as the sunshine 
causes the trees to bud and the (lowers to bloom, 
and it is as necessary and \ilal a part in the de- 
velopment and progre.s> of soci.al life as the rays 
of the sun are in the ))liysical world. 

Orange Bangs has his line farm on section 27, 



UnadiUa Township. Livingston County. His fa- 
ther. Nathaniel Bangs, was a Vermont farmer, and ~?\ 
his mothei'irTnaTflni name was Mary Woodman. 
They were both born thelJreen Mountain State and 
lived thcie for a few years after their maiiiage 
and then removed to Livingston County. X. V.. 
and settled upon a new farm, which they proceeded 
to icducc to a state of civilization. There the 
father died, and the mother afterward came to 
Michigan, where she was married to Samuel (iilnian, 
who died a number of years ago. She then li\ed 
with her daughter in Xtin Buren County, and there 
passed from earth some four years ago. They 
were the parents of nine children, who grew to 
iiiatnrity, and Mve of them are now liA'ing. 

The original of this sketch was liorn .lune 22, 
l^<2(i, in Livingston County, X. Y.. and there he 
grew to maiiluK)d. lie attended the district .school 
in his nati\ c State and began for himself as an in- 
dependent fanner at the age of twenty-one. At 
that time he decided to C(mie West and settled 
up(Mi ;i farm on section .'36, Unadilla Township. 
Forty .'icres of this tract of one hundred was al- 
i-eady somewhat improved, Duiing the following 
year, in 184M, he was united in marriage with 
•Laurettc iMorrison, whose parents were from \'er- 
niont. and came to this State about the year of 
IJSIO. and settled upon a farm in ^'an Buren 
County, where they both remained through the 
rest of their da\s. They were the parents of nine 
children, four of whom are now living. 

Mrs, Bangs was born in 1828, and her marriage 
with our subject resulted in the birth of three 
children: ^'iola, who is unmarried; Orphalin T., 
wife of (icorge llackus. who lives in this town- 
ship, and Eva .\., now ^lis. Frank Richmond, re- 
siding in this township. The mother of this fam- 
ily was called to pass to hei' heavenly reward .Iiiuc 
11, 188(;, and hei- daughter, A'iola, is now her fa- 
ther's li<)nie-niaker. Mrs. Bangs was a great lo\er 
of tlowers. and I he sunoundings of their home 
abundantly testify to the fact that her beautiful 
memory is kept alive by the cultivation of these, 
which were her treasures. 

Mr. Bangs resided for nineteen years on .section 
2G, and has now made his home for twenty-live 
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Mini ninety Mcrcs of laiiil. two liuiidii'd mikI i-iijlily 
iUTi's of which ;uv iiihUt i'ulli\':itiuii. lixni his 
(irst oouiipaiicy of his farm he I'lpclcil a hiy- houM'. 
a frame slalih'. a coin li(in>e unci a hen house, and 
liis own stroiiii' arm felled llie trees on foi-ly-tive 
acres of land. He relmilt the house on section 27, 
an<l also an cxcclU'nt lioix- liain. measurino- 2().\()() 
feel. He has set out six acres of oicliard. and de- 
voles liiinself to y:eneial farmiu'i'. 

When this pidsperons man came to .Micliii;an his 
capital coiisisti'd only of what he had been able to 
save out of his e.ariiiuirs dniinjr tlie pi-evions two 
seasons, and aniuiintcd to >>1()0 in all. so that it is 
l)hviu to .see that he has eai-ned all that he now 
possesses, as he has depenih'd entirely upon his 
own exertions through life. Both he and his la 
ineuted compani((ii were members of tlie Tresby 
teriau Clnirch at the village of I'liadilla. where he 
has been in active membershi]) foi- forty years, 
and is a Trustee of the church, lie has always 
been interested in jiolitical issues and allies him- 
self with the liepublican party, lie fa\dis the 
cau.se of temperauce and education :iiid gave to 
every one of his children excellent .'iil vantages, 
which lliey juized highly, and they arc in their 
lives abuinlantly repaying this faithful [lareiit for 
his devotion to their cmic .and training in their 
earlv years. 



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l.O.N/.O (ii.K.V.SO.N. We are gratilied to 
be able to place in the hands of our readers 
' ? a brief biographical sketch of Mr. (Jleason. 
who is so well known throughout Co- 
h(K-tali Township, Livingston ('(luiity. and who i> 
most highly esteemed personally, as is aiso his 
family, lie is a native of the Hmpire State, having 
been born .lime 2<i. IH.'U, in Wheeler, Steuben 
County. lli> parents, Klijali and Klizabetli (Me- 
.MurpliN ) ( Jlca^on. were also New Yorkers by birth. 
The lather c;iiricd on fanning operations, and 
in the spring of IH8() came by lake to Michig;in, 
where he entered one hundred and thirty -six acres 
of land on sccti<ui (>, llartland Township, and 
in the tall of ls;i7 established his home, anil 



continued here until his death, which took place 
on the irith of .vpril. IM.-)(i. when lie li.-id reaelied 
the age of sixty-two years. Ili.> lii>( wife. Ablgiiil 
Smith, to whom he was unitiMl in 1«|(), brought 
him live .sons and live dauirhleis. She was born 
.March 7, 1 7!);1 and died in 1M22. Mis next nmr- 
riage was with .Mrs. Klizabeth liilling.s /»«- Me- 
.Miir|ihy, who bore to him one .son and three daiigli- 
ters. and had two daughters by her previotis 
marriage. She |)assed fioin eartli December «, 
1M41). four months and seven <lays previous to the 
decease of her husbainl. He wits a Whig in lii.> 
political views, and liesides his fanning operations 
was engaged in carpentry. 

Having received ordiii;irv school adxanl.-iuoand 
thorough drill upon the farm, our siibji-c( le.-iriied 
the trade of a car|ienter. and iii the fall of l«i"»l. 
having spent .several years in remuner.ative labor 
purchased ,m farm of eighty acres in llartland 
Mich. In the spring of 1K.')7 he exch.-inged this 
for one hundred ;iiid twenty acres of limber 
land in Saginaw (diinty and two years lal»'r 
disposed of this for the lifty acres where lie now 
resides. Of the one hnnilred and t<'ii acres on .sec- 
tion 7. which he now holds, he has improved fully 
seventy .acres, and has also eighty acres on section 
(i, which has been partially iniproveil. He earlv 
became interested in the principles proinulgaled 
by the He])iiblican party, and is now an e.aniest 
worker for the cause of |iroliibition. 

Klvira Thorp was the maiden luiiiie of the lady 
who became the wife of our snbjecl .luly K. I«."i7. 
She is a native of Michigan and w;ts born in Ken- 
ton. Oene.sce County, .Vugust 2"), l«l(l. being a 
daughtor of Norris and Lliza .lane (liiclimond) 
Thorp, who were born in New York, he .SeptcmlK-r 
I 1. IKll, and his wife .\pril !>. lK2(t. It was about 
IHiJi") when they came to Kenton, and for twenty- 
one years he tilled the olliee there of Depniy 
Sheriff. .Vfter a residence of many veal's! jn Ken- 
ton tlie\ live<l for simie lifteen years on a farm 
north of Holly, ();ikl:iud County, where his wifi- 
died Oelober 1. l««l. He ended his eaitlil.\ lalHiis 
May 1<). IHKI.at Kenton. They were the parents 
of six children — .Melissa. lOlvira. Klla 1... .lohn .1., 
David K. and Lueena. Klla died young.and .lohn 
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War. The parents hn\f loiio- lieen connected with 
the Close Conuiimiioii lia|)tist Chiuvh. 

Six children enlivened the home of Mr. and 
:Mrs. Gleason. the first born being Kllery and Em- 
erv. twins; and the next Ixirn being May Bell 
and .lay l)ell. twins, after whom came Clarence 
.and Clarinda, the last-named dying at the age of 
fifteen years. ]May U. is now the wife of .John 
Sehrepfer. For some twenty-live years our subject 
and Ids wife have been loyal and earnest members 
of the United Hrethi-en Chiireli.and all of the chil- 
dren are united with their parents in one household 
of Christian faith. Since the contemplation of the 
house of worship which was erected some eighteen 
vears ago Mr. ( Ueason has been a Trustee, and he is 
much relied upon where good judgment and sound 
discretion are needed in connection with a true- 
hearted devotion to the cause of Christianity. 



^ LBKRT W. CALLAHAN, a member of the 
^ firm of Bailey Si Callahan, publishers and 
_ — -> proprietors of tlie North Lansing Becord, 



was liorn near Lansing. IMai'ch 2(), 1870. His par- 
ents were Russell B. and Dellia (Rockwell) Calla- 
lian. The father was born near Sparta. Ohio, and 
when fourteen years old came with his parents to 
^licliigan. locating near the present city of Lan- 
sing. He engaged in tlie insurance liusiness. and 
was also in the office of the Secretary of State for 
about six years under Harry A. Conant. remaining 
with succeeding officers until a change of admini- 
stration. He still resides in Jjansing, honored by 
all who know him for the integrity of his life and 
his genial kindliness of heart. Two children were 
born to them, our subject and his sister (Tcorgia. 

The gentleman wIk.) forms the subject of this 
sketch was educated in jjansing, graduating from 
the High School in this city in June, 18ilO. After- 
ward he was eni})loyed temporarily with the State 
Republican and thence entered the office of the 
Satun!(i;i Call, lieing thus engaged until he em- 
barked in his present business. The North Lansing 
i?ew>Y? was establisluMl in the spring of li^Sll. the 



first issue being May 1, with Messrs. Bailey &i Calla- 
han, editors and proprietors. It is independent in 
politics and is dt voted to the interests of the peo- 
ple of Noith Lansing, from whom it receives cordial 
support. It is a weekly paper, and has a subscrip- 
tion list of aliout one thousand. Mr. Callahan has 
entire charge of the editorial department, while 
Ml-. Bailey manages the composing room. As a 
young man of enterprise and push, Mr. Callahan 
undoubtedly has a bright and honored future be- 
fore him, and will, should his life be spared, become 
a ixiwer in the jjolitical and journalistic world. 






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ETM H. JUDl). He whose n.ame is at the 
head of this sketch is one who has lieen 
associated with the growtli of the county 
:nid CduntiT for nearly forty years past, 
having come here in 1856, at which time he settled 
on section 20, Handy Township, where he was the 
owner of eighty acres, only jjart ()f which was im- 
proved. It bore a log house and a frame granary, 
which, however, was adequate to the products of 
those early d.ays, when the fields bore alxive their 
green or golden carpet an arabesque of rich black 
stump.age, which was jjerhaps beautified by a wdd 
rose or an unrul\- blackberry vine, that trailed its 
luxuriant length and lusi'ious fruit against the 
effective background. 

Our subject continued in the place as it origin- 
ally w.as for aliout twenty years and then bought 
a tract of land across the road on section 2i), where 
he resides at the pri'seut time and which he has 
im[iroved by erecting a good, substantial <l\velling 
and fine barns and granaries. He now farms two 
hundred aci'es of land which he has under the 
finest state of cultivation. ^Mr. ,ludd was born in 
Onondaga County, N. Y., November 28, 1824. He 
is a son of Ozias and Martha (Baker) .ludd. natives 
of the Empire State. They came to Washtenaw 
County, this State, in 1831 and settled in the 
townshij) of l.odi, which at that time was an almost 
inipenetral)le forest. There the father took up 
eighty acres of Covernraent land which he im- 
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work w;is easilj- I'arried on mid | nTlVeted hy U\> 
sun. Our subject's fallioi- was the first Township 
Clerk to Ix' L'leeted to tlinl olliiv in lliis district. 
He was associated with tiie Democratic party in his 
vote and political followinir and like tlie majority 
of early settlers was a .Mason, for in tiu>se early 
days the loyalty of fialernity was needed to miti- 
ijate in as ijreat a nicasiirc as possible the hardships 
of the period. 

Six ciiildren came to the fireside and were wel- 
comed to the board; they are Lucenia. .Vmarilis, 
our siil>ject, Betsey. Esther and William. Lucema 
is now Mrs. Carmcr; ,\marilis is JNIrs. Crain. Our 
subject's paternal sirandjiarents were Ozia's and Ln 
cema(llulctt) .ludd. Tliey were from the Kastern 
States. The former was a blacksmith by trade 
though he followed the calling of a farniei- for tlie 
greater portion <;f his life, lie came to Washtenaw 
County, this State, where he coiitiiiue(l agricul- 
tural pur.-uits until his decease, lie was the father 
of three children. 

The original of our sketch received the educa- 
tional advantages offcre<i at the district schools in 
which he was reared. ^Vhen his attention was not 
demanded by school woik he aided his father on 
the farm, lie continued to live at lion)e until 
thirty-two years of age. after sixteen years of age 
having had entire ch.arge of the farm. In tin 
year of IHfjC Mr. .ludd was mairie(I to .Miss Kr;in- 
ces Mather, who was born in Washtenaw County, 
ill the township of Scio born ()ctober 1. IS.'!.'!. 
.She was the daughter of Calvin and Marilla (New- 
comb) .Mather, natives of New York State. They 
were early settlers in ^\'Mslltell,•^w County, whence 
they came to Handy Townshi|). this county, where 
the father lived until his decease. He was Hoad 
Commissioner and Towiisliip Treasurer and enjoy- 
ed the conlidence and ri'spect of all who knew him. 
.V friend to young and old, rich and poor, he was 
generall\- called by the alfectioii;ite and fniiiiliai 
title. •• Iiicle Cal." 

.Mr. .ludd has been awarded several local otllee- 
by virtue of his fitness, lie has been Supervisor. 
Justice of the Peace, Highway Coiiiniissioner .-11111 
.School Inspector and has been instrumenlal in 
interestint;: the townspeople in the building of 
uroo<l roads. Heligious aiul e(|ueatioiial bodies 



never appeal to him in vain, nor do individuiils 
wlio stand in need of his kindl\ word or patient 
sviiipath\ ever turn away from him unregarded. 
Three children have risen up about the piireiits to 
call them ble.'.sed in their l.-itter years. They .•ire 
Helen, Ozias and .Marilla. Helen is now Mi-s. 
(i rover, of Handy Township; Ozias is Super vi.sor of 
tliis township at the present time; he also fills the 
odices of .School Inspector and Township Treas- 
urer. Politically Mr. .bidd is a Democrat. II. 
also was a .Ma.-on. .Mr. .Iiid<l has aeeiiiiiiilatecl m 
handsome fortune and is determined to fully enjo\ 
it ill the latter part of his life. He ha- a lieantifid 
lioii.t and is suri-ouiide(l with all the comforts of 
life. 



HKSTKK AM. sKlJA.STIAN CA150T. This 
worthy father and .son who li.ave been in 
liartnership in business and on the farm for 
about a (|iiarter of a century and are .•iniong tin- 
progressive and prosperous agriculturists of Lerov 
Towiishi|i. Ingham County, claim their descent 
from the noted discoverer. .Sebestian Cabot, who 
came with his brother John to the New \\'orld 
centuries ago. Their liclily cultivated f:irin and 
liaiid.M)me home and excellent farm buildings are a 
standing monument to their industry anil good 
management and their two hundred acres of land, 
in which they are e<|iial p.artners. coin|(rise an es- 
tate which is a credit to the township. 

Chester Cabot w;is born .September 22. IHII.in 
Herkimer County. N. ^'..and is a son of .liistice 
and I.ydia (Kobinson) Cabot, natives of New Kng- 
land. He is the youngest of their eleven children 
and w:is only .seven years old when lie removed 
with liij* parents to Monroe County. N. Y., where 
he grew to manhood, receiving his education in the 
district .school, which gave liim a good foiindaticm 
for future studies, which he has carried on b\' him- 
self through reading. 

The most interesting event of the young iiian- 
hood of our subject wa.- his marriage in .\ew York 
to Mary I'eiiiier in \Mii. Only one child of this 
marriage sur\i\('s — Sebasli.an. .Vfter the death of 



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Mrs. Mary Cabot, Mr. Cabot wat* united with his 
present wife in I80.S. Before her union witli him 
she was the widow of Mr. Tuttle. j\lr. and Mrs. 
Cabot had one son. wlio i.s deceased. .Mr. CUbot is 
a natural nieehanie and throuuhout his life as a 
farmer he has done his own blaeksmithing and 
woodwork whenever needed on the farm, and dur- 
ing his residence in Monroe County. X. Y.. lie 
and his sou Sebastian were in partnership in a 
wagon and carriage factory and a lilaclcsmith shop 
in which they were engaged foi- a muiiber of years 
and kept three blacksmitli fires going. They finally 
exchanged the shop for the farm upon which they 
now live in Leroy Township, and in 1870 made 
tiieir home upon it. where they have since resided. 
They work together most harmoniously. The\- 
have person.' Uy done most of the work upon their 
fine barn and excellent house and they own to- 
gether two hundred acres of land, most of which 
is under cultivation, as they have themselves cleared 
tlie timber from one hundred and thirty acres. 

While living in New York Chester Cabot served 
for some time as Supervisor of the township and 
also filled the office of Assessor, besides other otii- 
eial jiositions. Sebastian Cabot was born Septem- 
ber 26, 1886, and was married in 1867 to Sarah 
Ingalslie who died in 1872. Both the father and 
son are earnest Prohibitionists in their political 
views and ever active in the temperance cause. 



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^ ACOB CIANSLP:Y. The paper of which this 
gentleman is the owner and proprietor, is 
the ^Michigan Sfaats Zcitiinc/ and is the only 
German newspaper published in Ingham 
County. Five years ago, about 1886, it was estab- 
lished in Lansing, and now enjoys a circulation of 
about five hundred, being independent politically, 
with a tendency toward the principles of the Dem- 
ocratic party. Mr. Gansley purchased the paper 
December 19, 1890, and now eni]>lovs \Villiam Rich- 
mond as editor. 

Mr. (iansley w.as liorn in (iermauy. December 16. 
18r)9. and received his earh' education in his na- 



tive land. In 1873 he crossed the broad Atlautie, 
locating first in Detroit, and for four years he was 
engaged in the liquor business in Saginaw, this 
State. Me came to Lansing in 1885, and entered 
the store of his uncle, (ieorge Gansley, as a clerk. 
On November 1 1, 1886, he embarked in business 
for himself and opened one of the finest fitted 
up saloons in the city. Here he has since done a 
prosperous business. With the exception of occa- 
sionally serving as a delegate, he has not taken 
an active part in politics. Socially he is a mem- 
ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
the Knights of Honor, the Arbciter Society, 
Leider Krantz and Turner Verein. His wife, with 
wdiom he was united in marriage, September 15, 
1887. bore the maiden name of Hattie Holmes, and 
resided \mor to her marriage in Sag■iua^v. 



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ylLLIAM BLEEKMAN is the owner of and 
lesident upon the fine farm located on 
,j ^ section 10, Wheatfield Township, Ingham 
County. His father was a native of Connecticut 
who in an early day removed to Fulton County, 
N. Y., where he w.as married to Miss Diantha Dil)ble, 
also a native of Connecticut. There they passed 
their lives, the decease of the father occurring in the 
Empire State. It is a fact to be remembered that 
our suliject's father and mother were members of 
the Universalist Church at a day when that sect was 
but little known. Our subject was reared in the 
Empire State and when he had reached manhood 
was married to Miss Harriet, daughter of Daniel 
(iildersleeve, a native of New Jersey and an early 
settler of New Yoi'k, going to that State with his 
parents when a boy (ifteen years of age. His wife 
was Silence P^arl before her marriage. They were 
the [larents of ten children, three sous and .seven 
daughters. On the death of the father in New York 
the widow came to Michigan, and her decease took 
place in Ingham County while with her children. 
As the years went by a group of young people 
gathered about the sober and occupied lives of their 
[larents and our subject became the father of six 
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(twiu-i) lyoiiis!). Georsjiana and .Tosi-pliiiu'. all of 
whom an' liviiiy: and nian-ied, with tin- exception 
of .losepliiiic who remains at home with her par- 
ents. In l.s.').') ;Mi'. Ujpckman came to Miehisjan 
and seltic(l in Wlioatlield Township, Injihani 
Coiinlv. <in ciijlity acres of land to which he after- 
ward added forty acres. U was all heavily tim- 
liered and ho at once began the work of clearing 
and improvino;, now havina: one hnndrcd and ten 
acres under cultivation. 

As can be imagined l)y one wlio has been in ihc 
timber regions of Michigan and who knows how 
hard it is to get laljorers, the work of inipr(jving 
our subject's place has been slow and arduous. He 
has built a good house and barn and is the possessor 
of a line farm that is luider a fine state of cultiva- 
tion. The hardshi[)sof pioneer life are as familiar 
to him as h.'ivc bccoint' the comforts of modern 
agricultuial life. On his advent here the i)i<meers 
had full chance to e.\ercise their skill, for the deer 
and wild turkey with which the forests abounded 
had hardly become afraid of mankind, and were 
easily shot. The first pie for which Mrs. Rlcekman 
could afford jjastry was made of venison. He and 
his wife have lived together for about forty-.six 
years and their friends hojje that they will have an 
oppoi'tunit>' to celebrate with llicni their golden 
wedding. .Sometime ago they took a trip back to 
their native State and came back more than con- 
tented with their lot in life. 

Ml'. lUcckiiian is a DemocrMl in his |iolitic;il fol- 
lowing and is a warm adherent of his parly, lie 
has been .lustice of the Peace a number of years 
and has also been Treasurer and Highway Commis- 
sioner. Ill' stands high in the esteem of hisfcllow- 
lownsiiu'ii. 

XOHLK. This well-known citizen and 
^^ fanner of repute, whose estate is situated 
on section 1 1, Inadilla Townshi]), Living- 
ston County, is a son of Albert C. Noble, 
a Connecticut farmer, and Harriet A. \Voodruff, a 
native of Massachusetts. These respected parents 
were married in New York where thev resided 




until they came to Michigan in .liine, IKI.i. 
and settled on an im))roved farm of one liundred 
and fifty-eight acres, where Charles Woodruff now 
lives. The father di<!d February I."!. IHtM. and the 
mothers life ended .luly 30, 1«71. Only two of 
their nine children have pa.ssed on to the other 
life. The mother was an earnest member of the 
Presbyterian Church and gave t<» her children in- 
struction in the duties of a religious life. The 
father was a stanch Re|mblican in his political 
views and warndy interested in the prosperity of 
the party. 

The natal day of our subject was November lit, 
IHfd. and he fii-st saw the light in Monroe County, 
N. "^'. As he wa.s a small child when he came to 
Michigan he received his education here in district 
No, ;'), and at the age of nineteen began life for 
himself. In 1 M62, after two years of working foi- 
neighboring farmers he went to ^^nne.sota and there 
spent two years working in the pineries, in the 
northern jiart of that State, but about this ♦ime he 
heard of the death of his father and decided filial 
duty and inclination both led him home to care for 
his mother, and he remained with her until her 
<leath taking charge of the old farm. 

Saiah ^L Haviland was the maiih-n name of the 
young lady who became .Mrs. Noble, .Inly 13, 
\H7?. She is a daughter of IamvIs .]. and .\deline 
(Stewart) Haviland. who were early .settlers in 
lo-sco Township, this county, where her father now 
resides on the obi homestead, as the mother had 
p.as.sed away .some years ago. .Mrs. Noble who was 
born .lime "id. \^i'>. in Iosco 'I'ownship. is well ed- 
ucated Mild has taught school for .some fifteen 
terms. No children have blessed their home, but 
she has employed her activities in outside work 
which has been a benefit to the neighborhood. .She 
is an etticient member of the J'resbyterian Church. 
She and her husband adopted a yomig girl of nine 
veal's, Izena Haviland by name, and had her name 
legally changed to Izena Noble. This daughter 
thev reared to womanhood and she is now the wife 
of William Cadwell of East Jordan, .Mich. 

One hundred and ten acres of fine land forms 
the estate of Mr. Noble and ninety acres of this 
are under the i)low. With the exception of the 
house all the biiildings upon the faini have been 



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put u|) l)v him. Besides carrying on general farm- 
ing he makes something of a specialty of fine Me- 
rino siieep of wliicii he now has some seventy 
head. Draft horses of the Pereiieron and Clydes- 
dale breeds are to be found upon his place and he 
has a fine young mare of blooded stock which was 
a .1. \V. Bailey colt, lie has been Treasurer of the 
school district for six years and is strongly devoted 
to the interests of the Republican i)arty. 



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LONZO DICKERSON, deceased. The mem- 
ory of the good who have departed 
I'i this life should be tenderly cherished by 
^1 those who are left behind, and the record 

of a man wlio has achieved worthy work in a com- 
munity should be kept green for the benefit of the 
rising generation, that they may study and copy 
the excellent traits whicii made him worthy of their 
resiject. This former pri-iminent resident of Locke 
Township, Ingham County, was a native of Ontario 
County, N. Y., where he was born November 27, 
1828. His parents were Abram and Lucretia 
Dickerson. He was reared to manhood in his na- 
tive county and received the rudiments of his edu- 
cation in tlie early schools of New York. 

This gentleman was united with the companion 
of his choice December 19, 18,53, his bride being 
Ann Carr, who was born .luly 23, 1832, in England. 
Her parents were Robert and Narah Carr and they 
emigrated to this country when tlieir daughter was 
but four years old. Her liome was in Amsterdam, 
N. Y., until she reached her iiuith year, and then 
her parents removed to Ontario County, where she 
grew to maturity. To Mr. and ilrs. Dickerson 
were born four children — Etta, now the wife of 
Henry Rami of Shiawassee County and Ella, wife 
of Lyman Bennett, of Perry, Mich. The othci 
two died in infancy. In 1853 our subject came 
with his wife and located in Washtenaw County. 
Mich., coming thence to Ingham County, wliere 
they located in Locke Townshij), making their home 
on the farm where the widow now resides. Here 
they lived from 1868 to 1H83 when Mr. Dickerson 
died on the last dav of tlie veai'. He had done 



much pioneer work and had cleared up and devel- 
oped a farm. His property was gained by liis own 
exertions, as he liad no one to start him in life. He 
left to Ills family one hundred and eighty acres of 
land, one hundred of wliich are now the property of 
tlie widow, and it all represents the product of his 
life-work. 

In his death tlic county lost one of its best and 
most respected citizens. He was a Republican in 
his political views and had served as Higliway 
Commissioner in Locke Townsliip. It is said that 
he had no enemies and it is universally conceded 
that his intelligence and enterprise brought liim 
into the front rank among the citizens of the town- 
ship. His widow is prominent in social and churdi 
circles, being a member of the United Brethien 
Churcli. 




HARLES II. (HBBS. Although in the meri- 
dian of life, our subject is to the •' niaucir 
born " of tlie agricultural fraternity. He 
was born June 6, 1H4."), in the town of Avon, Oak- 
land County, this State, and is a son of Graham 
and Amanda (Toms) Gibbs. He is a grandson of 
Calvin Gibbs, who was born in New York, and who 
was by calling a farmer. He died while compara- 
tively a young man, but was the father of four 
sons and four daughters. The sons were Calvin, 
Monroe, Graham and Austin. The daughters were 
Julia, Clarissa, Emily and Ch.arlotte. 

The grandsire of the worthy subject of our 
sketch came to Michigan and settled in MacomI) 
County about 1822 or 1823. He staid for a time 
at Red River, and then proceeded to Troy, Oak- 
land County, where he died in 1824. His widow 
afterward married a Mr. Marvin, and her decease 
took jilaee in St. John's, in 1880 at the age of 
ninety-two years. She was a lifelong niembci' 
of the Baptist Church, and a devoted and con- 
sistent Christian. Our suliject's father was born 
in Herkimer County, N. Y., and with his ])aients 
came to Michigan and settled in Avon, being one of 
the very first to settle in Oakland County. He 
now lives in Pontiac, at the age of seventy-eight. 



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His wife still survives. Tlu-v arc the parents of 
two eliildreii — rMiiina and Charles II.. the latter 
beinir the ifeutleiiiaii of whom we write. Tlie 
f;uiiily are <>( the Episcopal persuasion. 

Mr. (iilihs' mother was horn in Hloonitielil. N. 
V. Slie was the (lauj^hter of .Mvin and .Miner\a 
(rhcl]i>i runi>. and was one of .seven ehildren 
liuni to lier parents, there being three .sons — Rob- 
ert 1'.. Joel P. and .lustiee W. The dauuhters 
were ( )live. who was Mrs. \\ilcox: .Vmanthi. who 
married .Mr. (iibbs. and .Maria, wife of .ludu'e 
Powell. The family is of Scotch ancestry. The 
e.arly training of our sviliject was tliat of a f.-irniei's 
lad. and the rudiments of his education weie 
acquired in the district school in the vicinity of 
his home, lie also went to Pontiac to school. 
.Vt sixteen years of age he l)egan his woik as a 
bread-winner, entering a store at Saginaw. 

In December. 1864, Mr. Giblis enlisted in tiiearmy 
and was a.ssigned to duty as teamster in a wagon 
tiain. .serving most of the time on the ro.'id between 
K.'deigh and S[)rini;neld. Mo. .\t twenty-three 
years of .age, having piucha.sed eigiity acres of his 
father's farm he began life for himself. With the 
excciition of one year spent in \V:itcrford and 
one at Knoxville, our subject lived on the old 
homestead until 1885. lie then sold his ])lace and 
went to Knoxville, Tenn.. in .Vugust. 188«. where 
he purchased one hundred and lifty acres, where 
he resides on section ;'), of Deertield Township on 
the place known as the llawley farm. 

The farm upim which Mr. (;il)bs resides is one 
of the tinest in the county; his barns aic very 
large and well-built; his residence is a iionie of 
t-omfort and .'njoyment; his lields are well tilled 
.■Hid the stock sleek and well fed. Previous to 
tlii> time he was a dair\nian. Ileh;id the lirst 
herd of (Guernsey cattle in ^lichig;in. The subject 
of our sketch is a fervent Republican in his p<iiit- 
ical belief, lie was married June 1.'3. IM()>( to i;\a 
L. Davis, who w.as born in .Vvon. August 2i), l«.'i2. 
She was a daughter of Harry W. and Klizabetli 
(Swan) Davis native.* of Madi.son and .\n)any. 
N. Y.. respectively. Air. Davis w:is a faiiner and 
came to Avon, Oaklatid County in an early day. 
He there resided until his death wliicli occurred in 
1808. He was an old .soldier in the Mexican War. 



The two children liorii to him and hi.- wife were 
Kva L. and ll.-irry .1. .Mrs. (Jibbs' father was a 
son of Lsaac and Rox\' (Wilson) Davis, who came 
to MadLson from Connecticut .at an early day. 
He died in the (ii-st-named place .'Mid his widow 
came to .Mii-iii<ran. her decease occurring in New 
■^ork. in IH(;c> at the age of eightv-eiglit years. 
Four childi-en have graced the domestic realm, of 
wiiich our subject is head. They are Kddy C.. 
llair\ (;., Emma .M. and .Vmelia M. 



INTslOKl) 11. DK.MKRKST. Truth ami 
s)) purity in the end always win the day. ami 
the exponents of these princii)les inevitably 
g.aiu an a.sc'.'ndency over those who are carele.ss as 
to tlu'.se potent piinciplo. lie of whom we write 
has always adiiered to the principles of temper- 
ance, nuirality ami truth, and has the respect anti 
regard of his fellow-men. He is a farmer living 
on section 28. Handy Township, Livingston 
County, and is the proprietor of eighty .acres of 
I.MUiI which lie devotes for the mo.st part to the 
raising of Sliort-horn cattle, hoi'ses. sheep, hogs, 
etc. His place is one of the~representative farms 
of his township, being a model of neatness, 
scientific culture and productive.ss. 

Mr. Demerest Is a native of the Wolveiine State 
and is Ihoroiigidy acipiainted with the condition 
of its soil, its atmosphere, etc.. and thus h.as the 
advantage over many agriculturists who are 
obliged to familiarize themselves with a new tract. 
He was born in Yi)silanti. Washtenaw County, this 
State, the Kith of .Vugust. 184:5, and is a son of 
.lohn and Aim K. ( Dey) Demerest, nativesof Rock- 
land and .Seneca Counties, .\. Y. .lohn Demeie.st 
came to Washtenaw County, Alich., in the year of 
isll.aiid was here married. He came to Living- 
^toll CouiilN in October, 1«1!), and settleil in the 
same township where he has >ince lived. Since 
being here he has held the otHce of ( ommissioner. 
Our subject's paternal grandparents wero .lohn 
and Nancy( Phillips) Demerest, native- of RiK-kland 
County. They came to Michigan In 1842,settling in 
Alletraii Couut\. where tliev Inid for two or three 



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years and then removed to this eoiinty. Our siili- 
jeel's sjiandt'atlier who was a Democrat, was a sol- 
dier ill tlie War of 1812. Naiiev Phillip's father 
was Gilbert Phillii)s. a native of New York, where 
he carried on his trade, which was that of a carpen- 
ter and joiner. He also was a Democrat as is the 
father of our subject. 

The immediate iirogenitors of our subject still 
occupy the old homestead which their son and our 
subject conducts. The father is seventy-six years 
of age and his wife sixty-six years old. They 
have only two children, he of wlumi we write, and 
William. The latter is a druggist in Webberville. 
He has a very pleasant home over which presides 
his wife, who was in her maiden days a Miss Alary 
Cruse, of Marion Township. ISoth husband and 
wife are members of the Alethodist Episcopal 
Church, and William is a Democrat and an Odd 
Fellow. 

Our subject was educated in Handy Township 
and then toolv a commercial course at Albion, this 
State. He learned the carjjenter's trade, which he 
followed for some years. He has .always made his 
home with his paients and since 1879 has taken 
charge of the farm. The confidence that his fel- 
low townsmen repose in his judgment and .ability 
is shown Ijy the fact that he has been elected to 
fill several township offices, having held that of 
Treasurer for two years. 

Mr. Ivintsford Demerest was united in marriage 
in 1874 to Miss Matilda A. Saunders. She was a 
daughter of Frederick and Mary ( Love) Saunders, 
natives of England, who came to America in the 
early history of Michigan and settled in the town- 
ship of Clarion, this county, where they engaged 
in farming. The -mother died in Shiawassee 
County, to which iihice they had moved in the 
spring of 187.5. Mr. Saunders is one of the repie- 
sentative agricultural men of that county and h.as 
been very successful in his business. Mrs. Demerest 
died November 6, 188.5. He contracted a second 
marriage. Miss Mary J. Saunders l>ecoming his wife 
April 6, 1888. She is a sister of his first wife. 

Our subject has a family of three children, 
whose names are Alta M., Bertha 15. and Laverue.J. 
Mr. Demerest now belongs to the Industrial party. 
He is also a member of tlie Farmer's Alliance and 



of the (irange. In their church associations he 
and his wife are connected with the Methodist 
EpiscoiJal Church, of which body our subject is 
Secretary of the Board of Trustees. He is a be- 
liever in the temperance cause, as he is in all pro- 
gressive movements, but that of temperance is 
particidarly vital to him and he would gladly do 
all he could to see it advanced. Mr. Demerest is a 
man who is looked up to with all deference and 
regard b\' his associates and fellow-townsmen. 



OHX K. CLEMENTS. Not a few of the 
farmers of ^Marion Townshij), Livingston 
^,^1 I County, had their nativity in this vei'\' 
^^df^ county, and among such we find some who 
are of foreign parentage, but who have brought 
inherited traits to bear in developing the newer 
civilization of our Western country. He of whom 
we write was born of English parentage in Marion 
Township in .Taniiary, 1849. 

Thomas Clements, the father of our suliject, was 
born in England in 1817, and although he had 
very .scant opportunities for an education devoted 
himself witli great industry and foresight to his 
work as a farmer. Finding, however, that there 
was but little opportunity for him to attain much 
financial success in the old country, he determined 
to come to America. After spending some time in 
the United States and Canada, Thomas Clements 
returned to England to bring hence the one whom 
he had chosen as his wife — Martha Holmes. Upon 
his return to this country he came to Detroit, and 
in 184.5 made his home in Marion Township, where 
he first bought eighty acres which he afterward 
disjxjsed of and bought one hundred in another 
l)art of the township, and somewhat later added to 
it by purchase of another hundred. 

The father of our subject resides now on section 
17, Marion Township, and of his nine children our 
subject was the third in order of .age. In 1865 he 
lost the wife of his youth and in 1867 he was again 
united in marriage. By this wife, whose maiden 
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His political views IhIiil;- liiiii in sympathy with the 
Dpiiiociatic- party. One of tlie most interesting 
experiences of his life is liis tri|) to (alifuriiia in 
l.S.'>2. when lie went overland ancl spent a vcar or 
two in the mines, coniinij: home liy way of Panama. 
.Vt one time while on his tri|) the party left the 
trail ancl look a short cut. dnriny which excursiou 
they were attacl<e<l liy Indians. Once when he was 
untyiuii his horse nii ariow from an Indian bow 
struck the tree over his head ami he only escaped 
liy the speed of his horse, lie slopped at .Salt Lake 
City where he had the questionable distinction of 
stncking grain for Hrigham Younij. 

In early youth our subject's .school advantaaes 
were limited hut he was not content with a narrow 
education. He therefore after reachinji; his majority 
worked until he had earned >'2IM( and then devoted 
that sum to his exjienses while at school in llowell. 
He then bought one hundied and lwent\ acres of 
land to which he has since added twenty more, 
and in 1H7I he married Lydia Papworth. daughter 
of Thomas Papworth, an Englishman, who had 
seven chililren, his daughter Lydia being born in 
185(1. To this wife were born three children, Ida 
L., George tJ.aiul (ir.Mce. In 1887 Mr.*. Lydia Cle- 
ments was called to her eternal home. 

The lady who now presides with so much grace 
and dignity- over the household of Mr. Clements 
was.at the time of her marriage with hiin.a widow, 
having one child, Alice .1. .She was Mrs. KUen 
(Twilley) Heach. daughter of .James Twilley, who 
came to Brighton from Kngland at an early day 
and had :\ family of live daughters. Mr.s. Clements 
was born in Lngl:ind in IS 18 and she has now two 
beautiful children, (iail II. and (ilendoii T. While 
the Protestant Methodist Church was being built 
in West Marion Mr. Clements was one of the Trus- 
tees who h;id charge of that responsible work and 
he is now .Steward in this church, where he and 
his wife are active and devout members. 

The declarations of the Democratic parly I'ln- 
body the i)olitical views of Mr. Clements, and he 
is .active in his advocacy of the claims of that party. 
He was the lirst Township Superintendent of 
.Schools which .Marion T(»wnship ever liad,:ind has 
also filled with cdiciency and satisfaction to his 
constituents the ollices of .liistice of the Peace and 



Supervisor. He is now starting into the fruit bus- 
iness and has from four hundred to (ive hundred 
peach trees, twenty pear trees and forty plum trees 
upon his place. He has also planted one hundred 
giape villi's and one hundred dewk-riy liuslies. 
His registered (Jalloway cattle are valuable ad- 
juncts of his farm and he has some of the best 
shee)) for line wool in the township, but thev are 
not of the registered yrades. 



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'»' ON. .L\COB KANOISK. Indonbtedly .,f 
J. (iernian descent, our subject lielongs to a 
1^^ family who.se more recent repre.sentatives 
'^j have been closely as-sociated with the growth 
and history of New .lei-sey. The representative of 
the i)resent generation, of whom we are writing, 
residing in Cohoctah Township, has been a Repre- 
sentative of his district in the State Legislature. 
Now one of the leading farmers and citizens 
of this vicinity, he was liorii August 2."L lxi7. in 
the town of Rockaway, Morris County. N. .1., and 
is a sou of Peter ;ind Sarah (Cook) Kanouse, and a 
grandson of Jacob Kanouse, who in turn was a son 
of Jacob Kanouse, who came from (Jermany, He 
came here in Colonial days and was a re|ire.senta- 
tive of the class of toilers whose native shrcwdne.ss 
and wit was their only st<ick in trade, for he was 
sold to pay his pa.s.sage hither. His wife, who 
acconnianied him. was also .sold to the same man to 
whom her husband was bound, and together they 
served for seven years, after which they married 
and were succes-sfnl in accumulating a handsome 
property, comprising over two hundred acres of 
land. 'I"he tirst wife, who w.as the companion of 
his days of poverty and privation, bore him four 
children, all .sons; she died and he married again. 
The secomi wife presented him with three sons and 
one daughter. As was the cusloin at that time, on 
the <lecea.se of the Hi-st wife she was interred on his 
farm. The frame house in which they lived when 
beginning life .still stjinds. and his descendants, 
who are very numerous, liiirl in it a fitting memo- 
rial of the iiidustrv..sacrilice. prudence and economy 
of their early progenitor. 



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Our subject's grandfather was born in Morris 
County, N. J., and was reared a farmer. As the 
domestic altar was raised the household was en- 
larged to include four sons, whose names were 
Joseph, Peter, Frederick and Conrad, all of whom 
married, with the exception of Conrad, who died 
ill the War of \H12. The father died in New .Jer- 
sey. Ovu- subject's father, Peter Ivanouse, was a 
native of New .Jersey, and early learned the black- 
smith's trade. During the War of 1H12 hewentto 
New York City to help defend tlie city, and in 
1836 be determined to strike out in a new line 
from the rest of his famil\- and came West, going 
up tlie Hudson River and west by the Erie Canal to 
Buffalo, where he took a boat for Detroit, and set- 
tled in the town of Burns, in .Shiawassee County, 
this .State. He entered three hundred and twentj' 
acres of land on section 27. Of this he gave each 
of his children eighty acres, reserving a life inter- 
est in eighty acres for himself. Originally he was 
a Whig, but later became a RepuJilican. His 
decease took place on the farm which he had pur- 
chased, August 24, 1871, at which time lie lacked 
only four months of being eighty years of age. 
The father of six children, only four grew to mat- 
urity; these .are .T.acob, Edmund, Peter and Agnes. 
These all reared families. Adherents of the Pres- 
byterian Church, our subject's father and mother 
were the first representatives of that body in this 
sectit)n and were instrumental in organizing a 
church of that denomination here. At the time of 
their advent here there was no store, mill or 
church within forty miles. For twenty years after 
coming to this State the elder Mr. Kanouse worked 
at his trade. 

Tlie mother of the original of our sketch was 
l>(>rn in 17i(3, in New .Jersey. She was a daughter 
of Henry and Sarah (Rycrson) Cook, farmers of 
New .Jersey of Holland-Dutch origin. They had 
four sous and f< mr daughters. ( )ur subject's mother 
died September 12, 1870. Mr. Kanouse received 
only a common-school education in his youth; he 
is a man, however, to make the most of every 
opportunity and has learned much J)y oJjservation. 
As soon as he was strong enough to swing the 
hammer he liegan to learn the trade of a black- 
smith and when seventeen vears of age went to 



New York City, where he worked for one 
year, and at tlie end of that time came to 
Michigan with his father and for forty years 
was engaged in working at his trade; at the 
same time he was the jnoprietor of farming 
interests. His trade, which was chiefly the ironing 
of breaking plows, left him time tt) attend suc- 
cessfully to his other business. On coming to the 
State he entered land, which was afterward pat- 
ented by his father, and cleared twenty acres of 
the eighty, which was his portion of the estate. 

In 1844 he of whom we write sold his tract and 
bought two hundred .and ninet3' acres where he 
now resides on section 5, Cohoctah Township, Liv- 
ingston County, paying ^3 jier acre for his pur- 
chase. He madi' a payment liy trade in flour at ^t 
per barrel, drawing it to Detroit and Pontiac. and 
did not free his place from debt for five years, 
although he w.as quite successful in crops. He 
planted forty acres to wheat the first year and it 
yielded him a return of five hundred bushels. For 
a time he was very closely pressed for the necessi- 
ties of life, but since that time he has never wanted 
for anything. For twenty- years his lirother Peter 
was ill business with him. They kept no account 
whatever of the possessions of either, but at the end 
of that time divided the farm and each took half 
of everything. Our subject now owns one hun- 
dred and five acres, having given ten acres to his 
son and sold him twenty .acres, besides fifteen acres 
disposed of to anothei-. 

Mr. Kanouse and hi> lnothcr made all the 
im}jrovements that the estate lioasts. Oui' subject 
served for six or eight years .as Supervisor of the 
township, his first election taking place in 1851. 
He was also Justice of the I'eace for twelve years 
and was elected to the .State Legislature in 1860, 
and although the popular majority was against him, 
he received the election by a majority of seventeen, 
and while thus engaged served on the State Affairs 
Committee. In the fall of 1^*72 he was elected 
Proliate Judge, and as a Republican has been active 
and influential in politics, .and is proud of having 
been one of the original Abolitionists. 

The marri.age of Mr. Kanouse took place Decem- 
bei- 17, 1840, at which time he was made one with 
Miss Mabel Drake, who is a native of Alleghany 



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('i)Uiity. N. v.. Mild ;i (liuiirlitci- (if ( iirU'on :m(l Maria 
(I'opc) Drake, who canuMo .\(lriaii. Mich., in tiie 
fall of ix:5.i, tiicuce removiii'-:, in l^i.'W, to lUirns 
■|'<i\vnshi|i, where lie entered and cleared a farm. 
Our Miliject ami hi> wife ;irc 1 he parents of four 
chihlren — Lullier C, .Mai\ .V.. Kinma .1. and Nettie 
.1. Tlie elde.st son was a lieutenant in Ihc late 
WAV. lielonginsi to tiie Sixlli .Miehiican C'avalrv. 
Mary A. is the wife of Williaiii IJandnll: Kmnia is 
thi' wife of Georsre E. Foster, lii ll-i(ll oursulijeet 
was app<»intod by (Jov. Blair to go South and take 
the voU* of the soldiers of the First. Fifth, .Sixth 
and Seventh Mieliiffan Cavalry. Mi-, and Ml-s. 
Kanouse have lieen active members of the regular 
Baptist C'hureh for fifty years and our subjeet lia.s 
served .as Deacon and Clerk for many veai>. Both 
are nu'iiibers of the first cliiirch or^iinizcil here. 



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,l| '^i FN'. WINFIELD .s. Sl.V is the founder and 
general manager of the Rocky Beach Be- 
nevolent .\ssoeiation. which was organized 
'for the purpose of rescuing and placing 
orphans and indigent children in good private 
homes. Its central ollice is at Lansing, where all 
gifts and correspondence should be addressed to the 
general ninnager. It was iiicoi porated under the 
laws of the State in IXHX with our subject as 
President and General Man.'iger, T. Slenon. M. I).. 
of .I.acksoii. Micii.. as Hist vice-president. W. S. 
Moore, of .lackson, second vice-president. .1. N. 
( iraliam. of this city as secretary and K. B. Car- 
rier, treasurer. The institution is supported by 
free-will offerings. Tiie children are niainlaiiied in 
receiving himies in Lansing or remain in the insti- 
tution at Rocky Beach until pcnii.-iiiciit homes can 
be secured for them. 

This institution has been greatly prospered, 
besides having found jilaces for many little oih'.- 
who might otherwise have been miserably left to 
grow up to lives of ignorance ami crime. Building> 
.■ire being erected on handsome grounds belonging 
to the association on the south shore of the Little 
Traverse Bay. Here children fourteen years old 
or under, are taken under the care of competent 



matrons and |)receptoi> ap|)ointed liy the a»s<K'i- 
ation until of age or .-idoption Ity private families, 
and that the milk of human kindiies.s is richer than 
often it is credited with being, is shown by the 
fact that the people of this and other stjile.s have 
sent in a]iplieatious often amounting in niiMilier 
to more than there are children in the iiistitiilion. 
offering to give these homeless waifs comfortable 
homes and piotectioii. with such educaliimal ad- 
vantages as they are obliged to guarantee the a.vio- 
eiation before it will give them into their charge. 

The association is exceptiomdly well organi/eil 
and is reaching out a beneticient arm to all jiarls 
of the country. They aim to have a local Super- 
intendent and .Vdvisory Board in every rural 
.-chool district, and in every ward of large cities, 
and in each ttiwn and village to receive or collect 
supplies or money and to ascertain what homes or 
families desire to adopt i-hildreii. They also find 
and report to Mr. Sly, the general manager, such 
children as are in need of himies. The institution 
is distinctively religious but not sectarian. It has 
luid the highest degree of encoiirngemei t in re- 
ceiving ofTers of homes from a moral and high 
cl.ass of jieople. Especial attentitui is given to the 
class of applicant.- and homes in which the wards 
of the institution are pl.aced. 

The scope of the work which the IJev. .Mi-, slv 
has organized is not confined to the .State, but is 
national in that it has offerings and applications 
for children from almost every state and territory 
in the I'liion. besido from Canadii and Mexico. 
The Orjiliinis' Voin- the organ of tlu' asxiciation 
IS a folio imblished monthly in the interest of the 
institution :iiid has jit present a circulation of 
Id.dOP copies. This is edited by our subject. 

Rev. AVintield S. ,S|y was I«jrn in Lockport. Ml.. 
.XuiTU-l 21. l.><lHand is a son of .Seneca Sly. Ho 
received his education at the Northwestern I'lii- 
vcr-iity at Evanston, lll.s. and al.-^o studied at the 
Garrett Biblical Institute, and wai: ordained to the 
ministry in IM(!!l. his first charge iH'ing in Kin- 
niuiidy. of that State, thereafter serving as jiastor 
.•it Shipmaii .■iiid Allon. UK., and at IVloPkw 
•lackson and Lansing. Mich. His time is now 
exclusively occupied in Evangelistic work and in 
connection with the orphans" mission. 



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When a lad df fifteen years of age, our subject's 
bkiod was stirred li\- the accounts of tlie heroism 
of our nation's preservers, and he enlisted in 
Company II, of the One Hundred and Thirty- 
second Illinois Infantry and was sent to the de- 
partment of the Cuml)erland. He was engaged the 
most of his time on garrison duty in Kentucky, 
and remained in the army until the expiration 
of his term of service near the close of the 
war. Our subject married Miss Maggie W. Wool- 
wortli. who as an oi-phan child, was adopted from 
the American Female (iuardian Society of New 
York City, liy Mr. and Mrs. Paris Woolworth, of 
Plainfleld, Ills., and liy tliem reared as theii- own 
child until she was married. From her Mr. Sly 
received hi.s first stimulus to his work and she is 
now an alile assistant in the good that is being 
done liy the association. They have one daughter 
who is twelve years of age. Her name is Fannie 
\V. and their tender love for her makes them 
more appreciative of the position and the dangers 
that surround a young person who is without 
jiarents and left to the mercies of tlie world. 







HAKLKS (;. .IKWETT. dealer in hardware, 
stoves, ranges, steam-Httings. etc. m Howell, 
Livingston County, was born liere in 1847, 
and resides in his birtli-i)lace. He is the son of 
the Hon. (ieorge W. and Annis P. (Meleudy) 
Jewett. natives of Durham, Conn, and of New 
Hampshire respectively. Tlie father's younger 
days were spent in tlie mercantile business and at 
the age of twenty-one lie removed to Moravia, N. 
v.. where for several \ears he engaged in the mer- 
cantile trade and was married. Shortly after tliis 
event he left New York in the fall of 1836 and 
came to iNIichigan, where he located four hundred 
acres of land in L-ivingston County, one hundred 
.acres of it lying within the city limit of Howell. 

(reorge .Jewett returned East and brought on his 
bride to this new and wild lumie. He built the 
first frame residence in the city and lived in it for 
three years after which he Iniilt the magnificent 
home which still remains on his farm half a mile 



from the court-house. He died in 1851 and his 
wife, in 1877. He filled various important offices, 
being the first County Clerk and l)eing twice a 
member of the Legislature. He did much business 
for others and w.as a very active and iironiinent 
liusiness man tlioroughout his life. He and his 
wife were charter members of the Presbyterian 
Church whicli he helped to organize and build. 

The children of tlie Hon. George W. and Annis 
.lewett aie William B.. .Teanette, Sarah F., Mary. 
Lizzie, Ellen, and our subject. Their mother was 
one of the most practical and capable women in 
^Michigan and after her liusband's death attended 
to the business of his large estate, and in her busi- 
ness management .she was complimented by men 
of affairs. Besides these active qualities she had 
unusu.'il literai'v attainments and refinement and 
also took a leading part in chuich matters, doing 
much esiiecially to support the musical jiart of the 
church service. 

After working upon the old homestead until he 
was twenty-two, 'Sir. .lewett embarked in the liiisi- 
uess wITu-li now engages him. He built the.U'well 
Block ill 1872 and is one of tlie organizers and direct- 
ors and President of the Electric Liglit Company 
of Howell and has been in the City Council three 
times. Thirty acres of the old farm have been 
platted and sold as the Jewett Addition and he 
still retains fifteen acres about the old home. He 
was married in 1883 to Miss Eva A., a daughter of 
Edward .1. and Cornelia A. (Howland) ]Mills, and 
she has two children, Annis C. and Charles (i. 
They are both members of the Presbyterian Church 
and Mrs. Jewett is a woman of fine literary attain- 
ments and musical ability. 

The family to which the Hon. George AY. Jewett 
belonged has been consideralily noted in business 
and mnnufacturing circles. His brother, Samuel 
P., was prominently identified with the liusiness 
interests of Ann Arb(jr and for twenty years was 
the Chicago Agent for the manufacturing firm of 
Jewett it Root of Piiiffalo, N, Y. Another brother, 
John C, of Buffalo, has the largest factory in the 
world for the making of refrigerators and bird- 
cages, while Sherman S. has also been in the manu- 
facturing business for fifty-five years at liuft'alo. 
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(liailes, of Moravia, now deceased, had one of the 
inof-t I)eMutifiil places in that section and .lames II., 
of HiitTalo. a nianiifactiirer of hoots and shoes, is 
also MM I'nli rpiisini; and sucre-sful hnsini'ss man. 



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liHOKAW. The |ii(iniiu(Ut 
and wcll-kno^vn Carmci' ulm-c ii:iiiic w r 
now give has his (ine farm locatiMl u|iiiii 
section 27. Putnam Townsliip, Livintrston Countv. 
onc-iialf niik' south fiom ihc villasrc of l'inclvne\-. 
He has ijfood reason to feci proud of his parentatre. 
as liis fatlier, Isaac P>rol<aw. was a man of unusual 
.•iliihty who. in company witli .lohn C. llirdsal! 
orisiinated wliat is now ivnown as the liirdsall 
(lover lluller. He was a mechanical genius and 
was always tlirouiihout lite interested in machinery. 
Tile machine was tirst known as the ISirdsall .V- 
lirokaw t'lovei- IluUer, but Mr. Brokaw in the 
course of time sold out his interest winch is now 
held hy Mr. IJirdsall of South P.end, Ind. 

Isaac lirokaw was throui;'h most of his life a 
farmer and was Ihuii in Seneca County. N. ^'. II<' 
took to wife Laviua Cate, who was also a native nf 
the Knipiie Slate and who came with him to Mich- 
il^an in 1K7(I. and settled on the f;irm wlicre our 
sidiject now lives. She still survives, hut was be- 
reaved of iier husband in a most terrililc di-saster, 
as he W!is killed by the ears at Dextei', Washtenaw 
t'ovinty, in ISK.") when he wa^ sixty-two years old. 
Her three children are all livinir. namely: our 
subject, Sarbra K. and Helen ('. 

He of whom we write is a native of the K\u- 
pire State and was born .Vugust 12, IHI!). Tlic 
common schools of his native home supplied his 
education and he spent one ye;ii' in .Micliiaan some 
twenty-seven 3ears ago, during which tinu' he at- 
tended the district school here. He then went to 
the oil regions of Pennsylvani.a and remained there 
some six years. 

The young man now decided to go West and in 
1K7 1 sought the great city of Chicago whei-e he 
was engaged in boring artesian wells. Still follow- 
ing the star of empire he went to Ft. IJusseli, 
Wyoming Ty., where he pursued the same line of 



work so successfully as to build up quit*- n reputa- 
tnm. After a year anrl a lialf he went into tiie 
gold mines near Ft. Russell and also in the region 
of tiie lilaik Hills. Dak., and spent live yeai-s there. 
During one year he made three trijts from Cliev- 
enne to Deadwood. That was the year of tlie( iis- 
lei- m.assacre and as mattei-s were very nnicii 
unsettled at that lime he had fre(|uent linishes with 
liu' Indians, but he says that during his expcri- 
1 Mce in the oil region he met a much rougher .set of 
men than he did in the Hlack Hills and Wvoining. 
.Vs he was not making his fortune in the mines he 
decided to leave that part of the country and in 
1H7!» he came tf) Michigan and settled upon tin- 
farm where he now reside> and which has been his 
home from that ilay t<i this. 

Mr, Hrokaw now found a >ettled life so much 
more ccmducive to his ha|)piness than the roving 
experiences of the past few years that he decided 
to make his home still more permanent by taking 
to himself a wife, and he was married in IHMl to 
Clara Louise, daughter of (4eorge ami .\Iaitlia 
(.Vllison) Reeves, who were old settlers in this 
township and who are now liotii dece.-u^ed. .Mr.>. 
Itrokaw is a nati\-e of this township. One child 
only has been granted to this interesting eoupK'. 
Kilsey H.. who w.as born .July 12. IWHli. 

Mrs. lirokaw is a l.ady of unusual intelligence 
and culture for aflei' .availing heisclf thoroughly of 
the atlvantages offered in the district school she 
had taken a cour.-e of study at the seminary in 
.Moniite, Mich., and thus littetl herself fortlie posi- 
tion of a te:iclier. which she tilled previous to her 
marri;ige. Mi'. I>ri>kawi>:i member of the Knight^ 
nf the .Maccabees at Pinckney and in that organi- 
zation he is Commander. 

()ursubjeit has ever been interested in political 
themes and i.-- well-read upon all mattei's of public 
interest, keeping himself fully abreast with the 
ticiid of the tinio. He atliliates with the Repulili- 
cMii part\' and works earnestly for its siicei-s.-. He 
was a candidate for Sheriff on the regiil.ir ticket 
but was defeated. His popularity in the township 
is attested by the fact that he is now serving his 
fifth term on the Itoanl of Sui>ervisoi> and he has 
freipiently been a delegate to important politii-nl 
conventions. He is a strictly temperate man in 



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]irineiiik' and ])ractice and an ardent supporter of 
every movement looking toward morality and the 
improvement of the Commonwealth. 

Mr. Brokaw devotes himself mostly to yeneral 
farming, carrying on tlie work on a beautiful tract 
of eighty acres. He is one of the finst to introduce 
the Jersey cattle into this township and has been 
unusually successful in handling them. He also is 
ii n an cially interested in the business of threshing 
and lias been ever since coming to this township. 
His general intelligence, his broad experience and 
comprehensive knowledge of men and the world 
have fitted him to take prominent places in public 
life and he is often callcMl u|)(in to act for liis fel- 
low-townsmen in the transaction of public busi- 
ness. 



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ESTEK S. IirnSOX. of Lansing, Ingham 

County, proprietor •■ Tlie Senate" was born 

^v at Huron, Erie Countv. Ohio, .hilv 12. 1848. 



Eor a sketch of his parents the reader will consult 
tlie biographies of H. and A. Hudson. He was 
reared in Ilurcin and JliLan, Ohio, until he reached 
the age of eleven years and then came to Lansing, 
wliere he continued his educati<ni and helped his 
father until he had passed the age of nineteen, since 
which time lie has been engaged in running a sample 
idom. He liuilt the Senate Block, and laterrebuilt 
.and remodeled the Hudson Block, a large three- 
story building Bfi feet front liy 8(1 feet deep, and is 
half-owner in the building at tlie comer of Wash- 
ington Avenue and Washtenaw Street. 

Mr. Hudson is engaged to some extent in the 
real-estate business and lias also devoted much 
time and attention to breeding blooded pugs and 
beagles, and has imported more pugs than any 
other man in the Stale. Some of his dogs have sold 
at a very high figure and one brought ^787.50. 
He has the finest dog kennel in Michigan. 

The subject of this sketch was united in marriage 
in London. Canada, with Miss Lillie Higliy. a native 
of that city and they have one adoiited child who 
is now ten years of age. Mr. Hudson is a member 
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and be- 
longs to the encampment at Lansing. He is also a 



member of the fraternity of Elks and of the 
Ancient Order of L'nited Workmen, and is a Dem- 
ocrat in his political views. His wife is a devout 
membe]- of St. Paul's Ejiiscopal Church. 




||(_^ OX. (;E()K0E W. BRISTOL was born in 
Chautau(|ua County, N. Y., May 25, 1843. 
and is the son of Hurain and Xancy ((Trillin ) 
liristol, who were pioneers of Ingham 
County, having settled two miles west of Mason in 
the fall of 1843, where the father cleared the first 
five acres of his farm, W(n-king nights after having 
worked at his trade, blacksmithing, at Mason dur- 
ing tlie day. In 1867 lluram Bristol removed to 
Mason and engaged with 1). .1. Darrow in the mer- 
cantile business. He was for many years .Justice of 
the Peace and was a man of strict integrity, widely 
known and universally respected. In 1859 he, 
with si.x others formed the First I'resbyterian 
Church of Mason, and served as an Elder until his 
i-emoval from the city. He died December 30, 
1882. 

(ieorge W.. the suliject of this sketch, received a 
good common-school education, afterward attend- 
ing for a time the Lansing .Academy. He engaged 
in fainiing with his father until the year 1868, when 
he came to Mason where he has ever since resided, 
and entered into the employ of Bristol A' Darrow 
in the dry-goods business. In 1 K7o he began the 
study of law under .Judge Chatterton. and in 1873 
was admitted to the bar. His principal pr.actice 
has been in the probate court. 

^Ir. Bristol has held many responsible positions 
and his intelligent a<lministration while lK)lding 
these positions, together with his honesty and in- 
tegrity of purpose, have given him that standing 
among men that he so richly deserves. He has 
been City .Vttoiney. Su|)ervisor of his ward, and 
also member of the School Board for several years. 
He li.as held the office of Circuit Court Commissioner 
of Ingham County for two terms, being first elected 
in 1874, and at one of these terms he was one of 
the only two who were elected on the Democratic 
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Agriciiltiiial Scx-iety for twelve of llie inosl siu-- 
ci'ssfiil year.-i of its earoer. He has liceii (•onnccterl 
with the proliate ottice for a niinilier of years, and 
III IM«7 was appointed Proliate Reg:i.strar, which 
position lie held until .Time. I HIM. when upon the 
iesiaiiali<Mi of .liidije i}. \. Sinitii he was ap|>ointed 
i'rohale .liidire of Inuliani County. liyCJov. Win- 
aiis, whieli olliee he now holds. His iarije experi- 
enee in proliate ])raetiee. and familiarity with the 
details of the ollire make him pre-eniiiieiilly lltted 
foi' this position. 

Karly training;- left its impress u|ioii .Mr. IJristol 
and he has for many years been a nienilier and also 
one of the Trustees of the Presliyteii.aii (liureli. 
He has lieen a nieniher of the .Masonic fraternity 
ever since lie w.a.s twenty-one \eais of .age and al.so 
lielonifis to the order of the Kniirhts of Pvthias. 

.May l(j. 1866. he was married to Mi.ssllatlie W. 
Stanton, daughter of Daniel II. Stanton, an early 
pioneer of Iiiirliani County, havinc; located a farm 
purchased from the (ioverninent in the township of 
Delhi in 1H41. They have two dansjhter.s; Ilattie 
E.. the elder, is the wife of Rev. Fr.ank (i. Kllett. 
Pastor of the Presbyterian Cliuich at Concord. 
.Mich. Xiii.i K. is a student in the Literary De- 
partment of tiie .Michigan UniversitN'. 

Politically Mr. Hristol has always lieen ^.^lallcll 
and consistent Democrat, casting his first vote for 
(Jen. .'\IcClelIan in 1H(M. 



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r'OII.X IIART.MAN. The lieaiitiful home of 
this gentleman is one of the jileasant sights 
which is seen })\ the tra\'eleralongtlic high- 
ways of (ienoa Township. I.iving.stan 
County. It is a large brick h()ii>e which wa.s 
erected in l.'^Tl at a cu.-t of >omc ?!."i.(l(MI. and near 
it are the excellent barns which siielter the stuck 
and crojis of Mr. Ilartman. This sturdy (lermaii 
farmer has made a decided success of agricultiii'e 
ill his adopted country and h;is become thoroughly 
Americanized. 

Oursulijccl was born In llesslaii (Jerniany. No- 
vember ;}, 1H2S. and hl> f:i1li( r. .loliii Ihirlman. .Sr., 



had hi.- iijitivity ill ITmii. He .served iiithe(;er- 
man .\riiiy foi- ten years but never saw active ser- 
vice other than throwing ii|i fortilicatioiis in Po- 
land during the Naiwleonic wars, lie came to 
.Vnierica in lM2!t. landing on the IKtli of Novem- 
ber. :ini1 :it once made his home in .Moiitgoinerv 
County. .\. \.. where he lived for seven yeai-s and 
then came to .Michigan., reaching Detroit in .May 
l«.S(i. During the ensuing Feliruary lie came to 
Livingston County .and settled on this section 
where he bought eighty acres of land from the 
(;overnmeiit. receiving a deed which was* signed 
by Martin \'an IJuren. He built a log house in the 
middle of the eighty acres near to what was known 
a-s a "cat-hole" so that he might easily procure 
water. To this door the friendly Indians came 
and .solicited food. Deer were then abumlant and 
veni.son was plentiful, .\fter clearing up this farm 
he m.ade it his home until death intervened at the 
age of .seventy-five years. 

The mother of our subject, whose maiden name 
was Maria K'ulir. was also horn in llosian (Ger- 
many, and her children had their nativity in the 
fatherland with the exception of one. The mother 
died at the age of lifty-four and four of her .seven 
children survived her. 15otli she and her husband 
were identitied with the (Jerinan Lutheran Church. 
The home in (Jermany and the nine weeks on the 
briny deep are I'einembered only dimly by <»ur 
subject. He attended to his education in the log 
schoolhouses of Livingston County during the 
winters and helped about the farm work in the 
summer. He drove a breaking team of from four 
to seven oxen over many an acre of lainl. and 
after he began to work for wages received from ""T 
to ¥1(1 a month. 

.\t the age of twenty-four the y<iung man un- 
dertook independent work and bought eighty 
.acres of land, twenty of which were prepared for 
culti\ation. and aside from that beginning he has 
placed upon this farm every improvement which 
will be found here. Ten yeai> later he added an 
eipial acreage Ui the lii-st pureha.-e and has placed 
it all in good condition for crops. He was mar- 
ried in ISI7 to .Maria Westplial. who w.a.- born in 
IH3(I. in Pru.ssia. (lermany. She has reared nine 
chihlrcn. nainelv: Hannah ( Mi-s. Stanlick). IIenr>-. 



870 



PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 



Peter, Sophia (Mrs. Tresc-ott). Charlie. Maria, Fred- 
eriok. Alma {Mrs. C'ollit), and Kniily (^[rs. 
Phillil)s). 

Beginiiiii<;' with eiii|il\' hands Imt a sturdy in- 
tegritv and biave (U'teriniuatioii to succeed vuv 
subject has now acquired one hundred acres of 
l>eautiful land in a high state of cultivation, hav- 
ing sold fiftv acres to his son-in-law, Edward Tres- 
cott. His success is worthy of record as it is the 
result of liis own endeavors, lie and his wife are 
one in religious faith and lioth are members of the 
(ierniau Lutheran Church. The Repul)lican part\- 
receives the endorsement of Mr. Ilartman wlio has 
served as Township Treasurer for one term. 



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^AVID I). BIRD. .\. worthy representative 
of the agricultural fraternity, Mr. Bird 
has retired from active business life and is 
now enjoying a well-earned respite from severe 
lal)or, having a pleasant residence in Williams- 
ville, Unadilla Township, Livingston County. He 
is a son of Furnian Bird, a native of Warren 
County, X. .I.,anda farmer. His grandfather was 
I'klward Bird, who was of English descent and a 
man of some note in his day, being a member of 
the Legislature and .Justice of the Peace. He was 
a farmer by occupation residing in Warren County, 
and with his wife, wliose maiden name was Susanna 
P^urman,lived to a good old age. His mother was 
Mary Ann (Uavis) Bird, also a native of Xew 
Jersey. Her father, David Davis, was a soldier in 
the Revolutionary War. Mr. and Mrs. Bird, Sr.. 
were married m tlieii nativi' State and there re- 
sided until they came lo the Wolverine State in 
1833, first settling at Ann .\rbor on a farm. There 
was but a small settlement there at that time, a log 
house serving as a tavern. The farm compiised 
eighty acres of land, and was about one mile from 
the village. 

The energies of our subject's father bent to the 
improvement of his place, and before his decease he 
erected a good frame dwelling house and fine 
barns. Both parents have passed aw.'iy from the scene 



of their most active labor. Of ten children born 
to liis i)arents our subject is the only one mnv liv- 
ini;-. His early training in a religious way was in 
I he I'lesbyterian Church. Our subject's father was 
a Deacon in that body before coming to ^[ichigan. 
liis decease took place in 1839, at the age of sixty- 
live years. His wife died in 1856 at the age of 
seventy-two years. I'olitically the father was a 
.lacksonian Democrat. Mrs. Bird was an unassum- 
ing Christian woman whose real worth was known 
only to her intimate friends, so quietly did she 
perform her many deeds of kindness. The poor 
and needy found in her a helper, and she was a 
warm friend of missions ever willing to deny 
herself for others, as the following incident will 
show. Her means were very limited; there fell to 
her at one time the small amount of $300. In- 
stead of using it for her own comfort she gave 
•^200 to the cause of missions and loaned the re- 
mainder to a feeble church to build a house of 
worship, reserving nothing for herself. Mrs. Bird 
was the only daughter of David Davis. She had 
two brothers, Samuel and Chambers, who were far- 
mers by occupation and resided in Warren County. 
N. .1. 

The brothers and sisters of our subject were as 
follows: Betsey. Sloan, Samuel, Elijah, ^lary, Ed- 
ward, John, Jo.seph and Susannah, all except the 
latter marrying and settling in Southern Michigan. 
Jo.seph, the youngest, came to his death in the gold 
mines of California; he left a wife and one child. 
John lived and died on the old homestead, where 
his wife and family still reside. 

The original of our sketch first saw the light of 
day [March 4. 1813, in Warren County, N. J. On 
coming to Jlichigan he was twenty years of age, 
and had received his education in the East, having 
had the advantages offered in a district school. 
He was reared on a farm and was early familiarized 
with agricultural duties. He remained at home 
with his father until coming to Livingston County, 
giving him his services until he reached his major- 
ity and working for wages after that time. 

iVIr. Bird came to this county and located on a 
farm of one hundred and .seventy-two acres in 
Undilla Township, on section 30. The land is what 
is known as oak openings, and it was patented to 



I'OH'I'KAIT AND WOGRAPHICAL ALBl'M. 



him iliivctly frtim the ({ovcrmm'iil. 'rherc witohI 
the time more Indians than while nun. neiirhhors of 
the hitter sort hcinji' very few. He w.i.'< oMiired to 
l)orro\v money to pay for pait uf his land and 
bought twf) yoke of oxen on eredit. r>uildin<r a 
io<j house he began the work of clearing, wliicli 
went on .<lowh- as lie had no hel|) and had \<< ii«-- 
jiend upon himself entirely. 

Our subject's marriage took place Mar<-li (!. lf<:i'.i. 
at which time he was united in marriage In Mis> 
Agnes I'iper, a daughter <if \Villi;iin ;ind .\gnes 
Pi|)er. natives of Scotland and early settlers in 
Inadilla Townshij). Mrs. ilird was born .Septi iii- 
lier 1-2, 1816 in Scotland. She died December 1. 
18«(i. This worthy couple have been tiie parents 
of six children, thiee of wlmni are now liviiii;. 
They are William F., Mary K. and .Vlmira H. 
William wa.s liorn August "21. IHKI; his lirst wife 
was Elgiva Barton, a natixe of .Maine: at her 
death she left four children, the eldest of whom, a 
noble boy nineteen years of age, was drowned 
while hatliing in the lake at Williamsvillc. The 
maiden name of his second wife was Klia Lake. 
He lives near Ann Arbor and has five children, 
three of whom are by his former marriage. Mary 
E., was born ^farcli 21!. Ifi4."); she is now the wife 
of F. K. Ives and li\es in this township; she is the 
mother of two children. .Mmira !{.. liorn .lan- 
uary !•'). 1M4K. is the wife of .V. 15. Dunning and 
lives in Stnrgis. Jlr. Dunning is a prnininenl law- 
yer in that city. He and lii> wife are the parents 
of twfi children. 

The f)riginal of our sketcli has lieen constantly 
improving his farm and has added to it. .Vt one 
time he had three hundreil and sevent\-two acres 
and had cleared off two inindred ami fifty, which 
were in a good state of cullivalion. This he sold 
and retired from agricultural wor'U. lie is .-i uieni- 



ber of the jfaptist Cliurch and ha.- been a de.icon in 
the same for over lifty years. He wa.- one of the 
original builders of the Fir.si HaptLst Chnreli of this 
township and has been an active nieniljer .«iiiee. 
In former years our subject took a lively interest 
in Sunday-school work and for s<jme time wa.s 
Superintendent of the same. In the alisence of a 
pastor he larried on the meetings for two years. 
Deeply a|)i)reciative of the benellts of a good 
education, he gave his children the best advantages 
that lime and circumstances would allow. .Some of 
them are graduates of the college at Ypsilauti. Of 
his deceased children .Vgnes D. became the wife of 
llalsted Oregory and was the mother of one child: 
she died April }. 1«7I: Chamliers D. died .lanuarv 
I. IHHI: he mairied Diana Daiiten and was the 
father of one child: .Instin \'.. who was the liu- 
baiid of .\niia .Striker and the father of one child, 
died July 7. 1««2. Our subject has been Asse.ssor 
of his township. In early days he was a Demo- 
crat, but on the agitation of the Slavery (piesfion 
lie liee;iine a Kepublicaii and from this partv has 
transfeiied his allegiance to the Prohibitionists, 
having always been an ardent advocate of temper- 
ance principles. 

Mr. Bird deserves the greatest credit for his |if,. 
work. He started out empty-handed and carried 
on his farm forty-seven years, making it a siicee.ss 
pecuniarily. He has lived to see his children all 
associated with the P)a|)tisl thnrch and honoralile 
and honored men and women. In early days the 
main supporter of the church, he has always been 
a faithful and enthusiastic helper inCJospel work. 
lie ui'll i-cmembers. in an early day, when the 
the nearest market was at Detroit or Ann Arbor, 
and the products of his farm had to lie conveyed 
llilther by ox-team oi- horse and wagon. 



BI0GI^fI^l7l(gfIU 



Abbott, George A 741 

Abels, W. S 811 

Adams, George L KVi 

Atlanis, John 23 

Adams, John Q 39 

Alger, Russell A 173 

Allchin, Edmunrl ">67 

Allen, Rev. Alfred 48.1 

Alsdorf, Cyrus 403 

Andrews, E. S 6.54 

Andrews, George W 720 

Appieton , II. B 740 

Armstrong, John 723 

Armstrong, L. L (i87 

Arthur, L'he.stcr A 99 

Atwood. Hon. M. Jl 371 

Austin, A. S., M. D S4fl 



Baetcke. G.J . ..iS8 

Bagley , John J ]."i7 

Bailey , J. W 277 

Baker, H. B., M. D 203 

Baker, H. W 72H 

Baldwin, Henry P IDS 

Ball, Hon. William 462 

Ballard, L. A. , M. D 677 

Bangs, Orange 85i 

Barker, J. \V 319 

Barker, Prof. Robert 2,o0 

Barnes, George 810 

Barnes, G, V 721 

Barnes, O. F 820 

Barnhonse, Mrs. E fi99 

BaiTinger, Daniel 294 

Barry. John H 113 

Bartholomew, H, D 280 

Bates, E. S 381 

Baumgras, J. G 300 

Beach, Henry N 091 

Beale, Rev. V. H 377 



Bean , James 529 

Beardsley , C. W 208 

Begole, Josiah \V 169 

Benjamin , George D 301 

Bennett, F. C 215 

Beurmann, C. E 612 

Bigelow, H. M. 812 

Bingham. Kinsley S 137 

Bird, David D 870 

Bird, Mi.ss J. A 769 

Blair, Austin 145 

Bleekman, William 858 

Boardman, John W 089 

Bogan , James 194 

Botsford, Aaron 2.35 

Bowers, S. W 193 

Bray ton , Burt 572 

Breisoh, Christian 201 

Brewer, Thomas W 463 

Briggs, R, T 837 

Bristol, Hon. G. W 868 

Bristol, J. H 630 

Brockway, Rev E. H 311 

Brokaw, L. D 867 

Brown, Albert 381 

Brown, J. J 444 

Brown , F. J :j(U 

Brown, W. C, M. D 829 

Browning, E 6''7 

Buchanan, James 75 

Buck, Hon. D. W 390 

Buck, M.J :j21 

Burgess, G, S 627 

Burgess , J 783 

Burkhart, F. A 580 

Burkhart, Henry 7,58 

Burnett, John 477 

Burtraw, Joseph 1 708 

Bush , John J 201 

Bush.J.X 3S3 



Cabot, Chester s"i7 

Cabot , Sebastian 837 

Cady,Jay ,.212 

Calhoun, Mrs. M. (' 285 

Calkins, W. ,S .5.-^7 



Callahan, E. W m> 

Call, H. 622 

Cameron, Alexander 411 

Camp.O. F 404 

Campbell, A ,,496 

Campbell, J. T 296 

Carl, Charles L 7:58 

Carmer, John T 704 

Carpenter, Arthur 458 

Carpenter, M.B 794 

Carr, William M 694 

Carrier, E. B 460 

Carter, George L .325 

Case, Hon. D L 610 

Case, Ira W 497 

Case, Mrs. Louisa 818 

Casterlin , C. C 39-1 

Chapin, E. C 603 

Chatterton,M. D 208 

Chase, J. H ,.,617 

Choate, Joel C 83B 

Christian , James M , 593 

Clark, Albert 421 

Clark, Eliza M 722 

Clark, George L 750 

Clark, L.G 010 

Clark, L.N 701 

Clark. (). A ..388 

Clark, W. A .3.37 

C lark , W . H 805 

Clark, W.L 318 

Clark, W.M tl2 

Clear.John 810 

Clements, J. E >'62 

Cleveland, S. Grover 103 

Clute, Rev. Oscar 191 

Coffey. Fred M 089 

Coffey , Henry A 70 1 

Coffey, Marshal 7:iO 

C'oie, Canfield W. . 212 

Coleman, G. W .398 

Coleman, Hon, George 732 

Colister, William T 028 

CoUins, J. W 332 

Conrad, Jacob 447 

Cook, Fred J 4.37 

Cook, S. Lee 443 

Cool. Charles G 757 

Cooper, W. D., M. D 786 

Corey, Dennis 107 

Covert. A. R. 1 2IW 



Cowles, Charles I) 500 

Crandal, F. R 749 

Cranston, Elmer E 30:i 

Crapo, Henry H 149 

Grossman, Hon. D. L 672 

Grossman, J. M 813 

Croswell, Charles M 101 

Curtis, Mrs. M. A 220 

Gushman,G 582 



D 



Dana, Hiram J 739 

Daniels, A 733 

Daniels, G. J 317 

Daniels.^^F. L 819 

Darby, H. H., M. D 351 

Dart , James R 792 

Darwin, S. A 221 

Davis, A. M 711 

Dean . Chester 630 

Dean, Peter 614 

Decke, William H 647 

Denierest, L. B 801 

Dickerson, A 860 

Dickerson, S. W 670 

Dietz, Theodore 602 

Dinturff. Hon. D. W 781 

Dobie, A 734 

Dobie, William M 300 

Dodge, CD 322 

Dorrance, A. A 853 

Dowd, Michael 132 

Downs, J. W 343 

Dres.ser, J. M 2.39 

Drew, F. A 288 

Drew, Mrs S. M 619 

Dryer. W. A 345 

Dunckel. George 219 

Dunning. John 573 

Dunston, Charles E 707 

Durand, Prof. W. F 793 

Durfree, Emory 838 

Dutton. D. 587 

Dvkes.J. H 041 



INDKX. 



E 



KiifTor, \V. B sKi 

Kiirl, Oliver 73H 

Earle, (leorjje A "iilS 

Kilsoll.A. \V..M. I) 408 

Eichele. Jacoh 4'i4i 

Ellsworth. I. W tisS 

Emery. W b:|7 



Faunce, William II y,n 

Feleh.Alpheus 117 

Fellows, H. N 70n 

Kergusoii, Hon. A. F 18:1 

Ferguson, (!eor^-e H., M. I)..SO!t 

Fillmore. Millard 07 

Fitch. Hon. F. S «o7 

Fitz Simmons, C. 8 :!0;i 

Foerster, A , 445 

Fogg, Hon. F. M 717 

Foote, C, S 82:i 

Foster, Charles 505 

Fowler, Capt. George ifn; 

Frank, Joseph -^m 

Freeman, (». W ^Ou 

Frisbee. Hon. A. T 525 

Frost, J. B 753 

Fuller, A. C 618 

Fuller, I). K 8-.'l 



(i 



Gallup. .1. C .-,;t7 

Gannon, Daniel 1^4 

Gansley, Jacob 8.W 

Gardner. M. D (;.v> 

Gartleld, .lames A 95 

Gnrlick. J. W 41.) 

Gibbs, Charles H 8H0 

Gilbert, John V 4i>) 

Gillett, 1 40(1 

Glaister, Mrs. I) (jo 

Gleason,.\ 8,5.5 

(ioss. 31, J !((;{ 

Gould, B. M .•j7(i 

Gower. Hon. C. A 2(8 

(Jrant, Ul.v.s.scs S 87 

Green, Dr. G, f) 215 

(ireene, J. N., M, I) ..l!t'> 

Greener, John A (i,58 

Greenl.v, William L 121 

Oregor.v, A. M 830 

(Crimes. Hon. T 5(i2 

(Jriswold, J. S !i48 

GuMsolly. .\ll)eM .'mi 



Hadsall. Edward sll 

llahn. William F ;tio 



Hammond, S. W jtii 

Hand, J. \V cflo 

Hansen, William F 7'ii 

Hardy , E. J 7J(k 

Harris, John W' 4ry 

Harris. Setli P g'jO 

Harri.son , Benjamin 107 

Harrison, William Henr.v 51 

Hart, Casander 815 

Hart man. John 8(!!) 

Haskill. George 6 i>»:j 

Hanghawout, C. E 272 

Hawes, J. C 42fl 

Hawkes, Prof. W H .•>:«! 

Ha.ve-H, Rutherford B 91 

Haynes, A. B :iur, 

Ha.vnes. Hiram 782 

HtHlges, H. C MU 

Henderson, Perry 270 

Hendry.'C, William O (i(K) 

Henry, Harris 535 

Herrick, Daniel BIS 

Hibner, Frederick 724 

Hicks, George (in 

Hill, Thomas .5!I7 

Milliard, R. B :)25 

Himmelbergcr. John 7!if) 

Hinchey, J. W 3,57 

Hincs, Frederick 28!» 

Hinman, William C 3(il 

Hodge, C. J 702 

Hodskiss, Rev. H TM 

Hogle, A.J 817 

Hollister. Charles A I&4 

Holmes, W. .S. H Son 418 

Hopkins, J. W 353 

Horton.Capt. William M .590 

Hosley , E. B .58:1 

Hosley, William K 210 

Houghtaling. G. E 1<I5 

Houghtaling, S. O I2(; ! 

Howard, A. A 788 

Howe, John (!S3 

Howe, S E .550 

Huck.L 7(13 

Hud.son, H. & A 515 

Hudson, L. .S Si>8 

Huir.S. N fiiig 

Hull, George L 84:i 

Hull, Joseph B., M, D 5*5 

Humphrey, .lohn 114 

Hurd,D. C 451 

Hyue, Charles T (199 

Hyne, Frank L 803 

Hyne. William F liiw 



Ingalls.A.T .399 I 

Irish, Jaqies H 289 I 



Jacobs, Jesse 731 

Jelferson, Thoir.4«s 27 

Jerome, David H Iti5 

Jewell, Charles G swj 

Jewett, .Joseph .8,52 

Johnson, Andirnv 83 

Johnson, D. B 312 

.Johnson, Hon. F. B (77 

Job nson , Prof. W . A 481' 

Jones, Moses ((;i| 

Jordan, Rev. H. R 3:11 

Judd, Seth H . .8,5(1 



K 



Kai]ouse, Hon Jacob 8Ki 

Kanouse, L. C (I81 

Kedzie, R. C. , M. D 2:«i 

Keihm. Mrs. Louisa 365 

Kelley, E. I) mi 

Kerr, Hon. John A 097 

Ketchurn, lH?\vis 70I 

Kilbourne, Hon. S. L 775 

Kin^•^,le;,•,C. C 750 

Kirkland. J. K 8:11 

Klocksiem. H. C 210 

Knapp, William L 77') 

KneelaiKl. A. 1) 4.5,; 



Lake, Mi-s. H. I.. M nr: 

Lanioreaux, R. M 431 

Langenbacher, Mrs. C :i5l 

Langford.G. W,.M. I) 7:11) 

L inning. Mrs. EnieUnc (:)8 

Lare. Josephus (::t2 

Larase. Joseph R 295 

Lasher, James 800 

Lee, F. J 275 

lyeighton, S. P cil 

Lemen.G. C 71:3 

Lemon, C. H :k)i; 

Lesher, C. P :t;i 

I>ewi8, Gilbert W 342 

I.iincoln, Abraham 79 

Litchllelil. H. .M 8(M 

Livermore, John J 198 

LockwtKuI. John P |:t5 

Lovcjoy. Hiram J 7m 

Luce. C.vrus (tra.v 177 

f.uinbard, A. A :!ii<) 

Lulher, J. B 2«i 

Lyon.S. T 471 



M 



.Jackson, .Entire 
.lackson, Dan.. 



. 4.1 
.538 



.5Iadison, Jamo 
Mallby, H. F. . . 



Maun, R 402 

Markey, Junus (i« 

Murkhaui, A.G .■kci 

Mamh.G. A 727 

Marshall, John 777 

•(far/ilmll, R. C I78 

Maxon , Stephen T ia5 

Ma.stic.John A .599 

Mather. K 4*0 

fiercer. William 45:1 

Merilhew. E. R 0.13 

McCli'lland. Robert I2!i 

McConih, Jos(!ph H 2:51 

McEnally. W. H .527 

McEueii.F.C 2(t2 

MeGivucy.T 670 

MoGivney.J o7n 

McHench, W. J., M. D 11/9 

Mclnt.vre, D (^11 

Mclntyre, George H 710 

McKernan . Thomas 757 

McKibbin, J T 2:15 

M<'Kinley. John 413 

McMillan. Alexander. M. I). .40.5 

McMillan. William H .511 

McPher'son. M.J .5:111 

McPherson, William, Jr .5:12 

Miller. O. F :(:«i 

Miller, William, M. D 815 

Mills. W. J.. M. D .508 

-Miner, William J .VJ8 

Monroe, Alexander 785 

-Monroe, James 35 

Monroe, James 778 

Monroe, James M „509 

Monroe, X, M HO8 

Montague, Luke S. 712 

MiKidy . David 839 

Moon.O. X.,M D IV17 

-Mooi-e-s. J. H .■ 801 

M<irton. George G *t.50 

Moyer, Andrew 448 

Moyer, .John H l!(i; 

Mnnson, F. V t'm 

Murray. M. J :177 

Mus-son. Koberl 455 



Neal, Riifus J 79< 

Neely.S. D .3«i 

Xichols. H. A 824 

Xoble. S 859 

-Noble. S. O (Ifil 

Xorlh, K. D , M. D :is9 

Xollingham.D. M., 51- D....:1I8 



o 



. .11 

..fi»9 I Oakley. Mrs. Solly A. - . 



INDEX. 



Olsen, Peter <550 

Osborn. William W 843 



Paclclook, S. A 

Park, J. B.,M. D 3SS 

Parker. Dan ford 754 

Parker, Frank. .. 511 

Parson.s. Andrew V.v^ 

Patrick, D. F ^.i,-* 

Patleng-ill.Prof. H. R +:Ji: 

Patterson, R. F I«l 

Peach, Janie.'i 2411 

Pear.son, William. . ..70:J 

Perry, George G 742 

Perry, Oscar F 7JU 

Person , Jtidge R. H 639 

Petei*s, William 417 

Phillips, C. A 4!IS 

Phillips, John C .ini 

Phipps, B. 777 

Pickard. Lyman . . .714 

Pierce, Franklin 71 

Pmckney, Hon. William H..:i9.1 

Placeway, C. E SI" 

Polk. James K TiP 

Porter, E. H 4(11 

Porter, Hon. Jame.s B 120 

Porter, R. M Iiu8 

Post, William H :507 

Potter, John M .......82!? 

Potts, John M ;)71 

Preston, Reman M'U 

Price, Capt. J. R... ■■Ml) 

Price, Lawrence :128 

Prosser, A. D SK 

PrucUlen , W. K 3S,t 



R 



Randall, Ira E 359 

Ranney. George E., M. D. . . .225 

Ransom, Epaphroditns 125 

Rayner, William H 347 

Keck, John A 424 

Reed. H. E 472 

Reeves, John P 3<lli 



Reeves, Ira V 551 

Reynolds. D. E. A 84s 

Reynolds, H. O 607 

Richmond, Mrs. S 728 

Rider. Joseph 517 

Rikerd.H. W 418 

Ri.x, Hiram, Jr 80fi 

Rnbi.son. David 236 

Roe, J. Edward 313 

Ross, Thomas, Jr 816 

KounsviUe, Hon. F. G 83S 

Ronse, John F 2711 

Rowley, L. E wr, 

Riimsey, Hon. M. E 2«1 

Rnssell,F. F .52 

Knsseli, J. A 793 

Russell, S. O 3(18 



Sal)in,;Bentley 7119 

Saltmarah, J. F ,5.59 

Sargent, G. I .584 

Sawyer, A. F ('38 

Schneider, Col. F 215 

Schrepfer, George 594 

Schroeder, F. P 762 

ScoHeld, Mrs. L 374 

.Seaton, Richard 832 

Se.xton, P. H 612 

Shafer, James H 372 

Shaller, Adam .507 

Shank, R. B 368 

Shank, Rush J., .M. D 44 1 

Shannon, Col. John A 577 

Shaw.R .831; 

Shearer, James M 810 

Sherman, D. R., M. D 797 

Sherman, M. H 512 

Sherwood, , Tames A 323 

Shook, William H 197 

Showerman, Benjamin 517 

Shumway, F. W., M. D (i09 

Sibley, C.H 831 

Simons, B. F 395 

Skadan, Samuel 789 

Skinner, J. M S.i5 

Slicker, Pierce 802 

Sly. Rev. W.S 799 

Smalley, John W 786 

Sniedley, E. R 271 

Smith, Daniel B 718 



Smith, D. O 747 

Smith, D.V 581 

Smith, Enoch 473 

Smith. Quincy A 45f; 

Smith, SteiJhen 814 

Smith . Timothy 76G 

Smith, V. C 673 

Smith, Willard.... 336 

Snook, Col. J. G 278 

Snyder, J. A 831 

Sowle, Enos 72:* 

Sp.anier, John '■'"■ 

.Spi^ars, Israel ''68 

Stabler. M. J 298 

Stabl. .I.acob 119 

Staley.T. R '«' 

Stebbms, C. B '<''' 

Steinacker, Fred 814 

Stelzer. John R 059 

StelEer, .John W Hi! 

Sternes, Mrs. C 719 

Stevens, C. W 430 

.Stillman,0. B 490 

Stodard. David 46.8 

Stoner. Henry S 489 

Stow. Seth C 804 

Stowell, G. H .367 

Street, Philo .580 

Sullivan, Charles 784 

Bwarthont, Hugh 794 

Sweet, Mrs. L. A 317 



T 



Taylor, J. W 2.55 

Taylor, Moses R 107 

Taylor, Zachary 63 

Teller, Samuel A.... 320 

Teuney , Mrs. H. A 333 

Thoman, F 309 

Thompson, A. D 512 

Thompson, H. B 752 

Thompson. John 122 

Thorburn. W. W 265 

Tillotson, J. W 249 

Tobias, Harrison 242 

Tobias, James 84(> 

Todd.M. D 315 

Toms. Egbert 624 

Townley , A. J Mr- 

Tripp. Noah F .<v.i 

Turner, J. A :1(M 



Turner, W. S .522 

Turrell, Charles .549 

Tattle, J. J 24l; 

Twaits, J. W., Jr 292 

Tyler, John .55 

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Valentine, Rer. J. K 387 

Van Ambiir}?, O. K 850 

Van Atta, George B (i21 

Van Buren. F. P (529 

Van Buren, Martin (7 

Van Buren, Martin 510 

Van Buren, William (iGS 

Van Dercook, VV. H (i71 

Vansjxkle, John P. 802 

Voiselle, John B :i8t; 

Voree. rjeorj^e 442 



w 



v\ alker. George E 4.M 

Walker, Robert 358 

Walker, Thomas A 200 

Ward, U. D 767 

Warner, Timothy 521 

Washington, George 19 

Wasson, M. H b82 

Weller, F. D 3.39 

Wenk, William H 241 

Whitaker, Mrs. E 660 

Whitney. E. H 370 

Wilco.x, J. H ,592 

Wilco.x, R. S 653 

Wilkinson, George B 772 

Williams, Edward .530 

Wilson, A.J 2.56 

Wilson, James H 431 

Winans, Ed win B 181 

Wise, Hon. Alfred 375 

Wisner. Moses 1 U 

Wood, Hon. CM 415 

Wood, William W 741 

Woodbridge, William 109 

Woodworth, F. D 27() 

Woodworlh. John D. , M. D .280 

Won Ids, Thomas 787 

Wriggelsworth , R. K .503 

Wright, Daniel 770 

Wright, I. T am 

Wright, J. W 519 




Abbott, G. A '.45 

Armstrong, L. L 0.S5 

Browning, E. >t- J. A 6(i5 

( 'armer, ,Johu T 705 

Dobie, .\lc.\ 735 



Dunston, C. E 705 

Dntton.D. O 585 

Gannon, Daniel B45 

Hibner, Frederick 725 

Jones. Mrs, M. J ('J!5 



Kanouse, L. C 683 

Moyer, Andrew 449 

Patterson, R. F 613 

Perry, Oscar F 735 

•^r- ent. Gilbert I .5a5 



Smith, David O 745 

Stelzer, J. W 625 

Toms. Egbert 625 

Wilson. J. H 449 



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Adams, .lolin '22 

Adams. John Q :W 

Alger. Russell A 172 

Allc-liin, E 56H 

Arthur, Chester A 98 

Bagley, John ,1. lo'I 

Baker, Dr. H. U 204 

Baldwin, Henry P 152 

Barry. John S 112 

Begole, Joaiah W 168 

Bingham. Kingsley S IS."! 

Blair, Austin 144 

Buchanan, James 74 

Calhoun, Mrs. Margaret (J. ..284 

Calkins. Mrs. M Xti 

Calkins, W. S .W,i 

Cameron, A 410 

Crapo, Henry H 148 

Carter, George L. 524 

Chase, John H KIB 

Clute, Osear I'HI 



Cleveland, S. Grover 102 

Croawell, Charles M IWI 

Emery , Wesley Sid 

Felch, Alpheus IKi 

Ferguson. L>r. A. F 482 

Ferguson. IJr. G. H 809 

Fillmore, Millard Cfi 

Fitch, Hon. F. S 826 

Fitz, Sinmions C. S :i02 

Fogg, Frank M 71B 

Garfleld.J.A 91 

Grant,U.S 86 

Greenly, William 120 

Harrison, Benjamin lOfl 

Harrison , W. H ' .1(1 

Hawes, J. C 128 

Hayes, K.B 90 

Hill, Thomas 5ft(! 

Hinchey, James W ;{5H 

Hudson, Martin 514 

Hull. Dr. J. B .M4 



Jackson, Andrew 42 

JclTerson, Thomas iK 

Jei;ome, David H 164 

Johnson, Andrew 82 

Johnson , F. B 476 

Kedzie. Dr. R. C 2:« 

Kellcy, E.0 460 

Kerr, Hon. John A «9H 

Lee, F. J 274 

Lincoln, Abraham 78 

Lockw(x)d, J. 1' 434 

Lyon,S. T 470 

Luce, Cyrus Gray 176 

Madison, James .SO 

Ma.son, Stephen T IM 

McClelland, Robert 128 

McKernan, Thomas 75(» 

Monroe, ,Tames 3t 

Moon.O. N 6.56 

Parsons. Andrew 1:12 

Pien'e. Franklin. TO 



PhilliiN, C. A 493 

Phillips. Mrs. C. A 492 

Pinckney, Hon. William H...W2 

Polk. J. K .S8 

Ransom. Epapbrodius 121 

Ranney. Dr. G. E 224 

Reynolds, 11. G WK 

Schneitlcr, Col. F 214 

Shank, Dr. R. J 410 

Shannon . Col. J . A ,*i76 

Skinner, James M .534 

Taylor, John W 2V4 

Taylor, Zachary 62 

Thorburn, W. W., M. D 2H« 

Tyler, ,lohn .54 

Van Buren, Martin 46 

Washington, George 18 

Winans, Edwin B 180 

Wisner. Moses 140 

W.x)d. .lohii 164 

WiOTdbridge, William 108 

Wriggelswortb, R. K .501 




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